Antigravity - Space & Energy Technologies for the 21st Century by Theodore C. Loder, PhD

This paper reviews the development of antigravity research in the US and notes how research activity seemed to disappear by the mid-1950s. It then addresses recently reported scientific findings and witness testimonies — that show us that this research and technology is alive and well and very advanced. The revelations of findings in this area will alter dramatically our 20th century view of physics and technology and must be considered in planning for both energy and transportation needs in the 21st century.

Historical Background
Townsend Brown's Technology of Electrogravitics[1]

In the mid 1920s, Townsend Brown[2] discovered that electric charge and gravitational mass are coupled. He found that when he charged a capacitor to a high voltage, it had a tendency to move toward its positive pole. This became known as the Biefeld-Brown effect. His findings were opposed by conventionally minded physicists of his time.

The Pearl Harbor Demonstration. Around 1953, Brown conducted a demonstration for military top brass. He flew a pair of 3-foot-diameter discs around a 50-foot course tethered to a central pole. Energized with 150,000 volts and emitting ions from their leading edge, they attained speeds of several hundred miles per hour. The subject was thereafter classified.

Project Winterhaven. Brown submitted a proposal to the Pentagon for the development of a Mach 3 disc-shaped electrogravitic fighter craft. Drawings of its basic design are shown in one of his patents. They are essentially large-scale versions of his tethered test discs.

Review of Issues From the 1950s

Once Brown's findings became well known, some scientists began to openly speak about the flying technology of UFOs, which had been observed extensively since the 1940s.

None other than Professor Hermann Oberth, considered by some to be one of the fathers of the space age (and who later worked in the US with Wernher von Braun, the Army Ballistic Missile Agency and NASA), stated the following in 1954:[3] "It is my thesis that flying saucers are real and that they are space ships from another solar system."

Perhaps of more interest to our present discussion on propulsion, he then stated:

They are flying by the means of artificial fields of gravity. . . . They produce high-tension electric charges in order to push the air out of their paths, so it does not start glowing, and strong magnetic fields to influence the ionized air at higher altitudes. First, this would explain their luminosity . . . Secondly, it would explain the noiselessness of UFO flight.

We now know that he was fundamentally correct in his assessment.

In 1956, a British research company, Aviation Studies (International) Ltd. published a classified report on Electrogravitics Systems examining various aspects of gravity control. They summarized the pioneering work of Townsend Brown, and then described the use of electrogravitic thrust as follows:

The essence of electrogravitics thrust is the use of a very strong positive charge on one side of the vehicle and a negative on the other. The core of the motor is a condenser, and the ability of the condenser to hold its charge (the K-number) is the yardstick of performance. With air as 1, current dielectrical materials can yield 6 (and use of barium aluminate can raise this considerably); barium titanium oxide (a baked ceramic) can offer 6,000, and there is a promise of 30,000, which would be sufficient for supersonic speed."[4]

In one of their conclusions, based on Brown's work, Aviation Studies suggested: "Electrostatic energy sufficient to produce a Mach 3 fighter is possible with megavolt energies and a k of over 10,000."[5]

In spite of Brown's solid research, they later stated: "One of the difficulties in 1954 and 1955 was to get aviation to take electrogravitics seriously. The name alone was enough to put people off."[6] It seems that this is as true today as it was in the 1950s.

A 1956 report by another British company, Gravity Rand, Ltd., agrees with this assessment and states: "To assert electrogravitics is nonsense is as unreal as to say it is practically extant. Management should be careful of men in their employ with a closed mind or even partially closed mind on the subject."[7]

However, a trade press magazine, the Aviation Report, has made numerous references to antigravity projects, and listed many of the companies pursuing research in this area. Quotes from the Aviation Report listed in the Aviation Studies (International) Ltd. report[8] are suggestive of what was going on behind the scenes.

In 1954, they predicted: ". . . progress has been slow. But indications are now that the Pentagon is ready to sponsor a range of devices to help further knowledge," and "Tentative targets now being set anticipate that the first disk should be complete before 1960, and it would take the whole of the 'sixties to develop it properly, even though some combat things might be available ten years from now." (Aviation Report 12 October 1954)[9]

During this time period many of the major defense and technology companies were cited as either having research projects or activities in this new field. For example: "Companies studying the implications of gravitics are said, in a new statement, to include Glenn Martin, Convair, Sperry-Rand, Sikorsky, Bell, Lear Inc., and Clark Electronics. Other companies who have previously evinced interest include Lockheed, Douglas, and Hiller." (Aviation Report 9 December 1955)[10].

