In article <1nkeeaINN11i@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> enrique@athena.mit.edu (Enrique Navarrete Pedraza) writes:
>Hi folks, I think I missed the previous postings on this topic,
>but if someone is interested in the videos, please do send me email
>as I can get them. I was in Mexico City at the beginning of this
>year and I can confirm that the UFO sightings on Dec. 31 and Jan 1st
>are very well documented, as I happened to watch different footage
>taken by several news programs which were shown nationwide in Mexico.
>The sightings were a hot topic during those days, and the major
>newspapers also contained a large array of photos.
>
>The showing of the footage in the major news programs was something
>very unusual in itself, since news programs do not usually like to
>get invloved with questionable pieces of news, especially in the
>relatively conservative Mexican society. The sightings were
this is simply not true. Although there might be a "relatively
conservative" tendency in the mexican society, it is most certainly not
unusual for this to happen. In fact, during the 70's the main TV group
supported the UFOmania very strongly. Do you remember Pedro Ferriz (father)?
he was a main anchor-man (person perhaps is more PC) and use to support
all the UFO "people from outer space are visiting us", Bermuda triangle
cases and lots of other nonsense. His son is now one of the most powerful
people in TV nowadays. Now, if you consider TELEVISA (this is the name
of the broadcasting company) a good source of information, I must think
that this is a joke. You leave me no other choice. :-) :-)
As for the mexican society. Well, I thing people in mexico are very gullible
in general. So they being conservative has nothing to do. Most people
(probably that's a very strong statement, but I'll make it nevertheless)
I know either believe in Astrology, Von Daineken, Biorithms, Dowsing (I've
heard of seminars on this at the University!), UFOs, Virgin aparitions, and others, or all of them! This really says something about the poor standards
of the mexican educational system, specially concerning science...but,hey,
this is a completely different ball game, and should be discussed somewhere
else.
>commented so much by so many people, however, that the newsprograms
>were expected to report what people were observing. I am sure there
>is someone in the net who can add something relevant about these
>incredible sightings, perhaps one of the very few so well documented.
>
>As far as the videos are concerned, there is a whole collection, 12
>of them so far, covering a long history of sightings by the journalist
>who is the major authority of UFOs in Mexico. I believe that the January
now, give me a break. Since when is Jaime Mussan (that's the so called
expert) an expert in something?
>sightings provided the right time for his collection of footage to become
>available to the public. When I left Mexico the videos were in very high
In the 'Parade Magazine' dated March 7th, 1993, Carl Sagan wrote an article entitled "Are They Coming For Us?" Based on the total lack of physical evidence, he concludes that UFOs and alien abductions are nothing more than mass hallucinations.
I'm surprised there haven't been any comments about his article in this forum....
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In article <C3oKww.1xJ@csn.org> rcox@bones (Richard Cox) writes:
>In the 'Parade Magazine' dated March 7th, 1993, Carl Sagan wrote an article entitled "Are They Coming For Us?" Based on the total lack of physical evidence, he concludes that UFOs and alien abductions are nothing more than mass hallucinations.
>
>I'm surprised there haven't been any comments about his article in this forum....
That's because those of us who can read agree with him. Actually,
I didn't read that article, but I've heard him comment on this
eslewhere.
One interesting point he makes is that adbuction stories like
these go back centuries, but that the alleged adbuctors reflect
beliefs of the time. Nowadays people think it's space aliens
and imagine them doing "scientific experiments" on them; before
it was demons and they were tortured their captives.
The bottom line remains the same: not a shed of actual evidence.
In article <C3oKww.1xJ@csn.org> rcox@bones (Richard Cox) writes:
>In the 'Parade Magazine' dated March 7th, 1993, Carl Sagan wrote an article entitled "Are They Coming For Us?" Based on the total lack of physical evidence, he concludes that UFOs and alien abductions are nothing more than mass hallucinations.
>
>I'm surprised there haven't been any comments about his article in this forum....
He's beyond his depth on that one. He's no psycologist, and Dr. Mack of Harvard
says there is no historical evidence that people have mass hallucinations.
Sagan is one of the most likely PAID debunkers, and has been for a very
long time...
Jeff-
PS - yes, I read the article; as usual with his work, I was unimpressed.
