Everytime I read these stories I'm reminded of the "father" of the American space program, Wehrner VonBraun, warning in his last days that we would one day face an alien invasion that would unite the world...or at least it would appear to be an alien invasion. Either way, it would cause the world to unite under one banner for it's coming king...the Antichrist. We shall see...
Christians, UFOs...
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and Alien AbductionBy Tom Horn & Cris Putnam |
In the mid
1970s, Tom Horn and his wife, Nita, were crossing the Scholes Mountain on their
way to Aloha, Oregon, to visit with Nita’s mother, when suddenly, a brightly
colored object moved erratically across the sky and caught their
attention.
At first, Tom thought it
was a reflection on the windshield, the sun, or something creating light echoes
on the glass. Then, as he watched, he realized he was seeing a solid,
three-dimensional form. The thing was silvery, very bright, and circular, as
best he could tell. It must have been at an altitude over fifteen thousand feet,
and it was doing things known aircraft cannot do—shooting around at a phenomenal
rate of speed, abruptly stopping, rocketing this way, then that, with hard-angle
turns. He looked at Nita and pointed.
“Do you see
that? What is that?”
It was the
middle of the day, and she had seen it, too. Whatever they were watching, it was
bright enough that they had no problem keeping it in view until they could stop
the car. They got out and observed the phenomenon for another thirty seconds to
a minute before it shot miles across the sky and stopped on a dime, then
abruptly zoomed upward out of sight at an incredible rate of speed.
“What in
the world did we just see?” Tom asked. Like him, Nita didn’t have a clue. Spooky
space effect in broad daylight? Top secret experiment? Angel? Demon? No
idea.
As they got back in
the car and continued on their way, they decided not to say anything to anybody.
“They’d think we were
hallucinating,” they decided.
But the next morning,
they were amazed to see Salem, Oregon’s top newspaper, The Statesman Journal, featuring a
front-page article about how hundreds of people from across Washington and
Oregon had seen a “UFO” the day before.
As it turns out, Tom
and Nita are not the only Christians to have seen an Unidentified Flying Object.
What follows are the testimonies of three other well-known and respected Bible
teachers. We begin with the executive director of the popular Christian
television program Prophecy in the
News. Gary Stearman’s story is additionally important due to his family’s
background in aircraft, plus Gary’s personal experience as an experienced pilot
of many air hours. (The Stearman family’s Model 75 “Kaydet” was so popular
during World War II that it was made the primary trainer aircraft for the US
military. In 1934, Boeing purchased Stearman Aircraft and turned it into a
subsidiary, and in 1989, Lloyd Stearman, the family member who started the
Stearman Aircraft Corporation in 1927, was inducted into the National Aviation
Hall of Fame in Dayton, Ohio.)
Gary gave us
permission to publish his story just as he told it in 2011.
Gary Stearman: The Story I Never Told…Until
Now
The following
is a story that I’ve never publicly related. Except for a handful of people I’ve
told over the last four decades, it has been my secret. Nevertheless, it is a
true story that played a large role in the development of my thinking.
Ultimately, it caused me to come to a deep belief in the absolute veracity of
Scripture. As I relate the experience, I’m delivering a personal testimony,
accompanied by a deep desire to sound a warning and to issue a challenge to
Christians everywhere.
As a Bible-believing Christian, I hold
to the conviction that the Tribulation period lies in our near future. According
to prophecy, this time will be heralded by the release of dark spiritual forces,
posing as saviors of planet Earth. Soon, the restraining effect of God’s Spirit
will be lifted from this planet and hell, itself, will be released to torment
mankind.
When the Age of the Church comes to an
end, these forces will convince many that they are presenting the
super-scientific solution to man’s problems. Instead, they will enthrall a
gullible mankind into bondage and spiritual deceit. “Aliens from outer space,”
is their camouflage in our present age.
Their current message to mankind is,
“Let us help you overcome your warlike, polluting ways, and build a bridge to
future peace.” That message is the oldest lie on earth, spawned by their chief
scientist/sociologist, Satan. As long as we remain here, Christians must
endeavor to expose these dark spirits for what they really are.
Now to the Story.
As part of an aviation-oriented family,
I was literally raised around airplanes from my earliest childhood. I was an
airport brat when my father managed an airport. I determined to get my pilot’s
license at the earliest possible date…which I did as a teenager. I’m telling you
this just to illustrate that flying has always been a big part of my life.
