This page will discuss the assertions made by Paul Potter, Jeff Savage and Clark McClelland with respect to the UFO Onion Drive propulsion system. Note: An updated review of Potter's book (dated April 21, 2011) is found on my site at Potter UFO 1. However, here we will initially repeat (typo-corrected) text found on Clark's site, will include questions or comments by me and others who write into my site, and then proceed to a discussion of how the Onion Drive relates to assertions about anti-gravity and related matters that are covered in Nick Cook's book, THE HUNT FOR ZERO POINT. For those who are serious about the issues at hand, I would strong recommend that they start with Cook's book.
While I am a retired military officer, there may be times that I will avoid publishing certain facts or opinions if I believe they jeopardize the security of the United States (or the safety of people concerned). Before beginning the analysis, let it be said that disinformation - the deliberate blending of truth with falsehood, has long been standard operating procedure for any good war planner, and has been a central issue in the area of UFO investigation. Are our governments covering up an alien presence, are they deliberately providing UFOs as a cover for terrestrial technology, or is the truth a combination of both? Let's begin with a look at Jeff Savage's Onion Drive and the summary of it at Clark McClellands web site:
THE COMBINED 4 FIGURES BELOW WERE REWORKED WITH JEFF SAVAGE'S PERMISSION JUST TO IMPROVE GRAPHICS. THEY MAY BE REPLACED WITH AN UPDATE BY PAUL POTTER.
Text from Paul Potter on Clark McClelland's Web Site:
The information offered on this web page is a very brief look at a UFO drive system that will help to explain the "hyper drive UFO" phenomenon, whereby UFO craft are observed to project a beam of energy ahead of them and appear to ride into that beam - and thus are pulled rather than propelled by the UFOs generated forces. Certainly this is how it appears in the video footage of the "hyper-drive" UFOs observed and filmed over Mexico in the 1990's (and subsequently shown on British TV), and in the observation of this pulling force by Clark McClelland (Former ScO, Space Shuttle Fleet, KSC, Florida - USA) in his "hyper drive" UFO sighting. The brief details below are based on technical information research-developed recently regarding a The Double-Helix "Onion Drive" System and was sourced to me on 18 May 2003 by Jeff Savage, an engineer/researcher, and his associate Richard Robson, a physics consultant. Some of the technical conclusions for this project (alluded to briefly below) could not have been made without the additional input from physicist Warren York I might add, and an additional mention is in order for Clark McClelland in subsequently attracting Dr. Hal Puthoff's attention (at the Institute For Advanced Studies - Austin, Texas) to the details of this unique energy generation system.
Note: It is rapidly becoming apparent that the key to understanding much or all of the UFO phenomena, gravitics, and possibly even time travel itself centers around the past and current research of Hal Puthoff. I write this not only because of what appears in Cook’s HUNT FOR ZERO POINT book at pages 100-101 and 229, but because of numerous leads from various researchers that point to this man.However, Hal Puthoff has a strong background in the intelligence community, and he is linked to disinformation by Cook at page 79 of his book. He and Colonel John B. Alexander, mentioned in Cook's book in conjunction with anti-gravity experiments, are both associates of my friend, Commander Cecil B. Scott Jones. What is more, my own web site deals primarily with the Torah Code. Why did I go off subject to delve into topics like gravitics UFO propulsion systems? I did so because people with information in that field contacted me after seeing me on the History Channel show Bible Code II, where I mentioned one possible explanation of the Torah Code dealt with sending a signal (as with tachyons) into the past. Since Cook had already published a link between gravitics/antigravity, and time travel, they may have thought that I had something to offer in the (signal) time travel area. Tachyons are mentioned in Cook's book on page 112, and in my Ark Code book on page 118.
Potter's Supporting Statement:
This is one case where the pull of a "propeller" can be a thousand times more efficient than the thrust of a jet engine. This propeller being a rotating electrical plasma propelled ahead of the craft in short pulses, which creates an imbalance with the ambient gravitational field that the craft is literally sucked into.
What those, who have observed these beam ships over Europe, Mexico and Belize and have shown to the world in film shots aired on TV programs, is a new and spectacular form of propulsion, a new form of propulsion that most physicists on this planet are at pains to explain - because it does not follow the Earth's ancient Newtonian laws of motion (as you will see from the paper offered by Dr. Hal Puthoff at the bottom of this webpage). Perhaps though this form of propulsion is the key to most all of the different drive systems used by the myriad types of UFO that have arrived in and around our Earth’s atmosphere.
From a study of the very comprehensive technical information and diagrams supplied recently by Jeff Savage and his associate Richard Robson it soon became apparent, to me at least, that although there are many different designs to observed UFOs most all of them share a common set of attributes regarding the energy flow configuration they use to move through the air with, even though each individual design of UFO arrives at that energy flow configuration in different ways. Consequent to the above discovery it would seem that the various drive systems of UFOs, whether disc shaped or orb/globe shaped, all generate a rotating EM field which at its source in the center of the craft, is configured in such a way as to disassociate, or disassemble, atomic particles so that an imbalance is created within the craft with respect to positive and negative charges and also with respect to the ambient atmosphere external to the craft1. At the same time by generating this rotating magnetic field - that is now turning a polarized electrical field (confined within the center of the craft) - the whole EM field is speeded up until there results a vortex ‘jet’ or ‘filament’ extending out from the top (usually straight up from the top but it can be angled) of the UFO.
