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Antigravity on
the Rocks:
The T. T. Brown
Story
Jeane Manning
T. Townsend Brown was jubilant when he returned from France in 1956.
The soft-spoken scientist had a solid clue which could lead to fuelless
space travel. His saucer-shaped discs flew at speeds of up to several hundred
miles per hour, with no moving parts. One thing he was certain of—
the phenomena should be investigated by the best scientific institutions.
Surely now the science establishment would admit that he really had something.
Although the tall, lean physicist—handsome, in a gangly way—was
a humble man, even shy, he confidently took his good news to a top-ranking
officer he knew in Washington, D.C.
"The experiments in Paris proved that the anomalous motion of my
disc airfoils was not all caused by ion wind." The listener would hear
Brown's every word, because he took his time in getting words out. "They
conclusively proved that the apparatus works even in high vacuum. Here's
the documentation ..."
Anomalous means unusual—a discovery which does not fit into the
current box of acknowledged science. In this case, the anomaly revealed
a connection between electricity and gravity.
That year Interavia magazine reported that Brown's discs reached
speeds of several hundred miles per hour when charged with several hundred
thousand volts of electricity. A wire running along the leading edge
of each disc charged that side with high positive voltage, and the trailing
edge was wired for an opposite charge. The high voltage ionized air
around them, and a cloud of positive ions formed ahead of the craft and a
cloud of negative ions behind. The apparatus was pulled along by its selfgenerated
gravity field, like a surfer riding a wave. Fate magazine writer
Gaston Burridge in 1958 also described Brown's metal discs, some up to
30 inches in diameter by that time. Because they needed a wire to supply
electric charges, the discs were tethered by a wire to a Maypole-like mast.
The double-saucer objects circled the pole with a slight humming sound.
"In the dart they glow with an eerie lavender light."
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