Lead electrostatic scientist at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center; incoming president of the Electrostatics Society of America. His propulsion experiments, in the lineage of Townsend Brown, run through his private company, Exodus Propulsion Technologies, and he told The Debrief in April 2024 that the work is in no way affiliated with NASA or the U.S. government. By his account the team has tested in hard vacuum since 2020.
Claimed results (as Buhler described them to Bob Lazar live on American Alchemy 2026)
| Parameter | Value, as Buhler states it |
|---|---|
| Thrust | Up to about 50 millinewtons with thrusters stacked (in April 2024 he told The Debrief about 10 mN stacked) |
| Environment | Hard vacuum (10⁻⁶ torr or better), which Buhler says rules out ion wind |
| Voltage | About 400 V now; 150,000 V when the team started in 2016 |
| Thrust direction | Opposite to ion thrusters |
| Power-off behaviour | Continues after disconnect when charge is trapped |
| Variations tested | Over 2,000 |
| Independent validation | Buhler has asked for it: “If anyone’s willing to validate it in high vacuum systems, that would be helpful” (The Debrief, July 2024) |
Significance
On the programme, the thrust direction (same as rocket exhaust, opposite ion thrusters) and the post-disconnect persistence (charge trapped in Electret-like material) were set beside Bob Lazar’s description of the Sport Model hull behaviour. The work is Buhler’s private research through Exodus Propulsion Technologies, not a NASA programme.
Connections
Townsend Brown · Biefeld-Brown Effect · Bob Lazar · Jesse Michels · Anti-Gravity · Electret · Bismuth