Dec 27 2006

T. Townsend Brown - New Revelations

Paul Schatzkin

Last month, I was speaking at Ryan Wood’s annual UFO Crash-Retrieval Conference in Las Vegas. Of the various lectures, the one that really stood out for me was that of Paul Schatzkin. Currently, as he revealed in his lecture, Schatzkin is working onÂ a new biography of T. Townsend BrownÂ - a name that will be very familiar to many reading this Blog. And if you’re not aware of the man and his work, well click on the link above - that’s what it’s there for!

WhenÂ it’s published, I have no doubt - based on what he had to say in his lecture - that Schatzkin’s book is going to be a must-buy title. There are masses of intriguing new data on Brown and his work that few have seen before, that Schatzkin has been doggedly pursuing, and that definitely places Brown in a whole new light: one full of intrigue, mystery, and a secret life - of which few know anything at all. And Schatzkin displayed during his lecture some amazing, never-before-seen photographs and files that are really going to make Townsend Brown the subject of renewed interest.

From the UFO Crash-Retrieval Conference website, is the following on Schatzkin:

“Paul Schatzkin has led a life of multiple and diverse pursuits. After graduating from Antioch College in 1973 with a degree in communications, he worked in the television industry in Hollywood, and earned an Emmy Award nomination for his pioneering work in computerized video tape editing on the ABC-TV comedy ‘Barney Miller.’ In the 1980s he switched to another form of entertainment, taking tourists sailing and snorkeling in the Hawaiian Islands as the owner of a yacht charter service operating out of Lahaina, Maui. After a brief stint as a financial consultant with Shearson Lehman Brothers, Schatzkin graduated from the Musician’s Institute in Los Angeles and eventually found his way to Nashville Tennessee, where he combined his interest in music and computers to form an Internet music retailer in 1995. Fortune smiled on him when the business was sold at the peak of the Internet bubble in 1999, freeing Schatzkin to commence his latest career as a ‘biographer of obscure 20th century scientists.’ His first book, published in 2002, was a biography of Philo T. Farnsworth, The Boy Who Invented Television who also developed an unorthodox and still promising approach to thermonuclear fusion. He is now researching and writing Defying Gravity: The Parallel Universe of T. Townsend Brown, which was originally envisioned as a sequel to the Farnsworth biography but has since taken on an almost unimaginable life of its own. A native of New Jersey, Schatzkin now lives with his wife Ann, three cats, and an old pickup truck near Nashville.”

And on his forthcoming book, Defying Gravity: The Parallel Universe of T. Townsend Brown, here’s more from the UFO Crash-Retrieval Conference website:

“Of all the names of obscure 20th Century science, perhaps none is more obscure, or more curious, than that of Thomas Townsend Brown. As a teenager in the 1920s, working in a well-equipped laboratory in his wealthy family’s opulent home, Brown noticed an unusual effect when high voltage was applied to a Coolidge X-Ray tube. With that observation, he believed he had found the physical evidence of what Einstein was at the same time proposing theoretically - the unified field, a link between electricity and gravity - and a way to lift and propel flying vehicles by purely electrical means. Thus begins the strange odyssey of T. Townsend Brown, who spent a lifetime crisscrossing the hemisphere in the relentless pursuit of his ‘flying saucer pipe dreams.’ But is that really what Townsend Brown was doing? Or is everything we think we know about the man merely a ‘cover story’ for something even more remarkable and mysterious? In a 2006 Crash Conference exclusive, author Paul Schatzkin will make his first public presentation of the material he has compiled after nearly four years of concentrated research for his forthcoming biography Defying Gravity: The Parallel Universe of T. Townsend Brown. Drawing on his extensive contact with Brown’s family - and colleagues with first-hand knowledge of Brown’s undocumented activities - Schatzkin will attempt to unravel some of the riddles embodied in the life of a man who demonstrated ‘flying saucers’ for the military in the early 1950s and whose contribution to the field of UFO studies dates back to his role as the true founder of NICAP in 1956.”

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