After the war, according to reports in the Spanish press that were soon followed by similar articles in the American press, Skorzeny had attempted to sell the secrets of this unknown Wunderwaffe to the Americans. These articles “mentioned that among other things what was involved was some unusual flying object, with ‘electromagnetic’ propulsion, which simultaneously had been ‘responsible for a wave of flying saucer observations over North America that summer.’”51 The article went on to state that these “saucers” were built in Spain by exiled German scientists, and that their flight principle was based on the gyroscope.52
His curiosity now definitely piqued, Wikowski again arranged for further meetings with his anonymous informant. From these meetings, the following picture of the Bell emerged:
That mysterious device – “the Bell” (“die Glocke”) seemed at first glance relatively simple, although the unusual effects of its operation contradicted this. The description was admittedly incomplete and non-scientific, since it had originated from military personnel, who had not had access to all of the data, but even then it included, many valuable details. The main part of “the Bell” was made up of two massive cylinders-drums around one meter in diameter, which during the experiment span in opposite directions at tremendous speeds. The drums were made of a silvery metal and rotated around a common axis. The axis was formed by quite an unusual core, with a diameter of a dozen or so, to twenty centimeters, with its lower end fixed to “the Bell’s” massive pedestal. It was made of a heavy, hard metal. Before each trial some kind of ceramic, oblong container was placed in the core (it was defined as a “vacuum flask”…), surrounded by a layer of lead approx. 3 cm thick. It was approx. 1-1.5 m long and filled with a strange, metallic substance, with a violet-gold hue and preserving at room temperature the consistency of “slightly coagulated jelly”. From the produced information it followed that this substance was codenamed “IRR XERUM-525” or “IRR SERUM-525” and contained among other constituents the thorium oxide and beryllium oxide (beryllia). The name “Xeron” also appeared in the documentation. It was some kind of amalgam of mercury, probably containing various heavy isotopes.
Mercury, this time already in pure form, was also present inside the spinning cylinders. Before the start of each experiment, and perhaps also for its duration, the mercury was intensively cooled. Since information appeared about the use of large quantities of liquid gas – nitrogen and oxygen, it appeared that it was precisely these that were the cooling medium. The entire device, i.e., the cylinders and core was covered with the aforementioned ceramic housing, of a bell-like shape– a cylinder rounded at the top crowned with some kind of hook, or fastening. The entire device was about 1.5 m in diameter and about 2.5 m high….
The person in conversation with me had in any case emphasized that not once had the term “weapon” been uttered in relation to the described device.53
At this juncture, it is necessary to pause and consider the details, since they differ somewhat from Nick Cook’s summary of them in Hunt for Zero Point and my own earlier descriptions in The Giza Death Star Deployed and Reich of the Black Sun.
Igor Witkowski’s Sketch of the Bell
(From The Truth About the Wunderwaffe)
1. The Bell consisted of
a. Two counterrotating cylinders on a common axis, which cylinders were apparently filled with or coated with pure mercury;
b. The axis itself consisted of a heavy metal core, presumably hollow, since it was the receptacle for the mysterious thorium-beryllium-mercury compound known as Xerum-525;54
c. The outer casing was made of a ceramic material.
2. The mercury, and presumably the interior of the Bell, was tremendously cooled by (presumably liquid) nitrogen and oxygen;
3. The Bell was approximately (according to this latest research of Witkowski) 2.5 meters high (about eight to nine feet high) and about 1.5 meters in diameter (or about four to five feet), smaller in size than initially reported by Cook.
This last detail is perhaps significant, since I drew comparisons between the Bell and the UFO recovered at Kecksburg in my previous book, Reich of the Black Sun. There, relying on Nick Cook’s dimensions of 12-15 feet high and 9-12 feet wide, and similar dimensions for the object that crashed at Kecksburg, I drew the speculative conclusion that they were perhaps one and the same object. While the new dimensions tend to weaken this connection, I nevertheless maintain my speculations advanced in that book: that it may have been the Bell or some such similar device that crashed at Kecksburg.55
In any case, the above list raises certain important questions:
1. What was the purpose of the counterrotating cylinders?
2. Were these cylinders arranged one inside the other, or one on top of the other?
3. What was the purpose of using mercury in these cylinders?
4. What was the purpose of using the obviously radioactive compound of Xerum 525? Was Xerum 525 some isotope of mercury, or an isotope of mercury in compound with other elements?
5. What was the purpose of the ceramic housing?
As will be seen, Witkowski has his own very plausible explanations for some of these questions. We will examine these in due course, and tender our own speculations as well.
But Witkowski’s meetings with his informant revealed much more information not only regarding the device itself, but its experimental operation:
Each such experiment was carried out in a specially prepared chamber– a pool. In most cases it was located underground. Its surface was covered with ceramic tiles and the floor also with heavy rubber mats. The mats were destroyed after each test (!), while the tiles were washed – deactivated with a pink liquid resembling brine. In the case of tests conducted inside the chamber of an inactive mine, in 1945, such a chamber was always destroyed (blown up) after two-three tests….
