The Secret History of Extraterrestrials: Advanced Technology and the Coming New Race
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These three patents taken together would provide the antigravity and propulsion technology necessary for space travel. But then there is the matter of protecting the pilots and occupants of the craft from such powerful electromagnetic and acceleration forces. This has not been overlooked. Patent 5,269,482, filed by Ernest J. Shearing of Porterville, California, on September 30, 1991, is for the “Protective Enclosure Apparatus for Magnetic Propulsion Space Vehicle.” Shearing’s device would enclose the craft personnel in an insulated Dewar vessel with walls of superconducting material suspended by superconducting magnets. Accelerometers on all three orthogonal axes would sense the gravity forces and would regulate the superconducting magnets to provide a constant orientation and comfortable gravity force regardless of directional movement. Shearing’s patent is highly delineated, with all the mathematics and scientific aspects meticulously detailed.
McDonnough, although not a scientist, envisions combining all of these technologies in a new spacecraft, using Cox’s Dipolar Force Field Propulsion System for liftoff and the earth’s gas field as the propellant. In deep space, this engine power would be reduced, and main power would be diverted to multiple Taylor engines for interstellar travel. McDonnough also proposes using specialized craft with these drive systems for diverting comets. This type of spaceship would anchor itself to the comet and then use various rotational thrusters to change the path of the comet, perhaps redirecting it to crash into the surface of a planet being explored to provide carbon dioxide and water for space colonies.
McDonnough has no doubt that the existence of these patents has certainly not been ignored by the military-industrial complex. He points out, for example, that the Brown patent was assigned to the Whitehall-Rand Corporation in Washington, D.C., in 1957. He is convinced that all of this technology is just the tip of the iceberg and that the research and development for exotic propulsion systems is probably well advanced by now, up to and including the existence of at least prototype spacecraft. McDonnough expresses outrage throughout his book at this state of affairs. He points out that public information about advanced propulsion systems seems to have been cut off in the 1960s. It seems as if there hasn’t been a single advance since then. He says, “Most of our current energy production systems are based on inventions conceived in the 60’s and 70’s . . . They seem to show the public just enough to placate them . . . by diverting people’s attention away from the true progress, they make [people] lose interest in the science and . . . no explanation for this slow progress is required.” He mentions at least one secret project that he knows of in central Texas, where small, maneuverable, silent, and stealthy craft have been developed using the technology previously described. But he claims there are others who believe that we already have secret colonies on Mars and the moon.
ANTIGRAVITY MARTYRS
There is a lot of other information, now freely available on the Internet and in published books, that supports McDonnough’s claims. Extensive details about the life and work of Brown are now available. His antigravity discovery is known as the Biefeld-Brown effect because it was an elaboration of a theory first proposed by his physics professor, Dr. Paul A. Biefeld, at Denison University in 1923. This discovery really links electricity, magnetism, and gravitation in a new way. In 1926, Brown proposed a “space car” that looked very much like a flying saucer and explained how it could be controlled by moving the positive pole around the periphery. This was thirty years before Patent 2,949,550 was filed. In 1929, he wrote an article for Science and Invention titled “How I Control Gravitation,” which elaborated on the relationship between electromagnetism and gravitation and described his invention, called “The Gravitor.” He says in the article, “Smaller . . . units may propel automobiles and even airplanes. Perhaps even the fantastic ‘space cars’ and the promised visit to Mars may be the final outcome. Who can tell?”
While in the navy during World War II, Brown made his experimental results freely available and was called in to work on the Philadelphia Experiment, but his work was never officially endorsed by government scientists. This in itself was highly suspicious since his theories had obvious military applications. In the navy, he had some sort of nervous breakdown, and afterward he never used the term “antigravity” again. It appears that he was effectively silenced for a while. But, being irrepressible, he showed his true colors again in 1956, when he founded the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP) in Washington, D.C., which became the preeminent national UFO organization at that time. After that, he was totally shunned by the scientific establishment.*25
Another antigravity pioneer was dealt with more severely. In 1952 in England, Dr. J. R. R. Searl developed a rotating disc, powered by electromagnetic energy, that took off and disappeared into space. He built ten more such discs and lost a few more in space before he learned how to control them. The rotation of the device created a high-voltage circuit with the negative pole at the periphery and ionized the air around it. At first powered from an external source, the disc builds a vacuum around itself, eventually reaching a point where it produces its own energy, and then levitates. It then accelerates at a fantastic speed away from the earth. Government agencies took notice of his work, but like Brown, he was ignored by the scientific establishment. In 1982, government agents invaded his home in Berkshire, England, and confiscated a free-energy generator that he had built and was using to power his house. They tore out all the wiring in his house and left it in shambles. He was prosecuted for “stealing electricity” and was kept in prison for a year while an “arsonist” burned down his house, destroying all his records. He now lives under an assumed name.
