Secrets of Antigravity Propulsion (38 page)

9.7 • THE SPORT MODEL

Robert Lazar, a former employee of Los Alamos National Laboratory, claims that in December 1988, the Office of Naval Intelligence gave him a compartmentalized clearance thirty-four levels above a top-secret “Q” clearance and employed him at the highly secret “S-4” test facility located about fifteen miles south of Area 51.
He says that he was hired to study the power source of a captured alien flying saucer and try to figure out how it functioned.
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Four months later, having become disenchanted with his work and concerned that such important scientific discoveries were being kept secret from the American public, he broke his vows of secrecy and began describing his experiences to friends.
He led them on night outings to remote spots near Area 51 to view some of these captured UFOs being test-flown.
Later, he appeared on a local Las Vegas television news broadcast to relate his experiences and present some insights into the propulsion hardware on the craft he had been assigned to.
Subsequently, he lectured at a number of UFO conferences and also put up a Web site on the subject.
His description of the propulsion unit is of particular interest because it sounds in many ways similar to the microwave propulsion system developed in Project Skyvault.

Gene Huff, who has socialized with Lazar since the late 1980s and knew him during the period when he was hired to work at S-4, has written an interesting biography that corroborates many aspects of Lazar’s story.
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However, others have come to mistrust Lazar’s claims, considering the large number of contradictions in his story as well as statements he has made that appear to indicate a substantial lack of knowledge of basic physics.
Several of these critiques appear on the Internet website
www.dreamlandresort.com/area51/lazar/index.html
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Nevertheless, the gravity wave propulsion beam technology that Lazar refers to comes sufficiently close to the field propulsion ideas reportedly developed in Project Skyvault, so it is worth summarizing his story, although, as will be pointed out, many of his claims appear to be disinformation that may have been planted to protect the technology’s secrecy.

Lazar says that while working at the S-4 test site near the dry bed of Papoose Lake, he was shown a 52-foot-diameter spacecraft that he nicknamed the Sport Model (see figure 9.5).
He says he was told that the craft was powered by an “antimatter reactor” located at its center.
He claims that the reactor was designed to emit bursts of positrons 7.46 times per second, which, in turn, would generate bursts of type-A “gravitational” microwaves that he terms Gravity A waves.
He says that these gravity waves would travel up the vertical conduit attached to the top of the reactor, where they would become amplified in intensity.
This conduit, which is said to be about 8 centimeters in diameter, could act as a microwave waveguide and could serve as a microwave amplifier, just as Lazar claims, provided that its length was properly matched to the microwave wavelength.
However, from Lazar’s description, it is not entirely clear whether he believes these to be pure gravity waves or electromagnetic waves that have gravitational effects.
Indeed, a waveguide would be unable to contain a pure gravity wave of the sort commonly known to physics.
Such waves should freely pass through waveguide walls without reflecting from them, much like Podkletnov’s gravity impulse beam did.
If the microwave emissions from the Sport Model’s reactor are able to be contained by a waveguide, then they cannot be considered exclusively gravitational.

In fact, at one UFO seminar in 1993, Lazar disclosed his belief that gravity is electromagnetic in nature but that it is an electromagnetic wave of a particular microwave frequency, which he did not wish to disclose at the time.
Yet, in my opinion, it is a major error to assume that gravity is electromagnetic in nature or to suggest that the electric or magnetic field itself produces gravitational effects.
It would instead be more reasonable to postulate that electric and gravity potential fields are coupled and that electromagnetic waves and electric shock discharges are accompanied by a distinct gravity wave component.
To refer to the craft’s microwave emissions as gravity waves per se and to claim that such gravitational effects manifest only at a specific frequency, in my view is rather outlandish.
Recall that in chapter 7 we learned that Project Skyvault scientists found that when microwave beams were tuned to specific frequencies, they were able to strongly interact with matter and produce strong electrogravitic repelling forces.
Also, we learned that metamaterials that have resonant frequencies in the microwave range exhibit strong repulsion forces when beams are tuned to frequencies slightly above these resonances.
Thus, frequency is critical to obtaining a maximal repelling force from a microwave beam, but not the way Lazar seems to imply.
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Figure 9.5.
A cross-sectional view of the Sport Model, a
flying disc of alien origin.
Based on Robert Lazar’s description.
(After P.
Potter)

So if we discount Lazar’s contention that the so-called reactor is generating gravity waves (his Gravity A waves)—and we will discover that there is good reason to ignore such an assertion—we are then left with the idea that this is essentially a microwave generator, hence, the equivalent of the Gunn diode oscillator cavity on the Project Skyvault vehicle.
Lazar did not describe the inside of the vertical waveguide, but if it were to have a series of properly spaced ringlike cavities along its length, it could function as a klystron, that is, a linear microwave generator.
As charged particles (positrons or electrons) would shoot along the length of the waveguide and move past the cavities, they would set up microwave oscillations in the cavities that would become progressively more intense as the end of the tube was approached.

