Some people say they invent things based on inspirations from ETs
2/28/2000
AlienZoo resident ufologist Jim Dilettoso's article Mission Control explores UFO research, ET technologies, and moments in ufology's past.
I first started investigating UFOs and related affairs in 1977. Years of strangeness have followed, as you can probably imagine. Of the hundreds of reports I've received, most are of flying saucers, or encounters with the ETs who pilot them. Yet, the reports that stand out the most are those that deal with alien technology.
Some people say that ETs have given them technology ideas. What's more, they've built high-tech devices that are curious -- if not marvelous -- enough to make me wonder how such things made it on this planet.
The N-Machine
I'll never forget the time I was in Oakland, California, in 1979, speaking at a UFO conference. At the dramatic high point of the dinner for speakers and attendees, held at the close of the proceedings, a tall man burst into the room, delivered greetings on behalf of the Space Brotherhood and walked over to me, and pressed an envelope into my palm.
The envelope revealed to me directions to a mountaintop motel in Calistoga, $200 to pay for the motel, and an invitation to have an important meeting there. After dinner and some deliberation -- I decided to go. The two-hour drive brought me to the cabin after midnight. I managed to get a little sleep.
A knock on the door came at 6 a.m. Dressed in blue jeans and blue t-shirts, two guys strolled through the motel door as if it were their home. They looked like brothers. One carried a briefcase, which held within a gyroscope-like object. Setting the device on the tabletop, he set it to spinning, and without delay told me I should listen carefully.
They had little time. They took turns speaking in precise melodic meter, explaining the technology of neutrinos and how these invisible particles can make a magnetic flywheel turn and generate power. I started to take notes and was told not to, that I would have to remember.
The gyro-top continued to spin absolutely balanced for the entire 30 minutes.
I vacillated between two poles of reaction, between "These people are crazy and are going to kill me," to the calm of knowing that what they were saying made sense. They told me an address for a man in Santa Barbara, California. The man would be expecting me.
The quieter one who spoke the lesser of the two seemed to be the timekeeper as he picked up the gyro, put it in his pocket, and, with a flowing gesture, waved goodbye. They disappeared. It seemed to me that these agents -- whoever they were -- had a long way to go. I sat down and made some diagrams right away, trying to recall everything I was told.
Later, I drove to the address in Santa Barbara. I arrived at the home of Bruce dePalma, a former Polaroid engineer (and brother of film director Brian), who had a lab in his house designed solely to build what he called an N-Machine. This was a new kind of generator that operated without fuel.
I remember hesitating to reveal who I was and what I wanted. But dePalma wasn't surprised that I was there. He invited me in. The diagrams I gave him were apparently useful, and there was no need to discuss how I got them. Apparently, he knew what they were about. In fact, he looked like one of the brothers.
I followed Bruce dePalma and his N-Machine as the years went on. I heard of the many demonstrations he gave, where 400 amperes of power were measured whilst he explained the technology of ETs from a place called Pleiades. Many people saw the device working and many were naturally skeptical. I have since met people who say that dePalma claims he got the technology from people from space.
Inevitably, the device imploded and left a gargantuan hole in the place where it had once hummed (apparently this was just a rumor, see comment below - JD).
For those people who had only seen his demonstration, dePalma could be a charlatan. But for me, there is the strange situation of the guys with the 30-minute spinning top. There are those who will say that it was all a set-up, that a gyro can spin that long. I spent years collecting gyros and tops, even the Levitron. I have never been able to duplicate that spinning. To this day I have never met anyone who looked and acted the way these brothers did. I mean, they seemed really, really different.
Friends from space bearing gifts
There's also the story of the unearthly materials studied by Marcel Vogel. When I first met Vogel at his home in 1978, all I knew was that he was a highly qualified engineer at IBM's Almaden Research Center, and was mentioned in the book The Secret Life of Plants. With a background in materials science (Vogel was a pioneer in the development of color TV phosphors and magnetic coatings for disk drives), he was the right man to analyze the metal samples we had gotten from Billy Meier, who said that he had gotten them from ETs. And Vogel's lab had all the right stuff --- the latest scanning electron microscopes and chemical analysis equipment.
I made many trips to see Vogel. We spent every waking minute when I was there; much of our conversation gravitated toward his speculation on how these materials could be made, or whether he had hoaxed this what an amazing capability he had. Vogel liked the fact that we could collaborate on "far-out" techniques. It seemed to give him great joy to soar. I learned a lot about him when he told me that he was "in contact."
Vogel spent a year analyzing the samples, forfeiting his reputation by saying they were not explainable as earthly materials. He had discovered traces of thulium, which is present in only microscopic amounts. And at a higher resolution of magnification, the scientist discovered a crystalline metal shaped in a helix formation.
But Vogel forgave those who slandered him. I discovered that he believed he was destined to perform these tests. After all, he had been in telepathic contact with the Pleiadians, who made the metals. He explained his many breakthroughs in crystallography and science as gifts from his friends from space.
The lasting impact of ET technologies
Over the years, many people have approached me with their story. My years in rock and roll couched me where musicians like the Moody Blues to Phil Collins have shared their ET contact story. Forget about the Philip Corso controversy; Engineers at Philips, Sony, Ampex, and so many other companies have told me about obtaining technologies from ETs. I think it is much more interesting to listen to these claims, and look at the creative and technical results, than continually testing UFO pictures and chasing down paltry reports.
If the engineers are capable of developing these technologies themselves, why would they say they got it from ETs? Either all of these people are crazy (a quality we'd expect from creative geniuses), or ETs have figured out a really good way to make contact with humankind. On a creative level, ETs have led us to very constructive results.