The Antigravity Handbook by David Hatcher Childress, 1985
Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2023 5:07 am
So I finally stumbled on what appears to be an original 1985 edition of "The Antigravity Handbook" by David Hatcher Childress. Actually, it's the 1988 third printing, so some of the end matter is later than 1985, but the important part to me is that it contains a Bibliography giving a snapshot of what was going through the minds of the Weird Physics subculture at that point - before The X-Files and the Internet had muddied things up. Yes, the book itself is a pile of unfiltered craziness. What interests me most in all this the impression this particular subcommunity had of Townsend Brown - and where they might have got that impression from, and who they might have been hanging out with.
The URL I found is here. It might or might not work for you. Good luck.
https://hyiq.org/Downloads/Nikola%20Tes ... ndbook.pdf
The Bibliography section is what I consider the most valuable for its social-network snapshotting properties, so here it is in its entirety.
Robert Emenegger (1974)
Ballantine Books A Division Of Random House, Inc.
201 E. 50th Street, New York, NY. 10022
Beyond Earth: Man's Contact With UFOs
Ralph Blum with Judy Blum (1974)
Bantam Books, Inc.
666 5th Ave. New York. NY. 10103[/quote]
Generic UFO books of the era.
William S. Beller
Missiles and Rockets Jun. 12, 1961. pp. 24[/quote]
Ah, so Beller was into the Dean Drive thing. A pity that washed out.
Nope. Not touching Carr, he was just a crazy man.
Well, that was a bit disappointing. Alfven and Allais are perhaps the two who seem to cross Townsend's orbit the most, of the famous people that we don't yet know for sure have any connection. They just seem to have a sort of sympathetic vibration with his ideas, if you know what I mean. And Allais being in the French scene in the late 1950s - and winning a Gravity Research Foundation prize! - makes me wonder. There must have been connections drawn, among the aerospace people who were watching all this "gravity" stuff, right?
R A Nelli is worth briefly following up to see if it's anyone I remember. Seems to be this Raymond Nelli, born 1938
( https://radaris.com/~Raymond-Nelli/1236394446 ) who wrote this ( https://books.google.co.nz/books/about/ ... edir_esc=y ) So I'm guessing that Nelli (who would've been 44 in 1982) had a company called High Energy Electrostatic Research, and also happened to write a book about UFOs. It's probably not likely to have any world shaking Townsendian secrets in it, but it's the sort of thing that, if any copies exist, one would like to eventually see end up in a decent library (eg some place like Archives for the Unexplained) just so all of these old loose ends can be tracked down.
But Allais: hmm. So he was an ether-head, like Townsend. I wonder if it was Allais, more than anyone else, who made people in the weird physics and/or esoterics scenes quietly start murmuring about "the new ether theory" by the 1960s?
The intriguing comment:
The English translation of Allais' 1999 "report to NASA": https://web.archive.org/web/20190806172 ... report.pdf
Regards, Nate
The URL I found is here. It might or might not work for you. Good luck.
https://hyiq.org/Downloads/Nikola%20Tes ... ndbook.pdf
The Bibliography section is what I consider the most valuable for its social-network snapshotting properties, so here it is in its entirety.
Good lord. Literal science fiction (and satire at that), which the UFO community hypnotised itself into believing was true. This is a low point even for the UFO scene.Alternative (003)
Leslie Watkins (1977. 1978)
Avon Books, New York, NY. (originally a television series in Britain.)
Ground zero for the TPX myth, sigh. (Wasn't the first book written about it, but the first one to be heavily promoted). And to introduce Townsend's name.The Philadelphia Experiment: Project Invisibility
Charles Berlitz & William L. Moore (1979)
Ballantine Books, New York, NY.
