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The negative lead goes to the lower aluminium foil, and the Ventura thinks at least two phenomena are at work. Ion wind is positive lead is attached to the upper wire. The three corners of definitely one, he feels, for the breeze is self-evident. However, the lifter are tethered to the work table so that the electrical leads he thinks a second effect is at work, too, and many agree with from the power source are not broken off in flight. him. Most speculation concerns what is called the Biefeld-Brown The power source kicks out 15,000 volts at 250 watts. Tim effect, the "Brown" being T. Townsend Brown, whose name is uses a voltage generator made by Information Unlimited, Inc., well known in early quantum research and whose work is promi- but, before the current reaches the capacitors, the voltage is nently discussed in Nick Cook's The Hunt for Zero Point. stepped up to 30,000 volts by Tim's home-made voltage multiplier The Biefeld-Brown effect, according to Ventura, is the theory stack. At full throttle, the lifter is straining at the tethers, bending that low-efficiency, high-voltage, air-gapped capacitors with dif- the balsawood frame near the point of fracture. ferent or asymmetrical capacities generate a net directional force The capacitors of the lifters are controversial, for asymmetrical upward from the larger element to the smaller element, which on capacitors are not supposed to hold charges of two different vol- the lifter is from the aluminium foil to the wire. This force then umes. Yet the lifters fly and the question of how is a mystery that pushes against the ambient energy field of the surrounding area, gets stacked on top of the controversy. But here is what happens. perhaps pushing against a more rigid energy field of the zero Throw the switch, and at around 17,500 volts the lifter begins to point energy field. quiver in take-off. At full power of 30,000 volts, the lifter is roar- Brown apparently made his case for these electromagnetic ing and a noticeable downward breeze is observed. Many physi- effects, receiving patents in the 1960s for his research. NASA's cists call it "ion wind" and say that this is what Dr Jonathan Campbell at Marshall Research causes the lifters to fly. But what exactly is ion Center in Huntsville, Alabama, confirmed to wind, and can it be the cause of flight? me that recently he also has received a patent According to Ventura, "Ion wind is the for his research into the thrust effects of movement of ionised air particles which flow asymmetrical capacitors. downward according to electrical charge”. However, prominent physicist Hal Here's his theory. The positively charged wire Puthoff—whose research cuts a broad swath on the top part of the lifter steals electrons from A A across the fields of the "new physics", as fea- the surrounding air, leaving the affected air Many scientists, tured in Lynne McTaggart's The Field and molecules positively charged. These positively including particle Nick Cook's The Hunt for Zero Point, and charged air molecules, or ions, then head physicists at major te who was also the military's "top psychic" as downward toward the large source of negative- . ve the director for 12 years of the CIA's remote- ly charged electrons generated by the alu- US universities, viewing squadron—has a different per- minium foil. These air molecule ions are . spective: "I'm quite certain at this point claim not to have h “ i" bigger and heavier than the electrons seek- that the so-called ‘lifter’ phenomenon is ing them, so there is a net thrust down- even heard of just an electrostatic ion wind phenome- ward, pushing the whole lifter up. . 2 non, not 'antigravity’.” That's the theory—and, frankly, all I can torsion fields. But Dr John J. Rusek, Adjunct do to verify it is to tell you what others tell Professor of Aeronautics and me. Before I do that, though, let me tell Astronautics at both Purdue University you what I experienced while standing and the United States Air Force next to a levitating lifter. In flight, the Academy, says that "Initial findings of lifter emits a high whining, hissing buzz, ‘classroom’ experiments with lifters and I could feel a good breeze coming up show ionic wind to be way too small a at me from the work table underneath the factor, by three orders of magnitude". lifter. Also, while standing next to the Dr Rusek has formed a technology com- lifter but not touching it, the hair on the pany, Swift Enterprises, to continue this back of my head started to rise up in electrostatic-like fashion. research and bring it to the level that is "presentable to the main- To analyse the air currents, Tim blew baby powder at the top of stream physics community". the lifter. The majority of the particulate cloud was drawn into Along these lines, Jean-Louis Naudin shows on his extensive the middle area of the lifter and then sucked downward. A kind website not only how to build a lifter but also several photos of of vortex was created at times, for intermittently I could see a research into the ion wind issue. Naudin's team has wrapped test cloud forming into an organised column beneath the lifter and lifters in plastic, yet they still produce antigravitational effects. then spreading out 360 degrees once it hit the work table surface. Is that ion wind? Well, there certainly was a breeze, and it sure Dr Fran De Aquino's Space-time Bubbles felt like air, but how would I know if it was ionic? Something Others may have a clue to the second or even a third force at efinitely sucked the baby powder down, but was it more than just work. Researcher Fran De Aquino, professor of physics at regular air blowing past me? Again, I don't know. Maranhao State University in Sao Luis, Brazil, has described in Is the movement of wind why lifters fly, regardless of whether the literature that "bubbles of localised space-time" can exist in the air is ionised or not, or is the wind just a by-product and not variance to the surrounding fields. the propulsion? Could the capacitors be creating a field that neu- Anecdotal experience suggests that the lifters may be undergo- tralises gravity, allowing the craft to levitate? Or are they creating ing such space-time anomalies. some kind of new field that is localised, the surrounding ambient Tim Ventura has a heavy cast-iron bench vise on his work field pushing this "field bubble" up—much like a helium balloon table. Intermittently, he gets zapped by a charge when he touches is pushed up by the surrounding heavier air trying to fill the emp- the vise. But his experience is seemingly out of time, because he tier "field" of the lighter helium? gets zapped before he turns on the machine. He also gets zapped Many scientists, including particle physicists at major US universities, torsion fields. Dr Fran De Aquino's Space-time Bubbles Others may have a clue to the second or even a third force at work. Researcher Fran De Aquino, professor of physics at Maranhao State University in Sao Luis, Brazil, has described in the literature that "bubbles of localised space-time" can exist in variance to the surrounding fields. Anecdotal experience suggests that the lifters may be undergo- ing such space-time anomalies. Tim Ventura has a heavy cast-iron bench vise on his work table. Intermittently, he gets zapped by a charge when he touches the vise. But his experience is seemingly out of time, because he gets zapped before he turns on the machine. He also gets zapped NEXUS = 45 claim not to have even heard of OCTOBER —- NOVEMBER 2003 www.nexusmagazine.com