In article <C3oKs7.BFu@ecf.toronto.edu>, rosen@ecf.toronto.edu (ROSEN Dan) writes:
|> In article <1nkeeaINN11i@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> enrique@athena.mit.edu (Enrique Navarrete Pedraza) writes:
|> >Hi folks, I think I missed the previous postings on this topic,
|> >but if someone is interested in the videos, please do send me email
|> >as I can get them. I was in Mexico City at the beginning of this
|> >year and I can confirm that the UFO sightings on Dec. 31 and Jan 1st
|> >are very well documented, as I happened to watch different footage
|> >taken by several news programs which were shown nationwide in Mexico.
|> >The sightings were a hot topic during those days, and the major
|> >newspapers also contained a large array of photos.
|> >
|> >The showing of the footage in the major news programs was something
|> >very unusual in itself, since news programs do not usually like to
|> >get invloved with questionable pieces of news, especially in the
|> >relatively conservative Mexican society. The sightings were
|>
|> this is simply not true. Although there might be a "relatively
|> conservative" tendency in the mexican society, it is most certainly not
|> unusual for this to happen. In fact, during the 70's the main TV group
|> supported the UFOmania very strongly. Do you remember Pedro Ferriz (father)?
|> he was a main anchor-man (person perhaps is more PC) and use to support
|> all the UFO "people from outer space are visiting us", Bermuda triangle
|> cases and lots of other nonsense. His son is now one of the most powerful
|> people in TV nowadays. Now, if you consider TELEVISA (this is the name
|> of the broadcasting company) a good source of information, I must think
|> that this is a joke. You leave me no other choice. :-) :-)
|>
|> As for the mexican society. Well, I thing people in mexico are very gullible
|> in general. So they being conservative has nothing to do. Most people
|> (probably that's a very strong statement, but I'll make it nevertheless)
|> I know either believe in Astrology, Von Daineken, Biorithms, Dowsing (I've
|> heard of seminars on this at the University!), UFOs, Virgin aparitions, and others, or all of them! This really says something about the poor standards
|> of the mexican educational system, specially concerning science...but,hey,
|> this is a completely different ball game, and should be discussed somewhere
|> else.
|> >commented so much by so many people, however, that the newsprograms
|> >were expected to report what people were observing. I am sure there
|> >is someone in the net who can add something relevant about these
|> >incredible sightings, perhaps one of the very few so well documented.
|> >
|> >As far as the videos are concerned, there is a whole collection, 12
|> >of them so far, covering a long history of sightings by the journalist
|> >who is the major authority of UFOs in Mexico. I believe that the January
|>
|> now, give me a break. Since when is Jaime Mussan (that's the so called
|> expert) an expert in something?
|>
|> >sightings provided the right time for his collection of footage to become
|> >available to the public. When I left Mexico the videos were in very high
In article <1993Mar10.202159.28959@netcom.com>, jeffp@netcom.com (Jeff) writes:
> In article <C3oKww.1xJ@csn.org> rcox@bones (Richard Cox) writes:
>>In the 'Parade Magazine' dated March 7th, 1993, Carl Sagan wrote an article entitled "Are They Coming For Us?" Based on the total lack of physical evidence, he concludes that UFOs and alien abductions are nothing more than mass hallucinations.
>>
>>I'm surprised there haven't been any comments about his article in this forum....
>
> He's beyond his depth on that one. He's no psycologist, and Dr. Mack of Harvard
> says there is no historical evidence that people have mass hallucinations.
>
> Sagan is one of the most likely PAID debunkers, and has been for a very
> long time...
>
> Jeff-
He must have been paid or otherwise convinced, because I have not
known him previously to employ such SLOPPY science! To use the
results of a 6,000 subject survey, and blithely extrapolate it to
global magnitude -- producing the non-credible figure of over
100 million abductees (it was obviously SUPPOSED to be non-credible) --
>> In article <C3oKww.1xJ@csn.org> rcox@bones (Richard Cox) writes:
>>>In the 'Parade Magazine' dated March 7th, 1993, Carl Sagan wrote an article entitled "Are They Coming For Us?" Based on the total lack of physical evidence, he concludes that UFOs and alien abductions are nothing more than mass hallucinations.
>>>
>>>I'm surprised there haven't been any comments about his article in this forum....
