For me there is no question about the existence of intelligent life elsewhere. I sometimes do wonder about the existence of intelligent life here on earth. A conversation I had with my father over the weekend did highlight the fact that for others it is very much a question.

I’ve related my experience but, those who haven’t experienced something similar only take that to mean that I’m out of touch with reality. I don’t understand why some people have such a touch time with the possibility of life from elsewhere occasionally visiting earth.

The Royal Observatory in Greenwich provides an estimate of 7 x 10²² stars in the universe. That’s 70,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars.

In our galaxy we’ve surveyed a number of stars in the local vicinity looking for planets. Planets are so small and so dim compared to a star that we are unable to detect them directly because they are lost in the glare of the parent star. Since we can’t see them directly, we look for the wobble their gravity creates in the parent star. We can detect this by looking at the spectral lines shift in frequency in a periodic rate (as the planet orbits the star). One other method we can occasionally use is detecting momentary dimming of a stars light by a planetary transit.

The former method only works well if the plane of the orbit of the planet around the star is somewhat in our direction so the star gets pulled towards us and away from us. If it is not close to edge on the star gets pulled back and forth or up and down relative to us and we can’t see that in a Doppler shift.

Additionally, our detection method only works well for massive planets orbiting relatively close to the star. So called “hot Jupiters” that are generally Jupiters mass or heavier orbiting close to the star.

If the orbit of a stars planet is exactly edge on relative to us and transits the star, we can detect somewhat smaller planets that way and planets that orbit more distant from the star but it is extremely rare for such an orbital configuration to line up just right for us to be able to detect a planet transiting a star.

We would not be able to detect any of the planets in our own solar system from another star with our current technology.

Even given these limitations in our ability to detect planets, half of the stars we look at have planetary systems. If our technology were advanced enough see smaller objects, earth sized planets, then there is a high probability we would see a planetary system around virtually every star around which a stable orbit exists.

Many of these stars may have multiple habitable planets. In our own solar system we know of only one planet that has life, but we know of others that may.

In particular, both methane and formaldehyde have been detected in Mars atmosphere. Methane, being the simplest hydrocarbon, is widely found in nature and can be produced by many abiotic processes. Formaldehyde can also be created by abiotic processes but is less common. However, on Mars it is particularly significant because the conditions in the Martian atmosphere gives formaldehyde a half-life measured in hours, so something has to be continuously replenishing it.

The probability that some bacteria or other primitive life forms, possibly lichens, existing on Mars today is fairly high. In addition to the fact that something is producing substantial quantities of methane and formaldehyde on an ongoing basis, the original experiments to look for life in the soil done by Vikings actually had some positive results that were dismissed as chemical reactions.

What we know about the Martian environment now suggests the tests were designed to look for the wrong kind of life and a new life seeking experiment will be launched towards Mars later this year.

We used to believe that life required oxygen. Then we discovered sulfur reducing bacteria that are in fact poisoned by oxygen. Then we discovered whole food chains based upon sulfur reduction around the so called black smokers, volcanic vents at the sea floor rifts.

The life forms we discovered around the black smokers also not only tolerated but actually thrived at temperatures considerably above the surface boiling point of water.

Another potential place where life may exist is on Jupiter’s moon Europa. Europa’s surface is covered with water ice and it is cracked and deformed in a way that suggests a liquid ocean underneath. The density of Europa suggests that an ocean approximately 800 miles deep may exist. Tidal energy resulting from Jupiter’s deformation of Europa’s crust, provides the heat that melts Europa’s ice into an ocean. If liquid water is present, the potential for life forms which obtain their energy chemically as with the life forms surrounding the black smokers on earth, may exist there.

Saturn’s moon Enceladus has water geysers on the south pole which were recently observed by the Cassini space craft. There is speculation that heat is provided by tidal forces and another group speculates by the decay of radioactive elements. Whatever the source, there is liquid water present and organic chemicals present which are necessary for life as we know it.

And then there is Jupiter’s moon Calisto. Long thought to be dead with a surface a billion years old; measurement of Calisto’s magnetic field shows that it changes as Jupiter rotates. The favored explanation is that a current is flowing within Calisto, and the surface ice is too poor of a conductor to allow for such a flow, but a liquid salt-water ocean underneath the ice would do the trick.

So in this Solar system you have one body that definitely has life, might have intelligent life (that’s still open to debate in my book), and four bodies that may have life.

Now multiply that by 7 x 10²² stars or even half that, and you’ve got a lot of potential life harboring planets out there. How many of those will go on to develop tool using intelligent life? That’s a harder question. In this solar system, only one planet has done so and it took it nearly 4.5 billion years. It took several billion just to get around to multi-cellular life.

