I originally presented this story on my Twitch stream. Below is a copy of my notes to be presented. I also drew what I saw in Photoshop. I made clips of my most important statements.
I saw a UFO. It wasn’t a drone. It wasn’t a bird, or a flying fish, or a flying saucer. It could have been an alien or a Pokémon. Debra thinks it was an angel. I was out at sea with my mother-in-law, Debra, on a cruise between New Orleans and Cozumel, Mexico. We were staying in a second-level stateroom with a large window. At 2:00 a.m., Debra woke up and thought about looking out the window. She saw something strange flying around near the side of the ship. She woke me up to share the experience and confirm she wasn’t the only one seeing our UFO. She and I saw the same thing because it was real. This was not a shared hallucination, as I see no reason we would have that. We were not drunk or high. Neither of us experience visual hallucinations ever.
I had to think about my reason for sharing this story. I especially think about why I share anything in this age of gaining likes, followers, and attention. Full disclosure, it is my goal to build an audience on Twitch and other online platforms. This story is an absolute zinger and could be an effective way to get someone to log in and watch! But, I also believe that this can be a segue to talk about valuable things like what I believe about the world, especially in the spiritual realm.
I take my belief about the universe and my religion very seriously. For that reason, and general aspects about my personality, I would not lie about experiencing something outlandish for likes, follows, and a platform, then tie it to my faith in Jesus. I know what I saw, and I am not about to go on Twitch and make up stuff like this. This is not performance art; this is a genuine conversation.
As for using Twitch as my platform, it is a safe way to present my voice because it can be a largely one-sided conversation. We are all safely separated by our living rooms. I do not have the power to make you keep me on your computer screen and listen. I am not interested in debating. I do not welcome comments on why I am wrong, unless you are a leader at my home church, Level Up, correcting me about scripture.
I am taking a risk by talking about being a Christian while talking about believing in a UFO. I don’t want anyone to think I’m impressionable about UFOs, and that Christianity is for impressionable people. I am not telling you I watched a show on the Travel Channel and am now convinced there’s ancient aliens camped out under the desert; I’m telling you I know what I saw, and I had someone there with me see it too.
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In the Four Fields evangelism training model my church uses, we are taught directly from the word of Jesus to assess people’s level of interest and consent before sharing God’s word. This is part of the Great Commission
Matthew 28:1920
New International Version
The Great Commission
19 Therefore, go and make disciples of all nations, baptising them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
In the modern retelling and our Four Fields model, we analogise this as colours on a stoplight. If someone is a green light, you have a nice conversation and baptise them. If you are a red light, I wish you would listen, but I am commanded to “dust off my sandals and move on.”
Matt 10:14
If anyone will not welcome you or listen to your words, leave that home or town and shake the dust off your feet.
The nice thing about the live streaming format is that you can safely log off my stream any time, and I can’t chase after you. So, if you stay and listen, I will assume you are at least a yellow light.
Calling it a UFO is purely the linguistic use of the term. What I saw was a flying object. We can all agree that objects fly in our atmosphere. We have airplanes, balloons, birds, satellites, drones… This object was flying above the water, and I was unable to identify it. And I believe that any authorities would not be able to identify it either, because it completely defied any machine or animal I could think of, and it defied any laws of nature that I am familiar with. I am a person who understands that most UFOs can be identified or explained later, even as a form of gas.
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This flying being was not a blob of gas; it had a gaseous orb for a body, but it had wings like an eagle. It looked to me like a blue, or soft white, golden snitch from Harry Potter, but bigger. It moved like a drone, but it was too powerful to be believably a man-made drone, in Debra’s and my opinion. It moved hundreds of yards in about two seconds and redirected immediately. Birds need to turn around to change direction, but this immediately went the other way. And, birds don’t glow, and drones don’t have eagle wings. I saw the wings flutter at the tips. This being definitely had wings. The glow brightened and dimmed as the UFO moved further and closer to the ship. It moved in an erratic, patternless way, although mostly back and forth, along the side of the ship. This happened at 2:00 a.m. Debra was having trouble sleeping and felt compelled to look out our window. She woke me up to see what she was seeing. We believe that we were meant to see this.
I believe that what we saw is a living being, not a drone. I believe it is a spiritual being from heaven with God, not an evil spirit/demon. The way Debra put it, we saw an angel. In the Bible, there are different heavenly creatures. Maybe this being is something other than an angel, cherubim or seraphim. But angels are described as taking various forms, including a wheel with many eyes.
Ezekiel 1:1-28
Isaiah 6:2-6
New International Version
2 Above him were seraphim, each with six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying. 3 And they were calling to one another:
“Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty;
the whole earth is full of his glory.”4 At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook and the temple was filled with smoke.
5 “Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty.”
6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the altar.
