UFO How To (Build Your Own ) - The Basics
From the desk of Editor Michael Knight. March 28 08 “What impact will the ‘UFO How To’ series have on space tourism?”
Space tourism. Are you serious? Actually, yes. What the heck is the “UFO How To” series? It’s a series of books – big individual volumes actually – that contain information gleaned from exhaustive research in various patent offices. And it's called "UFO - How To" for a very good reason. The author says if you follow the instructions, you can build your own. Specifically, the patents relate to the construction of craft that use a variety of unorthodox structural components, fuselage configurations, propulsion and control systems. You might be surprised to learn (though you shouldn’t be) that many of the drawings that accompany the patent applications, depict craft that you would think come straight out of movies like “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.” However, unlike Hollywood, we are not mixing fact and fiction here. The patents, and there are dozens of them, have been filed in different countries over a period of almost a century. It's also a fact that none of them uses the term "UFO." But one patent, filed in 1972, did use the term "Flying Saucer." That's what eye witness pilot Kenneth Arnold who saw several strange craft while flying near Mt Rainer in Washington in 1947, said they looked like.
The description stuck for many years, but in the United States where the military was tasked with investigating these phenomena, they became known as Unidentified Flying Objects - or UFOs. (At the same time, the military also chose to dismiss many sightings as weather balloons, swamp gas, Venus, or fireflies). “Flying Saucer” gradually gave way to “UFO” but not before a Brazilian inventor, Olympio Pinto, filed for a US patent for a "Flying Saucer....which may take the form of a toy, or an actual full-sized passenger and cargo carrying vehicle.” His is but one of many patents for such things as electromagnetic generators, an “apparatus for generating a secondary gravitational force field,” an “interstellar transport vehicle engine” and a “dipolar force field propulsion system.”
The general public has long wondered about UFOs, where they come from, what they are, why they are here; are they real? Do aliens pilot them or are they secret military craft built under some black budget program in an underground base like Area 51 in Nevada? Hollywood moguls and quite a few actors have made a fortune or two out of depicting epic battles between invading aliens and human heroes.
Others have made a little money, or no money at all, because they’ve written books or appeared in documentaries and DVDs (such as “Contact Has Begun” with James Gilliland) about UFOs, or aliens, or abductions, or contact. All that has been grist for the entertainment mill. Yet once again we learn that truth can be stranger than fiction. The truth being that some extraordinary patents have been granted for craft and systems that will change public transport, and space flight, forever. Many of those patents are now in the public domain – which means you can go to a Patent Office and peruse them for yourself. Or, you can find them all in the 3000-page “UFO How To” series, thanks to years of work by researcher and author Luke Fortune of ufohowto.com in Seattle, Washington. Fortune makes a point of saying he is "not a debunker." This means he does not debunk anything to do with the UFO community or the belief that some (I said some)UFOs are extra-terrestrial in origin. But what Luke does focus on, in his own words, is this: "The question presented here is: 'Does mankind possess UFO technology?' "The answer is a resounding 'Yes.' "I have been asked 'If you were going to build a UFO-style craft, where would you start?' "The answer (lies in the) following pages."
Indeed it does. As does Fortune's answer to the question about the impact on space tourism. "With the technology finally in reach of the average person, the final frontier will be the next gold rush; space tourism will be the next great westward expansion....I see....mankind expanding through the solar system." _________________________________ About the author: Michael Knight has been a writer and director since 1960. He is Editor of the International Newsletter Earth Change Report and Director of the Documentary/DVD "Contact Has Begun." This article may be copied and printed without alteration provided the resource box (About The Author) is appended as is.Images may also be copied and used, provided no alterations are made - except for size adjustment as necessary. ________________________________ If you have Outlook/Express click here to send an email to those you know telling them (in your own words) about this article. ___________________________________
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As the so-called Cold War dragged on accompanied by the Space Race the term UFO found its way into broad acceptance. “Unidentified Flying Object” is now the official non-explanation for the thousands of eye-witness reports that have been recorded over many decades.
