Bwild: "the book of Ezechiel describes what I believe to be,an ALIEN encounter."

Depends on what you mean by "ALIEN". If it was a strictly physical phenomenon then the people he was with would have seen it too. But the passage doesn't mention anything about the other people witnessing the event.

"Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, on the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the River Chebar, that the heavens were opened and I saw visions of God . . .

Since only Ezekial is refered to as witnessing the event, it really doesn't fall under the catagory of an alien encounter (physical creatures from another planet). Also, it was not a subtle event... if it was any kind of natural phenomenon (including alien encounters) everyone there would have seen it as well.

"Then I looked, and behold, a whirlwind was coming out of the north, a great cloud with raging fire engulfing itself; and brightness was all around it and radiating out of its midst like the color of amber, out of the midst of the fire.

Not the sort of thing only one person would have noticed. But then the vision refers to a man in linen told to gather coals and scatter them over a city, harldly a message you would expect to hear in an alien encounter.

"Then He spoke to the man clothed with linen, and said, 'Go in among the wheels, under the cherub, fill your hands with coals of fire from among the cherubim, and scatter them over the city.' And he went in as I watched."

"Then it happened, when He commanded the man clothed in linen, saying, 'Take fire from among the wheels, from among the cherubim,' that he went in and stood beside the wheels"

Parts of Ezekials vision sound a little bit like an alein encounter, but it better fits the picture of a vision apparently given specifically to Ezekial. Anytime the Bible talks about an event visible to everyone present, then it's always mentioned that everyone witnessed it.