Thus, with the driving goal of building an electromagnetically-powered UFO to replace the less-than-spectacular performance of the Coanda-Effect flying disks, Kammler’s scientific team would have already been familiar with Einstein’s work in gravity and would have had a real basis from the published UFT tensor equations to begin rapid experimentation with a new technology for 1940's era anti-gravity!
The New Nazi-Bell In January 2005, I published "Einstein’s Anti-Gravity" as an in-depth overview of the Nazi-Bell device. It was simultaneously one of the best stories that I’ve ever written and also one of the most frustrating. I'd also have to call it the strangest story that I've done for several reasons, not the least of which being that it’s the only serious "conspiracy theory" that I've ever published. I wouldn't have written it if the facts didn't check out. Which makes the story itself just keep getting stranger. Let's start with the basics. My initial exposure to the Nazi-Bell was the same as most people's -- through Nick Cook's "The Hunt for Zero Point". Nick sent me a promo-copy to review before the book was released here in the states. And while I was already familiar with most of the information he had written about, the Bell stood apart as being something that I'd never heard about before even in vague newsgroup rumors. Stories like the Searl Effect Generator or the Podkletnov disk get bandied about online. So it's rare to see a book or TV-show with anything genuinely new, thus making the Bell a rare exception. "American Antigravity" didn't cover news for the first few months that our site was online. But by the time I read "The Hunt for Zero Point", I’d already been doing news on a variety of topics. Despite being intrigued by the Bell story, I didn't want to cover it at the time because it was simply too farfetched to believe. I'd wondered if maybe Nick Cook had fallen victim to a hoax. Despite the excellent description of the device in his book, it just didn't mesh with the technology that I was studying at the time. There have been a few stories that I've sat on waiting for something to break. But the Nazi-Bell was by far the longest in duration (over 2 years) and nobody had mentioned it other than the occasional reference to Nick Cook's research. I think that the problem was that most of us have heard so many WW-II secret-weapons stories that we don't pay attention to new ones or assume that stories like the Bell are simply the result of imaginative Nazi-UFO conspiracy-theorists.
I talked to John almost every day for about 3 months, collecting data the entire time to write a story on the Nazi Bell device. The Bell project that he'd been involved with was related to WWII German research. But the modern replication had been financed by Joe Firmage's ISSO startup for about 1.2 million dollars and wasn't an exact replica of the original device. SARA's version was much smaller, using only about 100 watts. And they had modified the design since they didn't actually know many of the details of the original Bell’s construction. John Dering is the "man who knows too much". As an engineer, most of what he told me rang true. And he had details about not only the physics involved but also most of the engineering challenges that went into building this device. The problem was that whenever I'd ask him where he learned this material, he'd always tell me that it was "common knowledge in the right circles". This might fool the average Joe. But I work with engineers and physicists on a day-to-day basis. And none of them had ever heard of this stuff. The obvious question is how a laser-physicist like John Dering gets interested in anti-gravity in the first place. He told me a story once about his first job that explains it. He had gone to a company to work on mercury-sputtering deposition tool that utilized a flow of mercury-ions from a high-voltage, RF-driven emitter. Dering was called in because of what they’d described as a “device malfunction”. The company indicated that when they shut the device down, the pool of waste-mercury in the bottom of the chamber spontaneously rocketed up to the top of the chamber (4-or-5 pounds worth) and splattered with enough force to destroy the sample being etched. They thought it was an anomaly and after testing the device for pinhole leaks and electrical failures, so did John.
What changed his mind was being called in to repair this same “anomaly” over 3 months at 3 different companies, leading him to realize that it was a repeatable effect creating an anti-gravity force on the mercury. But one that only occurred under rare conditions when the device’s fields collapsed during shutdown. It was repeatable … but not intentionally. Let’s get back to our tale. I mentioned that this story took 3 months to assemble. This is a long time for me. I can usually pen a well-written article in a few days. So 3 months is a "lifetime". Part of the reason for the delay was the background research to make sure that I wasn’t falling victim to a hoax. And the other part was due to Dering himself. The short version is that I believe John Dering is manic-depressive. On his good days, he writes like a madman and has a wonderful memory for details and an even better knack for expressing them in a convincing manner. On his bad days, it’s not even worth talking to him -- one of the hallmark characteristics of manic depression. However, it was worth the effort because he’s a certifiable genius. Over the course of our conversations, I accrued a collection of over 650 email-messages laying out a map to exploiting this technology for gravity-control.