By the very laws of electromagnetism, once the vortex filament is generated it becomes extremely stable, because of its plasma’s associated magnetic fields and the pinch effect in those fields (much in the same way a tornado’s rotating electrically charged sheath becomes self-confining once it has been established).The vortex filament with it’s potential 'electrical vacuum' reacts with the curvature of the metallic upper dome of the craft to induce a reaction in the surrounding air corresponding to the shape and angle of projection of the vortex filament2. The control of this reaction of the vortex filament with the surrounding air, or the aether's zero point energy field, is the secret to the control of the UFO’s apparent manipulation of gravity (Note: Criticism by A.:The Michaelson-Morley experiment in 1887 demonstrated that there is no such thing as an aether that's attached to the earth or any other body. The quantum revolution began with that observation. Any theory that states it's possible to physically attach something to space-time and climb up using it is suspect.). This control amounts to the same as in the example of the black hole that sucks anything within reach of it’s event horizon towards it’s point of singularity. Only in this case, in the case of the UFO, only a finite section of that ‘black hole’ it creates ahead of it is traversed before that vortex filament is allowed to die out, this is then replaced by another pulse of the vortex filament which is projected into the air further ahead of the UFO and so on. Hence this sort of sighting where the UFO repeatedly pumps a "bar of light" into it’s own path of travel - these bars of light are pulses of electrically-polarized rotating plasma luminesced by the plasma’s extremely high electric charges. Why only in short pulses ? Our atmosphere is curved and if the UFO needs to travel around the curve of the earth it needs to fire short pulses modifying their trajectory as it goes - otherwise it would shoot off in a straight line and disappear into space. The bars of light or beams projected ahead of the craft are exactly as you describe in your sighting - ridden - by the UFO for several thousands of yards almost to their end before another beam of rotating plasma is projected at a slightly different trajectory further ahead of it.From what I’ve seen so far, there are three different modes of UFO travel; sky-hook mode (which is when you get the bobbing movement and the UFO glows red or orange), rotating plasma beam mode, and folding space mode (the latter being extremely dangerous in untrained hands, involving the manipulation of not only gravity but also of the very fabric of Space-Time) - this mode also goes somewhat under the heading of FTL (faster-than-light) travel with all it’s ‘strange to our physics’ ramifications.Gravitational g-forces for the occupants of such craft ? Creates its own forces that counteract gravity within it’s own protective zone around the craft’s center (outside of which the occupants would really feel the effects of gravity).Strictly speaking this projected beam UFO drive system is not an "anti-gravity" one, and is a system that works on creating a gravity-wave displacement, but the fact that it has the ability to project the barrel of that displacement to any distance ahead of it means that it has the ability to adjust it’s degree of acceleration, and that it can adjust the bore of that barrel means it can greatly adjust it’s velocity (and its potential to do such things as manipulate gravity-space-time).If you consider a Schauberger Repulsine ‘craft’ doing what it does by mechanical means – the Onion Drive UFO in its beam-drive mode does the same by electrical means but has the power to project its gravity-manipulating force much further. This Onion Drive system is also similar in some ways to a Searl Effect IGV (Inverted-Gravity Vehicle) but then again is much more controllable and infinitely more powerful.Paul E Potter (13 Jan 2004)
Note: Footnotes 1 and 2 above are not included in the source document. I was informed that Paul Potter would not likely answer any further questions on this line of research, but he did in fact answer a number of my concerns on March 27, 2009. I am now processing his response and will update this web site soon in accordance with his answers and updates to the Onion Drive system.
Criticism and Discussion. As part of an outstanding 55-slide presentation, entitled Advanced Space Propulsion by Gregory M. Meholic, we find the diagram above (drawn by Jeff Savage) replicated at slide 34 as is seen on Meholic’s slide below. While updating the link to this show on April 21, 2011, I was startled to see that Savages's ideas were being actively pursued by Dr. John Brandenburg, whose Mars research is under intense scrutiny on my site at Nuke on Mars. Meholic's presention, which really becomes noteworthy at slide 25, overlooks the conclusion of Nick Cook (pages 11-12 of The Hunt For Zero Point) that all this technology went black by 1957 which accounts for 52 of the 90+ years mentioned by Meholic. As such, any positive results are likely to be highly classified. I’m not sure if Meholic has ever interviewed Jeff Savage. I did. Without going into details here, it was evident that he has suffered stress from positive results, or at the least, results that were outside the parameters of conventional, publically known physics. Evidently, Savage's pictures (as seen on the slide at the bottom of this page), need to be updated in accordance wih Paul Potter's more recent work, which is discussed next.
Potter Modifies Earlier Work (4/23/09). Paul Potter now views his earlier work as out of date and superceded by further research that he has done. For an update on that research, see his book, Gravitational Manipulation of Domed Craft: UFO Propulsion Dynamics. Paul is adamant that nothing on-line at the moment accurately represents his current research. I will report later on what I can learn of it. Meanwhile, I have begun to search the Torah Code to see what if anything is encoded in conjunction with his name, which appears at minimum ELS at skip 13,451.