Others of these reports mention AT&T, General Electric, Curtiss-Wright, Boeing, and North American as having groups studying electrogravitics.

During the same time period, the Gravity Rand report notes: "Already, companies are specializing in evolution of particular components of an electogravitics disk."[11]

However, in the area of predictions, the Aviation Report stated the following based on an extrapolation of technology development: "Thus this century will be divided into two parts — almost to the day. The first half belonged to the Wright Brothers who foresaw nearly all the basic issues in which gravity was the bitter foe. In part of the second half, gravity will be the great provider. Electrical energy, rather irrelevant for propulsion in the first half becomes a kind of catalyst to motion in the second half of the century." (Aviation Report 7 September 1954).[12]

Looking back, it is easy to say that they missed the mark. But did they really miss it by a half a century? Reading through these reports it is quite obvious that there was much interest in antigravity among a number of very high-profile companies, as well as in the Department of Defense. What happened to this interest and why was it all downplayed during the following four plus decades? After all, T. Brown had shown that there was a demonstrable connection between high voltage fields and gravity. Why has it taken until the 1990s for more than just a few scientists to look at these results and publish on them in the open literature? A review of recent statements by former military personnel and civilians connected to covert projects begins to shed light on research activity in these areas over the last half century. And it appears that there had been significant breakthroughs during this time period, well shielded from both the scientific and public eye.

Recent Scientific Developments

In this section we consider developments in the antigravity field since the late 1980s and why the confluence of scientific findings and the testimony of witnesses associated with the military and covert groups indicates that a gravity solution with technological implications has been found.

Although general relativity has not been able to explain Brown's electrogravitic observations, or any other antigravity phenomenon, the recent physics methodology of quantum electrodynamics (QED), appears to offer the theoretical framework to explain electrogravitic coupling. Recent papers by members of the Institute for Advanced Study Alpha Foundation are putting a solid theoretical foundation onto the antigravity effects within the theory of electrodynamics and include papers by Evans[13] and Anastasozki et al.[14]

Earlier, in a 1994 breakthrough paper, Alcubierre showed that superluminal space travel is, in principle, physically possible and will not violate the tenets of the theory of relativity.[15] Puthoff later analyzed these findings in light of the present SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) paradigms that insist that we could not be visited by extraterrestrial civilizations because of the speed-of-light limitations dictated by the general relativity theory.[16] He suggests that super-luminal travel is indeed possible. This leads to reduced-time interstellar travel and the possibility of extraterrestrial visitation, which our limited understanding of physics and our scientific arrogance have "forbidden" in some sectors for most of the 20th century.

The second aspect of these physics findings deals with the zero-point or vacuum-state energy shown by the Casimir effect, which predicts that two metal plates close together attract each other due to imbalance in the quantum fluctuations. The implications of this zero-point or vacuum-state energy are tremendous and are described in several papers by Puthoff starting during the late 1980s.[17] A detailed bibliography on this and similar topics is available on the Internet.[18]

Bearden and colleagues have also written extensively on the theoretical physics of zero-point energy, and additionally have described various technological means of extracting this energy[19] (for example, see the recent paper by Anastasozki et al.[20]). A theoretical book on zero-point energy by Bearden will soon be available.[21] There is significant evidence that scientists since Tesla have known about this energy, but that its existence and potential use have been discouraged and indeed suppressed over the past half century or more.[22]

The coupling of the electrogravitic phenomena observations and the zero-point energy findings are leading to a new understanding of the nature of both matter and gravity. This is just now being discussed in scientific journals (though some evidence suggests that it has been understood for decades within the Black Project covert community). The question that is being addressed is: What keeps the universe running? Or, more specifically, Where do electrons get their energy to keep spinning around atoms? As electrons change state they absorb or release energy, and where does it come from? The simplistic answer is that it is coming from the vacuum state.

Puthoff describes the process as follows:

I discovered that you can consider the electron as continually radiating away its energy as predicted by classical theory, but SIMULTANEOUSLY ABSORBING a COMPENSATING AMOUNT of energy from the ever-present sea of zero-point energy in which the atom is immersed. An equilibrium between these two processes leads to the correct values for the parameters that define the lowest energy, or ground-state orbit [see "Why atoms don't collapse," New Scientist, July 1987]. Thus, there is a DYNAMIC EQUILIBRIUM in which the zero-point energy stabilizes the electron in a set ground-state orbit. It seems that the very stability of matter itself appears to depend on an underlying sea of electromagnetic zero-point energy.[23]

Furthermore, it appears that it is the spinning of electrons that provides inertia and mass to atoms. These theories, linking electron spin, zero-point energy, mass, and inertia have been presented in a number of recent papers, such as those by Haisch and colleagues, and provide us with a possible explanation of the Biefield-Brown effect.[24] It appears that an intense voltage field creates an electromagnetic barrier that blocks the atomic structure of an atom from interacting with the zero-point field. This slows down the electrons, reducing their gyroscopic effect, and thus reducing atomic mass and inertia, making them easier to move around.

