Nazi Saucers and Antigravity
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PSYCHIC VIBRATIONS ROBERT SHEAFFER Nazi Saucers and Antigravity or decades there have been rumors just claims and rumors. Dr. Michael Salla, claims that unrepentant Nazi sympathizers about alleged “Nazi flying saucers,” founder of UFOlogy’s “exopolitics,” gave are secretly and steadily working to create Fsupposedly developed during the a talk on Nazi saucers to the International a Fourth Reich here in the United States. closing days of World War II, too late to UFO Congress in 2005 that was long on So far, this is just a standard paranoid, turn the tide of the war. In some versions wild claims but very short on evidence (see political rant. But Marrs has more interest- of the story, Hitler and some of his top this column, July/August 2005, available ing yarns to spin. He talks about a rumored officers used these saucers to escape to a online at http://tinyurl.com/5g3glp). secret “Nazi bell” (Die Glocke) that may secret base somewhere in the Antarctic, Now the Nazi saucer claims have been have powered the Nazi saucers. The “bell” from which they have been plotting a taken up again, this time by the well- was first written about by UFOlogist Nick comeback to once again try to take over known conspiracy author Jim Marrs. His Cook in his 2001 book, The Hunt for the world. Never has there been anything first conspiracy book was Crossfire: The Zero Point: Inside the Classified World of resembling actual proof of Nazi saucers, Plot That Killed Kennedy. That one was Antigravity Technology. As Marrs explains so successful that he followed it up with in an interview on Earthfiles, “It was sim- Robert Sheaffer is a Committee for several more, claiming conspiracies about ply called the bell because it was kind of Skeptical Inquiry fellow. “Psychic Vibra- extraterrestrials, secret societies, psychic a bell-shaped object. This object had an tions” observes its thirtieth anniversary warfare, 9-11 “truth,” etc. His latest book outer chamber and inner chamber and this year. His Web site is www.debunker. is The Rise of the Fourth Reich, which created electromagnetic energy fields that com SKEPTICAL INQUIRER January / February 2009 13 An artist’s rendition of a Nazi saucer. were set into rotation movement. Then antigravity, etc. According to Cook, the Edwards Air Force Base being broken into one layer would rotate clockwise; the other bell was about twelve feet high and nine in the middle of the night by SWAT-like layer would rotate counter-clockwise. In feet in diameter. It was composed of forces who threatened him with automatic doing this, it increased the power and the two high-speed, counter-rotating cylinders weapons, then he gives us the letdown—it efficiency of this energy field generator. In filled with a purplish, liquid-metallic-look- was just his imagination. He writes that the doing so, there were some very unusual ing substance that was supposed to be Northrop Grum man B-2 stealth bomber properties. Around the bell, plants either highly radioactive, code-named “Xerum is likely powered by an “electrogravitic blossomed and grew, or withered and died; 525.” The scientists and technicians who drive system,” having been assured by an people would die around this thing.” worked on the bell and who did not die aviation expert that the thrust of that air- But that’s not all the bell reportedly of its effects were wiped out by the SS at craft’s engines were insufficient to lift the did. It is supposedly derived from extrater- the close of the war, and the device was B-2 off the ground. Thus, facing a conun- restrial technology and has been associated removed to an unknown location. It may drum similar to the famous-if-apocryphal with time travel, UFO sightings, etc. Marrs have been loaded aboard a Nazi submarine “bumblebee flight problem,” he concludes says, “What seems to have happened in an and taken to a secret base in Antarctica. that the B-2 must employ antigravity early day version of remote viewing, or per- Cook’s The Hunt for Zero Point technology to shed some of its weight in haps what we would call channeling, [the is a classic example of how to spin an order to get off the ground and speculates Nazis] did come in contact with non-hu- exciting yarn based on almost nothing. whether there is a switch somewhere on its man intelligences, which this contact then He visits places where it is rumored that instrument panel to flip over to “antigrav- provided them with clues—if not direct secret UFO and antigravity research ity cruise mode.” knowledge—of technology that was far is going on, such as “Area 51,” and writes The story of the Nazi bell has been beyond what the Allies were able to come about what he feels and imagines, although taken