Erich Von Daniken - The Gold Of The Gods

6 - Rarities, Curiosities And Speculations
Fig. 72. At Derinkuyu, Anatolia (Turkey) there are underground cities with several
stories and rooms which hold as many as 60,000 men.
Using this passage from Ezekiel, reproduced in abbreviated form here, I formulated
some questions based on knowledge of current space travel technology. It was so
obvious: it was so unmistakable. But the criticism and mockery I had to suffer for my
modern exegesis!
On March 28, 1972, I had a conversation with Joseph F. Blumrich in Huntsville, USA.
Blumrich, an engineer born in Austria, has been working for NASA for 14 years. He is
head of the department in which future space stations are planned on the drawing board
and worked out in detail. For example, Blumrich was engaged on the construction of the
last stage of Saturn V and is now planning the future orbital stations in which several
astronauts will stay in space for weeks. In July, 1972, Blumrich was awarded the NASA
Exceptional Service Medal for his work on Saturn and Apollo -an honor received by
very few NASA personnel.
"You have made a detailed study of the visions of the prophet Ezekiel in your spare time.
First of all, how did a man in your position come to do this?"
"To put it quite bluntly-as a protest! I read your book Chariots of the Gods? with the
superior attitude of a man who knew in advance that it was all rubbish. From the wealth
of material supplied by you, I found, when I came to the description of the technical
characteristics of Ezekiel's visions, a territory where I could join in the conversation, so
to speak, as I have spent most of my life on the construction and planning of aircraft and
rockets. So I got out a Bible to read the complete text, feeling sure that I would refute
and annihilate you in a few minutes. You could not, you simply ought not to be right!
After a careful perusal of the text, my conviction was rapidly undermined and the few
minutes became a long period of intensive spare-time research, during which I worked
out in detail and proved what I had found out in the first few hours."
"Did you take into account the prophet Ezekiel as a person?"
"Naturally. From three points of view: in relation to his personality in general, his
quality as a reporter and lastly his participation in the events described. His personality
influences the broad general evaluation of his report. As a reporter he possessed an
outstanding gift of observation. As a participant he helps us to answer the question: was
he the center of the occurrence? Since he was not, the next question arises: why not?"
"Previously the encounters between God and man in the Old Testament, which were
always accompanied by secondary phenomena such as smoke, noise, fire, lightning and
earthquakes, were called ideograms. Do you consider it possible after your Ezekiel
studies that a meeting between the prophet and an alien intelligence can actually have
taken place? If so, what indications do you base your findings on?"