by George Van Tassel

In 1923 Dr. Biefield, professor of physics and astronomy at Dennison University, teamed up with Townsend Brown in basic efforts to understand and overcome gravity. At Dr. Biefield’s suggestion a number of tests were performed to determine the electrical relation of gravity relative to electrically charged objects. Dr. Biefield was a former classmate of Einstein in Switzerland. The original tests conducted proved there was a tendency toward motion in a charged condenser suspended from a thread. This observed motion of a charged condenser has been labeled the Biefield-Brown Effect. Brown pointed out in 1923 that this tendency of a charged condenser to move might grow into a basically new method of propulsion.

In 1926 Townsend Brown described a “space car” using this new principle. By 1928 he had built working models of a boat propelled in this manner. By 1938 Brown had shown how his condensers not only moved but had interesting effects on plants and animals. Townsend Brown made a condenser shaped like a saucer that flew around a maypole long before flying saucers became a newspaper topic in 1947.

The saucers made by Brown had no propellers, no jets, no moving parts at all. They created a modification of the gravitational field around themselves, which is analogous to putting them on the incline of a “hill.” They acted like a surfboard on a wave. The electro-gravitational saucer creates its own “hill,” which is a local orientation of the field around it. Then it takes its own “hill” with it in any direction and at unlimited acceleration. There are no inertial forces as such inside the field. No thrust, or centrifugal force results on the load or occupants with directional changes.

Brown’s saucers required a highly charged leading edge, the positive polarity pole. Such a charged pole produces an electrical corona. This is visible in darkness. A full scale saucer will produce a corona visible for miles at night. The shape of a saucer follows the requirements of electrostatic and gravitational considerations, not aerodynamic requirements. There is no heat barrier, or skin friction as in aircraft rammed through the air by reaction propulsion methods. The material leading edge of the ship enters a vacuity created by the electrically charged area in front of it. For every known electromagnetic effect there is an analogous electrogravitational effect, but electrogravitational causes and effects differ from those of electromagnetic. The fields around a saucer can reach an intensity where they will bend light around them, and they will appear to disappear. Radar bounce off the body can also be screened off by the field at given frequencies, and it will disappear on the radar scope.

Brown observed the following factors in his moving, charged condensers:

1. Regarding the separation of the plates of the condenser; the closer the plates, the greater the effect.
2. The ability of the material between the plates to store electrical energy in the form of elastic stress. A measure of this ability is called the “K” of the material. The higher the “K,” the greater the Biefield-Brown effect.
3. The area of the plates; the greater area giving the greater effect.
4. The voltage difference between the plates; more voltage, more effect.
5. The mass of the material between the plates; the greater the mass, the greater the effect.

We observed that with vertical poles a separation, or division of the fields can be affected with a “caduceus” coil winding. This creates one field pulling up and the other field pushing down.

The coupling of harmonics in electricity, gravity, and magnetism result in the power that spins planets, orbits them, and causes galaxies to spin.

The Biefield-Brown effect demonstrates that a condenser suspended in a horizontal position, when charged with electricity will move in the positive pole direction. Reverse the polarity and it will move in the opposite direction, always moving toward the positive end.

The spherical balls that have been referred to as a landing gear in the pictures taken by George Adamski, are not landing gears – they are condensers. Located 120 degrees apart they provide a tripod effect in the gravitational field, and give directional control by polarity manipulations.

Townsend Brown pursued his research until 1956, when he formed N.I.C.A.P., the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena, in Washington, D.C. With a top brass advisory board.

I visited Townsend Brown in his office in Washington in late 1956 while I was on a lecture tour. In discussing his research and flying saucers with him, I explained the purpose of the 120 degree control. In a few weeks he resigned as the head of N.I.C.A.P., and Major Donald Keyhoe became its Director.

In January, 1955, we printed data on “The Earth As A Motor.” From this data another person made an anti-gravity model, and is at present engaged in making larger ones for a private firm, which is under government subsidy. In 1952 we printed data on anti-gravity relative to rotating high frequency fields. In 1956 we explained data relative to polarity reversals and temperature changes in molecular structure over Radio Station W.O.R. That was later proven by a major steel company, who sent a person out here to consult with me for several days.

There are anti-gravity research projects in every country in the world. On my last lecture tour I was approached by two separate parties conducting anti-gravity research outside of government subsidy. Both of them work and will lift non-ferrous metals like gold and silver as easily as a magnet will attract iron. Neither one of them works on the Biefield-Brown effect, but rather by orienting the poles of the atomic structure – like magnetism orients the poles in molecular structure.

