The Indian Vimana


There are no physical remains of ancient Indian aircraft technology but 
references to ancient flying machines are commonplace in the ancient Indian 
texts. Several popular ancient epics describe their use in warfare.  Most of 
these writings were consolidated from older writings in the 4th, 5th, and 6th 
Centuries BCE and preserved for the monarchs who ruled India at that time. The 
scribes took great care to ensure that all of their writings were based on 
authentic sources. Unfortunately, the translated documents from these 
libraries do not indicate which sources the Indian epics are based upon. Over 
95% of these ancient writings remain untranslated.

The most famous Indian epics translated from the ancient Sanskrit text are the 
Mahabharata, and the Ramayana. Both of these tales deal with an ancient war 
whose ferocity devastated the ancient pre-historic world. The war was fought 
between combatants employing powerful air vehicles, the famous of which were 
the "Vimanas". Both the Mahabharata and Ramayana describe the Vimana as a 
aircraft based around a domed circular or cigar-shaped frame. Specific details 
for constructing these craft are provided in the 230 stanzas written in the 
Vimanika Sastra around 400 BCE by Bharadvaja the Wise and translated in 1875.

One of the most surprising aspects of the Indian epics are their similarity to 
modern aerial combat techniques. The writings describe methods of preserving 
fuel by flying at different altitudes, force-down landings caused by 
threatening enemies, and collision damage caused by impacts with birds. Other 
stanzas warn of the importance of avoiding high altitude storms and how to 
absorb energy from the sun's rays to repower an aircraft. The Vimanika Sastra 
dedicates eight chapters to diagrams which describe three separate types of 
aircraft. It also mentions 31 essential parts of these vehicles and 16 
materials from which they are constructed. When not in use, Vimanas were kept 
in a Vimana Griha, believed to be a reinforced hanger. They were propelled by 
a yellowish-white liquid and a core that was fueled by a mercury compound. The 
Vedas, ancient Hindu poems, thought to be the oldest of all the Indian texts, 
describe Vimanas of various shapes and sizes and tell that there were many 
designs for these craft depending on their purpose.

The Indian Emperor Ashoka was so convinced in the reality of the ancient 
claims that he began a "Secret Society of the Nine Unknown Men" composed of 
nine great Indian scientists who were supposed to catalogue the many sciences 
and supervise the removal of all ancient information from public circulation. 
He feared that the advanced sciences described in the ancient Indian sources 
might cause devastation to his empire as it had to the ancient Rama Empire.

The Rama Empire is described in the Mahabharata, and the Ramayana. They 
describe it as a technologically superior civilization in which the noble 
caste was able to travel anywhere on Earth and to the moon and eventually even 
to the stars (although a more accurate translation would probably indicate the 
other planets in the solar system). At its height, the Rama Empire stretched 
across Northern India and Pakistan approximately 12,000 years ago.

The empire had seven great capital cities called the Seven Rishi Cities. 
Nobles traveled from one city to another by air although a Jain text dated to 
the 8th Century CE hints that the aerial chariots used for normal transport 
were called Pushpaka and could convey many people from one capitol to another.	
At the height of the empire there were so many flying-machines traveling the 
skies that on any given night a spectator was assured of spotting the yellow 
glare of their engines.

The Rama Empire was threatened by an enemy using their own flying machines 
called "Vailixi". These invaders had greater technology than the Ramas and 
were called the "Asvins", a label that have led many New Age theorists to 
believe that these mystic attackers were invaders from Atlantis.  The Vailixi 
craft

were more generally cigar-shaped, less rounded than the Vimanas, and could 
travel through water as well as through air, a capability the Raman vehicles 
lacked.

The Ramas defended their empire with terrible weapons of awesome destructive 
power. The Mahabharata described the conflict as follows:

 An iron thunderbolt, A gigantic messenger of death,
 Which reduced to ashes the entire race of the Vrishnis,
 And the Andhakas. ... the corpses were so burned
 As to be unrecognizable. The hair and nails fell out;
 Pottery broke without apparent cause, And the birds turned white.

 ... After a few hours, all foodstuffs were infected...
 ... To escape from this fire the soldiers threw themselves in streams,
 To wash themselves and their equipment..."