What if it’s one-in-one-billion? That’s still 7 x 10¹² intelligent tool using life forms that will come into existence on various planets throughout the universe or an average of about 70 intelligent tool using species per average galaxy (the Milky Way is larger than average although there are giant ellipticals 1000 times larger).

I suspect the odds are likely to be better than 1-in-1 billion but even with those remote odds this universe is teaming with intelligent life. Then we get down to are they physically able to get here and if so would they come here, after all there are a lot of places they could go, they may be out there but Earth may just not be terribly interesting.

Right now our understanding of science isn’t sufficient to know for sure one way or the other. I know, but my experience isn’t enough to convince many people, so how can it be approached scientifically? Einsteins theory of general relativity makes it appear to be impossible to go faster than light. On the surface this makes it sound impossible because as you accelerate mass towards the speed of light, it’s mass increases towards infinity thus requiring ever increasing amounts of energy. The bottom line is that taking the direct approach it appears that we can not do it.

However, there are several ways know to physicists to cheat, instead of traveling faster than light, compress space in front of you and expand it behind. And scientists know how to do this but it requires something known as exotic matter, and a tremendous supply of energy. Wormholes might be another way to cheat but we neither know how to create on that is stable for get to one that exists, so for us now that method is moot, but perhaps not for other civilizations.

This is one of my areas of interest, given the laws of physics, how might it be possible? The solution to this problem would not only allow us to become a truly space faring race but also solve many domestic problems. But this is a problem that is not solved yet.

And then why would they come here? Many people have speculated on this, the explosions of atomic weapons give off certain signatures such as gamma ray burst, that may have attracted attention. There are reports of UFO like sightings well before the explosion of the first atomic bomb.

Some people speculate that the Earth is a galactic watering hole. I see that is unlikely however because water is not uncommon in interstellar space.

I don’t really know what their motive for coming here might be. I wonder if ants wonder why we do what we do, occasionally coming into their world.

In 1996, NASA performed an experiment with a tether attached to the shuttle. At the altitude the Shuttle flies at, the air is extremely rarefied but it is not a perfect vacuum. There is a voltage gradient with altitude and in addition, the shuttle is flying through Earth’s magnetic field.

The combination of these two effects was expected to generate electricity. Now I will admit to not fully understanding the theory here because my understanding of electricity is that it requires a completed circuit for current to flow. Now on the other end of the tether there was a small satellite but still I don’t understand what completes the circuit. If the circuit completed by ionic conduction in this rarefied atmosphere, then it’s cutting across the same magnetic field lines and so no net voltage should be generated.

The only way I can see this working is by tapping the voltage gradient present in the atmosphere, but if that were the case, I’m surprised that enough current was generated to actually sever the tether given the rarefied nature of the atmosphere at that altitude.

Also it was theorized that electricity could be sent into the tether and act as a motor increasing the orbital height of as satellite without having to expend propellant. There again, without a completed circuit I don’t understand how this would work.

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Shuttle Satellite

At any rate; somehow this was supposed to generate electricity, and apparently generated a lot more electricity than expected severing the tether.

An interesting aspect of this video is that the astronaut explains the floating things as debris from the shuttle in the foreground, but if you watch these floating things you can clearly see them go behind the tether.

There are a number of things I find interesting about this video. The tether remains taught even when it’s broken. I am unclear as to what force would keep it tight. I would have expected it to recoil when it broke, but clearly that is not the case in this video.

Then there is the question of the discrepancy between the amount of electricity expected and that actually generated. It would have made more sense to me to be measuring the current as you real the tether out so that if it expectantly approaches dangerous levels, you can stop before something catastrophic happens.

It is interesting to note that in eleven years they have not chosen to repeat this experiment.

This is an interesting video of Buzz Aldrin talking about a UFO observed 200,000 miles from earth on the way to the moon during the Apollo 11 mission.

What are we seeing in this attached video? The person making the recording initially assumes the bright object is Venus, until it fragments. Are we seeing a satellite re-enter? Whatever it is can’t be too large or two far away for it to occur this rapidly.

I have decided to include a link on the sidebar to a website that revolves around T. Townsend Brown and the subject of controlling gravity. I don’t know if there is any information of scientific merit on the site but at the very least it’s interesting from a historical perspective.

I have related before my experience and details of the apparatus I saw. It is my believe that there exists some relationship between the electromagnetic force, inertia, gravity, and time. I’m always looking for clues that might help me to understand this relationship.

