UFO Tech #3- Source is unknown with some editing on my part.
	(decribes special hull and power system)


The hull is best made double, of thin, machinable, slightly flexible ceramic.
This becomes a good electrical insulator, has no fire danger, resists any 
damaging effects of severe heat and cold, and has the hardness of armor, 
besides being easy for magnetic fields to pass through. 

The inner hull is covered on it's outside by wedge shaped thin metal sheets 
of copper or aluminum, bonded to the ceramic. Each sheet is 3 to 4 feet wide 
at the horizontal rim of the hull and tapers to a few inches wide at the top 
of the hull for the top set of metal sheets, or at the bottom for the bottom 
set of sheets. Each sheet is separated on either side from the next sheet by 
1 or 2 inches of uncovered ceramic hull. The top set of sheets and bottom set
of sheets are separated by about 6 inches of uncovered ceramic hull around 
the horizontal rim of the hull. 

The outer hull protects these sheets from being short-circuited by wind blown
metal foil (Air Force radar confusing chaff), heavy rain or concentrations 
of gasoline or kerosene fumes. If unshielded, fuel fumes could be 
electrostatically attracted to the hull sheets, burn and form carbon deposits
across the insulating gaps between the sheets, causing a short-circuit. The 
space, the outer hull with a slight negative charge, would absorb hits from 
micro-meteorites and cosmic rays (protons moving at near the speed of light).
Any danger of this type that doesn't already have a negative electric 
charge would get a negative charge in hitting the outer hull, and be repelled
by the metal sheets before it could hit the inner hull. This wouldn't work 
well on a very big meteor, I might add. 

The hull can be made in a variety of shapes; sphere, football, disc, or 
streamlined rectangle or triangle, as long as these metal sheets, "are of 
considerable area and arranged along ideal enveloping surfaces of very large 
radii of curvature," 

The power plant for this machine can be a nuclear fission or fusion reactor. 
One standard configuration for the power generators is to have the same 
number of magnets as field coils. The preferred design Could be a thin disc 
holding 480 magnets with 480 field coils wired in series surrounding it in 
close tolerance. At 50 revolutions per minute, it produces 19,400 cycles per 
second. 

The electricity is fed into a number of large capacitors, one for each metal 
sheet. An automatic switch, adjustable in timing by the pilot, closes, and 
as the electricity jumps across the switch/spark gap, back and forth, it 
raises it's own frequency (self resonant); a switch being used for each 
capacitor. 

The electricity goes into a Tesla Coil transformer; again, one transformer 
for each capacitor. In an oil tank to insulate the windings and for cooling, 
and supported internally by wood, or plastic, pipe and fittings, each Tesla 
Coil transformer looks like a short wider pipe that is moved along a longer, 
narrower pipe by an insulated non-electric cable handle. The short pipe, the 
primary, is 6 to 10 windings (loops) of wire connected in series to the long 
pipe. The secondary is 460 to 600 windings, at the low voltage and frequency 
end. 

The insulated non-electric cable handle is used through a set of automatic 
controls to move the primary coil to various places on the secondary coil. 
This is the frequency control. The secondary coil has a low frequency and 
voltage end and a maximum voltage and frequency end. The greater the 
frequency the electricity, the more it pushes against the earth's 
electrostatic and electromagnetic fields. 

The electricity comes out of the transformer at the high voltage end and goes
by wire through the ceramic hull to the wide end of the metal sheet. The 
electricity jumps out on and flows over the metal sheet, giving off a very 
strong electromagnetic field, controlled by the transformer. At the narrow 
end of the metal sheet, most of the high-voltage push having been given off,
the electricity goes back by wire through the hull to a circuit breaker box
(emergency shut off), then to the other side of the generators. 

In bright sunlight, the aircraft / spacecraft may seem surrounded by hot air,
a slight magnetic distortion of the light (depending on power level used). 
In semi-darkness and night, the metal sheets glow, even through the thin 
ceramic outer hull, with different colors. The visible light is a by-product 
of the electricity flowing over the metal sheets, according to the 
frequencies used. 