Yeah, hard nope on these. I tried to read them and they are just... not a healthy kind of thinking.Harmonic 695, The UFO and Anti-Gravity
Bruce L. Cathie and Peter N. Temm (1971)
Quark Enterprises LTD 158 Shaw Rd., Oratia, Auckland, New Zealand
Telephone 818-4291
The Pulse of The Universe, Harmonic 288
Bruce Cathie (1 977)
Quark Enterprises LTD 158 Shaw Rd., Oratia, Auckland, New Zealand
Harmonic 33
Bruce Cathie (1968)
Quark Enterprises LTD 158 Shaw Rd., Oratia, Auckland, New Zealand
The Bridge To Infinity
Bruce Cathie (1983)
Quark Enterprises LTD 158 Shaw Rd., Oratia, Auckland, Newzealand
Also available through Adventures Unlimited Press.
Interesting, I wonder who Nelli was?Introduction And Information Compendium
Volume 1- Antigravity And UfO's
Volume 2- Paranormal Phenomena
Volume 3- Energy
High Energy Electrostatics Research (or HEER) (1982)
P.O. Box 5286 Springfield, VA. 22150 R. A. Nelli, Director
Nope, I'm not doing the Hollow Earth myth. That can stay in the Shaver Mystery corpus where it belongs.The Hollow Earth
Raymond Bernard (1977)
Health Research, Mokelumne Hill, CA. 95245
Nope, not doing Apollo denialism either.Moongate: Supressed Findings Of The U. S. Space Program
The Nasa Military Cover-Up
William L. Brian 1 1 (1982)
Future Science Research Publishing Co.
P.O. Box 06392 Portland, Oregon 97206-0020
Very notable because Deyo latched onto Townsend Brown like a dog with a bone and uncovered/pubished things like the Bahnson footage, but his 1978 thesis that left-wing Masonic elements in the US government were definitely going to stage a global coup by 1983 using Townsend Brown powered flying saucers while pretending to be aliens.... has not aged well.The Cosmic Conspiracy
Stan Deyo (1978)
West Australian Texas Trading
P.O. Box 71 Kalarnunda, Western Australia 6076 or
William Collins PW. LTD.
G.P.O. Box476, Sydney, N.S.W., Australia 2001 or
Emissary Publications
P.O. Box 642 South Pasadena. CA. 91030
Run of the mill UFO book.Flying Saucers - Serious Business
Frank Edwards (1966)
Bantam Books, Inc., 271 Madison Avenue, New York, NY. 10016
More moon conspiracy nonsense, sorry.Somebody Else Is On The Moon
George Leonard (1976,1977)
Pocket Books, a Simon & Schuster Division of Gulf & Western Corporation
1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY. 10020
Sigh. The other William Moore book that burdened us with a very distracting modern myth that's actually the least interesting UFO case ever.The Roswell Incident
Charles Berlitz & William L. Moore (1980)
Grosset & Dunlap ( A Filmways Company) New York, NY.
Yep, Brinsley le Poer Trench is a great example of the British aristocracy's abiding interest in the weird. He is worth looking at as a person, just to track the lines of influence.The House Of Lords UFO Debate
Lord Clancarty (Brinsley le Poer Trench) (Crown Copyright) (1979(?))
Open Head Press
2 Blenheim Crescent, London W11 ANN, Great Britain, in association with:
Pentacle Bcoks
6 Perry Road, Bristol 1, Great Britain
These are there because of the Theosophical-inflected "UFOs are ancient Indian Vimanas" myth. Weird as it is, it's possible that did have had some credence in the US military-adjacent community. Oppenheimer quoting "I am become Death" is very much this sort of thing, if not quite this very specific idea itself.Ramayana
Retold by William Buck (1976)
University Of California Press
Berkeley and Los Angeles, California
Mahabarata
Retold by William Buck (1973)
University 01 California Press
Berkeley and Los Angeles, California
Pop culture.Mysteries Of The Unexplained
Reader's Digest (1982)
The Reader's Digest Association, Inc.
Pleasantville, New York/Montreal
Hooper is fun. He's the "motional electric field" guy, which might or might not be related to Townsend's "electrogravitational" forces. I wonder how he came to his ideas?New Horizons In Electric, Magnetic And Gravitational Field Theory
W. J. Hooper, BA, MA, PhD, (1974)
(President and Director of "Electrodynamic Gravity, Inc.)
Electrodynamic Gravity Inc.
