"The Flying Saucer"
The Application of the Biefield-Brown Effect
to the Solution of the Problems of Space Navigation
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by Mason Rose, Ph.D., President
University for Social Research (1952)
Published in Science and Invention, August 1929, and
Psychic Observer, Vol. XXXVII, No. 1
by Gaston Burridge
American Mercury
June, 1958
The scientist and layman alike encounter a primary difficulty in
understanding the
Biefeld-Brown Effect and it's relation
to the solution of the flying saucer mystery.
A proper interpretation of this theory is prevented because both
scientist and layman are conditioned to think in electromagnetic
concepts, whereas the
Biefeld-Brown effect relates to
electrogravitation.
Their lack of awareness is justifiable, however, because the data
on electrogravitation, inasmuch as it is a comparatively recent
and unpublished development, has limited availability and
circulation. Townsend Brown, the discoverer of
electrogravitational coupling, is the only known experimental
scientist in this new area of scientific development as of this
writing. Thus, anyone wanting to understand electrogravitation
and its applications to astronautics must dismiss the principles
of electromagnetics 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.
The most efficient method of effecting an 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 forces can be represented as
follows:
Taken separately, these forces are of no real 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, and gravity simply keeps objects and
people pinned to the earth.
However, when they are used to work in combination with each
other, almost endless technical applications come into being.
Currently, 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 experiment 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
lightbulb to the complexities of nuclear physics, have
emerged.
In 1923, Dr. Biefield, Professor of Physics and Astronomy at
Dennison University and a former classmate of Einstein in
Switzerland, suggested to his protoge, Townsend Brown, certain
experiments which led to the discovery of the Biefield-Brown
effect, and ultimately to the electrogravitational energy
spectrum (in actuality, it was Brown who first observed the
effect and brought it to the attention of Dr. Biefield, who
suggest further experiments to determine the origin of and
enhance the effect - Juniper).
Biefeld wondered if an
electrical condenser, hung by a thread, would have a tendency to
move when it was given a heavy electrical charge. Townsend Brown
provided the answer. There is such a tendency.
After 28 years of investigation by Brown into the coupling effect
between electricity and gravitation,
it was found that for
each electromagnetic phenomenon there exists an
electrogravitational analogue. This means, from the technical
and commercial viewpoint, potentialities for future development
and exploitation are as great or greater than 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 initial experiments conducted by Townsend Brown, concerning
the behavior of a condenser when charged with electricity, had
the characteristic of simplicity which has marked most other
great scientific advancements.
The first startling revelation was that if placed in free
suspension with the poles horizontal, the condenser, when
charged, exhibited a forward thrust toward the positive poles. A
reversal of polarity caused a reversal of the direction of
thrust. The experiment was set up as follows:
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.
If the charge is reversed and the positive pole pointed downward,
the condenser thrusts down. The experiment is conducted as
follows:
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 effects is determined by five
factors, which are:
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, or a propeller.
Townsend Brown had discovered the secret of how the flying
saucers fly years before and such objects were reported.
Now the basic differences between electromagnetism and
electrogravity have been described and the basic principles of
the Biefield-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 Biefield-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
continuously 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 towards 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 the control surfaces. Since the
saucer is traveling 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 a position to extrapolate a finished saucer
design.
The method of controlling the flight of the saucer is illustrated
by the following simple diagrams showing the charge variations
necessary to accomplish all directions of flight.
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 charge
on top of the saucer, the amount of thrust being regulated by the
amount of charge generated.
In all probability, flying saucers do not utilize external
controls for direction, nor do they have any visible means of
propulsion. Flying saucers travel using the Biefield-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; however, the older points of view are
useful for critical theoretical analysis and empirical
testing.
Before UFO's were ever seen and validly reported, Townsend Brown
developed a captive flying saucer - 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 he flew was a triangle, the next a square, then a square
with the edges cut off, and finally a round shaped saucer.
Eventually, experiments proved the saucer shape most effective.
Changes were made for empirical reasons.
Having solved the problem of horizontal thrust, Townsend Brown
developed a profile shape which would be most efficient to
navigate the electrogravitational field for maximum vertical
thrust. The final profile that developed was the shape
illustrated here:
The first report of a disc-shaped object in the sky dates back to
the sixteenth century. At long intervals during the centuries
since then have come other reports. Most of them are undoubtedly
unreliable as observations, distorted by telling and retelling.
But in these older reports, as well as in the very numerous
series which has accumulated since 1947, 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 appearances 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:
These are weighty arguments PROVIDED THE ASSUMPTIONS BEHIND THEM
ARE CORRECT. As I have previously indicated, the observed motion
of condenser has been labeled the Biefield-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 and 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 on plants and
animals.
All of this, while very exciting, is for most of us just a
repetition and reinforcement of the rapid scientific development
so characteristic of our age. But then came the unexpected
Townsend Brown, working in his laboratory, building models and
trying endless variations in size, shape and design of his
charged condensers, made a flying saucer which flew around a
maypole, before flying saucers became a newspaper topic. And the
reasons listed above, which led the specialists to reject the
reports of observed saucers, proved to be both explicable and
necessary to their operation under the electrogravitational
principle.
Let us look at the four main objectives in a new light:
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 traveling 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 to enter into a softened
pressure area. Diagramed, this would be illustrated as
follows:
It should be noted that in a jet plane or guided missile the
extra weight added to create the Biefield-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 applications and results differ from those
of electromagnetic. This presupposes that an entire new
electrogravitational industry comparable to the present
electromagnetic industry will emerge from the theoretical
formulations and empirical experiments of Townsend Brown.