>>
>> He's beyond his depth on that one. He's no psycologist, and Dr. Mack of Harvard
>> says there is no historical evidence that people have mass hallucinations.
>>
>> Sagan is one of the most likely PAID debunkers, and has been for a very
>> long time...
>>
>> Jeff-
>
>He must have been paid or otherwise convinced, because I have not
>known him previously to employ such SLOPPY science! To use the
>results of a 6,000 subject survey, and blithely extrapolate it to
>global magnitude -- producing the non-credible figure of over
>100 million abductees (it was obviously SUPPOSED to be non-credible) --
>is pure rubbish!
If the sample population is properly chosen, a small group will accuratly
represent the whole group. For example, polls taken for the presidential
elections currently have about 1300 subjects. They represent the voting
part of 250 million people (in the US). I have seen the records for the
last 5 or 6 elections, and the polls have been accurate to within a few
percent.
Now I am not sure about sampling for global results, where there are
many sub-groups, but if the survey was done properly, it should be
representative of the larger group.
>He should be ashamed of himself.
Can you substantiate that with more than generalizations?
>>> In article <C3oKww.1xJ@csn.org> rcox@bones (Richard Cox) writes:
>>>>In the 'Parade Magazine' dated March 7th, 1993, Carl Sagan wrote an article entitled "Are They Coming For Us?" Based on the total lack of physical evidence, he concludes that UFOs and alien abductions are nothing more than mass hallucinations.
>>>>
>>He must have been paid or otherwise convinced, because I have not
>>known him previously to employ such SLOPPY science! To use the
>>results of a 6,000 subject survey, and blithely extrapolate it to
>>global magnitude -- producing the non-credible figure of over
>>100 million abductees (it was obviously SUPPOSED to be non-credible) --
>>is pure rubbish!
>
>If the sample population is properly chosen, a small group will accuratly
>represent the whole group. For example, polls taken for the presidential
>elections currently have about 1300 subjects. They represent the voting
>part of 250 million people (in the US). I have seen the records for the
>last 5 or 6 elections, and the polls have been accurate to within a few
>percent.
>
>Now I am not sure about sampling for global results, where there are
>many sub-groups, but if the survey was done properly, it should be
>representative of the larger group.
>
>>He should be ashamed of himself.
Actually, the Roper poll was conducted in a scientific, and correct manner,
at the behest of Dr. Mack, not Sagan. The results showed somthing like
6 million americans (1 in 40) MAY have been abducted...
Where Sagan is a buffoon, is to extrapolate those results to the entire
population of the earth and arive with numbers like 100 million.
This is pure muck raking
in order to blow the numbers up so high that people will discredit the
original poll. Sagan is smart, he knows how to make the whole situation appear
absurd, but he can't fool people that have done thier own research into
this subject...
So either he is a true dolt, with such a narrow viewpoint that his stature as
a scientist is threatened, or he has a mission in life to perpetuate the
scoffing attitude of the academic world...most of whom don't know the first
thing about UFO's, and refuse to even investigate it. I guess he is a likely
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My brother went to Unerversity of North Dakota, Grand Forks.
Their past-time was cow-tipping. You know, cows sometimes sleep
standing up and you can walk right up to them and push them over.
I think it's picking on poor stupid animals myself but I have
to grin at the sight.
Just a humorous look at "exactly how do you dissect a 1500lb bull in a farmer's pasture without getting your ass shot off or even being noticed"(GREG).
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Diamagnetism: A New Field
Just about everyone is familiar with normal Diamagnetism. Every atom
in the universe has a diamagnetic field surrounding it; depending on the
electron spin, this field could be moving upwards or downwards. (+ or -)
If you have a negative charge (electron) and a positive charge (nucleus),
the negative particle will be attracted towards and orbit the more positive
one. Actually, it doesn't 'orbit', per se - in a simple hydrogen atom,
the electron is found in a bilobed 'field' around the nucleus, resembling a
figure eight if looked at from the side. Physicists around the world
have explained the behaviour of the electron around a nucleus very well for
themselves, and alternative explanations are looked upon a little like
a sudden outburst from a Flat Earther. Well, I am going to pose such an
alternative explanation. I am sure scientists can come up with a lot of
experimental evidence to dispute my theory, but _I'm_ pretty sure I am
right, and I leave it up to you to decide. Also, I should give credit where
it is due - the original postulation for a new Diamagnetic force came from
an old book called 'UFOs and Diamagnetism', by E. Burt. If you can scrounge
up a copy at your university library, it's an interesting read. My theory
is based on his, but brought up to the times a bit more (the book was
copywrite 1970). Also, I will tell how some of my researches correlate
to my theory.
