Consider for us an everyday event of a commercial airliner passing overhead. Now envision yourself in the world of the late Middle Ages. Say around 1500 AD. Only a bit over 500 years ago. If someone from that time were to see a giant craft passing overhead, larger than any bird they've ever see, no wings flapping, yet making in incredible sound as it moved thru the air; how would that person process such an image. They couldn't. Their frame of reference lacks anything to explain what they are seeing.
And that is just technology 500 years removed from the Middle Ages. Imagine civilizations 1,000, or 50,000 years more advanced than our own. The technology they possess would look equally odd to us and would be equally inexplicable.
Less than 100 years ago people thought the human body would disintegrate if it went more than 60 miles per hour. 60 years ago we thought comets were flaming balls of material. 9 years ago people thought a muslim from Kenya would make a good president.
Ezekiel’s wheels are an example. Chariots of fire in the sky.
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” - Arthur C. Clarke
“If someone from that time were to see a giant craft passing overhead, larger than any bird they’ve ever see, no wings flapping, yet making in incredible sound as it moved thru the air; how would that person process such an image. “
They might describe it as a swarm of giant, stinging locusts.....