Ask Not for Whom Die_Glocke Tolls.

An ATS poster by the name of Sy.Gunson delivers a well-supported argument about the true purpose of the Nazi Bell   (often portrayed in the UFO community as evidence that the Germans'  had an operational flying saucer program):

Nazi Bell was a Urainium 233 breeder

He supports this proposition with details of  strategic  weapons development programs in Germany at the end of the war.  Four Bells were in use then, for different programs and he accounts for all of them.

One, which caused the foo-fighter effect, (Ball lightning again?) was used in particle beam weapon system. The American's grabbed that one. Another was stripped of critical parts by the American soldiers and left for the French to take. 

Ping. Ping. 

Inside every Townsend Brown story resides another story. For example, his trips to Paris were set up in 1955 and 56 so that he could  give some garvitics consulting advice to the French. But while in Paris, he was also photographed with a very pleased Mr. Twigsnapper and (presumably) some of his "boys." This photo, we have been told, is directly related to the Buster Crabb disappearance the next month. Until now, I have assumed that the missing diver was the  only significant inner story to the Paris trip(s).


We have also been told that Helen Towt, the young woman who became Linda's first mentor, was instrumental  in helping Mr. Twigsnapper to arrange the Paris trips. In fact, she was so helpful that he sent her a leather jacket in gratitude. And that was the jacket she was wearing on the day Linda met her. It has always niggled at me that this meeting occurred at least six months or so before Townsend's "first" trip to Paris. Odd, I thought, for someone to be so grateful for something that had not yet happened. 


After reading the linked thread, I am now considering that

(a.) Townsend's first trip to Paris may not have been his first trip to Paris. He always traveled extensively and Linda seldom knew where he was when he was gone.

and

(b)  His (rather publicly carried on) correspondence with Jacques Cornillion, arranging his French connection may have been  a cover  story.  Was he actually there because of the French developments with their recovered Bell and their atomic bomb research program?  Depending on the players and their desired outcomes, this involvement may have ranged from facilitating their work, to collecting intelligence or it, or even, given the tenure of the times slowing the process down with selective some misdirection.  Wheels within wheels, knowing nothing for certain I keep all possibilities in play.

(Note: First, likely typo-filed post. I will be back later to clean this up and hyperlink some of the  names and stories to previous blog entries, but most of them can be found through a label search.)

More about the USS Timmerman

From Amazon   T

1955 Navy USS Timmerman Ship Solar Gas Turbine Engine Print Ad (44042)

From A Tin Can Sailor's Destoyer History

The TIMMERMAN almost did not make it into this world. Her keel was laid on 01 October 1945, and at that time, she was intended to be just another standard destroyer of the class. On 07 January 1946, the Bureau of Ships ordered work suspended and what there was of her was transferred to the reserve fleet. This was remarkable due to the fact that many ships were cancelled and subsequently scrapped on the building ways....

When commissioned on 26 September 1952, the U.S. Navy had one of their first completely experimental ships. Her propulsion system was rated at 100,000 Shaft Horsepower and a speed of 43 knots was anticipated. Naval records do not show that she ever exceeded 35 knots, but strong evidence indicates that the 43 knots was achieved and perhaps even exceeded during sea trials prior to commissioning....

The TIMMERMAN was a successful experiment in many ways. She proved that higher steam pressures and temperatures were possible, thus allowing for the development of the 1200 psi plant, which was first installed in the USS FOREST SHERMAN (DD-931) class and other later classes of ships. One of her emergency generators was driven by a gas turbine engine, believed to be one of the first marine installations of a gas turbine. There were other contributions to future ship design such as the aluminum super-structure, raised bow and other experiments, which were classified at the time.
Her short life of 46 months was a productive one. She was decommissioned on 27 July 1956 and sold for scrap on 21 April 1959.

See, also "Boundary Layer Investigations on the USS Timmerman"

A fascinating ship...entirely experimental and in the possession of the Naval Reserve. But not aound in the same time frame as the purported 1943 Philadelphia experiment.

