MEET THE MAN BUILDING AN ANTI-GRAVITY DEVICE, AND THE ALIEN GOD THAT INSPIRED HIM Pushed by the Frontiers of Science, The Debrief's Chris Plain Falls Down The Rabbit Hole With The Man Trying To Detect Warp Signatures and Defy Gravity CHRISTOPHER PLAIN ()JUNE 29, 2021 When asked about the numerous failures that preceded his invention of the light bulb, Thomas Edison once famously joked that he hadnt failed over a hundred times but instead had simply found a hundred different ways how not to make a light bulb. Could the same thing be said of anti-gravity and the hunt to defy physical laws? Although not expressly stated by Mark Sokol, the 33-year-old, wide-eyed, curly-haired founder of New Jersey-based , (in Slavic languages, Sokol means Falcon), Edisons light bulb analogy could easily sum up his companys hands-on, trial and error approach when it comes to their wide array of very ambitious planned experiments. Falcon Space (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqkHVDO55Lj4w- DTO762HhQ) Image: Unsplash (https://thedebrief.org) MY LATEST VIDEOS The dividing lines between visionaries and madmen have historically proven to be thin. As Sokol pushes himself and his company headfirst into developing a Warp Drive Detector and the worlds first anti- gravity aircraft, it makes you wonder on what side of that line he dwells. I think [that] where science really went wrong was when Einstein got his Nobel Prize for dreaming up theory, as opposed to experimental results. Sokol told The Debrief, [After that] I think the scientists sort of got addicted to sitting at home and coloring on white boards. THE TOYOTA PRIUS MAY HAVE INFLUENCED THE CREATION OF A WARP DRIVE DETECTOR? Nearly ten years before his first gravity experiments, Sokol purchased a used Toyota Prius, only to learn that the already aging would soon have to be rebuilt. Unfortunately, with the hybrid market still new, the equipment to do the job wasnt yet available. Undaunted, Sokol simply built his own tools, ultimately leading the then 23-year-old to start his own hybrid battery refurbishment business, a business he still owns and operates today. I built the equipment to refurbish the batteries myself because the equipment didnt exist, he said. Sokol is highly energetic, often speaking like a human machine gun, yet surprisingly articulate. This mentally fast-paced, hands-on, problem-solving approach has translated over to Sokols current research, including designing a device to detect the warping of space-time, or more simply, a Warp Drive Detector. The Detector was just something that was dreamed up between Jeremiah Popp [a fellow anti-gravity experimenter] and me, said Sokol. The idea is to figure out if a warp field is being created, to see if something is changing the speed of light in the vicinity of an experiment. Sokol explained that his theoretical device isnt being built to detect ultra-top secret man-made spaceships traveling above the speed of light, much less alien ones, but instead to help the Falcon Space team with their gravity-related experiments. We have a lot of experiments going on in the lab, said Sokol. A lot of experiments weve completed, and we realized we dont have the proper instrumentation to realize if anything was actually happening. In short, if they had any hope of testing whether or not their gravity experiments were achieving , the duo realized that much like the tools to remake a Prius battery pack in 2011, they had to build a warp drive detector on their own. Mark Sokol, Founder of Falcon Space. (Image: Sokol) battery pack (/thermoelectric- will-turn- your-body- Warp Drive (/theoretical- lentz-drive- make-star- trek-warp- technology- a-reality/) a warping of space-time as predicted by Albert Einstein (https://www.science.org.au/curious/space- time/gravity) BUILDING THE IMPOSSIBLE Rather than diving straight into the lab, a move Sokol admits is almost always their first impulse, he and Popp checked out the current technology used to measure reactions to gravity. Ultimately, they landed on a laser set up designed to spot gravity-induced changes in light, like the one(LIGO) uses to detect gravitational waves in space. And although Sokol didnt reveal the engineers name, he did indicate that he and Popp have consulted with one of the original designers of LIGO to make sure they were setting their experiments up correctly. Use a stable laser, he said, explaining the theory behind their warp measurement tool. It gets split into two beams. They bounce around the table, [then] come back to each other on the receiving end. You have the experiment affect one of the beams. If it affects it, the interference pattern will change, and you will be able to measure very minute details in the change of light. Mark Sokol, left, with his partner, Jeremiah Popp. (Image: Mark Sokol) NASAs Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (https://science.jpl.nasa.gov/projects/ligo/) Sokol