Anti-Gravity Research at the University of Detroit
It would appear that during the late 1950s, or perhaps early 1960s, the US military was funding anti-gravity research at the University of Detroit. There are little mentions of it here and there, but so far nothing detailed has been turned up by Mythic Detroit's elite band of Dero researchers. So far we've got the following:
- In 1958, Arthur Radebaugh's nationally syndicated futurist comic strip Closer Than We Think noted the anti-gravity research which was taking place at various universities and major corporations, including U of D (scroll to the Gravity In Reverse entry on the Paleo-Future link).
- In his famous essay I Know The Secret Of The Flying Saucers, UFO promoter Donald Keyhoe made a more or less throwaway claim that:
Under an Army contract, a University of Detroit team has built a 4,000-pound, specially wired rotor which spins at 100,000 rpm. With this unique device, scientists are testing gravitational radiation theories searching for a possible key to G control.
- Lost Arts Media offers a general weird-science "research archive", of the old school pre-internet style
TIME TRAVEL AND THE PHILADELPHIA EXPERIMENT, TIME AND THE
GENERAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY, GRAVITATIONAL RADIATION IN
SPACE-TIME, ELECTRO-DYNAMIC EQUATIONS OF MOTIONS, GRAVITATIONAL
CONTROL RESEARCH. Articles on atomic clocks, time machines, truth beyond the
Philadelphia experiment, invisible ships, teleportation, alternative explanations,
invisibility techniques, the clock paradox in free fall, accelerating frames of
reference, planetary astronomy, declassified document by the University of Detroit
for the Armed Services Technical Information Agency from 1960-61. Topics include
detection of gravity radiation, flat space-time relativity, rotational decay,
electrodynamic equations, radiative reaction, Lorentz, Dirac, equations of motion,
declassified master’s thesis for the Arms Services Technical Information Agency in
1961. Topics include Townsend Brown, control over gravity, characteristics of
gravitation, research effort, chronology, and more. GRAV-05 • 204 pages • 8 1/2 x 11
• stapled binding • $31.00
- An interview on the American Vacuum Society website mentions research by D.J. Kenney (probably Donald) and Jimmy Keith at U of D involving gravitational effects on spinning objects. So far one paper by Kenney has turned up. Here's a photo of Kenney.
- Industrial Mathematics published an article by Kenney called Energy Losses of Small Rotors about the energy losses to the universe which a freely rotating body would experience.
- Finally, a Jesuit magazine called America had an article titled Operation ERG at the University of Detroit on page 576 of volume 106, which I've been lucky enough to grab a copy of.
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