McDonnough is angry that he has been denied the opportunity to fulfill his lifelong dream of traveling in space because of this secrecy. How many other men and women of his generation are out there who had similar dreams that could be fulfilled only through rabid interest in science fiction? One can begin to appreciate their numbers and the intensity of their interest by attending a Star Trek convention. Perhaps it is this widespread, frustrated, and otherwise inexpressible dream that explains the startling success of the Star Wars movies. McDonnough claims that this technology really belongs to the people. He says in his book, “Secrecy denies the Creative Spirit . . . We are creative creatures, driven to explore the vastness of the universe. We are capable of stewarding a planet, and Terra-forming other worlds for our use. Why should we squander our resources paying to see science-fiction movies, when we could invest those same resources and create science fact?” And further, “There is no excuse for retarding the growth, and technological advancement of the human race.”
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Life in the Milky Way
Logic would dictate that there must be some type of connection between all the worlds in our galaxy, the Milky Way. Viewed from afar, it appears to be a single, spiral-shaped unit with a luminous center. What forces operate to cause so many “billions and billions” of stars to cohere to this unit? Such forces must be vast and incredibly powerful. Now, in the twenty-first century, the discovery of these forces is clearly the next frontier in physics and astronomy. It is the next step in the logical progression that began only five hundred years ago with Columbus’s discovery of the spherical shape of the planet and continued with Galileo’s heresy that the earth revolves around the sun, Kepler’s discovery of the planets’ elliptical orbits around the sun, and then—triumphantly completing the “Copernican revolution”—Sir Isaac Newton’s deduction, in 1687, of the second law of mechanics and the law of universal gravitation, which elegantly proved Kepler’s three laws of planetary motion.
It wasn’t until Sir William Herschel developed a powerful telescope in 1781 that we began to peer out into the cosmos, to comprehend its complexity and immensity, and to understand that what we thought were clouds of cosmic dust were actually countless other stars like our sun. Herschel, his son John, and his daughter Caroline eventually cataloged over 4,200 star clusters, nebulae, and galaxies
, thus setting the stage for the modern era of astronomy.
Then, with the orbital placement of the Hubble Telescope in 1990, we finally began to understand our stellar neighborhood. What has become known as the “local group” is dominated by our Milky Way and the giant spiral galaxy Andromeda, but also includes some minor galaxies. Even now, with all that we do know, we still know almost nothing about the implications of membership in our galaxy. Has our solar system simply been fortuitously captured by the immense centrifugal force of the galactic hub, or does the entire galaxy somehow act as an organic whole?
GALACTIC EXPLOSIONS
Thanks to author Paul LaViolette,*26 we can begin to appreciate that certain galactic events have a very profound physical effect on our little sun and planet way out here in the outer reaches of a spiral arm. LaViolette, a physicist with a doctorate in systems theory, has postulated the existence of something called a galactic “superwave.”
In his book Earth Under Fire, he claims that astronomical and geological evidence suggests that a “protracted global climatic disaster” occurred on this planet about sixteen thousand years ago. One piece of this evidence derives from a technique developed by scientists in the late 1970s to measure the concentration of the element beryllium-10 in ice core samples drilled at Vostok, East Antarctica. Minute quantities of this rare isotope are produced when high-energy cosmic rays collide with nitrogen and oxygen atoms in our stratosphere. Because a time frame can be associated with each layer of the ice core samples, the fluctuations of cosmic bombardments of Earth can be precisely determined by measuring the beryllium-10 concentrations at various layers. The Vostok samples clearly showed a peak of cosmic radiation between 17,500 and 14,150 years ago, associated with a sharp increase in the ambient air temperature from -10°C to about 0°C. This, claims LaViolette, caused the end of the Ice Age and ushered in the era of moderate temperatures that made modern civilization possible.
This concept of the galactic superwave, apparently caused by massive explosions at the galactic core, is not entirely new to astronomers. However, they view them as relatively rare events, occurring perhaps every ten million to one hundred million years and having no particular effect on our solar system because they believe that the galactic magnetic lines of force prevent cosmic radiation from propagating very far from the core. But LaViolette has amassed an impressive profusion of evidence from many different sources that these events are much more frequent and that they are really massive bombardments of cosmic ray particles (electrons, positrons, and protons) with the power of five million to ten million highly charged supernova explosions that reach, in full strength, to the farthest limits of the galaxy!
The theories of Paul LaViolette are highly controversial in astronomy circles, even though he makes his case with careful and thorough research. Perhaps it is because he is not afraid to boldly go where other scientists fear to tread, into the realm of myth and legend, to find supporting evidence for his theories. His book The Talk of the Galaxy puts forth another daring proposition. He argues that pulsars are high-tech galactic beacons very likely created by highly developed extraterrestrial civilizations and are being used to signal the advent of galactic events, especially superwaves. Both books, taken together, sketch out a fantastic scenario that radically changes the status quo of the astronomical, anthropological, and archaeological landscapes and opens up a new universe of potential research and investigation.
