by D. Hatcher Childress
from The Anti-Gravity Handbook available from:
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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 catalog the many sciences. Ashoka kept their work secret because he was afraid that the advanced science cataloged 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. if the Nazis had such weapons at their
disposal during World War II. Ashoka was also aware 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
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 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 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”). 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 lightening 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 theInternational 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 forewards 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 “age-old instruments used in navigating cosmic
vehicles” in caves in Turkestan and the Gobi Desert. The “devices”
are hemispherical objects of glass o 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” thusly: “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
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 splendor… 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 archeologists
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 stone walls 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
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, Buddha, Lao Tzu, Confucius, 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 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. 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.”