The U.S. Air Force,
Anti-Gravitation & UFO's
(Specially written for Lumières Dans La
Nuit and for Flying Saucer Review.) (Translated from author's original
text by Gordon Creighton.)
[Literally within less than a week after I had jotted
down my revised thoughts on Roswell and Colonel Philip Corso (see
Editorial), I was amazed to receive the following astonishing document
from FSR's old friend and ally, Dr. Pierre Guérin, one of France's
most distinguished astronomers, for many years actively engaged at the
Pic du Midi Observatory in the Pyrenees and at the famous Institut d'
Astrophysique de Paris. In view of his eminence in his profession and
his great knowledge and experience, I would suggest that we take very
careful note of what Dr. Guérin now has to say. Dr. Guérin tells me
that the
article is appearing not only in Lumières Dans La Nuit, but also on
the French Internet, and he has expressed the hope that FSR may be
able to get my translation of it onto the English-language
Internet too. G.C.]
As we all know, "Area 51" (otherwise called Groom Lake,
in Nevada) is the most famous of the ultra-secret military
bases of the United States.
Its existence is not officially recognized. The security
perimeter around it has recently again been enlarged with a view to
discouraging the efforts of curiosity-seekers equipped with binoculars
or super-telescopic lenses who might be hoping to see UFOs flying
there.
And in fact eyewitnesses have indeed, at night, seen
strange luminous and silent craft flying there and executing
trajectories that could not be the trajectories of aeroplanes.
We know of several cases of people who have apparently
been subjected to brainwashing before they could go out from Groom
Lake. In particular we will cite the cases of an RAF pilot who was in
Nevada for training, and who inadvertently landed on the Groom Lake
Base, and of an electrical engineer (Bob Lazar) who had been engaged
to work there temporarily in secret
Air Force hangars situated in the same zone.
Lazar, conscious of the absurdity of certain
recollections that he had retained from his time there, stated that he
had been ordered to work on repairing a UFO that had been recovered,
and that as working equipment they had given him an ordinary
electronic voltmeter without furnishing him with any sensible
explanation, and that he had been able to have, and carry around with
him, with impunity, a piece of the heavy transuranian Element 115
(unknown on Earth) serving as a base for the craft's
anti-gravitational (?) engine.
Such sorts of scarcely credible assertions unfortunately
managed to fool a few naive ufologists but, above all, they also
served to ridicule Ufology in the eyes of sensible people and - more
particularly - to discredit the rumours about the repairing of
recovered UFOs at Groom Lake or the manufacture there of copies of
UFOs, which doubtless was the purpose intended.
It is worth noting that Lazar remembers having had to
drink liquids and to submit to sessions of hypnosis when he was
working at Groom Lake.
As for the R.A.F. pilot, he was kept at the Base for
several days, and when he came out he had amnesia and could no longer
even remember his own name!
INFORMATION TRICKLING OUT IN DROPLETS.
That this Base does exist, nobody can deny, and for good
reason. And matters have now reached the stage that, from time to
time, in specialized journalistic circles, certain reports on the
activities carried on there even appear officially. Firstly, it is
recognized that they are developing the hypersonic aircraft of the
future there.
They state explicitly that these planes will be at least
15 years ahead of those already existing elsewhere in the world, and
that the details of their performance will not be divulged before that
same number of years have elapsed.
Nevertheless a few secrets have leaked out about one of
these aircraft -AURORA, said to attain Mach 8 in the stratosphere.
The American authorities have recently laid on an 'Open
Day' - assuredly of course not at Groom Lake itself, but on the Nellis
Base, which surrounds it - in order to show to a selected public -
certain of these aircraft, grounded, but assuredly not the most
futuristic ones!
(One may wonder whether this operation was not just
another means of 'defusing' the rumours about the presence of UFOs at
Groom Lake or at other U.S. bases?)
The aircraft displayed were filmed by a team of
reporters from French Television (FRANCE 2).
Seen in profile, the machines shown could vaguely evoke
the idea of "flying saucers", but they weren't "flying saucers". It
was more a question of "flying wings".