said that once these lasers are mounted on his recently purchased, ultra-heavy duty, composite, dielectric testbed (one he described as tough as concrete), they will be able to use the device to test anything from mundane objects to a complex, gravity-altering experiment, all to see if there is a warping effect. Were going to be using a laser that has an extremely stable frequency output, and were going to put the laser, battery-powered, inside the experiment, and thats going to shine on to a detector that will see if there is any frequency change in the lasers output. And what would that frequency change indicate? A Doppler Effect, said Sokol. If theres a blue shift, well know if something happened. In effect, this tool will sort of be like a compass to tell us where interesting things are happening. At this point in the discussion, Sokol made sure to point out that this is merely their first experimental design. Even if successful, he is not confident their results would indicate whether gravity is causing the detected warp or if the warping of space-time is something else altogether. Theres a bit of a misnomer about warp fields and all of that stuff, said Sokol. I know Einsteins theory is that gravity is warped space. We dont really have any true proof of that, other than light bends around gravity. Theres no proof that space itself is warping, and therefore, thats why the light is curving. It could be that the light is curving because gravity is an electromagnetic effect, and that affects electromagnetism, which is light. With this theoretical distinction in mind, Sokol clarified his Warp Drive Detector is more accurately just a warp detector since it is housed in their lab and not in outer space where one assumes such a drive would be put to use. We dont even know if warp drive really exists, he said, and I wouldnt think that this conclusively proves warp drive. Even if we saw it bending, it only proves that whatever experiment I did bent light. Still, Sokol reiterated that if there is an actual warp of space/time occurring during their experiments, their custom-built testbed should find it. And, he says, that measuring capability will be particularly crucial when testing the concept Falcon Space was started on in the first place: Anti-Gravity. THE QUEST TO DEFY GRAVITY Now firmly on a mission to prove his ancient alien theory, and joined by a like-minded partner in Popp, Sokol dove headfirst into a field that he says is littered with frauds and misinformation: anti-gravity research. Fortunately, their laborious analysis of the scientific literature guided them to a set of named for the man who the idea behind them back in 1981 when he worked for Boeing, then purportedly conducted tests in the 1990s, Frederick Alzofon. A laser in Falcon Spaces lab. Pew Pew. (Image: Mark Sokol) previously published, anti-gravity experiments (http://newenergytimes.com/v2/archives/fic/N/N199411s.PDF) first theorized (https://inis.iaea.org/search/search.aspx? Its a peer-reviewed paper that was written by a highly accredited scientist, said Sokol about Alzofons heretofore work, and it has a very salient explanation on how these craft operate. And everything about the craft really made sense through this theory. In 2018, Dr. Alzofons son David about the theory wherein, according to Sokol, he said that his father actually tried the experiment that he laid out in the paper in 1994, in the basement of some university. Unsurprisingly, given the unusual nature of this type of inquiry, Sokol also said that Alzofon had to borrow equipment because nobody would touch this science with a 10-foot Nonetheless, Alzofon and his team performed the experiments anyway, and they had some rather eye-popping results. They set it all up, turned it on, and a sample lost like 80% of its weight within 1 second, Sokol explained. However, these experiments didnt convince other scientists, and one engineer, David Prutchi, has that the experiments were flawed and that Alzofons results were invalid. Sokol is convinced that Alzofon was on to something, at least something he could try to verify in his lab, so he and Popp tried their own preliminary versions of the anti-gravity experiment. They claim they had some . One experiment showed 17.8% weight loss, but that was still within the noise floor, [or margin of error] for this type of experiment. Hoping to improve upon that dubious yet still encouraging first try, Sokol said he plans to upgrade equipment, including a recently purchased Electro-power Magnetic Resonance generator that he says is like an MRI machine and one that can retail for as much as 60 thousand dollars. Using that newer, more powerful generator, he hopes to repeat their experiments with results two to three times above the noise When asked what happened to Alzofons work after the incredible results purportedly achieved by those 1994 tests, Sokol claims