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                           ANTI-GRAVITY RESEARCHING

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   May 5, 1991

   From the November, 1958 FATE magazine.

Townsend Brown and his Anti-Gravity Discs

    by Gaston Burridge

   Thomas Townsend Brown has been flying strange metal saucer-like discs
   of his own secret design and make for more than 30 years - some big
   ones too, up to 30 inches in diameter!

   Mostly, Brown has flown his discs in good old common air. The discs
   are tethered to a mast or pole and the thin, double-saucer-like things
   fly a circle around and around the mast in free flight.

   Only a slight hum is audible as they fly. In the dark they glow with
   an eerie lavender light, revealing their motive power which is a kind
   of electricity.

   Many scientists and engineers have watched these discs fly. Under
   their breath, and sometimes out loud, most of them have said the force
   which makes Brown's discoids spin is one which every high- school
   physics student knows about - "Electric Wind" - and not a new
   principle Brown has discovered at all!

   One engineer told me, "The whole thing is so screwball I don't want to
   even talk about it!" Another said, "The device is only about one-tenth
   of one percent efficient." Both these statements have since been
   proved incorrect! Most other engineers object to the lack of
   mathematical substantiation presented by Brown. To engineers and
   scientists one equation is worth a thousand words! But even an
   equation is of little use unless it has values assigned to at least
   some of its main parts. When these were not forthcoming, from a
   technical point of view, it appeared Brown was walking on straw legs.

   Then recently Brown went to France. Under what was virtually a French
   Government sponsored program of research, Air-France successfully flew
   some of the Brown discs in a HIGH VACUUM!

   And that took all the "electric wind" out of the previously dissenting
   sails1 These tests were of a highly secret nature and, because of
   this, and, because they were made in a foreign nation, their results
   REMAIN CLASSIFIED.

   One by one, U.S. engineering and scientific heads are beginning to
   show above the storm cellars. It is now quietly admitted that perhaps
   Brown may have something after all!

   One thing he DOES have which he has not had before is a sponsor!
   Perhaps that is the reason for the heads showing from the cellars.
   There is nothing quite like having financial backing.

   What do Brown's inventions mean? Another kind, type, or arrangement of
   high-speed flight, both within our own atmosphere and in the space
   beyond it!

   How will it compare as a motive force with the rocket motors and the
   jet engines of today? Of course, we cannot say yet but there is
   nothing to indicate Brown's method will not compete most favorably
   with them. Brown's method has definite "anti-gravitic potentials'
   which their rockets or jets do not have. Because of present patent
   situations many details of the Brown system must be by-passed here,
   but it seems they represent no small item in the total picture of
   space flight.

   Since 1923 Brown and his family have spent nearly $250,000 of their
   own funds on experiments and research into the mysteries of that
   strangest of strange electrical phenomenon, the "Biefeld-Brown
   Effect". Electrical literature contains few writings on this subject,
   mostly because Brown has maintained a tight grip on the information
   and has not seen fit to write on the matter scientifically or
   otherwise. No one else has seemed inclined to research the matter.
   What is more American scientific journals are open to few ideas that
   DO NOT ORIGINATE with men CONNECTED WITH LARGE UNIVERSITY or
   COMMERCIAL RESEARCH LABORATORIES!

   I first heard of Townsend Brown and his Biefeld-Brown Effect from Mr.
   Arlin C. Hauser. Hauser is a designer and builder of fine technical
   instruments in Pasadena who doesn't hold an idea at arms- length
   because it is "new". Hauser furnished me a copy of a monograph titled,
   "A SIMPLIFIED EXPLANATION OF THE APPLICATION OF THE BIEFELD-BROWN
   EFFECT TO THE SOLUTION OF THE PROBLEMS OF SPACE NAVIGATION". This
   monograph was published by Dr. Mason Rose, president of the University
   for Social Research, Los Angeles, but was actually written, I learned
   later, by Mr. Bradford Shank, a nuclear scientist, formally of Los
   Alamos, now engaged in engineering work for a Los Angeles aircraft
   valve manufacturer.