It is my belief that understanding the relationship between electromagnetism, inertia, gravity, and time would allow us to provide for our energy needs without creating global warming, producing nuclear waste, or releasing toxic substance into our environment. It would provide the means to eliminate poverty globally and allow us to become a space faring race.

T. Townsend Brown attempted to explore this relationship, however, I am at this point not certain whether he explored anything beyond simple ion wind.

If you take an asymmetrical capacitor, one in which one electrode is large and one is small, and you place a high voltage charge on this capacitor such that the positive charge is applied to the small electrode, and the voltage is around 10kv / cm, just short of breaking down the air between them, the device will generate thrust in the direction of the positive electrode.

This effect may be explained by simple ion wind. There is a high voltage gradient at the positive electrode. This causes electrons to be stripped from the atoms of air and makes them into positive ions. Given that they are now ions, they are attracted to the negative electrode and accelerated in that direction. The law of equal and opposite reactions then accelerates the device, the asymmetrical capacitor towards the positive electrode.

Certainly ion wind at least plays a part in the operation of this device. The question is whether or not it is the only source of thrust. There are at least two ways to test this. One is to enclose the entire apparatus in a plastic bag so that one can then determine if there is any net thrust on the entire system. The other method would be to test the device in a vacuum.

Many people have done both tests and the results of both have been inconclusive, there are people who claim successful operation in a vacuum and in a plastic bag. There are people who claim a plastic bag or a vacuum negates the effect. I haven’t been able to find any solid credible references to either.

Was T. Townsend Brown on to anything important? I don’t know. I do know he spent much of his life doing secret government research. Whether or not that involved any sort of gravity manipulation I do not know.

If anyone has been involved in any work that attempts to scientifically examine the Biefeld-Brown effect, I would be very much interested in hearing from you.

I have started receiving e-mail from strange people and places at an address I don’t normally give out that is centered around the topics of anti-gravity, time travel, and that sort of thing, and area in which I do have an intense interest.

I am particularly interested in understanding the principal behind the operation of the device I saw in my encounter when I was ten. It was presented in such a simple minimal form that I have to believe that was the intent.

So far what I’ve received has run the gamut between trying to affect space-time using high intensity light, to an experiment that attempts to prove the principal of retro-causality (and there the experiment was planned last November at the U-of-W by a professor Cramer there but I have not been able to find any word of the results), to more off the wall information suggesting that for some reason mold spores can have a gravity shielding effect similar to superconductors. Because of my allergies to half the known universe the latter is one that I am not going to try to reproduce.

I am not sure why I started receiving this e-mail or who is sending it. Mail headers are trivial to forge on the Internet.

I personally am convinced there is some relationship between electro-magnetism or perhaps more broadly between the electro-weak force and gravity in as much as diamagnetic materials and magnetic effects seem to be a common aspect of many UFO reports or crash debris and coincidentally many fringe science devices revolve around this subject, and some documented effects such as the Biefeld-Brown effects. Townsend Brown referred to them as “controlling gravity” rather than “anti-gravity”.

At any rate; I don’t know where it is going to lead if anywhere, but it’s interesting, I’ve always wanted to be able to travel and interstellar travel has a particular appeal.

Art Bell has repeatedly interviewed Jim Sparks, author of “The Keepers”, a book allegedly about his alien abduction experiences.

I do not find Jim Sparks convincing. He adds little new to existing UFO/ET lore except for an alien writing system for writing English words.

Jim’s experience isn’t limited to a particular race. He has seen various types of grays, various types of reptilians, and various types of the so called “Nordic” type during his encounters.

While other reports of all of these types exist, generally speaking they aren’t intermixed like this to a large degree, particularly the Nordic type. It isn’t real uncommon to hear reports of a number of grays with a reptilian playing some sort of supervisory role.

In spite of all of these numerous encounters in which Mr. Sparks was conscious having had the opportunity to ask questions as a reward for cooperating in the lessons teaching him the alien writing system for English, he remains unaware of their origins or agenda.

I’ve noticed that ever since coast to coast was bought by Premiere Radio, which later was eaten by Clear Channel Communications, all of the guests seem to be book authors or someone with something else to sell.

I sometimes wonder if the primary function of Coast to Coast isn’t dis-information. Art Bell speaks about his role as an air-force medic, but I can’t recall any elaboration with respect to his function in air force intelligence.

I often think that he still has a role in air force-intelligence, perhaps serving the dual function of gathering real information from people who have encountered extraterrestrials, while at the same time disseminating disinformation.

UFO Technology

I believe there is a relationship between mass, inertia, gravity, time, and opposing electromagnetic fields. I do not understand the nature of this relationship but I felt it worth noting a few of my observations in hopes that either others with similar observations might add to the database, or perhaps the underlying principal might make itself evident to a reader.