Authorities refused to look at the Dean Space Drive written about by Campbell in a past “Astounding Magazine” because it contradicted Newton’s Law of Gravity – but it works!

The Biefield-Brown Effect is only a part of gravitational knowledge, but Townsend Brown should be publicly honored for his revelations; not rejected to become another Tesla unknown to present scientific teaching.

Kepler and Newton knew the true state of things, but science misinterpreted their findings. Faraday demonstrated “magnarotation.” Rotary moving weights produce mechanical lift through centrifugal force. This was proven by Mr. Benny Hallberg in Sweden and is referred to as the “Hallberg Device.”

Resonance is the answer to both sonic and electro-gravitational nullification of gravity. A “free-energy” motor can be made with permanent magnets, using a three gear planetary system between the rotor and stator, with an even number of magnets on the rotor and an uneven number of magnets on the stator. The three gears have three magnets rotating to time attraction and repulsion between the rotor and stator magnets polarity-wise.

Gravity is relative to the mass of the atomic structure of the matrix. It would be easier to lift the Empire State building than it would be to life a salt shaker if the poles of the atomic structure were aligned vertically.

Multiple wave oscillation gives an angleworm thrust to coherent waves that are in harmonic resonance with each other. With no frictional resistance, acceleration beyond the theorized speed of light is possible. Being inside of the elctrogravitational field causes all time reference to cease, and one could live an indefinite life span as long as the cell loss is replaced in the body by new cell food.

An electro-statically charged condenser – which is a spaceship – excludes all outside influences which cause aging in bodies.

You can understand why the Biefield-Brown effect is not being taught in our most advanced technical colleges today because of the impact it would have on a world run by money. This is the reason why flying saucer data has been withheld from the public.

In the last 50 years the sciences have brought us from the horse and buggy days to men on the Moon. Electronics has given us world-wide, even space-wide, television; communication; and control of military, industrial, domestic, and economic devices. Medical science has come from pasteurized milk to the transplant of vital organs.

In all of this immense scientific advancement there has been the suppression, and withholding, of many vital things, that at the time were in conflict with economic and political interests.

The paradox of today is seen in the overall picture of the constant words for peace, while ever more potent weapons for destruction are being manufactured. The constant cry for higher, and more education, while revolutionaries rip our educational system apart; and advanced science is withheld from our deserving students.

The thing I am most concerned with is the failure of the government to support and encourage those individuals who have demonstrated the ability, and initiative, to create things that would benefit people. All of the people, from presidents down to the most unfortunate, the cripple and the mental cases.

For many years I have heard of people who have been persecuted and prosecuted for putting forth projects of their own, because it conflicted with established economy, medical science, or political authority. This I have never fully accepted, because it is difficult to understand why these authorities, who also get old and sick, would cut their own throats – so to speak.

In my own field of endeavor, inspired by a God-given desire to leave this planet better than I found it when I was born, I now ask this question. Why have electro-magnetic and radiesthesia sciences been ignored, suppressed, and withheld from their beneficent usage over the past 50 years? I offer the following data to prove these things are known. The fact that they are not in use proves they have been suppressed.

The latest of these great accomplishments has just been revealed; I present this first because everyone is aware of the flight of Apollo 8 around the Moon. What is presented here is only a small portion of the whole research. The principle of its operation is the important thing, because it verifies and expands other research done over the years. The man responsible for this device deserves international recognition for a breakthrough even as fantastic as the Apollo 8 flight.

The device recorded the intensity of reactions of every gland and organ in the bodies of the three astronauts, Borman, Lovell, and Anders; from two days before lift-off until two days after splashdown in the Pacific Ocean. It was recorded without radio, or telemetry transmission from any transmitters aboard Apollo 8. The amazing fact is the transmission continued to be received while the capsule was on the back side of the Moon – when all radio transmission could not be received on the Earth.

The preliminary report, “Tracking The Astronauts in Apollo 8,” was sent to me by one of the men who was largely responsible for its success.

The tuning in to the three astronauts is accomplished in the device by radiation from photographs of each of the three men. Distance did not seem to be a factor in the strength of signals received.

This verifies in principle, the magnetic-ion activities here in our “Integratron” relative to living bodies. We have long contended that every atom radiates energy relative to its composition. Every gland and organ, or body, is composed of octaves of emanation from its atomic makeup. The photograph of anyone includes the radiations of the individual as well as the reflection of light off of them externally.

