• THOMAS TOWNSEND BROWN PAR

    From Robert Gmez@RICKSBBS to All on Wednesday, September 02, 2026 06:36:00
    PART 1


    Taken from KeelyNet BBS



    From the November, 1958 FATE magazine

    Graphic files: BRN2A.GIF, BRN2B.GIF

    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 highschool 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 sails. 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 TOWARD 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 Denison 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 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 greater 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 of the 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?


    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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  • From Robert Gmez@RICKSBBS to All on Wednesday, September 02, 2026 06:37:00
    PART 2




    The scientist and layman alike encounter a primary difficulty in understanding the Biefeld-Brown effect and its relation to the solution of the flying saucer mystery.

    This difficulty lies in the fact that scientist and layman alike think in electromagnetic concepts, whereas the Biefeld-Brown effect relates to electrogravitation.

    Neither scientist nor layman can be expected to know the details of electrogravitation, inasmuch as it is a comparatively recent and unpublished development. Townsend Brown is the discoverer of electrogravitational coupling.

    To date, Townsend Brown is the only known experimental scientist in this new area
    of scientific development. Thus anyone who wishes to understand electrogravitation and its application to astronautics must be prepared to lay aside the commonly known principles of electromagnetic's in order to grasp the essentially different principles of electrogravitation. Electrogravitational effects do not obey the known principles of electromagnetism. Electrogravitation
    must be understood as an entirely new field of scientific investigation and technical development.

    Perhaps the most efficient method of inducing and understanding of electrogravitation is to review the evolutionary development of electromagnetism.

    From the smallest atom to the largest galaxy, the universe operates on three basic forces, namely, Electricity, Magnetism and Gravitation. These three forces
    can be represented as a triangle, with electricity at the top, magnetism at the lower left corner and gravitation at the lower right corner.

    Taken separately, neither is of much practical use. Electricity by itself is static electricity and therefore functionless. It will make your hair stand on end, but that is about all.

    Magnetism by itself has very few practical applications aside from the magnetic compass, whereas gravity simply keeps objects and people pinned to the earth.

    However, when these are coupled to work in combination with each other, almost endless technical applications arise. To date, our total electrical development
    is based on the coupling of electricity with magnetism, which provides the basis
    for the countless uses we make of electricity in modern societies.

    Faraday conducted the first productive empirical experiments with electromagnetism around 1830, and Maxwell did the basic theoretical work in 1865.

    The application of electromagnetism to microscopic and sub-microscopic particles
    was accomplished by Max Planck's work in quantum physics about 1890; and then in
    1905 Einstein came forward with relativity, which dealt with gravitation as applied to celestial bodies and universal mechanics.

    It is principally out of the work of these four great scientists that our electrical developments, ranging from the simple light bulb to the complexities of nuclear physics, have emerged.

    In 1923, Professor Biefeld of Dennision University suggested to his protege, Townsend Brown, certain experiments which led to the discovery of the Biefeld- Brown effect and ultimately, to the electrogravitational energy spectrum. After 28 years of investigation by Brown into this coupling effect between electricity
    and gravitation, it appears that for each electromagnetic phenomenon there exists
    an electrogravitational analogue. This means, from the technical and commercial
    viewpoint, potentialities for future development and exploitation as great or greater that the present electrical industry. When one considers that electromagnetism is basic to the telephone, telegraph, radio, television, radar,
    electric generators and motors, power production and distribution, and is an indispensable adjunct to transportation of all kinds, one can see that the possibility of a parallel, but different, development in electrogravitation has almost unlimited prospects.

    The first empirical experiments conducted by Townsend Brown had the characteristic of simplicity which has marked most other great scientific advancements. These concerned the behavior of a condenser when charged with electricity.

    The first startling revelation was that is placed in free suspension with the poles horizontal, the condenser, when charged, exhibited a forward thrust toward
    the positive pole. A reversal of polarity caused a reversal of the direction of
    the thrust. (Note: When the condenser was suspended from a stationary point, and current was then applied, the condenser would then move back-and-forth in the
    direction of the positive pole first, then the negative pole, as long as the condenser was kept charged.)

    The antigravity effect of vertical thrust is demonstrated by balancing a condenser on a beam balance and then charging it. After charging, if the positive pole is pointed upward, the condenser moves up.

