Enoch was one of the antediluvian patriarchs. He was the father of Methuselah and great-grandfather of Noah. Despite the claim that he was only one of two people who didn’t actually die but was taken up to be with God, the Bible provides very little information on him. It is really the eponymous apocryphal text that highlights his exploits.
The Book of Enoch, believed to have been written circa the second century BC, is attributed to the patriarch. It was first brought to light in 1773 when Scottish explorer James Bruce discovered copies of it in Ethiopia. Fragments of the original Aramaic text where then discovered as part of the Dead Sea scroll cache found in Qumran in 1947.
The book details the fall of the angels, Enoch’s journeys to heaven as well as various astronomical data. However, from the perspective of those who adhere to the ancient alien theory, it is replete with references to extraterrestrial beings.
Many people interested in the ancient astronaut theory will be familiar with the passage from Genesis 6 1-4
“And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them. That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. And the LORD said, my spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be a hundred and twenty years. There were giants in the earth in those days; and also, after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bore children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.”
The Ethiopian Book of Enoch
The famous passage, above, is viewed by many as proof that angels were actually extraterrestrials. People may think this is the only reference to this union of angels and women but the Book of Enoch mentions this interbreeding on numerous occasions –
“And it came to pass when the children of men had multiplied that in those days were born unto them beautiful and fair daughters. And the angels, the children of the heaven, saw and lusted after them, and said to one another: 'Come, let us choose us wives from among the children of men and have children with them.’ (1)
Then, just as in the Genesis version, it mentions giants, who were the offspring of these extraterrestrial/human unions. However, whereas Genesis makes no mention of them other than they existed, Enoch tells us that they eventually turned on humans and killed them. (2)
Enoch, himself, has numerous encounters with extraterrestrial visitors. His first vision, or what could be interpreted as his first flight aboard a UFO, is described in detail -
“In the vision clouds invited me and summoned me into a mist and the course of the stars and the flash of lightning hurried and drove me, and the winds in the vision caused me to fly and lifted me up, and bore me into heaven. And I went in till I drew near to a wall which is built of crystals and surrounded by tongues of fire, and it began to frighten me. I went into the tongues of fire and drew near a large house which was built of crystals: and the walls of the house were like a mosaic of hailstones and the floor was made of crystals like snow. Its ceiling was like the path of the stars and the lightning flashes, and between them were fiery cherubim.” (3)
In this chapter Enoch is surrounded by clouds and a mist and levitated into a building made of a crystal-like substance. Clouds and mists surrounding UFOs have been noted in various cases and it is speculated that these are formed as a result of whatever exotic propulsion system the craft utilises. (4)(5)(6) Indeed, a haze is clearly visible surrounding the craft in the famous UFO footage released by the pentagon showing a UFO recorded by aircraft crew in 2015. (7)
The ceiling of the building would appear to be transparent as Enoch can see the stars through it. This theme of being able to see the stars though transparent walls or ceilings of a spacecraft has been noted by abductees before. (8)
Enoch then sees a second, larger construction whose door is open and built of flames of fire. The floor and ceiling are also described as being made of fire.
“Its floor was of fire, and above it was the lightning and path of the stars, and its ceiling was also of flaming fire.” (9).
Of course, in Enoch’s day any sort of modern artificial lighting would be thought of as fire as that was the only source of light, other than the astronomical bodies, with which they would have been familiar.
In the following chapter God once more admonishes the fallen angels or watchers for having slept with Earth women and producing giants and warns that the giant offspring will rise up against humans.
“And the spirit of the giants afflict, oppress, destroy, attack, war, destroy and cause trouble on the earth.” (10)
Enoch is then taken to another part of ‘heaven’ where the creatures there were like ‘flaming fire and, when they wished, made themselves appear as men.” (11)
This could be interpreted as the ability to shapeshift or, could simply be the fact that the entities were wearing luminous uniforms with head gear and when they took it off were human-like underneath.
There is then another allusion to the ability of the extraterrestrial entities to shape shift -
'Here shall stand the angels who have connected themselves with women, and their spirits assuming many different forms are defiling mankind and shall lead them astray into sacrificing to demons as gods.”(12)
Further on in the text a list of angels or aliens is given and what knowledge they imparted to humans. The leader is called Samjaza.(13) Interestingly, the famous Swiss abductee Billy Meier said one of the aliens he was in contact with was called Semjase – a very similar sounding name. (14)
Some people believe Meier to be a fraud but others believe him to be genuine. A physicist in the 1970s examined Meier’s photos of alleged UFOs and stated -
"Nothing was found to indicate a hoax" and concluded, "Nothing was found in the examination of the print which could cause me to believe that the object in the photos is anything other than a large object photographed a distance from the camera."
