SECRETS OF
ANTIGRAVITY PROPULSION
“Paul LaViolette is one of the most interesting and innovative thinkers probing the limits and horizons of contemporary physics. In this book he takes up a challenge that many of us have thought about but could not document: the possibility of propulsion systems that practically defy gravity. His findings merit earnest consideration, debate, and discussion.”
ERVIN LASZLO, AUTHOR OF
SCIENCE AND THE AKASHIC FIELD
“Paul LaViolette’s investigations into this most mysterious of subjects are at once fascinating and prescient.”
NICK COOK, AUTHOR OF THE HUNT FOR ZERO POINT: INSIDE THE
CLASSIFIED WORLD OF ANTIGRAVITY TECHNOLOGY
“One of the boldest and most exciting books on gravity control to be put forward in our times. Paul LaViolette is an outstanding scientist and the first to reverse engineer the B-2’s highly classified propulsion system.”
EUGENE PODKLETNOV, PH.D., PROFESSOR OF CHEMISTRY, TAMPERE, FINLAND
“Paul LaViolette has once again unearthed advanced knowledge that can change our lives. This is a landmark book to be read and discussed by anyone concerned about humanity’s options for the near future.”
JEANE MANNING, AUTHOR OF THE COMING ENERGY REVOLUTION: THE SEARCH FOR FREE ENERGY
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I dedicate this book to my father, Fred LaViolette (1916–2008), who through our years had been a guiding light for me. In particular I am greatly indebted to him for the long hours he spent helping me edit this manuscript. I would also like to thank my sister, Mary, for her editorial assistance as well. Finally I would like to thank Tom Turman, Thomas Chavez, Guy Obolensky, Larry Deavenport, Jean-Louis Naudin, and others for information about their work that they graciously shared.
CONTENTS
Cover Image
Title Page
Epigraph
Acknowledgments
1 Antigravity: From Dream to Reality
1.1 • TRAVELING TO THE STARS
1.2 • THE BIRTH OF ELECTROGRAVITICS
1.3 • A THEORY OF ELECTROGRAVITICS
1.4 • ELECTROGRAVITIC MOTORS
1.5 • BROWN’S GRAVITO-ELECTRIC DISCOVERIES
1.6 • THE PHILADELPHIA EXPERIMENT
2 Beyond Rocket Propulsion
2.1 • BROWN’S ELECTRIFIED FLYING DISCS
2.2 • THE SECOND PEARL HARBOR DISC DEMONSTRATION
2.3 • PROJECT WINTERHAVEN
2.4 • ANTIGRAVITY RESEARCH: TOP SECRET
3 Onward and Upward
3.1 • THE PARIS EXPERIMENTS
3.2 • OVERUNITY LEVITATION
3.3 • NONLINEAR FIELDS
3.4 • AC FIELDS
3.5 • ELECTROGRAVITICS GOES BLACK
4 An Etheric Explanation
4.1 • THE NEW “CLASSIFIED” PHYSICS
4.2 • VIRTUAL CHARGE ELECTROGRAVITIC EFFECTS
4.3 • TOWNSEND BROWN’S ET HER PHYSICS
5 The U.S. Antigravity Squadron
5.1 • ELECTROGRAVITIC SECRETS OF THE B-2 BOMBER
5.2 • THE B-2’S FLAME-JET GENERATORS
5.3 • AC ELECTRIFICATION?
6 Gravity Beam Propulsion
6.1 • EXPLAINING THE ELECTROGRAVITIC IMPULSE EFFECT
6.2 • SUPERLUMINAL PULSES
6.3 • INTERSTELLAR SPACE TRAVEL
7 Project Skyvault
7.1 • EARLY MICROWAVE RESEARCH
7.2 • ELECTROMAGNETIC RESONANCE
7.3 • SAWTOOTH WAVES
7.4 • THE BEAM GENERATOR
7.5 • THE BEAM AMPLIFIER
8 Microwave Phase Conjugation
8.1 • PHASE-CONJUGATE MICROWAVE
8.2 • VEHICLE FLIGHT CONTROL
8.3 • AEROSPACE INDUSTRY INVOLVEMENT
8.4 • TESLA’S MAGNIFYING TRANSMITTERS
8.5 • BROWN’S PHASE-CONJUGATING MICROWAVE DISC
8.6 • THE RUNAWAY MODE
9 Unconventional Flying Objects
9.1 • SIGHTINGS
9.2 • THE CASH-LANDRUM ENCOUNTER
9.3 • TRIANGULAR CRAFT
9.4 • CRASH RECOVERY OPERATIONS
9.5 • ART’S PARTS REVERSE ENGINEERED
9.6 • PROJECT REDLIGHT
9.7 • THE SPORT MODEL
10 The Searl Effect
10.1 • THE SEARL EFFECT GENERATOR
10.2 • THE MAGNETIC ENERGY CONVERTER
10.3 • THE FARADAY DISC DYNAMO EFFECT
10.4 • THE BALL-BEARING MOTOR EFFECT
10.5 • THE CYLINDRICAL SOLITON
10.6 • ENERGY ENTRAINMENT
10.7 • EXPLAINING THE WEIGHT-LOSS EFFECT
11 Electrogravitic Wave Experiments
11.1 • THE DIMITRIOU GRAVITY SHIELD
11.2 • LOW-VOLTAGE SAW TOOTH-WAVE EXPERIMENTS
12 High-Voltage Electrogravitics Experiments
12.1 • TOM TURMAN’S ELECTROKINETICS EXPERIMENTS
12.2 • LARRY DEAVENPORT’S ELECTROKINETIC DISC TEST
12.3 • ROBERT TALLEY’S ELECTROGRAVITIC ROTOR TEST
12.4 • THE CORNILLE-NAUDIN PENDULUM EXPERIMENTS
12.5 • LIFTER RESEARCH
12.6 • THE LAFFORGUE THRUSTER
13 Black Hole Discovered in NASA
13.1 • THE SPACE EXPLORATION OUTREACH PROGRAM
13.2 • IDEA CENSORSHIP
13.3 • THE MISSING DISCS
13.4 • THE NATIONAL AERO-SPACE PLANE
13.5 • THE COLUMBIA DISASTER
13.6 • NASA: A MILITARY FRONT ORGANIZATION?