However fast these machines may be, they still behave -
at any rate until proof to the contrary is forthcoming - in accordance
with the classic laws of physics, although it has already been
suggested (Aviation Week and Space Technology, March 9, 1992) that the
B-2 was using an anti-gravitational system when flying at high
altitudes. In any case, these aircraft aren't copies of UFOs. There
is no indication that they can hover silently or zigzag at supersonic
speed without producing any shock-wave. Numerous people have seen
AURORA flying in the sky over the American South-West. This aircraft
seems to be driven by ramjets. It has been said that it "richochets
along on the air", no doubt because it leaves behind it a string of
little condensations and emits a pulsed roar.
Assuredly its conception derives from a state-of-the-art
technology that is indeed far in advance of what exists elsewhere, but
there is no evidence to prove that the AURORA is equipped with an
antigravitational system and even less reason still to indicate that
it could perform hypothetical spatio-temporal 'short-cuts' such as the
UFOs seem to know how to do.
Yet, nevertheless, among the reports, true or false,
that trickle out into industrial and political circles about secret
American research in the realm of flying machines, there are some that
speak specifically of the study of flight by antigravitational means.
(For a very long time past there have been ufologists who,though
having no proof of it, have suggested this type of propulsion for the
UFOs, for it could account for certain aspects of their movement).
In his book Les Etrangers de l'Espace* (The Strangers
from Space) Donald Keyhoe reported that, at the beginning of the
1960s, a certain "PROGRAMME G" had been started up in the United
States, mobilizing 7 aeronautical firms and 21 American and foreign
universities - including the celebrated M.I.T., with a view to the
discovery and the exploitation of the principle of Antigravity.
According to Keyhoe, in 1966, it had to be admitted that
this research had still not been successful. But that they have not
ceased and that they have even made progress is what we learn from an
article in the very serious British review, JANE'S
DEFENCE WEEKLY, which specializes in questions of defence and
armaments around the world. I cannot do better than to quote some
passages from this article from the review's issue of June 10, 1995:
"Technicians who dabble in the interpretation of visions
do not always get it right. Take this example from a specialist US
aviation magazine in 1956: "We're already working with equipment to
cancel out gravity", Lawrence D. Bell, founder of the company that
bears his name, was quoted as saying. Bell, apparently, was not the
only one working in this field. others said to be seeking to master
this arcane 'science' included the Glenn L. Martin Company, Convair,
Lear, and Sperry Gyroscope.
Within a few years, so we were assured, aircraft, cars, submarines,
and power stations would all be driven by this
radical new propulsion technology. Sadly, it was not to be".
The rest of the article passes in review of the various
accomplishments in the realm of American futuristic aircraft derived
from "black projects" (i.e. projects financed from funds free of any
parliamentary control). In its conclusion, the article tackles more
specifically the question of the very secret activities that are
carried on at Groom Lake:
BEYOND 2001.
Groom Lake, Nevada, is the epicentre of classified USAF
research into Stealth and other exotic aerospace technologies. Several
years after the collapse of the Soviet threat, activity and investment
at this remote, highly secret
air base (so secret that its presence is, as yet, unacknowledged by
the U.S. Government) is till on the increase.
While research into less sensitive technologies (such as
two-dimensional thrust-vectoring and advanced short take-off and
vertical landing, ASTOVL) are pursued in the open at nearby Edwards
AFB in California, Groom Lake is set to hang onto its secrets. The
USAF's recent confiscation of 1600 hectares of public land bordering
the facility is consistent with the Pentagon's desire to maintain its
lead in quantum leap technologies some of which, according to well
qualified observers in and around the Nevada area, defy current
thinking into the predicted direction of aerospace engineering.
That aerospace companies continue to look at highly
radical alternative air vehicle concepts is evidence of the ongoing
quest for breakthrough designs.
Glimpses into this world are rare, but provide some
insight into likely 21st century research activity. The 1990
unclassified "Electric Propulsion Study" (a quest for an anti-gravity
propulsion system by another name) conducted by the USA's Science
Application International Corp on behalf of USAF's (then) Astronautics
Laboratory at Edwards AFB, shows that USAF's visionaries are still
being given free rein.
