AS WE HAVE seen, anomalous aerial phenomena and even unsubstantiated reports
of anomalous aerial phenomena can have an almost uncanny ability to induce irrational gullibility in people. As we have also seen, this phenomenon has long
been noted, studied, and on occasion applied, the world over for centuries.
On Halloween Night 1938, Orson Welles produced a radio play based on H.G. Wells's War of the Worlds. Many Americans, either tuning in late or
possessing what by modern standards is an almost quaint level of naïveté, believed that it was not fiction, that invaders from Mars had actually
landed in New Jersey and were laying waste to all before them. Panic ensued. Many people fled for their lives. Others got Old Betsy down from her place over
the mantelpiece and rushed out into the yard to have at 'em. Casualties were reported.
This was not lost on the psychological warriors of the world. Ten months later, Nazi Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels spoke on the radio. He told
the German people an only slightly less outlandish tale, that not Martians, but Poles had invaded. Unlike Welles, the Nazis had actually prepared some faux
evidence. They were emboldened by the success of the Reichstag Fire, a ruse that had swept German civil rights and the last of the Nazi's internal opposition
away with one blow. The Nazis dressed up some prisoners in Polish uniforms, broadcast a violently provocative diatribe from a radio transmitter a few miles
from the Polish border, shot the place up, and left it strewn with corpses.
This stunt ultimately proved to be the single most deadly psy op in all of human history (we hope). It was called Operation Canned Meat. The German people,
who are apparently dumb as Yanks any day, fell for it hook, line, and sinker. They counterattacked clear to the gates of Moscow. Casualties were reported.
However, despite their much vaunted überbrains, the Nazis apparently lacked a grasp of arithmetic sufficient to enable them to calculate the odds of
winning the fight they started. They bit off way more than they could ever possibly chew. Once they crossed the Soviet border their fate was essentially sealed. It
was only a matter of time. One thing led to another, and by late in the war their only hope was some near-miraculous technological breakthrough on the level of
the Allies' Manhattan Project.
Then mysterious lights began to appear in the night skies over Germany. In the area between Hagenau in Alsace-Lorraine and Neustadt an der Weinstrasse
in the Rhine Valley, there were certain phenomena that oddly resemble later accounts of flying saucers. American flyers were convinced they were faced with a
new German secret weapon. They called them "Kraut balls" or, more commonly, "Foo Fighters." This meant "firefighters,"
and came from the French word for fire, feu.
A popular comic strip of the era, Smokey Stover, may have contributed some to the name. It featured, for a while, a running line, "Where there's
feu, there's fire." Years later it became the name of a pretty good band.
But that's another story.
Most experts in the field, and the majority of fliers who encountered them, considered these weird lights to be RPVs (remotely piloted vehicles) whose
purpose was to observe Allied bombers and/or interfere with their ignition systems. In some respects, though, they resembled ball lightning, artificially
generated and under control from the ground.
Of course it was not the first time ball lightning, or "Kugelblitz"
as they call it in German, was seen in the area. Ball lightning is a fairly rare but well-documented phenomenon. Artificial ball lighting can be generated
with microwaves. You can even do it in your microwave oven.
The Foo Fighters were far from the only advanced technology that the Nazis were developing when they were finally overrun. For a good introduction to
the subject I recommend you read Man-Made UFOs 1944-1994: 50 Years of Suppression by Renato Vesco and David Hatcher Childress,
ISBN 0-932813-23-2. It's a great read and very well illustrated. No examination of the postwar UFO phenomenon is complete without it. How much of it is
true, I'll leave for you to judge. The more important question is how much is missing.
After the war, Nazi scientists emigrated to America wholesale under the auspices of Project Paperclip. Project Paperclip is far too vast a topic to
adequately cover in this, or any single, column. But trust me; I will get back to it. If you can't wait, click here,
here, and/or here.
In the meantime, suffice to say the Nazi émigrés brought their expertise and their advanced technology with them, flying disks included.
They didn't all go to America. Both the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom had the ample resources – and the Nazi assistance –
needed to have been able to build and fly their own UFOs. According to the London Sunday Times,
"recently discovered" photographs taken at a secret laboratory in the 1950s show British designers also explored disk-shaped aircraft after WWII.
But the roots of man-made UFOs go far deeper than the Third Reich. A case can be made that the first modern "flying saucer" was born
of the work of pioneering American antigravity researcher T. Townsend Brown. Working in conjunction with
Dr. P. A. Biefield, Brown found that, when properly suspended, highly charged capacitors showed a tendency to move relative to the gravitational force. This
is known as the Biefeld-Brown effect.
The scientist and layman alike encounter a primary difficulty in understanding the Biefeld-Brown effect and its relation to the solution of
the flying saucer mystery.
A proper interpretation of this theory is prevented because both scientist and layman are conditioned to think in electromagnetic concepts, whereas
the Biefeld-Brown effect relates to electrogravitation.
-- Mason Rose, Ph.D., president, University for Social Research (1952), published in Science and Invention, August 1929
By all means, do read up. For a look at the Biefeld-Brown effect allegedly in action,
check out this .avi file. Personally, I think it looks more like an ionocraft device
(see below), but who knows?
Then there are the very interesting patents of Henry Wallace to consider. Wallace was an
ngineer at General Electric about 25 years ago, and developed some incredible inventions relating to the underlying physics of the gravitational field.
Yet few people have heard of him or his work. Wallace discovered that a force field, similar or related to the
gravitational field, results from the interaction of relatively moving masses. He built machines which demonstrated that this field could be generated by
spinning masses of certain materials at certain speeds.
