by Lupin
Sun Nov 18th, 2007 at 03:56:13 AM EST
This morning, my local rag, LA DEPECHE DU MIDI, had a frontpage article about that international conference in Washington where a panel of two dozen former pilots and government officials called on the U.S. government to reopen its UFO investigations. (MSNBC link)
A sidebar is an interview with Claude Poher, identified as an astrophysicist, engineer in space research & electronics, and former director of GEPAN, a French UFO investigating group.
Mr Power said:
Et par la conclusion expérimentale sur les «universons» que j'ai menée en laboratoire... avec trente ans d'avance ! Les Américains en sont restés « babas». Il s'agit d'un système - breveté - capable de créer un champ gravitationnel très puissant.
DDD : Quel est son but ?
C.P. : C'est un nouveau mode de propulsion aux applications potentielles gigantesques, en matière de santé notamment. Ce propulseur, minuscule de taille, et qui pèse 20 grammes, peut soulever une tonne et demi. Et produire de l'électricité directement à partir des particules gravitationnelles.
Link to La Depeche du Midi article
Naturally, I am a bit curious about all this and I did some googling on Mr. Power and "Universons" and here is what I found:
Mr. Poher's video press release on UTube
An interesting discussion (in French) on Yahoo.
It turns out that there's quite a few more sites/pages (both in French and in English) discussing Mr. Poher's "universons" theories on the web.
I know nothing about science but I do watch Discovery, keep up with books/documentaries by/about Stephen Hawking, Michio Kaku, etc. and I'd never heard of this before.
So, is this a total crank thing, or are the French about to make some kind of technological breakthrough?
