The Spaceships of Ezekiel / Josef F. Blumrich

The Spaceships of Ezekiel (1974) is a book by Josef F. Blumrich (17 March 1913 – 10 February 2002) about a spaceship allegedly observed by the prophet Ezekiel. It was written when the author was Chief of the Systems Design Division of NASA’s Programme Development Office at Marshall Space Flight Center. After ufologists such as Erich von Däniken pointed out the possibility of interpreting Ezekiel’s vision as a report of an extraterrestrial spacecraft, Blumrich tried to refute this hypothesis. However, a thorough investigation convinced him that Ezekiel had indeed seen a spaceship and prompted him to make detailed drawings of it. He determined that the technology of the spaceship’s creators must have been somewhat more advanced than that of contemporary humanity, and that he had rarely felt so pleased, satisfied and fascinated by a complete defeat.