OK, imagine this. You have not one force acting on an electron from the
proton in a nucleus, but two. One is a strong attractive force. Opposite
charges attract. But, my theory states that there is a repulsive force
as well. A much weaker force that grows intensely when the electron
gets very close to the proton. I imagine that this weaker force's exact
strength could be calculated if the right computer simulation were fed
the right experimental data, and who knows, perhaps I may aspire to that
one day. But for now, just imagine that there is a repulsive, weaker force
acting on the electron.
Now, of course we know that the rapid movement of electrical charges creates
a diamagnetic field. All sorts of useful electronic principals are based on
this. But, I propose a different kind of field - a _reverse_ diamagnetic
field. Such a field would allow all sorts of things to become possible,
as I shall explain later. This field would be generated not by large
movements of negatively charged particles, but by positivtely charged ones.
It is relatively easy for us to generate a diamagnetic field; not so for
this other field. However, I believe that a strong enough field under the
right conditions (more later) would be able to move large objects rather
quickly.
Let us do a bit of imagining here, and create our own spacecraft, to better
illustrate this. Let's take a basic model, no frills saucer body. We take
the rim of this sucker and install some electrical equipment, maybe a
Van Der Vaals machine. We make sure that a very big positive charge gets
generated on the rim of the craft, and insulate it to make sure it doesn't
discharge anywhere else. OK, now we install some motors and do some cutting,
and we make the rim able to spin around seperate from the craft. Remember,
we gotta make this a _moving_ charge. If that isn't enough, then maybe we
scrap the spinning rim idea and go with a circular plasma tube, with some
accelerator/cyclotron mechanism to make it go very fast around inside the
tube. Voila, fast moving positive charge. Now, we do something else: on
the top half of the hull of our Instant ready-to-buzz-Clintons-lawn-party
UFO, we place a large negative charge. Now, let me explain what happens when
we throw the ON switch. The top of the hull will get a large negative charge
(insulated from the rest of the hull and the inside of course). The positive
charge will start moving quickly, and our reverse-Diamagnetic field will build
up. Now, at this point, a new force that we have nevr encountered before will
develop. Now, remember that repulsive force I mentioned? The one that was
so weak, our scientific community has yet to acknowledge it (if it exists,
of course) ? This field is that repulsive force magnified a millionfold.
Now, something funny's going to happen here: The direction of our spin
dictates the direction of the force (polar north or south), and this repels
electrons, right? The whole ship is regular matter, and all matter has
electrons. So, the energy we put into this strong positive, moving charge
will go towards the strength of this field, and the field will instantly
start reacting on the ship, by 'pushing' all the electrons of the ship
upwards. Now, if we push the electron clouds, they will pull the nucleus
along with it. Voila! Propulsion. And, non-Newtonian propulsion at
that. Consider some effects of this field. It's not just pushing the ship,
but all of its contents as well. This means, if we suddenly tilted out
craft strongly in one direction, and we blazed in another direction and
full speed, our bodies would not be ground into the upholstery. Indeed,
during even huge shifts in direction at supersonic speeds, we could be
pouring ourselves a cold glass of Coke, and not spill a drop. The field
acts on everything at once, so every atom is being acted on at once and
equally. Now, I mentioned that large positive charge on the top of the
hull - let me rephrase that to say that the both sides of the hull would
be negatively charged (it wouldn't make sense, as it's the direction of the
field that determines direction, and not which side is negatively charged).
If this field indeed acts upon negative charges, then one might think it
would act on the hull more than on what's inside, thus creating a difference
in the strength of the interaction. This may be the case; I'm not sure.
It may be that you would create a highly negative charge inside the craft
as well; this would not be harmful to the occupants if done properly.
Alright, now that's my theory. Now, let me tell you how I dredged all this
up. First of all, there's been a number of anomalies concerning mass and
experiments involving charge. I can not tell you any examples for right now,
although I remember reading about a Japanese experiment where researchers
noted a drop in mass of an object in some experiment involving charges.
