Suppressed Inventions and Other Discoveries (46 page)

And what might these results be? The logic behind any institution seems be self-perpetuation, and it comes as no surprise that the institutions charged with managing UFO and extraterrestrial information are tasked with a virtual information hot potato. Despite the supposed existence of an alien culture making its presence known and felt, our dominant terrestrial institutions would make it appear as though we are alone in an otherwise lifeless universe. It would not be presumptuous to assume that there has in fact been some sort of bargain or treaty negotiated between the alien visitors and the major Earth powers to perpetuate this appearance. Such a pact might allow the present power hierarchies to continue to operate (with some new limitations and guidelines, of course) while at the same time essentially doing the work they've been assigned. It seems incredible that the fate of all beings of earth may already have been decided without our knowledge or consent, due to the censorship and top secret classification of sensitive information.

Stanton Friedman, UFO researcher and nuclear physicist, has publicly stated that "whoever controls alien technology rules the world." While there is abundant evidence that the U.S. government has had access to some alien technology for several decades, there is no doubt that the ones who really control alien technology are the aliens themselves. Regardless of this, much time and effort has gone into the research and development of these same innovations right here on earth. T. Townsend Brown was succeeding with his antigravity work in the 1940s and 1950s and, in fact, experimentation of this sort has been ongoing for at least seventy years. Indeed, there are many serious researchers who now believe that the U.S. moon landing program was accomplished with the aid of antigravity machines, and there is more than a little reason to believe them. (The lack of a blast-off exhaust from the lunar lander on Apollo 11, for example, is one intriguing bit of evidence for this assertion.) Yet it is only recently that the news of a successful antigravity breakthrough is being allowed to be published in mainstream physics journals.

UFO research is big news these days, and the news is coming fast and thick. I have chosen some of the most revealing stories I have been able to find to illustrate the extent of the cover-up of information concerning UFOs and the principles on which they operate. Avoidance and outright denial have made it possible for our governments to hide the truth thus far. It is interesting to speculate how this knowledge, made public, is likely to alter our perspective.

Breakthrough
as Boffins Beat
Gravity

Scientists in Finland are about to reveal details of the world's first antigravity device. Measuring about 30 cm across, it is said to reduce significantly the weight of anything suspended over it.

The claim—which has been rigorously examined by scientists and is due to appear this month in a physics journal—could spark a technological revolution. By combating gravity—the most ubiquitous force in the universe— everything from transport to power generation, could be transformed.

NASA, the United States space agency, is taking the claims seriously and is financing research into how the antigravity effect could be turned into a means of flight.

The researchers at the Tampere University of Technology in Finland, who discovered the effect, say it could form the heart of a new power source in which it is used to drive fluids past electricity-generating turbines.

Other uses seem limited only by the imagination:

• Lifts in buildings could be replaced by devices built into the ground. People wanting to go up would simply activate the antigravity device— making themselves weightless—and with a gentle push ascend to the floor they want.

• Space travel would become routine, as all the expense and danger of rocket technology is geared towards combating the Earth's gravitational pull.

• By using the devices to raise fluids against gravity and then conventional gravity to pull them back to Earth against electricity-generated turbines, the devices could also revolutionize power generation.

According to Dr. Eugene Podkletnov, who led the research, the discovery was accidental.

FromtheNewZealandStarTimes,September22,1996
It emerged during routine work on so-called "superconductivity," the ability of some materials to lose their electrical resistance at low temperatures.

The team was carrying out tests on a rapidly spinning disc of superconducting ceramic suspended in the magnetic field of three electrical coils, all enclosed in a low-temperature vessel called a cryostat.

"One of my friends came in and he was smoking his pipe," said Dr. Podkletnov. "He put some smoke over the cryostat and we saw that the smoke was going to the ceiling all the time. It was amazing—we couldn't explain it."

Tests showed a small drop in the weight of objects placed above the device, as if it were shielding the object from the effects of gravity—an effect deemed impossible by most scientists.

