Over at the website News Blaze, a recent letter to the editor was published which discussed a Technical Theory That Fits UFO Claims, Flight Behaviour and Rural Preference.

Essentially, the author of the letter suggests to News Blaze that extraterrestrial spacecraft use a propulsion system (more appropriately referred to as a “drive” system in this case) based on the Casimir Effect. This entails physical forces arising from a quantized field, typically in the presence of two metal plates spaced very closely together. A good setup for this would include the two uncharged metallic plates together in a vacuum, placed only micrometers apart (as the strength of the force falls off rapidly with distance), without any external electromagnetic field. The effect was first discovered by Casimir Polder in 1948, though it was later measured more accurately in 1997 by Steve K. Lamoreaux of Los Alamos National Laboratory and by Umar Mohideen and Anushree Roy of the University of California at Riverside.

The author of the letter to News Blaze says that utilizing the Casimir effect in this way “allows for travel into a 5th dimension and affects their angle with respect to the 4th dimension (of) time! From our perspective time dialations and seemingly impossible acceleration is really just submerging below the surface of normal space.”

This individual, apparently some civilian engineer (their name is not given in the piece) suggests some interesting theories. “Such a drive system would also account for the difficulty tracking and pursuing UFOs because the craft now has the inherent capability of clawing into the 4th dimension 90 degrees from normal space – a nearby UFO that appears to be moving away from the witness may actually be submerging into this extra dimension and you are just looking at the floating image on the surface.” Similarly, a conventional aircraft pursuing the UFO might actually fly past it in an attempt to follow what, visually, appears to be an aircraft accelerating at a high rate of speed. “(The UFO) looks like it is one mile away and the aircraft obviously can’t submerge or make the 90 degree turn from normal space without a hydrino drive.”

The Casimir Effect has long been considered by physicists with interest in Ufology to be a clue as to how exactly flying saucer type craft, with their propensity for sharp right angles and near warp-speed take-offs, might be able to move so fluidly. Does this individual provide a viable example as to how this might occur through the use of a “hydrino drive” via utilization of the Casimir Effect?