Article by David Hambling June 29, 2021 (forbes.com)
• The recently released Pentagon UAP Task Force Preliminary Unclassified report on UFOs examines 144 recent sightings by U.S. government personnel of “physical objects” registered across multiple sensors,” according to the report. One of the possibilities that the report suggests is “US (government) or U.S. industry developmental programs”. The report also states that many of these objects share an unusual type of “advanced propulsion” and could remain motionless against the wind at high altitude, execute high-speed maneuvers, and move at high speed “without discernable means of propulsion.” In addition, the report states that in some cases “radio frequency (RF) energy (was) associated with UAP sightings.”
• British scientist Roger Shawyer (pictured above) says that these features are all consistent with the electromagnetic drive, or EmDrive, which he developed, and which is still very much under development by DARPA. An EmDrive is able to generate thrust from a closed system. The results have apparently been repeated at independent labs around the world including NASA’s Eagleworks and researchers at Xi’an in China. While existing versions only produce tiny amounts of thrust, Shawyer calculates that a version based on superconductors could drive a high-speed demonstration vehicle.
• Shawyer thinks that it is telling that the UAP report is rather precise, referring to “advanced propulsion” rather than ‘exotic’ or ‘unexplained’. The EmDrive is able to produce the sort of maneuvers described without the heat output or noise of a jet engine. The radio output observed is also highly characteristic of the EmDrive. “In all my experimental work, stray RF [radiofrequency] energy was detectable, and having a field meter to monitor radiation leakage was part of the safety procedures that were mandatory for tests by Boeing,” says Shawyer. Boeing has declined to comment on its involvement in the project.
• Shawyer’s conclusion is that these UFO/UAPs are consistent with the EmDrive technology that was purchased by Boeing in 2009 and tested successfully. The report tacitly admits that this is a possibility: “Some UAP observations could be attributable to developments and classified programs by U.S. entities. We were unable to confirm, however, that these systems accounted for any of the UAP reports we collected.” “The words ‘unable to confirm’ is standard government-speak for a classified subject,” says Shawyer.
• Mike McCulloch of the University of Plymouth is heading up the DARPA EmDrive project. He also noted the similarities between the reports and the drive he is working on. “Behavior of these UAPs is what you would expect from a quantized inertia (QI) horizon drive,” says McCulloch. He says this type of drive can achieve the sort of sharp acceleration would normally be intolerable for the pilot and electronics inside. “Inertia is just a push from the quantum vacuum and it can be damped by the use of synthetic horizons,” says McCulloch. “This means a spacecraft can accelerate as much as you want and you will not feel any forces inside.” “I’m not saying that UAPs are real,” says McCulloch, “just that the observations are consistent with QI technology.”
• Skeptics, of course, claim that a quantized inertia EmDrive violates the laws of physics and can never generate thrust. Positive results are met with furious rebuttals. Setbacks are hailed as the end of the EmDrive. Suffice to say, the debate continues.
• Exactly why such experimental craft would make fleeting appearances during U.S. military exercises is of course a big question. It might be convenient if the U.S can claim ignorance if such craft also appear watching military exercises elsewhere.
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Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPs) may be another example, according to the British scientist Roger Shawyer. Looking at their accounts, Shawyer has an explanation which is hinted at, but also concealed by the report.
“I think the UAPs are American,” Shawyer told me.
The report discusses 144 recent sightings by U.S. government personnel, many of them Air Force and Navy pilots and sensor operators. In most cases the UFO was spotted by several means, such as visual contact and radar or infra-red together.
“Most of the UAP reported probably do represent physical objects given that a majority of UAP were registered across multiple sensors,” according to the report.
The report suggests there might be several types of objects, including airborne clutter such as balloons, natural atmospheric phenomena, “USG or U.S. industry developmental programs,” foreign adversary systems and Other.
Some details seemed to turn up repeatedly across the sightings. In particular many seemed to share an unusual type of “advanced propulsion” and could remain motionless against the wind at high altitude, execute high-speed maneuvers, and move 
at high speed “without discernable means of propulsion.”
In addition, the report states that in some cases “military aircraft systems processed radio frequency (RF) energy associated with UAP sightings.”
Shawyer says that these features are all consistent with the electromagnetic drive, or EmDrive, which he developed, and which, despite considerable controversy and misleading reports of its demise, is still very much under development by DARPA.
Depending on which theory you follow, the EmDrive uses an obscure piece of physics to seemingly generate thrust from a closed system. The results have apparently repeated at independent labs around the world including NASA’s Eagleworks and researchers at Xi’an in China. While existing versions only produce tiny amounts of thrust, comparable to ion drives used on satellites and space probes, Shawyer calculates that a version based on superconductors could drive a high-speed demonstration vehicle.
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