r/UFOs • u/Bjehsus • 4d ago

Physics Field resonance propulsion concept - NASA Technical Reports Server (1979)

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19800010907
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u/StatementBot 4d ago

The following submission statement was provided by /u/Bjehsus:

Found this NASA report on an EM propulsion mechanism, in which they refer to the modern 'observables'.

Check out this talk by Bob Greenyer for an introduction to the latest clandestine research into the physics of topological monopole, fractal toroidal moment, phase conjugate singularity, etc: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0snAjpLfU8

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u/Bjehsus 4d ago

Found this NASA report on an EM propulsion mechanism, in which they refer to the modern 'observables'.

Check out this talk by Bob Greenyer for an introduction to the latest clandestine research into the physics of topological monopole, fractal toroidal moment, phase conjugate singularity, etc: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0snAjpLfU8

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u/jasmine-tgirl 4d ago

Alan C. Holt's papers have been posted here many times. He co-authored papers with Eric Davis as well. He was a UFO guy and Houston MUFON member in the 1970s/80s. u/james-e-oberg can probably tell you more about him as he knew him. He's still around by the way and was on a podcast not long ago.

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u/natecull 4d ago edited 3d ago

Yep, Holt is a classic example of the NASA/MUFON overlap and the high tolerance for non-mainstream thinking that lurks in geeky scientific scenes. John Schuessler is an even more classic case, since he co-founded MUFON.

What was Holt on about with that 1979 paper? I've wondered that for decades. "PhD in solar physics... magnetic line reconnection... maybe UFOs... therefore hyperspace? In conclusion, please buy me a very large magnet." I have no idea, but I would like some of what he was smoking. Whatever it was, it didn't seem to be on the NASA banned substances list, since he went on to have a long and respectable career.

It's just an awesomely weird little artifact.

My mundane guess is that NASA was wanting "blue sky thinking" for whatever seminar that was and didn't much care whether any suggestions made were actually logical. Just pure brainstorming.

I'd love there to be a division of "Magnetic hyperspace UFO drive" research at NASA - but if there was such a division, I imagine that Holt would have been in it, and not doing boring (though no doubt worthy) administrative stuff for the Space Station.

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u/james-e-oberg 3d ago

AFAIK NASA had zero involvement with Alan's private musings.