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On Third Reich Flying Saucers, German Physics, and the Perpetuum Mobile

By Germar Rudolf

Nick Cook, The Hunt for Zero Point, Century/Random House, London 2001

An Introduction into the Topic

For certain book reviews one must give an explanation and justification in order not to be misunderstood or put in a false light. The review of the book in question here is one of them, because in this book history is only a byproduct, the main concern being revolutionary energy technologies. The historical background falls in the era of the Third Reich and deals with secret weapons research in Germany.

Cook's book is about the suppression of revolutionary physical and technical discoveries by powerful interested parties, which would entail the revision of current knowledge.

A Personal Introduction

In 1989, I came across a German magazine named Code - now discontinued-which contained a long article on flying saucers supposedly developed by the Third Reich, containing authentic appearing cross-section construction drawings of flying saucers named Haunebu. The article was impressive, but it suffered from the major drawback that it did not contain any references to primary sources or to scientific or technical literature which might have enabled the reader to examine the claims more closely. When I inquired at Diagnosen Verlag, the publisher of Code, I received an answer from the author of the article that did not refer to any primary documents or archives nor to any technical or scientific literature, but merely asserted that one could understand the former German wonder technology only by means of an esoteric frame of mind. My own half-year lasting excursion into esoterics, however, had convinced me that believers in the idea of Third Reich flying saucers were essentially devotees of a religion who wanted to believe rather than wanted to know, and who used a few photographs and construction plans as devotional objects.

In 1993, shortly after my house was searched for the first time by the German Thought Police, I came in contact with a person who subscribed to this religion. He was an ingenuous patriot with little education who held the fixed conviction that the earth was hollow and that the Third Reich and its flying saucers had survived in the interior and was waiting for the right time to return and to liberate Germany. My attempts to explain to him that there were good static and tectonic reasons why the earth could not be hollow were useless - he wanted to believe.

In 1996, during my short exile in Spain, I became acquainted with a German war veteran who was not highly educated, but who had acquired broad, though not very deep scientific knowledge as a former librarian of a scientific library. He professed a comparable belief, namely that the moon was really hollow and inhabited. A little later he even published a book on the subject.

At the beginning of 2000, I received a book manuscript for publication in which the thesis of the hollow earth and a base for Third Reich flying saucers was set out. The entrance to this base was supposedly in Neuschwabenland (New Swabia), a place in Antarctica which had been explored and mapped by a German research team in 1938. When I enquired with the author whether he had any scientific or technical evidence for this base in the Antarctic, such as satellite photos, he sent me what was supposedly a satellite photo of Antarctica showing a hole several hundred kilometers wide with vertical walls many tens of kilometers deep. Aside from the problem that such a deep hole would break the earth's crust and expose liquid magma, there was also the problem that vertical walls of several tens of kilometers high would be statically instable and would doubtlessly collapse, causing earthquakes and volcanic activity such as would be caused by the impact of a giant meteor. That would be the end of all higher life forms on earth.

Why do I discuss this here? The reason is that handling the subject matter discussed in this book necessarily involves a delicate course of enquiry that can easily end in a plunge into the above-mentioned spiritual and social bottomless pits. Nick Cook's book is full of references to his own anxiety and the anxiety of many of the technical people and scientists he contacted that they would be painted as dreamers and idiots by their colleagues and the media if they let themselves become involved in investigations into a tabooed area of science that had acquired a very unsavory reputation due to its historical origins and connection with political fringe groups.

Who is Nick Cook?

In order to forestall the impression that I have gone crazy and lost contact with reality, I introduce the author of the book, which by the way is published not by a hole-in-the-wall publisher, but by one of the most well-known publishing houses in England.

For 15 years or more, Nick Cook, now 42, has written articles on the newest developments in the weapons industry, with emphasis on aeronautics. He is advisor to the worldwide leading journal for weapons and weapon systems Jane's Defence Weekly and editor of the air weapons section of that journal. His articles also appear in many of the larger British magazines, and his commentaries on weapons development and security issues are broadcasted by the large TV companies of the world. He is considered one of the world's foremost experts in the area of military aeronautics.

The English-language science program Discovery Channel broadcasted a two-hour report on the subject covered in this book, written and presented by Cook, in which he introduced the audience into secrets of the US weapons industry of which he had received knowledge or just made educated assumptions.

