I have included this new page as there are now constant rumours concerning propulsions systems and laser weaponry which are supposedly being experimented with and fitted to the latest of "Black Project" aircraft, (the Lockheed X-22A being one in question- see Latest Updates-Page 3)

I have gathered together a few articles which I reproduce below to which I thank the appropriate authors.

Anti-gravity propulsion comes ‘out of the closet’
Nick Cook
Janes Defense Weekly, 2002-07-29

Boeing, the world's largest aircraft manufacturer, has admitted that it is working on experimental anti-gravity projects that could overturn a century of conventional aerospace propulsion technology if the science that underpins them - science that senior Boeing officials describe as "valid" - can be engineered into hardware.

As part of the effort, which is being run out of Boeing's Phantom Works advanced research and development facility in Seattle, the company is trying to solicit the services of a Russian scientist who claims he has developed 'high-' and 'low-power' anti-gravity devices in Russia and Finland. The approach, however, has been thwarted by Russian officialdom.

The Boeing drive to develop a collaborative relationship with the scientist in question, Dr Evgeny Podkletnov, has its own internal project name: 'GRASP' - Gravity Research for Advanced Space Propulsion.

A briefing document on GRASP obtained by Jane's Defence Weekly sets out what Boeing believes to be at stake. "If gravity modification is real," it says, "it will alter the entire aerospace business." The report was written by Jamie Childress, principal investigator for Boeing's propellentless propulsion work at the Phantom Works in Seattle.

GRASP's objective is to explore propellentless propulsion (the aerospace world's more formal term for anti-gravity), determine the validity of Podkletnov's work and "examine possible uses for such a technology". Applications, the company says, could include space launch systems, artificial gravity on spacecraft, aircraft propulsion and 'fuelless' electricity generation - so-called 'free energy'.

But it is also apparent that Podkletnov's work could be engineered into a radical form of weapon system. The GRASP paper focuses on Podkletnov's claims that his high-power experiments, using a device called an 'impulse gravity generator', are capable of producing a beam of 'gravity-like' energy that can exert an instantaneous force of 1,000g on any object - enough, in principle, to vaporise it, especially if the object is moving at high speed.

Podkletnov maintains that a laboratory installation in Russia has already demonstrated the 4in (10.16cm) wide beam's ability to repel objects a kilometre away and that it exhibits negligible power loss at distances of up to 200km (JDW 24 July). Such a device, observers say, could be adapted for use as an anti-satellite weapon or a ballistic missile shield.

The GRASP paper details the beam's reported characteristics: that it is immune to electromagnetic shielding, that it can penetrate any intermediate barriers (objects placed between the generator and the target), that it propagates at very high speed ("possibly light speed or greater") and that the total force is proportional to target mass - that its effect, in other words, is exactly the same as gravity's.

Podkletnov's claims first surfaced in 1992 when he published a paper detailing his low-power experiments into gravity-shielding using superconductors, materials that lose their electrical resistance at low temperatures. The original experiments were conducted at the University of Technology in Tampere, Finland, before moving to Russia. Podkletnov, who has a PhD in materials science from Tampere and the University of Chemical Technology in Moscow, declared that any object placed above his rapidly spinning superconducting apparatus lost up to 2% of its weight. Although he was vilified by traditionalists who claimed that gravity-shielding was impossible under the known laws of physics, the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) went on to attempt a replication of his work in the mid-1990s.

Because NASA lacked Podkletnov's unique formula for the 30cm yttrium-barium copper oxide (YBCO) superconducting ceramic discs - a formula the Russian maintains is critical to the experiment's success - the attempt failed. NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama will shortly conduct a second set of experiments, this time using apparatus built to Podkletnov's specifications.

In August 2001, Podkletnov published a paper revealing his experimental high-power work and it is this that forms the focus of the GRASP report. Boeing wants to build its own impulse gravity generator at Seattle but admits that it lacks vital knowledge in the area of the YBCO emitter - Podkletnov's special superconducting apparatus - which forms the heart of the generator.

As a result, Boeing recently approached Podkletnov directly, but promptly fell foul of Russian technology transfer controls. George Muellner, the outgoing head of the Boeing Phantom Works, confirmed that attempts by Boeing to work with Podkletnov had been blocked by Moscow, which is seeking to stem the exodus of Russian high-technology to the West. Muellner is convinced, however, that the science underpinning Podkletnov's work is real.

"The physical principles - and Podkletnov's device is not the only one - appear to be valid," he said. He confirmed that Boeing had conducted tests on a number of other anti-gravity devices, some of which were detailed in JDW 24 July.

