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Science tells us one thing: these artifacts put the lie to all the scientific theories. Take man's earliest records - the cave paintings. Scientists assert that the great saurians were extinct long before man arrived on the scene. Yet cave paintings have been found depicting dinosaurs. Other cliff carvings in the south-west show men hurling weapons at gigantic creatures that look like a ne eS Captain Mallery created a stir when he first revealed his work with the Piri Re'is maps on a broadcast from Georgetown University in 1956. He dared to suggest that the maps may have been the product of an aerial survey. Professor Hapgood was more cautious, however, and merely implied they were the work of some lost seafaring culture. The aerial survey hypothesis would have necessarily been dependent upon a highly advanced technological society. Not only would flying machines have been required, but photography would also be needed for such a survey. Did the Elders have cameras, too? A mere forty-seven thousand years ago somebody carved an intriguing picture on the side of the Hunan Mountains in China. A picture of cylinders in the sky with strange beings standing on them. Russian and Chinese archaeologists could date it. but they couldn't explain it Nor could they explain the drawing they found carved in a cliff at Fergana in Central Asia in 1961. A Reuters dispatch described it as resembling a man wearing an ‘airtight helmet’ with some kind of mechanical contraption on his back. It has been dated at 7000 B.c. Other peculiar cave and cliff carvings have been found in South America, Japan, and the Sahara Desert. Some of these pictures show giants with round heads towering over ordinary hunters. Others depict circular objects with, odd creatures coming out of them. These drawings were apparent; attempts to record highly unusual and significant events, but today they are open to all kinds of interpretation and speculation. Scattered throughout France there are many ancient caverns heavily decorated with carvings and paintings dating back ten to thirty thousand years. More than two thousand animals are depicted, including 610 horses, 510 bison, 205 mammoths, and 176 ibex, according to a study published by H. Breuil in 1952. Alongside this impressive menagerie there are scores of other designs which are far more mysterious. They show oval- and disk-shaped objects some apparently standing on tripod legs with ladders extending down from them. Archaeologists can't account for them, but they look uneasily like the modern descriptions of flying saucers. The leading French authority, Aime Michel, goes so far as to suggest that that is exactly what they are. Ancient records in China describe flying saucers and mysterious lights in the sky. They were usually regarded as dragons, and the early Chinese noted that these things flew regular routes year after year, century after century. Other early manuscripts preserved in India mention vimanas, ‘aerial cars", as if they were commonplace. Five thousand years ago a sage named Mahaiishi Bharadwaj wrote a thorough description of these vimanas. telling how they could move in all directions silently, cover vast distances, and even become invisible. They were supposedly propelled by 'tunes and rhythms'... perhaps a poetic way of describing the humming and whirring of intricate and little-understood machinery. In appearance they re- elephants or mammoths.