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SUBJECT: THOMAS TOWNSEND BROWN FILE: UFO3158
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PART 1
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Taken from KeelyNet BBS
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From the November, 1958 FATE magazine
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Graphic files: BRN2A.GIF, BRN2B.GIF
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Thomas Townsend Brown has been flying strange metal saucer-like discs of his own
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secret design and make for more than 30 years - some big ones too, up to 30
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inches in diameter!
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Mostly, Brown has flown his discs in good old common air. The discs are tethered
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to a mast or pole and the thin, double-saucer-like things fly a circle around and
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around the mast in free flight.
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Only a slight hum is audible as they fly. In the dark they glow with an eerie
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lavender light, revealing their motive power which is a kind of electricity.
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Many scientists and engineers have watched these discs fly. Under their breath,
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and sometimes out loud, most of them have said the force which makes Brown's
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discoids spin is one which every highschool physics student knows about -
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"Electric Wind" - and not a new principle Brown has discovered at all!
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One engineer told me, "The whole thing is so screwball I don't want to even talk
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about it!" Another said, "The device is only about one-tenth of one percent
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efficient." Both these statements have since been proved incorrect! Most other
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engineers object to the lack of mathematical substantiation presented by Brown.
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To engineers and scientists one equation is worth a thousand words! But even an
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equation is of little use unless it has values assigned to at least some of its
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main parts. When these were not forthcoming, from a technical point of view, it
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appeared Brown was walking on straw legs.
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Then recently Brown went to France. Under what was virtually a French Government
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sponsored program of research, Air-France successfully flew some of the Brown
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discs in a HIGH VACUUM!
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And that took all the "electric wind" out of the previously dissenting sails.
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These tests were of a highly secret nature and, because of this, and because they
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were made in a foreign nation, their results REMAIN CLASSIFIED.
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One by one, U.S. engineering and scientific heads are beginning to show above the
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storm cellars. It is now quietly admitted that perhaps Brown may have something
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after all!
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One thing he DOES have which he has not had before is a sponsor! Perhaps that
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is the reason for the heads showing from the cellars. There is nothing quite
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like having financial backing.
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What do Brown's inventions mean? Another kind, type, or arrangement of high-
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speed flight, both within our own atmosphere and in the space beyond it!
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How will it compare as a motive force with the rocket motors and the jet engines
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of today? Of course, we cannot say yet but there is nothing to indicate Brown's
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method will not compete most favorably with them. Brown's method has definite
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"anti-gravitic potentials" which their rockets or jets do not have. Because of
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present patent situations many details of the Brown system must be by-passed
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here, but it seems they represent no small item in the total picture of space
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flight.
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Since 1923 Brown and his family have spent nearly $250,000 of their own funds on
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experiments and research into the mysteries of that strangest of strange
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electrical phenomenon, the "Biefeld-Brown Effect". Electrical literature
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contains few writings on this subject, mostly because Brown has maintained a
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tight grip on the information and has not seen fit to write on the matter
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scientifically or otherwise. No one else has seemed inclined to research the
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matter. What is more American scientific journals are open to few ideas that DO
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NOT ORIGINATE with men CONNECTED WITH LARGE UNIVERSITY or COMMERCIAL RESEARCH
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LABORATORIES!
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I first heard of Townsend Brown and his Biefeld-Brown Effect from Mr. Arlin C.
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Hauser. Hauser is a designer and builder of fine technical instruments in
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Pasadena who doesn't hold an idea at arms-length because it is "new". Hauser
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furnished me a copy of a monograph titled, "A SIMPLIFIED EXPLANATION OF THE
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APPLICATION OF THE BIEFELD-BROWN EFFECT TO THE SOLUTION OF THE PROBLEMS OF SPACE
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NAVIGATION". This monograph was published by Dr. Mason Rose, president of the
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University for Social Research, Los Angeles, but was actually written, I learned
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later, by Mr. Bradford Shank, a nuclear scientist, formally of Los Alamos, now
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engaged in engineering work for a Los Angeles aircraft valve manufacturer.