Zoler and Kelsh of “Radiopathy Inc.,” in Hollywood, proved this. De LaWar, Drown, Abrams, Lakhovsky, Crile, and many others, devised instruments in part that paralleled this astronaut tracking device, though not in such completeness.

Louis Pasteur established some of these principles in 1862, although he was recognized mostly for his pasteurized milk process.

This astronaut tracking device proves that every living body emanates radiations from all of its parts according to their atomic charge of composition.

Drs. A. A. Boe and D. K. Salunkhe, from Utah State University, put green tomatoes in a magnetic field and the tomatoes ripened four to six times faster than normal. All seeds germinate many times faster when placed in magnetic fields.

Dr. Becker and Dr. Brown have found a number of diseases that occur in cycles, and are sure from experiments they conducted that humans are affected by celestial forces.

In New York City, Dr. K. E. MacLean used an electro-magnetic activator in treating “hopeless” cases of cancer. He reported his results were “remarkable.” “Cancer cannot exist in a strong magnetic field,” MacLean said. Hair also was brought back from white and gray shades to its natural color by magnetic fields. When MacLean was 64 years old, he looked about 45 – after exposing himself to a 3600 Gauss magnetic field every day for five years. He reported pain from any cause was relieved in a magnetic field, and recovery to normalcy was speeded up. He could not discover a single adverse side, or after effect, from normal magnetic fields.

Edgar Cayce once said, “There is mind in every cell of the body.” Charles Steinmetz said, “When science turns toward spiritual discoveries it will make more progress in 50 years than in all its past history.”

Doctors have discovered that the human brain has positive and negative polarization. The forehead is negative and the back of the head is positive. Reversal of these polarities causes one to go to sleep. In Australia and Europe, magazines and newspapers run ads on a “magnetic pillow” that helps people go to sleep by causing this polarity reversal.

A two year study by the American Institute of Medical Climatology in Philadelphia revealed that hospital and industrial records, as well as police and fire department reports, showed peaks and troughs of activity relative to the times of the new and full Moon cycles.

Dr. Igno H. Kornblueh reported complete loss of pain in third degree burns over an entire human body by having the patient breathe negative charged ions in the air. He said the burned body tissue healed much faster.

Dr. Georges Lakhovsky said in his book, “The Secret of Life,” “that the cell-organic unit in all living beings, is nothing but an electro-magnetic resonator, capable of emitting and absorbing radiation of a very high frequency.”

Dr. Harold S. Alexander of North American Aviation Corp.’s Missile Division told scientists at an annual meeting of the Institute of Environmental Sciences that “Mice live up to 45% longer after they have been subjected to certain types of magnetic fields, and cancerous mice lose their malignant growths after similar treatment.”

Scientists of the U.S. Geological Survey, working with scientists of the National Cancer Institute, discovered that cancerous liver in rats was less magnetic than normal tissue.

Dr. J. M. Barnothy at the University of Budapest reported that in albino mice inoculated with certain types of cancer there was loss of tumor in five cases, and complete recovery in four cases out of six, for those mice placed in a moderately strong magnetic field. In contrast, control animals that were similarly inoculated and were kept out of the magnetic field died. He displayed two mice from the same litter which had reached an age equivalent to 90 years in humans. The one which had lived for a while in a magnetic field appeared only about one third as old as the other.

In one series of tests, run by Dr. Walter H. Eddy, formerly of Columbia University, 60 mice of a breed especially susceptible to lung cancer were separated into two equal groups. One group was kept in ordinary atmosphere; the other in a room with a high negative ion content. At the end of two months, 22 of the 30 mice living in ordinary atmosphere had developed lung malignancies and died. Of the other group only two died; the other 28 showed no signs of lung cancer.

In a trip to Russia, Dr. I. Kornblueh of Philadelphia’s Northeastern Hospital discovered extensive use of ion therapy there. New medical students are trained in the use of negative ions, and more than 100 hospitals and health centers are said to be taking regular advantage of negative ion therapy. Among the maladies treated in Russia, are peptic ulcers, arthritis, bronchial asthma, hypertension, and various types of neurosis.

All of the above researchers and results are from 10 to 70 years old. In 10 years we have put men in orbit and around the Moon at the cost of billions of dollars to the people who receive no real benefit for their money.

What I am suggesting here to the agencies of government, medical science, and electro-magnetic science, is that they are in a position to produce beneficial results for our people now. With what is known now, centers for prevention and treatment of the sick [using these discoveries] can be a reality.

Excerpt from When Stars Look Down