Antigravity

Aviation Week said it was coming in 1956. Then every program went quiet at once.

In 1955-56, Aviation Week and mainstream outlets reported serious antigravity research at Bell, Convair, Martin, and Sikorsky — G. S. Trimble of Martin predicted solved gravity control 'in about the time it took to build the atom bomb.' Then the subject vanished from open literature. The believers read a classification event; historians read a fad that failed. The file connects Tesla's late claims, Thomas Townsend Brown's electrogravitics (real Navy and Air Force contracts, disputed physics), Podkletnov's 1992 gravity-shielding paper (never replicated), and Lazar's Element 115 reactor. The pattern asserted is one long thread: it worked, and it went black.