Miraculous Star

In “Do You See What I See?” (Dec. 19), on the Bethlehem star, you cite author Father Raymond Brown as writing that “a star that arose in the East, appeared over Jerusalem, turned south to Bethlehem, and then came to rest over a house would have constituted a celestial phenomenon unparalleled in astronomical history.”

I think that is the key to the whole story--that the object appeared in the East, led the wise men to Jerusalem, turned south to Bethlehem and then hovered over a house. What else could the star have been but an intelligently guided object that moved through the sky, made a 90-degree turn, moved southward and then hovered over a house in Bethlehem? In our time of space flight, helicopters and satellites, such a description seems very normal and reflective of modern technology.

KENNETH LARSON

Los Angeles