up in a big way by American up with.” he discovers nothing more tangible than Antigravity (AAG), a group dedicated “The bell” has now become a hot topic unsubstantiated rumors. He tells an to promoting devices and experiments among seekers of “Zero Point” free energy, exciting story about his hotel room near that supposedly demonstrate antigrav- 14 VOLUME 33, ISSUE 1 SKEPTICAL INQUIRER ity effects. I have earlier written about book costs $17, considerably less than www.enterprisemission.com/Von_Braun American Antigravity’s “lifters”—devices Wit kowski’s, and is a bargain since each are .htm). However, the U.S. government that unquestionably do rise into the air (see equally vacuous when it comes to proving ordered an “immediate cover-up” of this my “Levity with Lifters,” SI, March/April their speculations. Farrell suggests that the discovery, and Hoagland was the first 2003, available online at http://tinyurl. lack of real evidence for claims about the person in the past fifty years to uncover com/57n3hv). However, they operate bell is because “someone, somewhere, is it. In January of 1959, a Soviet-launched by using electric charges to set up an ion using ‘active measures’ including so-called lunar probe missed the moon completely wind downdraft, require connection to a ‘wet operations’ to maintain the secrecy and went into a solar orbit, also suppos- large external power supply far too heavy surrounding the technology.” Appar ently, edly because of antigravity effects. Two to lift into the air, and will not work in a if you delve too deeply into its secrets, months later, the U.S. launched Pioneer vacuum. someone, somewhere is likely to rub you 4, which also missed the moon. He ties The Nazi bell is being touted by out. Farrell suggests, concerning the this all together with a supposed discov- American Antigravity as “Einstein’s anti- gravity,” because John Dering, a physicist who researches far-out stuff, speculates that “the German WW-II research was intended to create a powerful propul- UFOlogist Nick Cook claims that the scientists sion effect by engineering application of Einstein’s Unified Field Theory (UFT) and technicians who worked on the equations.” This is also said to be linked bell and who did not die of its effects were wiped to the Philadelphia Experiment, an alleged Word War II-era project in which the out by the SS at the close of the war, and the device Navy supposedly rendered a destroyer escort ship invisible and possibly even was removed to an unknown location. teleported it to Norfolk and back. Dering claims to have seen antigravity effects in It may have been loaded aboard a Nazi submarine which mercury fell up in certain unspec- and taken to a secret base in Antarctica. ified industrial machinery, and he specu- lates that the Nazi bell may have operated using mercury as a medium. Igor Witkowski, a Polish journalist specializing in military technology, has Apollo program, that “there may have ery that a swinging Foucault pendulum written a book called Truth about the been a hidden or alternative technology reverses itself during a solar eclipse, defying Wunderwaffe (German “Wonder-Weap- involved in the Lunar Ex cursion Module all known laws of physics (and the eclipse ons”) that was one source for Cook’s (LEM) that got us off the Moon,” since “I need not even be total). Apparently, anti- claims. However, if you want to read these don’t really see the signatures of a rocket gravity forces stopped bothering satellites marvelous revelations, his book will set you taking off from the Moon in those films of launched after about 1960, supposedly back $80 (which, it is suggested on the the LEMs taking off. It doesn’t look like an because Von Braun’s discoveries allowed AAG site, is “certainly worth it.”) acceleration that is geometric enough to be NASA to compensate for them. Joseph P. Farrell, author of The SS a rocket; it just sort of “pops up” and off it As for photos of the Nazi saucers Brotherhood of the Bell, ties in the Nazi bell goes at more or less—it looks to me—like themselves, while for years there were no with the alleged UFO crash in Kecksburg, uniform velocity.” But he admits, “I hav- photos to be seen—only drawings—an Pennsylvania, in December 1965, largely en’t actually done any measurements or entire page of them are now on display because of the reportedly similar shape not [sic] to see if this is the case.” at www.eyepod.org/Nazi-Disc-Photos of each. The alleged Kecksburg “UFO Yet another amazing antigravity claim .html. You can decide for yourself if they crash” has been definitively identified as has just popped up on the Web site came from some recently opened secret the Great Lakes Fireball of December of our friend Richard Hoagland, who Nazi archive or from Photoshop.