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Java Island of Indonesia, from Anyer to Panarukan, are blessed with large green rice paddy fields area like a carpet. Java Dwipa, locally referred to as the “paddy island” – is renowned as a place where thousands of indigenous rice varieties grow.

Located in the western part of Java, CIANJUR has been known for a long time as the source of high quality indigenous rice. The authentic variety of Cianjur rice is sourced from four sub districts, one of them is Cugenang. This famed indigenous rice is grown in Gede Mountain valley, where the soils are rich in organic mineral compounds and irrigated with endless flow of mountain spring water. This unique combination of environment conditions and superior indigenous paddy produce the best quality rice … distinctive fragrant, delicious, good texture – firm and tender without splitting but non sticky.

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Bajaj KTM Duke 200

Bajaj is planning to launch the KTM Duke 200 in India before the year 2011 goes by is not secret. We have been keeping a tab on the development regarding this new bike from the Bajaj-KTM stable. Now, as a new link in the chain, our reader and friend from Pune, Dhananjay Ambekar has managed to click some fresh pictures of this new bike near Lonavala. Our heartiest thanks to him. Thanks to Motoroid Deepak Dongre as well, for bringing these pictures to us. There were not one, but two bikes on test, and were parked outside a restaurant, as the test riders halted for a break. The bikes on test were prototypes and not production models, as there were no stickers on them.

Bajaj and KTM have been working very hard on this 200cc version of the KTM Duke, a 125cc variant of which is already being manufactured at Bajaj’s Chakan plant and exported to Europe. The 200cc bike will boast many firsts for the mainstream market such as upside-down forks and (possibly) a chromium-molybdenum trellis frame. The 200 Duke will most likely share its wheelbase with the smaller 125cc version, measuring 1350 mm. The power from the 200cc liquid cooled fuel injected single cylinder engine would be ‘very close’ to that of the CBR250R, as we revealed to you in our earlier post as well. Expect peak power output of around 22-23 bhp. The engine will most likely be mated to a 6-speed transmission, just as the 125cc version.

The 200’s biggest virtue would be its low and mid range punch, offering great in gear acceleration, easy overtaking and great throttle response. It won’t be an all-out sporty machine with power located in the upper spectrum of the rev band, but would offer a flat power and torque curve with great driveability and ease of use in the city as its virtues.

The images reveal a few other details about the new bike. The single front disc brake is huge in size, but isn’t petal shaped. The elevated step seat won’t make for a very comfortable place for the pillion rider but would lend the 200 Duke great aesthetic value. The handlebars don’t have weighted ends – that’s probably because the Duke isn’t mean to be a sporty, track oriented bike. Rear tyre seems tobe a 150 section unit surrounding 17 inch rims. Front tyre is 110 section. Instrument cluster will be a fully digital unit displaying rpm, speed, trip, odo, fuel and temperature.

Here’s a list of salient features of the new KTM 200 Duke

•    Upside down front forks
•    Rear monoshock suspension
•    200cc single cylinder, 4 valve DOHC liquid cooled engine
•    Peak power in the region of 22-23 bhp
•    Split seat
•    Digital instrument cluster
•    Trellis frame
•    150 /17 rear tyre, 110/17 front tyre
•    10 spoke alloy wheels
•    Front / rear disc brakes
•    Electric start
•    Fuel Injection

New Twitter Worm

A new worm is posting links on Twitter user accounts that lead to a fake antivirus site, online security firms Sophos and Kaspersky report.

The worm is using Google’s URL shortener goo.gl to spread the links; if you follow the link, you will land on a site that advertises a rouge antivirus solution called “Security Shield.” This “antivirus” is in fact malware, which should fortunately be detected (Sophos detects it as Troj/FakeAV-CMG) as such by popular antivirus solutions.

Twitter’s Safety account has reacted to this threat; an update on the account claims Twitter is “working to remove the malware links and reset passwords on compromised accounts.”

“Did you Follow a goo.gl link that led to a page telling you to install “Security Shield” Rogue AV? That’s malware. Don’t install.

As always, we advise everyone against following suspicious goo.gl links on Twitter; under no circumstances should you install the fake antivirus called “Security Shield.”

Furthermore, if you’ve seen goo.gl links that you haven’t posted on your Twitter account, you should change your Twitter password immediately and run an antivirus scan of your computer.

Yahoo Mail System Notification

There’s an email purporting to be from Yahoo stating that “Your account is blocked” and for more information, download the attached document. The document is “details.zip” and it’s not from Yahoo. If a user opens the attachment it will infect their system with a nasty virus.