 - Mahabharata

Although no physical traces of a Vimana or Vailixi have ever been found, 
circumstantial evidence of a widespread conflict similar to the exchange of 
nuclear weapons does exist. A mysterious blast of atomic proportions leveled 
the city of Mohenjodaro, long rumored to be one of the Seven Rishi Cities. 
Additionally, Egyptian and Sumerian mythology both tell of similar 
nuclear-style exchanges used in the war of the Gods who each rode in their own 
flaming chariots. The Biblical narrative in Genesis describes the devastation 
of the twin cities of Sodom and Gomorrah in a manner that closely duplicates 
the Babylonian tale of the Gods incinerating the cities of the plain to slay 
the followers of their opponents.

In 1990, Chinese excavations of the ruins of Lhasa, in the mountains of Tibet, 
uncovered a small library of documents written in Sanskrit.  The Chinese 
authorities who reviewed the expedition's findings thought the documents so 
important that they sent them to the University of Chandigarh to be 
translated. Dr. Ruth Reyna spent several weeks converting the text to Chinese 
and English and then announced that the documents contained directions for 
building interstellar spaceships! Her announcement immediately brought the 
response of western authorities who retranslated the writings. The western 
linguists refuted that the documents made claims to interplanetary travel but 
did agree that they described preparations for an expedition to the Moon.

Alexander the Great pushed as far as India in his conquest of the known world 
in 332 BCE. His historians kept accurate records of the invasion and the lands 
they encountered. Although these writings were later enhanced to heighten the 
glory of Alexander, the chroniclers noted that at one point in their invasion, 
they were attacked by "flying, fiery shields" that frightened the cavalry and 
forced Alexander to regroup his army. He subsequently conquered India without 
further aerial resistance.

Adolf Hitler was so impressed by his studies of the ancient Indian texts and 
their claims of Vimana weapons that he sent several expeditions to India 
throughout the 1930s to learn any possible secret technology that would allow 
the German Air Force to devastate any nation that rose against the Nazi party. 
Fortunately, his expeditions failed. If Hitler had been able to build craft 
equal in capability to the Vimanas, his military would have been completely 
unstoppable.

 "One time while King Citraketu was traveling in outer space on a
 brilliantly effulgent airplane given to him by Lord Vishnu, he saw Lord
 Siva..." 
 
 "The arrows released by Lord Siva appeared like fiery beams
 emanating from the sun globe and covered the three residential
 airplanes, which could then no longer be seen."

 - Srimad Bhagavatam, Sixth Canto, Part 3

"The so-called "Rama Empire" of Northern India and Pakistan developed at least 
fifteen thousand years ago on the Indian sub-continent and was a nation of 
many large, sophisticated cities, many of which are still to be found in the 
deserts of Pakistan, northern, and western India. Rama...was ruled by 
"enlightened Priest-Kings" who governed the cities. The seven greatest capital 
cities of Rama were known in classical Hindu texts as "The Seven Rishi 
Cities". According to ancient Indian texts, the people had flying machines 
which were called "vimanas". The ancient Indian epic describes a vimana as a 
double- deck, circular aircraft with portholes and a dome, much as we would 
imagine a flying saucer. It flew with the "speed of the wind" and gave forth a 
"melodious sound". There were at least four different types of vimanas; some 
saucer shaped, others like long cylinders ("cigar shaped airships")."

D. Hatcher Childress, "Ancient Indian Aircraft Technology" 
in The Anti-Gravity Handbook

 "An aerial chariot, the Pushpaka, conveys many people to the capital of
 Ayodhya. The sky is full of stupendous flying-machines, dark as
 night,but picked out by lights with a yellowish glare."

 - Mahavira of Bhavabhuti (A Jain text of the eighth century culled from
 older texts and traditions)

"The Vedas, ancient Hindu poems, thought to be the oldest of all the Indian 
texts, describe vimanas of various shapes and sizes: the "agnihotra-vimana" 
with two engines, the "elephant-vimana" with more engines, and other types 
named after the kingfisher, ibis and other animals."

D. Hatcher Childress, "Ancient Indian Aircraft Technology" 
in The Anti-Gravity Handbook

 "Now Vata"s chariot"s greatness! Breaking goes it, And Thunderous is its
 noise, To heaven it touches, Makes light lurid [a red fiery glare], and
 whirls dust upon the earth."

 - Rig-Veda (Vata is the Aryan god of wind.)

