Are UFOs Real? Some of Them.<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The New York Times reported today that the U.S. Defense Department's annual $600 billion budget has $22 million earmarked for investigating UFOs. What! I\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/kermitzarleyblog\/2017\/12\/are-ufos-real-some-of-them\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Are UFOs Real? Some of Them.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The New York Times reported today that the U.S. Defense Department's annual $600 billion budget has $22 million earmarked for investigating UFOs. What! I\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/kermitzarleyblog\/2017\/12\/are-ufos-real-some-of-them\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Kermit Zarley Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/kermit.zarley\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-12-18T02:48:53+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2017-12-18T03:00:13+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/wp.production.patheos.com\/blogs\/kermitzarleyblog\/files\/2017\/12\/Aliens.png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Kermit Zarley\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Kermit Zarley\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"5 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/kermitzarleyblog\/2017\/12\/are-ufos-real-some-of-them\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/kermitzarleyblog\/2017\/12\/are-ufos-real-some-of-them\/\",\"name\":\"Are UFOs Real? Some of Them.\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/kermitzarleyblog\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2017-12-18T02:48:53+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2017-12-18T03:00:13+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/kermitzarleyblog\/#\/schema\/person\/8393f2e63455a2915f7ca277bf5a5d02\"},\"description\":\"The New York Times reported today that the U.S. Defense Department's annual $600 billion budget has $22 million earmarked for investigating UFOs. What! I\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/kermitzarleyblog\/2017\/12\/are-ufos-real-some-of-them\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/kermitzarleyblog\/2017\/12\/are-ufos-real-some-of-them\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/kermitzarleyblog\/2017\/12\/are-ufos-real-some-of-them\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/kermitzarleyblog\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Are UFOs Real? Some of Them.\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/kermitzarleyblog\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/kermitzarleyblog\/\",\"name\":\"Kermit Zarley Blog\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/kermitzarleyblog\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/kermitzarleyblog\/#\/schema\/person\/8393f2e63455a2915f7ca277bf5a5d02\",\"name\":\"Kermit Zarley\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/kermitzarleyblog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/bf8e1a5dcb179e76f0c39d3d75e849bf?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/bf8e1a5dcb179e76f0c39d3d75e849bf?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Kermit Zarley\"},\"description\":\"Born & reared in Seattle, WA., Kermit lived 38 years in metro Houston, now in Scottsdale, AZ. He graduated from University of Houston w\/ BBA in 1963 and played on the PGA Tour full time from 1964-1982 and Senior\/Champions Tour in 1991-2001. Kermit co-founded the PGA Tour Bible Study in 1965 and was senior leader most of next 17 years. Kermit has three adult children and six grandchildren.\",\"sameAs\":[\"http:\/\/kermitzarley.com\",\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/kermit.zarley\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/kermitzarleyblog\/author\/kermitzarleyblog\/\"}]}<\/script>\n","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Are UFOs Real? Some of Them.","description":"The New York Times reported today that the U.S. Defense Department's annual $600 billion budget has $22 million earmarked for investigating UFOs. What! I","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/kermitzarleyblog\/2017\/12\/are-ufos-real-some-of-them\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Are UFOs Real? Some of Them.","og_description":"The New York Times reported today that the U.S. Defense Department's annual $600 billion budget has $22 million earmarked for investigating UFOs. What! I","og_url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/kermitzarleyblog\/2017\/12\/are-ufos-real-some-of-them\/","og_site_name":"Kermit Zarley Blog","article_author":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/kermit.zarley","article_published_time":"2017-12-18T02:48:53+00:00","article_modified_time":"2017-12-18T03:00:13+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"http:\/\/wp.production.patheos.com\/blogs\/kermitzarleyblog\/files\/2017\/12\/Aliens.png"}],"author":"Kermit Zarley","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Kermit Zarley","Est. reading time":"5 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/kermitzarleyblog\/2017\/12\/are-ufos-real-some-of-them\/","url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/kermitzarleyblog\/2017\/12\/are-ufos-real-some-of-them\/","name":"Are UFOs Real? Some of Them.","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/kermitzarleyblog\/#website"},"datePublished":"2017-12-18T02:48:53+00:00","dateModified":"2017-12-18T03:00:13+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/kermitzarleyblog\/#\/schema\/person\/8393f2e63455a2915f7ca277bf5a5d02"},"description":"The New York Times reported today that the U.S. Defense Department's annual $600 billion budget has $22 million earmarked for investigating UFOs. What! I","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/kermitzarleyblog\/2017\/12\/are-ufos-real-some-of-them\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/kermitzarleyblog\/2017\/12\/are-ufos-real-some-of-them\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/kermitzarleyblog\/2017\/12\/are-ufos-real-some-of-them\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/kermitzarleyblog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Are UFOs Real? Some of Them."}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/kermitzarleyblog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/kermitzarleyblog\/","name":"Kermit Zarley Blog","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/kermitzarleyblog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/kermitzarleyblog\/#\/schema\/person\/8393f2e63455a2915f7ca277bf5a5d02","name":"Kermit Zarley","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/kermitzarleyblog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/bf8e1a5dcb179e76f0c39d3d75e849bf?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/bf8e1a5dcb179e76f0c39d3d75e849bf?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Kermit Zarley"},"description":"Born & reared in Seattle, WA., Kermit lived 38 years in metro Houston, now in Scottsdale, AZ. He graduated from University of Houston w\/ BBA in 1963 and played on the PGA Tour full time from 1964-1982 and Senior\/Champions Tour in 1991-2001. Kermit co-founded the PGA Tour Bible Study in 1965 and was senior leader most of next 17 years. Kermit has three adult children and six grandchildren.","sameAs":["http:\/\/kermitzarley.com","https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/kermit.zarley"],"url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/kermitzarleyblog\/author\/kermitzarleyblog\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/kermitzarleyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/kermitzarleyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/kermitzarleyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/kermitzarleyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1477"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/kermitzarleyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/kermitzarleyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/kermitzarleyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/kermitzarleyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/kermitzarleyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}