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Some of the information set forth in this monograph rang a bell way back in my
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memory.
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Between 1919 and 1925 I was "errand boy" in a laboratory conducting experiments
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with high potential, high frequency alternating currents. We were playing with
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a million volts at 750,000 cycles per second! A new type of electrical condenser
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had been built and was to be tested. It was hooked into the circuit but was not
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"bolted down" - it was heavy.
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The director stood at the switchboard; the rest of us at a respectful distance
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away. The switch was thrown. There was a hum, a bursting flash of green and
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purple light, a loud bang, a violent lurch and twist of the new condenser and
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that piece of apparatus lay a smoking ruin! The director said, "Gentlemen, our
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baby has grown up!"
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It is this movement manifest in an electrical condenser which is the essence of
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the Biefeld-Brown Effect. This movement makes the Effect highly interesting as
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an anti-gravitic force!
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The Biefeld-Brown Effect says an electrical condenser, when charged, will MOVE
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TOWARD its positive pole and remain so positioned UNTIL DISCHARGED, if free to
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do so, regardless of WHICH POLE or WHICH SIDE of the dielectric is made positive.
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This movement does not disregard the time-honored "law" which indicates every
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action carries within it an equal reaction. The reaction, as in gravitation, is
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present BUT NOT OBVIOUS. The reaction is a finite but vanishingly small movement
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of all the other matter in the Universe. But the nearest masses are affected
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first and most!
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The Effect was first observed when the condenser plates were charged with a
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DIRECT CURRENT. But the experience noted above, which was observed subsequently
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during other experiments, indicates something of the same phenomenon is present
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when condensers are charged with ALTERNATING current also - but probably not as
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effectively or as lastingly.
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While these alternating current condenser MOVEMENTS were noted at the time,
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especially when the condensers were initially charged after a long and complete
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discharge, those directing the research then believed the movements were due to
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resonances set up within the apparatus by the 60-cycle feed currents. Thus, this
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phenomenon, though noted, was never investigated by the group to which I was
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attached.
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This electrical condenser movement is believed to have been first perceived and
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examined by Dr. Paul Alfred Biefeld, professor of physics and astronomy, Denison
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University, Granville, Ohio, sometime before 1923.
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However, search of the Denison University's own published scientific records does
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not indicate Dr. Biefeld wrote anything regarding this discovery while there.
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Dr. Lawrence Biefeld, a son of Dr. Paul Alfred Biefeld, writes me that he does
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not recall his father ever having mentioned discovering such an effect! However,
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Mr. Bradford Shank who has been intimately associated with several phases of the
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Townsend Brown Foundation and its work for several years relates that Dr. Biefeld
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did originate the initial research into the Effect itself and also directed
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Townsend Brown, then a student at Denison University, in Brown's early interest
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in the matter.
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Although the Effect may have been recognized first by Dr. Biefeld, a greater part
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of the development research and ALL the practical application of it has been
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carried on by Brown - mostly at his own expense, over a period of more than 30
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years.
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Apparently the Effect was named by someone else writing a report on the subject.
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But had it not been for Townsend Brown's long interest and research this Effect
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might remain unrecorded and unexploited still!
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Evidence indicates the entire Universe, from the greatest systems of stars and
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their planets down to the smallest atom and its parts - hydrogen - operates on
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only three basic forces - electricity, magnetism and gravitation. These three
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forces may be entirely separate and different or they may be only different
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phases of the same force, a Universal force we have not yet distinguished as
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such. Regardless of this, we know the relationship between electricity and
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magnetism and we know this relationship is brought about and maintained by the
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very simple COIL OF WIRE!
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It is quite possible, through the Biefeld-Brown Effect, we have come upon the
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relationship between electricity and gravitation, a relationship being brought
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about and maintained through the very simple electrical condenser!
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If each of these three forces is considered separately, we find little of
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practical value in any of them! It is only through combinations of two, and
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perhaps more, that we begin to use them.