Cook was educated at Eaton and has received a degree in Arabic and Islamic studies. The author's lack of scientific training is the weakest point of this book, for it leads him to some obvious errors and misunderstandings, which undermines his competence. It is also irritating that Cook does not make any references to source literature, but attempts to allay the reader's skepticism with a bibliography only. However, a search of the Internet showed that this bibliography, short though it may be, should be a good starting point for investigation of the subject.

A Journey Through Time and Space

Nearly 10 years ago, Nick Cook found a journal article by M. Gladych, dating from 1956, at his workplace at Jane's Defence Weekly, which reported on the advanced state of development of gravity motors that would make possible nearly effortless travel and transport based on a technology which suspended the effects of gravity . Nothing has come of this, as we all know. Cook was bothered by the article: who had put it on his work desk and why?

Two BAe Military Aircraft Division's concepts for air vehicles employing anti-gravity [1] Doesn't this look too familiar?

German Physics

After Cook received an experimental demonstration of 'revisionist' physics that convinced him that he was dealing with serious research, he took up again the pursuit of physics in the Third Reich, which, he believed, would bring him to the origin of the new 'revisionist' physics.




Cook's reports on secret weapons research in the Third Reich are, as one might expect in the contemporary climate of opinion, colored with the usual polemic about the 'Empire of Evil,' but one should ignore it. The most interesting part of his investigation brought him into contact with the son of Viktor Schauberger, whose practical researches led to a number of revolutionary technologies, none of which were developed to the point of practical usefulness. Toward the end of the war, Schauberger collaborated on the development of German flying saucers.

It is true that Schauberger was brought to America at the end of the war by Operation Paperclip, a program to kidnap leading German scientists and to bring them to the USA, but due to his age he had little success in the replication of his research -  that, at least, is the official version.

A test stand for flying saucers in Ludwigsdorf, Silesia?

At the suggestion of a Polish researcher, Cook journeyed to Silesia and inspected a secret research facility whose purpose is now a mystery. Cook speculated on the basis of information he had collected that the site could have been a test stand for a prototype gravity-drive flying saucer.

Cook discusses briefly the desperate research conducted by the Third Reich in remote hideaways of science in the face of extremely limited resources in order to find technical solutions to their military problems. This despair had as one result that researchers were allowed to deviate from the accepted theories and to penetrate into areas deemed impossible by established physics.

According to Cook, the Germans may have succeeded in developing a technology for screening gravity and maybe even for tapping zero point energy, without being entirely aware of the theoretical basis. Cook is effusively shocked at the possibility that the Third Reich, the 'Empire of Evil,' may have been at the threshold of getting access to unlimited energy resources and transport methods, based apparently on the victory of quantum theory over relativity theory, the victory of applied research over theoretical science, or, as Cook puts it, the victory of 'German physics' over 'Jewish physics,' as it was then polemically called in the Third Reich. What a horror that would have been, indeed!

... But They Hover After All!

Podkletnov has returned to Finland and has recently published an article in which he reports on successful experiments on the generation of gravity beams.[6]

He told Cook in a conversation that he had also succeeded in completely screening gravity from objects, thus enabling them to hover.

It appears that this technology has reached a point where practical applications are possible. Thus, Ning Li, who has done research for NASA at the University of Huntsville, Alabama, has withdrawn from the physics faculty of the University of Huntsville in order to devote herself to applying the results of her research to practical purposes. Cook stated that Podkletnov had received an offer from Toshiba to make his research results commercially useful.

Of course, there are many hangers-on involved here because this area of physics is new and little understood, it is difficult not just for the layman, but also for the technical specialist, to distinguish between serious research and charlatanry (see illustration). It should be kept in mind that specious promises of costless energy should not be lightly believed.

