Secrets of Antigravity Propulsion (35 page)

The phase-conjugation demonstration that Ray, the black-project scientist, had witnessed convinced him of the need to keep the details of this technology secret.
In his 1992 phone conversation with me, he said, “When I saw the demonstration, it proved radically to me that this stuff has got to be kept under wraps.
I agree with the secrecy.”
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I said I had read about the weapons applications of phase-conjugate technology and had wondered, if this is true, are we really ready for this sociologically?

Ray responded, saying, “We’re not.
We are not.
Let me tell you why.
The engineering applications of this stuff are extremely simple, very fundamental, and there is no way to control it.
What it amounts to is giving out the recipe to make an atomic bomb by going to the local drugstore.
We don’t want to broadcast this kind of stuff.
At this point in time, its not good to do that.”
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I felt that Ray may have been exaggerating a bit.
The explosion that blew up Obolensky’s limit cycle faser certainly could not have been more powerful than that produced by a cherry bomb or M-80 pyrotechnic.
It appeared that this was more a concern for the personal safety of the experimenter than it was an issue of a destructive bomb that could potentially be used by a terrorist.
Certainly it is nowhere near the hazardous potential of nuclear fission, which now is in common use worldwide.
I then commented that, looking at the other side of the coin, there are many problems this technology could help to solve, such as providing an alternative to fossil fuels that could eliminate air pollution and ultimately do away with the global warming greenhouse effect.

Ray responded that there were economic considerations for introducing such a major shift in energy technology.
He said, “But the problem exists also that we cannot switch from the way things are to the way things should be instantly, because one interferes with the other completely.
You have to have a slow evolution with this.”
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When I commented that this slow evolution did not seem to be happening since the technology was encapsulated within the black-R&D world, Ray said, “That’s because there are political considerations at the moment.
You are going to find a little bit more of this exposure beginning, of course, with some of the articles like the one in Aviation
Week & Space Technology
and other articles you’re going to see.
By the year 1995, you’re going to hear a lot more about it, according to the grand plan, according to what I can tell.
So it’s coming out slowly but surely.”
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However, 1995 has long passed and the existence of field propulsion technology is still being kept quiet.

9.1 • SIGHTINGS

Information gathered from a variety of sightings suggests that many UFO disc craft support and propel themselves by means of phase-conjugate microwave beams similar to those used in Project Skyvault.
In his book
Unconventional Flying Objects
, Paul Hill reviews a number of sightings of craft that propelled themselves by means of downward-directed force field beams.
One example is a case that occurred in Norway in 1970 in which a 10-meter-diameter disc was hovering above a man standing next to his car.
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The craft was steel blue and shimmered yellow all around its circumference.
Suddenly, it began to leave, and as it did, an invisible force knocked the man to the ground and imploded and pulverized his car windshield.
The man did not feel any pain from the impact of the force field, which suggests that it acted uniformly on every cell in his body.

In a similar fashion, the phase-conjugated microwave beam projected from a Project Skyvault craft would have exerted a repelling force on the ground and on ground-based objects or people as it supported the craft.
Since the microwave beam would have been targeted over a large region of the ground and would have penetrated some distance into the objects it touched, its force would have been distributed diffusely, as was apparently the case in the Norwegian encounter.

Hill mentions several other sightings.
The force field from an overhead UFO in one example gave a soft push to a moving vehicle; in another, rocked a vehicle from side to side; and in yet another, actually flipped over a stopped truck.
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In another encounter, which happened in 1959 in the Greek villages of Digeliotica and Agio Apostolou, the field from a low-flying disc repelled several ceramic roof tiles off the roof of one house as the craft passed overhead.
The village priest, Pappa Costas, who was inside the dwelling at the time, reported that the whole house seemed to shake, making him think there was an earthquake, but it could not have been an earthquake since other houses had not experienced a similar shaking.
All of these force field effects would be expected if the UFO was projecting a microwave beam capable of exerting a repelling force on solid objects.

