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18 Fortunately, there are more than just pictures and carvings that record early UFO visitations. Onan ancient Egyptian papyrus dated from 1504 BCE is one of the earliest known written records of a UFO encounter. It was written during the reign of Egyptian pharaoh Thutmose III, and is now at the Egyptian museum at the Vatican. The hieroglyphics were translated by Egyptologists and tell an amazing story. One day a group of Egyptian citizens observed “a circle of fire that was coming from the sky.” The people became frightened and threw themselves to the ground. A few days later, the strange objects returned. Accord- ing to the document, “Now after some days had passed, these things became more numerous in the sky than ever. They shone more in the sky than the brightness of the sun, and extended to the limits of the four supports of the heavens ... Powerful was the position of these fire circles.” Texts from Ancient India also provide suggestions of UFO activity. More than 5,000 years old and written in ancient Sanskrit, these texts describe flying ships, called vimdnas, or sky-boats. Researcher Richard Thompson has studied hundreds of such accounts and writes that the vimiinas have “many features reminiscent of UFOs.” Early cultures might have had trouble understanding the phenomenon of UFOs, but they found the activity important enough to record. In each case the observers interpreted UFOs in the context of their own culture.” Even the Bible mentions possible extraterrestrial encounters. The “Wheels of Ezekiel” described in the Bible contains many parallels to modern day UFO reports. The incident took place in 593 BCE and appears in the beginning of the New Testament. Ezekiel was alone when he saw a “a great cloud with brightness round about it, and fire flashing forth constantly, and in the midst of the fire, as it were UFOS AND ALIENS UFOS IN ANCIENT EGYPT AND INDIA BIBLICAL UFOS