In 1956, a research organization called Aviation Studies International published a declassified Air Force report surveying electrogravitic propulsion programs at fourteen major U.S. aerospace contractors. The report called it one of the most significant areas of aerospace development at the time of writing. In 1957, the public record stopped. No papers. No patents. No published null results. No concluded program documentation. No official explanation. Fourteen organizations. One fiscal year. Complete silence. Thomas Townsend Brown was born in 1905. He was a self-taught physicist who by the 1920s had documented something that should not have been possible under standard physics: a sufficiently charged asymmetric capacitor experiences thrust in the direction of its positive pole. No moving parts. No combustion. No exhaust. Directional thrust from charge geometry alone. This became known as the Biefeld-Brown effect. Brown demonstrated it in atmospheric conditions repeatedly. He then demonstrated it in vacuum to eliminate ion wind as an explanation. He demonstrated it underwater to eliminate air as the medium. The results were documented and filed in a British patent, number 300311, in 1928. In 1952 he submitted Project Winterhaven to the Pentagon. A detailed technical proposal for an electrogravitic disc craft using high-voltage charge differential to interact with the local gravitational field and generate lift and thrust simultaneously. The same year disc-shaped objects were tracked on radar over restricted airspace above the Capitol. Intercepted by Air Force jets that the objects outran without effort. The Air Force held its largest press conference since World War Two. And explained nothing. submitted by /u/KDubbs0010110 [link] [comments]