543 Broad Blvd. Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, 44
I forget who Hassel is, but MUFON is one of the central connecting points of the 1970s weirdness scene that admired Townsend Brown, or at least the myth they built of him.Future Physics And Anti-Gravity
William F. Hassel, PhD
MUFON Symposium Proceedings of 16.1 7 July 1977
4625 Slark Ave., Woodland Hills, CA. 91364
I don't recall the name Aho so he's possibly interesting.Energy Unlimited - A Case for Space
Arthur C. Aho (1968)
Souih Antelope Valley Publishing Company
Littlerock. California
Talbot's squarely in the 1980 New Age camp and reasonably mainstream as I recall. Jack Sarfatti and his "Fundamental Fyziks Group" probably crosses over with Talbot at some point.Mysticism And The New Physics
Michael Talbot (1980)
Bantam Books, Inc.
666 5th Ave. New York, NY. 10103
Probably a UFO book.No Earthly Explanation
John Wallace Spencer (1974)
Phillips Publishing Company
23 Hampden Street, Springfield, Massachusetts 01 103
Ugh, Adamski. And yet! What was up with Townsend having a Scoutship model, and exactly when again? Linda's memory of that model suggests Townend having an "in" into either the Adamski circle, or the slightly wider circle of engineers who were (unaccountably) fascinated by Adamski.Flying Saucers Have Landed
Desmond Leslie B George Adamski (1953)
The British Book Centre, Inc.
420 West 45th Street, New York 36, NY.
InsideThe Space Ships
George Adamski (1955)
Abelard-Schuman, Inc.
404 Fourth Ave. New York 16. NY.
UFO's Past Present 8 FutureClear Intent: The Government Coverup Of The UFO Experience
Lawrence Fawcett, Barry J. Greenwood (1984)
Prentice-Hall Inc.
Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey 07632
Robert Emenegger (1974)
Ballantine Books A Division Of Random House, Inc.
201 E. 50th Street, New York, NY. 10022
Beyond Earth: Man's Contact With UFOs
Ralph Blum with Judy Blum (1974)
Bantam Books, Inc.
666 5th Ave. New York. NY. 10103[/quote]
Generic UFO books of the era.
I have a surprising amount of time for Steiger. He was a good reporter on the "woo" side of the UFO experience. Which to me is a lot more easy to justify (people having weird visions) than the "nuts and bolts" thesis which requires there to be secret hangers with actual flying discs in them.Gods Of Aquarius (UFO's And The Transformation Of Man)
Brad Steiger (1976)
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc.
757 Third Ave. New York, NY. 10017
Why is this in there twice? Still nope.Somebody Else Is On The Moon
George Leonard (1976)
The David McKay Company, Inc.
750 Third Ave. New York, NY. 10017
Hmm, Theosophical-inspired, probably, in the "ancient civilizations" genre.One Hundred Thoudand Years Of Man's Unknown History
Robert Charroux (1963)
Berkley Publishing Corporation
200 Madison Ave. New York. NY. 10016
More Moon conspiracy stuff, not interested.Our Mysterious Spaceship Moon
Don Wilson (1975)
Dell Publishing Co.,Inc.
1 dag Hammarskjold Plaza New York, NY. 10017
Secrets of Our Spaceship Moon
Don Wilson (1979)
Dell Publishing Co.. Inc.
1 dag Hammarskjold Plaza New York, NY. 10017
Classic Contactee stuff, which is Townsend-Adjacent via Adamski, but not otherwise.From Outer Space
Howard Menger (1959)
Pyramid Books Mail Order Dept.
9 Garden Street Moonachie. NJ. 07074
Vallee is Vallee. A giant in both the cult and UFO scene (Vallee had French Rosicrucian roots), as well as in Silicon Valley investing (and so has probably single-handedly been a linking point between those worlds). His "Forbidden Science" diaries are probably the most interesting thing he's written.Messangers of Deception
Jacques Vallee (1979,1980)
Bantam Books, Inc.