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Aside from the researches into the Biefeld-Brown Effect carried on by Mr. Brown
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science has done practically nothing toward developing the relationship between
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electricity and gravitation.
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Most scientists today will admit a weak COUPLING EFFECT DOES EXIST BETWEEN
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GRAVITATION AND ELECTRICITY but any practical use of this coupling effect they
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deny!
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Standing almost alone in this belief Mr. Brown has maintained his position
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regarding the matter stubbornly, faithfully, and devotedly.
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If a simple, two-plate electrical
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condenser
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(FIGURE 1) is suspended by a cord in
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such a way as to allow it complete
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freedom to move in any direction,
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except downward of course, and this
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condenser is charged with the proper
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amount and pressure of direct electric
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current the instrument will swing
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TOWARD the side holding the POSITIVE
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CHARGE.
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If this same condenser is discharged,
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the positive and negative wires
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switched and connected oppositely,
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when recharged the condenser will
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swing in the OPPOSITE DIRECTION.
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If the condenser is placed upon one side of a balanced beam (FIGURE 2) with
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enough weight opposite it to continue the balance and if the positive pole is
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pointed up, when the condenser is charged the weight on the opposite side of the
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beam will fall and the entire condenser WILL RISE!
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This shows that some of the "weight"
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of the condenser has been relieved.
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If the positive pole now is reversed,
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when the condenser is again charged
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the weight on the opposite end of the
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beam WILL BE LIFTED! This illustrates
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gravitic affect.
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This is the Biefeld-Brown Effect. As
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far is now known it is the only method
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of affecting the gravitational field
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electrically! However, apparently
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there are several other research
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programs now under way attempting to
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establish an electro-gravitic
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relationship.
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One of the mysteries of this Effect is that it APPEARS TO BE AFFECTED BY TIME!
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Time does not do away with the Effect completely, but it does appear to minimize
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it temporarily. This was noted first by Brown during experiments located in a
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closed room.
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He watched his discs through a telescope from outside the room. Brown observed
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that after a time the discs did not swing quite so far as initially, in either
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direction, with the same electric charge. I understood from Mr. Shank that this
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point was discussed with Albert Einstein but what Mr. Einstein had to say remains
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unknown to me.
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The phenomenon might be accounted for by subtle atomic structural breakdowns in
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the dielectric material, or in the plate material, or both. After a time,
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following a complete discharge, these breakdowns mend themselves.
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The intensity with which the Biefeld-Brown Effect may act is determined by five
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factors. Ultimate intensity cannot possibly be obtained by a combined use of all
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five factors - each in their separate ultimates! A compromise must be made.
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This is not as grave a disadvantage as it might seem at first, for it will allow
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an almost endless arrangement of factors in any given disc or ship.
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The best combination of these then may be chosen and applied to a wide variety
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of practical conditions which will surely arise in everyday aeronautical or
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astronautical flight.
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1) PROXIMITY OF PLATES
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The first factor regulating the intensity of the Effect is controlled by the
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closeness at which the condenser's plates can be set. If the charging pressure -
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or voltage - is high then the plates will have to be farther apart than for
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lower voltages -using the same dielectric. If it is necessary to charge the
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condenser quickly a higher voltage is needed than if more time can be taken.
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Hence, the closer the condenser plates the greater the Effect gained - other
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circumstances remaining the same.
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2) DIELECTRIC CONSTANT
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The second factor is the ability of the material chosen as a dielectric to store
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electrical energy. There are many kinds of dielectrics: glass, mica, rubber,
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paper, bakelite, air, ceramics, and many of the plastics. A dielectric is any
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material which opposes the flow of an electric current and at the same time is
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capable of storing the electrical energy as an "elastic stress."
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The action resembles the squeezing of a soft rubber ball. The muscles in your
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hand represent the electric voltage. They squeeze the ball's sides together.
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The sides remain squeezed until your muscles release their pressure, then the
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sides jump back into their original shape.
