Did aliens visit Orissa weeks ahead of India's Independence
April 11, 2012  13:49

No, this is not a belated April Fool joke. It's a regular news report from PTI, but something that will leave you riveted.  

 

Just a couple of months ahead of India's Independence in 1947, an UFO was reported to have landed in Odisha's Nayagrah district. Rejected as fanciful stories by many, traces of the incident buried under the pages of the country's tumultuous history during the period, have been preserved in the form oftraditional palm-leaf engravings by a local artist.   

 

Depicting the long-forgotten stories of 'yantra-purusha' (alien robot-like creatures), pieces of those rare engravings have now been published in 'The Obliterary Journal' in between its collection of comics, street art and illustration. 

 

Award-winning 'pattachitra' artist Pachanana Moharana, who runs a workshop in Puri, had made sketches of the alien visitors and their spacecraft which was claimed to have landed in a hilly area of Nayagarh on May, 31, 1947. 

 

Interestingly, only a month later this incident, a mysterious crash was famously reported near Roswell, New Mexico. In the most well-publicised and most controversial of all "UFO sightings" anywhere in the world, the US Air Force had once claimed to have captured a flying saucer from the spot but contradicted it later on. 

 

Moharana's art works are said to be based on the first-hand accounts of two young people who were invited into the spacecraft and given a sort of tour.

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