that all the investors and everyone got super excited, and they started fighting over who owns what in this company that never existed, and the whole thing fell apart. Or, as Prutchi argues, any physicist or engineer...would have immediately realized that the experimental data shows absolutely no effect on the gravitational pull experienced by the sample. IS ANTI-GRAVITY POSSIBLE? To explain exactly how the anti-gravity experiment he is planning to try next actually works, as well as the theory behind it, Sokol once again made sure to point out that he is not a formally trained theoretical or experimental physicist and that all of this is just someone elses theory that he is simply trying to prove (or disprove) in a practical, hands-on way. He did, however, concede that he has his own guesses as to the possible underlying mechanisms. Well, the first question you should really ask is, why do we have inertial mass? said Sokol, harkening back to the theoretical basis of Alzofons original anti-gravity work. Where does inertial mass come from? And if you ask any Ph.D. physicist this question, theyll get mad at you because they just spent six years in college, and they didnt get an answer to that question. When asked to elaborate, Sokol offered his more mundane explanation of this inertial mass theory. When you take a baseball and throw it, youre actually energizing the spins of the sub-atomic particles, he said. So, by moving an object through space-time, you are changing the spin of those subatomic particles in a way that energizes or slows down the momentum in one direction or another, and [according to his theory] thats where the force that we call inertia comes from. If true, Sokol proposes that the mechanisms first suggested by Alzofon may indeed help him and his colleagues solve the anti-gravity riddle. Dr. Frederick Alzofon (Image: Gravity Control) (http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download;jsessionid=02B3E8BBD64BE2C80029FD879C2A13 doi=10.1.1.692.3342&rep=rep1&type=pdf) wrote a book (https://www.amazon.com/GRAVITY- Technology- Frederick/dp/1548293156) still-controversial (http://www.diyphysics.com/2019/07/16/f- alzofons-1994- experiments-do- not-prove-his- pointed out (http://www.diyphysics.com/2019/07/16/f- experiments- prove-his- promising results (https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=YzZzOwFZF3E) According to Alzofon, all youve got to do is orient the subatomic particles, he said. Take them from being in a state of disorganized chaos, and bring them all to spin on the same axis and plane, and then the entire craft along its axis and its plane will become weightless. To explain the conventional understanding of the physics behind the Alzofon claims, The Debrief reached out to , an associate professor in the and affiliated with the , who offered little support. The reason that perhaps most physicists may not be able to give an answer is that it requires a deep knowledge of the standard model of physics (particle physics), quantum mechanics, and nuclear chemistry, said Cassibry, acknowledging at least part of Sokols premise. These topics are probably not covered thoroughly in undergraduate courses, and may not be taught thoroughly in grad school other than at places that specialize in that subdiscipline. Nonetheless, Cassibry went on to explain the actual mechanics believed to be at work in the conventional theory, before reiterating that there are probably only a handful of people in the world that might be able to walk through a discussion of how macroscopic forces manifest on a subatomic scale in a collection of complicated processes that appear to be a resistance to acceleration on a macro scale. Still, although Cassibry stipulated that he is an aerospace engineer without the formal physics training, and that there is a kernel of truth in your sources claim, he says inertial mass is something that those properly trained physicists can confidently explain. SCREWING AROUND WITH MAGNETIC FIELDS AND THE WORLD OF ANTI-GRAVITY To run their own, updated version of the Alzofon experiment, Sokol explained that the team would place a test sample in a plastic, 3-D cage (which, according to a June email sent to The Debrief, will be printed using Falcons newly purchased, ), then use a microwave generator to bombard that sample, all while measuring it for any loss of mass or warping effect. Your microwave oven is 2.4 Gigahertz, said Sokol. Were not going to be running it that high. We have equipment to run it in the C-band, in the 6.2 gigahertz. And also on the X-band, from 9 to 12 gigahertz. So we have a couple of different pieces of equipment to run it at different frequencies. Sokol said that according to the literature, the most crucial component of this experiment is making sure that the generated magnetic field remains homogeneous throughout the sample. You dont just want a tiny speck of the sample