Thomas Townsend Brown
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| Type | Person |
|---|---|
| Also known as | Townsend Brown, Brown effect |
| On the Timeline | 5 events, 1952–2001 |
Thomas Townsend Brown (1905–1985) was an American physicist and inventor who claimed that high-voltage capacitors produced a force related to gravity, which became known as the Biefeld–Brown effect. He promoted the idea, called electrogravitics, to the military and aerospace industry for decades.
Assessment
Brown served in the Navy and worked on radar and other research. He was linked to NICAP's founding in 1956. Later experiments, including some in a vacuum, showed his "lifter" effect is caused by ion wind, the movement of charged air, not by any control of gravity. He remains a central figure in stories about secret anti-gravity research.
On the UAP Timeline
- Project Winterhaven (1952) — Physicist Thomas Townsend Brown proposes Project Winterhaven, a military study of electrogravitic propulsion.
- Electrogravitics Systems report (1956) (25 February 1956) — A study of electrogravitics, the link between electricity and gravity, is delivered to Wright-Patterson.
- Veritay propulsion report (1988) (April 1988) — A contractor submits a propulsion report to the Air Force led by Franklin Mead.
- James Cox antigravity classification (1998) (January 1998) — An antigravity newsletter proposes seven possible types of antigravity devices.
- Mark McCandlish and the Alien Reproduction Vehicle (9 May 2001) — Illustrator Mark McCandlish says gravity propulsion was reverse-engineered from recovered craft.
References
- Thomas Townsend Brown — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
This page was last edited on 29 October 2026. Articles are written in our own words from the sources listed under References; disputed claims are attributed to the people who made them.
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