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From: Stig_Agermose@online.pol.dk (Stig Agermose)
Date: Sat, 27 Sep 1997 06:44:05 +0200
Fwd Date: Sat, 27 Sep 1997 08:19:38 -0400
Subject: Rare Keyhoe Article On Antigravity Research

Found on Ufomind's Donald Keyhoe page

http://www.ufomind.com/ufo/people/k/keyhoe/

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This is an article that appeared in a magazine called
`Flying Saucers' that was written in 1967 by Maj. Donald E. Keyhoe.


SAUCERS SECRET : ANTIGRAVITY


Editor's Note: Major Keyhoe has been writing about Unidentified Flying
Objects (UFO's) for over 15 years. [written in 1967.Vangard] From the
outset he has insisted that flying saucers are real and interplanetary,
and many authorities have come to agree with him. Now he claims that
control over gravity itself is the only explanation for the astounding
maneuvers which saucers are said to make. Some physicists dismiss this
theory as fundamentally erroneous. But, as you will read, there are
others who find Major Keyhoe's latest chapter in "The Great Flying
Saucer Story" important and plausible.

What goes up (and around ) does not necessarily have to come down.
Major Keyhoe maintains `Not known fields of force' allow saucers to
behave peculiarly: To hover motionlessly, turn on a dime, and
accelerate at fantastic speeds. And only a crash `G' program on our
part can counteract it.



By Maj. Donald E. Keyhoe


One night last February, over the North Pacific, a Flying Tiger
Airlines crew had a startling aerial encounter. What they saw is a clue
to a fantastic technical mystery. In its solution lies a prize so great
that six government agencies are searching for it right now. The answer
may not be far off. What they are searching for is the secret of
gravity control.

About midnight on February 15, the Flying Tiger plane, carrying a
military group from the U.S. to Japan, was four hours out of Anchorage.
Suddenly the cockpit radar picked up three fast- moving objects. The
plane captain and his crew looked out at the side and saw three huge
oval-shaped ships, glowing red in the night.

An Air Force captain who was a passenger on the plane was called
forward to confirm the sighting. His signed report is in the files of
the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena.

According to the captain's report, the unknown machines slowed down to
the airliner's speed and flew in close formation. Five miles away, by
radar range, they leveled off to pace the plane.

The Air Force captain computed their length as much more than 700 feet.
It was plain that the giant Unidentified Flying Objects had an unknown
type of propulsion. No jets, no exhausts were visible. For 30 minutes,
still in formation, they continued to pace the plane. Then, swiftly
accelerating to 1,200 knots, they climbed out of sight in seconds.

This startlingly swift acceleration is a maneuver that could not be
duplicated by any ship now made on Earth. What makes it possible for
UFO's? According to many scientists and engineers, there is only one
possible answer. The answer is  ANTIGRAVITY : artificial gravity fields
and control of gravity power.

Control of gravity is something that men have been dreaming about for
centuries. Now it appears that we are on the threshold of achieving it.
Its value, to the country that first attains it, is incalculable. Our
government, hoping for a technical breakthrough, has set up 46
different research projects on various aspects of gravity control. The
Air Force is running 33 of these projects and the others are divided
among five other agencies.

Included in the 46 government projects are experiments and research at
two Air Force Laboratories (Flight Dynamics and General Physics
Research), Radio Corporation of America, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology and several technical engineering centers. In addition,
official projects are being carried out at Barkley and Dexter
Laboratories, Fitchburg, Massachusetts; Israel Institute of Technology;
the Universities of California, Denver, Harvard, Indiana, Manchester
(England), Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Purdue, Stockholm
(Sweden), Syracuse, Texas, and two New York schools - Queens College
and Yeshiva Graduate School of Science.

And, of course, some government agencies have projects so secret that
they are not publicly registered and cannot be revealed without
permission.

Private industry is also looking at the question of gravity control
with new seriousness. A large number of giant corporations, including
Bell Aerospace, General Electric, Hughes Aircraft, Boeing, Douglas and
many others, have set up gravity projects.

If you add up all the known gravity programs being run by the
government and private industry, you get somewhere between 65 and 70
projects. This means there is a heavy concentration of scientific and
engineering brains working on the problem.

One leading scientist who is convinced that UFO's are spaceships using
gravity control is Dr. Hermann Oberth. Doctor Oberth, a recognized
authority, was co-designer of the V-2 rocket and later a U.S. special
consultant at Huntsville, Alabama, one of the installations where
important antigravity research is now underway.

"With ordinary propulsion," Doctor Oberth told me in 1961, "such
violent accelerations and maneuvers would endanger the ship. Also, the
force would crush any creatures aboard against the rear or sides of the
machine. But with an artificial gravity field the force applies
simultaneously to the passengers and the spaceship. Even in swift
changes of speed and direction, the ship is not strained and the
passengers feel nothing."

