As I sit here, picking over clippings related to these and other areas of research connected with this book, it has dawned on me only now that attitudes have changed in the relatively short space of time it has taken me to write it. Broadsheet newspapers from the New York Times to the Sunday Times and the Observer have all carried thought-provoking features over the past few years on zero-point energy, faster-than-light travel and other contentious areas of science. Suddenly, the idea of gravity having an antigravity component — this heresy that terrified the professional daylights out of me a decade ago — doesn't seem so strange after all.
On that note, I should add that this book is in not intended to be a catchall explanation for UFOs. While it may go some way toward explaining some of the thousands of sightings that have occurred since the Second World War — many of them documented in official files — the subject is too complex, too multifarious, in my opinion, to conform to a single explanation. Although the data that Boyd Bushman encouraged me to follow to glean the truth about antigravity is sufficient for me to reach some definitive conclusions on that subject, it is inconclusive, to my mind at least, on the question of UFOs. For the time being, it must remain a loose end.
Regarding the definitive fate of SS General Dr. Hans Kammler, there are rumors that he died in Virginia — some have it as Texas — but it amounts to insubstantial testimony and to date there is no hard evidence to say that he came to the States, let alone died there. The U.S. National Archives remain devoid of any meaningful files on him.
In April 2001, the CIA provided confirmation of just about everything Christopher Simpson wrote in Blowback when under Congressional directive it released 20 files on Nazi war criminals recruited by U.S. intelligence at the end of the Second World War. One of these was Emil Augsburg, an S S officer instrumental in drawing up the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question" at the Wannsee conference in 1941. Another was Gestapo captain Klaus Barbie, the infamous "Butcher of Lyons."
Yet to be confirmed at official levels, though likely to be just as true, is the even less salutary story of Gunter Reinemer, an SS lieutenant in charge of death squads at the Treblinka concentration camp. After the war, the CIA gave Reinemer a whole new identity — as a Jewish Holocaust survivor of all people — before dispatching him into East Germany as a spy. In 1988, a few days before he was found dead, Reinemer was unmasked by a German financial investigator named Dieter Matschke. "You have to ask yourself," Matschke was quoted in the London Times on December 15, 2000, "how many other Reinemers did America spirit to safety?"
If the U.S. recruitment program did this for Augsburg, Barbie and Reinemer, it would have bent over backward to accommodate Kammler, keeper of the Third Reich's most exotic military secrets. Marckus did not place the article on my desk. I checked.
Since the publication of the U.K. edition of The Hunt for Zero Point, one other significant postscript to the story is worth mentioning — in time, the word "momentous" may even be appropriate. On March 26, 2002, a U.S. patent was granted for a device called the "Motionless Magnetic Generator," or MEG, that its supporters say will be the world's first commercially available free-energy home-generator. The MEG has been developed by a team of inventors led by long-time zero point energy pioneer and proponent Dr. Thomas E. Bearden, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel and former nuclear engineer. The MEG is designed to provide an indefinite output of 2.5 kilowatts — enough to run a room or two in your house — by tapping into the infinite energy of the quantum sea. Link three or four MEGs together, proponents claim, and you get enough output to run an entire house. The event is significant, at least, because the U.S. Patent Office traditionally shuns so-called "free-energy" devices; de facto, it has accepted there must be something to this one. As I write this, scant weeks after the patent's acceptance, it remains to be seen whether claims for the MEG will indeed transcend into commercially available hardware. But maybe, just maybe — as I sit here recalling Hal Puthoff's exhortation—3.26.02 will be the date I put in my diary as the day the world changed — forever.
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