Thanks for pinging this, Jan. Looking at the references section of that 1988 Veritay report, I notice this:
6. Office of Naval Research, The Townsend Brown Electrogravity Device: A Comprehensive Evaluation by the Office of Naval Research, with Accompanying Documents, W. M. Moore Publications, Prescott, Az. Sept 15, 1952
It's not the ONR report itself that attracts my eye but Moore. This is William "Philadelphia Experiment / Roswell Incident" Moore, of course, in his 1980s Townsend Brown phase. It would actually have been William
L Moore publications, and Moore's republishing of the report must have been before 1988.
I'm interested in Moore's 1980s TTB research, you see, because I'm almost sure that it's one of his samizdat dossiers from that period that I read and which I would dearly love to find again, because it talked about many of the points that "Morgan" covers. It's been lost, apparently, yet I hold out hope that in an age of pervasive digital scanning, almost nothing that's been printed once is ever really lost.
Searching for "Moore Publications" "Prescott Arizona" gets me this 1994 FAQ from the Usenet group alt.alien.visitors, which includes some of Moore's publication names from that liminal period between the 1980s hardcopy 'zine scene and the Web.
https://ufoturk.tripod.com/alienfaq.htm
8.08: Focus
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William L. Moore Publications & Research
See: Fair Witness Project, Inc.
4219 West Olive Avenue Suite #247
Burbank, California 91505
Williarn L. Moore
213-463-0542
Publishing entity for Antares Publishing, The Fair Witness Project, Inc., and "Focus" magazine (which specializes in UFOs, New Age, Metaphysical, and Occult research; offers a substantial listing of books, government document reprints, papers, pamphlets, back issues of George Van Tassel's
"Proceedings of the College of Universal Wisdom" newsletter, research files, folios, back issues of "Focus" (the Fair Witness Project newsletter), cassette tapes, and video tapes for sale.Discounts on various items are available to booksellers and other qualifie buyers."Focus" subscribers are entitled to a 25% discount on all items
11.15: The Fair Witness Project, Inc.
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Parent Organization: William L. Moore Publications & Research
4219 West Olive Avenue Suite #247
Burbank, California 91505
213-463-0542
Publication is : Focus
A non-profit corporation whose income is used to fund the research efforts of qualified persons selected by the Directors of the Fair Witness Project.
They accept donations and will send an acknowledgement of that donation for tax purposes.
So there's some names to conjure (Google) by: "Antares Publishing", "The Fair Witness Project", "Focus Magazine", all of which appear to be William L Moore. And if so, they all would have been intertwined with the emerging Townsend Brown New Age Legend as it stood in the 1980s.
Oddly that entry didn't even include Prescott: it was another one that caused the hit. Might have been a friend of Moore's, perhaps.
9.08: JACO Book Publishers
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P.O. Box 3135
Prescott, Arizona 86302
John H. Andrews
602-778-0018
JACO Book Publishers provides many UFO and Extraterrestrial-related books.
Regards, Nate
Edit: And here's another set of references which pinged my radar:
Brown, T. T. , 1956, "Electrical Self-Potential in Rocks", The Psychic Observer and Chimes. 37(1), Jan-Mar, pp 34-40
Brown, T. T. , 1956, "Electrokinetic Apparatus", The Psychic Observer and Chimes. 37(1), Jan-Mar, pp 34-40
Brown, T. T. , 1956, "The Fluid Pump", The Psychic Observer and Chimes. 37(1), Jan-Mar, pp 54-59
Brown, T. T. , 1956, "How I Control Gravitation", The Psychic Observer and Chimes. 37(1), Jan-Mar, pp 14-19
And guess what? The Psychic Observer has an archive online! Time for some digging.
https://www.psychicobserverarchive.org/archive/
But even before I start, the question I have: in 1956, why was Townsend Brown either choosing to (re)publish patents in an explicitly Spiritualist publication, or what was it of interest that Spiritualists saw in his work? I mean that's kind of a rhetorical question, because, we do know that he was already hanging with people of a metaphysical inclination by then.... but still, exactly what group affiliations were they that sorted him into that sector? And no, I don't buy "he was deliberately being metaphysical in public to distract the Communists" as the only argument, because we know he was exactly this metaphysical in private too.
Edit2: The answer is: Townsend wasn't hanging out with 1950s Spiritualists. These dates are flat wrong. Psychic Observer only merged with Chimes magazine in 1974, so there could not in 1956 have actually been such a thing as "Psychic Observer and Chimes". So, we're looking for a post-1974 issue "37(1)" of a magazine which had taken upon itself to reprint some old Townsend Brown patents, which are almost certainly NOT dated 1956 (since How I Control Gravitation obviously is not from that year). "Electrical Self-Potential" then is probably one of Townsend's 1970s papers, and that means Townsend didn't write about rock electricity in the 1950s and this is still agitprop from the 1970s Psychotronics circle, NOT Townsend doing Prairie Chicken in the 1950s.
People, get your bibliographical references correct! Grrr! And also: never, ever, ever, trust a secondary source to cite correctly. Especially on anomalous subjects. They just don't.
Frustratingly, IAPSOP still does not have 37(1) of "Psychic Observer and Chimes". It does have the issue just before it: 36(5), which is 1975.
http://iapsop.com/archive/materials/chi ... c_1975.pdf
37(1) therefore is Jan-Feb *1976*, which is extremely unsurprising.
I can even locate the cover image of this issue, which was dedicated to Townsend Brown. But not a scanned text of it. Yet.
https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDe ... 1_26-_-bdp
Nate