    These two simple experiments demonstrate what is now known as the Biefeld-Brown effect. It is the first and, to the best of our knowledge the only method of affecting a gravitational field by electrical means. It contains the seeds of control of gravity by man. The intensity of the effect is determined by five factors, which are:

    1. The separation of the plates of the condenser, the closer the
    plates the greater the effect.

    2. The ability of the material between the plates to store
    electrical energy in the form of elastic stress. A measure of
    this ability is called the "K" of the material. The higher
    the "K", the greater the Biefeld-Brown effect.

    3. The area of the plates, the greater area giving the greater
    effect.

    4. The voltage difference between the plates, more voltage, more
    effect.

    5. The mass of the material between the plates, the greater the
    mass, the greater the effect.

    It is this fifth point which is inexplicable from the electromagnetic viewpoint and which provides the connection with gravitation.

    On the basis of further experimental work from 1923 to 1926, Townsend Brown in 1926, described what he called a "space car". This was a revolutionary method of terrestrial and extra-terrestrial flight, presented for experiment while motor
    propelled planes were yet in a primitive stage.

    This engineering feat by Townsend Brown, was all the more remarkable when we consider such a machine produces thrust with no moving parts, does not use any aerodynamic principles of flight, and has neither control surfaces, nor a propeller. Townsend Brown had discovered the secret of how the flying saucers fly, years before any such objects were reported.

    Now that the basic difference between electromagnetism and electrogravity has been indicated and the basic principles of the Biefeld-Brown effect have been outlined, we are finally ready to understand the principles of astronautics or the conquest of space.

    The earth creates and is surrounded with a gravitational field which approaches zero as we go far into space. This field presses objects and people to the earth's surface; hence it presses a saucer object to the earth.

    However, through the utilization of the Biefeld-Brown effect, the flying saucer can generate an electrogravitational field of its own which modifies the earth's
    field.

    This field acts like a wave, with the negative pole at the top of the wave and the positive pole at the bottom, the saucer travels like a surfboard on the incline of a wave that is kept continually moving by the saucer's electrogravitational generator.

    Since the orientation of the field can be controlled, the saucer can thus travel
    on its own continuously generated wave in any desired angle or direction of flight.

    Since the saucer always moves toward its positive pole, the control of the saucer
    is accomplished by varying the orientation of the positive charge. Control, therefore, is gained by switching charges rather than by control surfaces. Since
    the saucer is travelling on the incline of a continually moving wave which it generates to modify the earth's gravitational field, no mechanical propulsion is
    necessary.

    Once we understand that the horizontal and vertical controls are obtained by shifting the positive pole which turns the field, then we are in position to extrapolate a finished saucer design.

    The saucer's edge would contain a number of conductor segments, and the saucer would turn in any direction simply by shifting the positive and negative charges
    to appropriate positions along its edge.

    The vertical thrust would be regulated by varying the positive charge on top of the saucer, the amount of thrust being regulated by the amount of charge generated.

    Flying saucers in all probability do not utilize external controls for direction,
    nor do they have any visible means of propulsion. The flying saucers fly on an entirely new principle, namely, the Biefeld-Brown electrogravitational effect, and hence do not utilize any of the standard aerodynamic principles of an airfoil. Flying saucers cannot be understood from the traditional principles of
    aeronautical engineering.

    To understand the flying saucers an individual must temporarily bypass these points of view, to learn about a new principle, The Biefeld-Brown electrogravitational effect, and then return to the older points of view for critical theoretical analysis and empirical testing.

    Years ago, long before saucers as such were reported by observance, Townsend Brown developed a captive flying saucer, that is, a scale model saucer with a free bearing going around a stationary pole.

    Brown did not start with round objects, in fact, the first object that flew, was
    a triangle, the next a square, then a square with the edges cut off, and finally
    a round shaped saucer.

    Since experiments proved the saucer shape most effective, the changes were mode for empirical reasons.

    Having solved the problem of horizontal thrust, Townsend Brown developed a profile shape which would be most efficient to shape the electrogravitational field for maximum vertical thrust. The final profile developed was that of a saucer, with a small dome on the top.

    The first report of a disc shaped object in the sky dates back to the sixteenth century. At long intervals during the centuries since have come other reports.

    Most of them are undoubtedly unreliable as observations, distorted by telling and
    retelling. But in these older reports, there is a teasing common thread concerning appearance and behavior which makes any certainties about the unreality of flying saucers very insecure.