The same infected attachment is also being sent from a so-called Express Delivery System also purporting to be from a legitimate carrier service. This email has the same attachment.

The file details.zip is an executable file that has a variant of the Salga.a Worm. This infected file is a mass mailing worm that attempts to spread via email. If installed, it will cause computer performance issues, loss of data or private information being shared to other websites.

It’s important to never download any attachments especially those with file extensions like .exe and .zip. If you’ve mistakenly downloaded the details.zip attachment, you can remove this parasite by running both Malwarebytes and SUPERAntiSpyware. Both of these security programs come with free versions.

How to remove details.zip virus

1. Reboot your PC and hit F8 to run your computer in Safe Mode with Networking.
2. Launch MalwareBytes and run a (Full Scan) to remove infections.
3. Launch SuperAntiSpyware and run a (Full Scan) to remove spyware.

run your computer in safe mode to remove any and all viruses, worms or Trojans.

Barcodes on web application

Brought into the mainstream by supermarket checkout systems, bar codes have become a ubiquitous element in our daily lives. Rarely will one come across any product that doesn’t have a barcode. The idea of a barcode originated in 1932 from the thesis of Wallace Flint at Harvard.

Varieties of barcodes

Barcodes bascially come in two main type: linear (1-dimensional) and Matrix (2-dimensional) with each offering a variety of formats, depending on your application purpose. The barcodes we usually see on books and other standard products are of the linear type. These only encode data in one dimension, from left to right. The following shows a typical UPC barcode.

Matrix or 2-dimensional barcode encode information in both directions (x-y axis). So they are able to store more information in the same space then linear barcodes. There are many type of matrix codes, the one shown below is that of QR-Code or Quick Response code. QR-Codes are mostly used for access with cell phones and have become a de-facto standard for Japanese cell phones. Other type of matrix codes include ShotCode, Semacode. The QR-code below shows the string ‘codediesel.com’ encoded.

In this post we will see how to generate linear barcodes using a pear library.

Installation

We will be using the ‘Image_Barcode’ Pear library to generate linear barcodes. You can download the library manually from here, or use the pear installer.

pear install Image_Barcode-1.1.0

Sample Code

A sample code for generating a CODE128 barcode is shown below.

<?php require_once 'Barcode.php'; /* Data that will be encoded in the bar code */ $bar_code_data = "TRSD5656"; /* The third parameter can accept any from the following, * jpg, png and gif. */ Image_Barcode::draw($bar_code_data, 'code128', 'png'); ?>

By default, the image generated by the barcode is directly output to the browser. If you do not want this, you can pass ‘false’ as the fourth parameter and it will return the GD image resource object; allowing you to do further things with it.

Image_Barcode::draw($bar_code_data, 'code128', 'png', false);

Supported Types

The ‘Image_Barcode’ library supports the following barcode types:

• Code 39
• Code 128
• EAN 13
• INT 25
• PostNet
• UPCA

Some sample generated barcodes

Some barcodes generated with the above library are shown below. The last one is the United States Postal Service format.

Google charts and QR-Codes

Before closing this post we will take a look at generating QR-Codes using Google charts. The following line for example generates the QR-Code shown below. The ‘chl’ parameter specifies the data that will be encoded (‘www.codediesel.com’ here).

http://chart.apis.google.com/chart ?cht=qr&chs=150x150&chl=www.codediesel.com

Which you can embed in your html as below:

<img src="http://chart.apis.google.com/chart ?cht=qr&chs=150x150&chl=www.codediesel.com" />

Testing bar codes

Ok, now you have created all the barcodes you want, but the problem is you do not have a barcode reader handy; no sweat, Qualitysoft.de offers a free barcode testing application for checking a plethora of barcode formats.

HAARP

HAARP (High-Frequency Active Auroral Research Program) is a high-powered radio transmission research facility jointly operated by the US Navy, Air Force and several universities.  Because of the high secrecy surrounding the government HAARP project, many theories have risen trying to explain what HAARP is and does.  Most of them are simply wild speculations, based on fears about what “they are doing up there.”  It is the purpose of this article to provide sufficient technical expertise to dispel the mystery.

haarp.mp3 (The Sound)…

2. HAARP Interaction with the Atmosphere

The HAARP pulse is primarily divided into two components. The first part is the sections marked A and B on the chart and is the powerful “pre-heat” megawatt pulse aimed upward at the ionosphere just above the HAARP facility. As the radio waves travel up through the atmosphere they have no effect until they reach the ionosphere about 200 kilometers above the earth, which is far above the atmosphere. At that point the waves interact with the ions, which may be electrons, protons or ionized parts of atoms like oxygen, ozone or nitrogen.