to be in tune, and everything else is out of tune, he said. You want most of the sample to be in tune so that your signal-to-noise ratio is higher. And once they run this experiment, how will they know if it worked? Were going to put a piece of graphite in there that will get heated up by the microwaves, and well look at it with an infrared camera and figure out at what point it is in resonance with the microwaves. If their experiment worked, then along with the reduction in mass, Sokol said that you should see the actual microwave marks on the graphite. Thats what were hoping to see if this is all done correctly. Sokol did say that their experiment will only let them test the basic mechanism behind Alzofon, and not an actual craft. However, in an unnerving coincidence, Sokol said that in order to build his theoretical craft designed to operate as its own electromagnet, there is one particular design that works perfectly. When you have an electromagnet, the field sort of pops out like a donut. If you want the homogenous field line, if you want to follow the field lines that are of equal strength, it would literally look like a flying saucer. Speaking of which... AND THEN CAME THE UFOS. Sokols entire project is highly theoretical, and more than once during our interviews, he proceeded down one particularly fringe, highly controversial path: UFOs. Dr. Jason Cassibry (https://www.uah.edu/eng/faculty- staff/jason- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (https://www.uah.edu/eng/departments/mae) Propulsion Research Center at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (https://www.uah.edu/prc) state-of-the-art 3D printer (https://www.projectr3d.com/shop/p/daedalus) One interesting thing that kinda points in the Alzofon direction is, weve never seen a flying saucer do a barrel roll, he said. Go on YouTube, try to find videos of flying saucers. They do not do barrel rolls. When asked to elaborate, Sokol explained that they dont use thrust to fly. They dont need much to move around because they are almost weightless. But to change their orientation, and the craft weighs, let say ten tons, they would need ten tons of acceleration, or the equivalent to move a ten-ton mass in order to shift its angle, he theorized. This, Sokol postulated, could be why, when they do shift their angle, they do it very slowly, and then they shoot off along the axis, or along the plane, at insane speeds, because theyre weightless along that axis. Moving along its axis, all they need is a tiny amount of thrust. Frederick Alzofon said that you could get to the moon with a can of hairspray. FALLING DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE As the discussion got deeper and deeper, Sokol revealed that some of these anti-gravity theories are connected to , or ARVs, , supposedly under development by since the 1960s. A common conspiracy in many UFO circles, there is a belief that aliens crash-landed on Earth in the 1940s, and the US Government has been working hard to reverse engineer that technology ever since. Sokol admits that part of his desire to test Alzofons theory has to do with his interactions with Alzofons son, David. I showed that to David Alzofon, who said hed showed it to his dad, and his response was, Its creating dynamic nuclear orientation by spinning the disc, which is made out of aluminum, and the coil on the outside is pulsing in order to create the same effect through a different mechanism.' This photo, from the featured document display, is from a report of a UFO sighting in Riverside, California on November 23, 1951. (Image: National Archives, Records of Headquarters U.S. Air Force [Air Staff]) Alien Reproduction Vehicles (https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=pD9r8o1Tjwk) described by Mark McCandlish (https://www.amazon.com/XZUFO- McCandlish-Experimental- Terrestrial- Craft/dp/B08KWYTXLM) Lockheed Martin Skunk Works (https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en- us/who-we-are/business- areas/aeronautics/skunkworks.html) (ARV blueprint) (https://www.researchgate.net/figure/The- impressive- Vehicle-ARV- hovercraft- diagrammed- aerospace_fig5_275336156) To clarify, Sokol explained how this would work. You have a disc of aluminum spinning around, and you have a strong magnetic field that turns on and off, basically an oscillating magnetic field. Sokol went on to say that by creating a dynamic nuclear orientation in the center, it will affect the surrounding objects at a subatomic level. The object, according to Sokol and Alzofons theory, weighs next to nothing. Add a small thrust device, a can of hairspray (as Alzofon suggests), and off you go. Once again, making sure to confine the discussion to things he can actually test in his lab instead of what he described as a whole host of unproven theories, Sokol said his goal is to examine if such an idea is even possible. He has no intentions o