   Some of the information set forth in this monograph rang a bell way
   back in my memory.

   Between 1919 and 1925 I was "errand boy" in a laboratory conducting
   experiments with high potential, high frequency alternating currents.
   We were playing with a million volts at 750,000 cycles per second! A
   new type of electrical condenser had been built and was to be tested.
   It was hooked into the circuit but was not "bolted down" - it was
   heavy.

   The director stood at the switchboard; the rest of us at a respectful
   distance away. The switch was thrown. There was a hum, a bursting
   flash of green and purple light, a loud bang, a violent lurch and
   twist of the new condenser and that piece of apparatus lay a smoking
   ruin! The director said, "Gentlemen, our baby has grown up!"

   It is this movement manifest in an electrical condenser which is the
   essence of the Biefeld-Brown Effect. This movement makes the Effect
   highly interesting as an anti-gravitic force!

   The Biefeld-Brown Effect says an electrical condenser, when charged,
   will MOVE TORWARD its positive pole and remain so positioned UNTIL
   DISCHARGED, if free to do so, regardless of WHICH POLE or WHICH SIDE
   of the dielectric is made positive.

   This movement does not disregard the time-honored "law" which
   indicates every action carries within it an equal reaction. The
   reaction, as in gravitation, is present BUT NOT OBVIOUS. The reaction
   is a finite but vanishingly small movement of all the other matter in
   the Universe. But the nearest masses are affected first and most!

   The Effect was first observed when the condenser plates were charged
   with a DIRECT CURRENT. But the experience noted above, which was
   observed subsequently during other experiments, indicates something of
   the same phenomenon is present when condensers are charged with
   ALTERNATING current also - but probably not as effectively or as
   lastingly.

   While these alternating current condenser MOVEMENTS were noted at the
   time, especially when the condensers were initially charged after a
   long and complete discharge, those directing the research then
   believed the movements were due to resonances set up within the
   apparatus by the 60-cycle feed currents. Thus, this phenomenon, though
   noted, was never investigated by the group to which I was attached.

   This electrical condenser movement is believed to have been first
   perceived and examined by Dr. Paul Alfred Biefeld, professor of
   physics and astronomy, Denison University, Granville, Ohio, sometime
   before 1923.

   However, search of the Denison University's own published scientific
   records does not indicate Dr. Biefeld wrote anything regarding this
   discovery while there. Dr. Lawrence Biefeld, a son of Dr. Paul Alfred
   Biefeld, writes me that he does not recall his father ever having
   mentioned discovering such an effect! However, Mr. Bradford Shank who
   has been intimately associated with several phases of the Townsend
   Brown Foundation and its work for several years relates that Dr.
   Biefeld did originate the initial research into the Effect itself and
   also directed Townsend Brown, then a student at Denision University,
   in Brown's early interest in the matter.

   Although the Effect may have been recognized first by Dr. Biefeld, a
   greater part of the development research and ALL the practical
   application of it has been carried on by Brown - mostly at his own
   expense, over a period of more than 30 years.

   Apparently the Effect was named by someone else writing a report on
   the subject. But had it not been for Townsend Brown's long interest
   and research this Effect might remain unrecorded and unexploited
   still!

   Evidence indicates the entire Universe, from the greatest systems of
   stars and their planets down to the smallest atom and its parts -
   hydrogen - operates on only three basic forces - electricity,
   magnetism and gravitation. These three forces may be entirely separate
   and different or they may be only different phases of the same force,
   a Universal force we have not yet distinguished as such. Regardless of
   this, we know the relationship between electricity and magnetism and
   we know this relationship is brought about and maintained by the very
   simple COIL OF WIRE!

   It is quite possible, through the Biefeld-Brown Effect, we have come
   upon the relationship between electricity and gravitation, a
   relationship being brought about and maintained through the very
   simple electrical condenser!

   If each of these three forces is considered separately, we find little
   of practical value in any of them! It is only through combinations of
   two, and perhaps more, that we begin to use them.

