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inexplicable phenomena. His sources were newspapers and the many scientific journals which had come into being by the early 19th century. Fort wrote: "... if there be nearby lands of the sky and beings from foreign worlds who visit this earth, that is a great subject ..." Here is a typical account discovered by Fort in the Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. It is taken from the log of the bark Lady of the Lake whose captain was F.W. Banner. In Fort's words: "... upon the 22nd of March, 1870, at latitude 5°47' N. and longitude 27°52' W., the sailors of Lady of the Lake saw a remarkable object or 'cloud' in the sky. They reported to the Captain. "According to Capt. Banner, it was a cloud of circular form, with an included semi-circle divided into four parts, the central dividing shaft beginning at the center of the circle and extending far outward, and then curving backward. "The thing travelled from a point at about 20° above the horizon to a point of about 80° above. Then it settled down to the northeast, having appeared from the south, southeast. "For half an hour this form was visible, then it did finally disappear, that was not because it disintegrated like a cloud, but before it was lost to sight in the evening's darkness." Fort attached a sketch of the object drawn by Captain Banner. It does not look very much like a cloud, but looks very much like some of the "flying saucers" reported in later years. If a case is to be made that UFOs are actually extraterrestrial in origin, certain episodes from the Scriptures may certainly be quoted as evidence. Consider these verses from the prophet Ezekiel: "4. And I looked, and, beheld, a whirlwind came out of the North, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was about it and out of the midst thereof as the color of amber, out of the midst of the fire. "7. And their feet were straight feet; and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf's foot: and they sparkled like the color of burnish brass. "8. And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides, and they four had their faces and their wings. "9. Their wings were joined one to another; they turned not when they went; they went everyone straight forward. "10. As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man and the face of "It came up obliquely against the wind, and finally settled down right in the wind's eye. "5. Also out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance; they had the likeness of a man. "6. And everyone had four faces, and everyone had four wings.