INDIAN EPICS & UFO's

           The indian epics like Ramayana and Mahabharata are filled with the flying vehicles and secret and strange weapons which uses atomic energy, according to their description. The 'Brahmastra' for instance is the most powerful weapon used in an attack or combat and it is supposed to form a mushroom cloud and destroy a whole area of population. It is said to be of non retrievable and once used, would cause destruction of a region where there would be nothing living or non living for a couple of years.
          

            The flying vehicle used by Rama and Ravana in the Epic 'Ramayana' is so casually mentioned as a normal thing that it makes us wonder whether these were so common in those eras; taking into the factor that egyptian hieroglyphs also explicitly describe and depicts these kinds of flying vehicles of a forgotten era. Some of the exhibits in Egyptian Artifacts Museum in Cairo, Egypt; have a curious similarity to the flying vehicles and airplanes that we are presently using today.

            The puranas of ancient india are filled with narrations of various types of flying contraptions which were capable of doing wonderful feats in the air and
were able to cover great distances in a very short time. The 'Maya' (Architect of Gods) is  supposed to be an expert in the construction and maintenance of these flying vehicles and the details are actually given in some of the obscure devanagari shlokas of sub puranas.
 

            Sumerian cuneiform tablets which should be considered to be the great grand dad of all the known scriptures of ancient civilizations of the world are very specific about the existence and regular usage of these flying vehicles and the goddess Ishtar (Isis Of the Greek, Venus of Romans and The Kāli Of Indians?) is always shown in a flying suit armed fully ready to depart from her Mesopotamian base to the ancient near east region of indian continent and she is supposed to have had these flying trips almost once or twice every week!!!
         

            Even if we are really too egoistic to admit the reality of our great ancestors having flying saucers and airplanes; the fact remains that documents, carvings, anecdotes, statues, relics, and other paraphernalia dug out from around the world from the archeological sites clearly shows us the existence of a superior technology in those ancient times ( around 4000-1000 BC). The View expands as we see the technological advancements in the other areas like astrology, planetary motions, computational and geographical formulas, and of course the knowledge about our present unknown areas of death and life.

According to the Vymankia Shastra, purportedly written by Maharishi Bharadwaja in the 4th Century BC, there are 32 secrets to piloting a vimana. These include:

"Maantrika: The invoking of mantras which will permit one to achieve certain spiritual and hypnotic powers so that he can construct airplanes which cannot be destroyed.
Taantrika: by acquiring some of the Tantric powers, one may endow his aircraft with those same powers.
Goodha: This secret permits the pilot to make his vimana invisible to his enemies. Adrishya accomplishes the same purpose by attracting 'the force of the ethereal flow in the sky'.
Paroksha: This helpful hint enables the pilot to paralyze other vimanas and put them out of action.
Aparoksha: One may employ this ability to project a beam of light in front of his craft to light his way.
Viroopa Karana: With this skill mastered, the pilot can produce 'the thirty-second kind of smoke', charge it with 'the light of the heat waves in the sky' and transform his craft into a 'very fierce and terrifying shape' guaranteed to cause 'utter fright to onlookers'. Roopaanara can cause the vimana to assume such shapes as those of the lion, tiger, rhinoceros, serpent - even a mountain- to confuse observers.
Suroopa: If one can attract the thirteen kinds of 'Karaka force', one can make the vimana appear to be 'a heavenly damsel bedecked with flowers and jewels'.
Pralaya: This deadly secret pushed electrical force through the 'five-limbed aerial tube' so that the pilot may 'destroy everything as in a cataclysm'. Vimukna sends a poison powder through the air to produce 'wholesale insensibility and coma'.
Taara: This ability, once mastered, provides the pilot with another means of avoiding contact with an enemy or hiding his purpose from observers: 'By mixing with ethereal force 10 parts of air force, 7 parts of water force, and 16 parts of solar glow, and projecting it by means of the star-faced mirror through the frontal tube of the vimana, the appearance of a star-spangled sky is created.'
Saarpa-Gamana: This secret enables the pilot to attract the forces of air, join them with solar ryas, and pass the mixture through the center of the craft so the vimana will 'have a zig-zagging motion like a serpent'.
Roopaakarshana permits the pilot to see inside an enemy's airplane, while Kriyaagrahana allows one to spy on 'all the activities going on down below on the ground'.
Jalada roopa instructs the pilot in the correct proportions of certain chemicals which will envelop the vimana and give it the appearance of a cloud."
     

(Brad Steiger, Worlds Before Our Own)