{"id":4350,"date":"2017-12-17T19:48:53","date_gmt":"2017-12-18T02:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/kermitzarleyblog\/?p=4350"},"modified":"2017-12-17T20:00:13","modified_gmt":"2017-12-18T03:00:13","slug":"are-ufos-real-some-of-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/kermitzarleyblog\/2017\/12\/are-ufos-real-some-of-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Are UFOs Real? Some of Them."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

$\"Aliens\"$ <\/a>The New York Times<\/em> reported today that the U.S. Defense Department\u2019s annual $600 billion budget has $22 million earmarked for investigating UFOs. What! I thought we ended that inquiry when the U.S. Air Force shut down its 27-year old Project Blue Book in 1969. (I was an Air Force reservist from 1965 through 1971.)<\/p>\n

Not so. The U.S. government\u2019s investigation of UFOs was somewhat reborn in 2007 when Democrat Harry Reid of Nevada, then the Senate majority leader, got a similar program started as part of the Pentagon\u2019s Defense Intelligence Agency. It supposedly lasted five years and then ended. Not so, again. It\u2019s funding ended in 2012; but this year\u2019s Pentagon budget renewed funding for this program with the $22 million figure.<\/p>\n

With Project Blue Book, the U.S. Air Force had investigated just about all reported sightings of supposed UFOs in the U.S. during that 27-year period of time and a few years before it. The total number of recorded sightings was about 12,000. The main reason the Air Force shut down this program was that neither the U.S. government nor its Defense Department could come to any solid conclusion about these UFO sightings except to say that natural phenomenon could explain most of them and about 700 of them were unexplainable. So, it was concluded that continuing Project Blue Book was a waste of time and thus taxpayer dollars.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been interested in UFOs since I was a teenager. It started when my very sane uncle, Victor Zarley, a Unity Church pastor (formerly Nazarene), began telling us kinfolk that he had had multiple UFO experiences. They included him seeing aliens, which he called \u201cthe little people,\u201d and boarding their aircraft. My uncle eventually accompanied famed Maxwell Maltz as a public speaker at conferences. Vic would speak about his experiences with these aliens. Maltz was an American cosmetic surgeon and author of the bestsellling, self-help book Psycho-Cybernetics<\/em> (1960). It launched him into becoming a pioneer in helping people improve their self image.<\/p>\n

