* "The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands of angels: the Lord is among them, as in Sinai, in the holy place. " (Psalms 68:17)

* "Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: who maketh the clouds his chariot: who walketh upon the wings of the wind:" (Psalms 68:17)

* "For, behold, the LORD will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire." (Isaiah 66:5)

* "Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots shall be as a whirlwind...” (Jeremiah 4:13)

* "And I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came four chariots out from between two mountains; and the mountains were mountains of brass." (Zechariah 6:1)

Horses Of Fire

The word "horses" is translated from cuwc, pronounced soos, meaning to skip (properly, for joy); a horse (as leaping); also a swallow (from its rapid flight). In the Bible, this word is also translated into the word for a bird, the crane. In other words, it can be used for horse, bird, leap, skip, or rapid flight. In the Hebrew word "cuwc", we have both the elements of skipping and rapid flight associated with UFOs. Considering we know that neither pigs, nor horses, can fly, we must assume that the author of this description is referring to either the bird, leap, skip, or the rapid flight aspects of this Hebrew word.

The very phrase "flying saucers" comes from what is considered to be the first "modern" report of a UFO sighting by Kenneth Arnold on June 24, 1947. He described nine brilliantly bright objects flying across the face of Rainier towards nearby Mount Adams at “an incredible speed”, and said they “flew like a saucer would if you skipped it across the water”.

A Whirlwind in Heaven

The word "whirlwind" is translated from ca`ar, pronounced sah'-ar, meaning; a hurricane. And, the word "heaven" is translated from shamayim, pronounced shaw-mah'-yim, meaning to be lofty; the sky. Logic dictates that this is neither a hurricane nor a tornado, as Elijah's cloak just fell to the ground and it is something spinning like a whirlwind that drew Elijah into the sky. We know that UFOs spin and that they are reported to project very animated beams of light down from them that draw people and other objects up into them.

We find this description of God's vehicles by Jeremiah: "Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots shall be as a whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe unto us! for we are spoiled." (Jeremiah 4:13)

Elisha’s Separate Encounter

Few know that after Elijah was abducted, Elisha took over as prophet and had an even more unusual encounter with "horses and chariots of fire". After the first encounter, he immediately returned to Samaria and, along the way, parted the waters of the Jordan River to get across as Elijah had done. He stopped off in Jericho and purified the poisoned water that had left it without the ability to grow food. He created a great quantity of oil to help a widow settle her debts, much as Jesus was to create wine for the wedding feast in the future. He was able to cause an older woman to become pregnant, and then, resurrected the son she bore from the dead, after he suddenly died. He healed a leper, cursed another man with leprosy, and made a metal axe head float on the water. When the King of Syria attempted to force Elisha to come to him, the second close encounter with "horses and chariots of fire" occurred and is described in 2 Kings 6:15-23.