Case file · Folklore / legend
Vimanas at the Indian Science Congress
On 4 January 2015 a paper at the 102nd Indian Science Congress in Mumbai claimed that ancient Indian vimanas could fly between planets, citing the Vaimanika Shastra.
2015 CE · 18.97, 72.83 · status: claim
The sceptical view
Scientists, including Nobel laureate Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, criticised the session; the source text is a 20th-century work.