"There is basic science there. They're not breaking the laws of physics. The issue is whether the science can be engineered into something workable," Muellner said.

The GRASP briefing document reveals that BAE Systems and Lockheed Martin have also contacted Podkletnov "and have some activity in this area". It is also possible, Boeing admits, that "classified activities in gravity modification may exist". The paper points out that Podkletnov is strongly anti-military and will only provide assistance if the research is carried out in the 'white world' of open development.

GRASP concludes that a "positive result from experiments would give Boeing a substantial advantage in the aerospace industry".

Later in 1997, the Breakthrough Propulsion Physics program will host an invitation-only workshop. At the gathering, scientists will examine relevant emerging physics. They will also brainstorm a list of next-step research tasks, says NASA's Millis.

To be surveyed are a host of theories, physical evidence and anomalous effects that have recently emerged but have not yet been rigorously assessed.

"There have been recent theories published in peer-reviewed literature suggesting new connections between inertia, gravity and electromagnetism. There's even a theory for a 'warp drive,' but physicists aren't even sure if such breakthroughs are possible," Millis says.

"If the workshop successfully demonstrates that promising and affordable approaches exist," he continues. "funding may be granted to begin conducting the step-by-step research that may eventually lead to the breakthroughs."

In other words, while you're reaching for the stars, don't forget to stoop for a little reality.

If you want to get anywhere fast in this old universe, there arc three technologies required for 21 st century space missions. "These technologies are propulsion, propulsion and propulsion," points out Robert Frisbee, manager of advanced propulsion technology at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California.

Moreover, physics today is teeming with conjecture showing us that scientists clearly don't know everything. Frisbee says that the physics community is rife with people studying time machines, wormholes and warp drives by looking at Albert Einstein's equations and putting them through the ringer.

"These are things we used to think of as solely the province of science fiction," with work now being done by reputable physicists, publishing in peer-reviewed journals, the JPL scientist says.

A member of the breakthrough propulsion physics product definition team, Frisbee underscores the fact that studying such topics as faster-than-light travel, leaping across space and time via wormhole, anti-gravity and other research tracks, is a high risk activity.

"But in terms of trying to get us out of our existing paradigm, this type of work is very important. The payoff could totally revolutionize the way we look at nature, in the same way that relativity and quantum mechanics changed the way we looked at the universe almost a hundred years ago," Frisbee contends.

Coupled to his optimism, Frisbee tags a note of warning. "You have to be careful of situations where you get into 'pathological science.' That is when you ate trying to treasure some tiny, tiny effect, but where wishful thinking gives you the answer and not the actual experiment," he cautions.

What are the odds of discovering some radical, new form of physics'?

"Chances are very high we won't find anything," says Franklin Mead, Jr.. senior scientist in the propulsion sciences division of the Air Force's Phillips Laboratory at Edwards Air Force Base, California. "But there's also that very small chance of stumbling on something that will have a very large payoff. It's important to look for that needle in the haystack...that diamond in the rough that hasn't been found. But it's very difficult to succeed," Mead says.

Also a member of NASA's breakthrough propulsion physics product definition team, Mead has funded a variety of advanced propulsion ideas over the years. From anti-proton propulsion, space warps, beamed energy and fusion rockets to space tethers and faster- than-light travel- all have received top billing on Mead's research list at one time or another.

"You have to keep looking...you need to turn over every rock," Mead says. Furthermore, as new materials become available, these ideas, and others, deserve second looks from time to time, he stresses.

"We're really not spending much money on advanced concepts. When you talk about dollars going into this area that could have such a great impact on space travel, on propulsion and on the future of our world in space...the investment is minuscule," Mead says.

Walk into Whitt Brantley's office at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center and you will spot a picture of his idol adorning one wall: Albert Einstein. Brantley, chief of the advanced concepts office at the center, has good reason to go eye to eye with Einstein. NASA-sponsored experiments will soon delve into, what one scientist tags, "gravity force shielding commonly called antigravity.

But Brantley fends off any claim that NASA is looking into anti-gravity. Instead, gravity manipulation, modification or shielding are more apropos terms, he says.

NASA is working with theorist Ning Li of the University of Alabama at Huntsville Equipment and test mater ials arc being prepped for a set of experiments that could, if successful, lead to new knowledge about gravity fields. If Li's ideas work, modifying and controlling gravity may be the outcome.