Downward forces have also been observed on underlying vegetation.
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One bullet-shaped UFO, approximately 45 feet in diameter, was sighted in Maryland in 1958.
As it moved at about thirty miles per hour at an altitude of 300 feet, it emitted a steady hum and its skin illuminated the surrounding terrain with a green glow.
Tree branches lying along its flight path were bent down and in some cases broken.
In another sighting, which occurred in 1974, four UFO discs were spotted hovering only a foot off the ground in a field of rape plants.
Approaching to within 15 feet of one rotating craft, a man named Edwin Fuhr noticed that the grass below was being swirled down.
The four craft departed vertically about fifteen minutes later, after which he noticed that the grass below where each had hovered was flattened in a clockwise swirl pattern, forming a ring with the grass in the center being left standing upright.

Generally, UFOs are observed to sit level when they hover and to tilt when they perform all other maneuvers.
For example, they tilt forward to move forward, tilt backward to stop, bank to the left to turn left, and so on.
All of these tilting maneuvers are the kind that would be performed by a craft driven by a matter-repelling microwave soliton beam.

Another common characteristic of UFOs is their penetrating humming, buzzing, or whining sound.
In his book, Hill describes one case in which a man reported a UFO casting a greenish light into his cabin as a throbbing hum shook its walls.
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In another case, the observers “felt” a high-pitched intense sound as a 5-meter-diameter UFO took off.
In yet another encounter, a UFO hovered 1.5 meters above the surface of a mountain lake and was seen to excite the water below to dance in thousands of sharp-pointed waves.
Hill concludes that the propulsive fields that UFOs project downward are oscillatory and that the energy they transport to the ground and objects below excites oscillations at the same frequency and induces sound to radiate from the objects themselves.
A craft levitated by a phase-conjugated microwave soliton beam having a beat frequency φ in the audio range would produce precisely these effects.

Also, UFOs have been observed to extend luminescent beams to the ground.
Hill reviews one sighting that was made in Bahia, Brazil, in 1958 in which a 70-foot-diameter UFO disc was observed to emit a silver-blue glow.
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As it hovered 90 feet above the ground, its luminosity was seen to extend like a curtain all the way to the ground, creating an illuminated area on the ground that was about twice the diameter of the UFO.
After climbing to an altitude of about 600 feet, it made a tight circle in the sky, and as it banked for this turn, its luminous focus on the ground traced out a much larger circle.
Hill concludes that the luminosity surrounding UFOs and coming from their beams must be caused by their field energy ionizing the air and producing a cool, luminous plasma.
He reasons that the plasma must be cool because in one case a UFO that looked like a ball of fire had passed very close to foliage without burning it.

Although Hill suggests that X-rays might be producing the ionization, the same effect could also be produced by an intense microwave beam.
In particular, a phase-conjugated soliton beam would store an enormous amount of energy and build up very high electric potentials capable of ionizing the air and exciting these ions to become luminescent, much like the gas molecules inside a fluorescent lamp.
Recall that Tom’s boss had said that the Project Skyvault vehicle supported itself on a microwave beam that gave off a greenish blue glow.

9.2 • THE CASH-LANDRUM ENCOUNTER

Evidence that the Air Force was test-flying an antigravity craft surfaced on the night of December 29, 1980.
Betty Cash, age fifty-one, her friend Vickie Landrum, age fifty-seven, and Vickie’s seven-year-old grandson Colby had been driving through the Pinewoods area near the Houston, Texas, suburb of Huffman, located about twenty miles north of Johnson Space Center.
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About 9 p.m., they spotted a fiery object high in the sky that quickly descended to treetop level.
Eventually, it came to hover above the road.
They drove to within 130 feet of it and got out of their car for several minutes to watch it.
The craft was hovering about 70 feet off the ground.
It was diamond-shaped, tapering to rounded points at the top and bottom, and was about the size of a city water tower (about 20 feet in diameter; figure 9.1).
Every so often, a reddish orange cone of flames would roar out of its bottom, as if from a giant blowtorch or rocket.
At such times, the craft would loft into the air about 25 feet, only to gradually descend once again.
The flames brightly lit the surrounding pine woods and bathed them in an intense heat, turning the nearby pine branches brown and badly damaging the road’s blacktop surface.