"In the Vedic literature of India, there are many descriptions of flying 
machines that are generally called vimanas. These fall into two categories: 
(1) manmade craft that resemble airplanes and fly with the aid of birdlike 
wings, and (2) unstreamlined structures that fly in a mysterious manner and 
are generally not made by human beings. The machines in category (1) are 
described mainly in medieval, secular Sanskrit works dealing with 
architecture, automata, military siege engines, and other mechanical 
contrivances. Those in category (2) are described in ancient works such as the 
Rg Veda, the Mahabharata, the Ramayana, and the Puranas, and they have many 
features reminiscent of UFOs." "There are ancient Indian accounts of manmade 
wooden vehicles that flew with wings in the manner of modern airplanes. 
Although these wooden vehicles were also called vimanas, most vimanas were not 
at all like airplanes. The more typical vimanas had flight characteristics 
resembling those reported for UFOs, and the being associated with them were 
said to possess powers similar to those presently ascribed to UFO entities. An 
interesting example of a vimana is the flying machine which Salva, an ancient 
Indian king, acquired from Maya Danava, an inhabitant of a planetary system 
called Talatala."

Richard L. Thompson, Alien Identities

 "The cruel Salva had come mounted on the Saubha chariot that can go
 anywhere, and from it he killed many valiant Vrishni youths and evilly
 devastated all the city parks."

 - The Mahabharata

There is this account in the Mahabharata by the hero Krishna that is 
suggestive of more modern weapons. As he takes to the skies in pursuit of 
Salva: "His Saubha clung to the sky at a league"s length... He threw at me 
rockets, missiles, spears, spikes, battle-axes, three-bladed javelins, 
flame-throwers, without pausing... The sky... seemed to hold a hundred suns, a 
hundred moons... and a hundred myriad stars. Neither day nor night could be 
made out, or the points of compass."
 
 "The airplane occupied by Salva was very mysterious. It was so
 extraordinary that sometimes many airplanes would appear to be in the
 sky, and sometimes there were apparently none. Sometimes the plane was
 visible and sometimes not visible, and the warriors of the Yadu dynasty
 were puzzled about the whereabouts of the peculiar airplane. Sometimes
 they would see the airplane on the ground, sometimes flying in the sky,
 sometimes resting on the peak of a hill and sometimes floating on the
 water. The wonderful airplane flew in the sky like a whirling firebrand
 - it was not steady even for a moment."

 Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Krsna

A small model of what has been called a "glider" plane was found in a museum 
in Cairo. Its body was just over 6" long and its wingspan was a little over 
7". Made of light sycamore wood, it would glide a short distance when thrown 
by hand. Other models of aircraft have been found in Egypt and South America. 
One of them bears a striking resemblance to a modern delta-winged jet! More 
will be added later. Read below about the ancient aircraft of India.

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ANCIENT VIMANA AIRCRAFT

Contributed by John Burrows

Sanskrit texts are filled with references to gods who fought battles in the 
sky using Vimanas equipped with weapons as deadly as any we can deploy in 
these more enlightened times. For example, there is a passage in the Ramayana 
which reads:

 "The Pushpaka car that resembles the Sun and belongs to my brother
 was brought by the powerful Ravan; that aerial and excellent car
 going everywhere at will .... that car resembling a bright cloud
 in the sky."

 ".. and the King [Rama] got in, and the excellent car at the
 command of the Raghira, rose up into the higher atmosphere."

In the Mahabharata, an ancient Indian poem of enormous length, we learn that 
an individual named Asura Maya had a Vimana measuring twelve cubits in 
circumference, with four strong wheels. The poem is a veritable gold mine of 
information relating to conflicts between gods who settled their differences 
apparently using weapons as lethal as the ones we are capable of deploying. 
Apart from 'blazing missiles', the poem records the use of other deadly 
weapons. 'Indra's Dart' operated via a circular 'reflector'. When switched on, 
it produced a 'shaft of light' which, when focused on any target, immediately 
'consumed it with its power'. In one particular exchange, the hero, Krishna, 
is pursuing his enemy, Salva, in the sky, when Salva's Vimana, the Saubha is 
made invisible in some way. Undeterred, Krishna immediately fires off a 
special weapon: 'I quickly laid on an arrow, which killed by seeking out 
sound'. Many other terrible weapons are described, quite matter of factly, in 
the Mahabharata, but the most fearsome of all is the one used against the 
Vrishnis. The narrative records:

 "Gurkha flying in his swift and powerful Vimana hurled against
 the three cities of the Vrishnis and Andhakas a single projectile
 charged with all the power of the Universe. An incandescent
 column of smoke and fire, as brilliant as ten thousands suns,
 rose in all its splendour. It was the unknown weapon, the Iron
 Thunderbolt, a gigantic messenger of death which reduced to
 ashes the entire race of the Vrishnis and Andhakas."