In 1979, I met and talked privately with Gene Roddenberry, the original creator of the still hugely popular Star Trek television series. Who was more interested in aliens than Mr. Roddenberry? (See my post entitled \u201cMy Talk with Gene Rodenberry about Aliens, God, and Sci-Fi Stuff<\/a>.\u201d) I have a chapter about this in a yet unpublished book manuscript that I intend to be part of my Still Here series on biblical eschatology. The first two books of this series are published: The Third Day Bible Code<\/em> (2006) and Warrior from Heaven<\/em>\u00a0(2009).<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been a serious student of Bible prophecy for over fifty years. My take on UFOs is that some of these sightings are real and thus cannot be explained as natural phenomena. But what is the correct explanation of them? I believe they are angels, called \u201cWatchers.\u201d That\u2019s what I told Mr. Roddenberry. Gene didn\u2019t like that answer. Yet we had a very cordial and stimulating conversation about this subject that I find very interesting. I hope to tell more in my future publications.<\/p>\n

Incidentally, the Bible reveals that angels are spirit beings, thus not physical. Yet they can manifest themselves to be visually seen by humans. When they do, they always appear human-like.<\/p>\n

The Bible\u2019s book of Daniel relates, \u201cthere was a holy watcher, coming down from heaven\u201d (Daniel 4.13). He inflicted King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon with a rare mental disorder that modern psychology calls lycanthropy. The deluded person thinks he or she is an animal, or desires to be animal, and therefore lives like one.<\/p>\n

The Daniel text says God sent the angel to do this to King Nebuchadnezzar because of his arrogance (Daniel 4). But first the king had a dream about what would happen to him. In this dream he was told, \u201cthe Most High [God] has sovereignty over the kingdom of mortals, and gives it to whom he will\u201d (v. 25). The text says the king heard a voice from heaven saying, \u201cYou shall be made to eat grass like the oxen, and seven times [years] shall pass over you, until you have learned that the Most High has sovereignty over the kingdom of mortals and gives it to whom he will\u201d (v. 32). We are told the king recovered seven years later and issued a statement about his experience.<\/p>\n

The watcher(s) are mentioned three times in this Daniel narrative (Daniel 4.13, 17, 23). Interestingly, it says, \u201cThe sentence is rendered by decree of the watchers\u201d (v. 17). This is immediately repeated as follows: \u201cthe decision is given by order of the holy ones.\u201d Here, the watchers are described as \u201choly ones.\u201d They are clearly God\u2019s angels.<\/p>\n

This text in Daniel reveals what Sir Isaac Newton\u2013the great mathematician and scientist, discoverer of gravity, and a very devout Christian and student of Bible prophecy\u2013wrote, \u201cGod does not do what he can delegate to others.\u201d That is, God allowed these holy watchers to devise a plan to mentally afflict King Nebuchadnezzar.<\/p>\n

The Bible distinguishes angels in various categories. Its primary category is that angels belong either to God or Satan\u2013the devil and arch-enemy of God. That is, there are angels of God and angels of Satan. Thus, there is a great battle being waged in not only this universe but heaven also between God and Satan, and God\u2019s angels against Satan\u2019s angels (e.g., Revelation 12.7-9). I have a chapter specifically about this battle in the above-cited, unpublished book.<\/p>\n

But some of Satan\u2019s angels are watchers, also. I don\u2019t know if some of the many UFO sightings are of God\u2019s angel watchers or Satan\u2019s angel watchers. And incidentally, UFOs are sighted all over the world. Some of the more interesting accounts are about pilots visually seeing, and being picked up on radar, and then chasing UFOs in their aircrafts.<\/p>\n

I suspect that both types of angels are very interested in what goes on in the universe with human beings. Regarding God\u2019s angels Jesus said, \u201cthere is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents\u201don earth (Luke 15.10). And the author of the biblical book of Hebrews states, \u201cAre not [God\u2019s] angels spirits in the divine service, sent to serve for the sake of those [humans] who are to inherit salvation?\u201d (Hebrews 1.14). And the Apostle Peter writes that the \u201cgood news\u201d that is proclaimed among human beings about Jesus \u201cby the Holy Spirit sent from heaven\u201d are the \u201cthings into which angels long to look,\u201d that is, God\u2019s angels (Peter 1.12).<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"