The Others

Townsend Brown believed that he was in touch with an intelligence,

Another of the Wiped Ones?.

Has anyone seen Ning Li lately? If you find her, would you drop a clue on Wiki?

Ning Li is an American scientist best known for her controversial claims about anti-gravity devices. She previously worked at the University of Alabama, but left to form her own company AC gravity LLD.[1]Little is known of what became of AC Gravity or its initial activities, the current whereabouts of Ning Li are still unknown.

Musing about Miethe

After former Nazi Colonel Miethe was exiled from Egypt in the early fifties, UFO lore has him in Canada, heading up the AVRO flying saucer program. Of course rumor also has it that after the US bought the technology, it turned out to be a total bust.

Uh-huh.

Read about it here

So how does Miethe relate to Townsend, you ask?  Only in the following tangential ways:

1.Linda Brown recalls Townsend speaking of  the characteristics of "our" ufos in the period of time the AVRO prototype was being tested.

2. Linda has told Twigsnapper's account of driving up to a Russian labor camp with Sarbacher, and securing the release of a prisoner, a former German rocket scientist. (A very 'Caroline' type of operation)

3. Sarbacher and Townsend later worked closely together, with Sarbacher even accompanying Townsend to and from the airport on his journeys to France, where he was doing advanced lifter experiments.

Mix those elements together and what do you get?  That's right...a totally Miethe-less soup!

But somehow, I see him in the center of it. It makes a  certain statement when a person is important enough to be wiped from the public record.





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Medium Well, Thank You.

I foresee a future where an insurance company will pay for a mediumship reading,

From

Can Mediums Really Talk to the Dead?by Julie Beischel, PhD and Dean Radin, PhD published in the Noetic Now Journal

OSINT* turns up the darnedest things.

Today's unusual find comes from a materials manufacturer in Tula, Russia.

The product is license (new nanotechnology) and advanced material. This new material (plates of special matter) can be used to provide active (non-reactive) propulsion method due to different air pressure acting to plate of AF-material from different sides of the plate. The new material named Active Force Material. This method does not require any power input.

Tula's prior claim to fame has been as the home and burial place of Leo Tolstoy.  And somewhat   less well known, also as the character we called Tula in Linda's memoir.

*OSINT = Open Source Intelligence)

A Nostaligic Stroll Down (pre)Memory Lane

World War II and Korean Aircraft

Rat Patrol Radio

Dare We Hope?

“We will try to resolve their differences,” said a Turkish diplomatic source speaking on condition of anonymity, adding that all countries in the region have a duty to work for peace in Afghanistan."

Close Encounters of the Weird Kind

A very long time ago before I understood the limitation of using rationalist thinking to find a Unified Field Theory of UFOdom I was a card carrying MUFON member. I have since given all of that up,  and tend to agree with Jacques Valle that "the UFOs are physical manifestations impossible to understand outside their psychic and symbolic reality. We are not witnessing an invasion of beings from elsewhere. It is a spiritual system that acts on humans and uses humans." (I would like to thank Jose Antonio Caravaca whose UFO Mimetic and the Theatre of Deception: the 1966 William Laxton Incident is responsible for bringing that apt quote to my eyes again.)

Howsumever, I also believe that many of the more famous contactee cases were theatrical manipulations carried out by the US Intelligence community.  In The Pied Pipers of the CIA, Phillip Coppens makes strong claims in this regard, and this refrain is picked up again in Contactees or Secret Agents? by Nick Redfern.

I believe the sunspot explanation only on alternate Tuesdays.

Ruppelt...white ink

 After WWII he became a navigator in the Iowa Air Reserves and entered Iowa State College, earning a BS degree in aeronautical engineering in 1950. With the outbreak of war in Korea, he received a recall to full-time duty from the Air Force and came into Intelligence at Wright- Patterson AFB in early 1951. Given work immediately on classified projects by Lt. Col. Rosengarten, Ruppelt soon gained a reputation at ATIC as a problem solver.
Although he would prove to be the best administrator of a UFO project the Air Force would ever have, he did not have the credentials or rank that would normally be drawn upon for what on the surface seemed a very important intelligence assignment. Only 28 years old at the time, Ruppelt was not a career officer. Still a 1st lieutenant by that fall, it is very odd that any non-career tracked officer would be put in charge of a project as important as one involving possible aerial intrusions into United States air space.With the outbreak of war in Korea, he received a recall to full-time duty from the Air Force and came into Intelligence at Wright- Patterson AFB in early 1951. Given work immediately on classified projects by Lt. Col. Rosengarten, Ruppelt soon gained a reputation at ATIC as a problem solver.
http://www.ufocasebook.com/1951fortmonmouth.html

"Captain Edward J. Ruppelt" by Michael Hall and Wendy Connors

Cold Fusion, again

It's looking better all the time:

The most recent test that took place on October 6, 2011 in Bologna, Italy, was supposed to address many of the concerns about the previous tests, and be performed in a way that would put to rest many issues that had been discussed continually on the internet. Despite showing clear evidence of excess energy -- which is absolutely fantastic -- this most recent test failed to live up to its full potential. It was a big success in that it validated the claim the E-Cat produces excess energy via cold fusion, but it was not nearly as successful as it could have been. Or as successful as we, the outsiders looking in, would like for it to have been.

And, oh, yeah...

A bit about the newly-introduced-to the story, Richard Luker. He was a Lt. in the USN in 1921, when his sub was sunk by a pilot boat named Philadelphia ( Evening Public Ledger of Feb 2, 1921) Thank you, Friend Safe.)  And, just coincidentally, he shows up again 39 years later in DARPA. (Once I would have quipped 'old dude' but I am chary of making such declarations now that they might well be applied to me.)

Is that almost 40 year span a normal USN career length or was part of his service, like Townsend's, spent in the Naval Reserve? And where did he report in the Naval Bureau Command structure that was in place at the time?

About those Cites

For those who missed it, the citation list below contains not one, but two, papers published with NASA blessings:

Assymetrical Capacitors for Propulsion. Francis X. Canning, Cory Melcher, and Edwin Winet Institute for Scientific Research, Inc., Fairmont, West Virginia, NASA/CR—2004-213312. October 2004

This (apparently exploratory) study was then followed by:

Force Characterization of Asymmetrical Capacitor Thrusters in Air.  TJ Drummond, Frontiers of Propulsion Science  (eds: Marc G. Millis, NASA Glenn Research Center Eric W. Davis, Institute for Advanced Studies at Austin ) Published by AIAA, © 2009

It appears that these studies were inspired by the meticulous work of Bahder and Fazi in Force on an Asymmetrical Capacitor, published in 2002. All serious researchers into the Biefeld-Brown effect should start with that document, and Townsend's summary report on his many years of research.  Serious students in the life of Townsend Brown need to go much deeper in order to get to know the man inside the enigma.