[edwest]

Dear Richard,


You are asking me to stretch credulity again, but since you did ask.

As the war drew to a close, there were two, secret disc aircraft projects working toward completion. One used conventional propulsion, the other, electrogravitic. The latter was controlled by the SS. The Allies had been sending commandos into Germany to destroy, disrupt and capture what they could. Communications lines were cut, radio traffic intercepted, etc. The underground factories producing the conventially powered aircraft were overun before their deployment. A few of the conventially powered machines were captured relatively intact. The electrogravitic discs were used to evacuate that project's scientists, engineers and SS personnel to a base in Antarctica.

American Intelligence was just as incredulous as some of you reading this are now, but soon became convinced. In December 1946, Admiral Byrd set sail with an armada of ships and 4,000 troops for Operation Highjump. This operation was supposedly undertaken to test military equipment in extreme conditions. I think they would have saved time by sailing north. This explanation does not appear credible to me.

The operation was supposed to last months but was cut short. Reports afterwards indicated they were attacked by German disc aircraft. I suggest you look at the books, German Jet Genesis and Brighter than a Thousand Suns for mention of German discs.

So the Americans had conventional disc aircraft plans and some of those who worked on them but no electrogravitic craft. T. Townsend Brown was employed by the Naval Research Laboratory to get that job done. Further reference:

Conquest of Gravity Aim Of Top Scientists in U.S. (Photo caption) Dr. Charles T. Dozier, left, senior research engineer and guided missiles expert of the Convair Division of General Dynamics Corp. conducting a research experiment toward control of gravity with Martin Kaplan, Convair Senior electronics engineer. And below that: Changes Far Beyond Atom Are the Prize, Revolution in Power, Air Transit Seen. New York Herald Tribune, Sunday, November 20, 1955.

If I was in the oil industry, that's a development I would not like to see. This program faded from view in the late 1950s as if it never existed.


Regards,
Ed