Researchers in 1992 at the Tampere University of Technology in Finland first claimed to observe a gravity force shielding effect. Leading the work, Russian scientist Eugene Podkletnov discovered that objects suspended over a rapidly spinning disc of superconducting ceramic material weighed less than normal-as if the object was somehow being shielded from the full force of gravity. More importantly, the faster the superconductor spun, the less an object over the superconducting material appeared to weigh.

Placed above the disc were nonconducting and non-magnetic objects made of wood, quartz or glass. The superconducting disc itself a material that forfeits its electrical resistance at very low temperatures-was suspended by a magnetic field produced by three electric coils. All the hardware was held within the confines of a super- cold container of liquid helium.

Several head-scratching scientists believe they are eyeing a side effect of Einstein's general theory of relativity rapidly spinning objects can pervert gravity.

Some scientists assert that they're producing a "gravitomagnetic field." But some publications have already declared the effect as "anti-gravity."

Whether or not the phenomenon is real, measurable and then controllable is yet to be determined. Whatever the case, many months of tedious painstaking work is ahead, Brantley cautions.

"We've got open minds," Brantley says. "It's sort of like playing the lottery. The only way to guarantee you won't win a lottery is not buy a ticket. We would sure feel foolish if we didn't study this, then have someone say later on: 'It was found 100 years ago, but the idiots didn't recognize it. "

If the effect is real, the implications could be staggering, both for near-term and far-future space travel ala Star Trek. "In the far-term, if you could manipulate gravity fields, you could put a strong field in front of you and a weak field behind you. That would mean you could literally fall forward with propellant-less propulsion," Brantley envisions.

NASA chief: Daniel Goldin, puts on a "who knows?" shrug-of-the- shoulders stance when asked about the space agency inquiring into the effect. As long as NASA scientists don't spend too much money, and the work and findings are peer-reviewed, he's supportive.

Goldin tells Final Frontier: "Continued work to discern the true physics behind the effect is clearly needed. The NASA and Ning Li look-see will be in full swing early this year."

"Whatever the results of the experiments, they will become part of the breakthrough propulsion physics program." says Millis of the Lewis Research Center. The first order of business is to identify what is really going on. Then Millis and his group will determine if they can harness the effect for a propulsion force.

While not discounting the phenomenon, Millis says: "This is not the only egg in the basket. We want to look at all the possibilities, weighing all the divergent and competing approaches."

If Millis has his way, stand by for the corrected 20/20 view of the future.

The vision: A space enterprise far more capable than today's for reaching more destinations faster and with greater autonomy nothing short of human travel to the stars.

The U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command is working on a new active defense weapon system concept to enhance protection for combat forces and theater-level assets for the Force XXI Army. The mobile Tactical High Energy Laser, or THEL, weapon system would provide an innovative solution for the acquisition and close-in engagement problems associated with “dumb munitions” — a primary concern because counter-battery fire may not be an option in densely populated areas.

For several years, U.S. Army SMDC has pursued development of a mobile, tactical high energy laser concept that could provide new air and missile defense capability. Numerous Department of Defense high energy laser development programs over the last 20 years have proven and demonstrated the beam generation and beam pointing technologies that support the THEL concept. Force XXI advancements in the area of real-time situational awareness now make it possible to capitalize on the prime attributes of a THEL in operational scenarios.

A THEL will be able to fire with speed-of-light flyout for close-in engagements where time lines are very short. Cost will run only a few thousand dollars per kill or less, with a deep magazine to counter saturation attacks. Not only can a THEL weapon system destroy a target, but it can also degrade, disrupt, or damage. This enhances operational flexibility and effectiveness against a wide variety of air threats. A THEL system would enhance the effectiveness of the short- to medium-range air defense architecture.

In April 1996, the then Prime Minister of Israel, Shimon Peres, met with President Clinton and then Secretary of Defense Perry. During the meeting, the U.S. made a commitment to assist Israel in the development of a THEL Advanced Concept Technology Demonstrator laser to be completed by the end of 1997, later extended to March 1998. This commitment, based on the success of the Nautilus program, is designed to help Israel defend its northern cities from the threat posed by Katyusha and other short-range rockets.

In July 1996, a contract was awarded by U.S. Army SMDC to TRW, Inc., of Redondo Beach, Calif., for the design, development, and fabrication of the THEL demonstrator which will be a transportable, tactical-sized, deuterium fluoride, chemical laser. The effort includes development and testing of the laser/fluid supply assembly; the pointer/tracker; a command, control, communications and fire control system; modification of and interface with a radar provided by Israel; and limited aspects of support equipment to demonstrate feasibility and support possible future field testing.

It will take about 21 months to design and build the system. Plans call for 12-18 months of field testing both in the U.S. and Israel. The THEL demonstrator will provide the first opportunity to assess the utility of high energy lasers in an operational scenario.