Until recently, BAe also provided internal resources for
its own anti-gravity studies, and even went so far as to outline this
thinking with artists' concepts a case of Lawrence Bell's vision not
being so wide of the mark after all.
Before he died, Ben Rich, who headed Lockheed's Skunk
Works from 1975 to 1991, was quoted as saying: "We have
some new things. We are not stagnating. What we are doing is updating
ourselves, without advertising. There are some new programmes, and
there are certain things -some of them 20 or 30
years old- that are still breakthroughs and appropriate to keep quiet
about. Other people don't have them yet".
Thirty years from now, we may still not know the half of
what is currently being tested in and around Groom Lake.
-JDW.
As one can see, this text refers very clearly to certain
entirely new research that represents "a leap into the unknown". This
research, launched with the help of big American industrial firms
(plus, according to Keyhoe, several universities), is said to be
directed in particular at "antigravitational propulsion" (baptised as
"electrical propulsion" and we shall soon see why) and is said to have
commenced soon after the end of World War II.
According to the text, this research would have quite
rapidly yielded some results which are still kept completely secret,
and are unknown to other countries, without our being told clearly
whether antigravity properly called has yet been mastered, and whether
or not certain of the machines tested at Groom Lake are already
utilising this method of propulsion - but there is independent
suggestion of this in the descriptions given by eyewitnesses
positioned around the Base, and to whom we have referred above.
Obviously there is no mention in the article of the
allegation made by certain American ufologists dubbed as "the Lunatic
Fringe", such as John Lear, according to whom aliens are said to be
occupying underground laboratories in the Groom Lake Base, and
allegedly are giving the American Military scientific and technical
help in exchange for silence about the mutilations of animals and the
abduction of humans.
It is all going on as if there is under way a
progressive preparation of American and world opinion for the
announcement of major advances -and obviously of purely terrestrial
origin in aerospatial science and technology, carried out in the
greatest secrecy by the USA (and possibly Great Britain) over the past
30 years or more. Antigravity, it is indicated, would be at the core
of this research.
PRESENT DAY PHYSICS KNOWS NOTHING ABOUT ANTI-GRAVITY.
Until now such revelations have scarcely ever triggered
off any waves in the realm of theoretical physics, and shortly you
will understand why this is so. On the other hand, there is good
reason to think that they might be taken seriously in Intelligence
circles, but I fear that the latter do not perceive the extremely
grave implications that follow from it.
For matters aren't as simple as they might appear, and
these revelations need to be examined from a critical point of view
that, it seems to me, has scarecely been taken into account until now.
The problem which is posed is this: Is it realistic to
believe that, via the distribution of countless sums of dollars to
feed planned ultra-secret research, the discovery of the theoretical
physics of antigravity (not to speak of its practical application)
could be achieved in any reasonable period, starting out from the
fundamental basics of our terrestrial science, without the rest of the
scientific community knowing about it, and, above all, without the
appearance of any prior signs of a crisis in physics obliging us to
modify or enlarge those basics? I insist that the answer is NO. And
here is why:
Far too often people confuse fundamental physics and
applied physics (the latter leading to industrial applications). This
confusion carries with it the risk of leading too many responsible
politicians and Military to cite the example of, say, the Manhattan
Project, in support of the idea that, simply by "going all out" on a
project, the Americans are capable of achieving a decisive
breakthrough within a reasonable period of time, and yet still keep
all the research secret.
Well now, the Manhattan project was in fact merely a
technological project to build the atomic bomb. Certainly it was
indeed gigantic for that period, but in no way whatsoever did it call
into question the very foundations of theoretical physics. Quite to
the contrary, it was entirely founded on them and, more precisely, on
the theoretical principle of the equivalence of mass and energy (E =
mc^2) which derives from Einstein's Restricted Relativity, added to
which was the experimental fact of the chain-reaction of neutrons in a
critical mass of uranium or plutonium, discovered already as early as
1939 and known to all atomic physicists from the start of World War II
onwards.
If there was a secret, it was initially the secret of
the nature of the project itself. After that, it was the secret of the
techniques to be developed in order to achieve it: the separation of
the uranium isotopes, the manufacture of the plutonium, the
experimental determination of the critical mass (which cost the lives
of several researchers who died from radiation, etc).