Our UFO never got close enough to our window, so I did not see any eyes; however, it aligns with the biblically accurate angels that people have depicted in art.
Biblical Angel by Toukatichi on DeviantArt
MATT 18:10 “See that you do not despise one of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven. [11] [a]
This scripture is interpreted to support the belief in guardian angels. Protectors.
Exodus 23:20
New International Version
God’s Angel to Prepare the Way
20 “See, I am sending an angel ahead of you to guard you along the way and to bring you to the place I have prepared.
Daniel in the lions den
Daniel 6
21 Daniel answered, “May the king live forever! 22 My God sent his angel, and he shut the mouths of the lions. They have not hurt me, because I was found innocent in his sight. Nor have I ever done any wrong before you, Your Majesty.”
Angels serve to protect people.
Revelation 12:7-9
New International Version
7 Then war broke out in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back. 8 But he was not strong enough, and they lost their place in heaven. 9 The great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.
Warriors
Judges 13:6 Then the woman went to her husband and told him, “A man of God came to me. He looked like an angel of God, very awesome. I didn’t ask him where he came from, and he didn’t tell me his name. 7 But he said to me, ‘You will become pregnant and have a son. Now then, drink no wine or other fermented drink and do not eat anything unclean, because the boy will be a Nazirite of God from the womb until the day of his death.’”
Messenger
Matt 24:31 And He will send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together His [a]elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
Genesis 22:1-19
9 When they came to the place of which God had told him, Abraham built the altar there and laid the wood in order and bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood. 10 Then Abraham reached out his hand and took the knife to slaughter his son. 11 But the angel of the Lord called to him from heaven and said, “Abraham, Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am.” 12 He said, “Do not lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him, for now I know that you fear God, seeing you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.” 13 And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, behind him was a ram, caught in a thicket by his horns. And Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son. 14 So Abraham called the name of that place, “The Lord will provide”;[b] as it is said to this day, “On the mount of the Lord it shall be provided.”[c]
15 And the angel of the Lord called to Abraham a second time from heaven 16 and said, “By myself I have sworn, declares the Lord, because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son, 17 I will surely bless you, and I will surely multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and as the sand that is on the seashore. And your offspring shall possess the gate of his[d] enemies, 18 and in your offspring shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because you have obeyed my voice.” 19 So Abraham returned to his young men, an
What I believe.
It is a stipulation of being a Christian that you believe what is written in the Bible. It is a stipulation of belonging to a denomination to believe what your denomination interprets about the Bible. Angels and other heavenly beings are mentioned in the Bible.
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some facts about angels:
In the Bible, people have not known they were talking to angels
[Lot Sodom Gomorrah[sodom and gomorrah: genesis: 19], so they presented themselves like ordinary people.
People have cowered in terror
Luke 2: 8-20
An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. 10 But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid. I bring you good news that will cause great joy for all the people. 11 Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is the Messiah, the Lord. 12 This will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger.”
13 Suddenly a great company of the heavenly host appeared with the angel, praising God and saying,
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“Glory to God in the highest heaven,
and on earth peace to those on whom his favor rests.”15 When the angels had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, “Let’s go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has told us about.”
[night Jesus was born with the shepherds], showing that they could look majestic and possibly and in the event that the angel, Gabriel, showed up to Mary, she was mostly ponderous. Maybe Gabriel didn’t show his full angelic majesty, or Mary was compelled by the Holy Spirit not to be scared.
[Luke 1:26-36]
My pastor has told me that God tells us what we need to know in the Bible, but not everything that is to be known. While what I am about to say is not expressed in the Bible, I believe that the world is a lot stranger than our everyday lives let on.
After Jesus did his ministry, we entered a second covenant, and the world changed. God gave us a lot less hard miraculous proof and requires us to rely on faith.
- Hebrews 9:15: “For this reason Christ is the mediator of a new covenant, that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance.” 2
But, I believe that there is a lot out there that we do not regularly see, and I don’t really put a lot of effort into figuring out what it is.
https://www.twitch.tv/bunnymalkavian/clip/EntertainingLightKeyboardBuddhaBar-KsC2lKBh-Wbj7-OK
We don’t know everything about the spiritual realm and the afterlife. God does not give us a lot of details about heaven or hell, just that they are places we go after life on earth and which one is preferable. God does not explain everything about angels, but they serve as messengers, protectors, servants to God, and warriors! What angels look like and how they keep themselves busy is one of the least important messages of the gospel. I believe that heavily researching angels is a distraction and ultimately not Christian.
https://www.twitch.tv/bunnymalkavian/clip/CrowdedHealthyHawkFloof-pEtcFnUZyH6EN4oo
The being I saw did not deliver any message to me. It just flew around outside. Maybe it was protecting us. I kinda wonder if it was in combat with something invisible and nefarious, with the way it was erratically darting around. I can not confirm or deny the being’s intentions.
