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ANCIENT AIRCRAFT

Our resident MUFON psychologist and hypnotherapist, Dr. Ruth Hover, and
her husband took a trip to the pyramids and temples of Egypt. In the
temple at Abydios, she photographed a wall panel in a section where an
overlaying panel with Egyptian heiroglyphics crumbled and fell,
revealing an older panel beneath it. This older panel, shown below,
contains embossed images of what appear to be ancient aircraft. 

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. 


                           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 Puspaka 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 Mahabharatra, 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
Vrishis. The narrative records: 

"Gurkha flying in his swift and powerful Vimana hurled against the three
cities of the Vrishis 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 messaenger 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 similiar 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
etter, 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 mecrcury 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. 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 Chandrigarh 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 Vaimanika Sastra, a fourth century B.C. text written by Bharadvajy
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 Vaimanika 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: VYMAANIDASHAASTRA 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. Bharadvajy 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 Mahabarata, 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 Samaranganasutradhara 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
"ageold instruments used in navigating cosmic vehicles" in caves in
Turkestan and the Gobi Desert. The "devices" are hemispherical 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 Mohenjo- Daro
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 "ahnihotravimana" 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 manoeuvering 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 hemispherical engine pods on the underside." "They
use a mechanical antigravity device driven by engines developing
approximately 80,000 horse power." The Ramayana, Mahabarata 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. 

Futhermore, at Mohenjo-Daro, 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. Many well known
historical personages including Jesus, Buddah, Lao Tzu, Confucious,
Krishna, Zoroaster, Mahavira, Quetzalcoatl, Akhenaton, Moses, and more
recent inventors and of course many other people who will probably
remain anonymous, were probably members of such a secret organization.
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
centre 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 analysing 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