Jesus' ascension to heaven marked his return to his planet

According to the Bible, forty days after his resurrection, Jesus called his 11 apostles together on the Mount of Olives, outside of Jerusalem. In full view of these men, Jesus rose up into the sky, and a cloud hid him from sight. Two angels in white robes appeared before the disciples and said "This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven" (Acts 1:11, NIV).^[2] Some people have questioned, how did Christ float up into the sky, and why was he obscured from sight? Our knowledge of science today makes it difficult to believe in angels or miracles such as Jesus' ascension; however, many scientists do believe that there are superior intelligent beings in the universe. If the human race is interested in space travel, it is rational to believe that other intelligent life in the universe may have started traveling across space long before us.^[3] There is no way that Jesus simply rose to heaven in an ordinary cloud - we know clouds do not have such properties. But Jesus often spoke of the other 'world' he had come from, so it is likely that this cloud was a UFO returning him to his planet. There are many artworks depicting Jesus that support this idea. Painted on the walls of the Svetitiskhoveli Cathedral in Georgia is an image of Christ's crucifixion with what appear to be dome-shaped flying crafts in the top corners of the painting. While art historians muse that these crafts represent guardian angels, this is not likely, as angels were depicted as human-like in the Byzantium period. Instead, artworks such as this one appear to suggest that UFO's were present at the death of Jesus.^[4]