Close Encounters of the Third Kind was a science fiction drama that burst onto the big screen in 1977, and it was a blockbuster hit for writer and director Steven Spielberg. For our younger audience, who may be unfamiliar with the film, the main character, played by Richard Dreyfuss, was an electrical lineman. Through a long series of events too complicated to relay at this time, he ends up having a close encounter with extra-terrestrial beings who descend in the mothership of a group of Unidentified Flying Objects (a UFOs). Spielberg followed up with an even bigger hit five years later -- E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. This science fiction flick tells the story of a boy named Elliott, who comes in contact with a stranded extrater-restrial that he names E.T. In the end Elliott helps E.T. find his way back home.

Close Encounters of the Third Kind and E.T. are, of course, sheer fiction created in the minds of writers, directors and filmmakers. But do you realize there was a real encounter with extra-terrestrials found in the pages of the Bible. On this Tomorrow’s World program, I’m going to go into the account of Ezekiel’s close encounter of the first kind, what the message was that was given to him, and what it’s significance is for you and me.