UFOs AND THOSE MISSING SCIENTISTS: A MISSING PHYSICS

Every now and then I get an article that I hesitate to blog about, not because it does not stimulate ideas and speculations, but rather because it is both so broad and so profound, so lengthy and well-considered, that my attempts to summarize much less to speculate upon its content, simply seems like a distraction from the article itself. Such is the case with this article shared by one of this website's long-time readers, members, and article-contributors, A.B.:

The UFO Question and the Missing Physicists by Adrian Soler

The article begins with a summary of an interview that was the occasion and inspiration for the writing of the article itself:

On March 8 of this year, Jesse Michels sat Eric Weinstein and Dr. Eric W. Davis across from each other on the American Alchemy podcast and let them go for four hours. Weinstein is a Harvard-trained mathematician who has spent five years taking the UAP question seriously at professional cost he openly acknowledges. Davis is an astrophysicist with thirty years of access to the programs at the center of that question — NIDS, AAWSAP (the Defense Intelligence Agency’s $22 million Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program), AATIP (its successor, the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program), the UAP Task Force — and one of the few scientists on record claiming direct knowledge of an American crash-retrieval program. The conversation was technically rigorous, occasionally tense, and arrived at what may be the most consequential single observation to emerge from the public UAP discourse: not about crashed craft or recovered biologics, but about an absence.

This piqued my interest immediately because like many readers of this website I had often seen Eric Weinstein on various interviews talking about various subjects. He had even been interviewed by Tucker Carlson on subjects far afield from mathematics and UFOs.

As the opening paragraph of the article ends, the discussion was about a glaring absence in the discussions of UFOs, and it is an absence I can identify with, for I have encountered it myself - repeatedly - in my own brief forays into the field of UFOlogy with my various books on UFO-related matters, including, and especially, the topic of the so-called Nazi Bell. In my various books on that topic I have attempted to "reverse engineer" what I believe to have been the possible engineering principles at work in the device, based on various details in the original story, and from those details and speculated engineering principles, to extrapolate possible deeper underlying physics concepts and speculations.  It is precisely the absence of physics in the discussions of the UFO subject that Mr. Weinstein is concerned about:

Weinstein kept returning to one question: where are the physicists? Davis confirmed that David Grusch’s approximately forty firsthand witnesses — the people whose testimony Grusch brought to the Intelligence Community Inspector General — were engineers and material scientists. Electrical engineers. Aerospace engineers. Thermodynamicists. Not one theoretical physicist, not one applied physicist at the doctoral level. Davis then described a conversation with a senior executive at one of America’s largest legacy aerospace companies, a material scientist who had worked on the retrieval program for roughly two decades. Weinstein asked through Davis: where are your physicists? The executive’s answer was that they never had any.

Weinstein’s response was immediate. “There’s no physics in it. It doesn’t make any sense.” He reached for an analogy: “It’s like saying we’re having trouble performing Beethoven’s Fifth, and we have the finest accountants, optometrists, boxers, and cardio trainers. And you’re like, well, what about violinists and violists? And it’s like, oh, well, we don’t do that. So, of course, you’re not going to play Beethoven’s Fifth. Because you can’t engineer your way out of a science problem.”

This makes eminent sense to me, having encountered the same difficulty with the Nazi Bell, only in that case there were physicists involved, and they clearly implied something. Two in particular stood out: Dr. Walter Gerlach, world famous for his part in the famous Stern-Gerlach experiment, and Dr. Kurt Debus, a plasma physicist and specialist in high voltage direct current.  Gerlach, let it be noted, was also well-known for his pre-war conversations with the Austrian physicists Lense and Thirring on the possibilities of frame-dragging for satellites in orbit, long before such satellites were "up there" and long before such effects were indeed observed. All this suggested to me a physics concept having to do with rotating systems of plasma, with differential rotations of that plasma. Like the sun itself.

