Thomas Townsend Brown

Thomas Townsend Brown (born March 18, 1905 in Zanesville , Ohio , † October 22, 1985 in Avalon , California ) was an American physicist and UFO researcher .

Life

Brown came from a wealthy family in Zanesville , Ohio . He discovered the Biefeld-Brown effect as early as 1921 during his college days while experimenting with an X-ray tube . Brown's discovery got the name after his physics professor Paul Alfred Biefeld at Denison University in Granville , Ohio, encouraged him to continue his research in 1923. Brown had previously studied at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena , California from 1922 , and for a short time in 1923 at Kenyon College in Gambier , Ohio.

After completing his studies, Brown worked from 1926 to 1930 at the Warner and Swasey Observatory in East Cleveland , Ohio , which was then directed by Biefeld. From 1930 he worked for the United States Naval Research Laboratory . Brown participated in the United States Department of the Navy's International Gravity Expedition to the West Indies in 1932 and in the first Johnson-Smithsonian deep-sea expedition led by Paul Bartsch in 1933 . He was then a reservist in the United States Navy and worked from 1939 at the Glenn L. Martin Company as an engineer. In 1940 Brown was inducted into the National Defense Research Committee . From 1941 he worked for the Office of Scientific Research and Development . In 1942 he led the training at the radar school of Naval Station Norfolk . His name is also used in connection with the so-called Philadelphia Experiment .

The lack of scientific recognition for his research and the overload of his work led to a nervous breakdown in Brown in December 1943, after which he was retired in early 1944 on the recommendation of the naval doctors. He then worked for a number of years as a radar consultant at Lockheed-Vega Aircraft Corporation . In 1952 he moved first to Hawaii and in the same year to Cleveland and, as in previous years, continued to work privately on the “Gravitator”, the technical implementation of the Biefeld-Brown effect. Through his continued research, which he largely financed himself, he had succeeded in amplifying the effect of the effect to such an extent that the apparatus could lift more than its own weight.

In 1953, Brown managed to make one of his "air foils" fly in a laboratory facility on a circuit with a diameter of six meters. The apparatus was connected to a mast via a wire and was thus supplied with the necessary operating voltage of 50 kV. The required power was 50 watts, the top speed of the device was almost 185 km / h.

In 1955 Brown left the USA disappointed due to a lack of sponsors, recognition from academia and interested parties from politics and industry and settled first in England and then in France. After initial successes and improvements as well as a number of demonstrations in Europe, the French company SNCASO , where Brown was working at the time, merged with SNCASE in March 1957 to form Sud Aviation . The new management made a change in the direction of research and cut the funds for Brown's project.

Brown had already returned to the United States by this time and founded the National Investigations Committee On Aerial Phenomena (NICAP) in Washington, DC on October 24, 1956 . He was firmly convinced that his research could provide evidence of the possibility of the existence of UFOs . These views created little acceptance among established scholars who rejected his UFO research . However, Brown found support from Agnew Hunter Bahnson Jr., chairman of the Bahnson Company of Winston-Salem , North Carolina . Brown was able to continue his anti-gravity investigations there as part of a research project. After the death of his friend and benefactor, who had an accident with his private plane in 1964, the project was discontinued by his descendants.

Brown had also tried to found his own company, Rand International Limited, in 1958. Despite numerous patents in the USA and abroad, he and his Gravitator were unsuccessful. In the early 1960s, he briefly took a position as a physicist at Electrokinetics Inc. in Bala Cynwyd , Pennsylvania . In the 1970s, he was interested mainly for rock Electricity ( rock electricity ).

Brown performed his flying metal disks at irregular intervals at NASA , among others , and continued his private research in California at the University of California, Berkeley , and at California State University, Los Angeles , until shortly before his death in 1985.

literature

• Richard P. Crandall: They All Told the Truth: The Antigravity Papers , Trafford Publishing, 2008, ISBN 1-55395-723-7
• Jonathan Eisen: Suppressed Inventions and Other Discoveries , Avery Publ. Group, Garden City Park, New York, 1999, ISBN 0-89529-809-0
• Paul Schatzkin: Defying Gravity: The Parallel Universe of T. Townsend Brown , Tanglewood Books, 2008
• Thomas Valone: Electrogravitics Systems , Integrity Research Institute, Washington DC, 2005, ISBN 0-9641070-0-7

Web links

• Website of Linda Brown, daughter of Thomas Townsend Brown
• Qualight Systems Design ( Memento from July 23, 2011 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Philadelphia Experiment - People