666 5th Ave. New York, NY. 10103
I highly doubt that von Braun was building UFOs or he wouldn't have been so gung-ho about chemical rockets.Space Frontier
Dr. Wernher von Braun (1963,64,65,66,67,69)
Fawcett World Library
67 West 44th Street, New York, NY. 10036
More Steiger.Mysteries of Time and Space
Brad Steiger (1974)
Dell Publishing Co., Inc.
1 dag Hammarskjold Plaza New York, NY. 10017
Probably just another UFO book.The Total UFO Story
Milt Machlin (1979)
Dale Books, Inc..
380 Lexington Ave., New York, NY. 10017
It's nice to see Janine Vallee's byline on a book for once!Challenge To Science: The UFO Enigma
Jacques & Janine Vallee (1966)
Ballantine Books A Division of Random House. Inc.
201 E. 50th Street, New York, NY. 10022
Clarke was certainly into the "woo" for quite a while until he claimed to have become a skeptic. 2001: A Space Odyssey has very strong "1960s UFO conspiracy subculture" vibes all over it, what with the whole "HAL went crazy because the government hid the truth about aliens" plotline.Profiles of The Future
Arthur C. Clarke (1958,59,60,62)
Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc.
49 East 33rd Street, New York 16. NY.
I've forgotten the significance of this one, but the name's familiar. Some mention of electrogravity during Townsend's 1950s promotional period maybe?Rockets, Missiles, And Men In Space
Willey Ley (1944,45,47,48,49,51,52.57,58,61,68)
The Viking Press Inc.
625 Madison Ave. New York. NY. 10022
Still nope, Cathie.Harmonic 33
Captain Bruce Cathie (1968)
A.H. & A.W. Reed Ltd.
65-67 Taranaki Street, Wellington, New Zealand
UFO's And Anti-Gravity: Contact With Earth (Harmonic 695)
Bruce L. Cathie And Peter N. Tamm (1971)
A Walnut Hill Book Strawberry Hill Press
616 4th Ave. San Francisco, California 94121
Probably more Atlantis / lost civilization stuff. Which did seem to have some buy-in among some of Townsend's friends. Lucien Geradin, from the French bionics scene, I think was one of those.We Are Not The First
Andrew Tomas (1971 )
Bantam Books, Inc.
666 Fifth Ave. New York, NY. 10019
Now that one is interesting. Alfven is very Townsend-adjacent in his thinking. I'm not sure I'm familiar with this specific article.Spacecraft Propulsion: New Methods
Hannes Alfven
Science April 14, 1972 pp. 167-168
That'll be Allais, of the Allais Effect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allais_effectShould The Laws Of Gravitation Be Reconsidered?
Maurice F. G. Allasi
AeroISpace Engineering, Sept., 1959, pp. 46-52
Oct., 1959 pp. 51 -55, Nov., 1959 pp. 55
Not sure what this is. Name rings a vague bell.The Future Of Aeronautics-Dreams and Realities
John E. Allen
The Aeronautical Journal, Sept., 1971 pp. 587-607
Consultanls Report Overrides Dean Space DriveSoviet Efforts Should Be Closely Watched (Concerning Gravity Research)
William S. Beller
Missiles and Rockets, Sept. 11, 1961 pp. 27
William S. Beller
Missiles and Rockets Jun. 12, 1961. pp. 24[/quote]
Ah, so Beller was into the Dean Drive thing. A pity that washed out.
Hmm!The Electric Field Rocket
H. C. Dudley
Analog, Nov.. 1960
Okay yes the early GRC scene was fun.Gravitational Machines
F. J. Dyson
Gravity Research Foundation Essay, New Boston, New Hampshire, 1962
Unknown.See Also:
Interstellar Communications
W. A. Benjamin, N.Y.. 1963, pp. 115
Unknown.Provocative Study Question's Einstein's Theory
Ryan Aeronautical Magazine. Outdated.
