Coming soon to a bookshelf or screen near you:
The Man Who Mastered Gravity:
The biography of a man whose story cannot be told.
Coming January, 2023
If ’36 was a social butterfly year for the Browns, the next year was grim. An accident took Townsend’s finger, possibly in December, when it was reported. A megaflood swallowed the Ohio River valley in January, The Hawthorne Club was lost in May, and the couple was divorced by the end of the year. The […]
The Hawthorne Hypothesis:
What 1932-38 looks like to me Read More »
No. Really. I’m asking. What is it about ‘ball lightning‘? While thumbing through the incoming emails from ‘Morgan,’ I found a line that has occasionally pulled at my mental bell rope since he first sent it – on August 25, 2004: Stick to the subject of ball lightning like spit on chewing gum. Oooookay.
The stripped-down Townsend Brown narrative in “Just the Facts, Ma’am” is bereft of the glamorous enhancements that add drama to his story. For example, the tale of how Townsend lost a finger (in a post war snatch-and-grab mission) added a super spylicious touch to the TTB mythos. But the reality seems to be that it
How much do we really know about Townsend Brown? Even after a 100,000 word biography, what do we really know? Near the end of the introduction to the 2023 Edition of The Man Who Mastered Gravity, I wrote: In the past week, I’ve had occasion to reconsider that thesis. As Jan Lunquist infers in her
Townsend Brown Outtakes – Chapter 37:
Missing Fingers and ‘Reliable Sources’ Read More »
How much of the published Townsend Brown story holds up to scrutiny? For those of us who were born BTV* Dragnet was our first exposure to televised crime drama. From time to time, the star of the show, Sergeant Joe Friday (Jack Webb) had to calm an overly excited witness in order to get “Just
First Joe Rogan, now David Grusch. Ol’ TTB does seem to be getting around these days… By now you have probably heard of David Grusch, the former military intelligence officer who testified before Congress on the U.S. Government’s secret UFO – oh, excuse me, we’re supposed to call them unidentified aerial phenomena now – initiatives.
Oral histories are catnip for historians, and Gone Dark: 50 Years after Albert Einstein: The Failure of the Unified Field makes for giddy reading. This was published on the web in 2005 and the author was insistent that these pages, perhaps part of of a future book, should be not ever be copyrighted. “W. B.
Joe Rogan doesn’t know it yet, but he’s been introduced to T. Townsend Brown– with a little help from a chap named Eric Weinstein. My Internet wanderings have taken me to some interesting places of late. Several weeks ago I happened on this video from the American Alchemy YouTube channel where host Jesse Michels spends nearly an
The MIN* in Black told Paul that uncovering Townsend Brown’s true contributions would be a ‘multi- generational’ project. It has taken a few iterations but we are almost past the bobbled narrative of Moore and Berlitz. The Hunt For Zero Point+ helped somewhat, but even Nick Cook seemed inclined to accept that Townsend’s reputation was
Here’s a welcome addition to the Townsend Brown canon: With this post, we introduce Jan Lunquist. Jan has been onboard the Townsend Brown Train almost as long as I have. The archive of material she has gathered lends further credence to Brown as the mysterious-but-super-savant ‘Forrest Gump’ of 20th century science, possessed of a curious