Reactions

During a telephone conversation, Nick Cook told me what the reactions to his latest book were, which has become a bestseller in England. The book was favorably reviewed in the English daily newspaper The Guardian, in the science magazine New Scientist, and in a number of smaller English daily newspapers. Cook's colleagues at Jane's Defence Weekly were thoroughly approving of his work, and some of them congratulated him on its success. The reaction from the aeronautics and weapons industries was divided. While some rejected his main thesis of the emergence of a new physics, others thanked him for having opened their eyes. The 'scientific community' was also divided. Some of them dismissed Cook's work as nonsense, while others were grateful that he had popularized this interesting and controversial theme and had rescued it from oblivion. The most negative reaction came from a UFO researcher who called Cook a "neo-Nazi" because he said the historical origin of flying saucer technology was in the Third Reich. (UFO researchers want to believe in little green men.) This label is utter nonsense because Nick Cook's opinion of the Third Reich is, as has been stated, distinctly negative.

Nick Cook stated:

"It would be a mistake to disregard the research in Germany in the 1930s and 1940s just because it was done in the Third Reich. This kind of suppression of facts would be unscientific and would be just as bad as the suppression of facts that happened during that era."

So it may turn out that not only Otto, Diesel, Wankel, Jet and Rocket motors were invented in Germany, but also gravity motors - Nazis or no Nazis.

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Notes

First published in Vierteljahreshefte für freie Geschichtsforschung, 5(4) (2001); translated by Michael Humphrey.

 [1] www.aeronautics.ru/archive/gravity/gravitsapa.htm.

[2] Cf. the article in Wired, 6(3) (March 1998); www.wired.com/wired/archive/6.03/antigravity.html.

[3] Evgeny Podkletnov and R. Niemanen: "A Possibility of Gravitational Force Shielding by Bulk YBa2Cu3O7-x Superconductors", Physica C 203 (1992)

[4] Cf. Ning Li and D.G. Torr: "Effects of a Gravitomagnetic Field on Pure Superconductors", Physical Review D, (1991); Ning Li, D. Noever et. al.: "Static Test for a Gravitational Force Coupled to Type II YBCO Super-conductors", Physica C, 281 (1997).

[5] The information given at the website http://www.teslaelectric.com/ is so paltry and concentrates so much on advertising that it does not seem to be worthwhile.

[6] Evgeny Podkletnov, Giovanni Modanese, "Impulse Gravity Generator Based Y Ba2Cu3O7-y Superconductor with Composite Crystal Structure", http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/physics/0108005.