Analysis of metal allegedly given to Meier by the alien was also undertaken by an IBM chemist and various anomalies were detected. (15)
In the middle of listing the aliens that helped mankind, the Enoch text says that humans were created to be immortal just like the angels, but due to their quest for knowledge, now suffered death.
“For men were created exactly like the angels, to the intent that they should continue pure and righteous, and death, which destroys everything, should not have taken hold of them, but through their knowledge they are perishing, and through this power consumes them.” (16)
In fact, the extreme longevity for certain individuals is noted in the bible. The long lives of the patriarchs are listed but gradually these lifespans are reduced to what we would consider to be more normal lifespans. For example, Adam supposedly lived to 930 and Seth to 912. Jared, Enoch’s father was noted as having lived to 962 years old and his son, Methuselah to 969. Enoch himself died at 365 years old. (17)
However, long lifespans being attributed to humans in ancient times are not unique to the Bible, there is a document called the Sumerian King Lists which also accredits certain humans with incredibly long lifespans. Some of them are noted to have reigned for many thousands of years. (18). According to Chinese texts, China, too, has citizens living for hundreds of years. (19)
Could this suggest some sort of genetic manipulation by the extraterrestrials to reduce our lifespans as punishment for disobeying them?
Proof of alien manipulation of our DNA may, in fact, have been discovered. Two scientists working on the human genome project have concluded that 97 per cent of non-coding sequences in human DNA is genetic code from alien life forms.
One of the scientists involved, Maxim A. Makukov, stated “We have to accept the fact that all life on Earth carries the genetic code of our extraterrestrial cousins and that evolution is not what we think it is.” (20)
In Chapter 71, Enoch once again ascends to heaven where he sees the ‘holy sons of God’ stepping on ‘flames of fire’ Again, rather than actual fire this could refer to an illuminated floor. He also describes them as wearing white garments and their faces shining like snow. (21) This is significant as Noah, Enoch’s great-grandson, as we shall see, is reported to have a face that shone, indicating that Noah was, at least in part, of extra-terrestrial origin.
Incorporated into the Book of Enoch is a fragment of the Book of Noah. It is within this text that Noah’s extraterrestrial origins are explained.
“Methuselah took a wife for his son, Lamech, and she became pregnant by him and bore a son. And his body was white as snow and red as the blooming of a rose, and the hair of his head and his long curls were white as wool, and his eyes beautiful.
And when he opened his eyes, he lighted up the whole house like the sun, and the whole house was very bright.”
And on it he levitated (arose) thereupon he arose in the hands of the midwife, opened his mouth, and conversed with the Lord of righteousness.”
And his father Lamech was afraid of him and fled, and came to his father Methuselah. And he said unto him: 'I have begotten a strange son, diverse from and unlike man, and resembling the sons of the God of heaven; and his nature is different and he is not like us, and his eyes are as the rays of the sun, and his countenance is glorious.”
And it seems to me that he is not sprung from me but from the angels, and I fear that in his days a wonder may be wrought on the earth.” (22)
This must be one of the most obvious and explicit historical descriptions of a human/extra-terrestrial hybrid.
The Slavonic Book of Enoch
A second book of Enoch was discovered in the Belgrade library in 1886. This is known as 2 Enoch or the Slavonic book of Enoch
At the beginning of the Slavonic book of Enoch it is stated that the patriarch lived for 365 years. Again, it suggests the extended longevity of humans in ancient times. (23)
Very early on in the 1st chapter Enoch has his first encounter with alien beings. He describes two giants with wings and shining faces that came to his house.
