On Tue, 15 Nov 2011 04:05:59 -0500, STEALTHMAN <stealthman@iglou.com> 
wrote:

     By autumn 1982 I had finished the long application,
made copies myself, wrote a declaration instead of an
oath declaring myself to be the sole inventor, and when
the office action came with final rejection of the faulty
and short 1981 application, I mailed the 1982 application.

     My youngest son had graduated from college in
May and had taken a job in Austin, and agreed he and
I and my other son could share an apartment there.
     So I just had a post office box as an address in
Pennsylvania, and loaded all belongings in the car
except for 10 boxes that I mailed to Austin, and left
Pennsylvania, arriving in Austin on December 3rd.
     
                                 (11)

        After settling in, I rented a Post Office box and
bought two large envelopes, self addressed one,
and put it and postage money in the other and mailed
it to the postmaster in Pennsylvania with a note asking
him to forward my mail, and included a filled-out change 
of addresses form.

        Within a week I received the forwarded mail and
in with it was a letter from the Patent Office containing
a secrecy order imposed on November 30, 1982 along
with a Permission A to reveal the technology only to
the minimum number of people necessary to continue
development, with instructions to notify those already 
working on the project of the penalties for disclosure
to any other individuals.

       I had the copy of the application in my coat, and
put it under my bed when I slept, and began thinking
of a sure way to keep anybody else from being able
to read it.

      So I bought a pad of graph paper with 1/4 inch
squares and after my sons went to bed each night,
I sat up all night and began encoding the disclosure.
      I didn't want to number the pages, instead I used
the letters of two old songs as a numbering system.
      "SHE'LL[1] BE[1] COMING RO[1]UN[1]D TH[1]E[2] 
M[1]O[2]U[1]N[2]T[1]AI[1]N[3], WH[2]E[3]N[4] S[1]H[3]E[4] 
C[1]O[3]M[2]E[4]S[2]", AND "T[2]H[4]E[5] O[4]L[2]D GRA[1]Y 
M[3]A[2]R[1]E[6], S[3]H[5]E[7] A[3]I[2]N[5]'T[3] WH[6]A[4]T[4]
S[4]H[7]E[8] U[2]S[5]E[9]D[1] T[5]O[5] B[1]E[10]".

     Then with the pages numbered, I began to encode the
disclosure, translating the letters of the first  line to the
first leftmost  squares of the graph paper pages, in order, 
then the second line to the second squares from the left 
of the graph paper pages, ending up with forty-some pages
of encoded text and spaces.

     I then burned the application disclosure pages except
for the drawing copy, which I cut up into meaningless
pieces and wrote notes on the back as if they were just
ordinary notes on scrap paper.

     I mailed in the receipt for the secrecy order then,
more concerned about security than the $15,000 fine
and 5 year prison penalty for unauthorized disclosure.
     The secrecy order not only covered the present
application, but also the two previous applications
for the same subject matter, so I burned my copies
of them also.

     And waited, not knowing when the first office
action would come, because there was no contract
with the government, it seemed the application would
be examined in the security group.
     I was not aware that the Air Force had hand 
carried an application for the Have Blue/F-117 to
the patent office, had two supervisory attorneys
rubber stamp them in, without reading the text,
briefed them on the need for security, and then
took the application and put it in the vault only
accessible in the presence of Air Force guards.
     The Lockheed "Vehicle" patent was dated
February 13, 1979, 45 days later than my first
application for "Electronic Avoidance Configurations",
which I mailed Dec. 22, 1978.

     I now suspect that the Air Force would not
have allowed Lockheed to file the application
if  they had not found out that I filed for protection
on aircraft having all flat faceted surfaces.

                           (12)

STEALTHMAN