The Greatest Close Encounter in History - The Exodus

This encounter starts with a conversation from a glowing vehicle on the ground, follows the high-tech harassment of the reluctant Pharaoh and the Hebrew's flight from Egypt, Moses' entry into the vehicle, and records the forty-year wanderings of the nation of Israel as it is directly led by aerial guidance. Scores of descriptions and encounters with flying vehicles, advanced technology, and space age weaponry are recorded during this journey. This writing covers specific instances of this encounter, but a complete read of the book is worthwhile. Almost the entire Book of the Exodus is a description of the world’s largest and longest close encounter event.

An Incredible Number

The world record for number of witnesses and length of encounter must certainly be held by the "Exodus" event. While most people do know about Ezekiel's "wheels” and Elijah’s "whirlwind"; few consider the incredible experiences of those who participated in the Exodus from Egypt as a major close encounter. Biblical historians accept estimates of the number of Hebrews that left Egypt with Moses as from about 700,000 to 1 million. Added to that number are the Egyptian refugees from the disaster that had just occurred and others following this huge entourage out of a devastated Egypt. That could swell the number of travelers on the Exodus to between 1.5 and 2 million, being constantly overshadowed, sustained, and led by a huge flying object.

At the beginning of the journey, this massive group of people was saved from the pursuing Egyptian army by this vehicle, and fed daily and provided water for 40 years. At times this vehicle would halt and hover over this group for months, providing shade during the day and light at night. The group would not travel if the vehicle was not moving forward.

Two million people walking 10 abreast, with 6 feet between rows, would extend for about 250 miles. An interesting estimate of just the basic survival needs of such a large group of people, gives a perspective on how massive an operation this must have been. It would require 1000 tons, 2 million pounds of food every day just to ward off starvation, and we know from scripture that there was plenty to eat. To do this would require the equivalent of a freight train, a mile long, to deliver the food every day. Add to that a bare minimum of 5 million gallons of water per day, and that train would stretch beyond the horizon. And, this went on, every day, for forty years.

Physical Laws Altered:

Another little known and astonishing aspect of the "Exodus Event" is found, not in the book of the Exodus, but in Deuteronomy:

"Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years." (Deuteronomy 8:4)

This astounding paradigm is repeated here:

"And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot." (Deuteronomy 29:5).

Amazingly, these verses are saying that the clothes and shoes of those in the Exodus traveling group never wore out in 40 years of constant use. And, the phrase, "neither did thy foot swell" certainly seems to indicate that the health of this great number of travelers was also being maintained in extraordinary ways during that 4 decade period. There are some amazing phenomena described in relationship to UFOs, and this anomaly could very well be associated with the constant presence of the guiding and protecting vehicle hovering over them. Healing of wounds, relief from chronic ailments, and other physical alterations are often reported by contactees.

The Beginning of the 40-Year Exodus Encounter

The first encounter that Moses has with God appearing directly to him, is from the famous account of the strange "burning bush". He was amazed because what he was observing seemed to be a bramble on fire, but the bramble was not being consumed. "....behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed... I will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt...." (Exodus 3:2-3) God then begins to speak from inside this glowing bramble-like object. "And when the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush.....” (Exodus 3:4). This is similar to the description of another stationary, glowing object, encountered on Mount Sinai during the Exodus: "And the sight of the glory of the Lord was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel." (Exodus 24:17) It is during this encounter with the “burning bush" that Moses is given the commission to lead the Hebrews out of Egypt.

In the 16th Chapter of the Exodus, the close encounter begins in the wilderness of Sin. The people were beginning to question whether they were just on a wild goose chase and would die of hunger, in the middle of nowhere. Yhovah reveals to Moses that he will now begin to feed the people in two ways; by driving wild game into the encampment in the evening, and providing bread, manna, in the morning. As Aaron was telling this to the people, a vehicle appeared and that very evening, flocks of quail covered the camp. The next morning, manna appeared on the ground in quantities more than enough to satisfy everybody's hunger. This had to happen every day, as the manna had to be eaten before the next morning, or it would rot, with the specific exception of a double quantity they were required to gather on the day before the Sabbath; the only day the manna would not appear. This is a description of the food called "manna": "And it came to pass, that at even the quails came up, and covered the camp: and in the morning the dew lay round about the host. And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar frost on the ground." (Exodus 16:13-14)