Normally the particles in the near vacuum of outer-space in the region of the ionosphere are simply moving randomly in all directions. Some particles may hit each other and re-combine into normal atoms of oxygen and nitrogen, thus simply becoming a part of the atmosphere. Other particles may drift off into space and others may move downward into the thicker atmosphere where they re-combine. Then along comes the HAARP signal.

For about a quarter second during the part A and B of the pulse, the randomly moving ions are now forced to madly race back and forth in the direction of the radio waves at the speed of light or 300,000 kilometers per second, which is real fast. Many of them strike atoms in the upper atmosphere and cause the atoms to also become ionized. Thus the number of ions is suddenly increased. Since the neutral atoms in the atmosphere do not react to the radio waves, they remain more or less stationary, and become “sitting ducks” just waiting to be hit by one of the billions of racing ions all rushing back and forth in response to the HAARP waves.

Even if the neutral atoms don’t become ionized, many of them are struck by the fast ions and soon most of the atmospheric atoms high above the HAARP transmitter are also rushing in all directions but not back and forth as are the ions. This sudden increase in the motion of both the atoms and ions in the upper atmosphere is called “ionospheric heating.” In fact, the HAARP facility, along with several similar research instruments in Europe and Russia, are in the category of Ionospheric Heaters. But its what HAARP does next during the part C of the pulse which makes HAARP unique.

3. Components of the HAARP Pulse

In portion A of the pulse, identifier tones are sent at frequencies of 360, 1000 and 1700 Hz, with some harmonics at higher frequencies visible on the graph. In part B the tones are 650 Hz with a harmonic at 1300 Hz. On the chart the yellow color indicates a very strong signal, the green indicates a medium strength signal and the blue shows a weak signal.
In part C of the signal there is a continuous tone at 2100 Hz which remains during the whole pulse and sometimes several seconds afterward. There is also a much weaker tone around 2500 Hz during all of the pulse. And then there is all that green/yellow stuff at the bottom, sloping upward to the right during all of part C. What the heck is that? To explain that we need to look at the HAARP antenna itself.

The HAARP “antenna farm” consists of 48 towers, soon to be 180, about 25 meters tall and each is topped with a pair of crossed beams in a north-south and east-west direction. The actual radiating parts of the antenna include those wires dangling from the ends of the beams.

By sloping the wires and hooking all the antennas together they act as one large single antenna covering 33 acres which can transmit in the north-south or east-west direction.

4. HAARP Circular Polarization

If HAARP only used the north-south beams then the electrons and protons in the ionosphere would race madly in the north-south direction. And likewise if the radio waves move in the east-west direction, so would the ions. What HAARP does is on each portion of the transmitter cycle it switches from the east-west to the north-south beams and back again.

If you could see the radio waves rising from the antenna they would appear to be spiraling or “cork-screwing” upward. This is called “circular polarization” of the radio signal. This is not uncommon, since all commercial FM stations use circular polarization to send horizontal signals to home roof antennas and vertical signals to automobile antennas.

But HAARP is not broadcasting to homes or autos, nor is it switching on each cycle. No, the HAARP signal is corkscrewing upward at a rate of, TADA!, about 0.9 Hz. And why is that? By corkscrewing the signal, the ions in the upper atmosphere do not just race madly back and forth, instead they move in BIG circles. And you can get the most ions running around the “race course” just above HAARP if you make them have a “lap time” of about once per second.

5. Optimizing the HAARP Rotation

What determines the optimum “lap time” is something called the plasma density and is related to the temperature, number of ions, number of neutral atoms in the ionosphere, and some other factors I won’t mention here. (Note: For more information on plasma density consult any of the many graduate texts on plasma physics. Also, I have oversimplified the relation between the 0.9 Hz signal and the “lap time.” It is not my purpose here to provide a complete description of ionospheric cyclotronic interactions.)

By making the ions, both electrons and protons, move in big circles they each become little electromagnets with a north and south pole. At the latitude of HAARP in Gakona, Alaska the earth’s magnetic field lines are nearly vertical. So if the HAARP circular polarization is either clockwise or counter-clockwise you can make the ions racing around at 0.9 Hz either be attracted to the earth’s magnetic north pole or repelled. If the circling ions are attracted, then they would simply spiral downward toward the earth’s north pole and run into the denser atmosphere and might produce a very weak aurora, hence the name High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program. That’s all very interesting but its not exactly the real purpose of HAARP.