The Philadelphia Experiment Redux

Since this topic has come up again in some of the other forums:

•  Ball Lightning, the Genesis
•  Oh, shoot, let's make it a three-fer.
• The Atomic Heritage Foundation's Version of the Philadelphia Experiment

Beware the Ides of April

My husband (The Astrologer) recently pointed out two highly active, potentially troublesome dates in our near future. Now, I  see that John Townley reports a disturbing correspondence between the time Mars Retrograde turns direct and the timing of several famous suprise attacks.  But TA and I take nothing as foreordained, have seen other dates, ominous and great alike, come and gounnoted. The world ticks on unaware that some big cogs just shifted smoothly into a higher gear.

It is interesting however, to see how jittery everyone is acting in this run-up period. Linda tells me that a devastating explosive technology developed for the CIA is in Israeli hands. But street rumor also has it that the Iranians are prepared to initiate or to respond in kind with a different killing technology of their own. Somebody needs to kava-kava those itchy-fingered cowboys for the next two months or so.

Something happened.

Something  happened prior to October of 1942 that sent Townsend and his work off (or up) to a whole different level.  Whatever it was, it meant sacrificing any dreams he ever had of being known for a successful and distinguished naval career. And it had been going so promisingly well, too.

Hand picked to run the Atlantic Fleet Radio School in the wake of Pearl Harbor, he wasted no time in seeing that the name  was changed to RADAR school.. ("Material" was appended a few months later.) Promoted to Lt. Commander in the Naval Reserve in September, he  soon handed in his resignation  and headed off to Vega aircraft.

He and Jo rented a home on Wonderland Ave,somewhere near this small and intimate cottage:

The listing realtor described the property thusly:

This legendary home in the Hollywood Hills was built in 1942.... During the Cold War between 1947-1969, the residence was Lookout Mountain Air Force Station, where the federal government operated a secret film studio producing classified films for the U.S. Department of Defense and the Atomic Energy Commission. The self-contained filmmaking compound employed 250 people, and covered 2.5 acres of studios, film vaults, production areas, and screening rooms. Since its deactivation, it has become a personal residence.

The "home" was  built to house the headquarters of the US Army's west cast radar defense operation. Keep in mind that in 1942, "Radar Defense" would have been an extremely touchy subject to folks on the West Coast, particularly after the colossal failures at Pearl and the unexplained events of the Battle of Los Angeles at the end of February, which must have caused a panic at all levels, civilian and military. 


As  a brainiac from Vega's research department, Townsend  cerainly would have had open "rights of passage" in and out of  this new "Army" radar command, located oh so close to him.  Perhaps he was even more welcome there for having been an NRL insider  and a presumably disenchanted --because no one ever  believed Beau's mental breakdown story-- EX-naval officer. 

Footprints through history lead down all sorts of rabbit holes.  I haven't decided just how far down this one I want to go as of yet.

Today's Harvest

Clive Backster has been mentioned elsewhere in forum discussions recently. Linda recalls seeing his early research in action at the Standford Research Institute.

A better summation of the V-2 Rocket research program at White Sands Proving Ground.  This makes one point clear. The cameras on the rockets actually filmed the appearance of UFOs in their near airspace.  Now, I'm still not convinced that the ET explanation is the only one that fits.

I know the Navy had  been called upon to bring in one of their advanced portable RADAR stations, reportedly to collect better data on the behavior of these anomalous objects. 

It is also entirely possible, in my oh so spacious brain, to think that the portable RADAR might have had another function, and the UFOs were visual illusions generated via the Navy's latest electronic counter-measures system.

And finally, in a more recent article from the Iconoclast, why UFOlogy as a field of study will never get anywhere.

Plasmons.

I can't say I've met with the idea of plasmons before, but this technology sounds familiar. I recall Linda's story of soldering wires so fine as to be invisible during her tenure as Townsend's lab assistant. That EHD grid technology was used in other forms later but this is the first time I've seen a nanoworld replication of it.

Plasmons = particles of oscillating plasma... 

Uh, huh, she says, mulling that over sagely.

I have figured out Zorgon's code.