    One of the great difficulties in substantiation of these reports is that in both
    appearance and behavior, these objects seem to be simple scientific impossibilities. Here are some of the reasons advanced by technical men to prove
    the impossibility of devices such as the reports describe:

    1. The reports reveal, in most cases, no method of propulsion
    which can be understood. There are no propellers in any of
    the reports. Some of the reports describe a long flame jet
    trailing behind a cigar shaped object. But this flame is
    orange red in color, indicating an inefficient combustion
    which would make it ineffective as a reaction jet such as
    propels rockets and jet planes. No other known physical laws
    seemed capable of explaining the observed motion of the
    objects.

    2. The reports describe a range of speed and acceleration from
    stationary hovering to speeds greater than present day rockets
    can deliver, and the changes of rate of motion, the
    acceleration, are far beyond the capacities of any known
    man-made vehicles. Flight experts point out that such
    accelerations would impose impossible stresses on any human or
    human like occupants. Therefore, they say, the reports must be
    false or erroneous.

    3. Many of the reports concern night sightings and describe a
    glow, usually of blue or violet color, around a periphery of
    the objects. Physicists have noted that such a glow is
    characteristic of a very high voltage electrical discharge,
    but add that this suggests no means of explaining the
    appearance or behavior of the objects described in the
    reports.

    4. The description of shapes and performance seems to indicate a
    complete or almost complete disregard of aerodynamic
    principles. The objects seem not to need the support of air
    as a plane does, nor to depend on the lift provided by
    properly designed surfaces moved rapidly through the air
    medium.

    These are weighty arguments, PROVIDED THE ASSUMPTIONS BEHIND THEM ARE CORRECT. But now comes physicist Townsend Brown, who has spent the last 28 years exploring
    the consequences of a simple experiment he performed at the suggestion of Dr. Biefeld in 1923. Dr. Biefeld, professor of physics and astronomy at Dennision University, former classmate of Einstein in Switzerland, wondered if an electrical condenser, hung by a thread, would have and tendency to move when it was given a heavy electrical charge. Townsend Brown provided the answer. The is such a tendency. But the attempt to understand and explain this motion has occupied him ever since, and led to discoveries of truly basic importance.

    The observed motion of a charged condenser has been labeled the Biefeld-Brown effect. Studying this effect, Brown pointed out in 1923 that this tendency of a charged condenser to move might easily grow into a new a basically different method of propulsion.

    By 1926 he had described a "space-car" utilizing this new principle.

    By 1928 he had built working models of a boat propelled in this manner.

    By 1938 he had shown that his specially designed condensers not only moved, but had certain interesting effects of plants and animals.

    All of this, while very exciting, is for most of us just a repetition of the story scientific development so characteristic of our age. But now comes the unexpected. Townsend Brown, working in his laboratory, building models and trying endless variations of size, shape and design of his charged condensers, made a flying saucer which flew around maypole, BEFORE FLYING SAUCERS BECAME A NEWSPAPER TOPIC. AND THE REASONS LISTED ABOVE, WHICH LED THE SPECIALISTS TO REJECT THE REPORTS ON OBSERVED SAUCERS, PROVED TO BE BOTH EXPLICABLE AND NECESSARY TO THEIR OPERATION UNDER THE ELECTROGRAVITATIONAL PRINCIPLE.

    Let us look at the four main objections in a new light:

    1. No understood method of propulsion. The saucers made by Brown
    have no propellers, no jets, no moving parts at all. They
    create a modification of the gravitational field around
    themselves, which is analogous to putting them on the incline
    of a hill. They act like a surfboard on a wave. The
    surfboard moves without propellers or jets too. But it is
    confined to the direction and speed of the water wave. The
    electrogravitational saucer creates its own "hill", which is
    a local distortion of the gravitational field, then it takes
    this "hill" with it in any chosen direction and at any rate.

    2. The second objection concerned the tremendous accelerations
    which, on the basis of previous technology, would subject any
    animal occupants to unbearable stresses. But, says Brown, the
    occupants of one of his saucers would feel no stress at all,
    no matter how sharp the turn or how great the acceleration.
    This is because the ship and the occupants and the load are
    all responding equally to the wavelike distortion of the local
    gravitational field. In an airplane the propeller pumps air
    backward and by reaction itself moves forward. The reaction
    thrust on the propeller is transferred to the frame of the
    aircraft. This frame shoves the load and the occupants
    forward CONTRARY TO THEIR NATURAL TENDENCY TO MOVE AT A
    CONSTANT RATE IN A CONSTANT DIRECTION. But in the saucer no
    such transfers of thrust from one member to another occurs.
    The entire assembly moves in unison in response to the locally
    modified gravitational field. The nearest analogy in our
    experience is going down in an elevator. When the elevator
    starts down, it is not necessary for the elevator to shove on
    our bodies, both elevator and passengers share a gravitational
    tendency to move down. They do so without any shoving or any
    stresses between elevator and passengers.