Descending, landing or just starting to lift from the ground, the transformer
primaries are near the secondary weak ends and therefore, the bottom set of 
sheets glow a misty red. Red may also appear at the front of the machine when
it is moving forward fast, lessening resistance up front. Orange appears for
slow speed. Orange-yellow are for airplane-type speeds. Green and blue are 
for higher speeds,(ionization power levels of the atmospheric gasses). With 
a capacitor addition, making it oversized for the circuit, the blue becomes 
bright white, like a searchlight, with possible risk of damaging the metal 
sheets involved. The colors are nearly coherent, of a single frequency, like 
a laser. 

A machine built with a set of super conducting magnets would simplify and 
reduce electricity needs from a vehicle's transformer circuits to the point 
of flying along efficiently and hovering with (relatively)little electricity. 

Timing is important in the operation of this machine. For every 3 metal 
sheets, when the middle one is briefly turned off, the sheet on either side 
is energized, giving off the magnetic field. The next instant, the middle 
sheet is energized, while the sheet on either side is briefly turned off. 
There is a time delay in the capacitors recharging themselves, so at any 
time, half of all the metal sheets are energized and the other half are 
recharging, alternating all around the inner hull. This balances the machine,
giving it very good stability. This balance is less when fewer of the 
circuits are in use. 

Fairly close, the aircraft / spacecraft produces heating of persons and 
objects on the ground; but by hovering over an area at low altitude for 
maybe 5 or 10 minutes, the machine also produces a column of very cold air 
down to the ground. As air molecules get into the strong magnetic fields that
the machine is transmitting out, the air molecules become polarized and from
lines, or strings, of air molecules. The normal movement of the air is 
stopped, and there is suddenly a lot more room for air molecules in this 
area, so more air pours in. This expansion and the lack of normal air motion 
make the area intensely cold. 

This is also the reason that the aircraft / spacecraft can fly at supersonic 
speeds without making sonic booms. As air flows over the hull, top and 
bottom, the air molecules form lines as they go through the magnetic fields 
of the metal sheet circuits. As the air molecules are left behind, they keep
their line arrangements for a short time,long enough to cancel out the sonic
boom shock waves. 

Outside the earth's magnetic field, another propulsion system must be used,
which relies on the first. You may have read of particle accelerators, or 
cyclotrons, or atom smashers. A particle accelerator is a circular loop of 
pipe that, in cross-section, is oval. In a physics laboratory, most of the 
air in it is pumped out. The pipe loop is given a static electric charge, a 
small amount of hydrogen or other gas is given the same electric charge so 
the particles won't stick to the pipe. A set of electromagnets all around the
pipe loop turn on and off, one after the other, pushing with one magnetic 
pole and pulling with the next, until those gas particles are racing around 
the pipe loop at nearly the speed of light. Centrifugal force makes the 
particles speed closer to the outside edge of the pipe loop, still within 
the pipe. The particles break down into electrons, or light and other 
wavelengths, protons or cosmic rays, and neutrons if more than hydrogen is 
put in the accelerator. 

At least 2 particle accelerators are used to balance each other and counter 
each other's tendency to make the craft spin. Otherwise, the machine would 
tend to want to start spinning, following the direction of the force being 
applied to the particles. The accelerators push in opposite directions. 

As the pilot and crew travel in space, outside the magnetic field of a world,
water from a tank is electrically separated into oxygen and hydrogen. Waste 
carbon dioxide that isn't used for the onboard garden, and hydrogen (helium 
if the machine is using a fusion reactor) is slowly, constantly fed into the 
inside curves of both accelerators. 

The high speed particles go out through straight lengths of pipe, charged 
like the loops and in speeding out into space, push the machine along. Doors
control which pips the particles leave from. This allows very long range 
acceleration and later deceleration at normal (earth) gravity. This avoids 
the severe problems of weightlessness, including lowered physical abilities 
of the crew. 

It is possible to use straight-line particle accelerators, even as few as 
one per machine, but these don't seem as able to get the best machine speed 
for the least amount of particles pushed out.