McCandlish documentary account (2014)
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Contents 8
| Date | December 2014 |
|---|---|
| Topics | Beings & bodies (topic), Propulsion & physics (topic) |
| People | Mark McCandlish, Brad Sorensen |
| Testimony | Shellenberger testimony, p. 179 |
| Year | 2014 in UFO history |
| Timeline | 2014 on the UAP Timeline |
| Sources | 9 |
A 2014 documentary, Zero Point: The Story of Mark McCandlish and the Fluxliner, featured aerospace illustrator Mark McCandlish repeating his account that a friend, Brad Sorensen, had seen disc-shaped "Alien Reproduction Vehicles" (ARVs) at a display of secret aircraft at Norton Air Force Base in California in November 1988.[1][2]
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McCandlish was a conceptual artist whose clients included most major U.S. defence contractors, among them General Dynamics, Lockheed, Northrop, McDonnell Douglas, Boeing and Rockwell. He first told the story publicly in testimony recorded for Steven Greer's Disclosure Project in December 2000 and at the project's May 2001 press conference in Washington.[2][3]
The account
In his testimony McCandlish said he had seen a silent light hover over the nuclear-weapons storage area at Westover Air Force Base in 1967 before shooting away. He linked Sorensen's account to experiments in "electrogravitic" levitation using high-voltage capacitor plates, following the Biefeld–Brown effect described by Thomas Townsend Brown. Sorensen, a designer who had become successful in the Glendale–Pasadena area, told him he had been taken to Norton and seen several operational, hovering craft. From Sorensen's description McCandlish drew a detailed cutaway of the "Flux Liner", which he described as using electrogravitic propulsion powered by high-voltage capacitors.[2]
Context
Another Disclosure Project witness, retired Lt. Col. John Williams, said pilots at Norton had long rumoured that a closely held facility there hid a UFO craft. Brown's claims that charged capacitors could produce thrust have never been accepted by mainstream physics.[2][4]
Assessment
The story is second-hand, and Sorensen has not given a detailed public account. McCandlish died in 2021 in circumstances that attracted speculation in some UFO circles. No official record supports the Norton display he described.[1][5]
People and topics
- Mark McCandlish — Aerospace illustrator who drew the alleged "Alien Reproduction Vehicle".
- Norton Air Force Base — A California air base linked to claims of secret aircraft displays.
- Brad Sorensen — Friend of Mark McCandlish who said he saw secret discs at Norton AFB.
- Disclosure Project — Steven Greer's campaign for UFO disclosure, best known for its May 2001 press conference.
- Unidentified flying object — An object in the sky that can't be identified; the older term for UAP.
- Electrogravitics — The claimed link between electricity and gravity promoted by Thomas Townsend Brown.
On the Timeline
- Oechsler on Navy EMP experiments (18 August 2014) — Bob Oechsler links Navy EMP experiments to UAP recoveries.
- Antarctic Navy flight engineer's account (30 January 2015) — A Navy flight engineer says he saw an entrance to an underground site near the South Pole.
See every 2014 event on the UAP Timeline →
References
- "Zero Point: the story of Mark McCandlish and the Fluxliner" (YouTube) · youtu.be · archived copy
- Disclosure Project Briefing Document (2001), Internet Archive (PDF) · archive.org · archived copy
- "Group calls for disclosure of UFO info", ABC News (May 2001) · abcnews.com · archived copy
- Thomas Townsend Brown — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- "The sad and mysterious death of ufologist Mark McCandlish", Giza Death Star (May 2021) · gizadeathstar.com · archived copy
- 'Group calls for disclosure of UFO info' — ABC News (2001) · abcnews.go.com · archived copy
- Greer's Disclosure Project — Patrick Gross · ufology.patrickgross.org · archived copy
- A historian on the Disclosure Project — History News Network · historynewsnetwork.org · archived copy
- Mark McCandlish: the 'Flux Liner' ARV — AltPropulsion · altpropulsion.com · archived copy
Further reading
- Harold E. Puthoff — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Zero-point energy — 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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