United States Patent and Trademark Office
U.S. Patent 10,144,532: Craft using an inertial mass reduction device (U.S. Navy)
Patent · written 28 April 2016 · released 4 December 2018
Why this matters
A patent assigned to the Secretary of the Navy for a craft that would 'polarize the vacuum' to reduce its inertial mass, invented by Navy engineer Salvatore Cezar Pais. Internal records later obtained by journalists showed examiners were skeptical until a Navy official vouched for it. A strange government document that connects patent law, propulsion speculation and the UAP debate.
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A Navy patent for a mass-reducing craft.
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United States Patent and Trademark Office. "U.S. Patent 10,144,532: Craft using an inertial mass reduction device (U.S. Navy)." 28 April 2016. Released 4 December 2018. https://image-ppubs.uspto.gov/dirsearch-public/print/downloadPdf/10144532 (accessed via The Quiet Archive, QA-0086).
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