“And there appeared to me two very large men, so big I never saw such on earth. Their faces were shining like the sun, their eyes were like burning light, and from their lips fire was coming out. They were singing. Their clothing was of various kinds in appearance and was purple. Their wings were brighter than gold and their hands were whiter than snow.” (24)
Interestingly he does not call them angels but very large men, indicating that they were clearly physical and not spiritual entities. They tell him that they are about to take him up to heaven and to tell his family what is happening
Enoch is not alone in his mention of giant winged beings. There is, of course, the legendary mothman whose exploits at Point Pleasant, West Virgina are described in detail by John Keel in his book, ‘The Mothman Prophecies.’ (25) There is also the bizarre case of the Russian cosmonauts who, in 1985, say they saw a giant winged humanoid floating outside the space station (26) and the modern wave of flying humanoids spotted in and around the Chicago area. (27)
One of the first things Enoch sees when he gets to ‘heaven’ are creatures called Chalkydri. These are bizarre hybrid creatures comprising of a lion’s tail and a crocodile’s head. (28) Interestingly, crocodile headed deities were well known in ancient Egypt. The crocodile-headed god, Sobek, was the god of strength and power. In Enoch the Chalkydri are said to accompany the sun and in Egypt, during the period 1550 – 1069 BC, Sobek was fused with the sun god Ra to become Sobek-Ra. (29) Could this be the same entity? There was also, Ammit, a funerary deity also known as the ‘Devourer of the Dead’ who was part lion and hippopotamus with a crocodile’s head. (30)
When he is taken up to a higher level, Enoch meets the archangels with their shining faces. They appear to be clones or robots as Enoch describes them by saying ‘there is no difference in their faces, or behaviour, or manner of dress.’ (31) This is a similar description given by modern UFO abductees who describe the ‘greys’ as behaving robotically and being indistinguishable from each other. (32)
US army Colonel Philip Corso, in his book, The Day After Roswell, claimed that the grey were part ‘biorobots” (33)
When Enoch is taken to the ‘tenth heaven’ or 10th deck of the spacecraft something extraordinary happens. He is actually transformed into an angel. Although the description actually sounds like he is donning an astronaut’s suit and preparing for a trip through space.
The Lord tells the archangel Michael – “Go and take Enoch and remove his earthly garments and anoint him with my sweet ointment and put him in the garments of My Glory.” (34)
When he has been covered in ointment that was ‘shining like the sun’s rays’ and donned his new outfit, Enoch says he was transformed into one of the glorious ones i.e. an angel.
Intriguingly, being covered or submerged in aromatic or sweet-smelling liquid has been mentioned by some UFO abductees. Moreover, the abductee in one of these encounters also describes the liquid as golden yellow, which is similar to it being like’ sun’s rays’ as described by Enoch. (35)
Moreover, being submerged in breathable liquid has been proposed as an aid to future space travel. (36)
At the end of the Slavonic test the focus moves away from Enoch and unto Noah’s brother Nir and his wife Sopanim. In this extraordinary section of the text, Sopanim, who is infertile and too old to give birth, miraculously becomes pregnant despite not having had sexual relations with her husband. At this point the angel Gabriel appears and calls the child a ‘gift from god’. She then dies and a fully grown child is removed from her womb who is able to speak immediately after being born. This child is then removed from Nir and Sopanim by Gabriel. (37)
Reading this from a modern perspective and taking into account alien abductee stories, it would appear that Sopanim was artificially inseminated by extra-terrestrials to create a hybrid baby but due to its size caused the death of its mother. As with all abductee stories where the woman gives birth to a hybrid, the offspring is subsequently removed from the human parent and taken away by the aliens. (38)
It would appear then that Enoch and his lineage are all alien hybrids and are considered special. Perhaps this is why Noah and his family are saved when the flood comes and the rest of the human race is left to perish. Alien encounters and abductions involving entire families are well known in modern UFO literature suggesting perhaps that the extra-terrestrials are interested in a particular genetic trait. (39)
The Hebrew Book of Enoch
The Hebrew version of Enoch was compiled around 300 to 400 A.D. In the text, a Rabbi Ishmael is transported to heaven in a fiery chariot where he meets Enoch who has now been transformed into the angel Metatron.
