Internal Ionization for Flying Saucers

Rongqing Dai

Abstract

A design of generating thrust for practically viable manmade flying saucers is presented in this writing by outlining the major features of such a system for the flying craft, which is inspired by the officially recognized report of the Falcon Lake UFO incident in Canada, as well as some other similar reports mentioning the emission of hot air from the hull of the flying craft. The potential hazardous environmental impact of generating propulsion through air-ionization is discussed to promote the global willingness of curbing potential irresponsible abuse of the air-ionization-based propulsion technology.

Keywords: Internal Ionization, Flying Saucer, Thrust, Plasma, Nitrogen

1. Thrust for Flying Saucer from Ionization of Air

Inspired by the potent thunderous power caused by lightning in nature, in mid 2019 I posted an article [[1]] discussing how to generate thrust for flying saucers by ionizing the surrounding air. In September 2022 I saw a YouTube video showing a glowing orange saucer-like object hanging in the air, purported in the video as a photo bought by NASA from a Chinese peasant. Months later, that video was removed from YouTube for whatever reason; however, I screen-captured the object from the video first time when I saw it as shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1. Purported Flying Saucer Photo from China

At the moment of seeing the photo above, I immediately knew that it was authentically real and it was not built by extraterrestrials but rather by humans for its resemblance of my design of 2019.

Below are two of the schematics of an ionizing saucer I provided in my 2019 writing:

Figure 2. The schematic cross-section diagram of the flying saucer from my 2019 writing

Figure 3. The schematic diagram of the circuit grid layout on the flying saucer surface from my 2019 writing

Although the shape and grid pattern of the Flying saucer in Figure 1 does not exactly match the pictures in Figures 2 and 3, a few essential points tell me that it must be basically of the same design as mine of 2019:

1) The flying saucer in Figure 1 is the only flying saucer image that I have ever seen, besides my own design, that has a grid-like appearance on its surface;

2) A flying saucer built according to my design of 2019 would appear in the glowing orange flame as what we see from Figure 1, in case the temperature of the surrounding air is at the low end of the combustion temperature of air caused by the low end of the breakdown voltage used to ionize the surrounding air.

In fact, the main blocker for a higher combustion temperature would not be the ionization voltage level, but instead the heat tolerance of the surface materials, especially the material used to build the conductor circuits according to my design for the flying saucer. When the temperature reaches a certain level, the material used to make the conductor circuits according to my design would melt if it could not withstand the high temperature.

The more detailed process would be like this: when the air around the flying saucer is ionized by a certain voltage, just like what happens during lightning in nature, the surrounding air will rapidly heat up with increased pressure, and expand. However, before the air has time to expand much, the air that has not been ionized will start to burn because of the high-temperature and high-pressure environment. And the initial color of such combustion would be near orange. This could be better comprehended by watching the fire ball generated as the result of the high temperature of the ionized air in a video made by American YouTuber Drake Anthony in 2018 [[2]]. At 15m6s of that video, we can see a bright orange color fireball generated as the result of air burning after being ionized by an extremely high voltage.

3) Based on the above two reasons, it is not an impossible thing for the saucer-like object in that video to take off into the sky since it conforms to my design principles. Further, it could not be an extraterrestrial flying saucer, not only because of its design (that is, my design) was too primitive but more importantly because its builder clearly failed to find high-temperature-resistant conductor materials.

2. The Design of Internal Ionization for Flying Saucers

Encouraged by the finding that my design of 2019 for the flying saucer driven by the ionization of surrounding air could actually be materialized, I posted more relevant writings to discuss the glowing flying saucer that I saw from the (now removed) video [[3],[4]] to further elaborate the mechanism behind the design. While doing so I came up the idea that we might also turn the external ionization as I designed in 2019 into internal ionization to make it more efficient to transfer the high voltage energy into the thermal expansion energy for the thrust of the flying saucer.

In more details, we might make an interlayer of the hull of the flying saucer, and have machinery installed in the craft with an opening to suck in air from the surrounding atmosphere and compress it to a higher pressure, and fill the interlayer of the hull with the higher pressure air, and then ionize the air in the hull with high voltage generated by the portable nuclear reactor installed onboard, which will create a high temperature in the interlayer and thus in turn ignite the rest of the air that is not broken down by the high voltage. This would create super high temperature and high pressure in the interlayer. Accordingly, the schematic in Figure 2 should be altered to reflect this change as in Figure 4:

Figure 4. Simplified schematic diagram of the internal structure of a flying saucer with air suction and compression equipment

On the external surface of the hull, we will have a grid of grille-like air outlets with sliding lids which can be seamlessly shut off when the openings need to be closed. While the grid distribution pattern could be similar to the previous grid for the conductor circuits as shown in Figure 3, the grille-like outlet could be schematically take the following appearance:

Figure 5. Schematic diagram of the grille-like air outlet on the surface of the flying saucer of internal ionization

The purpose of using the grille-like air outlets instead of completely open outlets is mainly to reduce the local outward flow speed of internal gas plasma, but at the same time, it can also allow part of the high-temperature and high-pressure plasma inside the interlayer to flow out to expedite the temperature and pressure increase in the surrounding air and to form a layer of ionized plasma around the flying saucer.

The control mechanism (logics) for opening and closing the lids of the outlets is not expected to be too different from the mechanism to control the conductor circuits in my 2019 design.