The team found that even the air pressure above the device dropped slightly, with the effect detectable directly above the device on every floor above the laboratory.

What makes this claim different from previous "antigravity" devices scorned by the establishment is that it has survived intense scrutiny by skeptical, independent experts and has been accepted for publication by the Journal of Physics-D: Applied Physics, published by Britain's Institute of Physics.

Even so, most scientists will not feel comfortable with the idea of antigravity until other teams repeat the experiments.
The Finnish team is already expanding its programme to see if it can amplify the antigravity effect.
In its latest experiments, the team has measured a 2-percent drop in the weight of objects suspended over the device—and double that if one device is suspended over another.
If the team can increase the effect substantially, the commercial implications are enormous.

Antigravity on
the Rocks:
The T. T. Brown
Story

Jeane Manning

T. Townsend Brown was jubilant when he returned from France in 1956. The soft-spoken scientist had a solid clue which could lead to fuelless space travel. His saucer-shaped discs flew at speeds of up to several hundred miles per hour, with no moving parts. One thing he was certain of— the phenomena should be investigated by the best scientific institutions. Surely now the science establishment would admit that he really had something. Although the tall, lean physicist—handsome, in a gangly way—was a humble man, even shy, he confidently took his good news to a top-ranking officer he knew in Washington, D.C.

"The experiments in Paris proved that the anomalous motion of my disc airfoils was not all caused by ion wind." The listener would hear Brown's every word, because he took his time in getting words out. "They conclusively proved that the apparatus works even in high vacuum. Here's the documentation ..."

Anomalous means unusual—a discovery which does not fit into the current box of acknowledged science. In this case, the anomaly revealed a connection between electricity and gravity.

That year Interavia magazine reported that Brown's discs reached speeds of several hundred miles per hour when charged with several hundred thousand volts of electricity. A wire running along the leading edge of each disc charged that side with high positive voltage, and the trailing edge was wired for an opposite charge. The high voltage ionized air around them, and a cloud of positive ions formed ahead of the craft and a cloud of negative ions behind. The apparatus was pulled along by its selfgenerated gravity field, like a surfer riding a wave. Fate magazine writer Gaston Burridge in 1958 also described Brown's metal discs, some up to 30 inches in diameter by that time. Because they needed a wire to supply electric charges, the discs were tethered by a wire to a Maypole-like mast. The double-saucer objects circled t he pole with a slight humming sound. "In the dart they glow with an eerie lavender light."

Instead of congratulations on the French test results, at the Pentagon he again ran into closed doors. Even his former classmate from officers' candidates school, Admiral Hyman Rickover, discouraged Brown from continuing to explore the dogma-shattering discovery that the force of gravity could be tweaked or even blanked out by the electrical force.

"Townsend, I'm going to do you a favor and tell you: Don't take this work any further. Drop it."
Was this advice given to Brown by a highly-placed friend who knew that the United States military was already exploring electrogravitics? (Recent sleuthing by American scientist, Dr. Paul La Violette, uncovers a paper trail which leads from Brown's early work, toward secret research by the military and eventually points to "Black Project" air craft.)

HARASSMENT

Were the repeated break-ins into Brown's laboratory meant to discourage him from pursuing his line of research?

Brown didn't quit, although by that time he and his family had spent nearly $250,000 of their own money on research. He had already put in more than thirty years seeking scientific explanations for the strange phenomena he witnessed in the laboratory. He earlier called it electrogravitics, but later in his life, trying to get acknowledgement from establishment scientists, he stopped using the word "electrogravitics" and instead used the more acceptable scientific terminology "stress in dielectrics."

No matter what his day job, the obsessed researcher experimented in his home laboratory in his spare time. Above all he wanted to know "Why is this happening?" He was convinced that the coupling of the two forces —electricity and gravity—could be put to practical use.

