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powered by psychic or mechanical energy, and capable of moving in the air as also on and beneath
the water. We can now do a rapid review of relatively recent and contemporary reports which tally
with the Indian legends, annals and chronicles and thus give reason to believe that these ancient
accounts were based on real experience or at least on visual evidence.
Modern Records and Observations
Even if we refrain from going back to the 19
th
century or to even older times where some reports
(and even a few early photographs) of unknown aircraft and “non-human” creatures descended from
the sky exist but for which hard proof may be lacking, we must recollect some significant
statements, made by important figures of science and by military leader, indicating beyond
reasonable doubt that an awareness of “higher beings” has existed for well over a century among
the technocratic elite of our societies.
It appears that for some unclear reason, a super-human, non-earthly or at least non-earthbound
presence manifested itself to a number of people in both Europe and America shortly after the First
World War. As if that great civilizational crisis, which marked the end of an era, had triggered
intense interest “from above”. UFO sightings and even landings were reported in the USA and in
Germany and some secret societies were formed, purportedly under the guidance of otherworldly
beings. The most influential were the rumored but not historically established Black Sun and Vril
Gesellschafts in Bavaria and the now well known Thule Group.
The Vril Society, called after the cosmic energy of life that is equivalent to Prana in Samskrit, drew
its inspiration from a young and beautiful Medium, Maria Orsic, who claimed to be in contact with
a very advanced group of beings from a planet around the Aldebaran giant star (Rohini in Samskrit
astronomy) within the Taurus constellation. Those beings allegedly sent her periodic messages and
thereby conveyed high-level scientific information, designed to enable the members of the group to
produce inexhaustible, non polluting energy and build aircraft capable of flying at virtually
unlimited speed in order to reach the stars.
The data channeled by Maria Orsic and other “Vrilerinnen” (young female mediums) were
interpreted by Professor W. Schumann from the Technical University of Munich and used to try
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building the “flying saucers”, from a first unsuccessful prototype tried out as early as 1922 over a
Bavarian lake. The programme was later taken over by the Third Reich under the purview of its SS
E-IV Division, as some members of the Vril and Thule groups (closed down by the Gestapo, as
most other secret societies) became high-ranking officials of the new regime.
Though much controversy surrounds the extent and rate
of success of the “Haunebu” and “Vril ships” building
programme, there is no doubt that the Germans
experimented throughout the war years with “flying
disc” gyroscopic and turbojet technologies,- side by side
with the more conventional V1 and V2 rockets built by
Willy Ley and Wernher von Braun, - through such craft
as the RFZ-1, first tested in 1934, and the later and superior RFZ-2 which is believed to have
achieved impressive performance levels.
SS General Hans Kammler, who organized the use of prisoner labour from the concentration camps
for the space weaponry programme headed by General Dornberger, reportedly supervised the R&D
effort into anti-gravity propulsion. It is significant that the propulsion technology is said to have
consisted essentially in the assembly of “Thule Tachyonators”, spheres of vertically rotating
mercury, in line with what some of the Indian Shastras describe in the vimanas.
As Professor Hermann Oberth, one of the fathers of the German and later American space
programmes and the major mentor of von Braun, put it succinctly, they were helped by “
people of
other worlds”. In parallel with the German research effort, there is documentary proof that Benito
Mussolini was briefed by his officials on the fall or landing of a UFO (an aeromobile sconosciuto:
unknown aircraft) in the Veneto province of Italy in late 1932 and personally ordered the “leaden
cast” of his own telegraphic instructions to be destroyed, as well as “total silence” to be kept, further
instructing the state media to describe the object as a meteorite in their releases. Evidence for this is
supplied in the form of facsimiles of the telegrams from the Dictator reproduced in the book
“Contattismi di Massa” (2005) by Stefano Breccia (publish in English as “Mass Contacts
(Authorhouse, 2009). Mussolini, - who soon afterwards created the Research Unit RS/33 dedicated