14 A Technology That Could Change the World
APPENDICES
A. Letters Written by T. Townsend Brown to Thomas Turman
B. Aviation Studies International Ltd. Publications
C. Electrogravitics Systems
D. A Brief Description of Experiments Made in Paris by T. Townsend Brown
E. Notes on the Skyvault Antigravity Project
F. Secret Government Memos Concerning Operation Majestic Twelve
G. Electrogravitics: An Energy-Efficient Means of Space Propulsion
H. Beyond Rocket Propulsion
I. Correspondence with Charles Morris
J. Preventing Another Columbia Disaster
Footnotes
Endnotes
Bibliography
About the Author
About Inner Traditions • Bear & Company
Books of Related Interests
Copyright & Permissions
1
ANTIGRAVITY: FROM DREAM TO REALITY
1.1 • TRAVELING TO THE STARS
Interstellar space travel has long captivated the imagination and longing of humankind. Indeed, we have penetrated the cosmos and walked on the moon, while breakthroughs in long-range exploration, such as the Hubble Space Telescope, bring the farthest reaches of space tantalizingly close, rekindling our desire to travel beyond our galaxy. As of yet, we are bound by the frustrating limits of conventional propulsion technology. Skeptics remind us that a spacecraft powered by even the most advanced chemical rockets would need to carry so much fuel that travel over interstellar distances would be out of the question. Alternatively, vehicles equipped with nuclear-powered ion thrusters would have a much greater range. However, the fuel requirements would be such as to make a journey of even a few light-years quite impractical—basic physics tells us that a rocket-powered spacecraft would need a fuel mass that would far exceed the mass of the vehicle itself.
Is there a way to free ourselves of this fuel problem, using a totally different means of propulsion, one that does not require large quantities of mass to be jettisoned rearward for the craft to move forward? Imagine a spaceship that could alter the ambient gravitational field, artificially producing a matter-attracting, gravity-potential well that was just beyond the ship’s bow. The gravity well’s attractive force would tug the ship forward just as if a very massive, planet-sized body had been placed ahead of it. The ship would begin to “fall” forward and, in doing so, would carry its self-generated gravity well along with it. The gravity well would continually draw the ship forward, while always staying ahead. Through such a carrot-and-stick effect, the ship could accelerate to nearly the speed of light, or maybe even beyond, with essentially no expenditure of energy other than that needed to generate the gravity well.
Is such gravity control possible? Would it be possible to construct a spaceship with small enough propulsion power requirements that interstellar travel could be achieved? The answer is yes. For the past several decades, highly classified aerospace programs in the United States and in several other countries have been developing aircraft capable of defying gravity. One form of this technology can loft a craft on matter-repelling energy beams. This exotic technology falls under the relatively obscure field of research known as electrogravitics.
The origins of electrogravitics can be traced back to the turn of the twentieth century, to Nikola Tesla’s work with high-voltage shock discharges, and somewhat later to T. Townsend Brown’s relatively unpublicized discovery that electrostatic and gravitational fields are closely intertwined. Unfortunately, the electrogravitic effect has for the most part been ignored by mainstream academics, because the phenomenon isn’t anticipated by either classical electrostatics or general relativity, effectively preventing it from being taught in university courses such as physics and electrical engineering. Rather, to unlock the secrets of electrogravitics, one must delve into popular science articles, patents, and relatively obscure technical reports that once held a classified status. Perhaps the best place to begin is to review some of Brown’s seminal work.