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2 Patents Issued to Blumrich (full text and images)About Blumrich Biography of Blumrich - Loads more than the book blurb! List of Blumrich's Articles Interview translated from GermanBlumrich's Major Errors in MethodologyFirst Shown on Site "Mysteries"Editor:Jacques RichardsonEditorial Assistant :Arlette PignoloConsultants,this issue:Christopher BirdProfessor. lgnacy MaleckiBerol Robinson! Pyramids and the value of PI! Ancient Egyptians standing 80 ton obelisks on end without machinery! NASA did not find Joshua's long day.! Charles Berlitz plane flying through the Bermuda Triangle! Walking barefoot on hot coals! Spontaneous human combustion! Lying on a bed of nails! Jesus sweating spaceshipsof the prophet EzekielJosef F. BlumrichReferences in some holy scripture to strange machines have prompted, throughout history,speculation and conjecture in order to lend acceptable, if not rational, explanations of thephenomenon reported.

3 Modern technical knowledge and test procedures have been used toreconstruct a model of what was seen and experienced by one of the four great Jewish prophetstwo-and-a-half millennia thought of visits to our planet by extra-terrestrial beings is immediately stopped by therealization that existing scientific knowledgeprecludes that possibility. If such visits couldbe made at all, they would have to originateoutside our solar system, and interstellar journeyswould require unimaginable lengths of time. Yetthis established knowledge is confronted with thewealth of mankind's myths and legends whichclaim the exact opposite, that "gods" came fromthe skies. Their appearances were frequentlyaccompanied by fire, smoke and thunderousnoise; their influence on man was, mostly,beneficial.

4 If the source of this information is the"primitive" peoples we call it a fable; if the originlies in religious scriptures of the more developedcivilizations, we interpret the tales in a morespiritual or even holy manner. That this attitude is unfair and wrong is manifestin at least two respects: it disregards the sincereand honest belief of the peoples who handed downthe accounts, and degrades the tales to fictionalstories. At its worst, the information is dismissedas the result of hallucination, the effects of drugs,or plain invention. But this attitude is also wrongand unfair with regard to man's future developmentbecause it denies even the possibility of progressin the corresponding fields of science. Thus we seem to be at an impasse becauseof an apparent conflict between science andlegend.

5 Yet the way is not totally blocked: we canmake progress in this very important field ofknowledge once we realize that science andengineering are two separate (although notindependent) activities, each with its ownEzek'el Saw The WheelSPIRITUALI mpact of Science on Society, Vol. XXIV, No. 4, 1. Artist's reconstruction of spaceship seen by Ezekiel, viewed from a distance of about 60 of significance. We must acknowledge thepresent inability of science to help formulateanswers to the question of extraterrestrial visitors,while realizing that engineering and industrialtechnology have not been introduced to thecontroversy. The participation of engineersbecomes an unconditional requirement in theevaluation of configurations and phenomenaimplying visits from other worlds.

6 Here it is onlynatural that our fledgling knowledge concerningspace flight emerges as a contributor of primesignificance.# My interest is own involvement in the subject of extra-terrestrial visitors began with a vehementlynegative attitude. Having worked as anaeronautical engineer since 1934 first in thedesign and analysis of aircraft, then for the pastfifteen years in the design and development ofboth launching vehicles and spacecraft I wasfirmly entrenched in the camp of those whodeclare visits from outer space to be animpossibility. It was in this frame of mind that I began toread Erich von D niken's Chariots of the Gods?His claim that the prophet Ezekiel had encounterswith spaceships prompted me to read the biblicalbook of Ezekiel carefully with the intention ofproving von D niken wrong.

7 By the time I had gotto verse 7 of the very first chapter, however, Ifound myself interpreting a description of thelandings legs of some kind of flying vehicle:"Their legs were straight. and the soles of theirfeet were round and they sparkled like burnishedbronze." Having designed and tested suchstructures myself, I could not deny that it waspossible to read in this a direct, yet simple,technical description. The contrast of that evidently clear passagewith the quite hazy pictures sketched by the restof the chapter made me realize that the prophetcould not have known what it was he had seen,or could not have understood it. I realize thenecessary consequences of this: the prophetcould only describe his encounters with spacevehicles and their crews in the termsavailable to him with words and comparisonsfamiliar to him and his contemporaries330 Josef F.

8 2 Engineering depiction of the spacecraft shown in Figure I began taking Ezekiel seriously, in anengineering sense. Because I had to rely on translations, I used sixdifferent Bibles, ranging in time from early in thelast century to 1972, edited by Jewish, RomanCatholic, and Protestant translators. Besidesthese, I used two highly detailed biblicalcommentaries. My application of aircraft (specifically,helicopter) and spacecraft engineering principlesto the reports of the prophet resulted in thepenetration of Ezekiel's visual descriptions, andthe replacement of these by known structuralconfigurations. The final result is shown in theaccompanying illustrations. There we see aquasi-conical main body, supported by fourhelicopter units, which carries the commandcapsule atop its rounded upper portion.

9 We shouldconsider that Ezekiel first saw this vehicle at adistance of about 1,000 metres at the moment thenuclear engine fired, probably with some whiteclouds of condensation (because of the engine's"chilldown" phase) shooting past the craft's these fiery, dynamic surroundings Ezekielnotices the moving rotors, see the landing legs andmechanical arms attached to the helicopter first reaction is to compare the helicopters withman-like figures, but he then finds in the term'living creatures' an expression of admirablevagueness to reflect his uncertainty. During finaldescent and landing, Ezekiel observes theprotective covers of the helicopter's gearmechanisms, which he is able to describe best bycomparing them with human faces. He notices thered-hot radiator glowing coals (Chapter 1, Verse13) covering part of the lower central body; theprophet is fascinated by the wheels which, in theirbasic form, are the only element he recognizesand thus describes in great detail.

10 The visual description of the wheels has beenmisinterpreted in numerous paintings and no one has ever taken seriously thefunctional description which indicates that thewheels could move, in any direction, withoutbeing turned or steered. The latter has ledme to develop a precise engineering inter-pretation, and for which patent was grantedEze, 1:13. "As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coalsof fire, and like the appearance of lamps: it went up and down among the living creatures andthe fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning."The spaceships of the prophet Ezekiel 3. Patent awarded earlier this year to the author for his invention of the omnidirectional Josef F. the United States Patent Office no.