“I wince when anybody refers to ‘flying saucers’.” That quotation from T. Townsend Brown is taken from the first press report of the formation of NICAP – the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena – on October 23, 1956. I start this post with that quotation because that’s pretty much how I feel about the […]
Admittedly, my conviction that Townsend was connected to the alleged crash of a UFO near Kingman, Arizona in 1953 is based on the slightest of evidence: my recollection of a letter from Townsend to Jo, written in the same time frame, in which he tells her that he will be meeting with “Prescott” and “Williams.”
One of the many spies in this story began his career as Royal Marine, attached to the British Special Operations Executive group during WW II. His first “legend” was an homage to the penultimate spy, Sidney Reilly , whom he admired greatly. It was “O’Riley” who met Townsend in France in 1945, and was photographed*
In the original, unedited manuscript of the Townsend Brown biography – published in 2009 as Defying Gravity: The Parallel Universe of T. Townsend Brown – Chapter 76 – FTM, picks up the story the morning after the ‘Operation Peacock’ raid on the Decker compound near Philadelphia in the fall of 1966. (TMWMG Chapter 85). Much
After more than twenty years of referencing his book, I have finally ‘met’ Nick Cook, the author of The Hunt for Zero Point: Inside the Classified World of Antigravity Technology. The ‘meeting’ was virtual: I was at home in Tennesee and Nick was at home in the U.K. We were introduced by Jesse Michels, the
Cook & Marckus, Morgan & Me
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In Part 1 of this post/thread, I highlighted some of the passages in Nick Cook’s Hunt for Zero Point that the covert source I identified as ‘Morgan’ suggested I take a closer look at while I was doing my original research between 2003 and 2008. Now let’s talk about Nick Cook’s own covert source: ‘Dr.
Cook & Marckus, Morgan & Me
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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.
(This post from Dec 7, 2006 just magically appeared as I was cleaning up desktop after posting the ‘ball lightning’ item early this morning. It begins with my first encounter with the P-38 (“B” is for Bomber; “F” is for Fighter; “P” is for Patrol) in 2001, but is pertinent to the Townsend Brown
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