Keep in mind that most of our knowledge about the secret-weapons of World War II originates solely from a single source who wrote a book about it in the 1950s from his experiences during the War. He didn’t know about the Bell and thus it was basically lost from public view. Would History have progressed differently if he’d published details on it later? I’m not sure. But it would have been more tempting than most of the other secret-weapons research that we grabbed in Operation Paperclip.
Anyhow, these projects were financed through different channels and located in areas so remote that even the secret-weapons scientists at Peenemünde didn't know they existed. Only a few managerial types did. One of these was SS General Hans Kammler who apparently had military oversight for the project as well as several other top-secret endeavors. Whatever the Bell actually was at the end of the War, Kammler picked it above all others to take with him into hiding. It's suspected that he may have traded this for asylum in whatever country he landed in. But the fact that he took it was a powerful statement. The Reich had been working on a number of interesting projects including air-breathing Coanda-Effect saucers. Those were burned on the runway to prevent the Allies from taking them. But the Bell was physically removed to Norway via a Junker's transport-plane and then lost to the winds of History.
The construction (a big rotating torus of Mercury excited by RF-currents) is very similar to Edgar Fouche's 1990's description of something called the "TR-3B" which is supposedly a government UFO being tested in Area-51. It's a wacky story but Fouche did have some interesting notables. The first being his claim that the TR-3B doesn't completely negate gravity. It only reduces it by 89%, relying for actual propulsion on jet-engines mounted outside the field perimeter. It's a tough sell. But it's the closest story that I've seen to the original Bell tale in a recent setting.
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Zero Point Decoded
It does indeed appear preposterous of course for the 1940's with The Third Reich crumbling having access to a science at least 30 - 50 years ahead of its time barring some neo-Nazis coming back from the future and giving Kammler and the other monsters some future technology. I myself have studied the Nazi military resource spectrum (specializing in armour and aircraft) for twenty-five years and I can find no hint that the kind of resources described in "The Hunt for Zero Point" were available to any one at all in the last years of World War 2. That is unless what Cook describes consists of hurried and confused misinterpretations of conventional experimentation. There were many lurid and spurious tales spun after the War by starving people anxious for a handout and a paid-for passage to America courtesy of the CIA via Operation Paperclip. To do big expensive things in Nazi Germany as described by Cook, you had to have the backing of two people: Albert Speer, the Industrial and Armaments Minister, and/or Himmler, the Head of the SS. Göring might have made a third power base, but after Stalingrad, he lived in semi-retirement at Karinhall. Given Speer’s ego, and streak of organizational genius (he was within historical hours of being head of IBM but was jailed as a token sacrifice), he would have told of every move in the book if only for the money and the attention he would have got. He was not SS, but Waffen SS resources alone, given their total battle commitment, would not have been sufficient.
There was a desperate shortage of money, both before and during the War [see "I paid Hitler" by Fritz Thyssen and "When Nazi Dreams Come True" by Robert Herzstein]. This is just one of the reasons why the Auschwitz-Birkenau slave labour complex was made into a Joint Stock Limited Company with shares! Nazi Germany was very much a capitalist state, and the money flow (which I have studied extensively) was of vital importance, if only because the country was not trading, and never did trade, not even before the War. The money that could have been made from world exports of the Volkswagen saloon car alone would have been considerable, but the elitist Nazis only made a few hundred for their staff and officials. Through not taking such opportunities (for racially-motivated political reasons) it could be said that between 1933 and 1945 Germany was technically bankrupt and suffered from hyperinflation. It lived off slave labour and what it could steal. Another problem was the native German tendency to bureaucracy. The Gauleiters of each separate “racially colonised” area (such as Danzig) were worse bureaucrats than the Communists. Not a lorry or cart could move without many kinds of complicated documentation.
