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stood simulated nuclear flashes which gen- erated temperatures of more than 1000 degrees Celsius. The tests' results, published tomorrow for the first time in International Defence Review, published by Jane’s, are leading chastened scientific communities on both sides of the Atlantic to a strange and hum- bling conclusion: that an English inventor without a degree tinkered around in his labo- ratory for a few years to stumble on a secret for which nuclear physicists had spent decades searching. Once dismissed as a crank with a plastic bee in his bonnet, Maurice Ward now finds himself the toast of the military-industrial complexes of Britain and America with the polymer he calls Starlite. Nobody, least of all Mr Ward, really knows how Starlite works (only selected members of his family know the full ingre- dients), but the properties which his mysteri- ous plastic displays are impressively self- evident. Mr Ward first brought them to public notice three years ago on BBC's Tomorrow's World programme when he coated the shell of a raw chicken egg with his substance. Despite blasting the egg with an oxyacety- lene welding torch, it remained uncooked, undamaged and could be handled with bare fingers immediately afterwards. In MoD laser tests during October 1990, 0.25 mm. thickness of Starlite contained the energy of the equivalent of 75 nuclear flash- es for 30 seconds. But whatever Starlite—a name thought up MYSTERY PROPULSION PLANE _ prospect of non-conventional flight? One more thing. At a certain speed, the . SIGHTED test rig would cause anyone nearby to invol- By Peter Nielsen untarily urinate. Such reactions are typical This story was told to me by an inventor of organic resonance, as can be stimulated friend living in Phoenix, Arizona. It dates with microwave exposure. Was the mecha- back to the 1950s, and would seem to prove nism inadvertently caused to emit radiation the post-war existence of secret aviation at its own wavelength falling within this technologies. range? One day he received an excited phone call And, finally, is it mere coincidence that from a flight mechanic at the local airport. modern UFOs appeared at about the same "You better come down here straight time as jet engines and radar (microwave) away—something really strange is going technology? How many times have we pon- on.” Upon arriving, an aircraft was pointed dered over those reports of spiral patterns, out, cordoned off at the far end of the matter grab, AND microwave-like bums at hangars. It was a DC-3, the leading propel- UFO landing sites? Come to think of it, a lor-driven commercial plane of that era. saucer shape, with its contoured radial sym- Suspicion was aroused by its complete lack metry, is a near-perfect resonator, or lens. of external markings. Workers in equally That is, the longest distance across its sur- plain jumpsuits seemed to be making hurried face, from and back to any single point, repairs inside the cabin. would be the same, thus producing a uni- Approaching as close as possible, the form wave when sympathetically energised mechanic asked a co-worker what was hap- at the appropriate frequency. By inverse pening. The answer was, "I don't know logic, would this alone cause it to spin? what it's all about, but that plane's got the Is there some connection? Maybe not. weirdest instrument panel I've ever seen." But, in later years, this same scientist went After a short time, the crew boarded, and a on to develop an anti-gravity system, which low whining sound emerged from within the I have no reason to doubt, but which was fuselage. It increased gradually in pitch never fully revealed due to ethical concerns. until it rose above the range of human hear- Still, it would be an interesting experiment ing. In silence, the plane then taxied out to 0 spin a disc, electrically pumped at its the runway and took off. There was no Structural resonance, and measure for weight noise or evidence of jet power - no openings loss. Anyone with ample funding interest- or exhaust. Only at an altitude of several ed? hundred feet were the two conventional engines 'push-started'. The sole clue to the HOME INVENTOR BAFFLES lane's identi inted i all letters esveth chreshtget canoes "Solar Labs". THE WORLD WITH HIS PLAS- On another occasion, he related the fol- TIC FANTASTIC lowing incident which occurred while work- A former Yorkshire ing for the government on an early experi- hairdresser has baffled mental jet engine. A turbine assembly was military and scientific put under high-speed rotation for laboratory establishments across stress-testing. Suddenly, a ball-bearing the world by producing broke free inside the hollow aluminium 4 magical piece of plas- rotor. After emergency shutdown, they _ lic that is so tough it can found the steel ball had been worn to a frac- withstand the heat of a tion of its original size! In other words, the nuclear explosion. normally softer aluminium, itself unscarred, Experiments at the became somehow ‘harder’ than steel...but Ministry of Defence's only while rotating. One might attribute this (MoD) Atomic to some unknown inertial alteration of its Weapons Establishment atomic structure. Could an external com- at Foulness, Essex, and pensatory force, similar to that produced by by NATO scientists at a polarised magnet or spinning gyroscope, the US missile range at be another by-product of this strange anom- White Sands, New aly? If so, would it be strong enough to Mexico, have shown repulse the earth's mass, offering the that the substance with- MYSTERY PROPULSION PLANE SIGHTED HOME INVENTOR BAFFLES THE WORLD WITH HIS PLAS- TIC FANTASTIC A former Yorkshire hairdresser has baffled military and scientific establishments across the world by producing a magical piece of plas- tic that is so tough it can withstand the heat of a nuclear explosion. Experiments at the Ministry of Defence's (MoD) Atomic Weapons Establishment at Foulness, Essex, and by NATO scientists at the US missile range at White Sands, New Mexico, have shown that the substance with- (| NEXUS¢47 JUNE - JULY 1993 —_—2?2-_