    3. Townsend Brown's saucers require a highly charged leading
    edge, the positive pole. But such a charged pole produces an
    electrical corona. In the largest models made, this develops
    a decided bluish-violet glow easily visible in darkness or a
    dim light. A full scale ship operating on this principle
    would be expected to produce a spectacular corona effect
    visible for many miles.

    4. The outlines and shape of Brown's saucers were the result of
    electrogravitational considerations, not the result of wind
    tunnel tests of aerodynamic designs. For they move, not on
    the lift of air, but on the lift of a modified gravitational
    field. In operating saucers such aerodynamic considerations
    would have to be taken into account to reduce drag and
    friction, but not to produce lift and thrust.

    5. And, finally, when Brown turned his attention to improved ways
    of generating high voltages, the most promising new method
    involved the use of a flame jet to convey negative charges
    astern. This flame was relatively inefficient as a generator
    it is was adjusted for the best combustion of fuel. But if it
    was adjusted to an orange-red color, indicating incomplete
    combustion of fuel, it conveyed the charges very effectively
    and set up the required negative space charge behind the ship.

    The reasons advanced by the experts to "explain away" the saucer reports, when seen from a new and different viewpoint, appear to be the specific reasons why they can operate, on electrogravitational rather than electromagnetic principles.

    The next opinion which must be corrected is the idea of overly intensified supersonic vibration. The Townsend Brown experiments indicate that the positive
    field which is travelling in front of the saucer acts as a buffer wing which starts moving the air out of the way. This immaterial electrogravitational field
    acts as an entering wedge which softens the supersonic barrier, thus allowing the
    material leading edge of the saucer to enter into a softened pressure area.

    The University for Social Research is ready to offer this experimental finding to the jet airplane and guided missile industry as a practical method of softening the supersonic barrier.

    It should be noted that in a jet plane or guided missile the extra weight added to create the Biefeld-Brown electrogravitational effect would be compensated for
    by the added thrust created by the movement of the plane toward the positive field created in front of the leading edge.

    As we have previously stated, for every known electromagnetic effect there is an
    analogous electrogravitational effect but electrogravitational application and results differ from those of electromagnetic. This presupposes that an entirely
    new electrogravitational industry comparable to the present electromagnetic industry will emerge from the theoretical formulations and empirical experiments
    of Townsend Brown.

    The University for Social Research, in presenting the Biefeld-Brown electrogravitational effect, offers to the world new vistas of increased production, betterment of human living and additional economic stability to all countries.


    Mason Rose, Ph. D.,
    President University for Social Research.
    Proposed Aero-Marine Vehicle
    (Figure 1)


    Landing
    Position Craft rests on spherical pontoons

    Stage 1 Flame-jet operating as ducted fan. In this stage there is no
    electrical excitation and no Plasma vortex. Sub-canopy pressure
    sufficient to lift craft only about 10 ft above water surface.
    Pontoons partially retracted. Gyro wheel in cabin dome provides
    horizontal stability and orientation control.

    Stage 2 Electrical excitation how applied. High potential or incandescent
    cathodes initiates plasma flow as torodial vortex. Incoming ion
    plasma bucks outgoing gas flow from flame-jet, causing confinement
    of pressure under canopy, thus increasing lift. At this stage
    vortex is slightly larger than diameter of craft. Craft not about
    25 ft elevation and the sub-canopy pressures are causing further
    lift. Pontoons completely retracted.

    Stage 3 As craft rises, torodial vortex expands to about 3 (craft)
    diameters. Axial upwelling bucks downward jet stream. At about 50
    ft elevation, sub-canopy pressure diminishes to equal the weight of
    craft and equilibrium is established.

    Stage 4 Horizontal thrust in any direction is provided by altering symmetry
    of electrical field and resulting vortex pattern, allowing flame gas
    escape (to the rear) and traction of one leg of the vortex upon the
    water surface. Unbalanced canopy pressures provide forward thrust
    and the additional lift of the leading edge causes a change in the
    altitude of the craft.

    Robert,
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