For months now, Linda has been talking about the wonderful discussions going on in the The Pegasus Research forums.

I would go and look and either get a rejecting message of some sort or not find the thread. I finally took the time to create an account and log on and --Woo-hoo!-- they are all there! Zorgon is  creating data dumps  like mad, cross-referencing what is known to date about each of the particular and peculiar topics spinning out of the core Townsend Brown Story.

Someone else takes an interest in Bill Uhouse. I don't feel so alone anymore.

Ah-ha-ha...Geoff and Chris have been at it again.

I'm laughing because the joke is on me. The first time I viewed this photo, sent along with a recent note from Geoff, I saw Townsend standing by his Inverness Green Caddy, but could not see what he is holding..  Now that I have enlarged it, I can tell that my English friends have been playing with time and space again.

Their caption reads "Somebody told me I got a mention in this book." 

(It's even better if you blow it up large enough to see the wheels!)

Entertaining pair, that duo is.Particularly when you let them loose with Photoshop and a scanner!

The Anti-antigravity Man

Linda reports that she was surprised  that she had to stop and think about how to answer when someone asked her "Who was Townsend Brown?"  This anecdote motivated me to relook at an old post on the same topic, to see if  I could have responded any more quickly.  Probably not, but please note that I did ETA in the *caveat for the sake of those who need to see it.

Briefly, the Townsend Brown I know was a scientist first, a spook secondly, and a family man in the time left over to him. Those who follow his scientific work  sum it up as 'electrogravitics,' but he later worked extensively with electrohydrodynamics and he has been quoted as saying that the (EHD) technology could be tweaked for propulsion, communications, and power generation.  (Reported in Defying Gravity, the Parallel Universe of T.Townsend Brown).  Perhaps  HE  understood all of those mods to be tweaks, but they are beyond the reach of most of us -- all though that fact never stops me from speculating.

A different answer to this same question, given by those who know his name but not his work is that he was the Antigravity Man. But Townsend never used nor liked that term, so  I prefer to think of him as the Anti-antigravity Man, since I see one (small) part of his legacy in today's plasma actuator technology used for subsonic drone and spacecraft propulsion.

On a more down-to-earth but related note, John Reese Roth began serving his  sentence recently

A BookNote

Book formatting has got me in a half-nelson and I surrender. Time to call in the professional formatters who can put text, photos, footnotes, and bibliography all together for a print version of The Good-Bye Man. 

And dare we ask for  all of that in a Kindle version?.

$$$.

Note to Linda:
Sell more dogs.

Thank you, Ralph Steiner, Whitley Strieber, Hank Mills, Sterling Alllen and George Noory, in absentia

 From an interview with Ralph Steiner, taken by Whitley Strieber on Coast to Coast AM radio on December 27, 2011 and transcribed by the fine folks at Pure Energy Systems Network.

Thomas Townsend Brown was another inventor who came up with many different technologies. His focus for many years was on "electrogravitics", or manipulating gravity with the use of high voltage electric fields. He built disks that were basically very high grade capacitors. When charged with high voltage electricity (50,000 volts or more), they would produce an artificial gravitational field around themselves, and move towards their positive pole. He performed many demonstrations in which large, heavy disks were charged up with high voltage DC power, and spun around the pole they were tethered to at very high speeds. Objects inside of the disks were claimed not to experience inertial effects. For example, small and fragile glass vials placed inside of the disks would not break, despite the fact calculations showed they should.

The military was so interested in his work, an official report was even composed about how his technology could be used to develop faster than sound fighter aircraft. This report was not discovered until many years later, and may have never been meant for the public to see.

Although the full story of his life is complicated, it strongly seems like he was forced out of electrogravitics research. However, even after his death, individuals in the private sector are working on electrogravitics and are trying to replicate his work. In secret, the military could have very well continued the research, combining it with information gathered from crashed extraterrestrial space craft, such as the one that was obtained from near Roswell, NM in 1947. Most of the "UFOs" we see in the sky are probably not extraterrestrial, but are our own experimental craft being tested. Perhaps they are not experimental any more. The government has had over sixty years to develop the technology after all!