Expanding from that, we take the large base of UFO sightings. I will only
deal with the 'flying saucer' type, as they are probably the easiest for
our science to deal with. They have often been found spinning, and they
move in very abrupt motions at very high speeds. If you think about it,
no structure known to man can withstand the forces involved in a ninety
degree change in direction at supersonic speeds, but I am sure that is
exactly what these craft can do. OK, let us put aside the idea that maybe
they got plenty alloys known to them that could withstand the stress;
what about the inhabitants? I think there's too many reports of these craft
being manned to say that they are all robot observers. If they are definitely
manned, than how could their bodies possibly withstand the force of sudden
shifts? Even today, a limiting factor in the effectiveness of jet fighter
air combat is not the titanium-hulled jet, but the stresses to which it
subjects the pilot. Often they are more than the pilot can take, and the
pilot goes unconscious. Obviously, the aliens have gotten around this
problem very handily, and my theory would go a long way towards explaining
just how it could be done.
Now, let's examine the composition of the hull. After reading Jacques
Vallee's latest, 'UFOs in the Soviet Union: A Cosmic Samizdat' (I hope
I got the name right), he describes of soviet researchers recovering hull
fragments of UFOs. He gave very sketchy details, but it seemed to be
a Cesium-Lanthanum-Neodymium alloy, with the very special property of
having a magnetic field fourteen times stronger on one side than the other.
Whoa, now, magnetic fields... now, how can they be significant that they'd
want to make their hulls have 'em? I have two theories on this...
A. It dampens the reverse-field effect outside the hull, so as to not to
bring up chunks of earth when the thing takes off, or
B. It makes things safer/more comfortable somehow for the inhabitants, by
keeping the diamagnetic fireworks externalized somehow.
I'm sure an alien would know.
You might note that these craft are rather silent, for all their rapid
maneuvers and such. I can attribute this to the possibility that if the
effects of the diamagnetic field are limited to the hull, perhaps a limited
repulsive field would act out against everything outside the hull to a
limited range. I am sketchy on my information here, but I would think that
it would create a vacuum outside the craft. Plus, when the craft speeds throughthe air, this field would ionize air particles in front of it, creating a
'halo' effect. Note that a vacuum surrounding a ship would make it
totally silent as it zips around places.
In summation, I'd say that this field would be a very probability when talking
about the ways and means these craft fly. I am a heavy believer that such
a craft could be within our own technology ... heck, almost something you
could build in your backyard with the right parts. If it could be constructed,
and marketed, the world would see some major changes. The end result, of
course, is that you could take a craft from Ney York to Tokyo in thirty
minutes, and the jet lag would be really atrocious.
In article <C3ou9n.2v8@apollo.hp.com>, nelson_p@apollo.hp.com (Peter Nelson) writes:
|> In article <C3oKww.1xJ@csn.org> rcox@bones (Richard Cox) writes:
|> >In the 'Parade Magazine' dated March 7th, 1993, Carl Sagan wrote an article entitled "Are They Coming For Us?" Based on the total lack of physical evidence, he concludes that UFOs and alien abductions are nothing more than mass hallucinations.
|> >
|> >I'm surprised there haven't been any comments about his article in this forum....
|>
|> That's because those of us who can read agree with him. Actually,
|> I didn't read that article, but I've heard him comment on this
|> eslewhere.
|>
|> One interesting point he makes is that adbuction stories like
|> these go back centuries, but that the alleged adbuctors reflect
|> beliefs of the time. Nowadays people think it's space aliens
|> and imagine them doing "scientific experiments" on them; before
|> it was demons and they were tortured their captives.
|>
|> The bottom line remains the same: not a shed of actual evidence.
|>
|>
Yeah, I guess you are right...Not a shred of evidence...
Not to mention the thousands of people who say they have been abducted, and whos stories are so
closely matched. And that these people are from all over the world, not just
from one town. Or that the top (respected) researchers, who interview these
people, state that all these people observe the same markings and insignias.
Which some of these markings and insignia have purposely been witheld from
the public to allow REAL cases of abduction to be confirmable.
As WE, the general public, dont have sr-71 blackbirds to zoom around and see
these things for ourselves, we have to make a decision as to what we believe
when the Govt tells us that they dont exist.