Frightened by what they saw, Landrum and her grandson got back in the car,
and were joined some time later by Cash.
The car door became so hot from the
radiation that Cash could not touch it with her bare hands, but instead used her
coat to grab the handle.
After about ten minutes, the object rose up and once
again hovered over the trees.
At that point, the three witnesses noticed that the vehicle was approached by almost two dozen twin-rotor military helicopters, later identified as CH-47 Chinooks and some of the Bell-Huey type.
They appeared to be escorting the craft.
The three concluded that they had witnessed a test flight of some kind of advanced antigravity military aircraft.
One year later, Cash met a Chinook helicopter pilot who admitted to her in front of a witness that on the night of the encounter he had been called to fly to the area to check on a UFO that was in trouble near Huffman.

Figure 9.1.
A sketch of the craft seen in the 1980 Pinewoods encounter.

The description Cash and Landrum gave suggests they had observed a test flight of a prototype microwave vehicle similar in some respects to the Project Skyvault craft.
The highly incandescent reddish orange “flames” were likely the exhaust from a flame-jet high-voltage generator adjusted for incomplete combustion.
As mentioned in chapter 2, Brown had proposed a 10-foot-diameter saucer with a downward-pointing flame-jet generator as one version of the vehicle he had planned to research as part of Project Winterhaven.
The Winterhaven design may have looked something like the sketch shown in figure 2.11, chapter 2.

The high voltage from this flame-jet generator may have been used to energize high-power Gunn diode oscillators to generate a downward-directed microwave beam of a kind similar to that used in the Project Skyvault saucer.
After their encounter, Cash, Landrum, and Colby experienced radiation burn symptoms such as hair loss and inflamed eyes, the sort produced by exposure to an intense beam of microwave radiation.
All of them became extremely sick within the next few hours.
Of the three, Cash had spent the longest time out of the car (about ten minutes) and, not surprisingly, she had the worst symptoms.
Her head and neck were blistered, and soon her eyes swelled shut, fluid seeped from welts on her head and scalp, and she suffered from severe headaches, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and body pains.
After a couple of days being cared for at Landrum’s home, Cash checked into a hospital, where she was treated as a burn victim, remaining for fifteen days.
She began losing large patches of skin from her face, her hair began to fall out, and her eyes swelled so badly that she could not see for about a week.
After a month in the hospital, she still showed no improvement.
Then she developed breast cancer and had to have a mastectomy.
She later died at the young age of sixty-nine.
Landrum was also losing her hair and her scalp was numb and painful.
Colby had problems with his eyes.
All three of the victims were treated for radiation poisoning, and doctors listed their condition as life threatening.

Cash and Landrum sued the U.S.
government for $20 million in damages, but after dragging on for many years, their case was finally dismissed on the grounds that no such object was owned, operated, or in the inventory of the Air Force, the Army, the Navy, or NASA.
The ABC television show
Nightline
in 1987 broadcast a recorded statement made by Richard Doty, a special agent with the U.S.
Air Force Office of Special Investigations who then named himself “Falcon.”
Doty claimed that the object Cash and Landrum saw was a captured alien UFO that was being test-flown and had temporarily experienced some flight problems.
Quite likely, Doty was dispensing misinformation.
A more plausible explanation is that Cash and Landrum encountered a prototype unmanned electrogravitic craft built for the military by an aerospace corporation.
Possibly the craft was remotely controlled, and the helicopters were there to observe it and provide military security should the need arise.
Had information about Project Skyvault been made public, along with the existence of black projects in microwave phase-conjugate propulsion, perhaps Cash and Landrum would have won their suit.

The severe effects that Cash, Lundrum, and Colby sustained in their encounter suggest they were exposed to a very intense microwave beam.
This could have occurred if the vehicle’s microwave propulsion beam was confined to a narrow angle and had mistakenly “locked on” to the observers and their car.
They would have then been exposed to its full intensity.
An incident similar to the Cash-Landrum encounter occurred in the late 1980s in the vicinity of Fort Hood, which lies about sixty miles north of Austin, Texas.
A woman and her daughters, who had been observing a glowing, hovering object, became badly burned and suffered serious health effects.
The victims subsequently sued the military for damages.

If the propulsion beam from these craft was being properly controlled to fan out to a wide enough area on the ground so that its radiation level per unit area was at a safe level, then a brief exposure would not be hazardous.
Even so, a pilot should not fly a beam propulsion vehicle in a populated area so that accidents of this nature are avoided.
If anything, these casualties of microwave exposure should be a warning to hobbyists that they are taking a serious health risk when they experiment with high-intensity microwave beams in the kilowatt range.