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• *Secrets of the Vimana - "in various kinds of Asian and South Asian texts, we find references to flying machines and aerial vehicles." <11/24/97 #1>
  ¶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'!
• Web Search for "Vimana Aircraft" - Search <11/24/97 #2>
• 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..." <3/4/98 #3>
• Vimana Aircraft of Ancient India and Atlantis - "Did the Ancients Have the Technology of Flight?" - Review <3/4/98 #4>
  ¶"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."
• India Had a Superior Civilization - "Indian gods and heroes fought in the skies using piloted vehicles with terrible weapons." <3/4/98 #5>
  ¶..."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."
• UFO visit in 4000 B.C. - "It is true," Dr. Krishna Murty says, "that the ancient vedas and other texts refer to aeronautics, spaceships, flying machines, and even astronauts." - Message - Supportive <3/4/98 #6>
• Ancient Indian Aircraft Technology - A lengthy excerpt from the book by Childress. - By D. Hatcher Childress - Source: (Book) <3/4/98 #7>
  ¶..."Only a few years ago the Chinese discovered some Sanskrit documents in Lhasa, Tibet and sent them to the University of Chandrigarh to be translated. Dr. Rith Reyna of the University said recently that the documents contain directions for building interstellar spaceships!"
• In Search of...Ancient Aircraft - Good article, compelling photographs. - Supportive - By W. Hamilton III <3/4/98 #8>
  ¶..."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.'..."
• Chinese Scholars Tap Physics to Learn About Flying Saucers - Are Chinese scientists attempting to construct vimanas? - Article reprint - By Kathy Chen - Published: 11/7/97 - Source: Wall Street Journal (Newspaper) <3/4/98 #9>
• 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>
• UFO Folklore Center: UFOs in China! - "Historical records cite strange celestial objects during the Tang, Yuan, and Ming dynasties." <3/4/98 #11>
• Report of UFO sighting in India - "Back in 1967, I saw a UFO in Coorg, southwest of India..." - Event report <3/4/98 #12>
• Vedic Theories of Creation: Ancient Vimana Aircraft - detailed article, a good intro to Vimana legends <3/10/98 #13>
  ¶"...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." <3/10/98 #14>
• Science and Technology in the Vedas - "I had studied the Brihad Vimanshastra and failed to find in it a technical description of aeronautics..." - Article reprint - Dissenting - By Jayany V. Narlikar - Published: 9/16/95 - Source: The Times of India (New Delhi edition) (Newspaper) <3/11/98 #15>
  ¶"...imagine that thousands of years later, our descendents recover a cassette of Star Trek from an archaeological excavation and manage to view it. Are they justified in concluding on the basis of what they see that we ourselves were in possession of the kind of technology shown there? Therefore we can credit our ancients with giant leaps of imagination to have produced these works...but no more."
• 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 with celestial artillery of thunder and lightning..."
• 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." <3/11/98 #17>
• Aeronautical Engineers Spot UFO over Mumbai Skyline - "Aeronautical engineers, working for PAWAN HANS airline, have been sighting an unidentified flying object, over their apartment in the Kandivli suburb of Mumbai." <3/11/98 #18>
• 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>
• Vimana's Aircraft Technology - Aircraft Technology of Rock's People <12/2/98 #20>

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