It is important to note, that these kinds of records are not isolated. They 
can be cross-correlated with similar reports in other ancient civilizations. 
The after-affects of this Iron Thunderbolt have an ominously recognizable 
ring. Apparently, those killed by it were so burnt that their corpses were 
unidentifiable. The survivors fared little better, as it caused their hair and 
nails to fall out.

Perhaps the most disturbing and challenging, information about these allegedly 
mythical Vimanas in the ancient records is that there are some matter-of-fact 
records, describing how to build one. In their way, the instructions are quite 
precise.

In the Sanskrit Samarangana Sutradhara, it is written:

 "Strong and durable must the body of the Vimana be made, like a
 great flying bird of light material. Inside one must put the
 mercury engine with its iron heating apparatus underneath. By
 means of the power latent in the mercury which sets the driving
 whirlwind in motion, a man sitting inside may travel a great
 distance in the sky. The movements of the Vimana are such that it
 can vertically ascend, vertically descend, move slanting forwards
 and backwards. With the help of the machines human beings can fly
 in the air and heavenly beings can come down to earth."

 The Hakatha (Laws of the Babylonians) states quite unambiguously:
 "The privilege of operating a flying machine is great. The
 knowledge of flight is among the most ancient of our
 inheritances. A gift from 'those from upon high'. We received it
 from them as a means of saving many lives."

More fantastic still is the information given in the ancient Chaldean work, 
The Sifrala, which contains over one hundred pages of technical details on 
building a flying machine. It contains words which translate as graphite rod, 
copper coils, crystal indicator, vibrating spheres, stable angles, etc.

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Ancient Indian Aircraft Technology
From The Anti-Gravity Handbook

by D. Hatcher Childress

Many researchers into the UFO enigma tend to overlook a very important fact. 
While it assumed that most flying saucers are of alien, or perhaps 
Governmental Military origin, another possible origin of UFOs is ancient India 
and Atlantis. What we know about ancient Indian flying vehicles comes from 
ancient Indian sources; written texts that have come down to us through the 
centuries. There is no doubt that most of these texts are authentic; many are 
the well known ancient Indian Epics themselves, and there are literally 
hundreds of them. Most of them have not even been translated into English yet 
from the old sanskrit.

The Indian Emperor Ashoka started a "Secret Society of the Nine Unknown Men": 
great Indian scientists who were supposed to catalogue the many sciences. 
Ashoka kept their work secret because he was afraid that the advanced science 
catalogued by these men, culled from ancient Indian sources, would be used for 
the evil purpose of war, which Ashoka was strongly against, having been 
converted to Buddhism after defeating a rival army in a bloody battle. The 
"Nine Unknown Men" wrote a total of nine books, presumably one each. Book 
number was "The Secrets of Gravitation!" This book, known to historians, but 
not actually seen by them dealt chiefly with "gravity control." It is 
presumably still around somewhere, kept in a secret library in India, Tibet or 
elsewhere (perhaps even in North America somewhere). One can certainly 
understand Ashoka's reasoning for wanting to keep such knowledge a secret, 
assuming it exists.

Ashoka was also aware of devastating wars using such advanced vehicles and 
other "futuristic weapons" that had destroyed the ancient Indian "Rama Empire" 
several thousand years before. Only a few years ago, the Chinese discovered 
some sanskrit documents in Lhasa, Tibet and sent them to the University of 
Chandigarh to be translated. Dr. Ruth Reyna of the University said recently 
that the documents contain directions for building interstellar spaceships! 
Their method of propulsion, she said, was "anti- gravitational" and was based 
upon a system analogous to that of "laghima," the unknown power of the ego 
existing in man's physiological makeup, "a centrifugal force strong enough to 
counteract all gravitational pull." According to Hindu Yogis, it is this 
"laghima" which enables a person to levitate.