When he arrives in heaven the rabbi is frightened by the appearance of the angels, particularly a reptilian group called the seraphim, (fiery serpents), and so God tells them to hide their faces. (40)
The angels then ask God why they have let a man born of woman see the Merkaba, which is a flaming chariot. Clearly the aliens are not happy with a mere human seeing the technology on board the spaceship. They ask God why the rabbi should be granted access to the ‘raquia’. The word raquia means firmament but interestingly, it also means plate. So, the alien crew could well be asking why the human has been allowed on to the plate i.e. a plate-shaped craft. A flying-saucer in other words. To support the fact that it was solid object they were referring to rather than just the firmament, the word raquia is translated as ‘a firm or solid structure’ in the Septuagint – the Greek version of the old testament according to the author Joseph Lumpkin. Clearly then the alien crew are referring to a saucer-shaped solid craft. (41)
Later Enoch is taught how to see into the future and the power of telepathy. Enoch explains how the Holy One “… revealed the thoughts of all living creatures and their feelings…..Before a man thought a thought in secret, I saw it and before a man made a thing I watched it.”(42) Both of these abilities have been associated with aliens in abduction cases. (43) (44)
At one point it is explained to the rabbi that the words ‘holy, holy, holy’ must be sung by the ‘angels’ in exactly the right manner at the right time. If so, ‘crowns’ are placed upon the angels. If not, the ‘angel’ who errs is burnt alive and a new one instantly created at God’s command. (45) Could it be that the angels in this case are robots or machines of some kind and they have started malfunctioning and are destroyed and replaced? The ones that carry out their function properly are marked with crowns to highlight the fact they are not faulty? A few pages later it says the ones that don’t sing properly are consumed by the flames from the ‘rooms of the whirlwind’ They then travel in a river of fire and become mountains of burning coal. This sounds as if the ‘angels’ or robots are being burnt in a furnace and then travelling along a conveyor belt with other burning remains. (46)
The word ‘Holy’ may simply be the sound the machine makes when performing the task that it has been programmed to carry out. Holy in Hebrew is qadosh. It may sound to the rabbi that all the machines when working in unison are singing ‘qadosh, qadosh, qadosh,’
There is an extremely interesting section where the rabbi is shown letters engraved on the throne of glory. He is told the letters created everything in the universe. (47) This corresponds with the Bible where everything is created by the word of God. In Genesis 1v 3 God says, “Let there be light,” and there was light. In 1v 11 God said, “Let the earth bring forth vegetation: seed-bearing plants and fruit trees, each bearing fruit with seed according to its kind. And it was so.” Simply by uttering words God created matter.
The idea that simply saying something can bring it into being seems far-fetched but the latest scientific breakthroughs show that sound waves, can indeed, move and manipulate matter. According to an article in Science daily, a team of scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics have shown how “electrons can be moved or held in place by electric potentials that are generated by acoustic waves on the surfaces of piezoelectric materials.” (48)
A team of Russian scientists have even used sound to alter DNA. According to the study -
“The team achieved incredible results using vibration and language. For instance, they successfully transmitted information patterns from one set of DNA to another. Eventually, they were even able to reprogram cells to another genome—they transformed frog embryos into salamander embryos without lifting a single scalpel or making one incision.” (49)
It is even possible to levitate objects using sound (50) and scientists now believe sound waves may have helped form matter when the universe was first formed. (51)
Of course, these are experiments using actual sound. In the Book of Enoch, we do not know from the text if the words have to be spoken out loud or if the image of the letters themselves bring matter into being. So, is there any evidence that the written word can influence matter? Well, according to the work of Dr Masaru Emoto, there is.
Dr Masaru Emoto was a Japanese scientist who studied how music, sound and human intention interact with water. In one experiment he wrote certain words on pieces of paper, tied them round bottles of water and then froze them. The ice crystals that formed differed depending on what was written on the bottle. For example, perfect symmetrical crystals were formed when the words written were ‘love’, ‘honesty’ or ‘happiness’ but incomplete and malformed crystals were formed when words such as ‘evil’ and ‘you disgust me’ were written. It didn’t even matter which language the words were written in; the result was the same. (52) (53)
These experiments show that the written word can, indeed, influence matter. A highly advanced alien race would surely also know this and, with their technology, perhaps thousands of years ahead of ours, could build and shape inanimate objects as well as organic lifeforms.
A common feature related by alleged UFO abductees is the warnings the aliens give about the future of mankind. This is usually conveyed to the abductee whilst they see supposedly future events unfold on some sort of viewing screen. (54) In the Hebrew Book of Enoch just such a scenario is played out. The rabbi is shown past and future events recorded on a ‘curtain’
Enoch, in the shape of Metatron, says to the rabbi –
“Come, and I will show you the Curtain of the Divine majesty which is spread before the Holy One, blessed be he. On it are written all the generations of the world and their deeds, both what they have done and what they will do until the end of all generations.” (55)
He then witnesses all the actions of future generations including various wars.
The book of Enoch must be one of the most detailed accounts of repeated and prolonged alien encounters in history. The fact that there are so many similarities between Enoch’s experience and modern-day UFO cases is evidence of it being an authentic encounter with extraterrestrial entities. This is reinforced even more by the fact that some of what he describes may be explained by modern science.
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