About seven years ago, a brain scientist was working with primate brain signals three floors underground. The scientist was using special neurological amplifiers that amplified micro-volt signals. He called me to solve a strange, sporadic noise problem that had appeared in his amplifier outputs.
His laboratory had been in operation for many years before this problem appeared. When confronted with a mysterious problem, I always ask one particular question: "What is changed, what is different?" But in this case, the answer was nothing.
Connecting up a scope, I soon saw a signal on the screen that coincided with a noise from a speaker connected to a neural amplifier output. We heard a distinctive "click” sound. By slowing the horizontal time period to one second/division, we could see the entire several-millisecond-long noise pulse. But this was no ordinary noise pulse -- it was actually a perfect bipolar square wave.
Envision a single period of a full sine wave on a scope screen, then convert that same wave pattern to fit a bipolar square wave. That's exactly what it was. Every few seconds it appeared, but each time, the starting and ending polarity was flipped. There was no question this was an intelligently generated signal -- but from where?
Soon, a pattern was discernible. Pulse spacing was a consistent 5.5 seconds.
Remember, this laboratory was about 60 feet underground. The building had corrugated steel plates as the base, with three reinforced concrete floors up above. Line of sight with the local radar dish required that you travel through wet dirt, steel, rock, and reinforced concrete for about two miles at a slight upward angle to reach the local airport dish. And microwaves will not travel through any of these materials very well.
Certain types of microwave sources contain a property few engineers know about -- scalar energy. Scalar electromagnetic waves have the E and B fields in phase, unlike normal electromagnetic waves where E and B fields are typically 90 degrees out of phase. There is another interesting characteristic of scalar waves -- they are not stopped by shielding, even by a Faraday cage. When E and B fields are in phase, they do not interact with metal molecules like conventional RF does, which makes shielding useless. Usually, only distance can stop scalar waves. Based on the waveform period, there could be only one source of this signal.
I called the local international airport TRACON group, which stands for TRacking and CONtrol. My one question to the engineer on duty was simply this: "What is the rotation period of your radar dish? I'm certain I'm picking up your signal at the university." He replied: "Let me look out the window and see."
A short time later, he came back to the phone, saying: "About five and a half seconds." Ah Ha! There was my signal source. Conventional microwave theory says this was impossible, but there it was. Clearly these were not conventional microwaves at all. The engineer then asked where I was picking up their signal and I told him. He mumbled, "Guess it would be good for tracking submarines, too."
Apparently, I was correct. This scalar signal disappeared overnight and never returned. As for the real purpose of this scalar pulse, which traveled through two miles of dirt, reinforced concrete, steel, and rock? It remains unknown to this day. Shutting down that short-lived signal, which was transmitted for just one day, did not cause the airport to close. Apparently, it had little to do with air traffic control.
Here is the strangest part of all: It was a signal that was DC-based and detected by a neural amplifier with a -3db bandwidth of 50Hz. No diode detector, no RF amplifier, no demodulators, no IF stages, no dish, no waveguides, none of the usual RF components. Yet, this very low frequency signal definitely originated from a radar dish after traveling through about two miles of dirt and other materials.
This entry was submitted by Ted Twietmeyer and edited by Rob Spiegel.
Ted Twietmeyer’s background includes a patented optical backplane technology. He also has more than 30 years of experience in defense and aerospace systems engineering, project management, and the training of customer technical personnel. Since 2000, Ted has been designing advanced, custom-designed, high-performance systems at the board level.
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Scalar waves are not woo-woo, but are real. With these waves the E and B fields are in phase. I have personally witnessed these waves creating problems at NASA back in 1994. It really is true - you cannot easily prevent them from interfering or appearing in circuitry. Tesla became an expert at generating these waves. Problem is, if his power transmission system was implemented the health of the area population would degrade considerably.
