Thomas Townsend Brown

Thomas Townsend Brown ( born March 18, 1905 in Zanesville, Ohio; † 22 October 1985 in Avalon, California ) was an American physicist and UFO researcher.

Life

Brown came from a wealthy family from Zanesville, Ohio. He discovered in 1921 during his college years in experiments with an X-ray tube the Biefeld -Brown effect. The name was given Brown's discovery, having him be a physics professor Paul Alfred Biefeld at the Denison University in Granville, Ohio, in 1923 encourages them to continue his research. Previously, Brown had in 1922, studied at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California, and in 1923 for a short time at the Kenyon College Gambier, Ohio.

After graduating Brown worked from 1926 to 1930 at the Warner and Swasey Observatory in East Cleveland, Ohio, which was led at that time by Biefeld. From 1930 he worked for the United States Naval Research Laboratory. Brown participated in 1932 at the International Gravity Expedition United States Department of the Navy to the West Indies and in 1933, headed by Paul Bartsch first Johnson - Smithsonian deep-sea expedition in part. He was then reservist of the United States Navy and worked from 1939 at the Glenn L. Martin Company as engineer. 1940 Brown was added to the National Defense Research Committee. From 1941 he worked for the Office of Scientific Research and Development. In 1942, he led the training at the Radar School of Naval Station Norfolk. His name is mentioned in connection with the so-called Philadelphia Experiment.

The lack of scientific recognition for his research as well as the overloading for his work in December 1943 led to a nervous breakdown Browns, after which he was retired on the recommendation of the Navy doctors in early 1944. He then worked for several years as a radar consultant at the Lockheed -Vega Aircraft Corporation. 1952 first moved to Hawaii, and in the same year to Cleveland and worked as in previous years, some further in the " Gravitator ", the technical implementation of Biefeld -Brown effect. Through his continued research activity which he financed largely self, he had managed to increase the effect of the effect so far that the apparatus could lift more than its own weight.

1953 Brown managed to let fly in a laboratory plant on a round diameter of six meters one of his " air foils ". The apparatus was then connected via a wire to a mast and is thus supplied with the necessary operating voltage of 50 kV. The required power was 50 watts, the top speed of the apparatus at nearly 185 km / h

Brown left in 1955 due to lack of sponsors, recognition on the part of science as well as interested parties from politics and industry disappointed the United States and settled down first in England and then in France. After initial successes and improvements, as well as several performances in Europe, the French company merged SNCASO, when Brown was working at that time, in March 1957 with SNCASE the company Sud Aviation. The new management took a change in the orientation of research and stressed the funds for Brown's project.

Brown had returned at this time to the U.S. and was in Washington, DC the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena ( NICAP ) founded on 24 October 1956. He was firmly convinced of being able to provide for his research provide evidence of the possibility of the existence of UFOs. These views made ​​for little acceptance in the circles of established scientists who rejected his UFO research. However, Brown found support at Agnew Hunter Bahnson Jr., chairman of the Bahnson Company of Winston- Salem, North Carolina. There, Brown was able to continue his anti -gravity investigations in the framework of a research project. After the death of his friend and patron, who was killed in 1964 with his private plane, the project of his descendants has been set, however.

Brown had in 1958 also with starting a company, the Rand International Limited, tries. Despite numerous patents in the U.S. and abroad him and his Gravitator was not a success. In the early 1960s he took for a short time a job as a physicist at the company Electro Kinetics Inc. in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, at. In the 1970s, he was particularly interested in electricity for rock (rock electricity ).

Brown led his flying metal discs before at irregular intervals among other things, at NASA and pursued his private studies in California at the University of California, Berkeley, and at California State University, Los Angeles, until shortly before his death in 1985.