Dr. Reyna said that on board these machines, which were called "Astras" by the 
text, the ancient Indians could have sent a detachment of men onto any planet, 
according to the document, which is thought to be thousands of years old. The 
manuscripts were also said to reveal the secret of "antima"; "the cap of 
invisibility" and "garima"; "how to become as heavy as a mountain of lead." 
Naturally, Indian scientists did not take the texts very seriously, but then 
became more positive about the value of them when the Chinese announced that 
they were including certain parts of the data for study in their space 
program! This was one of the first instances of a government admitting to be 
researching anti-gravity.

----

The manuscripts did not say definitely that interplanetary travel was ever 
made but did mention, of all things, a planned trip to the Moon, though it is 
not clear whether this trip was actually carried out. However, one of the 
great Indian epics,the Ramayana, does have a highly detailed story in it of a 
trip to the moon in a Vimana (or "Astra"), and in fact details a battle on the 
moon with an "Asvin" (or "Atlantean") airship. This is but a small bit of 
recent evidence of anti-gravity and aerospace technology used by Indians.

To really understand the technology, we must go much further back in time. The 
so-called "Rama Empire" of Northern India and Pakistan developed at least 
fifteen thousand years ago on the Indian subcontinent and was a nation of many 
large, sophisticated cities, many of which are still to be found in the 
deserts of Pakistan, northern, and western India. Rama existed, apparently, 
parallel to the Atlantean civilization in the mid- Atlantic Ocean, and was 
ruled by "enlightened Priest-Kings" who governed the cities.

The seven greatest capital cities of Rama were known in classical Hindu texts 
as "The Seven Rishi Cities." According to ancient Indian texts, the people had 
flying machines which were called "Vimanas." The ancient Indian epic describes 
a Vimana as a doubledeck, circular aircraft with portholes and a dome, much as 
we would imagine a flying saucer. It flew with the "speed of the wind" and 
gave forth a"melodious sound." There were at least four different types of 
Vimanas; some saucer shaped, others like long cylinders ("cigar shaped 
airships"). The ancient Indian texts on Vimanas are so numerous, it would take 
volumes to relate what they had to say. The ancient Indians, who manufactured 
these ships themselves, wrote entire flight manuals on the control of the 
various types of Vimanas, many of which are still in existence, and some have 
even been translated into English.

The Samara Sutradhara is a scientific treatise dealing with every possible 
angle of air travel in a Vimana. There are 230 stanzas dealing with the 
construction, take-off, cruising for thousand of miles, normal and forced 
landings, and even possible collisions with birds. In 1875, the Vimanika 
Sastra, a fourth century B.C. text written by Bharadvaja the Wise, using even 
older texts as his source, was rediscovered in a temple in India. It dealt 
with the operation of Vimanas and included information on the steering, 
precautions for long flights, protection of the airships from storms and 
lightning and how to switch the drive to "solar energy" from a free energy 
source which sounds like "anti-gravity." The Vimanika Sastra (or 
Vymaanika-Shaastra) has eight chapters with diagrams, describing three types 
of aircraft, including apparatuses that could neither catch on fire nor break. 
It also mentions 31 essential parts of these vehicles and 16 materials from 
which they are constructed, which absorb light and heat; for which reason they 
were considered suitable for the construction of Vimanas.

This document has been translated into English and is available by writing the 
publisher: VYMAANIKASHAASTRA AERONAUTICS by Maharishi Bharadwaaja, translated 
into English and edited, printed and published by Mr. G. R.Josyer, Mysore, 
India, 1979 (sorry, no street address). Mr. Josyer is the director of the 
International Academy of Sanskrit Investigation, located in Mysore. There 
seems to be no doubt that Vimanas were powered by some sort of "anti-gravity." 
Vimanas took off vertically, and were capable of hovering in the sky, like a 
modern helicopter or dirigible. Bharadvaja the Wise refers to no less than 70 
authorities and 10 experts of air travel in antiquity.

