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 "Like a comet in the sky .. Like a meteor encircled by a mighty cloud . . ."

The same author's Samsaptakabadha told of a "vimana" that "proceeded through that region of the sky firmament which is above the regions of the winds, " and a celestial chariot which " could move in a circular course, or move forwards, backwards, and divers kinds of movement."

It looks as though the saucer phenomena was with us throughout ancient as well as modern eras. In the archaic language of Sanskrit, the volume Samarangana Sutradhara attempted to describe the transportation of its day:

{{blockquote|"Four strong mercury containers must be built into the interior structure. When these have been heated by controlled fire from iron containers, the vimana develops thunder-power through the mercury. And at once becomes like a pearl in the sky." In this defunct Indian language, writings were always defined as mythical (Daiva) or factual (Manusa). The Samarangama Sutradhara was designated as Manusa. In addition to the above passages, this fascinating work also recounts the following sentence, of possible noteworthy interest:

"By means of these machines, human beings can fly in the air and heavenly beings can come down to Earth. "Such other volumes of early history as the Tibetan Tantjua and Kantjua, P. C. Roy's Drona Parva, the 3,000 years old Mahabharata, the Vishnu Purana, A. Bailey's A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, the Emperor's Capitularies and others, all relate phenomena nearly paralleling current reports and characteristics.

Phylos "the Tibetan," in A Dweller on Two Planets (completed in 1886), is an other to describe skyward contrivances purportedly utilized during the Atlantean era —and this work may bear further investigation.

According to Phylos, these airships "round, hollow needles of aluminum "came in four sizes: 25, 80, 155, and about 250 feet in diameter.

"Long as was our silver-white spindle," described "The Tibetan," "we had soon risen so high as to make us seem a mere speck to people on the earth beneath."

"Windows of crystal, of enormous sistant strength," he later continued, "were in rows like portholes along the sides, a few on top, and others set in the floor, thus affording a view in all directions. "As for their source of power, this was supposedly derived from the "Night-Side of Nature" whatever that may be.

Writing in the Australian Saucer Record, Andrew Tomas—who lived in the Far East for some 25 years—asks, "Do Saucers Have Bases on Earth? " He answers his own query by many references. One is the mythical city of "Shamballa, the City of Cosmic Men ... known in Asia far and wide." Tomas quotes the noted painter, Profes- {{rh/2|6|Flying Saucers}}