The effectiveness of high energy lasers against short-range rockets was tested and demonstrated in the Nautilus program, an outgrowth of Project Strong Safety, in collaboration with Israel. The program was conducted primarily at U.S. Army SMDC’s High Energy Laser Systems Test Facility at White Sands Missile Range, N.M. Nautilus used only a fraction of the power of the HELSTF Mid-Infrared Advanced Chemical Laser to emulate the THEL weapon concept performance.

The MIRACL is a megawatt-class, deuterium fluoride, chemical laser operating at HELSTF since the early 1980s. After a series of static and dynamic tests, the program successfully destroyed a short-range rocket in flight on Feb. 9, 1996. This success triggered a joint THEL development effort with Israel.

If successful, the demonstrator may pave the way for future development of a THEL User Operational Evaluation System for use in U.S. peace keeping/contingency operations. The U.S. Army Air Defense Artillery School, at Fort Bliss, Texas, officially designated as the proponent for THEL by the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, will develop a mission need statement and an operational requirements for the initial THEL configuration.

Evolving high energy laser, beam control, and digital battlefield information technologies promise to combine to form a highly effective THEL weapons system for Force XXI air defense.

Meanwhile, work on THEL's big brother is coming along fine. The US Air Force's Airborne Laser (ABL) program is proceeding, despite the usual "death by a thousand budget cuts" treatment. The ABL is an integral part of the country's attempt to shield itself from rogue states and terrorist groups using long-range ballistic missiles mounting nuclear or chemical warheads. The system involves a massive laser mounted in the fuselage of a Boeing 747 and firing through a revolving turret in the plane's nose. In times of crisis it would fly in the vicinity of an expected attack and destroy enemy missiles very soon after their launch.

Another anti-missile program, Theatre High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) relies on its own missile to do the protective work. It is designed to intercept ICBM threats and blow them up high in the atmosphere. THAAD employs no fancy energy weapons, it depends solely on its hypersonic impact to kill its target. The tracking, acquisition and guidance problems this entails though are phenomenal. The concept has been compared to shooting one bullet down with another. There have been two successful THAAD tests so far.

Defence pundits expect that the THEL system will be delivered to Israel later this year if further trials are as successful. It is assumed that the Israeli Defence Force will establish laser-topped bunkers along the country's northern border, aimed at knocking down the Katyushas that are regularly fired over the frontier by Hezbollah units operating in southern Lebanon. Since Israel's recent pull-out from its 'security zone' there, the proximity of the rocket threat has made the need for anti-missile defence even more urgent.

It is not expected that the THEL system will ever be utilised by the US military. Since it is an immobile platform for use against short-range threats, there is little point in building the facilities in America.

In his article Guidelines to Antigravity written in 1962 and published in American Journal of Physics in 1963, Dr. Robert L. Forward from Hughes Research Laboratories, starting from little known aspects of Einstein's General Relativity Theory, describes how moving matter can create unusual gravitational effects, giving to usual gyroscopic effect a whole new meaning.

Analyzing rotation of massive ring, he has shown that, in order to achieve measurable gravitational effects with moderate amounts of mass, matter of extremely high density, somewhere from 10E8 to 10E15 g/cm3 must be used. As it is impossible, at required angular speeds, to maintain structural integrity of such ring depending only on strength of it's material, he proposed the use of neutron gas exposed  to extremely low temperatures and contained by strong magnetic fields.
In this state of the matter it may be possible to use it's magnetic moment and the inertial moment, which are combined in atom, to convert time-varying electro-magnetic fields (modulated magnetic fields) into time-varying gravitational fields. 
He concludes that research in the field of gravitation will be very difficult since even the most optimistic calculations indicate that very large devices will be required to create usable gravitational forces and that future progress in the control of gravitation, like all modern sciences, will require special projects involving large sums of money, men, and energy. 
It seems that optimal environment for this purpose should be that of a corresponding black project.

In 1992, a Finnish scientist of Russian origin, Eugene Podkletnov, claimed to have built a device that produced a gravity-shielding effect. It consisted of a hot, fast-spinning, 12-inch (30-centimeter) disk of a superconducting ceramic, levitating within a magnetic field. Objects above the disk, Podkletnov reported, showed a loss of weight of between about 0.5 percent and 2 percent.
During last decade become easily demonstrable that everything, including trains, strawberries and frogs, float on extremely strong electromagnetic fields produced by superconductors.
So there it is a small wonder that, in his article "Weighty Implications: NASA Funds Controversial Gravity Shield", Jack Lucentini (http://www.space.com/) on September 29, 2000 writes that NASA awarded a $600,000 contract last year to Superconductive Components Inc. in Columbus, Ohio to build a device that, they say, could work as an antigravity machine.