Stearman Aviation was known for having
produced aircraft from the late 1920s through the 1940s, ending with the famous
Model 75 Kaydet, which was the basic trainer for most of the pilots in World War
Two. Over 8,500 of them were built, of which about 3,500 remain to this day. My
father, uncles and cousins all felt the push toward flying and aeronautical
engineering. So did I, until in the midst of my college years, I discovered that
I was more interested in writing than engineering.
After graduation, with degrees in
English and Psychology, as well as minors in descriptive linguistics, radio and
television writing and literary analysis, I went to work, first for Beech
Aircraft Corporation in commercial publications, then for Cessna Aircraft
Corporation in the Merchandising and Marketing division. At both enterprises, my
job was to write corporate publications and sales materials.
One of my tasks was to supply Cessna
dealers across the United States with point-of-sale materials, such as
brochures, product information, banners, posters, and films. This would include
everything the local aircraft dealer would need to make a sale. After producing
these products, we would personally deliver them by air in time for company
representatives to put on sales meetings that introduced the new models.
It was midsummer in the late 1960s in
Wichita, Kansas, and I prepared to take off from the delivery center airfield at
Cessna Aircraft to make such a routine trip. On a Saturday afternoon, several of
us in the Merchandising Division had spent time loading about a thousand pounds
of displays into a brand-new Cessna 207 (rigged for cargo) preparatory to
delivering it to a Texas dealer.
The next day—Sunday morning—I departed
for my first stop, Love Field in Dallas, Texas, about 330 miles south. The trip
took a normal and uneventful two hours. I arrived at the Cessna dealership late
in the morning, where the dealer and I unloaded about half the materials I had
brought for the meetings. We discussed his upcoming meeting over lunch. Then, a
little after noon, I departed Love Field and headed west toward Lubbock, Texas,
where I was to meet another Cessna dealer and unload the other half of the
supplies for him. This leg of my flight, I thought, would be as ordinary as the
first.
Climbing to a cruise altitude of 6,500
feet, and leveling off, I relaxed, expecting a 300-mile trip of about an hour
and forty-five minutes. Routinely monitoring my nav-com and right on schedule, I
was (as always) enjoying my flight. The air was smooth and cool. Then, without
warning, a low-voltage warning flashed on my instrument panel!
My first reaction was simple annoyance:
This had started as a perfect flight, but now I had to manage a failure. I was
somewhat disgusted; this was after all, a brand-new airplane. I noted that the
electrical system voltage was steadily dropping and after trying every
alternative and discovering that there was no cure, I took one last reading on
my heading and position, then shut down the entire electrical system. On an
airplane, you can do that, because the engine has its own separate ignition
system.
I believed that by doing this, I could
save battery power till I got to Lubbock, then turn it back on in time to call
the tower and make my landing. Again, I settled down, expecting the remaining
hour to be uneventful. How wrong I was!
At this point, I would remind you that
all electrical power was shut down, including of course, the radios. Yet, at
that moment, I heard a crisp, clear voice that sounded just like a tour guide.
It said, “If you look to your left, you’ll see a UFO.” My instant reaction was:
“Now, that’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard. I’m not gonna look to my
left!”
And I didn’t. Facing forward, I set my
jaw and determined to continue as before.
But then it hit me: Although the radios
were off, I had heard a clear voice. It was then that I decided for sure I was
not going to look to my left!
Then, for the second time, loudly and
clearly, the voice said (and I really couldn’t tell where it was coming from),
“If you look to your left, you’ll see a UFO.” Its intonation sounded just like a
tour guide, and I laughed out loud. Then, curiosity finally got the best of me
and I couldn’t stop myself from looking to my left.
And there, slightly below my altitude,
and a mile or two away, was a bright light. I watched it for a good while. It
was matching my speed and direction. As we continued for a few minutes, it
appeared to be slowly drawing closer to me. It occurred to me that if we were
both homing in on Lubbock radio, we would be on converging courses. I then
decided that this thing that I thought was a “UFO” was really an Air Force
airplane (a Cessna T-41), which I knew they were using for basic training at
Lubbock. This was no UFO after all…it was a silver-winged T-41, gleaming in the
sunlight. Mystery solved!
We flew on together for a few minutes
more, still on merging courses, drawing ever closer to each other. It looked
like we’d get to Lubbock at about the same time. Then, something startling
happened. We both flew under a high, solid cloud deck that was a few thousand
feet above us. Now, at virtually the same moment, we had both flown into shadow.
But amazingly, the light that came from this mystery aircraft was as bright as
it had been in the sun. It was generating its own light! It was brilliant!
