Did Man Reach The Moon Thousands Of Years Ago? - By John Winston

Indications of the reality of ancient space travel do come from widely separated parts of the world. Written and oral tradition is widespread - and, it seems, reliable.

There is a tendency in scientific circles nowadays to regard ancient documents and even mythology and folklore - as sources of history. Anthony Roberts expresses it this way: "Legends are like time-capsules that preserve their contents through ages of ignorance."  In regard to some of the chronicles cited hereafter, internal evidence will carry its own proofs of authenticity.   My first source is an old manuscript described by James Churchward, the English scholar who wrote decades before people spoke of artificial satellites and spaceships.  

1 - INDIA: Vehicles that could revolve around the earth (i.e., satellites): "Their fuel is drawn from the air in a very simple and cheap way. The motor is something like a modern turbine: it works from one chamber to another and does not stop or stall unless switched off. If nothing happens it continues to function. The ship in which it is built could revolve as long as it liked around Earth, only falling when the parts of which it is made were burnt up.  

2 - INDIA: Philosophers and scientists who orbited the earth "below the moon and above the clouds" are spoken of in the ancient Surya Siddhanta.

Giant satellites made of shiny metal and turning about an axis are described in detail in ancient Sanskrit texts, right down to their dimensions and interiors, as well as smaller craft that fly between them and the earth.

The Mahabharata describes "two storey sky chariots with many windows, ejecting red flame, that race up into the sky until they look like comets . . . to the regions of both the sun and the stars."

Other references speak of:  

* Pushan sailing in golden ships across the ocean of the sky  

* Garuda (a celestial bird) carrying Lord Vishnu in cosmic journeys  

* Aerial flights "through the region of the sky firmament which is above the region of the winds"  

(source:  Did Man Reach The Moon Thousands Of Years Ago? - By John Winston - rense.com). For more refer to chapter on Hindu Scriptures and Advanced Concepts and Hindu Cosmology.  Also Refer to Vymanika Shashtra - Aeronautical Society of India.