Today, Doctor Oberth is willing to go further. He is now of the opinion
"that energy, inertia and gravitational fields are only aspects of one
and the same thing" and that it will prove impossible to separate them
from each other. What he has in mind, he says, is "not yet known fields
of force" which can be used to accelerate material objects in a way
similar to the force of gravity.

Another noted authority who agrees that UFO's are using artificial G
fields is William P. Lear, Sr. multimillionaire inventor, pilot,
designer of air and space equipment and builder of jet aircraft. Lear,
who once sighted a UFO from his executive plane, predicts that future
U.S. vehicles will also use artificial gravity. "The people on board
would probably not feel any more effect," Lear says, "than they do from
the tremendous speed of the Earth as it rotates and orbits the sun."

Several years ago, Glenn Martin's vice-president for advanced design,
G.S. Trimble, predicted that by 1985 practically all airliners would be
using artificial gravity, flying at almost unbelievable speeds. At
about the same time, future airliner speeds of 10,000 mph or more were
pictured by Dr. Walter Dornberger, then Bell Aircraft's chief
guided-missile scientist and now president of Bell aerospace.

Grover Loening, pioneer aircraft builder and consultant to the Air
Force, said it even more strongly. "I firmly believe that before long
man will acquire the ability to build an electromagnetic contragravity
mechanism that works," he stated.

A top official of Bethlehem Steel, Jesse V. Honeycutt, has indicated
some of the results we can expect if Loening is right. "Serious
research is being concentrated on in an attempt to solve the mystery of
gravity and bring about a control of its power.... It would bring about
a greater revolution in power, transportation and many other fields
than the discovery of atomic power," he stated.

Antigravity? It seems inconceivable. Yet, the search goes on and many
responsible men believe the answer will be found. And, to my mind, it
is the only possible explanation for the performance of the UFO'S.

The stakes are so high that no clue can be overlooked. The Air Force
Technical Intelligence, hunting for overlooked leads, is carefully
checking hundreds of verified UFO reports. Hopefully, some of them will
help us find out how these strange vehicles operate.

Four days before Christmas, 1964, a round, metallic craft about 125
feet in diameter was observed to make a brief landing in a field near
Staunton, Virginia. Two Du Pont scientists later took Geiger counters
to the site.

"It was `hot'- highly radioactive," Du Pont engineer Lawrence Cook
reported. "We checked for 45 minutes-it was definitely `hot.'"

In Puerto Rico, near dusk on December 26, 1964, Ramey Air Force Base
radar spotted two large discs. As A4D jets streaked up to pursue them,
the discs accelerated to terrific speed. Making instant right-angle
turns-impossible for any known aircraft-they vanished over the Atlantic.

On March 21, 1965, Capt. Yoshiaki Inada, piloting a Toa Airlines
Convair on a domestic Japanese flight, was chased by a "mysterious,
elliptical luminous object." Flying close to the plane, the UFO blanked
out his radio and "violently interferred" with his automatic direction
finding equipment.

Puzzling earlier cases also are being rechecked. On July 1, 1954, an AF
F-94 - a two-man jet-was scrambled to chase a UFO near Walesville, New
York. When the pilot tried to close in, a sudden, unbearable heat
filled the cockpit. Half-dazed the pilot and radar officer bailed out.
The jet crashed in the street, killing two children and their parents.

These odd phenomena, high radiation, mysterious heat and electrical
interference may be side effects of gravity control devices.

Like most people, you probably took gravity for granted before space
flights began. Now you know, for example, that one "G" is the Earth's
normal gravitational pull. This is what holds you to the seat of your
chair-and more importantly, keeps you from being tossed into the air by
the Earth's rotation. You feel two or three G's in a roller coaster or
a stunting plane-a mere hint of what our astronauts have to endure
during blast-off and acceleration.

But gravity causes a lot of trouble and expense we seldom think about.
Aircraft and rocket builders have to provide heavy engines, huge
weights of fuel, just to offset gravity. In construction of buildings,
bridges, and in a hundred other ways, G affects our lives and adds
billions to the cost of work.

Gravity control could reduce or end many of these problems.

How soon can we expect antigravity ?

Some researchers say it may take a long time. Others believe there may
be a sudden breakthrough. If that happens, there will be some fantastic
results.

First, obviously, our space program would take a big leap forward.
Instead of our present wasteful rockets, we could build spaceships
matching the UFOs' high speeds and maneuvers. With such advanced ships,
we could make swift flights to the moon and the planets.