6. HAARP as a “Particle Gun”

If the HAARP signal rotates so the ions circle around with their north poles pointing downward, then they are repelled by the earth’s magnetic north pole and are shot out into the vacuum of space at nearly the speed of light. Wow, you mean HAARP is a particle gun? You betcha! The largest one around, sorta.

But its not really a “gun” because you can’t aim it at anything. The particles simply shoot off into space. But they are still spiraling and are magnetic, and as a result they follow along the earth’s magnetic field. In less than half a second they arrive at the earth’s south pole. There, they don’t even touch the atmosphere but are caused to spiral more tightly by the earth’s converging magnetic field lines, until they are made to flip over and are shot right back to the north pole, all in less than a second. Thus HAARP is really a particle injector which fires billions of ions into the “magnetic bottle” of the earth’s magnetosphere, where they remain trapped for a long time.

7. Uses of the HAARP Particle Injection Device

So what can you do with a particle injector like HAARP? According to the original patent design, this device could be used to produce a thick blanket of fast particles in the region of the magnetosphere which would knock out any electronic controls on, or possibly completely destroy, any space vehicle which flew through it. This was most interesting in the 1980′s when the patent was filed and even in 1990 when the US government decided to build HAARP. At that time the main nuclear threat was the USSR and any missile from Russia aimed at the US would need to pass through the magnetosphere over the north pole.

By deploying the HAARP system, no missiles from Russia would reach the US. None. Zero. And that is pretty effective! Most people think of an ICBM as a kind of big rock or arrow. You just lob it from here and it sorta lands on the target over there. Not so. An ICBM is a space vehicle. It must take off using a large booster rocket, travel at near orbital speed in the vacuum of space until it is over the target then it must re-enter the atmosphere.

To survive re-entry the missile must use one of several schemes, like retro rockets, or deploying an ablative heat shield to protect the warhead from simply burning up in the atmosphere. If the missile’s computer controls are destroyed when passing through the magnetosphere then the missile will not survive re-entry and will simply burn up like a piece of space junk or a meteor. There’s a good chance the missile’s control systems are destroyed even before the second stage separates from the booster, thus the missile never even arrives over the target.

8. The HAARP Shield and the “Cold War”

In the 1980′s and ’90′s a number of Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI or “Star Wars”) programs were developed. All of them, which relied on shooting particle beams, lasers or anti-ballistic missiles at the target were made obsolete and useless in the early 1980′s. I know, since I worked on a number of them. They all relied on knowing where the target was and then shooting something at the target. The development of non-radar-reflective paint and surfaces, or stealth technology, meant you can’t tell where the target is. If you don’t know where it is, how can you shoot at it? The only effective defensive shield concept was and is HAARP.

My suspicion is, the decision to build HAARP in 1990 was one of the major reasons for the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Since ALL soviet missiles would be destroyed before re-entering the atmosphere, the USSR had neither an offensive nor defensive missile weapons system, other than nuclear submarines. The US could turn on and off the HAARP shield at will, so it was almost like putting the “shields” up or down on Captain Kirk’s Enterprise on the “real” Star Wars. You put the shields down to fire weapons, then put the shields back up to defend against any incoming missiles. The USSR was no longer a nuclear threat nor even a nuclear power as soon as the HAARP system was built. Bye, Bye USSR.

9. Where the HAARP Shield Fails

Unfortunately, the HAARP system is not exactly like the shields on the Enterprise. The shield follows along the lines of the earth’s magnetic field. Near the north and south poles the magnetosphere reaches down to almost touch the atmosphere. But near the equator the magnetosphere is several thousand miles out in space.

A missile from Russia going over the polar region must pass through the magnetosphere. But a missile from China can deploy a second stage, reach orbit and deploy for re-entry all below an altitude of several hundred miles and never come anywhere near the magnetosphere. Thus HAARP is no defense against Chinese nuclear weapons. A new technology is needed. And it was found.