First of all “the Bell” itself was prepared along with the considerable power supply installation accompanying it. A whole set of cameras, movie cameras and probably also some measuring devices were placed on a special rack in the research chamber itself. Then a series of samples or objects were placed nearby, on which the effect of the emitted energy was tested. These were animal organisms (live lizards, rats, frogs, insects, snails and in all probability also….people – prisoners from KL Gross-Rosen)56 plants (mosses, ferns, horsetails, fungi, moulds) as well as a whole series of substances of organic origin such as: White of an egg, blood, meat, milk and liquid fats. These preparations were of course carried out by scientists and technicians…as well as by a commando of prisoners from Gross-Rosen concentration camp, specially assigned to this work. It numbered up to 100 people….Just before the experiment the entire personnel was removed to a distance of 150-200 m, at the same time employing individual, rubber protective suits and helmets or hard hats distinguished by large red visors.57
Thus, we may add to our previous list the following points:
5. The experiments were conducted in an underground chamber, part of which consisted of a pool;
6. The chamber was insulated with rubber mats covering ceramic bricks;
7. The effects of the Bell during its operation extended some 650-700 feet beyond the device;
8. The chambers had to be destroyed after only a few tests, due apparently to the strong residual effects of its operation;
9. The effects of the device on living organisms and organic material was apparently a crucial area of inquiry;
10. Even at some distance from the object, its technicians had to be in rubber suits (which suggests that they could not be electrically grounded while the Bell was in operation); and,
11. The eyes had to be protected with red visors.
The effects of the Bell when in operation lived up to this odd list of extreme precautions, giving off both “short-term and long-term effects – and perhaps also those about which we do not know.”58 With respect to the short-term effects, these
became immediately perceptible after the power had been
switched on. These were: a characteristic sound, which could be described as something extremely similar to the humming of bees sealed in a bottle (hence the unofficial name “The Hive” – “Bienenstock” was also used in relation to “the Bell”) as well as a series of electromagnetic effects. These consisted of the following: surges in surrounding 220 V electrical installations (bulbs “blowing”) observed in the case of ground tests at distances exceeding 100 m, a bluish phosphorescence (blue glow) around “the Bell” – obviously a result of the emission of ionizing radiation, as well as a very strong magnetic field mentioned in the statements. In addition participants of the experiments felt disturbances of the nervous system’s operation, such as formication (“pins and needles”), headaches and a metallic taste in the mouths.59
Clearly, the Bell’s operation induced some very odd, and very extreme effects, and as many readers will recognize, the “metallic taste” in the mouths of participants is one characteristic associated with those who come into close proximity to UFOs.52
The long term effects were equally peculiar. Participants would suffer sleep loss, problems with their balance and equilibrium, memory problems, muscle cramps and ulceration. The Germans apparently later “succeeded in radically limiting these unfavourable effects.”60
But it was the effect of its operation on organic materials that was the most peculiar, and deadly. The various plants, animals, and presumably hapless concentration camp victims suffered “various types” of damage, the most dominant form being “the disintegration of tissue structures, gelation and the stratification of liquids (among others blood) into distinctly divided fractions and others.”61 In fact, during the first series of tests, apparently conducted from May to June of 1944, “these kinds of side-effects caused the death of five out of seven scientists engaged in them. As a result, the whole first research team was dissolved,” and it became a high priority for the project to limit these effects.62 In other words, the deadly effects of the Bell were not, at least initially, what the Germans were apparently after. Its purpose was something different. As we shall see subsequently though, such results and its potential for a deadly new type of weapon could not have been lost on the Germans. Indeed, while Witkowski tends toward the view that the Bell represented a secret project in propulsion of some sort, its classification as Kriegsentscheidend and its clear claim to the title of “Wunderwaffe” would seem to call for more speculation in this direction, based on Witkowski’s disclosures. We will return to this subject momentarily.
The oddest changes in organic materials “were observed in the case of green plants.”
During the first phase, spanning about five hours after the test had been completed, the plants paled or became grey, suggesting chemical decomposition or the decay of chlorophyll. Extraordinary is that despite this, such a plant lived normally, by all appearances, for a further period – the order of a week. This was followed by immediate, almost rapid or cascade (8-14 hours) decomposition to a greasy substance, “with the consistency of rancid fat,...enveloping the entire plant. This decomposition was devoid of all features characteristic of bacterial decomposition – among other things of smell. Besides, it was too rapid, giving the impression that all structure had decayed.