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A dielectric will absorb an electric charge until its capacity has been reached.
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Then it will either hold that charge as long as the charging force is present,
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or it will rupture and the pressure will leak away, or if the accumulated
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pressure becomes greater than the charging pressure it will discharge itself back
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into the charging circuit! This last can raise the devil!
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Some dielectrics are capable of absorbing a great quantity of
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electrical energy if that energy is applied slowly at moderate pressure, but they
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break down if called upon to act quickly.
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Other dielectrics, like lead-free glass, can be charged and discharged thousands
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of times a second at high pressures. The measure of a dielectric's ability is
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called the "K" of the material. The higher the K, the greater is the Biefeld-
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Brown Effect.
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3) INTENSITY
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A third factor in creating intensity of the Effect is the AREA of the
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dielectric's charging plates. The discs are used edgewise, and the greater their
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area, the greater the Effect obtained.
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4) VOLTAGE
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A fourth factor has to do with the VOLTAGE, or pressure used to charge the
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condenser's plates. The higher the voltage, the greater the Effect.
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Also, the higher the voltage the shorter the time required to charge a given
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condenser size. But the voltage must not be so high as to puncture the
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dielectric, the condenser is permanently, or temporarily ruined - depending upon
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its ability to "heal" itself. Solid dielectrics cannot heal themselves. Fluids
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heal themselves almost as soon as punctured. (the reason for using OIL filled
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capacitors...Vangard)
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5) MASS (SURFACE AREA)
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The fifth and last factor is the MASS of the dielectric. The greater the mass,
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the larger the Effect.
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These points all are important. They make it clear that by a not too complicated
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electrical arrangement which allows the changing of many positive pole positions
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at will an astronautical vehicle could be controlled.
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Since a circle contains the greatest number of square units of surface for a
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given dimension (a torus has even greater surface area...Vangard), it seems
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obvious that a shallow, disc-shaped vehicle could use this type of energy field
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to greatest advantage. It would be charged differently than the models because
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it could carry its own charging equipment on board.
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The input energy of some models tested in California quite some time ago (they
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do not represent present experimental attainments) was about 50 watts, or the
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requirements of a small light bulb.
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The weight of these units was about 1200 grams, or around 42 ounces, or near two
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and 6/10 pounds. The efficiency of propulsion was 2%.
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Unless scientific findings are discounted, we must assume the voltage of
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atmospheric electricity rises as the distance from the earth's surface increases.
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At low altitudes we sometimes record an increase of 100 volts for EVERY THREE
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FEET IN ELEVATION. But this increase RISES WITH ALTITUDE. It is believed that
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in that ionosphere a potential of 100 volts may occur within only four inches!
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Even though a discoid-shaped vehicle could be relatively thin, compared to its
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diameter, still it would be many times four inches thick. Hence, it would be
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subjected to tremendous differentials of external electric pressure over its
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extreme dimensions.
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How will this affect the Biefeld-Brown Effect - or any electrically propelled
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vehicle? Some say, not at all. Others see it as a sizable barrier!
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Anti-gravity devices apparently are being experimented with from a number of
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directions. Once any one of them becomes practical a whole new horizon will
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unfold before mankind.
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At the present time (1958) some 19 patent applications, covering the Biefeld-
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Brown Effect and its various applied forms, are being worked on. A new
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laboratory is also being built. Will Mr. Brown be the first Earthman to build
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and fly a FLYING SAUCER?
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Vangard notes..
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The Law of Equilibrium includes Density. All things Rise or Fall to their own
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Density. This density can consist of energy in many forms, electric, magnetic,
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tachyon, etc.
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Note the remark regarding the higher voltage potentials in the upper atmosphere.
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Both the Brown disc and the Searle disc rely on very high voltage potentials to
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provide lift. The question is whether the electricity seeks its own upper
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atmosphere level or does it cause some kind of stress in some other type of
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energy to cause repulsion from the Earth surface or ATTRACTION TO A LAYER
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EQUIVALENT TO ITS OWN.
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