An arrogant academia ignored his findings. Given the cold-shoulder treatment by the science establishment, Brown spent family savings and even personal food money on laboratory supplies. Perhaps he would not have had the heart to continue his lonely research if he had known in 1956 that nearly thirty more years of hard work were ahead of him. He died in 1985 with the frustration of having his findings still unaccepted.

The last half of his career involved new twists. Instead of electrogravitics, at the end of his life he was demonstrating "gravitoelectrics" and "petrovoltaics"—electricity from rocks. Brown's many patents and findings ranged from an electrostatic motor to unusual high-fidelity speakers and electrostatic cooling, to lighter-than-air materials and advanced dielectrics. His name should be recognized by students of science, but instead it has dropped into obscurity.

Too late to comfort him, some leading-edge scientists of the mid-1990s are now resurrecting Brown's papers. Or what they can find of his papers. EXTRAORDINARY CURIOSITY

Thomas Townsend Brown was born March 18, 1905, to a prominent Zanesville, Ohio, family. The usual child-like "Why?" questions came from young Townsend with extraordinary intensity. For example, his question "Why do the (high voltage) electric wires sing?" led him later in life to an invention.

His discovery of electrogravitics, on the other hand, came through an intuition. As a sixteen-year-old, Townsend Brown had a hunch that the then-famous Coolidge X-ray tube might give a clue to spaceflight technology. His tests, to find a force in the rays themselves which would move mass, lead to a dead end. But in the meantime the observant experimenter noticed that high voltages applied to the tube itself caused a very slight motion.

Excited, he worked on increasing the effect. Before he graduated from high school, he had an instrument he called a gravitator. "Wow," the teenager may have thought. "Antigravity may be possible!" World-changing technological discoveries start with someone noticing a small effect and then amplifying it.

Unsure of what to do next, the next year he started college at California Institute of Technology. Even then his sensitivity was evident, because he saw the wisdom of going forward cautiously—first gaining respect from his professors instead of prematurely bragging about his discovery of a new electrical principle. He was respected as a promising student and an excellent laboratory worker, but when he did tell his teachers about his discovery they were not interested. He left school and joined the Navy.

Next he tried Kenyon College in Ohio. Again, no scientist would take his discovery seriously. It went against what the professors had been taught; therefore it could not be.

He finally found help at Dennison University in Gambier, Ohio. Townsend met Professor of physics and astronomy Paul Alfred Biefeld, Ph.D., who was from Zurich, Switzerland and had been a classmate of Albert Einstein. Biefeld encouraged Brown to experiment further, and together they developed the principle which is known in the unorthodox scientific literature as the Biefeld-Brown Effect. It concerned the same notion which the teenager had seen on his Coolidge tube—a highly charged electrical condenser moves toward its positive pole and away from its negative pole. Brown's gravitator measured weight losses of up to one percent. (In 1974 researcher Oliver Nichelson pointed out to Brown that before 1918, Professor Francis E. Nipher of St. Louis discovered gravitational propulsion by electrically charging lead balls, so the BrownBlefeld Effect could more properly be called the Nipher Effect. However,

Brown deserves credit for his sixty years of experimentation and developing further aspects of the principle.)

Brown's 1929 article for the publication Science and Inventions was titled bluntly, "How I Control Gravity." The science establishment still turned its back. By then he had graduated from the university, married, and was working under Professor Biefeld at Swazey Observatory.

His career in the early 1930s also included a post at the Naval Research Lab in Washington, D.C.; staff physicist Gravity Expedition to the West Indies; Smithsonian Deep Sea Expedition; and soil engineer for a federal agency and administrator with the Federal Communications Commission.

As his country's war effort escalated, he became a Lieutenant in the Navy Reserve and moved to Maryland as a materials engineer for the Martin aircraft company. Brown was then called into the Navy Bureau of Ships. He worked on how to degauss (erase magnetism from) ships to protect them from magnetic-fuse mines, and his magnetic minefield detector saved many sailors' lives.
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