At the same time the formation of undefined crystalline structures was observed in the liquid organic substances….63
From this one can surmise what had happened when the device was first used, causing the deaths of five of the scientists and technicians that ran it. Unwary, they were exposed to its unusual effects, and the cellular structure of their bodies and fluids broke down completely. As we shall see, such effects are one clear signature of a “scalar” device.
But these were not the only strange effects associated with the Bell. In the region of Lower Silesia around Ludwigsdorf (modern day Ludwikowice) where the project was based, survivors from the project, or inhabitants of the area during the war, contacted Witkowski, and reporting seeing “objects vertically landing and taking off,” objects that some described as “flying barrels”.64
5. Witkowski’s Reconstruction of its Possible Physics
Obviously, the above list of the device’s construction, its operation, and effects, paints a very unusual picture. What sort of physics lies behind all of it? What were the Germans attempting to accomplish with this bizarre device? Obviously, to have such a complex device in operation by the end of the war would have required some initial testing, planning and designing, taking years of research in its own right. So what were they looking for? What might have been the inspiration? And finally, why would such a device, beyond all the other exotic weapons in the Third Reich’s arsenal - an arsenal that included fuel-air bombs, guided missiles, deadly chemical and nerve gases, and possibly even the atomic bomb – be uniquely classified as Kriegsentscheidend, as “decisive for the war”?
Witkowski set out to answer these questions, and in the process learned that two phrases stood out in the reports concerning the device. These were “vortex compression” and “separation of magnetic fields.”65 Clearly they meant something, and something rather exotic, since the mysterious Dr. Elizabeth Adler from the University of Königsberg had to be consulted on the arcane matter of “a simulation of damping of vibrations towards the centre of spherical objects.”66 But the Bell, obviously, was not a sphere, nor were its high-speed rotating drums “vibrating.”
The mystery deepens…
As Witkowski puts it, the Bell “possessed so many characteristic features that finding some kind of unequivocal explanation seemed to be attainable.”67 According to him, these are:
• The employment of very high voltages.
• An emphasis of the phenomenon of “magnetic fields separation”.
• The occurrence of “vortex compression”.
• The fact that the device generated very powerful magnetic fields.
• The spinning of masses / bulky elements as a means to achieve the above effects (directly or indirectly)
• As a result: the generation of powerful radiation.
• The continuous character of “the bell’s” operation – i.e., non-pulse
• The reference about transforming mercury into gold.68
This list is interesting, especially as regards the second to last point, the hypothesized “non-pulsed” nature of the Bell’s operation. This is, of all the material in Wikowski’s research, the one item that lacks any corroboration. While Witkowski is correct that this was its most likely mode of operation, there is one clue that the Bell may also have been a pulsed device, and the clue comes from Witkowski himself: the description of its sound like a hive of bees. Such a sound is characteristic of a rapidly opening and closing high voltage direct current switch, such as the type Tesla used in his Impulse Magnifying Transmitter experiments with direct current. The “buzz” sound is characteristic of such devices.
The last point brings up yet another oddity in the long list of oddities associated with the Bell, and that is transmutation of elements. It will be seen in the next chapter that there was a curious reference in the Farm Hall transcripts on two separate occasions to a “photochemical process” of isotope separation. I speculated that it might be some analogue or derivative to cold fusion. But here one encounters the reference in the context of a project having little to due with “photochemistry” except in the loosest of senses.
As for the reference to transmutation, this is a partly solved problem, for there exists in the Frankfurter Zeitung und Handelsblatt, for the evening edition of Friday, June 18, 1924, an article on precisely the transmutation of mercury into gold – long before the discovery of nuclear fission – by none other than Prof. Dr. Walther Gerlach!69 Gerlach speaks of such transmutation being possible through the bombardment of a target with “rays” of an unspecified nature, and then goes on to speak of the scientific feasibility of alchemy!
Seeking to piece all of these pieces together, Witkowski contacted Polish physicist Marek Demiański, a specialist i
n gravitational physics. Outlining the Bell’s peculiar properties, Demiański concluded that vortex motion might be a key to generating gravitation, and then added that mercury would “best suit this purpose” as being “a substance of high density and simultaneously as a liquid.”70 Indeed, if the Germans “had succeeded in aligning the axes of nuclei rotation in one direction,with the aid of a strong magnetic field” then perhaps they had achieved some sort of gravitational breakthrough.71
Witkowski next tackled the problem of the apparent high voltages used in the Bell. “It must have led to a discharge, and consequently it must have been a question of plasma physics.” If indeed it was the case as Demiański suggested that the active substance in such a device be characterized by low viscosity, then gas would be of a lower viscosity than liquid, and plasma lower than gas.72 Plasmas created through an electric current create vortices known as plasmoids, in which “the lines of magnetic field force are almost completely closed.”73 Under these conditions a plasma vortex is almost completely isolated from its surrounding environment. This in turn creates a kind of local “space time continuum” or localized space curvature.
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