My Encounter Experience

I was invited into a ship that was saucer shaped and had a single circular room about 25 feet in diameter. There were no compartments or separate rooms for food storage or restroom facilities or any other storage compartments, just one big room.

Around the circumference of the room about one feet from wall and about a foot or so off the floor, there was what appeared to be a glass tube of about 4 inches in minor diameter which was filled with mercury. Just to the right of the door opening from the inside perspective, there were two coils of what looked like copper enameled wire about 16 gauge wound around the tube of mercury with separators that looked like phenolic rectangles between them and on the outside of each coil.

These coils connected to what had the appearance of a battery, like a giant car battery. There were three cells and they had external inter-cell connectors.

There were no switches or other control devices visible. No console, no knobs, no buttons, no physical control devices. Nor was there any visible switch or electronics in the coil circuit. This was the only clearly visible technology on this craft and I had the distinct feeling that they wanted me to see it.

Mercury is a highly diamagnetic substance. That means that it creates a magnetic field which opposes the external field. Further, the two coils connecting to the battery like device, I believe they were opposing, because if they were not they would behave as one large coil and there would be no purpose to having two separate coils.

Stan Deyo Magnetic Vortex Coils

Stan Deyo, who used to work in some government black projects here, was almost made to disappear and moved to Australia for a number of years, while in Australia was experimenting with trying to create a “magnetic vortex”, and he built these coils he thought would achieve this.

As they were described to me (and it’s been many years since I last spoke with him so my memory on this may be fuzzy), he first built a large circular coil, like a television degaussing coil except larger, about two feet in diameter, with a fairly heavy gauge wire. Then he wrapped this coil with high voltage insulting tape, and then he wound another coil around the first such that the turns of the second coil would around the length of the first. As I understood it, the second coil was a bifilar winding so that it would create opposite and opposing fields that I would normally think would cancel and just turn into a big resistor. He applied AC voltages to both coils and a high DC voltage between them.

He fired these things up in a room full of people and he said it had an optical effect like watching a reflection in a pond when waves distort the reflection and he reported people in the room felt physically ill, as did he. The last time I spoke with him he had discontinued experiments with these because he feared for his health and that of others in the area.

I questioned why the outer coil was wound bifilar because as near as I could tell that would just cause their fields to cancel and all you would have is an electric heater.

He gave me this analogy; you’ve got two train engines on a track heading towards each other in opposite directions. Same magnitude of velocity but opposite signs or vectors. When they collide, the kinetic energy does not cancel. He suggested that the same is true of opposing magnetic fields.

Ancient Indian Mercury Vortex Engines

There is a controversial Vedic text called Samarangana Sutradhara. This text allegedly describes a mercury vortex engine, however, I have not been able to find a translation of this anywhere. Numerous internet authors have attempted to equate these to NASA’s mercury ion engine, but I don’t believe they are the same. The mercury ion engine at best provides a very modest thrust and I don’t believe the ancient Indians would have used the equivalent of “vortex” unless some sort of vortex action was actually central to the engines operation. They also described the operation of these engines as “thunderous” which bears no resemblance to NASA’s mercury ion engine.

Art’s Parts

Art Bell, formerly the full time host of Coast to Coast radio, now hosts the weekends. Some years ago he received some materials that allegedly were pieces taken from the Roswell UFO crash. Some of these pieces consist of extremely thin alternating layers of bismuth and a zinc/magnesium alloy. These particular parts were supposedly from the skin of the craft. A note of interest, bismuth, like mercury, is a highly diamagnetic element.

Lifter Technology

A device known as a lifter provides lift with the application of high voltage between the plates of a highly asymmetrical capacitor. In the case of common lifter technology there is a vertical rectangular plate several inches high, some space above it, and then a fine copper wire. The flat sections are arranged into triangles and multiple triangular sections arranged in hexagons.

There is absolutely no question that lifter technology works. It has been widely replicated. The question is one of why it works. The devices thus far have been able to produce enough thrust to lift the device itself but have not flown untethered because they can not yet produce enough thrust to lift the high voltage power supply required to power them.

It was my belief that what was providing the lift for these devices was ion-wind. That is, the high voltages used ionizes some of the air molecules and then the electrostatic potential accelerates these ions downward providing an upward lifting force on the device. The reason I believed this to be the case is that a group of people I was with built an asymmetrical capacitor device and attempted to measure lift and we did see lift. Then we placed the device in a plastic bag to eliminate ion wind as the source of thrust and we did not see lift. However, our device was not the same physical configuration as the lifter device.