All I can really take from this experience on the cruise ship is that peaceful spiritual beings are definitely real. Everything else I said about the Bible and God is left up to faith. Things I have faith in are not proven to me, but my beliefs are thought out and studied with the aid of the Bible, which I firmly believe is a valid historical text.
I believe that the Bible is the infallible, true word of God. I believe that God is real and exists in the form of the Holy Trinity: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. I believe that God the Son, also known as Jesus, came to earth to do his ministry and reconcile sinful people (read: all people) with God by forgiving us and paying the penalty for all of our sins.
- 1 John 1:9: “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”
If we repent, turn from our sins, and follow Jesus as our saviour, we will be saved and granted eternal life in heaven with God after our lives on Earth.
- John 3:16: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.” This verse highlights the foundational belief in Jesus as the pathway to eternal life.
- John 10:28: “I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.” This verse emphasizes the security of eternal life for believers, assuring them of their safety in Christ.
- John 5:24: “Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.” This verse underscores the immediate possession of eternal life through faith in Jesus.
- 1 John 5:11-13: “And this is the testimony, that God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life.” This passage reassures believers of their eternal life through their faith in Jesus.
- John 17:3: “And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.” Here, eternal life is defined as knowing God the Father and Jesus God the Son, emphasizing the relational aspect of eternal life.
I also believe that God influences our lives for the better while we live on Earth, especially when we have a relationship with Him.
I still believe these things in faith.
The experience I had seeing my UFO-angel does not dispute my faith in Jesus. It did further confirm my belief in a spiritual realm. I feel that the spiritual realm was proven to me that night.
To believe in Jesus, you need more information than what I got at 2:00 a.m in my stateroom window. I highly recommend you go to church,(Maybe even log into our service at Level up Church) read the Bible and study Christianity, as I do.
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Most people never experience otherworldly sights, at least not knowingly. I might never see another angel or other UFO again. I did not expect I ever would and I believe in them! Because, God makes faith central to your relationship with him and doesn’t hand out miracles like before the second covenant.
Proverbs 3:5: “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding.”
Mark 11:22-24
New International Version
22 “Have faith in God,” Jesus answered. 23 “Truly[a] I tell you, if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea,’ and does not doubt in their heart but believes that what they say will happen, it will be done for them. 24 Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
I had faith in God before this experience and I don’t plan to drop it.
So, this experience confirms to me belief in otherworldly beings and miracles. I would define miracles as actions that defy the laws of nature. Google Co-Pilot defines a miracle, in part, as: an extraordinary and welcome event that is not explicable by natural or scientific laws and is therefore attributed to a divine agency:
“the miracle of rising from the grave”
Jacob’s note: miracles can be painful. God sent plagues to Egypt until Ramses conceded. Not all miracles are pleasant. But the things that happened it Egypt defied normal weather patterns, more frogs and locusts taking over than expected
Miracles can also be Miraculous judgements like the Plagues on Egypt
This being defied what I understand about the laws of physics. It zipped around too fast for a animal or machine.
Jesus ministry defied the laws of nature. What I saw defied the laws of nature, making me believe, even further, that miracles are possible, so my logic I take from that is that Jesus ministry possibly happened. I mean, I firmly believe it happened, but this helps.
Jesus life was a series of miracles:
Born to a virgin Matthew 1:18-25
Turning water into wine for wedding guests John 2:1-11
Calming a storm and walking on water Mark 4:35-41
Healing peoples ailments with the touch of a hand, pass of a shadow, brush of his robe; Matthew 4:24: “And he went throughout all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom and healing every disease and every affliction among the people”.
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- Matthew 10:1: “And he called to him his twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every affliction”.
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- Acts 10:38: “You know of Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed Him with the Holy Spirit and with power, and how He went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil”.
Reading minds Mark 2:8-11
Raising his friend Lazarus from the dead John 11:38-44
Raising himself from the dead Matt 28
Reconciling sinners with God the Father in heaven to have eternal life.
Just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many. – Matthew 20:28
I am a member of Level Up Church in Memphis, TN. We are part of the Southern Baptist denomination. Our website and Discord server are linked in my profile. If you want to have a sincere conversation about Christianity, I welcome you to join us on Discord and ask questions, attend an online Guild (which is geek code for Bible study.) game with us online and IRL, and show up to church if you live within a reasonable radius from Memphis, TN or listen to the Sunday service live from Discord.
Level Up Church is unique because we reach out to geeks, gamers, nerds and anyone else who wants to worship and learn with us. We aim to create a non-judgmental environment where anyone is welcome to learn and worship, no matter where you are in your spiritual journey. Our motto is “No Perfect People Allowed.” I could pick that apart, but the point is, you’re allowed because we’re pretty sure you’re not perfect, and neither are we.
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