The Allgemeine SS (General SS) officials were even worse. Like the Soviet Commissars, this low-level (and most corrupt) Party apparatus blocked anything anyway which way. The result was that the Nazi State was bleeding to death by 1944. As Heisenberg himself said, you could not move a lorry without moving through stacks of documentation. Otto Skorzeny said that his proposed V4 Kamikaze (piloted suicide version of V1 - Reichenberg) scheme collapsed because no fuel was available. The Ardennes campaign (the last big offensive in the West) was stalled for the same reason. Thinking that complex, sophisticated and very expensive experiments were conducted in this atmosphere in total secrecy is somewhat optimistic, particularly since the fantastic experiments and devices Cook describes in the main were not directly applicable to the battlefield. Ex-corporal Hitler was a tactical thinker. He wanted instant bangs for not many bucks. The dreadful Himmler was much more imaginative, ready to believe and give permission for the wildest of technological adventures. But William Manchester in his exhaustive "The Arms of Krupp" gives no hint of exotic technologies as described by Cook, and neither does Josef Garlinski in his equally definitive "Hitler’s Secret Weapons". We must remember that Hitler was quite an Intelligence asset. He tended to boast publicly of super-technologies and super weapons, all of which were fully propagandised by Göbbels. But at no time did he boast of the kind of things Nick Cook is talking about.
The ex-Nazi spy chief Reinhard Gehlen (turned round by Bill Donavan’s OSS) talks momentarily about post-war reports of “motorless aircraft,” and there are the remarkable statements made by von Braun published in Timothy Good’s "Above Top Secret". There are also other statements supporting Cook made by hundreds of reconstructed Nazis who were to hold top positions in post-war American air and space industry, courtesy of Operation Paperclip. But as Cook demonstrates, the schizophrenic state of the Nazi mind was never to be underestimated. Despite the conditions previously described, they went often against every single rule in the book. The result of this was that at one end of the scale of absurdity they produced the ridiculous 100-ton Maus tank, which could hardly move under its own power, and also the quarter-mile long V3 pump gun (which fertilised the mind of the assassinated Gerald Bull).
More effectively, they produced the Me 262 jet fighter, and their abandoned wind tunnels contained perfect models of F-16 shapes. The hundreds of prototypes found on blueprints alone were going towards "Star Trek" territory [see "Luftwaffe Secret Projects" by Schick and Meyer]. It must be borne in mind that the Stealth B-2 Spirit bomber is derived directly from the Horten Brothers flying-wing twinjet prototypes (such as the unbelievably advanced HO IX) found abandoned in German workshops in 1945. But they all show conventional power plant
As regards a high level of physics experiments, Samuel Goudschmit’s almost forgotten book "Alsos" (written in 1945, and published in 1996 as a reprint by the American Institute of Physics) is certainly one the best books on Nazi physics available, to join those books from Ronald Lewin ("Ultra"), R.V. Jones ("Most Secret War"), and Alfred Price ("Instruments of Darkness"). Goudschmit was head of a secret U.S. mission to investigate the state of German experimental physics in 1945. Cook mentions the book in passing as regards the post-war interrogation of Viktor Schauberger, whose vortex technology is discussed extensively by Cook in terms of the work of Callum Coates and Hal Puthoff as regards Zero Point Energy. Alsos goes right back to a racist tradition in physics (Lenard, for example and Stark, who called Heisenberg a “white Jew” for the latter’s defence of Relativity Theory), and includes a detailed description of Heisenberg’s close relations with Himmler, to whom he was related. Alsos shows pictures of the Nazi nuclear reactor at Heigeloch being taken apart piece by piece. Fortunately, whilst in Nazi hands the pile did not go into fission. Goudschmit made another fascinating find in the basement of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin. There stood a complete pile-frame (better than the one later famously built by Fermi under the football stadium in Chicago on an abandoned squash court) ready to be stacked with pressed uranium-oxide cubes that stood nearby. The very best physicists and engineers in Germany worked under Heisenberg on the nuclear project, and they were very thoroughly debriefed after the War. These papers are available, but they contain nothing about the matters Cook talks about. Of course many high level German military folk were captured and made prisoners of war at Trent Park in Britain (in Siegfried Sassoon’s country mansion, where I was once a lecturer