Lifter experimenters have repeated this experiment with the lifter device and still saw lift inside a plastic bag. Then Purdue University placed one of these devices in a vacuum chamber, and not only was lift still observed, but the performance of the device actually improved somewhat in a vacuum. My understanding is that NASA has submitted a patent on producing thrust using asymmetrical capacitors. At present about all that can be said about these devices is that they work and we don’t know how. Whether or not their performance levels will ever be increased to the point of creating enough thrust to have practical applications remains to be seen.

The one thing we can say for sure is that they take electric power and by some means that we do not presently understand, produce thrust. This appears different than anti-gravity devices in as much as it appears to be an actual thrust, not a reduction in gravitational attraction.

Superconductor Gravitational Shield

Gravitational shielding effect seems to be provided by certain superconductors that are spinning and in certain external fields when they are right at their transition temperature. This was first discovered by Dr Yevgeny Podkletnov, a Russian engineer, formerly affiliated with the Materials Science Department at the Tampere University of Technology. Although there are claims of pseudo-science, Boeing asked Dr. Podkletnov to work with them in 2002, and there was theoretical basis for the potential of superconductors to act as transducers and transform incident EM fields into gravitational waves.

The physical arrangement involves a ceramic YCBO superconductive disk that is suspended by magnetic repulsion above three coils which have AC fields applied that also drive the superconductor to spin. Above this device, the weight of suspended devices appears to be reduced from .3 to 2%.

UFO Phenomena

UFO abductees and witnesses often describe strange behavior of electric and electronic devices. Automobile engines stop, headlights go dim and then out, instruments stop functioning, and then when the UFO departs, these devices resume operation.

I saw this strange video once, taken from an aircraft of a city below at night. A UFO came on the seen and the city lights below seem to dim in a wave as the UFO passed over. If you’ve ever taken a magnet and placed it near a color television screen or color computer monitor screen (the cathode ray tube type), and seen the swirl of color that results, the way this UFO affected the lights appeared very similar.

Arc lamps like sodium vapor street lamps, will extinguish once their voltage drops below a threshold and will not immediately restart. But when this UFO passed, the lights would dim but not extinguish.

I speculate that somehow the UFO is doing something that is affecting how matter moves through time, affecting the way the electrons flow through wires. Just wild speculation but I don’t know how else you can explain these phenomena, the car runs after the UFO passes, the lights come back on. The energy was not sucked out of the battery, the conductivity of the circuits wasn’t ruined.

Summary

There seems to be some relationship between opposing magnetic fields, diamagnetic materials, and mass, inertia, time, and gravity. There seems to be some relationship between electric charge and thrust. Understanding these relationships could lead to practical interstellar travel. The speed limit of light would cease to exist if the mass associated with a craft and it’s occupants could be eliminated. In addition to practical interstellar travel, if such physics exist and we understood them, the technology could replace many existing environmentally unfriendly energy generation systems.

There has been a recent wave of UFO sightings but a lack of abductions. I have not found any solid reports this year. They seem to have slowed down considerably after August of 2006.

Because the abductions have either stopped entirely or dropped dramatically, I have to believe either they’ve achieved the objectives and created their hybrid race, or they’ve failed in their objective and given up.

I am predisposed towards the first explanation because I see negative influences in the world coordinated to a degree exceeding the capabilities of human conspirators.

At first I believed that it was just a conspiracy of interests, government and corporate interests that appeared coordinated because they had common self-interests.

Signs of surgical precision in some of the events, the 9/11 attack on the world trade center twin towers and the pentagon, made to look like a handful of angry Arabs, suggested coordination by a sophisticated entity, perhaps the grays, our distant descendants.

If the grays have completed their hybridization program then their new agenda may be to maintain the ecosphere in a condition where it can sustain their hybrid race at our expense. They may not wish to totally eliminate us, especially given the kinship, even if it is in a different time line, but they will do what they perceive they have to do which may include reducing our population and standard of living and our enslavement.

Admittedly this is all wild speculation and it may be nothing more than fiction to try to make sense of the fiction of popular culture.

Still it’s something to think about.

Take a look at this blog for a very interesting video.

At first, it appears to be a meteor entering the atmosphere. Something with a lot of volatiles because it has quite a tail. As it gets very close to the camera, you can see the “tail” leaves the nucleus in a spiral pattern but the spiral seems fixed not spinning.

The clip claims that it’s a ship spiraling out of a worm-hole. I don’t buy that but by the same token it’s hard to imagine what would create a spiral tail like that.

It gets quite large just before the video ends which suggests that it likely impacted very soon there after close by.