It was possible to keep such a technological piece of
research as that secret for a period -which was in any case only
limited by maintaining all the different branches of it so
compartmentalised that only those who had conceived the project knew
what the final objective was.
BUT, on the contrary, the development of a system of
antigravitational propulsion would imply that its theoretical
bases have already been discovered! At the present time the
theoretical bases are completely unknown to terrestrial physicists
(even though some may suspect that they do know what they are) for the
simple reason that they apparently do not derive from the bases of our
own established physics, and at first sight seem to contradict them.
In the three-dimensional model of Space (which is the
visible Universe in which we live) "gravity" -which Newton called "the
force of attraction" of masses of matter is inherently present in
these masses which, in the modern framework of General Relativity,
actually bend the "geodetics" of Space-Time (i.e. the trajectories of
the mass bodies) as though a "force" were being applied to these
bodies.
All matter attracts other matter in this fashion,
deforming Space-Time, and today we know that even antimatter, in our
universe, is attractive, and not repulsive, as at one time was
thought.
General Relativity is evidently not the last word in
science, even if up till now it has been confirmed with great
precision by numerous consequences that one can deduce from it. It is
possible that tomorrow certain experimental tests may produce a
set-back for it. But we aren't at that point.
Moreover, quite a number of variations of the theory
have now been proposed, still within the framework of a Universe of
three dimensions. None of them has prevailed over the rest so far, but
in any case all of them retain this fundamental property of the
gravitational effect being inherent in mass. Moreover, the new
attempts at the modelisation of spatial complexes with a Universe of
several "leaves" (such as Dr Jean-Pierre Petit's idea of twin
universes which would permit the discovery of spatio-temporal
short-cuts for travelling in space) still retain this fundamental
property of gravity.
So -at first sight- gravity does not seem at present
likely to be cancelled out by any means whatsoever in the present
state of our best established theoretical knowledge, unless it were
possible to cancel out mass itself, which is nonsense. In fact,
however, certain physicists do suspect that there may be a way out
which would amount to considering gravitation as a consequence of
electromagnetism, and not as a separate force on its own. Whence comes
the idea that certain electromagnetic devices would enable weight
(i.e. attraction) to be nullified without, of course, nullifying mass.
(Maybe this explains why the journalists who talk about the Air
Force's secret projects always mention "research on electrogravity".)
Among the known attempts made in this direction by
certain university researchers, some have turned out to be
mathematically erroneous. Others are not open to the same charge, but
under no circumstances can they lay claim of being a structured
scientific theory analogous to Relativity or to the Quantum Theory:
At the very most (Puthoff, Haisch) they are exploratory
perspectives that are more qualitative than mathematically
established, and still totally unsuited for experimental exploration,
and even less for an industrial one.
NO TRUE THEORY OF ANTIGRAVITATIONAL EFFECT OF AN
ELECTROMAGNETIC NATURE HAS YET, TO THIS DAY, BEEN DEVELOPED OR
PUBLISHED WITHIN THE INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY OF THEORETICAL
PHYSICISTS.
Such -in short- is the present state of the knowledge of
the academic community of the world on this matter.
Nevertheless, it is worth noting that an experimental plan, and an
experiment, are said to have been carried out in 1992 by
Podkletnov and Vuorinen of the Tempere University in Finland. These
two authors are said to have produced an antigravitic effect yielding
a 2% reduction in weight of objects placed above a core of
superconductive ceramic in rapid rotation. (New Scientist, Sept 21,
1996).
No explanatory theory for the phenomenon was furnished
by the authors who, curiously enough, were refused publication of
their paper in the Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, despite the
contrary judgement of the three referees commissioned to examine it.
Podkletnov is said to have claimed that he was subjected to pressure
not to divulge anything before a patent for commercial exploitation
had been issued.
THEORETICAL PHYSICS AND MILITARY RESEARCH.