Zero Point Decoded A review of Nick Cook’s The Hunt for Zero Point by Colin Bennett I think certainly that the Hunt For Zero Point is a great book indeed despite its faults, a few of which are sadly, more than superficial. As Jack Sarfatti has pointed out, the references to a Nazi laser in 1945 is surely over the top. Nick Cook in his e-mail to me says that he meant a “directed energy weapon” and not a laser in the modern sense.   It does indeed appear preposterous of course for the 1940's with The Third Reich crumbling having access to a science at least 30 - 50 years ahead of its time barring some neo-Nazis coming back from the future and giving Kammler and the other monsters some future technology. . I myself have studied the Nazi military resource spectrum (specializing in armour and aircraft) for twenty-five years and I can find no hint that the kind of resources described in The Hunt For Zero Point were available to any one at all in the last years of World War 2. That is unless what Cook describes consists of hurried and confused misinterpretations of conventional experimentation. There were many lurid and spurious tales spun after the War by starving people anxious for a handout and a paid-for passage to America courtesy of the CIA via Operation Paperclip. To do big expensive things in Nazi Germany as described by Cook, you had to have the backing of two people: Albert Speer, the Industrial and Armaments Minister, and/or Himmler, the Head of the SS. Göring might have made a third power base, but after Stalingrad, he lived in semi-retirement at Karinhall. Given Speer’s ego, and streak of organizational genius (he was within historical hours of being head of IBM but was jailed as a token sacrifice), he would have told of every move in the book if only for the money and the attention he would have got. He was not SS, but Waffen SS resources alone, given their total battle commitment, would not have been sufficient. There was a desperate shortage of money, both before and during the War [see I paid Hitler by Fritz Thyssen and When Nazi Dreams Come True by Robert Herzstein]. This is just one of the reasons why the Auschwitz-Birkenau slave labour complex was made into a Joint Stock Limited Company with shares! Nazi Germany was very much a capitalist state, and the money flow (which I have studied extensively) was of vital importance, if only because the country was not trading, and never did trade, not even before the War. The money that could have been made from world exports of the Volkswagen saloon car alone would have been considerable, but the elitist Nazis only made a few hundred for their staff and officials. Through not taking such opportunities (for racially-motivated political reasons) it could be said that between 1933 and 1945 Germany was technically bankrupt and suffered from hyperinflation. It lived off slave labour and what it could steal. Another problem was the native German tendency to bureaucracy. The Gauleiters of each separate “racially colonised” area (such as Danzig) were worse bureaucrats than the Communists. Not a lorry or cart could move without many kinds of complicated documentation.   The Allgemeine SS (General SS) officials were even worse. Like the Soviet Commissars, this low-level (and most corrupt) Party apparatus blocked anything anyway which way. The result was that the Nazi State was bleeding to death by 1944. As Heisenberg himself said, you could not move a lorry without moving through stacks of documentation. Otto Skorzeny said that his proposed V4 kamikaze (piloted suicide version of V1) scheme collapsed because no fuel was available. The Ardennes campaign (the last big offensive in the West) was stalled for the same reason. Thinking that complex, sophisticated and very expensive experiments were conducted in this atmosphere in total secrecy is somewhat optimistic, particularly since the fantastic experiments and devices Cook describes in the main were not directly applicable to the battlefield. Ex-corporal Hitler was a tactical thinker. He wanted instant bangs for not many bucks. The dreadful Himmler was much more imaginative, ready to believe and give permission for the wildest of technological adventures. But William Manchester in his exhaustive The Arms of Krupp gives no hint of exotic technologies as described by Cook, and neither does Josef Garlinski in his equally definitive Hitler’s Secret Weapons. We must remember that Hitler was quite an Intelligence asset. He tended to boast publicly of super-technologies and super weapons, all of which were fully propagandised by Göbbels. But at no time did he boast of the kind of things Nick Cook is talking about. Yes, Hitler largely ignored the nuclear experiments, but that was because (it was said by Walter Schellenberg in Hitler’s Table Talk) Hitler did not understand the abstract processes involved, or the “Jewish” principles upon which (he declared) they were based. Yet as Cook points out, there are clues within clues. The ex-Nazi spy chief Gehlen (turned round by Bill Donavan’s OSS) talks momentarily about post-war reports of “motorless aircraft,” and there are the remarkable statements made by von Braun published in Timothy Good’s Above Top Secret. There are also other statements supporting Cook made by hundreds of reconstructed Nazis who were to hold top positions in post-war American air and space industry, courtesy of Operation Paperclip. But as Cook demonstrates, the schizophrenic state of the Nazi mind has never to be underestimated. Despite the conditions previously described, they