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The Bell is a supposed anti-gravity experiment carried out by Third Reich scientists working for the SS near the village of Ludwikowice in southern Poland. Claims about the existence of the experiment were spread by Polish writer Igor Witkowski, who claimed to have discovered the existence of the project after seeing secret transcripts of an interrogation by the KGB of SS general Jakob Sporrenberg. According to Witkowski, he was shown some classified files unveiling the details of the testimony of SS Officer Jakob Sporrenberg, who provided details of this secret sub-progamm during a questioning by Polish military officials in 1950/51, when he was imprisoned in Poland. Witkowski provides lavish details in his book The Truth about the Wunderwaffe (ISBN 8388259164). Although no evidence of veracity of Witkowski claims have ever been produced, these claims reached a wider audience when they were taken up by British author Nick Cook in his popular non-fiction book The Hunt for Zero Point. [1] Witkowski said that an industrial complex at the nearby Wenceslas mine was the testing site. The Bell was said to be extremely dangerous, causing illness, mutation and death in animal and possibly human subjects. [2] One of Cook's scientist contacts in The Hunt for Zero Point even went so far as to claim that The Bell was a torsion field generator and that the SS scientists were attempting to build some sort of time machine with it. Witkowski claims that all 62 scientists who worked on the project were executed by the SS when the Bell was evacuated, possibly to South America. Cook has speculated that its technology fell into the hands of the US military, possibly as part of a deal made with SS general Hans Kammler. Cook and Witkowski visited the site for the UK Channel 4 documentary UFOs: the Hidden Evidence (AKA An Alien History of Planet Earth). The Bell has also featured prominently in the US best-selling novel Black Order by James Rollins and action-adventure novel Swastika by Michael Slade. Rollins does not direct citations but sections of his novel are heavily influenced by Cook's book, although Rollins tends to interpret "The Bell" as a zero-point energy generator, incorrectly attributing the zero-point theory to Heisenberg (while in reality it was Einstein's idea). Among other Witkowski's speculations was that a structure dubbed 'the Henge' may have been a test rig for the anti-gravity propulsion generated by the Bell. German investigator Gerold Schelm claims to have debunked 'the Henge' part of the story, demonstrating that a similar structure he discovered in the Polish city of Siechnice is merely the frame for a cooling tower. [3]
See also
References
- ^ http://dir.salon.com/story/books/review/2002/08/05/zero_gravity/index.html
- ^ http://somagcc.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2005/1/7/234076.html
- ^ Gerold Schelm (2005), Ludwikowice - "The Henge". Retrieved 4 January 2008.