Recently, Alexander de Seversky stated that "with abundant energy
available, we will move in space with constant acceleration or
deceleration. Accelerating halfway to our goal and decelerating the
rest of the way at one G or 32.2 feet per second, the moon will be
reached in three and a half hours, Venus in 36 hours, Mars in two days,
Jupiter in six."

According to Oberth, German physicist Burkhard Heim and other
scientists, gravity control will enable spaceships to reach even
greater speeds than these. With such advanced machines, we could
explore the nearest star systems a century or more ahead of our present
timetable.

Using carrier or "parent" ships with short-range probes, we could fully
explore a planet - either by remote control or direct observation -
before attempting to land. Many cases are on record in which large
UFO's have lunched small units, apparently for close observation of the
Earth, then retrieved them in swift, precise operations.

In one such case (an official AF Intelligence report), groups of small
UFO's flying at 5240 mph. were seen and tracked by the crew of an AF
B-29. One group, after abruptly slowing to pace the bomber, resumed its
speed within seconds. The small UFO's were then seen to merge with or
go aboard a huge carrier which accelerated to more than 9,000 mph
before it disappeared.

Because of G-crafts' tremendous speeds, the picture of possible
military operations becomes hair-raising. Let's take as a basis the
figure in a documented case at White Sands Proving Ground, where Navy
scientists saw and tracked a UFO flying at 18,000 mph.

Such terrific speeds could put bombers back into the picture in place
of missiles. Attacks by G-bombers from base near major targets would
take less than five minutes. If a "brush-fire" war broke out halfway
around the world, a huge G-transport carrying a fully armed division or
even an army could be on the scene in 40 minutes, or less.

Another effect of gravity control will be a big change in air travel.
Here's what a G-liner trip would be like, according to several
researchers. Let's say you are making a making a flight from New York
to London. Your seat has no safety belts - none are needed. The ship
takes off vertically, accelerating at incredible speed. You feel
weightless but you feel no motion.

The airliner arcs up into a great circle course, silently, with no
"bumps" - no rough air. In 10 to 15 minutes, London suddenly takes
shape below. There is no long approach, skimming over rooftops. You
descend vertically and land. If traffic is heavy, your pilot would stop
the ship in midair and hover until cleared.

In spite of the speed, you'd be safer - especially in regard to many of
the strange eddies which have thrown jet airliners into uncontrollable
dives.

In probing the riddle of gravity, project scientists try widely
different approaches - some even contrary to accepted natural laws.

[Does the following experiment sound familiar???....Vangard]

Under an Army contract, a University of Detroit team has built a
4,000-pound, specially wired rotor which spins at 100,000 rpm. With
this unique device, scientists are testing gravitational radiation
theories searching for a possible key to G control.

Using gravity meters based on new principles of physics Air Force teams
make frequent flights around the equator and over the poles, to speed
up world wide measurement of the Earth's gravitational pull. Tied in
with this is a network of gravity stations and special projects all
over the world.

Though no breakthrough has occurred (unless in highly secret projects)
two significant facts have been established.

1. The Earth's G field is relatively weak, compared with the pull of
gravity between planets and the sun.

2. There is a connection between gravity and electromagnetic fields.

Igor Sikorsky, discussing the colossal force of spatial G, says a steel
cable about 8,000 miles thick would be needed to hold the Earth in its
orbit - if it were not for gravity.

But, fortunately for our anti-G search, the Earth's gravity pull, for
objects on the ground or at average flight altitudes, is fairly small.
Likewise, the force required to cancel its pull would be relatively
small - if a method can be found.

Using various barriers we can shield ourselves from heat, light and
sound waves. But, so far, no way has been found to create a gravity
shield. Some scientists still call the gravity shield idea a "lunatic
fringe" notion. But many now refuse to say that such a thing is
completely impossible.

Are UFO's using a gravity shield ? In an effort to find out, the Air
Force is renewing its attempts to capture a UFO. If we could get one on
the ground, undamaged, it might make possible a big shortcut in our
gravity research and save us years of slow, tedious scientific work.

[As many of our user have heard, this capture of one or more UFO's is
said to have done, refer reports by John Lear and the physicist
Lazar......Vangard]

In the past, many Air Force pilots have tried to down UFO's, without
success. But the Air Force has new reason for hope now, based on the
recent increase on low-altitude UFO approaches and "touch landings."

On the night of January 12, 1965, an officer of a federal law
enforcement agency had a close encounter. As he was driving his
official car toward Blaine Air Force Station, in Washington, a flying
disc 30 feet in diameter hurtled down at his automobile. At the last
moment the disc arched up steeply, avoiding collision. When the officer
jumped out, he saw the UFO hovering overhead. After a minute, it shot
up into clouds at high speed. A short time afterward, the UFO or a
similar one - was seen landing in a field near Blaine, melting the snow
and scorching the ground before it took off. When the AF questioned the
federal officer, they said they had tracked the UFO by radar as it
raced down toward his car. This officer, like many other UFO witnesses
was warned by his superiors not to let his name be used in connection
with the sighting.