Rockets and Missiles still at it as late as 1965.Breakthrough Foreseen in Early '70's
Missiles and Rockets, Feb. 15, 1965
Oh hi there, one of Townsend's intellectual mentors!Kinetic Gravity
Charles F. Brush
Science. Mar. 10, 1911, pp. 381-386
Unknown.Impact/lmpulse Drive
Harry W. Bull
American Journal Rocket Society No. 29, Sept. 1934, p 7-8
Mysterious New Aircraft powered by Reaction Motor
Harry W. Bull
Popular Science Monthly, Jan., 1935, pp. 27
So Analog magazine was often surprisingly supportive of weird physics, but being "science fiction and fact" I guess that went with the scene. Wilbur Smith was one of Townsend's friends, but his ideas seem mostly unrelated. I wonder what put Smith back on the Analog radar in '71?(Letter) Construction details of Wilbur Smith's magnetic sink coil.
Analog. Dec. 1971. pp. 172
Yeah, Campbell is famous among science fiction editors for being quite a believer in a bunch of weird science claims. So Analog was his backyard. Ok. That's why they were one of the few magazines who continued to be interested in odd propulsion claims well into the 1980s.Final Report on the Dean Drive
John W. Campbell
Analog, Dec., 1960. pp. 4-6
Instrumentation for the Dean Drive
John W. Campbell
Analog, Nov. 1960, p. 95-96
Report on the Dean Drive
John W. Campbell
Analog, Sept. 1960 pp. 4-6
The Scientific Lynch Law
John W. Campbell
Analog, Oct., 1961 pp. 4
The Size of the Solar System
John W. Campbell
Analog, Jun., 1960 pp. 176
The Space Drive Problem
John W. Campbell
Analog, Jun., 1960 pp. 83
The Ultrafeeble Interactions
John W. Campbell
Analog, Dec. 1959 pp. 160
You Must Agree With Me
John W. Campbell
Analog, May 1960, pp. 177
Cleaver was one of Townsend's friends, I think. Was that second one really 1947, or actually 1957?Electrogravitics-What is-Or Might Be
A. V. Cleaver
Interplanetary Soc. J. Brit. Vol. 16 pp. 84-94. 1957
Is the Rocket the Only Answer
A. B. Cleaver
Interplanetary Soc. J. Brit., June 1947, pp. 127
Okay.How to Make a Flying Saucer
Wlliam D. Clendenon
Flying Saucers, Jun., 1964, pp. 36-47
I feel like I have probably researched Cox at some point in the past and that he was someone who was "inspired by" Townsend rather than being connected to him.Brass Tacks (Letter on solid state space drives.)
James E. Cox
Analog, Aug., 1968 pp. 174-175
Volume 1, No. 1&2. Jan.-Jun., 1969
James E. Cox (Editor)
Journal of Space Drive Research and Development (JOSDRAD)
Where the Reader Has His Say (Four types of space drives.)
James E. Cox
Flying Saucers, Feb. 1968 pp. 43-46
Good luck with that.Indirect Physical Evidence
Roy Craig (1969)
Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects
Bantam Books, N.Y., Jan., 1969 pp. 97-115
Not sure who Cyr was.Antigravity Craft- Nature's Antigravity Devices
Guy J. Cyr
Sacred Heart Rectory
321 S. Broadway, Lawrence, Mass. 01843
Davis sounds familiar. Not sure if there's any Townsend link though.The Fourth Law of Motion
William 0. Davis
Analog, May 1962 pp. 83-104
Probably Transient Lunar Phenomena, which are a fun piece of space history, but don't seem to happen today now that we have better telescopes looking at the moon.Victory & Stine, Some Aspects of Certain Transient Phenomena
American Physical Society Bulletin (Abst.), Apr., 1962
Ah, so there's "Dean Drive" Dean involved with Missiles and Rockets.Brass Tacks
Norman L Dean
Analog, Jan.. 1964 & May, 1963
Space Drive Rebuttal (Letter Dept.)
