The name given to a set of claimed phenomena reported by John Hutchison in his Vancouver apartment laboratory from the late 1970s: metal samples levitating, ingots fracturing or apparently transmuting, and materials becoming temporarily plastic, all under combined electrostatic and radio-frequency fields drawn from ordinary mains power. A Pentagon-funded evaluation was carried out and a Los Alamos report written; according to Colonel John B. Alexander, who led the Army intelligence group involved, the report was classified, later downgraded to confidential, and finally routinely destroyed, and a Freedom of Information request for it failed because no file could be located.
The effect has never been reproduced under controlled conditions by an independent party, and Hutchison himself has said it is intermittent and hard to trigger. Alexander’s summary of the evaluation team, quoted in The Hunt for Zero Point, was that four out of five of them came away believing.
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John Hutchison · The Hunt for Zero Point · Anti-Gravity · Zero-Point Energy