Gary Gochnour plasma aircraft patent
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Contents 7
| Date | 18 May 2006 |
|---|---|
| Topics | Propulsion & physics (topic) |
| People | Gary Gochnour |
| Testimony | Shellenberger testimony, p. 162 |
| Year | 2006 in UFO history |
| Timeline | 2006 on the UAP Timeline |
| Sources | 8 |
Gary Gochnour, an Army veteran and independent inventor, filed a series of U.S. patent applications from the mid-2000s for plasma-powered craft whose drawings resemble classic flying saucers. One of them, for a "tubular shaped interstellar space craft", was granted as Patent 8,109,471 in 2012.[1][2]
The 2005 application
Gochnour's application US 2006/0102795, filed on 25 May 2005 and published on 18 May 2006, was titled "Fusion energy system and plasma propulsion aircraft to produce electricity from a controlled nuclear fusion reaction". It described a multi-purpose electromagnetic, plasma-based aircraft that could fly in the atmosphere, travel underwater or in space, or act as a boring or lifting device, and proposed that three such craft working together could generate electricity by fusing boron-11 and hydrogen. The application was abandoned.[1]
The 2012 patent
The granted patent, filed on 14 November 2008, describes a tubular plasma-based craft held together and driven by magnetic fields, plasma vortices, a capacitor array, a proton accelerator and plasma guns, which the inventor claimed could draw fuel from planetary atmospheres and reach interstellar speeds. It expired because maintenance fees were not paid.[2]
Context
Patents describe ideas, not demonstrated technology, and patent offices do not require proof that an invention works. According to the testimony, Gochnour's 2015 obituary described him as a "space explorer". UFO researchers have pointed to his filings as examples of saucer-like designs in the patent record, sometimes comparing them with the "Tic Tac" object reported by Navy pilots in 2004, but there is no evidence any craft was built.[1][2][3]
People and topics
- Gary Gochnour — Inventor of a patented plasma-based aircraft design.
- Unidentified flying object — An object in the sky that can't be identified; the older term for UAP.
- Federal Bureau of Investigation — The U.S. federal police agency, which helped check flying disc reports from 1947 to 1950.
On the Timeline
- Skunk Works astral projection anecdote (28 April 2006) — Greer claims a Skunk Works engineer described using astral projection.
- BAE Systems executive claim (2006) (27 September 2006) — Kit Green says a BAE Systems executive is involved in the UAP issue.
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References
- US patent application 2006/0102795, Google Patents · patents.google.com · archived copy
- US Patent 8,109,471, Google Patents · patents.google.com · archived copy
- USS Nimitz UFO incident — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Patents by inventor Gary Gochnour — Justia · patents.justia.com · archived copy
- On UFO-like plasma aircraft patents — Medium · medium.com · archived copy
- patentimages.storage.googleapis.com · patentimages.storage.googleapis.com · archived copy
- legacy.com · legacy.com · archived copy
- documents.theblackvault.com · documents.theblackvault.com · archived copy
Further reading
- USS Nimitz UFO incident — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
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