These sources are now lost. Vimanas were kept in a Vimana Griha, a kind of 
hanger, and were sometimes said to be propelled by a yellowish-white liquid, 
and sometimes by some sort of mercury compound, though writers seem confused 
in this matter. It is most likely that the later writers on Vimanas, wrote as 
observers and from earlier texts, and were understandably confused on the 
principle of their propulsion. The "yellowish- white liquid" sounds 
suspiciously like gasoline, and perhaps Vimanas had a number of different 
propulsion sources, including combustion engines and even "pulse-jet" engines. 
It is interesting to note, that the Nazis developed the first practical 
pulse-jet engines for their V-8 rocket "buzz bombs." Hitler and the Nazi staff 
were exceptionally interested in ancient India and Tibet and sent expeditions 
to both these places yearly, starting in the 30's, in order to gather esoteric 
evidence that they did so, and perhaps it was from these people that the Nazis 
gained some of their scientific information!

According to the Dronaparva, part of the Mahabharata, and the Ramayana, one 
Vimana described was shaped like a sphere and born along at great speed on a 
mighty wind generated by mercury. It moved like a UFO, going up, down, 
backwards and forwards as the pilot desired. In another Indian source, the 
Samar, Vimanas were "iron machines, well-knit and smooth, with a charge of 
mercury that shot out of the back in the form of a roaring flame." Another 
work called the Samarangana Sutradhara describes how the vehicles were 
constructed. It is possible that mercury did have something to do with the 
propulsion, or more possibly, with the guidance system. Curiously, Soviet 
scientists have discovered what they call "age-old instruments used in 
navigating cosmic vehicles" in caves in Turkestan and the Gobi Desert. The 
"devices" are hemispheric objects of glass or porcelain, ending in a cone with 
a drop of mercury inside.

It is evident that ancient Indians flew around in these vehicles, all over 
Asia, to Atlantis presumably; and even, apparently, to South America.Writing 
found at Mohenjodaro in Pakistan (presumed to be one of the "Seven Rishi 
Cities of the Rama Empire") and still undeciphered, has also been found in one 
other place in the world: Easter Island! Writing on Easter Island, called 
Rongo-Rongo writing, is also undeciphered, and is uncannily similar to the 
Mohenjodaro script. Was Easter Island an air base for the Rama Empire's Vimana 
route? (At the Mohenjodaro Vimana-drome, as the passenger walks down the 
concourse, he hears the sweet, melodic sound of the announcer over the 
loudspeaker,"Rama Airways flight number seven for Bali, Easter Island, Nazca, 
and Atlantis is now ready for boarding. Passengers please proceed to gate 
number..") in Tibet, no small distance, and speaks of the "fiery chariot" 
thus: "Bhima flew along in his car, resplendent as the sun and loud as 
thunder... The flying chariot shone like a flame in the night sky of summer 
... it swept by like a comet... It was as if two suns were shining. Then the 
chariot rose up and all the heaven brightened."

In the Mahavira of Bhavabhuti, a Jain text of the eighth century culled from 
older texts and traditions, we read: "An aerial chariot, the Pushpaka, conveys 
many people to the capital of Ayodhya. The sky is full of stupendous 
flying-machines, dark as night,but picked out by lights with a yellowish 
glare." The Vedas, ancient Hindu poems, thought to be the oldest of all the 
Indian texts, describe Vimanas of various shapes and sizes: the 
"agnihotra-vimana" with two engines, the "elephant-vimana" with more engines, 
and other types named after the kingfisher, ibis and other animals.

Unfortunately, Vimanas, like most scientific discoveries, were ultimately used 
for war. Atlanteans used their flying machines, "Vailixi," a similar type of 
aircraft, to literally try and subjugate the world, it would seem, if Indian 
texts are to be believed. The Atlanteans, known as "Asvins" in the Indian 
writings, were apparently even more advanced technologically than the Indians, 
and certainly of a more war-like temperament. Although no ancient texts on 
Atlantean Vailixi are known to exist, some information has come down through 
esoteric, "occult" sources which describe their flying machines.

Similar, if not identical to Vimanas, Vailixi were generally "cigar shaped" 
and had the capability of maneuvering underwater as well as in the atmosphere 
or even outer space. Other vehicles, like Vimanas, were saucer shaped, and 
could apparently also be submerged.According to Eklal Kueshana, author of "The 
Ultimate Frontier," in an article he wrote in 1966, Vailixi were first 
developed in Atlantis 20,000 years ago, and the most common ones are "saucer 
shaped of generally trapezoidal cross- section with three hemispheric engine 
pods on the underside." "They use a mechanical antigravity device driven by 
engines developing approximately 80,000 horse power." The Ramayana, 
Mahabharata and other texts speak of the hideous war that took place, some ten 
or twelve thousand years ago between Atlantis and Rama using weapons of 
destruction that could not be imagined by readers until the second half of 
this century.

