Taking
the opportunity to again mention my latest book, The Government UFO Files, (for those who want to know about such
things) I can use it to add something more to the discussion of EM effects and
an Earth-based technology that is of interest to us. Please note, so that I’m
not forced to explain this time and again, I am not offering this as a solution
to those UFO reports that mention EM effects and stalled car engines, only that
this is a somewhat interesting side discussion.
During
World War II, as the allies attempted to learn something about the Foo
Fighters, they sent a fellow, Dr. David Griggs to Europe. He was there to
assist with radar and to investigate the Foo Fighters. When the war ended in
Europe, he went to the Pacific Theater, to continue the investigation. He was
part of the Compton Scientific Intelligence Committee, and he wanted,
specifically to track down Japanese military technology with an eye to finding more
about their electromagnetic beam experiments. There had been some
discussion that these beam weapons could interrupt the smooth functioning of
engines, as had been reported in some of the European Foo Fighter cases and, of
course, was what Len Stringfield would report about his own sighting near Iwo
Jima at the very end of the war in the Pacific.
Griggs
did find some information about this electromagnetic “ray” technology. The ray
was something primitive, but “[They could] stop the engines at short range… and
one massive device could kill a rabbit…” The document is somewhat difficult to
decipher, but it might have suggested that the ray killed the rabbit at a
distance of about three feet. Apparently the device was discovered and captured,
complete with its thirty-four foot dish. According to Michael Swords, the dish
and its equipment were shipped to the US, but there is no record of it arriving
and there seems to be no follow up into what happened to it.
So,
apparently, the Japanese had invented a weapon that could stop the operation of
an engine, and I would imagine that it was some sort of electromagnetic field
that suppressed the flow of electrons. I would suspect that once the engine
stalled under this scenario, it would not restart without some sort of action
by the operator, meaning the driver or pilot. But the range was extremely
limited so as a weapon it was a novelty but not effective.
For
those interested in learning more about Griggs and his investigation into the
Foo Fighters I would suggest:
UFOs and
Government: A Histoical Enquiry by Michael Swords, Robert Powell,
et.al, Anomalist Books, pp. 5 – 10
Or
Strange Company by Keith Chester, Anomalist
Books, pp. 194 – 198 (as well as many other references to him throughout the
book.)