LaViolette may just well be the pivotal researcher who lifts science out of stale, inbred stagnation into invigorating, human-oriented realms and new directions for the twenty-first century. During an interview with him, I was totally surprised at how deftly he was able to shift back and forth from science to mythology to back up his ideas, reminiscent of a similar agility by Robert Bauval (see chapter 23).
CONTINUOUS CREATION VERSUS THE BIG BANG
What is perhaps one of LaViolette’s most heretical theories relates to the purpose of these galactic core explosions. His explanation resurrects that bête noir of modern science, the concept of the ether. LaViolette is convinced that these tremendous energy discharges are nothing less than an ongoing process of the creation of matter itself from the etheric flux, which invisibly pervades the entire universe.
This idea of continuous creation is in direct opposition to the generally accepted big bang theory, which most esotericists have never really been comfortable with, but which does seem to satisfy those religious groups who believe that creation was literally a single primordial act by God. Discussions of this subject can be found in LaViolette’s first book, Beyond the Big Bang: Ancient Myth and the Science of Continuous Creation, and also in his follow-up book, Subquantum Kinetics: A Systems Approach to Physics and Cosmology.
The concept of the all-pervasive etheric substratum from which matter is created was originally derived from ancient Hindu metaphysics and had gained considerable scientific credence up until the late nineteenth century, when it was supposedly “put to bed” by the famous Michelson-Morley experiment in 1887. However, this experiment was seriously flawed because it assumed the ether to be another physical dimension rather than a precursor to energy itself. Today, while orthodox scientists may not have granted respectability to etheric theory, they certainly don’t mind using it every day to explain the propagation of radio and television waves.
FIRE AND FLOOD
According to LaViolette, galactic explosive phases occur about every ten thousand to twenty thousand years and last anywhere from several hundred to several thousand years. Evidence of this frequency began emerging in 1977, but scientists considered it an aberration. The electrons and positrons travel radially outward from the galactic core at near light speed, but the protons travel much more slowly because they are about two thousand times heavier. They disperse and are then captured by the magnetic fields in the galactic nucleus. The superwave itself would not normally have much of an effect on the sun or earth since the energy would be about one thousandth of that radiated by the sun. But the solar system is surrounded by a cloud of dust and frozen cometary debris that remains on the periphery because of the solar wind, which has an expelling action and cleanses the entire solar system. However, the superwave, when it arrives, would push this dust cloud back into the interplanetary medium and block out the light of the sun, moon, and stars, which would all appear to go dark. Also, the superwave and dust particles would energize the sun and increase flaring activity so much that dry grasslands and forests would spontaneously catch fire. This heat would also melt the glaciers, releasing tremendous quantities of water and causing extensive flooding all over the planet. A whole panoply of cascading catastrophes would ensue, including earthquakes and increased seismic activity, high winds, failed crops and destroyed vegetation, and high levels of ultraviolet radiation that would cause skin cancers and increased mutation rates. In short, it would be a time of cataclysmic destruction that would probably snuff out much of the human and animal life on the planet.
LaViolette, in Earth Under Fire, cites all the legends and myths relating to cataclysmic events, all of which appear to have occurred during the time of the last galactic superwave (i.e., about fifteen thousand years ago). The Greek myth of Phaeton, the semimortal son of Helios, the sun god, who was given the reins of the sun chariot and caused it to crash into the earth, thereby setting off a tremendous worldwide conflagration, is claimed to be a metaphor for that era when the superwave caused an extraordinary increase in infrared and ultraviolet emissions from the sun, along with ultrahigh flaring activity. This could easily have caused a “scorched earth” phenomenon, according to LaViolette. The Greek writer Ovid says of this event, “Great cities perish, together with their fortifications, and the flames turn whole nations into ashes.”
Then, as the glaciers melt and the ocean levels rise all over the world, large land masses would become submerged. This might easily account for the flood legends that were passed on through generations in just about every ancient civilization. LaViolette co
mpiled a list of about eighty societies with some sort of flood myth. He has no doubt that the deluge that sank Atlantis was caused by glacial meltwater. In Earth Under Fire he says, “The . . . ‘sinking’ of Atlantis simply refers to the melting and ultimate wasting of the continental ice sheets,” which “spawned a foray of destructive glacier wave floods.” Interestingly, the Phaeton myth concludes with massive flooding sent by Zeus to quench the flames. According to Plato’s Timaeus, this would have occurred about 11,550 years ago, right around the time of the last stage of the superwave.
LITTLE GREEN MEN
In his book The Talk of the Galaxy, LaViolette turns his attention to those puzzling anomalies of astronomy, the pulsars. Having, in his earlier books, established a very convincing case for galactic events that affect all the worlds therein, it was natural to question whether pulsars have any connection with these events. The fact that they emit such consistently regular pulsations suggested to him that they are of intelligent origin.