The ancient Mahabharata, one of the sources on Vimanas, goes on to tell the 
awesome destructiveness of the war: "...(the weapon was) a single projectile 
charged with all the power of the Universe. An incandescent column of smoke 
and flame as bright as the thousand suns rose in all its splendour... An iron 
thunderbolt, a gigantic messenger of death, which reduced to ashes the entire 
race of the Vrishnis and the Andhakas.... the corpses were so burned as to be 
unrecognizable. The hair and nails fell out; pottery broke without apparent 
cause, and the birds turned white.... after a few hours all foodstuffs were 
infected.... to escape from this fire, the soldiers threw themselves in 
streams to wash themselves and their equipment..." It would seem that the 
Mahabharata is describing an atomic war! References like this one are not 
isolated; but battles, using a fantastic array of weapons and aerial vehicles 
are common in all the epic Indian books. One even describes a Vimana-Vailix 
battle on the Moon! The above section very accurately describes what an atomic 
explosion would look like and the effects of the radioactivity on the 
population. Jumping into water is the only respite.

When the Rishi City of Mohenjodaro was excavated by archaeologists in the last 
century, they found skeletons just lying in the streets, some of them holding 
hands, as if some great doom had suddenly overtaken them. These skeletons are 
among the most radioactive ever found, on a par with those found at Hiroshima 
and Nagasaki. Ancient cities whose brick and stonewalls have literally been 
vitrified, that is-fused together, can be found in India, Ireland, Scotland, 
France, Turkey and other places. There is no logical explanation for the 
vitrification of stone forts and cities, except from an atomic blast.

Furthermore, at Mohenjodaro, a well planned city laid on a grid, with a 
plumbing system superior to those used in Pakistan and India today, the 
streets were littered with "black lumps of glass." These globs of glass were 
discovered to be clay pots that had melted under intense heat! With the 
cataclysmic sinking of Atlantis and the wiping out of Rama with atomic 
weapons, the world collapsed into a "stone age" of sorts, and modern history 
picks up a few thousand years later Yet, it would seem that not all the 
Vimanas and Vailixi of Rama and Atlantis were gone. Built to last for 
thousands of years, many of them would still be in use, as evidenced by 
Ashoka's "Nine Unknown Men" and the Lhasa manuscript.

That secret societies or "Brotherhoods" of exceptional, "enlightened" human 
beings would have preserved these inventions and the knowledge of science, 
history, etc., does not seem surprising. 

It is interesting to note that when Alexander the Great invaded India more 
than two thousand years ago, his historians chronicled that at one point they 
were attacked by "flying,fiery shields" that dove at his army and frightened 
the cavalry. These "flying saucers" did not use any atomic bombs or beam 
weapons on Alexander's army however, perhaps out of benevolence, and Alexander 
went on to conquer India.It has been suggested by many writers that these 
"Brotherhoods" keep some of their Vimanas and Vailixi in secret caverns in 
Tibet or some other place is Central Asia, and the Lop Nor Desert in western 
China is known to be the center of a great UFO mystery. Perhaps it is here 
that many of the airships are still kept, in underground bases much as the 
Americans, British and Soviets have built around the world in the past few 
decades. Still, not all UFO activity can be accounted for by old Vimanas 
making trips to the Moon for some reason.

End of John Burrow's contribution.

From NEXUS New Times (Dec 1996):

An article in this magazine reveals that unknown alloys have been revealed in 
ancient palm leaf manuscripts. The writer and Sanskrit scholar Subramanyam 
Iyer has spent many years of his life deciphering old collections of palm 
leaves found in the villages of his native Karnataka in southern India.

One of the palm leaf manuscripts they intend to decipher is the Amsu Bodhini, 
which, according to an anonymous text of 1931, contains information about the 
planets; the different kinds of light, heat, color, and electromagnetic 
fields; the methods used to construct machines capable of attracting solar 
rays and, in turn, of analyzing and separating their energy components; the 
possibility of conversing with people in remote places and sending messages by 
cable; and the manufacture of machines to transport people to other planets! 