Suddenly, I believed the voice I’d heard fifteen minutes ago. It was a UFO!
Now, the moment I had this thought, the
bright ship reacted by flying quickly sideways toward me, covering about a mile
in less than two seconds! What had earlier registered in my mind as a T-41 was
now a circular aluminum craft…at least it looked like polished aluminum! It was
about a hundred feet in diameter and maybe fifteen feet thick. It was shaped
like an upside-down Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup…even to the detail of being
corrugated around the outside, though its corrugations weren’t as deep as those
on the traditional peanut butter cup. As it approached, I had seen its top
because it was a little below me. It had a gleaming center spot and bright
radial lines that went like pie slices to its edge.
Its corrugations were spaced about
three feet apart. And here it was, flying with me in close formation about
seventy-five feet off my left wing. Then, as unbelievable as it may sound, I
felt something like waves of energy coming off this thing. I felt like I was
being “probed” or “scanned”…that it literally knew what I was thinking! And I
wasn’t at all bothered by this. Quite the opposite, I felt an elation I’ve never
experienced, either before or since.
I felt as though something terrifically
good and beneficial was happening to me, something on the order of a rescue.
Remember, I had entered into this situation with an electrical emergency.
I was magnetically drawn to this
beautiful machine…if one can call it a machine. For several minutes, we flew
along together. But as I looked, I wanted to get closer to it, to see how it was
built. So I nudged the controls, causing my plane to slip stealthily closer to
this thing…seventy feet…sixty-five feet…sixty feet…and I felt a magnificent
connection with the giant ship…as though it was concerned about my condition. I
perceived it as a gracious benefactor, though at the moment, I didn’t connect
its actions with my electrical failure.
Fifty-five feet…fifty feet… As I slowly
drew closer and closer, I was looking for clues as to how it was built. Did it
have rivets or seams? I could see none. It looked like one solid piece of
material. Forty-five feet…and then I felt this thing alarmed by my intentions.
It didn’t want me to get too close.
In an instant, and with blinding speed,
it zoomed back to its original position, about a mile off my left wingtip. It
astonished me by banking to the right in order to turn left…exactly the opposite
of the way an airplane flies. Now, in the distance, it still gleamed with a
luminous silver light, and once again, flew along with me as we both headed for
Lubbock, which was now less than twenty miles away! It seemed that we had
covered what should have been an hour’s flight in about ten minutes!
And here, the time had arrived to see
whether my earlier strategy had worked. I reactivated the electrical system, and
yes, there was enough battery power left to call Lubbock tower, and to deploy
the flaps for a landing, all of which turned out to be routine. Rolling
southward, I slowed and departed the runway in a left turn and taxied up to the
Cessna dealership.
And through my windshield, looking back
toward the east, about ten miles away, was the ship, still hovering in the
distance, absolutely still. After shutdown, I walked into the dealership in
something of a daze, where I met the dealer and mumbled something about having
seen a UFO on my way.
There was nothing subtle about his
reply: “I don’t believe in those things!” I quietly resolved that I would never
mention this to anyone else. Furthermore, he was angry: “You were supposed to be
here earlier! What happened?” I told him about the electrical failure and it
somewhat calmed him down. It didn’t occur to me until years later that I had
left Dallas just after noon on a trip that should have taken less than two
hours. Now, it was after six o’clock…perhaps closer to seven. This man had
waited on me all afternoon…on a Sunday! But he was sympathetic after he heard
about my emergency.
Another thing didn’t register with me
until years later: I had refueled in Dallas, giving me enough fuel for four or
five hours of flying time at the very most. I had landed over six hours later,
and still had half my fuel left! But I just didn’t think about it; it didn’t
cross my mind that there was anything strange about this.
I had intended to fly back to Wichita
that evening after dropping off the rest of the load. But now, the airplane was
in the shop with electrical problems, and I was forced to stay overnight.
The next morning…bright and early…the
dealer picked me up and we headed for the airport to see what they had found
wrong with my aircraft. Needless to say, I was quite anxious to fix the problem
and head back home to Wichita and the factory. The shop foreman approached us as
we entered. He was in an excited state as he almost shouted, “You ain’t gonna
believe what we found!”
And he proceeded to show us the brand
new V-belt that had fallen off the alternator drive and ended up in the bottom
of the cowling. There was not a mark on it. It was factory new. And the pulleys
from which it had escaped were still tensioned and safety wired. It was
impossible for the belt to have fallen off in this way. Five men, including an
FAA inspector, stood around marveling at the sight. At the very least, the belt
should have been scarred. Most likely it would have broken. But it was pristine,
and what’s more, they had to loosen the fittings to replace it. It couldn’t have
fallen off the engine.
