(especially conventional scientists who like events to be pre-
dictable) this may be a scary and unwelcome development.
The appeal of anti-gravity is powerful. Passengers travelling in a
plane that was able to cancel out gravity would not experience any
discomfort, no matter how fast it accelerated or changed course. It
would revolutionize space exploration. Put to work in other fields,
the absence of gravity would solve the problems of power transmis-
sion from engine to wheels, would facilitate fuel-less heating for
homes and industry, and have many other uses, even in medicine.
Predictions were being made in 1956 that a new kind of aircraft
using anti-gravity would be developed within five years. All that was
required to usher in an era of efficient, economical, clean and quiet,
fuel-less propulsion, of free energy technology for industry and the
home — was investment and a little encouragement from the U.S.
government.
It never happened; or did it? All discussion about anti-gravity
ceased in the U.S. in 1957. But that was the time when the research
and development arm of the military-industrial complex went
underground, or'black' as the popular idiom has it, becoming com-
pletely unaccountable to government, with astronomical procure-
ment budgets carefully hidden from the scrutiny of the legislative
branch. This was justified for reasons of national security during
the Cold War, and so it has remained ever since. In fact, America was
following the example of Nazi Germany, where the initiative for
developing new weapons was taken from the armaments industry
in 1943 and entrusted to a very secret (mostly literally under-
ground) programme run by the SS.
There have been various reports of secret aircraft being devel-
oped by the black side of the U.S. aeronautical industry. The most
noteworthy was the triangular-shaped Northrop B-2 Stealth
Bomber which has an electrogravic drive system; it had followed the
Lockheed Stealth Fighter (the term 'stealth' signifying their invisi-
bility to radar). Some believe that the B-2 has a system to reduce
gravity; what is more accepted is that it envelops itself in a shield of
static electricity which both acts like a cloaking device and reduces
its air resistance. Since the B-2 went operational in 1993, twenty
have been built at a cost of $20 billion each.^2
It has been suggested that test flights of experimental flying
saucer aircraft may account for UFO sightings. While this is certainly
possible, evidence is still lacking of the significant development of aHIDDEN NATURE