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US Has Heavily Researched Anti-Gravity, Book Says
Reuters ^ | Friday September 7 12:15 PM ET | By Bradley Perrett

Posted on 09/08/2001 1:05:48 PM PDT by Paul_E_Ester

By Bradley Perrett

LONDON (Reuters) - The U.S. military may have conducted serious research into anti-gravity based on Nazi studies, a top defense journalist suggests in a new book.

In ``The Hunt for Zero Point,'' journalist Nick Cook says, based on a decade's research, he believes by the 1950s the U.S. was seriously working on anti-gravity ``electrogravitics'' technology, which would lift and propel vehicles without wings or thrust.

``I feel intuitively that some vehicle has been developed, particularly given that there is this wealth of scientific data out there, and the Americans have never been slow to pick up on this sort of science,'' Cook, the aerospace consultant for Jane's Defense Weekly, told Reuters in an interview.

Cook uncovered reports and sightings of a Nazi research device that had been hidden in a remote part of Poland, where it had apparently been supplied with great quantities of electricity -- which an electrogravitic experiment would require.

Curiously, barely a hint of such Nazi research appeared after the war, suggesting that whoever captured it -- probably the United States -- immediately stamped it ``secret,'' he said.

Cook noted that, as a respected expert, he is risking his reputation by writing seriously about a technology associated with UFOs, which most scientists dismiss as science fiction embraced by ``hocus-pocus'' believers.

The United States is known to have a huge budget for so called ``black projects,'' because it spends more on defense than can be accounted for by adding up the value of public programs.

Cook admitted he cannot produce a conclusive case. But that is the nature of black projects, in which even the workers usually have no idea what they are working on.

In 1947, amid the early craze of UFO reports, an air force general reported on the possibility of the United States building disc-shaped objects with extreme rates of climb and maneuverability but without noise or evident propulsion.

In the mid 1950s electrogravitics was the subject of a few press reports, including one that described work by most of the United States' major defense contractors, Cook reported.

And then it all went quiet -- just as stealth technology suddenly disappeared from view in the mid 1970s, only to re-emerge as operational aircraft in the late 1980s.

Academic papers on the subject have mysteriously disappeared from libraries.

There is still no firm evidence that electrogravitics is more than science fiction. Civilian scientists and amateurs have experimented with it, and while some have reported success, no one seems to have reproduced their results to prove that it works.


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I need this for my commute.
1 posted on 09/08/2001 1:05:48 PM PDT by Paul_E_Ester
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To: Paul_E_Ester
"Curiously, barely a hint of such Nazi research appeared after the war, suggesting that whoever captured it -- probably the United States -- immediately stamped it ``secret,'' he said."

It is stored in that big warehouse...you know, the one where they stashed the Ark in the first Indiana Jones movie..? I understand the crate is right next to the one that contains the Ark.

--Boris

2 posted on 09/08/2001 1:16:26 PM PDT by boris
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To: Paul_E_Ester
If electrogravitics becomes a reality, it will nail down the notion that inertia and gravity share basic principle ... it will also, perhaps, explain why there is not air turbulence when a possible extraterrestrial craft passes at high speed near a conventional aircraft, why there is no shockwave or energy wave preceeding or following such craft.
3 posted on 09/08/2001 1:18:29 PM PDT by MHGinTN
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To: Paul_E_Ester
The US probably captured it? In Poland? I guess we just slipped by those 10 million Russian soldiers in the way.
4 posted on 09/08/2001 1:21:50 PM PDT by wotan
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To: Paul_E_Ester
Several inventors have developed working Anti-Gravity devices. Every patent was bought up by and further research killed by the Brassiere/Plastic Surgeon cartel.
5 posted on 09/08/2001 1:22:17 PM PDT by LarryLied
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To: Paul_E_Ester
This may explain why my tin foil hat keeps looking like a Nazi helmet.
6 posted on 09/08/2001 1:27:39 PM PDT by oldsalt
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To: boris
Yea, but that's also the same place where they have the body of Jimmy Hoffa stored, and it smells so bad no one will look there.
7 posted on 09/08/2001 3:41:08 PM PDT by rdww
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To: Paul_E_Ester
Anti gravity is so negative, I much prefer pro-levity.
8 posted on 09/08/2001 3:49:18 PM PDT by DainBramage
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To: Paul_E_Ester
has anyone even figured out what gravity is?
9 posted on 09/08/2001 4:23:15 PM PDT by XBob
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To: Paul_E_Ester
Calling Art Bell, calling Art Bell.
10 posted on 09/08/2001 4:28:48 PM PDT by Valin
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To: XBob
I don't know, but this I do know, it's not a good idea to try and defy it.
11 posted on 09/08/2001 4:30:03 PM PDT by Valin
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To: Paul_E_Ester
Antigravity used to be a staple of science fiction. It comes from Feynman's idea that an antiparticle is the time-reversed version of its counterpart. (That is, an anti-proton is a proton flying backward through time.)

An implication of that idea is that antimatter should curve up against gravity. Until sometime in the 80s, no one could tell for sure about this, since subatomic particles are very light and don't bend much under most conditions. Finally, the work got done and the answer recorded: antiparticles have the same mass, the same gravity as normal particles.

You don't see many stories featuring antigravity anymore.

13 posted on 09/08/2001 4:37:24 PM PDT by VadeRetro
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To: MHGinTN
If electrogravitics becomes a reality, it will nail down the notion that inertia and gravity share basic principle

I guess if gravity becomes a thing of the past, we'll be "nailing down" a lot of things, including, evidently, notions.

Just being,

14 posted on 09/08/2001 4:40:11 PM PDT by Silly
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To: Valin
I don't know, but this I do know, it's not a good idea to try and defy it.

When I trip and fall up I will know I have found it.

15 posted on 09/08/2001 4:45:12 PM PDT by Mind-numbed Robot
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To: XBob
Old bumper sticker--"Gravity is a Myth--The Earth Sucks"
16 posted on 09/08/2001 4:48:39 PM PDT by headsonpikes
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To: Mind-numbed Robot
Ulmo Claims to have discovered it, but I don't have to tell about him(know what I mean nudge nudge wink wink)
17 posted on 09/08/2001 4:49:05 PM PDT by Valin
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To: LarryLied
That's a good one - the Braissiere/Plastic Surgery cartel is keeping developments in anti-gravity under wraps to prevent dilution of their market share!
18 posted on 09/08/2001 4:50:21 PM PDT by Ken522 (ken522@worldnet.att.net)
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To: Mind-numbed Robot
Wasn't there a book about Falling Up? LOL

Gee, Silly, you caught me! Perhaps we could nail it up?

19 posted on 09/08/2001 4:51:10 PM PDT by MHGinTN
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