Russian's First Manned Space Flight-April 12, 1961

(Zec 1:8-10) I saw by night, and behold, a man riding on a red horse, and it stood among the myrtle trees in the hollow; and behind him were horses: red, sorrel, and white. {9} Then I said, "My lord, what are these?" So the angel who talked with me said to me, "I will show you what they are." {10} And the man who stood among the myrtle trees answered and said, "These are the ones whom the LORD has sent to walk to and fro throughout the earth."

At this point, the statement that "he stood among the myrtle trees that were in the bottom" can be brought into sharper focus. The word bottom denotes the lowest part of anything, as distinguished from the top. Zechariah used the word to describe the massive concrete and steel launch pad that supports a spaceship being prepared for flight. Zechariah may also have mentioned the fact that the horselike things stood at the bottom of the tall treelike structures because it did not make logical sense to him. From Zechariah's firsthand observation, it was visibly evident that the horselike thing needed the myrtle treelike thing to help it go forth into the heavens, from whence it could continue its journey round the earth. Although Zechariah does not say so, he apparently wondered why this flying horselike thing did not depart from the top of the treelike structure, in accordance with normal birds, who use a tree as a perch from which they launch themselves into flight.

Using some everyday language, Zechariah's original report could read: I saw by night, and behold a man was riding upon a red horselike contraption that was standing upright next to a tall framed structure that was similar in appearance to a myrtle tree. All of a sudden the horselike thing, that was standing at ground level next to the tall open-beamed scaffolding structure, shot straight up into the sky where it proceeded 'to go round the earth'.(Today's Technology in Bible Prophecy, Charles Miller, p340) (Other translations say the man "patrols" the earth. Regardless, it was impossible during Zechariah's life to do anything over the entire planet.