Just as Nuclear Physics is not a chapter in chemistry,
but transcends chemistry, so the physics of tomorrow will transcend
General Relativity (or the improved theory that in the near future
will replace it). Maybe a so-called "unitary theory" will finally be
worked out which will reconcile gravitation and quantum mechanics, and
will be the prelude to a new scientific revolution opening the way to
the electromagnetic concept of antigravitation. At present this
concept remains outside of the classic bases of the physics that is
taught, and is not truly on the agenda in the institutes of
theoretical physics.
Such a revolution, of importance at least equal to the
importance of General Relativity or Quantum Mechanics,
could not take place in some university's theoretical physics
laboratory without being known throughout the entire world, because
all the specialists in these matters know each other
personally, exchange ideas, publish their papers, and meet each other
at international congresses.
This is the very condition required for their
creativity. To impose secrecy on those of them who would get contracts
with the Armed Forces would be both prejudicial to that creativity,
and totally unrealistic.
The research worker in theoretical physics does his job
with paper, a pencil, his intuitive sense, and his mastery of
his mathematical tools, and also -nowadays- a computer for testing
numerically the results derived from his models. He has to let his
ideas ripen slowly and freely. And the minute he finds something he
has to tell about it.
As one of my colleagues said to me one day: "It is more
difficult to confine a theoretician to his office than
antimatter to a bottle!"
THEORETICAL RESEARCH CANNOT BE PLANNED WITHIN THE
RESTRICTING FRAMEWORK OF A SECRET MILITARY PROJECT. IT IS "ANTIPODEAN"
TO THAT! NEITHER RELATIVITY NOR QUANTUM PHYSICS WAS DISCOVERED BY
CONTRACT.
BY WAY OF CONCLUSION.
I have no knowledge whatsoever of what is going on at
Groom Lake. I have no idea whatsoever whether "Little Greys" are
installed as bosses in underground levels of the Base. I have no idea
whatsoever whether the Americans are repairing recovered flying
saucers there, or whether they are themselves building them in
entirety there. I have no idea whether they are contenting themselves
with testing military material there of a very advanced technology
calling for an exotic physics. BUT, ON
THE OTHER HAND, WHAT I THINK I CAN AFFIRM IS THIS:-
EITHER: The snatches of information that the American
Air Force permits to filter out regarding the research on antigravity
that they are allegedly pursuing there are disinformation (and this
cannot be excluded in view of the analysis that I have just given
above).
But then why this disinformation? Several answers come
to mind. The most immediate one is that they simply are trying to
mislead those who are trying so hard to know the truth about the Air
Force's secret projects.
OR: The Air Force or the Pentagon really are carrying on
at Groom Lake (and no doubt at other sites too) ultra-secret research
on antigravity a "major leap into the unknown", and one that in
practical fact is totally unknown to the entire scientific community
of the whole world.
Such an ignorance on the part of the world's scientists
implies that this research is proceeding in a closed circuit, devoid
of any exchange whatsoever with the other physicists of the entire
world. The very fact that, despite this handicap, they could have
arrived (in a record short time!) at the creation of a new kind of
physics that permits us to conceive of or even to start embarking on
the construction of revolutionary antigravitational flying machines
why, that would be to fly right in the face of the method by which our
own terrestrial science has always proceeded right from the very
beginning of its existence.
Such a result, then would imply that the US Air Force
has managed to "leap-frog" ahead, and possess access to theoretical
information other than what is provided by the known fundamental
terrestrial physics.
SUCH INFORMATION, THEREFORE, WOULD NECESSARILY HAVE TO
BE OF A NON-TERRESTRIAL ORIGIN.
Some will, of course, at once think of the crashed craft
at Roswell, but personally I find it scarcely possible to believe it.
For the mere analysis and study of one machine, whether damaged in an
accident or not, can hardly enable one to grasp the basic physics of
its operation when those physics aren't even within the framework of
any known theory as was certainly the case back in 1947!
ONE IS CONSEQUENTLY LED RATHER TO VISUALISE THAT ACTUAL
EXCHANGES HAVE TAKEN PLACE WITH THE POSSESSORS OF A MORE ADVANCED
SCIENCE.
AND THEN ONE FINDS ONESELF CONTEMPLATING THE
CATASTROPHIC SCENARIO PAINTED BY JOHN LEAR.
