Al Thomas’ flying saucer

Jesus appeared to Al Thomas in 1973 and commanded him to build a flying saucer with which to distribute food, medicine, and the Bible. Here is his story:

About Al Thomas

Thomas is leaning back in a swivel chair on the concrete apron of his two-bay garage in Russellville. “The lust is nothing but money. Lust, lust, LUST! This soil—the trees ain’t sinned. The cows and the deer ain’t, the butterfly or the bees. The world’s sacred—it’s man and woman have defiled it.” He sweeps his arm back and forth at the traffic passing on the two-lane blacktop as if to rub it out of the world. “Man! It’s amazing to me that God puts up with all this.”

In a cinder-block hangar at the rear of the garage sits Thomas’s unfinished flying saucer. On a plywood panel behind the saucer is written the legend: “Jesus came to Earth on a cloud 6:30 AM, 1973, at Centerville, Arkansas.” Jesus appeared to Thomas on a hill and commanded him to circle the Earth in a flying saucer, distributing food, medicine, and the Bible. “He went up in a cloud and he comes back likewise,” Thomas advised me. Soon after the encounter Thomas began construction of his saucer, drawing on his mechanical abilities and the books of Ezekiel and Revelation from the Bible. The sheet stainless steel for the outer skin came from a scrapyard in Little Rock, where Thomas brought the morning’s work to a halt by preaching to the workers from a mound of scrap iron.

The free-energy motor for the saucer, a mass of copper windings around a ceramic core, is under development while Thomas continues his research from a dictionary and the Bible propped up on the workbench beneath a window.

“I was saying to the wife, ‘You can have chemistry, history, carbon arc welding, but when you get into the Bible you got all that beat.’”

“When this thing starts happening, man! They say, ‘Oh, we’re gonna fly away! We’re going to meet Jesus, we’re going to Heaven.’ Now these people got the idea Heaven is in outer space—well, it is now—but it’s coming to Earth!”

From the book In advance of the landing: folk concepts of outer space by Curran, Douglas

It was donated to a museum somewhere up north east I’m not sure where. What was funny was we all got to go see it one more time before they tore it apart and it was covered in signatures ranging from Elvis to James Dean and Maryland Monroe. We all knew he wrote them on there himself but it was still kind of cool. He was a very smart man. So smart some might consider him crazy. He used to build us kites to fly to all the time. I have so many stories about my uncle Al

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Former Location

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The buildings are gone now.

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UFOs in Arkansas

Arkansas has seen many UFO sightings over the years. Most were one-time events, but there were a few times—especially in 1896–97 and 1965—when several people reported seeing strange objects in the sky. Some think these were early airships or balloons, while others believe the sightings were hoaxes made up by locals or reporters.

via Encyclopedia of Arkansas