Wallace's are by no means the only patents for gravitational negation methods, or even for gravitational negation methods based on spinning masses.
I heartily encourage all of you to pursue your own research in this area. Not only is it good practice, but it will open your eyes.
Among other things, it will reveal just what a pork-barrel boondoggle NASA's multibillion-dollar rocketry apparently is. A good place to start researching
is the Antigravity Propulsion Page. The patent list
there is by no means complete. However, I can personally guarantee
you that it will keep any serious researcher busy for quite a while. There is so much we were never taught in school.
There are a number very of interesting patents for electrically powered vehicles. Some derive from Brown's work. Others employ related, but different,
principles. Let's look at one, the ionocraft. It was the
work of Major A. P. de Seversky. It has been described as "downright spooky." It is dead silent. It can hover. It can travel at incredible speeds.
Its drive mechanism looks an awful lot like a set of old-fashioned bedsprings. Aerodynamically, it works just like a helicopter. But instead of using a rotor
and blades, it creates the downward airflow electrically by means of an ionic discharge. The ions act on the air like a man treading water. They just push
down. And the craft rises.
The ionocraft has pretty much disappeared from the media since it was the subject of a Popular Mechanics article
the year of the patent. I seriously doubt that this was because development has ceased or because the concept lacked promise. Consider, for example,
the power-to-weight ratios determined by study of the original working model:
ionocraft, .96 hp/lb Piper Cub, .065 hp/lb helicopter, .1 hp/lb
Major de Seversky was concerned that the ionocraft might be mistaken for a kind of space vehicle. "This is not a spacecraft," he
explained emphatically to forestall any possible misunderstanding. "It's an airplane, designed to operate within the atmosphere. But it will be able
to do things that no present type of aircraft can accomplish."
None of the men working on the ionocraft could be pinned down to any production timetable. "It's a pretty wild project,"
admitted one technical director, a veteran of 20 years in the missile business. "But that's what they said when we started working on rockets."
Major de Seversky viewed his invention in historical perspective: "We are exploring an entirely new principle of flight. We're just at the spot where
the Wright Brothers were in 1903. We are just beginning to see the possibilities."
The ionocraft is not an "antigravity" device either, except in the sense that a helicopter is an antigravity device. But with the lightweight,
high-tensile-strength carbon fibers, Kevlar, super epoxies, and micro-miniaturized gizmos available now – not to mention relatively lightweight
power supplies – one could whip up a pretty impressive RPV that would look awfully convincing to people conditioned by half a decade of media
indoctrination as to what a "UFO" is supposed to look and act like.
This is particularly true of the widely reported flying disks and flying triangles. This is amply illustrated by the drawings which accompany the
patent.
It is easy to also imagine how the very shape of the body could enhance the lift effect of the ion wind through employment of the
Coanda effect.
In fact, Henri Coanda himself designed in 1935 a flying machine which very much resembles what is known today as a "flying saucer."
Coanda considered that this could be the most important application of his effect for the aviation of the future.
In 1967, at a Symposium organized by the Romanian Academy, he said:
These airplanes we have today are no more than a perfection of a toy made of paper children used to play with. My opinion is we should
search for a completely different flying machine, based on other flying principles. I consider the aircraft of the future, that which will take off vertically, fly as
usual and land vertically. This flying machine should have no parts in movement.
We have seen that the technology to fake extraterrestrial contact has been around for at least half a century, probably longer. We have also seen how
the advantage of using such technology as a psychological weapon could easily outweigh the advantage it could bring if used as a conventional weapon.
So when the "Benevolent Space Brothers" land and tell us all who their anointed human representatives are, I recommend you take it with a
very big grain of salt. And when they head back up the saucer's gangplank, check for a zipper up the back of their rubber suits.
As for the so-called "alien abductions" supposedly going on already, for those of you not already familiar with the work of
Martin Cannon, I refer you first to the recent work of Canadian researcher
Michael Persinger. Persinger is inducing
hallucinations in people. He selected a group of 250
students for the study. Every one of those subjects claimed that they never had a mystical experience of any kind, never been on drugs or anything.
Persinger has a motorcycle helmet on which he has mounted a lot of coils at specific locations. The pulsing of the coils is controlled by a computer.
He can focus the magnetic energy to a very small point in the brain, a point 1 centimeter on a side. He focused the signal on a part of the brain known as
the amygdala, which he claims is the site of all mystical experience that people have. He uses a basic 10-hertz square wave, changing the
"ripple" on the square wave rather than the frequency or the shape of the wave. He also controls the intensity.
What he is able to do is elicit a common type of hallucination. Virtually without exception the hallucination goes like this: the person lays down. There
is a strobe light in the ceiling to induce a mildly altered state. He has the subject free-associate. Almost without exception, these people who never had
a mystical experience start seeing an "alien being" on the ceiling which, as he changes the intensity and the ripple on the signal, comes
down from the ceiling and is lands in front of the person and starts to have a conversation with them.
"Except for $10,000 given to us in 1983 by a researcher (from the U.S. Navy) who was interested in magnetic fields and brain activity,"
says Persinger, "all of my work has been supported out of my pocket, primarily from my private practice."
If you are at all surprised that the government takes an interest in the induction of hallucinations by technological means, by all means stay tuned.
Soon we'll begin to look deeper into the technology of mind control and the long-standing practice of employing human guinea pigs against their will
and often without their knowledge. You'll hear some tales that will chill your spine.
If you are already familiar with this practice and wish to make your displeasure known to the authorities (as if they care), be sure to attend the
demo Saturday, April 8, 2000
from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. It will take place on the north steps of the California State Capitol Building in Sacramento.
For info, contact: lfmontgomery@excite.com
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