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282 Suppressed Inventions and Other Discoveries
(SNCASO) in France offered him funding, he went to France and built
better devices as well as had them properly tested. Those tests convinced
his backers that it could mean a feasible drive system for outer space, he
told Reynolds. SNCASO merged with Sud Est in 1956 and funding was
cut, so Brown had to return to the United States.
Brown was eager to show the French documentation to all those officials
who had raised the wall of indifference in the past. But after his discouraging
visit to Washington, D.C. in 1956 and what felt like a put-down
from Admiral Rickover, he apparently decided "if the military isn't interested,
the aerospace companies might be." Friends say it did not occur to
him to ask if the defense industry was already working on electrogravitics,
unknown to him. In 1953 he had flown saucer-shaped devices of three feet
in diameter in a demonstration for some Air Force officials and men from
major aerospace companies. Energized with high voltage, they whizzed
around the 50 foot diameter course so fast that the reports of the test were
stamped "classified."
Independent researcher Paul LaViolette, Ph.D., traces the path which
these impressive results led to—toward the Pentagon, the military hub of
the United States. "A recently declassified Air Force intelligence report
indicates that by September of 1954 the Pentagon had launched a program
to develop a manned antigravity craft of the sort suggested in Project Winterhaven,"
writes LaViolette.
Meanwhile, Brown went practically door-to-door in Los Angeles to try
to rouse some interest in his work. One day he returned to his laboratory
to find it had been broken into and much of his belongings were missing.
CHARACTER ASSASSINATION
Then the nasty rumours started. The type of rumours which can discredit
a man's character, upset his wife and children, and overall cause deep distress
to a sensitive man.
Another tragedy in Brown's life was the sudden death of his friend and
helpful supporter, Agnew Bahnson, who funded him to do anti-gravity
research and development beginning in 1957 in North Carolina. Did they
make too much progress In 1964 Bahnson, an experienced pilot, mysteriously
flew into electric wires and crashed. Bahnson's heirs dissolved the
project.
The authors of the book The Philadelphia Experiment wrote that in
spite of his numerous patents and demonstrations given to governmental
and corporate groups, success eluded Townsend Brown. "Such interest as
he was able to generate seemed to melt away almost as last as it developed—almost
as if someone . . . was working against him."
Today's researchers looking at Townsend Brown's life have noticed