   Aside from the researches into the Biefeld-Brown Effect carried on by
   Mr. Brown science has done practically nothing toward developing the
   relationship between electricity and gravitation.

   Most scientists today will admit a weak COUPLING EFFECT DOES EXIST
   BETWEEN GRAVITATION AND ELECTRICITY but any practical use of this
   coupling effect they deny!

   Standing almost alone in this belief Mr. Brown has maintained his
   position regarding the matter stubbornly, faithfully, and devotedly.

   If a simple, two-plate electrical condenser (FIGURE 1) is suspended by
   a cord in such a way as to allow it complete freedom to to move in any
   direction, except downward of course, and this condenser is charged
   with the proper amount and pressure of direct electric current the
   instrument will swing TOWARD the side holding the POSITIVE CHARGE.

   If this same condenser is discharged, the positive and negative wires
   switched and connected oppositely, when recharged the condenser will
   swing in the OPPOSITE DIRECTION.

   If the condenser is placed upon one side of a balanced beam (FIGURE 2)
   with enough weight opposite it to continue the balance and if the
   positive pole is pointed up, when the condenser is charged the weight
   on the opposite side of the beam will fall and the entire condenser
   WILL RISE!

   This shows that some of the "weight" of the condenser has been
   relieved. If the positive pole now is reversed, when the condenser is
   again charged the weight on the opposite end of the beam WILL BE
   LIFTED! This illustrates gravitic affect.

   This is the Biefeld-Brown Effect. As far is now known it is the only
   method of affecting the gravitational field electrically! However,
   apparently there are several other research programs now under way
   attempting to establish an electro-gravitic relationship.

   One of the mysteries of this Effect is that it APPEARS TO BE AFFECTED
   BY TIME! Time does not do away with the Effect completely, but it does
   appear to minimize it temporarily. This was noted first by Brown
   during experiments located in a closed room.

   He watched his discs through a telescope from outside the room. Brown
   observed that after a time the discs did not swing quite so far as
   initially, in either direction, with the same electric charge. I
   understood from Mr. Shank that this point was discussed with Albert
   Einstein but what Mr. Einstein had to say remains unknown to me.

   The phenomenon might be accounted for by subtle atomic structural
   breakdowns in the dielectric material, or in the plate material, or
   both. After a time, following a complete discharge, these breakdowns
   mend themselves.

   The intensity with which the Biefeld-Brown Effect may act is
   determined by five factors. Ultimate intensity cannot possibly be
   obtained by a combined use of all five factors - each in their
   separate ultimates! A compromise must be made. This is not as grave a
   disadvantage as it might seem at first, for it will allow an almost
   endless arrangement of factors in any given disc or ship.

   The best combination of these then may be chosen and applied to a wide
   variety of practical conditions which will surely arise in everyday
   aeronautical or astronautical flight.

   1) PROXIMITY OF PLATES

     The first factor regulating the intensity of the Effect is
     controlled by the closeness at which the condenser's plates can be
     set. If the charging pressure - or voltage - is high then the plates
     will have to be farther apart than for lower voltages -using the
     same dielectric. If it is necessary to charge the condenser quickly
     a higher voltage is needed than if more time can be taken. Hence,
     the closer the condenser plates the greated the Effect gained -
     other circumstances remaining the same.

   2) DIELECTRIC CONSTANT

     The second factor is the ability of the material chosen as a
     dielectric to store electrical energy. There are many kinds of
     dielectrics: glass, mica, rubber, paper, bakelite, air, ceramics,
     and many of the plastics. A dielectric is any material which opposes
     the flow of an electric current and at the same time is capable of
     storing the electrical energy as an "elastic stress."

     The action resembles the squeezing of a soft rubber ball. The
     muscles in your hand represent the electric voltage. They squeeze
     the ball's sides together. The sides remain squeezed until your
     muscles release their pressure, then the sides jump back into their
     original shape.