Evidence of Extensive Antigravity Technology

The B-2 Advanced Technology Bomber

In 1993, LaViolette wrote a paper discussing the B-2 bomber and speculating on its probable antigravity propulsion system,[25] based on a solid understanding of electrogravitics, the aircraft's design, and the materials used in its manufacture.[26] It appears that the craft is using a sophisticated form of the antigravity principles first described by T. Brown.

Support for this thesis came from Aviation Week and Space Technology (March 9, 1992), which reported that the B-2 bomber electrostatically charges its leading edge and its exhaust stream. Their information had come from a small group of former Black Project research scientists and engineers suggesting that the B-2 utilizes antigravity technology. This information was supported by Bob Oechsler, an ex-NASA mission specialist who had publicly made a similar claim in 1990. These findings support the contention that there have been major developments in the area of antigravity propulsion which are presently being applied in advanced aircraft.

LaViolette later states the obvious: "The commercial airline industry could dramatically benefit with this technology, which would not only substantially increase the miles-per-gallon fuel efficiency of jet airliners, but would also permit high-speed flight that would dramatically cut flight time."[27]

The Disclosure Project Witnesses

On May 9, 2001, The Disclosure Project[28] held a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. They presented nearly two dozen witnesses, including retired Army, Navy, and Air Force personnel, a top FAA official, members of various intelligence organizations including the CIA and NRO (National Reconnaissance Organization), and industry personnel, all of whom who had witnessed UFO events or had inside knowledge of government or industrial activities in this area. They also produced a briefing document for members of the press and Congress,[29] and a book which includes the testimony of nearly 70 such witnesses from a pool of hundreds.[30] Although they all spoke of the reality of the UFO phenomena, many also spoke of covert projects dealing with antigravity, zero-point energy technologies, and development of alien reproduction vehicles (ARV's) by US Black Project and covert interests. The following excerpted quotes from these witnesses support the contentions in this article.

Dan Morris

Morris is a retired Air Force career Master Sergeant who was involved in the extraterrestrial projects for many years.[31] After leaving the Air Force, he was recruited into the super-secret NRO, during which time he worked specifically on extraterrestrial-connected operations. He had a cosmic top-secret clearance (38 levels above top secret) which, he stated, no US president, to his knowledge, has ever held.

UFOs are both extraterrestrial and man made. Well, the guys that were doing the UFOs, they weren't sleeping, and Townsend Brown was one of our guys who was almost up with the Germans. So we had a problem. We had to keep Townsend Brown — what he was doing on antigravity electromagnetic propulsion — secret.

Morris then describes a type of zero-point energy device.

Well, if you have one of these units that's about sixteen inches long and about eight inches high and about ten inches wide, then you don't need to plug into the local electric company. These devices burn nothing. No pollution. It never wears out, because there are no moving parts. What moves are electrons, in the gravity field, in the electronic field, and they turn in opposite directions, okay?

"Dr. B."

Dr. B.'s name was withheld because he still works in this area. He is a scientist and engineer who has worked on top-secret projects almost all his life. Over the years he has directly worked on or had involvement with top-secret projects involving antigravity, chemical warfare, secure telemetry and communications, extremely high-energy space-based laser systems, and electromagnetic pulse technology. He testified:

Anti-gravity. As a matter of fact, I used to go out to the Hughes in Malibu. They had a big think tank up there. Big antigravity projects; I used to talk to them out there. I'd give them ideas, because they bought all my equipment. But the American public will never, never hear about that. . . . This flying disc has a little plutonium reactor in it, which creates electricity, which drives these antigravity plates. We also have the next level of propulsion, it is called virtual field, which are called hydrodynamic waves.[32]

Captain Bill Uhouse

Captain Uhouse served ten years in the Marine Corps as a fighter pilot, and four years with the Air Force at Wright-Patterson AFB as a civilian doing flight-testing of exotic experimental aircraft.[1] Later, for the next 30 years, he worked for defense contractors as an engineer of antigravity propulsion systems — on flight simulators for exotic aircraft, and on actual flying discs.[33]

I don't think any flying disc simulators went into operation until the early 1960s — around 1962 or 1963. The reason why I am saying this is because the simulator wasn't actually functional until around 1958. The simulator that they used was for the extraterrestrial craft they had, which is a 30-meter one that crashed in Kingman, Arizona, back in 1953 or 1952.