for Middlesex University). Dennis Felkin the Intelligence officer in charge had all their rooms bugged. There was one whispered mention of secret weapons yes, but it was thought to refer to the V weapons and nothing exotic. For those connoisseurs of coincidence, the profoundly UFO-sceptical Goudschmit served on the Robertson Committee apparently under protest. Yes there are many mistakes in basic physics, and as I re-read, I find new ones turning up. However, like Philip Corso’s "The Day After Roswell", Nick Cook’s "The Hunt For Zero Point" is one of those books that is difficult to dismiss, nevertheless. I get the Intelligence agent’s old-soldier feeling that no matter how many mistakes are uncovered, a book like this not to be judged by the number of mistakes that can be counted. Like most “whistle-blowing” books, there is revealed labyrinth within labyrinth. Therefore as far as a reviewer is concerned, such books as these are greased pigs. They are difficult to catch. As with "Alice in Wonderland", a straight discursive review is hardly possible. Even the simple descriptive review is difficult. Cook leads a first reader up so many garden paths, that at times, lost in a welter of clues within clues, one suspects that Cook is action painting more than anything else. A first impression might well be that like Picasso and Dali indeed, he is stringing a series of well-developed image-arrays strung on a line like a whore’s laundry. Von Däniken and other writers have done this for many years, but when I read the book again after two years, I began to get a better idea of its nature. I found that there was a complete signal running through that unlocks it. The book has a rhythm: it varies from almost total absurdity (1945 lasers) on the one hand, then back to what is verifiable (Stealth technology) on the other. The author repeats this carrier signal time and time again. It carries as it were all his modulations. This is the key to the book. We go from almost no-knowledge to partial knowledge and then back again. The pattern is repeated throughout. Once this signal is detected, the book opens out like Chinese dried flower dropped into a glass. In the range between the peaks and lows of these two signals, Cook cleverly exploits a wide range of modern pressure points. The ghosts of many men and machines appear, often lost as prehistoric species of old experimental endeavors of which we have only a few bones to ponder on. We have the vortex machines of Viktor Schauberger, the “flying saucers” of Rudolf Schriever, and the work of Townsend Brown and Podkletnov. The ghosts of many men, machines, and old Nazi projects emerge as if from "Night of the Living Dead". Seen through the eyes of Cook, history becomes a grey scale of claims and counter-claims representing an unstable and anarchic view of technology and endeavour in which nothing is certain. The size and complexity of utterly fantastic claims of one sort or another involving would-be super-technologies are as equally fantastic as the men and the machines themselves. A certain Dr. Paul A. LaViolette, for example says that the B-2 Spirit Stealth bomber is powered by an “electrogravitic drive system” instead of four General Electric F118-GE-100 engines described in its general specification sheets. The USAF would of course deny LaViolette’s claim, but then if Cook’s book tells us anything at all, it is that official denials have a somewhat chequered history. Certainly, the critical “solution” to this important book is to evaluate it in terms of what has emerged over the past forty years as a powerful new genre: factional intellectual eroticism. This genre was pioneered by the classic "Morning of the Magicians" by Jacques Bergier and Louis Pauwels. Though "The Hunt For Zero Point" is far less complex and lacks such sophistication, if we get a tenth out of it as much as past generations got out of "The Morning of the Magicians" then the read will have been more than worthwhile. It certainly sets off many a tantalizing hare chase. Like Bergier and Pauwels Cook is a brilliant metaphysical dramatist. He has vision, a most rare thing, and there are some indeed who would argue that such an octave of almost-events as expressed by "The Hunt for Zero Point" induces a far superior way of coming to knowledge than the “facts” of a particular situation. We don’t need to be told by Pre-Raphaelites or the ghost of Borges that “realism” in Literature and History, Media and the Arts is a very approximate and suspect thing. Like Picasso and Dali, again, the vision of any creator, whether in Arts or Science, distorts common perceptions in order to gain insights into inner structure of time and mind. We therefore have to make the rather uncomfortable assumption that such inventors as described by Cook are as fantastic as their machines.
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