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"Exactly!" Nicholson brightens. "That was inspired by the same basic thing that was happening all over! It's not an accident that electrogravitics was such a hot pursuit right out in the public at the same time that there started up the big UFO flap, and all the films on flying saucers and spaceage technology. It's all part and parcel of the same phenomenon." "Well, even that bland middleclass atmosphere was a way of keeping the lid on, and maintaining the impression of order while in fact the most revolutionary of all happenings was seething right under everyone's nose. All that gravity research was stimulated by the recent recovery of the crashed UFOs—the government was pushing, without letting most of its scientists or any of the public know the truth; they needed to get caught up fast on that whole zone of exotic potential, you know...at the time there was only so much they could derive from examining strange, partially damaged or out—of—commission craft made of elements or alloys beyond the comprehension of present Earth—science altogether. The government obviously felt we had to develop our own, terrestrial—based equivalent if we were going to survive exposure to the startling things that were found at those recovery sites." "Wait a minute," Hopper interrupts, "if all that gravity research was so out in the open, what happened to it? You never hear of it now, and it doesn't get a hell of a lot of space in the journals of science history! It seems to me that if it was so public at one time, it must have gone the way of the Edsel." "Not at all," Jack states matter—of—factly, brimming with aplomb. "In fact, all the research was quietly withdrawn toward the beginning of the '60s. The heavy gravity research of the '50s is in fact a perfect example of what I was saying about how the secret government manipulates and maneuvers the direction of research. Because once the pact was entered into directly with those aliens contacted after the kismet of the desert UFO crashes, we obtained sufficient knowledge to rule it advantageous to withdraw interest from the public level of scientific investigation and continue research and experimentation entirely in secret. "That's where the really big split took place, between the advanced scientific and exotic technological research being sponsored by the secret government 'underground’, and the large—fund projects involving cyclotron colliders and subnuclear physics keeping the public—level science community happy and helping to perpetuate the corporate cash-flow system at the same time. Those big ponderous programs helped to produce collective amnesia about the antigravity experiments that were approachable from the level of 32 electronics engineering, and that involved so much inopportune free-energy implication at just about every turn. Corporate America and the international financial empire breathed a sigh of relief when all that no longer 68 T-Bird_Vs_The_Flying_saucers.htm "Yeah, boredom with the Eisenhower years," Hopper laughs. "What things?" Fonda slowly turns his head, obviously magnetized by the ominous undertone.