SUCH A STATE OF AFFAIRS WOULD, OF COURSE, HAVE TO BE
TOTALLY INADMISSIBLE, AND IT WOULD JUSTIFY THE EXCEPTIONAL SECRECY IN
WHICH THE AMERICAN AUTHORITIES HAVE WRAPPED GROOM LAKE.
YES EXCEPTIONAL, I SAY. FOR, AS FAR AS I KNOW, THEY
NEVER DRUGGED AND HYPNOTISED THE ENGINEERS WHO WORKED ON THE MANHATTAN
PROJECT WHEN THEY WERE QUITTING THEIR PLACE OF WORK!
Well, there it is. Everyone will decide according to his
own preference. AS FOR ME, I'VE MADE MY DECISION, AS
YOU WILL HAVE GUESSED. But I do admit that I am not able to base it on
any decisive argument. I MERELY STATE THAT, WHATEVER REPLY THEY GIVE
US, THEY ARE DECEIVING US. BUT WE'VE GOT USED TO THAT
NOW. EVER SINCE THE UFO BUSINESS STARTED!
ADDITIONAL NOTE.
It is amusing to note that, in his enthralling book,
Revelations, Jacques Vallée, who himself lives in California, and
knows the whole story of ufology right throughout and has investigated
the "Lunatic Fringe" in order to denounce their credulity and the
fashion in which they are being manipulated, does himself supply (not
intentionally, of course) some arguments, even if not decisive ones,
in support of the thesis that there is non-human technology at work at
Groom Lake!
For in fact he admits, very objectively, that things
have been seen flying over that Base "which it would be very difficult
to differentiate from real saucers" -things which in fact are the
cause of the reports referring to "spectacular sightings similar to
the movements of true saucers".
Obviously, of course, in his view those were merely
craft of "an advanced terrestrial technology".
Supposing these telecontrolled "drones" come in several
sizes, from little mobile discoidal platforms, almost totally silent
and one metre wide, full of sophisticated electronics and with immense
manoeuvrability, up to larger arial reconnaissance craft as much as
several metres wide, some fitted with searchlights and some not. (It
could have been a craft of this type that allegedly landed in December
1980 near an Anglo-American base at Bentwaters (i.e. Rendlesham).
That "UFO", it seems, was already expected by the
military authorities who, before the landing, had already deployed
troops from the Base to proceed to the landing-site, as though in
order to test the troops' reactions (a plausible enough interpretation
that I won't contest).
But, just as Vallée (anxious to ridicule those who
believe in the existence of a great subterranean base, peopled with
aliens, underneath Groom Lake) puts to such folk the question: "WHO
COLLECTS THE GARBAGE?", I will return the ball to him, and put to him
a question that is possibly far more embarrassing, namely:
"WITH WHAT POWER SOURCE AND WHAT MODE OF PROPULSION CAN
THOSE 'SILENT DRONES' THAT YOU DESCRIBE TO US BE FLYING?"
Rocket engines are always noisy, require a heavy load of
fuel, solid or liquid, if the flight is to be of any duration.
Propulsion by rotary turbine (for lift) can be almost
silent if the power source is electrical, and it would account for the
faint hum of the objects. But as it is a flying machine, the
weight-power relationship for the batteries producing that energy
would be prohibitive, and the same is also true for a nuclear reactor.
Finally, propulsion by MHD (magnetohydrodynamics) which
would account for the objects' luminosity at night and for their
performance, would require even more electricity, and would presume
the problem of controlled fusion to have been resolved
which, in these closing years of this century, twenty years after the
Bentwaters affair, it still isn't!
SO THEN HOW CAN THE FAKE UFOs AT GROOM LAKE AND
ELSEWHERE FLY IF THEY AREN'T USING A TECHNOLOGY BASED ON ANOTHER KIND
OF PHYSICS? I'm waiting for Vallée to give me the answer. Maybe, of
course, there is one! But I confess I haven't found
it yet...
EDITOR'S NOTE.
I have all Donald Keyhoe's books, but put away in
storage, and I can't access them easily, so I am unable to suggest
which of the books it is that has been rendered into French as "Les
Etrangers de l'Espace." G.C.
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