But there's more, and again, it is something that during my attempts to "reverse engineer" the details of the Bell story that quickly became apparent, and to which I alluded in my various books and talks on the subject. Weinstein zeroed in on the problem:

If the craft described by Grusch, Davis, and dozens of named and unnamed witnesses genuinely exhibit the Five Observables — instantaneous acceleration without inertial effects, trans-medium travel, hypersonic velocities without acoustic or thermal signatures — then the gap between those capabilities and anything in the human aerospace inventory is not an engineering gap. It is a physics gap. Inertia cancellation has no mechanism in current physics. Instantaneous acceleration implies either a solution to the inertial mass problem or a geometry of spacetime we cannot yet describe. These are not problems that more skilled engineers solve. They require new mathematics.

Weinstein knows what new mathematics looks like. He has spent three decades attempting to produce some, in the form of his Geometric Unity framework — an effort to unify general relativity and the Standard Model that has not yet been validated but reflects genuine engagement with the frontier of theoretical physics. His frustration is not with UAP specifically but with a physics establishment he believes stopped taking risks after the Standard Model was completed in the 1970s, funneling theoretical talent into string theory and other programs that have produced no experimentally confirmed predictions in fifty years. When he surveys the retrieval program and finds no physicists, the frustration compounds: the most consequential physics problem in human history, if the program’s claims are accurate, has been managed without the people whose discipline defines it. (Emphasis added).

This quest for a higher order mathematics able to unify the geometries of relativity and the standard model has been there since Einstein first elaborated General Relativity (and, let it be noted, since Tullio Levi-Civita, the "inventor" of the tensor analysis, first pointed out problems and difficulties with Einstein's mathematics), and mathematicians and physicists ever since have been on a quest for such higher order mathemetics, beginning with Kaluza-Klein theory, Vaclav Hlavaty, and Einstein himself in the 1920s and continuing throughout World War Two to today.

So where are the physicists?

This is where the article, and Weinstein, take there most interesting turn, right into the swirling network of contacts in the Jeffrey Epstein gravity well:

“I don’t know who Jeffrey Epstein was,” Weinstein says carefully, “but I would certainly bet money that he was a product of at least one or more elements of the intelligence community.” He is explicit that this is inference, not knowledge. What he points to is structural anomaly: Epstein was “certainly not a financier in any standard sense. That was a cover story.” A man of his claimed wealth — never satisfactorily sourced — with his specific access pattern, to the specific people he cultivated, performing no obvious financial function, maintaining inexplicable law enforcement impunity across decades, found dead in a federal holding cell under circumstances the FBI has since closed as suicide despite near-universal skepticism.

Weinstein’s particular focus is the science network. Epstein hosted gatherings under the name “Confronting Gravity” — conferences attended by Stephen Hawking, Nobel laureates, and leading theoretical physicists, ostensibly to discuss advanced physics including gravity research. He funded the MIT Media Lab, Harvard’s mathematics department, and the research of figures including Marvin Minsky and Seth Lloyd. He sat at dinners with the people closest to the frontier of theoretical physics for more than two decades. If you wanted to know who was getting close to something significant in the physics of gravity or inertia — if your function was surveillance rather than finance — this is what the infrastructure would look like. Not a government program running wiretaps. A well-funded, socially fluent, apparently legitimate presence at every table where the relevant conversations were happening.

Epstein himself, in a media training session with Steve Bannon that was later recorded and included in the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) January 2026 document release, supplied the most revealing piece of testimony on his own motivations. Asked why he had acquired Zorro Ranch in New Mexico, he was unambiguous: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) had been downsizing after the Cold War, laying off its nuclear weapons physicists and what he called the “high priests of high energy physics,” and he wanted to be close to them. He framed it as an opportunity — disaffected, brilliant people, suddenly without institutional homes, available to be cultivated. What the record establishes is that a man Weinstein believes was an intelligence asset explicitly positioned himself at the intersection of displaced Los Alamos physicists and the New Mexico geography that connects atomic weapons research, UAP retrieval lore, and the Sandia-Kirtland complex.