In response to critic from Francis Slakey, a professor of physics at Georgetown University, who said that the NASA project is wasted money that could have been used to do legitimate space science, Ron Koczor, assistant director for science and technology at the Space Science Laboratory in NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama responded that Slakey don't seem to be amenable to observing that maybe the laws of physics are incomplete. The opportunity to try out such machine is expected to come next May, when a prototype whose construction goes as planed, or better, shall be ready.
The curious thing is that main university professor involved with the project, Ning Li, has  moved to China (It seems that all leading edge technologies are mowing to China lately, but that is a story for another article)

This report by Edgar Fouche, who says that a large portion of the mass of the TR-3B is kept floating by a gravity disruption device, a circular, mercury based plasma filled accelerator ring called the Magnetic Field Disruptor (MFD), in which plasma is pressurized at 250.000 bar and kept at a temperature of 150 deg. K while rotating at 50,000 rpm, resulting in gravity mass as well as in inertial mass reduction of around 90 percent, and whose operation is indicated by the red strobing light at the center of the fuselage bottom, is probably right on target. A  size of platform, which is rather large, is logic consequence of a required size of MFD and necessary distance to thrusters which work on reactive principle.
More about his findings, together with drawings of the TR-3B can be found on his page at http://fouchemedia.com/arap/speech.htm 

When operational, active noise suppression system emits noise of the same quality but opposite in phase to the sourced noise. This results in noise attenuation or, in ideal case, in it's total suppression. 
Similar technology is available for use in power plant installations for some time now.  
A white web-looking material which is found laying around in such occasions and which dissolves at touch, could well be a product of irregular hydrogen or methane combustion in one or more of it's multimode thrusters, resulting from their reaction with oxygen, which is used as oxidant, and airborne nitrogen. Good example of this is available at Rusty's Retreat page available by clicking on the above image which is a segment of one of images posted at her site describing such event, which occurred on 09-19-2000, in detail.

At our parts they say that if it is not perfect it is of human origin. Of US provenance.

Radar invisibility is a major problem for the flaying objects. 
Passive solutions as those adopted for F-1117A, B1-B and partially B2 shielding are of limited scope because radar detection techniques advance as well. In this field official Russian technology is at least as good as western one as was indicated by the new US ballistic missile system interception problems this year and probable superiority of Russian designed A300 mobile system when compared to recently released, real past performance of it's US counterpart, the Patriot. 

Russia's Moscow TV6 channel, on January 22, 1999 reported that Russian scientists had developed a new technology that was cheaper and more effective than conventional stealth programs. Anatoliy Korotyeyev, a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and director of the Keldysh research centre, is quoted as saying that the technology can create a plasma field around a plane, significantly reducing the aircraft's reflected radar signals and reducing its radar visibility. When the device is activated, the plasma cloud was not visible, but ground radar screens would show nothing. Korotyeyev went on to state that the device was small enough and light enough (around 100 kg) to be placed inside an aircraft and not harm the pilot or interfere with avionics.
This event was registered later on by UK's Electronic Telegraph 10-06-1999 edition on it's Science and Technology download page at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/99/6/10/iecon.html.

Deborah Stark, renown researcher in chemtrail and many other fields, close collaborator of Clifford E. Cranicom (link to his important site is on LINKS page) and motive force behind Chemtrail Message Board at http://pub8.ezboard.com/bchemtrails, brought to my attention to the latest article, published on New Scientist's web on 10-28-2000, titled Plasma magic. This article, which is available by clicking at the adjacent New Scientist logo, gives detailed account of known segments of plasma research history, related to it's radar cloaking and airframe drag reduction, in RUSSIA and on the west.
It all started in RUSSIA during the Cold War period where scientists discovered that the ions injected into the airflow around a high-speed sphere can reduce it's drag up to 30 %. Later on, during the last decade, published experiments conducted in Russia, England and US did not confirm this result, but as at the Arnold Engineering Development Center at the Arnold Air Force Base in Tennessee, a number of ballistic ranges and wind tunnels are being modified to include tests of plasma-assisted models, it seems that US military think that obtained results are, at least, promising.
Other segment of plasma physics, related to it's interaction with radio waves around aircraft, is causing more than a little excitement in the secret world of military aerospace research, because it could provide the ultimate invisibility shield for stealth aircraft.