Obviously, you have blind faith in the Govt.
Do yourself a favor and read a few books on the subject. Talk to a few REAL
researchers, REAL abduction researchers.
The circumstantial evidence alone is overwelming. This is not a courtroom. Yeah,
I admit most of it (if not all) is circumstantial evidence, but look at the
volume and quality of the data. Look at the players involved, the careers, the
tragedies of peoples lives after they tell their stories.
Some things you dont have to have actual physical evidence to make a conviction.
Look at murder...you dont have to have produce a dead body in court to prove
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OK, all, here is the explanation I mentioned for my Diamagnetic field
theory. Enjoy..... (I hope this didn't get posted before, if it did,
I'm sorry!)
Diamagnetism: A New Field
Just about everyone is familiar with normal Diamagnetism. Every atom
in the universe has a diamagnetic field surrounding it; depending on the
electron spin, this field could be moving upwards or downwards. (+ or -)
If you have a negative charge (electron) and a positive charge (nucleus),
the negative particle will be attracted towards and orbit the more positive
one. Actually, it doesn't 'orbit', per se - in a simple hydrogen atom,
the electron is found in a bilobed 'field' around the nucleus, resembling a
figure eight if looked at from the side. Physicists around the world
have explained the behaviour of the electron around a nucleus very well for
themselves, and alternative explanations are looked upon a little like
a sudden outburst from a Flat Earther. Well, I am going to pose such an
alternative explanation. I am sure scientists can come up with a lot of
experimental evidence to dispute my theory, but _I'm_ pretty sure I am
right, and I leave it up to you to decide. Also, I should give credit where
it is due - the original postulation for a new Diamagnetic force came from
an old book called 'UFOs and Diamagnetism', by E. Burt. If you can scrounge
up a copy at your university library, it's an interesting read. My theory
is based on his, but brought up to the times a bit more (the book was
copywrite 1970). Also, I will tell how some of my researches correlate
to my theory.
OK, imagine this. You have not one force acting on an electron from the
proton in a nucleus, but two. One is a strong attractive force. Opposite
charges attract. But, my theory states that there is a repulsive force
as well. A much weaker force that grows intensely when the electron
gets very close to the proton. I imagine that this weaker force's exact
strength could be calculated if the right computer simulation were fed
the right experimental data, and who knows, perhaps I may aspire to that
one day. But for now, just imagine that there is a repulsive, weaker force
acting on the electron.
Now, of course we know that the rapid movement of electrical charges creates
a diamagnetic field. All sorts of useful electronic principals are based on
this. But, I propose a different kind of field - a _reverse_ diamagnetic
field. Such a field would allow all sorts of things to become possible,
as I shall explain later. This field would be generated not by large
movements of negatively charged particles, but by positivtely charged ones.
It is relatively easy for us to generate a diamagnetic field; not so for
this other field. However, I believe that a strong enough field under the
right conditions (more later) would be able to move large objects rather
quickly.
Let us do a bit of imagining here, and create our own spacecraft, to better
illustrate this. Let's take a basic model, no frills saucer body. We take
the rim of this sucker and install some electrical equipment, maybe a
Van Der Vaals machine. We make sure that a very big positive charge gets
generated on the rim of the craft, and insulate it to make sure it doesn't
discharge anywhere else. OK, now we install some motors and do some cutting,
and we make the rim able to spin around seperate from the craft. Remember,
we gotta make this a _moving_ charge. If that isn't enough, then maybe we
scrap the spinning rim idea and go with a circular plasma tube, with some
accelerator/cyclotron mechanism to make it go very fast around inside the
tube. Voila, fast moving positive charge. Now, we do something else: on
the top half of the hull of our Instant ready-to-buzz-Clintons-lawn-party
UFO, we place a large negative charge. Now, let me explain what happens when
we throw the ON switch. The top of the hull will get a large negative charge
(insulated from the rest of the hull and the inside of course). The positive
charge will start moving quickly, and our reverse-Diamagnetic field will build
up. Now, at this point, a new force that we have nevr encountered before will
develop. Now, remember that repulsive force I mentioned? The one that was
so weak, our scientific community has yet to acknowledge it (if it exists,
of course) ? This field is that repulsive force magnified a millionfold.
