Deeper Space: Episode 5

EPISODE 5: SECRETS OF ANTI-GRAVITY

Antigravity and flight has always propelled the efforts of artists and visionaries. In episode 5 of Deep Space, researchers discuss the life and work of artist Charles A. A. Dellschau and inventor T. Thompson Brown. These individuals were not well known in the mainstream but demonstrated unique perspectives and insights that still intrigue antigravity researchers and conspiracy theorists today.

Is there a connection between an artist and a scientist that, when their stories are combined, uncovers the hidden history of antigravity? Did an artist’s eye and an under-the-radar scientist create the foundation for the field of antigravity? Let your imagination take flight through this portrait of an artist and a scientist.

“Aeroplanes are not designed by science but by art in spite of some pretence and humbug to the contrary. I do not suggest that engineering can do without science, on the contrary, it stands on scientific foundations, but there is a big gap between scientific research and the engineering product which has to be bridged by the art of the engineer.”

::John D. North, “The Case for Metal Construction” (1923)

WHO WAS CHARLES A. A. DELLSCHAU?

Prussian born outsider artist Charles August Albert Dellschau (1830-1923) immigrated to Texas at age 19. Trained as a butcher and Confederate soldier, Dellschau became a self-taught artist and draughtsman who created hundreds of detailed watercolors of flying craft which ranged from the realistic to the fantastic. In the 1850s, the artist became affiliated with the mysterious Sonora Aero Club. This fraternity from Sonora, California participated in the balloon hysteria of the time.

In Western Europe, military personnel and civilians designed, built, and flew hydrogen air balloons. Of these revolutionary flying craft, few flew and many died. Dellschau’s actual involvement with the California Aero Club remains somewhat tenuous considering the lack of records connecting the two parties. It may be possible his Prussian heritage united him with what would have been a Eurocentric elite group experimenting with air travel.

ENCOUNTERS WITH FLYING AIRSHIPS

The nature of Dellschau’s work suggests however, his encounter with flying airships to be purely imagined. The paintings, which comprise 12 codices, are so fantastic that it is unlikely they portray any accurate representation of primitive flying technology.

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Dellschau’s work has been compared to other early outsider painters such as Swiss Adolf Wölfli (1864-1930) in terms of color, composition, and use of motifs such as the Mandala. Like Wölfli, and other untrained painters, Dellschau reached his creative peak in middle age. The Prussian born artist created perhaps a thousand watercolors depicting flying craft, air balloons, engines, generators, and both real and imagined antigravity technology.

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Often, Charles sketched the apparatuses, or as he called “aeros,” as annotated bisections with accompanying newspaper clippings and other multimedia. Dellschau worked in collage several decades before Pablo Picasso invented the artistic medium as it is understood today. Pieced together, the pasted fragments of newspaper documented one individual’s understanding of the Great 1897 Airship mystery, an early UFO phenomenon.

AN ALMOST FORGOTTEN PORTFOLIO

This artist and his work came very close to being completely forgotten. In 1968, an antique dealer named Fred Washington discovered pages of Dellschau’s portfolio flying out of a truck on its way to the local dump. Washington loaned selected works to a local university for a public exhibition. After seeing the watercolors and collaged works at the exhibition and researcher P.G. Navarro became obsessed with Charles A. A. Dellschau and devoted most of his life to studying the artist’s life. After careful inspection Navarro discovered a hidden Code within Dellschau’s oeuvre.

NYMZA: A SECRET GROUP UNCOVERED

Strange symbols resembling Greek and Roman letters can be found interwoven between misspelled English and German text. Navarro discovered that Dellschau used a simple cypher, and that the recurring symbols, “ĐM=XØ” translates to NYMZA. In consideration of the consistent design and repetition throughout the 12 books it would appear contextually that NYMZA would be the acronym and logo for a secret group.

WHO WAS THOMAS TOWNSEND BROWN?

”At Caltech I failed in Chemistry and Physics! My other grades were good. Reason I failed – I disagreed with the policies of the Institution limiting time spent on experiments in the laboratory. As soon as I’d get my experiment set up, the bell would ring and I would have to disassemble everything. I never could finish an experiment. That’s when I became determined to have the lab at home, where I could take my time and do the kind of job I felt should be done.”

THE BIEFELD-BROWN EFFECT

American inventor Thomas Townsend Brown Or T. Townsend Brown (1905-1985) discovered an electrogravitic phenomenon known as the “Biefeld-Brown Effect.” In sum, when two electrodes of unequal size are powered with a high voltage between them, air molecules become ionized near the sharp points and edges of the electrodes. An ionic wind is generated, which transfers its momentum to the surrounding neutral particles.

According to scientist Dr. Richard Boylan, the most primitive antigravity technology is Electrogravitic: “This involves using voltages in the millions of volts to disrupt the ambient gravitational field.” This is relevant to the work of T. Thompson Brown. In this episode of Deep Space, physicist and astronomer Paul LaViollete summarizes the seed of Brown’s research in this field, so to speak: “It is true there is a correlation between charge and gravity… If you can create what is called unbalanced forces on the capacitor, the charge on one side of the capacitor pushes on the capacitor one way a different amount than the other charge pushes the other way.”

ELECTROGRAVITIC ENERGY

This may be a simple concept to grasp, but as David Wilcock posits, this fact of physics has been too often occluded: we should not be made to believe that “gravity is one thing and electromagnetic energy is something else.” Researchers such as Boylan believe that electrogravitic technologies power military aircraft such as the B-2 Stealth Bomber and the TR3-B Astra triangular craft.