Norman L. Dean
Missiles and Rockets, Jun. 26, 1961 p. 6
Dyson's name - like that of Carl Sagan - always seems to come up just on the edge of the UFOs and antigravity scene without quite being linked to it. It would be interesting to know what he really thought.Interstellar Transport
Freeman J. Dyson
Physics Today, Oct.. 1968 pp. 41 -45
Unknown.Satellite Loses Weight
Frank Edwards
Strange World
Tomorrows Physics (1 966) and The Momentor (1 970)
John W. Ecklin
2721 S. June St.., Arlington, Va. 22202
Unknown.'Space Propulsion by Magnetic Field Interaction
J. F. Engelberger
Spacecraft J., pp. 347-349, 1964
Unknown.A Self Propelling Mechanism
Lewis Epstein
The Physics Teacher, Vol. 8, pp. 332, Sept., 1970
It's probably not *great* science if it's in Ray Palmer's Fate Magazine.Flying Saucers, Propulsion and Relativity
Gordon H. Evans
Fate. pp. 67-75
I'm a big fan of de Seversky, him being conveniently located in the "US-based expat Russian spy game, so, William Stephenson / Ilya Tolstoy" ballpark, and the Ionocraft looking so much like the Fan, and his Electron-Atom Corporation seemingly appearing in the 1950s, but I've never found anything *directly* linking him to Townsend. But I continue to hope that there's a link.Major de Seversky's Ion Propelled Aircraft
Popular Science, Aug.. 1964, pp. 58-64
Unknown.Inertial Drive
Arthur Farall
Product Engineering, March 14, 1966, pp. 63
That's Faraday's original "electrogravity" concept, of which Townsend must have been a big fan because that's pretty much his idea as out lined in "The Structure of Space". So, who was linking Faraday to Townsend in 1985? Tom Bearden would be my guess.On the Possible Relation of Gravity to Electricity
Michael Faraday
Brittanica Great Books, Vol. 45, pp. 670-673
I wonder who this one was: Ed Hull, or someone else?Force Field Shows Propulsion Promise
Missiles and Rockets
Jul. 11, 1960, pp. 27
Forward, even more so than Dyson, seemed to tread on the very edge of the antigravity scene without quite (publically) jumping over, though I don't imagine this one is too speculative.Guidelines to Anti Gravity
Robert L. Forward
American Journal of Physics 31, 1963. pp. 166-170
Ennh, I imagine that'll be basic "tachyon" theory, which is perfectly legitimate (if completely speculative - it's just "the solutions of Special Relativity with imaginary mass"), but not really Townsendian in my opinion. I mean, he was obviously *aware of* the tachyon speculation ("a stable full of ponies that travel faster than light"), but his personal theories and devices do not engage with tachyon theory at all.Particles That Travel Faster Than Light
Gerald Feinberg
Scientific American Feb., 1970, Vol. 222, No. 2, pp. 68
Forward again, skating right on the brink of saying the unthinkable. This one is possibly interesting - there were always whispers about "Lorentz force" being something important, is it because of this article?Zero Thrust Velocity Vector Control For Interstellar Probes:
Lorentz Force Navigation and Control
Robert L. Forward
AIAA Journal. Vol. 2, No. 5, May, 1964, pp. 855
Meh. There's nothing particular interesting about solar sails, they're perfectly mainstream physics.Solar Sailing
R. L. Garwin
Jet Propulsion, 28, 1958, pp. 188-190
.Otis T. Carr and the OTC-XI
Rchard Gehman
True, Jan. 1961
Nope. Not touching Carr, he was just a crazy man.
One of Townsend's 1950s "electrogravity" publicity series. I imagine this'll be Lucien Geradin. I'm still not sure exactly to what point Townsend was orchestrating all the hype directly (as part of his "wounded prairie chicken act?") or if (as he appears to say in, eg, the Montgolfier report) he was just pleased that it was happening. Was it *all* an act, though, or was it a legitimate and straightforward attempt to pitch his technology to people in a position to listen? "Interavia" and "Missiles and Rockets" was a very different crowd from Mason Rose's "The Institute of Social Psychology", but just as public a venue... perhaps even more public... if the intention was to deliberately attract, eg, Soviet spies.Electrogravitic Propulsion
Lucien A. A.