Of course, my mind was racing in a
different direction: What had really happened? Why had the flying disc come
alongside me at a critical moment? Had “they” actually caused that critical
moment? Of course, I didn’t utter a word about a UFO to any of those present on
that Monday morning. I would have been laughed out of the hangar!
And so, after re-installing the drive
belt, test-running the engine and discovering a healthy system voltage, it was
pronounced airworthy. I took off and headed for Wichita.
A little over two hours later, I
landed, went back to the office and essentially kept my mouth closed…to this
day. Over the last 42 years, I’ve told maybe four or five people about the
incident…more or less swearing them to secrecy in the process.
I have many questions. Was the UFO good
or evil? Was it from outer space or inner space; perhaps another dimension? Was
it angelic or demonic? Did it cause the failure of my electrical system, or did
something else cause the calamity, and the UFO came to my aid? One thing is
certain: I felt that the UFO had good intentions; contact with it had been both
exhilarating and positive. I was disappointed when it stayed behind as I went on
to land.
I must tell you that at that time, I
had not yet given my life to Christ. And I was more aware than most people of
the entire UFO phenomenon. This encounter, of course, had brought me to an
entirely new level of perception. It opened my mind to the absolute reality of
beings who have what appears to be a technology that’s eons ahead of ours.
Here, it is important to mention that
from my early childhood years, I had heard adults—family and close
relatives—discuss the reality of UFOs. They were all totally convinced of their
reality. In fact, two of my closest relatives were affiliated with the
development of military aircraft, and later, with the establishment of our
Intercontinental Ballistic Missile system. One of them, charged with developing
protective systems that prevented false alarms, once casually mentioned that his
major problem had been alarms tripped by passing UFOs. Another had seen a
government-issued 16-millimeter film of a crashed UFO, which had been presented
to them as a craft from outer space.
I, myself, had been employed in the
building of test equipment for a wind tunnel, where I worked with two military
officers who both had close encounters with UFOs.
From many sources, I had learned of the
military’s intense preoccupation with what they termed “extraterrestrial
technology.” It was rumored that from the 1948 Roswell crash and the years
immediately following it, much technical knowledge was obtained by “trade
agreements” with the little aliens and their overlords. Since that time, a
veritable flood of books and articles have documented exactly that.
As the narrative goes, government
leaders agreed to let these “spacemen” operate within our atmosphere, in return
for scientific and industrial advances. Many researchers have related that the
transistor, developed by Bell Labs in the 1950s, was said to have come from such
a deal, that it began as “UFO technology.” I hardly need remind you how
radically our society has been changed by the introduction of solid-state
electronics.
Not long after the personal encounter
described above, I married the woman to whom I remain married to this day. She
had been raised a Christian; I was not to become one until about a couple of
years later. I began to read the Bible voraciously. It was the first book I’d
ever found that explained the mysterious things that happen on this planet, as
having to do with God, Creation and Redemption.
Because of my own encounter, I sought
biblical answers that could explain what I had seen. I learned of God’s angels
in their chariots of fire that flew in the realms just beyond the reach of man’s
vision.
And I learned of the, “…principalities
and powers in heavenly places…” mentioned by Paul in Ephesians 3:10. They are
good as well as evil: The dark forces answer to their master, Satan, called in
Ephesians 2:2, “…the prince of the power of the air.”
Like Job, I can say, “For I know that
my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth”
(Job 19:25). Without a shadow of a doubt, Jesus is my Lord and Savior.
In my own personal case, however, many
questions remain. I continue to believe that I was rescued; I would like to
believe that the beautiful ship that came alongside me was on a mission to save
me from a possible crash.
But I don’t exclude the possibility
that the ship was demonic, representing a mission far beyond my ability to
understand. I just can’t say. I do know, however, that the Spirit of the Lord
spoke clearly to me in the period that followed.
Afterward, I came, not only to saving
faith in Christ, but to a consciousness that we are living in the last days,
said by our Lord to resemble the days when fallen angels began to traffic among
men. For eons, there has been a heavenly battle raging. Good and evil angels
defend territories and causes that are far beyond our perception. Occasionally,
they penetrate the dimensional barriers and for a moment, we see them.
The reality of these beings is beyond
question to me. And since I am safe in Christ, I never worry that they might
harm me. In the Spirit of the Lord, we are on the winning side of the
battle.
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