On January 27, 1965, two NASA engineers sighted a UFO which touch
landed near Hampton, Virginia. One witness was Maj. John Nayadley, a
retired AF jet pilot. The other was A.G. Crimmins, who saw the strange
machine maneuvering toward the ground.

"It was zigzagging as if searching for a landing spot," said Crimmins.
"I watched it through 20 x 50 binoculars and I could see flashing
lights. They appeared to be on the rim of a rapidly rotating disc."

Before anyone could reach the spot, the flying disc took off and
rapidly climbed out of sight.

The step-up in UFO chases was demonstrated at Washington, D.C. on
January 11, 1965, when AF jets pursued several flying objects over the
city. The chase was confirmed by an Army Lieutenant-Colonel and a group
of Army communications specialists.

If jets had been near any of the "touch" sites, they might have swarmed
down and kept the UFO from getting away. But records of previous
attempts to capture UFO's indicate it will be a tough job.

Whether we capture a UFO or not, the search for the elusive secret will
go on. The connection between gravity and electromagnetic fields may
provide the key to the mystery.

For several sears, Burkhard Heim, director of the German Research
Institute of Field Physics at Goettingen, Germany, has been searching
for the answer to the gravity riddle. Finally, Heim revealed that by
direct experimentation he had discovered a positive lead to
antigravity. The discovery involved an intermediate field, neither
electromagnetic nor gravitational.

The results, Heim stated, if applied to space fight, would be direct
levitation, conversion of electricity into kinetic energy without any
waste, and "immunizing the occupants and the structures of such
vehicles against any effects from acceleration of the vehicle, however
great and violent."

After the first shock, several scientists examined Heim's claims.

"His approach is not in conflict with known laws of nature, and it
agrees with the quantum theory," A.R. Weyl said in an analysis for the
British magazine, Aeronautics.

"If Heim's theories were right, the amazing properties commonly
ascribed to the `mysterious flying saucers' would be, in fact, sound
physics and proper engineering."

Through Heim's work toward the goal of an actual antigravity force
researchers may discover new scientific laws and their work may
invalidate old theories. Some scientists are already saying privately
that Einstein's famous "general theory of relativity" may turn out to
be totally fallacious. Newton's law has also come in for attacks.
However, Robert Forward, G expert of Hughes Aircraft Company, uses the
Einstein theory to show that it is possible to partially nullify the
Earth's gravitational field. The amount of nullification obtainable
with present-day technology is extremely small, however. Forward
predicts that some day, when our technology is greatly advanced, we
will be able to "create artificial gravity fields at will."

With a real all-out effort this could happen a lot sooner than the 10
or 20 years many scientists have in mind.

But getting enough top men to work in the field is a problem. One
scientist says, "Scientists are sensitive about their reputations and
many of them still think antigravity is a joke. If they knew the facts,
they'd be eager to get into it."

Fear among scientists is partially due to the Air Force censorship of
UFO reports. Air Force censors not only hide the facts but also
belittle those who publicly report UFO sightings.

One recent victim was Dempsey Bruton, chief of satellite tracking at
NASA's Wallops Island station in Virginia. On January 5, 1965, Bruton
saw a strange round object flying at terrific speed toward the station.
After it passed overhead, the UFO shot straight up out of sight. Using
the elapsed time of six to nine seconds - and angles and times reported
by other witnesses, Bruton said the speed was definitely "several
thousand miles per hour, possibly 8,000 mph. or even higher." The AF,
implying he was incompetent, rejected the report and said it was not
evidence of any technically superior machine.

But AF policy notwithstanding, the drive to get the secret of
antigravity is well underway. It can't be stopped now. But it can be
speeded up. We are already spending billions on the space program on
the race to the moon, to Mars. Harnessing gravity could put us years
ahead and save us enormous sums of money.

With control of the universe at stake, a crash program is imperative.
We produced the A-bomb, under the huge Manhattan Project, in an
amazingly short time. The needs, the urgency today are even greater.
The Air Force should end UFO secrecy, give the facts to scientists, the
public, to Congress. Once the people realize the truth, they would back
- even demand - a crash G program.

For this is one race we dare not lose.

Maj. Donald E. Keyhoe

Submitted by : Ronald Barker Vangard Sciences

***** SPECIAL NOTE ***** Vangard Sciences would like to give special
thanks to Mrs. Hetty Quarrella of Sterling Heights, Michigan for
providing us with some old books and magazines for our library.


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