. . . We operated it with six large capacitors that were charged with a million volts each, so there were six million volts in those capacitors. . . . There weren't any windows. The only way we had any visibility at all was done with cameras or video-type devices. . . . Over the last 40 years or so, not counting the simulators — I'm talking about actual craft — there are probably two or three dozen, and various sizes that we built.

A.H.

A.H., formally of Boeing Aerospace, is a person who has gained significant information from inside the UFO extraterrestrial groups within our government, military, and civilian companies.[34] He has friends at the NSA, CIA, NASA, JPL, ONI, NRO, Area 51, the Air Force, Northrup, Boeing, and others.

Most of the craft operate on antigravity and electrogravitic propulsion. We are just about at the conclusion state right now regarding antigravity. I would give it maybe about 15 years and we will have cars that will levitate using this type of technology. We're doing it up at Area 51 right now. That's some of the stuff that my buddy worked on up at Area 51 with Northrup, who lives now in Pahrump, Nevada. We're flying antigravity vehicles up there and in Utah right now.

Lieutenant Colonel Williams

Lieutenant Williams entered the Air Force in 1964 and became a rescue helicopter pilot in Vietnam.[35] He has an electrical engineering degree and was in charge of all the construction projects for the Military Air Command. During his time in the military he knew that there was a facility inside of Norton Air Force Base in California that no one was to know about.

There was one facility at Norton Air Force Base that was close hold — not even the Wing Commander there could know what was going on. During that time period it was always rumored by the pilots that that was a cover for in fact the location of one UFO craft.

Note that all he knew was of the rumor. However, it is confirmed by the next testimony, which also confirms some of the comments made by Captain Uhouse.

Mark McCandlish

McCandlish is an accomplished aerospace illustrator and has worked for many of the top aerospace corporations in the United States.[36] A colleague with whom he studied has been inside a facility at Norton Air Force Base, where he witnessed alien reproduction vehicles, or ARVs, that were fully operational and hovering. He states that the US not only has operational antigravity propulsion devices, but that we have had them for many, many years, and that they have been developed through the study, in part, of extraterrestrial vehicles over the past fifty years.

A close friend, Brad Sorensen, told him of visiting The Big Hangar during an air show at Norton Air Force Base on November 12, 1988, and how he had seen flying saucers in this hangar.

There were three flying saucers floating off the floor — no cables suspended from the ceiling holding them up, no landing gear underneath, just floating — hovering above the floor. He said that the smallest was somewhat bell-shaped. They were all identical in shape and proportion, except that there were three different sizes. They had little exhibits, with a videotape running, showing the smallest of the three vehicles sitting out in the desert, presumably over a dry lakebed, some place like Area 51. It showed this vehicle making three little quick, hopping motions; then [it] accelerated straight up and out of sight, completely disappearing from view in just a couple of seconds — no sound, no sonic boom-nothing.

. . . Well, this craft was what they called the Alien Reproduction Vehicle; it was also nicknamed the Flux Liner. This antigravity propulsion system — this flying saucer — was one of three that were in this hangar at Norton Air Force Base. [Its] synthetic vision system [used] the same kind of technology as the gun slaving system they have in the Apache helicopter: if [the pilot] wants to look behind him, he can pick a view in that direction, and the cameras slew in pairs. [The pilot] has a little screen in front of his helmet, and it gives him an alternating view. He [also] has a little set of glasses that he wears — in fact, you can actually buy a 3-D viewing system for your video camera now that does this same thing — so when he looks around, he has a perfect 3-D view of the outside, but no windows. So, why do they have no windows? Well, it's probably because the voltages that we're talking about [being] used in this system were probably something between, say, half a million and a million volts of electricity.

Brad Sorensen stated that at the ARV display, "a three star general said that these vehicles were capable of doing light speed or better."

These witness testimonies do not prove the existence of a successful US covert program in antigravity technologies. Only the demonstration of such craft, coupled with the accompanying government and technical specification documents, would prove this. However, these testimonies, coupled with information from other substantial sources such as Nick Cook's new book mentioned below, strongly supports this contention.