Flying Machines

Flight has been the dream of humankind since they watched in awe as birds soared effortlessly through the sky. But, according to accepted history, it wasn’t until the 1780s that two Frenchmen achieved lighter-than-air flight when they were lifted into the air in a hot air balloon near Paris. Then powered, heavier-than-air flight became the goal. And although it was theorized that heavier-than-air flight was possible as early as the 13th century, and in the 16th century Leonardo da Vinci designed winged aircraft and a crude kind of helicopter, it wasn’t until the Wright brothers made their first successful flights at Kitty Hawk in 1903 that powered flight became a reality.

That’s the widely accepted history. Some researchers and a few rogue scientists believe there’s evidence to suggest that humans achieved flight earlier in history – much earlier… so early, they say, that the knowledge of this technology has been lost and ancient stories that recount adventures of human flight have been relegated only to myth.

Is it possible that humans developed the technology to fly in early civilizations – or in civilizations that are now lost to history? Let’s take a look at what some call the evidence – intriguing artifacts, carvings, inscriptions and legends – that they say point to the true record human of flight.

This object (shown in sketch) was found in 1898 in a tomb at Saqquara, Egypt and was later dated as having been created near 200 BCE. As airplanes were unknown in the days when it was found, it was thrown into a box marked “wooden bird model” and then stored in the basement of the Cairo museum.

It was rediscovered by Dr. Khalil Messiha, who studied models made by ancients. The “discovery” was considered so important by the Egyptian government that a special committee of leading scientists was established to study the object.

 

As a result of their findings, a special exhibit was set up in the center hall of the Cairo museum, with the little model as its centerpiece. It was even labelled as a model airplane.

To elucidate the reasons for the decision of the committee, almost unprecedented in the field of archeology, let’s consider some aspects of the model. The model has the exact proportions of a very advanced form of “pusher-glider” that is still having “some bugs ironed out”. This type of glider will stay in the air almost by itself—even a very small engine will keep it going at low speeds, as low as 45 to 65 mph., while it can carry an enormous payload. This ability is dependent on the curious shape of wings and their proportions. The tipping of wings downward, a reversedihedral wing as it is called, is the feature behind this capability. A similar type of curving wings are implemented on the Concorde airplane, giving the plane a maximum lift without detracting from its speed.

In that context, it seems rather incredible that someone, more than 2,000 years ago, for any reason, devised a model of a flying device with such advanced features, requiring quite extensive knowledge of aerodynamics. There were no such things as airplanes in these times, we are told by archeologists and historians. But this case seems to be an exception, living in the midst of the rather unimaginative and rigid paradigm of contemporary science. It is also necessary to point out that Egyptians are known to have nearly always made scale-models of projects and objects which they planned to create or build.

Precolombian Airplane Models

Is the concept of an airplane limited to Egypt? That doesn’t seem to be the case. Gold trinkets were found in an area covering Central America and coastal areas of South America, estimated to belong to a period between 500 and 800 CE, but since they are made from gold, accurate dating is impossible and based essentially on stratigraphy which may be deceptive. However, we can safely say that these gold objects are more than 1000 years old.

Whatever this object is supposed to be or represent,
its remarkable resemblance to a modern aircraft or spacecraft is uncanny.

As seen from the pictures, the shape of the sample object is rather ambiguous. The archaeologists labelled these objects as zoomorphic, meaning, animal shaped objects. The question is, what animal do they represent? When we compare these with other objects from the same cultures depicting animals, a curious facet of the comparison would be obvious: the other objects are recognizable, rendered usually with a great accuracy and attention to realistic detail.

 

There are several types of animals which fly—birds, insects, and several mammals, such as bats and some gliders, for instance flying squirrels, oppossums, and then there are some lizards; there are also some fish which for brief periods glide through the air. There are water animals which seem to fly through the water, such as rays, skates and some selachians. But how does the depicted object compare with these choices? All its features taken into a consideration, we have no match. Seen from above, the object obviously has no fish features, but seems to show rather explicitly mechanistic ones.

The structures just in front of the tail are strongly reminiscent of elevons (a combination of ailerons and elevators) with a slight forward curve, but they are attached to the fuselage, rather than the wings. In any case, they look more like airplane parts than like the claspers of a fish. If the two prominent spirals on the wings are supposed to be a stylized version of the eyes of a ray, then what are the two globular objects positioned on the head supposed to represent? To complicate the identification even more, the spirals on the wings have their copies positioned on the nose of the object, in the opposite direction. When the object is viewed in profile, the didsimilarity to anything from the animal kingdom is even more pronounced. If the zoomorphic explanation is supposed to hold, then why did the artist cut the head off almost three quarters from the body? And why is the nose is practically rectangular and the cut tilted forward, with eyes positioned at either side, when fish eyes are usually more near the center of bodyline and far forward on the head?