     A dielectric will absorb an electric charge until its capacity has
     been reached. Then it will either hold that charge as long as the
     charging force is present, or it will rupture and the pressure will
     leak away, or if the accumulated pressure becomes greater than the
     charging pressure it will discharge itself back into the charging
     circuit! This last can raise the devil!

     Some dielectrics are capable of absorbing a great quantity of
     electrical energy if that energy is applied slowly at moderate
     pressure, but they break down if called upon to act quickly.

     Other dielectrics, like lead-free glass, can be charged and
     discharged thousands of times a second at high pressures. The
     measure of a dielectric's ability is called the "K" of the material.
     The higher the K, the greater is the Biefeld-Brown Effect.

   3) INTENSITY

     A third factor in creating intensity of the Effect is the AREA of
     the dielectric's charging plates. The discs are used edgewise, and
     the greater their area, the greater the Effect obtained.

   4) VOLTAGE

     A fourth factor has to do with the VOLTAGE, or pressure used to
     charge the condenser's plates. The higher the voltage, the greater
     the Effect.

     Also, the higher the voltage the shorter the time required to charge
     a given condenser size. But the voltage must not be so high as to
     puncture the dielectric, the condenser is permanently, or
     temporarily ruined - depending upon its ability to "heal" itself.
     Solid dielectrics cannot heal themselves. Fluids heal themselves
     almost as soon as punctured. (the reason for using OIL filled
     capacitors...Vangard)

   5) MASS (SURFACE AREA)

     The fifth and last factor is the MASS ofthe dielectric. The greater
     the mass, the larger the Effect.

   These points all are important. They make it clear that by a not too
   complicated electrical arrangement which allows the changing of many
   positive pole positions at will an astronautical vehicle could be
   controlled.

   Since a circle contains the greatest number of square units of surface
   for a given dimension (a torus has even greater surface
   area...Vangard), it seems obvious that a shallow, disc-shaped vehicle
   could use this type of energy field to greatest advantage. It would be
   charged differently than the models because it could carry its own
   charging equipment on board.

   The input energy of some models tested in California quite some time
   ago (they do not represent present experimental attainments) was about
   50 watts, or the requirements of a small light bulb.

   The weight of these units was about 1200 grams, or around 42 ounces,
   or near two and 6/10 pounds. The efficiency of propulsion was 2%.

   Unless scientific findings are discounted, we must assume the voltage
   of atmospheric electricity rises as the distance from the earth's
   surface increases.

   At low altitudes we sometimes record an increase of 100 volts for
   EVERY THREE FEET IN ELEVATION. But this increase RISES WITH ALTITUDE.
   It is believed that in that ionosphere a potential of 100 volts may
   occur within only four inches!

   Even though a discoid-shaped vehicle could be relatively thin,
   compared to its diameter, still it would be many times four inches
   thick. Hence, it would be subjected to tremendous differentials of
   external electric pressure over its extreme dimensions.

   How will this affect the Biefeld-Brown Effect - or any electrically
   propelled vehicle? Some say, not at all. Others see it as a sizable
   barrier!

   Anti-gravity devices apparently are being experimented with from a
   number of directions. Once any one of them becomes practical a whole
   new horizon will unfold before mankind.

   At the present time (1958) some 19 patent applications, covering the
   Biefeld-Brown Effect and its various applied forms, are being worked
   on. A new laboratory is also being built. Will Mr. Brown be the first
   Earthman to build and fly a FLYING SAUCER?


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   Vangard notes..

   The Law of Equilibrium includes Density. All things Rise or Fall to
   their own Density. This density can consist of energy in many forms,
   electric, magnetic, tachyon, etc.

   Note the remark regarding the higher voltage potentials in the upper
   atmosphere. Both the Brown disc and the Searle disc rely on very high
   voltage potentials to provide lift. The question is whether the
   electricity seeks its own upper atmosphere level or does it cause some
   kind of stress in some other type of energy to cause repulsion from
   the Earth surface or ATTRACTION TO A LAYER EQUIVALENT TO ITS OWN.


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