went often against every single rule in the book. The result of this was that at one end of the scale of absurdity they produced the ridiculous 100-ton Maus tank, which could hardly move under its own power, and also the quarter-mile long V3 pump gun (which fertilised the mind of the assassinated Gerald Bull). More effectively, they produced the Me. 262 jet fighter, and their abandoned wind tunnels contained perfect models of F-16 shapes. The hundreds of prototypes found on blueprints alone were going towards Startrek territory [see Luftwaffe Secret Projects by Schick and Meyer]. It must be borne in mind that the Stealth B-2 Spirit bomber is derived directly from the Horten Brothers flying-wing twinjet prototypes (such as the unbelievably advanced HO IX) found abandoned in German workshops in 1945. But they all show conventional power plants. As regards a high level of physics experiments, Samuel Goudschmit’s almost forgotten book Alsos (written in 1945, and published in 1996 as a reprint by the American Institute of Physics) is certainly one the best books on Nazi physics available, to join those books from Ronald Lewin (Ultra), R.V. Jones (Most Secret War), and Alfred Price (Instruments of Darkness). Goudschmit was head of a secret U.S. mission to investigate the state of German experimental physics in 1945. Cook mentions the book in passing as regards the post-war interrogation of Viktor Schauberger, whose vortex technology is discussed extensively by Cook in terms of the work of Callum Coates and Hal Puthoff as regards Zero Point Energy. Alsos goes right back to a racist tradition in physics (Lenard, for example and Stark, who called Heisenberg a “white Jew” for the latter’s defence of Relativity Theory), and includes a detailed description of Heisenberg’s close relations with Himmler, to whom he was related. Alsos shows pictures of the Nazi nuclear reactor at Heigeloch being taken apart piece by piece. Fortunately, whilst in Nazi hands the pile did not go into fission. Goudschmit made another fascinating find in the basement of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin. There stood a complete pile-frame (better than the one later built by Fermi in the famous under the football stadium in Chicago on an abandoned squash court.) ready to be stacked with pressed uranium-oxide cubes that stood nearby. The very best physicists and engineers in Germany worked under Heisenberg on the nuclear project, and they were very thoroughly debriefed after the War. These papers are available, but they contain nothing about the matters Cook talks about. Of course many high level German military folk were captured and made prisoners of war at Trent Park in Britain (in Seigfried Sassoon’s country mansion, where I was once a lecturer for Middlesex University). Dennis Felkin the Intelligence officer in charge had all their rooms bugged. There was one whispered mention of secret weapons yes, but it was thought to refer to the V weapons and nothing exotic. For those connoisseurs of coincidence, the profoundly UFO-sceptical Goudschmit served on the Robertson Committee apparently under protest. Yes there are many mistakes in basic physics, and as I re-read, I find new ones turning up. However, like Corso’s The Day After Roswell, Nick Cook’s The Hunt For Zero Point is one of those books that is difficult to dismiss, nevertheless. I get the Intelligence agent’s old-soldier feeling that no matter how many mistakes are uncovered, a book like this not to be judged by the number of mistakes that can be counted. Like most “whistle-blowing” books, there is revealed labyrinth within labyrinth. Therefore as far as a reviewer is concerned, such books as these are greased pigs. They are difficult to catch. As with Alice in Wonderland, a straight discursive review is hardly possible. Even the simple descriptive review is difficult. Cook leads a first reader up so many garden paths, that at times, lost in a welter of clues within clues, one suspects that Cook is action painting more than anything else. A first impression might well be that like Picasso and Dali indeed, he is stringing a series of well-developed image-arrays strung on a line like a whore’s laundry. Von Däniken and other writers have done this for many years, but when I read the book again after two years, I began to get a better idea of its nature. I found that there was a complete signal running through that unlocks it. The book has a rhythm: it varies from almost total absurdity (1945 lasers) on the one hand, then back to what is verifiable (Stealth technology) on the other. The author repeats this carrier signal time and time again. It carries as it were all his modulations. This is the key to the book. We go from almost no-knowledge to partial knowledge and then back again. The pattern is repeated throughout. Once this signal is detected, the book opens out like Chinese dried flower dropped into a glass. In the range between the peaks and lows of these two signals, Cook cleverly exploits a wide range of modern pressure points. The ghosts of many men and machines appear, often lost as prehistoric species of old experimental endeavors of which we have only a few bones to ponder on. We have the vortex machines of Viktor Schauberger, the “flying saucers” of Rudolf Schriever, and the work of Townsend Brown and Podkletnov. The ghosts of many men, machines, and old Nazi projects emerge as if from Night of the Living Dead. Seen through the eyes of Cook, history becomes a grey scale of claims and counter-claims representing an unstable and anarchic view of technology and endeavour in which nothing is certain. The size and complexity of utterly fantastic claims of one sort or another involving would-be super-technologies are as equally fantastic as the men and the machines themselves. A certain Dr. Paul A. LaViolette, for example  says that the B-2 Spirit Stealth bomber is powered by an “electrogravitic drive system” instead of four General Electric F118-GE-100 engines described in its general specification sheets. The USAF would of course deny LaViolette’s claim, but then if Cook’s book tells us anything at all, it is that official denials have a somewhat chequered history.   