Interavia, Vol. XI, No. 12, 1956
I wonder what this one was?Elevators and Levitators
Cedric Giles
Journal of the American Rocket Society
Dec., 1946, No. 68, pp. 34-39
Our old friend Roger Babson.Essays on Gravity
Gravity Research Foundation
New Boston, New Hampshire
NICAP, but I guess not really interesting.The Electromagnetic Cases
Richard Hall
UfO Evidence
Nicap Publication, 1536 Conneticut Ave., N.W. Washington, D.C. 20036
Unknown. I imagine it's probably prosaic.The General Limits of Space Travel
S. von Hoerner
Science, 137, pp. 18-23, 1962
Probably the one "Townsend and friends" article of all the 1950s ones that's lit the most people's heads up.Towards Flight Without Stress or Strain ...or Weight
Intel. Washington, D.C.
Interavia, Vol. XI- No. 5, 1956, pp. 373
Can't remember if I found out much more about Robert Jones or not, but I think just one of the many interesting random folks who have claimed to have some kind of inertialess drive, and not especially Townsend-adjacent. Presumably he was linked to James Cox, if they were both involved in "JOSDRAD". It is really fun to see the term "Space Drive" in its full science-fictional glory appearing as early as 1969.An Explanation of the Operating Principles of the Entropy Space Drive
Robert Jones
Space World, Jan., 1965, pp. 48
The Jetless Drive
Robert Jones
Amateur Rocketeer, Feb., 1964, pp. 16-19
Some Preliminary Evidence of a Mechanically Producible Directional Force
Field
Robert Jones
Journal of Space Drive Research and Development (JOSDRAD)
Jan.-Mar., '1969, pp. 10-11
Abstract of above report.
Robert Jones
American Journal of Physics, Nov., 1969
Well, that was a bit disappointing. Alfven and Allais are perhaps the two who seem to cross Townsend's orbit the most, of the famous people that we don't yet know for sure have any connection. They just seem to have a sort of sympathetic vibration with his ideas, if you know what I mean. And Allais being in the French scene in the late 1950s - and winning a Gravity Research Foundation prize! - makes me wonder. There must have been connections drawn, among the aerospace people who were watching all this "gravity" stuff, right?
R A Nelli is worth briefly following up to see if it's anyone I remember. Seems to be this Raymond Nelli, born 1938
( https://radaris.com/~Raymond-Nelli/1236394446 ) who wrote this ( https://books.google.co.nz/books/about/ ... edir_esc=y ) So I'm guessing that Nelli (who would've been 44 in 1982) had a company called High Energy Electrostatic Research, and also happened to write a book about UFOs. It's probably not likely to have any world shaking Townsendian secrets in it, but it's the sort of thing that, if any copies exist, one would like to eventually see end up in a decent library (eg some place like Archives for the Unexplained) just so all of these old loose ends can be tracked down.
But Allais: hmm. So he was an ether-head, like Townsend. I wonder if it was Allais, more than anyone else, who made people in the weird physics and/or esoterics scenes quietly start murmuring about "the new ether theory" by the 1960s?
For what it's worth, a fan page for Allais (now offline) : https://web.archive.org/web/20190817064 ... index.html - including some translations (https://web.archive.org/web/20190731135 ... aisdox.htm)Allais summarized his experimental work in English in his 1999 memoir on behalf of NASA.[5] He detailed his aether hypothesis in the books L'Anisotropie de l'Espace, published in 1997,[30] and L'Effondrement de la Théorie de la Relativité, published in 2004.[35] A book on Allais' scientific legacy has been edited in English in 2011,[36] yet his aether hypothesis has not gained significant traction among mainstream scientists. Nevertheless, after Allais' death in 2010, experiments on the Allais effect continue.[37]
The intriguing comment:
So despite his big chemical rockets, allegedly von Braun *was* aware of at least one spooky gravity-related claim, right about the same time that Townsend was drumming up publicity for exactly this sort of research. Hmm.a series of three articles on "Should the Laws of Gravitation be Reconsidered?" which appeared in AeroSpace Engineering in 1959. Allais wrote these articles extremely carefully. In fact they contain much information and ideas not available elsewhere in his pendulum-related writings. I am told that this publication was sponsored by Wernher von Braun, who was quite interested in the eclipse effect and its possible implications for celestial mechanics.
The English translation of Allais' 1999 "report to NASA": https://web.archive.org/web/20190806172 ... report.pdf
Regards, Nate