As for power line interference, the lab with the bipolar square wave pulse was never on the same grid as the airport. Both locations have their own substations, providing a high degree of line isolation. In any case, it would be a stretch for this perfectly symmetrical waveform to be coming in on a power line and appearing on the screen of a high end Tektronix scope. Finally, the bipolar square wave was free of spurious frequencies, and switched polarity every single time the dish came back around. We watched it for about 10 minutes. How it was generated I do not know.
If the radar was mistuned or too wideband for a particular frequency, you could easily recieve a normal signal only 2 miles away if you were in a wild node of the dish, even underground.
At only 2 miles, you also could have been on the same power grid as the radar and they were dumping transients onto the line.
This is far more likely than immediately jumping to blaming a phemonena that has not been shown to exist.
Just a paranoid thought - if this signal was part of a defence related experiment, should you have published the article at all? You might be making public - to an international audience - info that for our own benefit should be withheld from certain other entities.
Thanks Warren, as astute observation worth sharing, and the main point of Bearden's scientific position.
The truth is always hidden in plain sight; our understanding is the limiting filter that prevents us from grasping the possibilities. Scientific laws and theory are only our best guess at any given time with in the given paradigm. If anyone knows how to generate and detect scalar signals I am interested in exploring further.
I looked at his website, minus the complete address you gave as it didn't work. A typing error, undoubtedly.
I found it interesting the first thing he did was quote Einstein:
"...the scientist makes use of a whole arsenal of concepts which he imbibed practically with his mother's milk; and seldom if ever is he aware of the eternally problematic character of his concepts. He uses this conceptual material, or, speaking more exactly, these conceptual tools of thought, as something obviously, immutably given; something having an objective value of truth which is hardly even, and in any case not seriously, to be doubted.
...in the interests of science it is necessary over and over again to engage in the critique of these fundamental concepts, in order that we may not unconsciously be ruled by them."
It makes me wonder how so many scientists and engineers can dismiss the idea of Intelligent Design and adhere to this idea of Einstein's? It seems so self limiting...
In reading this blog, and WITHOUT sounding like a paranoid fool, or someone who has gone off the deep end, I IMMEDIATELY wondered (even before I finished reading the article) IF this scalar energy is in fact one of the root causes of cancer in animals (humans, too!) The fact that there use seems to be cloaked in a very serious shield of secrecy could lead one to believe that while their use is undesirable, their use is also desirable for "national security" purposes.
The other part of this equation for me is that since man's genius has "invented" this technology, maybe it also exists in nature due to some cosmic/solar forces, and this signal strength is naturally causing DNA alterations which lead to disease, not just cancers, but others as well.
I have a personal reason for this opinion. My father worked on RADAR units for the U.S. Navy during the early days of WW II. He was stationed in Morocco in a "PBY" outfit. In the early 1940s, the mere mention of the word RADAR would have gotten you in very serious trouble. At any rate, I'm sure that the ill effects of this microwave energy was not fully understood at that time. He died at age 59 of pancreatic cancer almost 40 years ago. Could this be due to the microwaves AND/OR the prolific use of carbon tetrachloride as a contact cleaning agent which the Navy used by the gallons to clean sensitive electronics?
From my University days: mice with neural probes implanted; half a block away a company making and testing microwave and radar based missile launch systems ... duoh.
SCALAR WAVES EXPLAINED: For those of us that are interested in this fascinating and obscure topic, scalar energey and its principles are well explained in the writtings of Col. Tom Bearden. the best synopisis i've found was an interview which expalined it in lay language. I'd be VERY interested in starting a forum with others here who might share this interest as my techinal depth is limited. This is clearly something very signifciant and very outside the box of conventional thinking... Enjoy .
What's curious is that this signal was not present before, or I would have been told about it. In fact, I asked that question at the time. A few years after this happened, a pilot told me that there are classified signals generated at airports. Public usually doesn't even know they exist. But every transmitted signal is there for a reason. As such, there must be a very important reason for this low frequency, DC level-shifting signal to be transmitted from a radar dish used for air traffic control. Since this signal originates from a FAA (and FCC authorized) controlled facility, logically it would seem that these agencies must be aware of it and have authorized it.
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