Certainly, the critical “solution” to this important book is to evaluate it in terms of what has emerged over the past forty years as a powerful new genre: factional intellectual eroticism. This genre was pioneered by the classic Morning of the Magicians by Jacques Bergier and Louis Pauwels. Though The Hunt For Zero Point is far less complex and lacks such sophistication, if we get a tenth out of it as much as past generations got out of The Morning of the Magicians then the read will have been more than worthwhile. It certainly sets off many a tantalizing hare chase. Like Bergier and Pauwels Cook is a brilliant metaphysical dramatist. He has vision, a most rare thing, and there are some indeed who would argue that such an octave of almost-events as expressed by The Hunt for Zero Point induces a far superior way of coming to knowledge than the “facts” of a particular situation. We don’t need to be told by Pre-Raphaelites or the ghost of Borges that “realism” in Literature and History, Media and the Arts is a very approximate and suspect thing. Like Picasso and Dali, again, the vision of any creator, whether in Arts or Science, distorts common perceptions in order to gain insights into inner structure of time and mind. We therefore have to make the rather uncomfortable assumption that such inventors as described by Cook are as fantastic as their machines. This appears to be Cook’s Law – that the disturbances within the inventors (and they are all brilliantly disturbed, as are most inventors) make the machines work. Further, what they have given birth to is so intimately involved with their personality that when that personality dies, then some metaphor is no longer triggered within the advertising construct within the machines, and the machines die like the men who made them. Therefore we may have to throw overboard the two-state click of astronaut-talk involved in absolute “yes and no” assumptions, and prepare to consider an intermediate state in which a machine works partially for a limited period of their inventor’s vital inspirations. Certainly we accept readily that a wide range of microcosmic particles exist for a very limited time, and we may have we have here the macrocosmic equivalent in what might be termed a Cook Machine. This is a highly unstable device built of rumour and suggestions, mythology and folklore, a device glimpsed through historical twilight like Bigfoot and Mothman. Author/Iinvestigator, Igor Witkowski found a circular concrete frame structure near the Ludwikowice K³odzkie coal mine, where he believes German saucers were tested, and identified it as a test stand for VTOL vehicles, due to similarity to present stands for testing helicopters (called "fly catchers") - proving to him beyond all doubts that the Germans had Vrils discs.   It was quickly discovered that the structure is in fact a lower part of a steam cooler from a local power plant (there's even a photo showing it complete) - but Witkowski completely ignored the fact and continued to present it as a VTOL testing stand.   Such machines as Cook describes operate on that knife-edge of suggestion called media. In this sense, the decisions of Commissar-like overseers of fact and fiction are in no way relevant to a society soaked in media such as our own. They belong to a passing world of clear and separate processes within both science and technology, where chains of ideological causation are both tangible and visible within the product-manufacturing links and the research spectrum. This was a world where “objective truth” in the mechanical sense could be reached by piling factual sand grain upon factual sand grain and equating the dangerously unstable pile to what is commonly perceived as “reality.” This late industrial process (essentially pre-quantum, pre-media) relates to a time when a citizen could be seen clearly in terms of understandable mythology within landscapes of Western time past and time present. Now more or less, he is a viewer, not a participant, and he is engaged in a game show of audience participation of which the unique phenomenology of banned and denied events, thoughts, and indeed whole cultures, such as ufology, is prominent. We are now beginning to look upon the deterministic “reality” of the mechanical engineer as a mediaeval friar looked upon the Ancient World. The greatest compliment Cook can be paid is that within a vision of half a century, he enters the interstices of seeing and cognition to introduce new laws of anomalistic perception regarding machines, ideas, and the men who create both. Good books about the ideological and socio-historical aspects of exotic technologies are rare indeed. Cook has given us a phenomenology of the fabric and texture of atmospheres, journeys, and characters, invaluable for insights into the psychology of anomalies and their ufological substrata. As such, The Hunt for Zero Point is pure media.