What we can make of the semicircular grooves on the inside of the cut? What is it supposed to be—fishwise? And what about the scoop, forward and under the cut? It is a scoop, not just a ridge for drilling a hole through to place the object on a necklace chain. Then there is another rectangular feature, positioned further back at the approximate center of gravity under the fuselage. The wings when viewed from the side are perfetly horizontal, but when seen from the front, they curve slightly downward. The elevators, which are right behind the wings, are positioned on a slightly higher horizontal level and are square-ended, thus a definite geometric shape. Above them is another rectangular shape, with a relief which may be reminiscent of knobs. The tail is equally intriguing. No fish has only a single, upright and perpendicular flange. But this tail fin has an exact shape of fins on modern airplanes. There are also some markings on the tail which are hard to identify, but it does not seem to be anything related to animals, either.

When all the features are taken into an account, the object does not look like a representation of any known animal at all, but does look astonishingly like an airplane. The photos and enlarged outline of the object has been submitted for an analysis to several people from the field of aerodynamics. One of them was Arthur Young, a designer of Bell helicopters and other aircraft. His analysis confirmed that the object contains many features which would fit the airplane hypothesis, but there were several ones which would not fit that scenario. Wings do seem to be in the wrong place—they should be further forward so that their 1/4-chord coincides with the center of gravity. The nose is not like anything on airplanes, as well. So, while the object is suggesting an airplane, some features would not seem to support this hypothesis.

But let’s entertain several possibilities. If we imagine that the separation after the windshield is not a cockpit and that the pilot and the cargo were located somewhere in the main fuselage body, then we can envision the nose as something else. Let’s assume that the nose is actually a jet. If the machine needs to slow down, the jet flow directed against the path of flight would accomplish just that. But how to redirect the jet into the opposite direction? If we envision the nose as a movable part of the plane, turning around the point located where the nose and fuselage meet, thus pivoting the nose downward to tuck it under the fuselage, that would enable the desired effect. What’s more, it will re-adjust the center of gravity and the wings would be just in the right place for a high powered flight. Another problem, though, will appear and that is the drag which would be created by the back of the nose now positioned in front. But that can be attributed to artistic license. That seems to be the case, because several other similar planes feature the back part of the nose tilted more forward, so the angle of the back of the nose when pivoted is more corresponding to aerodynamic principles.

All things considered, the object seems to represent a convertible type of craft, with two possible configurations—one for ascent when the nose is facing backwards, and the other for descent with the nose facing forward. One unsolved item remains—the spirals on the both wings and the nose. According to Amerindian iconography, these spirals have discernable meaning—they represent ascending and descending, depending on whether they are right-oriented or left-oriented, respectively. As the spirals are not only on wings but also on the nose, the meaning is fairly obvious—the wings and the nose (as much) were the features which were directly involved in ascent and descent.

There are other cultures which mention flying vehicles of some sort or another. The most known of these sources are Indian epics, especially the Mahábhárata and other Védic sources as Bhágavata Purána and Rámáyana. The flying devices were called vimánas and were extensively discussed in Vaimánika Shástra, describing multitude of machines with different purposes and capabilities.

Other source of information about flying machines may be considered, such as the Bible and some apocryphal works. The book of Ezekiel seems to be describing the close encounter of a man from a non-technological culture with a device which to him must have been miraculous. We have to put ourselves into his shoes to comprehend his astonishment and the otherworldness of his encounter. The limited scope of knowledge of the world around him, his primitive environment, dictated the language and conceptual framework with which he tried to capture his encounter for fellow tribesmen. For him it seemed that he encountered The God, with his suite of angels, because in his simple world, there was no other interpretation. It is not necessary to reach for an alien type of scenario to explain the encounter; we can entertain a possibility that a remnant of an advanced civilization was still present, in a limited scope, at the time of Ezekiel. But for some, the encounter bears uncanny similarity to the modern-day encounters with UFO’s. Another source of similar material is the Book of Enoch, particularly the Slavic version, which contains some parts which the Greek version is missing. The book not only describes flying in the air, but also through outer space, including the relativistic effects mentioned—Enoch spent several days on a spacecraft, but when he returned to Earth, several centuries had passed by.

There is no shortage of descriptions of flying machines in ancient sources. If we try to extract the core of myths of different provenience and remove the embellishments, we discover to our surprise that flying in ancient times seems to be the rule, not the exception.