FLYING MACHINES
Genesis II discussed the launch tower people tried to build in Babylon. They said:“Let us make us a Shem, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the earth” (verse 2).
But Yaweh “came down,” got upset and said if they succeed in building their shem “nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do” (V.6). So Yahweh says “Let us go down, and there confound their language.” Then he scattered them abroad, across the face of the earth. Yahweh, here, acts as an inhibitor of human potential, not as a supportive god.
The Bible mentions space craft in relation to Jacob seeing angles ascend and descend, Elijah going to heaven in a flaming chariot, Ezekiel’s wheels, Enoch’s “translation” and Jesus, Moses and Elijah being beamed up as light. In the Quran Enoch is named Idiys.
And mention Idiys in the Book…
And we raised him to an elevated State.
-- Quran 19:56, 57
O Jesus, I will take you and raise you up to me.
-- Quran 3:54
Jesus and Enoch are two scriptural figures who were given space flight. Literature such as the two books of Enoch provide details of his space flight.  One book says God gave Enoch “the 70 names” and  the angels had to bow to him. God didn’t trust the angels because a rebellion was under way.
That is very similar to the Quran.  In 2:30-33 God makes Adam ruler of Earth.  Some angels (Anunnaki) are shocked. So Allah teaches  Adam “all the names” and after Adam tells the angels their names, God says:  “Didn’t I tell  you I know what is hidden in the asteroid belts and the earth? And I know what you manifest and what you hide.” At that point they are commanded to bow down to Adam. These “names” appear to be similar to the Sumerian Me’s (computer crystals).
The Indian scriptures call the divas’ flying machines Vimanas. The Anunnaki space craft  travelled with a crew of 50. Egyptian texts indicate that Ausar’s Boat flew through the Sirius system with “50 oarsmen.”  Ra, Seker, Tehuti and Heru also piloted space craft.
And made ships for you …
--  Quran 43:12
Allah should come to them in the
Shadows of clouds with angels.
--  Quran 2:210

In Sumer, Shamash (often drawn with an eagle’s head) was the chief astronaut.  In Egypt that position was held by Heru (drawn with a falcon’s head).  The bird heads symbolized their airforce functions.
Abraham said, “surely Allah comes with
Shams (i.e., Shamash) from the east.
So you came with her from the west.
   --  Quran 2:258
When (Moses) saw a Naar, he said to his family:  “Stay, I see a Naar.  Perhaps I may bring to you from it a live coal or find guidance upon the Naar.”
So when he came to it a voice came:  “O Moses, surely I am your Lord, so take off your shoes. Surely you are in the sacred valley Tuwa.”
-- Quran 20: 10-12
If Naar is translated “fire,” the passage makes no sense. How could Moses find guidance “Upon the fire?” How could God’s voice come out of a fire. But when Naar is understood as a spaceship, it all makes perfect sense.
A similar passage sheds more light. When Moses said to his family:
“Surely I see a Naar.  I will bring you information from it or bring you a burning brand so that you can warm yourselves."
So when he came to it, a voice issued, saying:
Blessed is He who is in the Naar and those who are around it.  And glory be to Allah the Lord of the Worlds.  O Moses, surely I am Allah the mighty, the Wise.
-- Quran 27:7-9
Here Moses seeks information, news from the Naar.  And “blessed is he who is in the Naar.”  Muhammad Ali mistranslates it:  “who is in search of fire.” The Arabic has no in search of. Those words are the translator’s invention.
Quran 28:29-30 has a similar report, only there Moses sees the Naar “on the side of the mountain.”
The beings on the Elevated Places in Quran 7:46-48 refers to Igigi, orbiting Anunnaki who know people by their “marks.” The word “marks” is from the same root as “Shem.”
To be continued …

Amir Fatir has studied the Quran since 1969.  After teaching himself to read Arabic in 1976 he was surprised to find that many passages of the Quran corroborated the theories exposed by scholars who held that earth had once been colonized by ancient astronauts. Amir is a student of many ancient spiritual traditions including Egyptian, Sumerian, Yogic and Taoist systems.  He is a novelist and social commentator.  http://amirfatir.tripod.com. He can be reached at amirfatir@go.com