The Mysterious TR-3B - Govt UFO   Editor's Note: This reprint of the TR-3B specifications claim is based on information generally credited to Edgar Fouche, who claimed involvement with this project in the 1990's. We make no claims about whether this is factually accurate or not, but this story becomes more interesting as time progresses. What was originally considered to be a "wacky UFO-claim" seems to be the benefactor of a great deal of coincidence as AG research moves forward.   Simply put, the TR-3B's claim to use an MHD torus filled with a "virtual plasma" of high-pressure mercury is strikingly similar to the unrelated claims of Igor Witkoski about the construction of the Nazi Bell device, as well as anecdotal evidence relating to other instances of AG-effects in mercury in the presence of RF-fields. Additionally, a plasma-toroid is the only means of replicating some aspects of Eugene Podkletnov's superconductor experiments on a larger scale than achievable through traditional Type-II ceramic superconductors (plasma's and SC's both absorb magnetic field lines). It should be noted that none of the invidividuals in any of these claims were aware of each other's existence when they published their work, making the similarities quite striking... The tactical reconnaissance TR-3B's (code-named Astra) first operational flight was in the early 90s. The triangular shaped nuclear powered aerospace platform was developed under the Top Secret, Aurora Program with SDI and black budget monies. At least 3 of the billion dollar plus TR-3Bs were flying by 1994. The Aurora is the most classified aerospace development program in existence. The TR-3B is the most exotic vehicle created by the Aurora Program. It is funded and operationally tasked by the National Reconnaissance Office, the NSA, and the CIA. The TR-3B flying triangle is not fiction and was built with technology available in the mid 80s.Not every UFO spotted is one of theirs.   The TR-3B vehicle’s outer coating is reactive to electrical Radar stimulation and can change reflectiveness, radar absorptiveness,and color. This polymer skin, when used in conjunction with the TR-3Bs Electronic Counter Measures and, ECCM, can make the vehicle look like a small aircraft, or a flying cylinder--or even trick radar receivers into falsely detecting a variety of aircraft, no aircraft, or several aircraft at various locations.A circular, plasma filled accelerator ring called the Magnetic Field Disrupter, surrounds the rotatable crew compartment and is far ahead of any imaginable technology.   Sandia and Livermore laboratories developed the reverse engineered MFD technology. The government will go to any lengths to protect this technology. The plasma, mercury based, is pressurized at 250,000 atmospheres at a temperature of 150 degrees Kelvin and accelerated to 50,000 rpm to create a super-conductive plasma with the resulting gravity disruption. The MFD generates a magnetic vortex field, which disrupts or neutralizes the effects of gravity on mass within proximity, by 89 percent. Do not misunderstand. This is not antigravity. Anti-gravity provides a repulsive force that can be used for propulsion. The MFD creates a disruption of the Earth's gravitational field upon the mass within the circular accelerator. The mass of the circular accelerator and all mass within the accelerator, such as the crew capsule, avionics, MFD systems, fuels, crew environmental systems, and the nuclear reactor, are reduced by 89%.This causes the effect of making the vehicle extremely light and able to outperform and outmaneuver any craft yet constructed--except, of course, those UFOs we did not build.   The TR-3B is a high altitude, stealth, reconnaissance platform with an indefinite loiter time. Once you get it up there at speed, it doesn’t take much propulsion to maintain altitude. At Groom Lake their have been whispered rumours of a new element that acts as a catalyst to the plasma. With the vehicle mass reduced by 89%, the craft can travel at Mach 9, vertically or horizontally. My sources say the performance is limited only by  the stresses that the human pilots can endure. Which is a lot, really, considering along with the 89% reduction in mass, the G forces are also reduced by 89%. The TR-3Bs propulsion is provided by 3 multimode thrusters mounted at each bottom corner of the triangular platform. The TR-3 is a sub-Mach 9 vehicle until it reaches altitudes above l20,000 feet--then God knows how fast it can go! The 3 multimode rocket engines mounted under each corner of the craft use hydrogen or methane and oxygen as a propellant.In a liquid oxygen/hydrogen rocket system, 85% of the propellant mass is oxygen. The nuclear thermal rocket engine uses a hydrogen propellant, augmented with oxygen for additional thrust. The reactor heats the liquid hydrogen and injects liquid oxygen in the supersonic nozzle, so that the hydrogen burns concurrently in the liquid oxygen afterburner. The multimode propulsion system can; operate in the atmosphere, with thrust provided by the nuclear reactor, in the upper atmosphere, with hydrogen propulsion, and in orbit, with the combined hydrogen oxygen propulsion.   What you have to remember is, that the 3 rocket engines only have to propel 11 percent of the mass of the Top Secret TR-3B. The engines are reportedly built by Rockwell. Many sightings of triangular UFOs are not alien vehicles but the top secret TR-3B. The NSA, NRO, CIA, and USAF have been playing a shell game with aircraft nomenclature - creating the TR-3, modified to the TR-3A, the TR-3B, and the Teir 2, 3, and 4, with suffixes like Plus or Minus added on to confuse further the fact that each of these designators is a different aircraft and not the same aerospace vehicle. A TR-3B is as different from a TR-3A as a banana is from a grape. Some of these vehicles are manned and others are unmanned. Source: American Antigravity