END OF REPORT

Undoubtedly, some are from the Military Governments of the world, and possibly 
even from other planets. Of course, many UFO sightings are "swamp, gas, 
clouds, hoaxes, and hallucinations, while there is considerable evidence that 
many UFO sightings, especially "kidnappings" and the like, are the result of 
what is generally called "telepathic hypnosis." One common thread that often 
runs between "Alien kidnappings," "sex with aliens," and other "close 
encounters of a third kind" is a buzzing in the ears just before the 
encounter. According to many well informed people, this is a sure sign of 
telepathic hypnosis.

'INDIA HAD A SUPERIOR CIVILIZATION' 
Bangalore, October 11 

India may have had a superior civilization with possible contacts with 
extraterrestrial visitors, and the flying devices called 'Vimanas' described 
in ancient Indian texts may underline their possible connections with today's 
aerospace technology, an Italian scientist told the World Space Conference 
here today. 

Dr. Roberto Pinotti asked the delegates to examine in detail the Hindu texts 
instead of dismissing 'all the Vimana descriptions and traditions as mere 
myth.' "The importance of such studies and investigations could prove to be 
shocking for today's man because the existence of flying devices beyond 
mythology can only be explained with a forgotten superior civilization on 
earth," he said. Pointing out that Indian Gods and heroes fought in the skies 
using piloted vehicles with terrible weapons. 

Dr. Pinotti said they were similar to modern jet propelled flying machines. 32 
secrets: He said certain descriptions of the Vimanas seemed 'too detailed and 
technical in nature to be labeled as myth.' He cited various texts to show 
there were 32 secrets relating to the operation of Vimanas, some of which 
could be compared to modern day use of radar, solar energy and photography. 

Quoting from 'Vymanika Shastra' he said the ancient flying devices of India 
were made from special heat absorbing metals named 'Somaka, Soundalike and 
Mourthwika.' He said the text also discussed the seven kinds of mirror and 
lenses installed aboard for defensive and offensive uses. 

The so-called 'Pinjula Mirror' offered a sort of 'visual shield' preventing 
the pilots from being blinded by 'evil rays' and the weapon 'Marika' used to 
shoot enemy aircraft 'does not seem too different from what we today called 
lesser technology,' he said. 

According to the Italian expert, the 'principles of Page 1 propulsion as far 
as the descriptions were concerned, might be defined as electrical and 
chemical but solar energy was also involved. For instance, the 'Tripura 
Vimana' mentioned in 'Vymanika Shastra' was a large craft operated by 'motive 
power generated by solar rays,' 

Dr. Pinotti said, adding 'its elongated form was surely much closer to that of 
a modern blimp.' Sophisticated design: According to Dr. Pinotti, the huge 
'Shakuna Vimana' described in the text 'might be defined as a cross between a 
plane and a rocket of our times and its design might remind one of today's 
space shuttle.' 

'Surely, it expresses the most complex and sophisticated aeronautical design 
among all the other descriptions of Vimanas mentioned in the 'Vymanika 
Shastra,' he said. He described the author of the treatise 'Vymanika Shastra' 
as a man 'attempting to explain an advanced technology.' 

Dr. Pinotti, who has made an exhaustive study of the history of Indian 
astronautics, said another text, 'Samarangana Sutradhara' had 230 stanzas 
devoted to the principles of building Vimanas and their use in peace and war. 
He said ancient Aryans knew the use of the element 'fire' as could be seen 
from their 'Astra' weapons that included Soposamhara (flame belching missile), 
Prasvapna (which caused sleep) and four kinds of Agni Astras that traveled in 
sheets of flame and produced thunder. He said the car that was supposed to go 
up to Suryamandala (solar system) and the Naksatramandala (stellar system) 
cannot be dismissed as a myth because of the 'technical nature' of its 
description. 

Dr. Pinotti said depictions of space travel, total destruction by incredible 
weapons and the fact that Vimanas resembled modern unidentified flying objects 
would suggest that India had a 'superior but forgotten civilization.' 'In the 
light of this, we think it will be better to examine the Hindu texts' and 
subject the descriptive models of Vimanas to more scientific scrutiny,' he 
said.--PTI


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