*Secrets of the Vimana - ''in various kinds of Asian and South Asian texts, we find references to flying machines and aerial vehicles.''
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This fascinating web page includes an excerpt of Roerich's 1927 sighting of a UFO in Mongolia, as described in ''Altai-Himalaya'', as well as passages from ancient texts describing aerial dogfights and nuclear war. A 'must read'!
Vaimanika-sastra - "According to the Vymanika Shastra, purportedly written by Maharishi Bharadwaja in the 4th Century BC, there are 32 secrets to piloting a vimana. These include..."
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"In this incredible volume on Ancient India, authentic Indian texts and epics such as the 'Ramayana' and the 'Mahabharata' are used to prove that aircraft were in use more than four thousand years ago."
..."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."
..."The Hakatha (law 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 inheritences.'..."
UFOs Behind the Great Wall - A new spirit of openness allows Chinese UFO information to be shared with the West.
- Article reprint - By J. Antonio Huneeus - Published: 9/97 - Source: FATE (Magazine) [Vol 50, No 9] <3/4/98 #10>
''...Dr. Reyna said that on board these, 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.''
Vimana - ''...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.''
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The Story of Vimanas - India's Tradition of Flying Machines
- By Dr. Srikumar V. Gopalakrishna <3/11/98 #16>
''...thus Raghavan mentions a device that could create a tempest to demoralize enemy ranks. Such a weapon is also mentioned by the third-century Roman writer Flavius Philostratus, who describes sages in India who 'do not fight an invader, but repel him w
Impossible Knowledge: The Mahabharata - "Depending on one's point of view, either it contains some of the earliest known science fiction, or it records conflicts between beings with weapons as powerful and advanced as anything used today."
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The "Webbed Fingers" of Buddha - Did Buddha have the "Innsmouth look"...?
- By Jitendra Nath Banerjea - Source: The Indian Historical Review (Magazine), Page 717-727 [Vol 6:4, Dec 1930] <3/11/98 #19>
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