Now, something funny's going to happen here: The direction of our spin
dictates the direction of the force (polar north or south), and this repels
electrons, right? The whole ship is regular matter, and all matter has
electrons. So, the energy we put into this strong positive, moving charge
will go towards the strength of this field, and the field will instantly
start reacting on the ship, by 'pushing' all the electrons of the ship
upwards. Now, if we push the electron clouds, they will pull the nucleus
along with it. Voila! Propulsion. And, non-Newtonian propulsion at
that. Consider some effects of this field. It's not just pushing the ship,
but all of its contents as well. This means, if we suddenly tilted out
craft strongly in one direction, and we blazed in another direction and
full speed, our bodies would not be ground into the upholstery. Indeed,
during even huge shifts in direction at supersonic speeds, we could be
pouring ourselves a cold glass of Coke, and not spill a drop. The field
acts on everything at once, so every atom is being acted on at once and
equally. Now, I mentioned that large positive charge on the top of the
hull - let me rephrase that to say that the both sides of the hull would
be negatively charged (it wouldn't make sense, as it's the direction of the
field that determines direction, and not which side is negatively charged).
If this field indeed acts upon negative charges, then one might think it
would act on the hull more than on what's inside, thus creating a difference
in the strength of the interaction. This may be the case; I'm not sure.
It may be that you would create a highly negative charge inside the craft
as well; this would not be harmful to the occupants if done properly.
Alright, now that's my theory. Now, let me tell you how I dredged all this
up. First of all, there's been a number of anomalies concerning mass and
experiments involving charge. I can not tell you any examples for right now,
although I remember reading about a Japanese experiment where researchers
noted a drop in mass of an object in some experiment involving charges.
Expanding from that, we take the large base of UFO sightings. I will only
deal with the 'flying saucer' type, as they are probably the easiest for
our science to deal with. They have often been found spinning, and they
move in very abrupt motions at very high speeds. If you think about it,
no structure known to man can withstand the forces involved in a ninety
degree change in direction at supersonic speeds, but I am sure that is
exactly what these craft can do. OK, let us put aside the idea that maybe
they got plenty alloys known to them that could withstand the stress;
what about the inhabitants? I think there's too many reports of these craft
being manned to say that they are all robot observers. If they are definitely
manned, than how could their bodies possibly withstand the force of sudden
shifts? Even today, a limiting factor in the effectiveness of jet fighter
air combat is not the titanium-hulled jet, but the stresses to which it
subjects the pilot. Often they are more than the pilot can take, and the
pilot goes unconscious. Obviously, the aliens have gotten around this
problem very handily, and my theory would go a long way towards explaining
just how it could be done.
Now, let's examine the composition of the hull. After reading Jacques
Vallee's latest, 'UFOs in the Soviet Union: A Cosmic Samizdat' (I hope
I got the name right), he describes of soviet researchers recovering hull
fragments of UFOs. He gave very sketchy details, but it seemed to be
a Cesium-Lanthanum-Neodymium alloy, with the very special property of
having a magnetic field fourteen times stronger on one side than the other.
Whoa, now, magnetic fields... now, how can they be significant that they'd
want to make their hulls have 'em? I have two theories on this...
A. It dampens the reverse-field effect outside the hull, so as to not to
bring up chunks of earth when the thing takes off, or
B. It makes things safer/more comfortable somehow for the inhabitants, by
keeping the diamagnetic fireworks externalized somehow.
I'm sure an alien would know.
You might note that these craft are rather silent, for all their rapid
maneuvers and such. I can attribute this to the possibility that if the
effects of the diamagnetic field are limited to the hull, perhaps a limited
repulsive field would act out against everything outside the hull to a
limited range. I am sketchy on my information here, but I would think that
it would create a vacuum outside the craft. Plus, when the craft speeds throughthe air, this field would ionize air particles in front of it, creating a
'halo' effect. Note that a vacuum surrounding a ship would make it
totally silent as it zips around places.
In summation, I'd say that this field would be a very probability when talking
about the ways and means these craft fly. I am a heavy believer that such
a craft could be within our own technology ... heck, almost something you
could build in your backyard with the right parts. If it could be constructed,
and marketed, the world would see some major changes. The end result, of
course, is that you could take a craft from Ney York to Tokyo in thirty
minutes, and the jet lag would be really atrocious.
