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promote and support investigations in search of underlying knowledge of
these phenomena ... to discover fundamental laws . . . and to evolve
new technical concepts for the improvement and welfare of mankind."
RIAS' charter could have been Schauberger's own.
And look at what had happened next.
No sooner had people started showing an interest in Schauberger
again than a man with clear ties to the U.S. intelligence community turns
up on his doorstep, tempts him over to the United States and shuts his
operation down—permanently.
In 1956, Trimble and others announce to the world that gravity can be
harnessed in the same space of time it took to develop the atomic bomb.
Within two more years, all of the companies that had been waxing to
the rooftops about the coming antigravity revolution had fallen silent
on the subject. By 1960, it was as if none of them had ever even thought
of it.
In the meantime, Avro Canada, the only company in the world to have
openly admitted to working on a flying saucer—a dog of a thing that has
trouble even getting off the ground—has had the rights to the real but
highly secret technology, the supersonic models that show phenomenal
promise, acquired by the United States. Then that operation is shut
down, too.
John Frost, the man who headed up Avro's Special Projects Group,
takes its secrets to his grave and George Trimble, many years into his
retirement, gets spooked by a seemingly mundane journalistic inquiry 40
years on from these events.
I returned to that central question. What was it about these complementary
technologies—the saucer airframe and antigravity propulsion—
that had caused such extreme and violent reactions in people directly
linked to them?
For the next three decades, no one in scientific circles would have
dared discuss these twin strands of development for fear of the ridicule it
would have brought upon them. The cult of the UFO—a phenomenon
that has clearly been "spun" by the military-intelligence community
from time to time—simply made this worse. It was only in the 1990s, as
NASA and other scientists began to strive for propulsion methods that
far outstrip today's state of the art, that the whole antigravity business
started to gain currency again outside the black world. But even then, you
had to proceed with caution.
But the real mystery was this. If the principles of antigravity technology
had been available since the war—earlier, perhaps, if T.T.
Brown's contribution should be given credit—then why were some of