The Hunt for Zero Point

This very recent book (August, 2001), which just became available in the US, contains some of the strongest evidence yet for major efforts and success in the field of antigravity technology.[37] The author, Nick Cook, who for the past 15 years has been the aviation editor and aerospace consultant for Jane's Defense Weekly, spent the last 10 years collecting information for the book. This included archival research on Nazi Germany's antigravity technology and interviews with top officials at NASA, the Pentagon, and secret defense installations. He shows that America has cracked the gravity code and classified the information at the highest security levels.

Because antigravity and its allied zero-point energy technologies potentially offer the world a future of unlimited, non-polluting energy it has been suppressed because of the "huge economic threat." His findings support those reported by many of the Disclosure Project witnesses cited above.

Antigravity Technology Demonstrations

Although T. Brown reported many of his findings nearly a half century ago, other experimenters have just recently begun to reproduce his work and report it in the open literature and on the worldwide web. For example, Davenport published the results of his work in 1995 supporting the findings of T. Brown.[38] More recently, Transdimensional Technologies in the USA[39] and J. Naudin[40] labs in France have posted diagrams, web videos, and data on their versions of antigravity "Lifters" based on an extension of Brown's work.

It is a sad commentary on this whole area of research to see that public science is requiring us to demonstrate principles that were demonstrated nearly fifty years ago.

There have also been a number of other demonstrations of antigravity phenomena by researchers throughout the world. This includes the work of Brazilian physics professor Fran De Aquino, and such devices as the Searl Electrogravity Disc, the Podkletnov Gravity Shield and Project Greenglow, the Zinsser Kineto-baric Field Propulsion, and the Woodward Field Thrust Experiments on Piezoelectrics. All of these are described in more detail by Greer and Loder.[41]

Implications of This Research

Antigravity and zero point energy research and their applications are finally being addressed by some of the open scientific community. This means there will have to be a rewriting of textbooks in this area so our new generation of students can apply this "new knowledge." Its application will lead to major breakthroughs in transportation technologies both earthside and in outer space. The implications are that we have the potential for human exploration of our solar system and beyond, if we have the will, within our lifetimes. It also means that the majority of 20th century space technology will be obsolete and in fact may already be so.

The zero point or vacuum state energy source is seen as a totally non-polluting energy source, which has the potential to replace all the fossil fuels on this planet. It also will provide the energy needed for long range space flights. This means that fuel cells and solar cells in common use today for space flight energy applications will only be needed until we transition to these new energy technologies.

Based on an analysis of trends in antigravity research over the last half-century and the information provided by numerous witnesses, it appears that there is both good and bad news. The good news is that it appears that we (at least covert projects) have already developed the theories of antigravity, and additionally have developed working spacecraft based on these principles. The bad news is that these technologies have been developed for at least several decades, at the public's expense and that human kind has been deprived of these technologies, while continuing to waste energy using less efficient and pollution enhancing technologies.

Supporting this contention is the following quote from Ben Rich, former head of the Lockheed Skunkworks. Just prior to his death, he stated to a small group after a lecture: "We already have the means to travel among the stars, but these technologies are locked up in black projects and it would take an act of God to ever get them out to benefit humanity..." He went on to say, "Anything you can imagine we already know how to do." Strong words from a knowledgeable deep insider and words that support what a number of the witnesses stated as well.

As the reality of this knowledge begins to be understood, there will be an outcry among space scientists not on the inside for release of these technologies to allow all of us to explore space. There will be major changes in the way that NASA does its business, though predicting these changes is difficult.

Not only has space exploration in the public sector suffered, but our planet's environment has suffered as well. Thus as this knowledge begins to sink in there will be an outcry among all concerned citizens on this planet for release of these technologies to allow all of us to reduce and ultimately eliminate global warming and environmental pollution that so threatens our way of life. These technologies will not only affect space travel technologies, but will also have a profound effect on transportation and energy production on the earth's surface.

In Conclusion

To summarize this discussion, we might consider the observation made by Halton Arp:

We are certainly not at the end of science. . . . Most probably we are just at the beginning![42]

Dr. Theodore C. Loder is a professor of estuarine/coastal chemistry at the University of New Hampshire. Outside the realm of bringing free energy and the new physics to our technology, his main interests are in the chemical oceanography of the coastal region. At present, he has several students working with him in this area, all of whose master's theses are concerned with multidisciplinary projects representing efforts of scientists from at least eight different institutions. His email address is Ted.Loder@unh.edu.

Dr. Loder wishes to acknowledge his debt to others "for many discussions while preparing and writing this paper, including: S. Greer, A. Craddock, T. Bearden, P. LaViolette, M. McCandlish, D. Hamilton, T. Valone, E. Mallove, T. Loder, C. Loder, S. Patel, and many of the courageous Disclosure Project witnesses."