However, one has great difficulty believing Lazar’s story that this gravity wave generator is powered by bursts of high-energy positrons emitted from the radioactive decay of a slab of exotic metal located at the bottom of the reactor.
For instance, in one radio interview, he described having been present when this reactor was being bench-tested with its waveguide tube removed and said that he had been allowed to put his hand over the top of it.
If this had been a real high-energy positron beam, no reasonable physicist or engineer would have let him put his hand over it to feel its matter-repelling force field.
If Lazar had done so, his hand would have received a severe radiation burn and a dangerously high dose of radiation.
Clearly, this would have upset the health and safety people at the laboratory, if the story was true.
Also, when positrons annihilate, they produce 1-million-electron-volt gamma rays.
Lazar made no mention of such energetic by-products or precautions taken to shield them.
More likely, what was coming out of the reactor was a microwave beam emitted by a crystal oscillator, without any accompanying beam of high-energy particles.
But even if it had been a microwave beam, the beam power would have had to be sufficiently low so as not to harm him.

The other part of this reactor story that raises doubts is Lazar’s claim that this slab of exotic stable metal was composed of element 115 and that these matter-repelling waves were emitted when this element was bombarded with protons, inducing it to transmute into element 116, which then immediately decayed by emitting a positron.
He says element 115 is a stable element that does not exist on Earth but is generated in the cores of massive stars many light-years from Earth and that the only available supply of this material on Earth is held under tight security in a supersecret facility in Area 51.
He says that only discharges of this normally inaccessible material are able to generate his so-called Gravity A waves used for propelling the disc.

However, in 2004, about fifteen years after Lazar began making claims about this rare element, Russian scientists successfully synthesized small amounts of elements 113 and 115, and four years earlier had created element 116.
The problem is that both isotopes of element 115 that they were able to synthesize were unstable.
They lasted only for several tens of milliseconds, and they decayed not into element 116 as Lazar claimed, but into element 113, with the emission of an alpha particle.
Also, element 116, which Lazar claimed could be momentarily created by bombarding element 115 with a proton, was found to decay, but not by emitting a positron.
It too decayed by emitting an alpha particle.
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It seems, then, that Lazar’s antimatter reactor idea is on the rocks, as is his idea for the existence of Gravity B waves, which he claims can be produced only through this 115-to-116 decay process.

This antimatter reactor part of the story was most likely a fabrication included to make the Sport Model field propulsion technology sound very exotic and, hence, not easily duplicable in most laboratories.
If we are willing to accept that Lazar actually had worked at this secret Nevada test site, engineers there most probably misinformed him on purpose as to how this microwave oscillator functioned.
In this way, the technical details of the disc’s operation would be protected in case he decided to rebel and speak out, as he has done.
Alternatively, some have suggested that agents may have employed brainwashing techniques to manipulate his mind.
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Such black-project research facilities are likely in possession of technologies that would allow them to erase specific memories and replace them with false ones, similar to what is portrayed in the movies
Total Recall
and
The Bourne Identity
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Area 51 security agents may have felt that they were not breaking the law to use such methods since Lazar says that prior to his employment on the project he had to sign a secrecy agreement waiving his constitutional rights.

Conversations I have had with several people lead me to believe that such abhorrent brainwashing techniques are unfortunately being used.
One case concerns an individual who claims to have worked on a highly classified time travel project supposedly conducted on Long Island, near Montauk, as an extension of research done on the highly secret Philadelphia Experiment.
I had a chance to talk to him after he had just finished giving a lecture about his unusual experience.
He believed that he had formerly been director of this time travel project and that, after having had some disagreements with people there, he was subjected to a mind-altering therapy that attempted to erase from his memory experiences he had on the project.
He says that he later began to recall these memories after he had a chance street encounter with someone who he claims had once worked under him on that project.
He said this began to trigger the suppressed memories.

In his mind, this individual thoroughly believed that what he was saying was the truth, that he had directed this project and that it had been capable of temporarily transporting people into other time periods.
However, it was obvious to me that what he was saying was a complete fabrication.
I believe he was correct in stating that he had been the unwilling subject of mind control, but I believe that during his brainwashing session, false memories were implanted in his mind about the existence of this fictitious time travel project and how he had once served as its director.
While under hypnotic inducement, he was most likely instructed that he would forget about the mind-control session, but that meeting a certain person in the street would be a trigger that would allow him to begin to remember the implanted memories as well as some of the mind-control session.
However, the implanted memories were to be remembered as being events that had actually taken place.
Also, he was instructed to believe that the purpose of the mind-control session had been to erase his recollection of those supposed real events (the implanted memories).
Perhaps he also was given a subliminal suggestion to write about his implanted experience and to lecture about it.
A person who actually believed in his heart that what he was saying was the truth would be the ultimate in misinformation dissemination.
Could Robert Lazar have actually had some experiences working on the Sport Model and later undergone similar techniques to implant confusing ideas about the technology?