1. Solenoids create magnetic 2. Spinning, super- conducting ceramic ring 3. Liquid Nitrogen acts as 4. Dr Podkletnov claims weight can be reduced by 2% Q&A: What chance floating jumbos? NEWS SPORT WEATHER WORLD SERVICE A-Z INDEX SEARCH Y ou are in: Science/Nature News Front Page Asia-Pacific Middle East South Asia Entertainment Science/Nature Technology Talking Point Country Profiles Programmes Daily E-mail News Ticker Mobile/PDAs Change to UK Boeing tries to defy An anti-gravity device would revolutionise air travel Researchers at the world's largest aircraft maker, Boeing, are using the work of a controversial Russian scientist to try to create a device that will defy gravity. The company is examining an experiment by Yevgeny Podkletnov, who claims to have developed a device which can shield objects from the Earth's pull. Dr Podkletnov is viewed with suspicion by many conventional scientists. They have not been able to reproduce his results. The project is being run by the top-secret Phantom Works in Seattle, the part of the company which handles Boeing's most sensitive programmes. The head of the Phantom Works, George Muellner, told the security analysis journal Jane's Defence Weekly that the science appeared to be valid and plausible. Dr Podkletnov claims to have countered the effects of gravity in an experiment at the Tampere University of Technology in Finland in 1992. The scientist says he found that objects above a superconducting ceramic disc rotating over powerful electromagnets lost weight. WATCH/LISTEN ON THIS STORY The BBC's Andrew Gilligan "The idea is still highly experimental" Professor Robin Tucker and writer Nick Cook "Boeing wants to build its own impulse gravity generator" 29 Jul 02 | Science/Nature Q&A: Boeing and anti- 27 Mar 00 | Science/Nature Gravity research gets off the ground 29 Jul 02 | Media reports Russia's 'gravity-beating' Internet links: Nasa Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Quantum Cavorite Project Greenglow The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites Top Science/Nature stories now: Date for first Australians Fifth closest star discovered Mona Lisa smile secrets The gene that maketh Gravity wave detector all Robots get cheeky The big and the bizarre Botox 'may cause new Links to more Science/Nature stories are at the foot of the The reduction in gravity was small, about 2%, but the implications - for example, in terms of cutting the energy needed for a plane to fly - were immense. Scientists who investigated Dr Podkletnov's work, however, said the experiment was fundamentally flawed and that negating gravity was impossible. Research explored But documents obtained by Jane's Defence Weekly and seen by the BBC show that Boeing is taking Dr Podkletnov's research seriously. The hypothesis is being tested in a programme codenamed Project Grasp. Boeing is the latest in a series of high-profile institutions trying to replicate Dr Podkletnov's experiment. The military wing of the UK hi-tech group BAE Systems is working on an anti-gravity programme, dubbed Project Greenglow. The US space agency, Nasa, is also attempting to reproduce Dr Podkletnov's findings, but a preliminary report indicates the effect does not E-mail this story to a friend Links to more Science/Nature stories In This Section Go ^^ Back to top News Front Page | Africa | Americas | Asia-Pacific | Europe | Middle East | South Asia | UK | Business | Entertainment | Science/Nature | Technology | Health | Talking Point | Country Profiles | In Depth | Programmes To BBC Sport>> | To BBC Weather>> | To BBC World Service>> MMIII | News Sources | Privacy UAP Document Archive Playwright Render SOURCE URL http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2157975.stm news.bbc.co.uk CONTEXT FROM ORIGINAL DOCUMENT (PUBLIC DOMAIN) - 29 July 2002 BBC News publishes a story that claims researchers at Boeing are using the work of Russian scientist Eugene Podkletnov (see 4 February 2020) to create an antigravity device. BBC reports the project is run in top secret by Boeing Phantom Works, and states documents they obtained show it occurs in a Project GRASP (Gravity Research Applied to Space Propulsion). Boeing denies it is funding the project with company money, and then states it cannot comment on GRASP or black projects. UAP Archiver Full Fidelity Mode www.ufoscans.com