The texts speak of the different plant extracts and concentrated juices that were applied to ores
in various ways to produce different types of lightweight metals. This section explains the
processes involved for some of them.
*The above descriptions are merely a summary of the first chapter of the Vimaanika-Shaastra.
There are still seven more that continue along this same theme with extraordinary detail. I could
go on but I think you get the point.
The topics dealt with in this ancient Indian book are extraordinary, and it’s virtually the same
wherever you go in the world; if you look for them, it seems that all countries have ancient
legends and long standing traditions of pre-historic flight.
Whatever the other truths of our history are, the reality is that ancient knowledge of flying
machines was a world-wide phenomenon. To many people, the existence of texts such as these
coupled with the wide spread nature and enormous bulk of the other evidences previously
mentioned constitutes proof enough that the only possible conclusion that can be reached from it
all is that thousands of years ago some form of Ancient civilization that possessed the knowledge
of aviation actually did exist and that flight was quite well known about by many cultures.
Others have said: But if such is indeed the case and ancient man knew of flight then where are
the remains of their ancient flying machines? There has been no remains of any such craft that
have ever been found at archaeological sites; if they ever had existed surely we should have found
some trace of them by now. The answer to that is simple.
If there was an ancient civilization that was destroyed in either a devastating war or in a natural
cataclysm, all trace of them would in fact, be gone by now. Every piece of metal, every nut and
bolt would be rusted to dust and every piece of concrete decayed. Not one trace would remain.
Unless it was a massive monument of stone or an item that had been covered by earth or rock and
preserved by time.
No, only objects such as the megalithic structures we still find, or perhaps a depiction of the
event painted on a stele by one of the few survivors, or objects like the ‘ooparts’ mentioned in the
second chapter would have survived for us to find, which indeed they have.
That’s how it will always be; and if our civilization was wiped out today and another grew up
over many thousands of years from the fragmented and scattered pockets of survivors. What
would be left on the earth of our civilization 20,000, 50,000 or 100,000 or even a million years
from now to show the people of that time that we were ever here?
The answer of course, is nothing.
Nothing would remain of us or our civilization except legends and possibly some small
artifacts that had escaped and remained buried somehow; perhaps a fossilized footprint or a
painting one of the survivors had drawn on the wall of a cave he’d found to shelter in for the
winter. And then as the survivors grew into a civilization and again became as modern man,
imagine their mirth at the laughable notion that men may have flown or even walked across the
earth in a time that is 100,000 or 200,000 years before their civilization.
“But why have we found none of these “ancient’ flying machines?” They would ask.