Weinstein drew these threads together explicitly in a March 2026 appearance on Piers Morgan Uncensored, describing what he believes is a long-standing program centered in specific physical locations. “I think Wright-Patterson Air Force Base is going to be very important,” he said. “There’s a site in Indiana, several in New Mexico. My guess is that you’re going to find out that a lot of these stories — just take New Mexico — New Mexico is going to be the hub that connects atomic weapons, UFOs and Jeffrey Epstein, and they’re all going to merge into one story about power that we don’t understand.” The Indiana site Weinstein references is almost certainly the Naval Surface Warfare Center at Crane (NSWC Crane) — the third-largest naval installation in the world by geographic area, tucked into the forests of Martin County roughly twenty-five miles southwest of Bloomington, housing over 3,800 personnel of whom the majority are scientists, engineers, and technicians focused on electronic warfare, strategic systems, and special operations technology. It has appeared in UAP-adjacent testimony and attracted the kind of institutional silence that characterizes the facilities Weinstein is describing.

The article goes on from there, but I want to bring my citations of what I regard as its most relevant points to a close here in order to indulge a bit in today's high octane speculation by recalling, in this context and with Mr. Weinstein's observations as the context in which to view certain other stories in this UFO-related saga, among them some personal anecdotes. Shortly after completing my book The Philosophers' Stone, portions of which further elaborated the Bell story, I was contacted by individuals in an American state who informed me that they had read my books on the Bell, agreed with one of my observations that two types of electrical potential were involved, and that they wanted to invite me to observe some of their proof of concept experiments... provided I would sign a non-disclosure agreement. I declined the offer because I felt that it was an attempt to silence me on any public discussion of related matters. Around the same time I was informed by the then-head of the website American Antigravity, Mr. Tim Ventura, that SAIC had also been doing Bell-related experiments and that the US Navy was involved. Readers that remember the old Art Bell Coast-to-Coast AM radio shows may recall Mr. Ventura was a frequent guest on the show.

During the same time period the stories about the statements of former Lockheed-Martin skunkworks director, Ben Rich, were circulating widely. These stories interest us in this context because they imply that engineering-physics link that Mr. Weinstein has rightly pointed out has been missing from the discussion. It is, indeed, like trying to perform a Beethoven symphony without the musicians, but with plumbers, computer programmers, airplane pilots and mechanics, in short, everyone but people who can play musical instruments. In Ben Rich's case, the implications of some of his alleged statements about "finding an error in the equations" and now we are able "to take ET home" are intriguing, for in the context of Mr. Weinstein's observations, Rich's statements imply (1) a mathematics is in existence capable of accounting for the five observable effects, (2) the mathematics resulted from discovering an error in the equations (prompting the all-important question: whose equations about what subject?), and finally, that this discovery of an error that possibly led to a whole new form of mathematics was also engineerable.

There's another clue: NASA's Dr. Harold "Sonny" White, as regular readers here know, also reworked Mexican physicist Miguel Alcubierre's 1990s "warp drive" paper and concluded that the mass-conversion metric in the paper was far too large, and that a smaller one would work, one "small" enough to be just barely within the conceivable possible capabilities of humanity within several decades. And with that clue about "metrics" were back to Einstein, and to Tullio Levi-Civita's original contention that there was a problem with Einstein's math. The two men, Levi-Civita and Einstein exchanged correspondence on the matter...

... but one now wonders if the records of  that correspondence we've been told about are indeed "the whole story". Every detail from this article, including the "Five Observables", considered in the wider contexts of Ben Rich, Dr. Sonny White, Alcubierre, and, yes, even the Nazi Bell, suggest that the problem is not within the quantum-mechanical side of physics, but in the relativistic one.

See you on the flip side...

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