3. Pros and Cons of Internal Ionization compared with External Ionization

Compared with the external ionization design for flying saucer, the above introduced internal ionization design has its pros and cons as elaborated below:

3.1. Pros of internal ionization compared with external ionization

1)  The internal ionization would be more controllable than the external ionization; accordingly

2)  The ionization of the internal air could be more efficient than the external ionization of the surrounding air in the open environment, and thus could create higher temperature and higher pressure.

3) When necessary, the glowing color of the air plasma could be covered.

3.2. Cons of internal ionization compared with external ionization

The biggest disadvantage of the internal ionization compared with the external ionization would be that flying saucers with internal ionization cannot dive into water or fly into volcano entrances as often reported. In order to have a flying saucer with internal ionization system to dive into water or get into active volcano crater entrances, it must also equipped with external ionization system and thus to become a mixed ionization flying saucer. For a mixed ionization saucer, when it dives into water or gets into an active volcano crater entrance, it should shut off all its openings including the air suction opening and all the air outlets.

Besides, obviously, a flying saucer with internal ionization would have extra facilities installed compared with a flying saucer with pure external ionization. This is another major disadvantage of internal ionization.

4. Further Discussion

1) Confusion of the internal ionization propulsion for flying saucers with the internal combustion or jet engine of conventional flying craft or rocket propulsion should be avoided.

Internal combustion engines consume fuel and thus can only fly for a very limited duration, while the internal ionization consumes air from the atmosphere with a portable reactor as the source of energy and thus it can stay in the sky for as long as it needs;

Turbine or rocket engines create thrust through generating reverse momentum to push the craft forward, while the internal ionization system, like the external ionization system in my 2019 design, creates thrust through the generation of high-temperature and high-pressure region of air and manipulating the distribution of the high-temperature and high-pressure (magnetohydrodynamic) flow around the flying saucer. This is why we need to have grille-like air outlets all over the surface of the vehicle.

2) Since 78% of air is nitrogen, in order to increase the efficiency of creating air plasma, we would be better off extracting part of nitrogen from the sucked in air before sending the air into the interlayer of the hull, and fill the interlayer with the rest of the air that is a mixture of oxygen and nitrogen (as well as other minor components of air) in a proportion optimal for the chemical reaction between nitrogen and oxygen at high temperature. We only ionize the pure nitrogen and inject the resulted high-temperature and high-pressure plasma of nitrogen into the hull of the mixture of oxygen and nitrogen to ignite the mixture.

For that purpose, the extra facility in the schematic of Figure 4 would also be of the capacity to extract nitrogen from air.

3) Obviously, we need to have materials of high heat resistance and high strength to build the hull to avoid meltdown of the hull at high temperature or explosion at high pressure.

4) Since the thrust of a flying craft using the technology of ionization of air comes from the difference between the surface air pressures of different regions of the air surrounding the craft, the mechanism of manipulating the surface air field is of critical importance for precisely generating the thrust with desired magnitude and desired direction.

As presented in my 2019 design, the external ionization could create thrust by controlling the ionization voltages around the surface of the craft so that  different regions of the air surrounding the craft would have different levels of ionized air temperature and the corresponding air pressure; in this way we might precisely generate the desired resultant thrust as long as we have the knowledge of how the pressure is distributed in the magnetohydrodynamic flow field with the controlled distribution of the surface ionization voltages.

But for the internal ionization, since we can no longer manipulating the surface pressure distribution by controlling the surface ionization voltages, we need to control how the heat of internally ionized and combusted air to be transferred into the surrounding air. As mentioned earlier, the most effective approach for the internally ionized and combusted air to impact the surrounding air would be to release the internal high-temperature and high-pressure air through those grille-like outlets into the surrounding air. However, if we release the air of same temperature and same pressure all around the craft, then there would be no pressure difference created in the surrounding air field, and thus no thrust could be generated. Therefore, we need to control the distribution of the released air. The simplest way to do so is to use some kind of controllable (sliding) lids on all the outlets so that we might control air release through controlling the opening and closing of the lids at different parts of the surface. But we would face a further challenge even with the system of the controlled lids: the materials used to build the lids and other parts of the surface need to be of extremely good insulation of heat due to the extremely high temperature of the internally ionized and combusted air. When the whole interlayer is simply connected, then the internal temperature would be pretty much the same all over the interlayer, and thus there would be a huge amount of heat leaked out to the surrounding air through heat conduct even without any air flow through those outlets when their lids being closed, if the materials used to build those lids and the supporting parts are not of extremely good insulation of heat. Obviously, this would tremendously reduce the efficiency of generating the desired thrust for the craft.

Now we could have two options to solve this problem: 1) to create the desired materials of extremely good heat insulation while maintaining a simply connected interlayer of the hull with basically the same temperature and pressure in the whole interlayer; 2) to partition the interlayer of the hull into small cells so that we only ionize the air in the targeted the cells and release them into the surrounding air as needed.

The pro of the first option is the higher thermal efficiency when the whole interlayer of the hull is connected and thus filled with the same bulk of air. However, its con is that it might be very difficult for humans at the current stage to get the desired materials of extremely high insulation of heat while they are also of extremely high heat resistance and high pressure endurance.

The pro of the second option is that it would be much easier to mechanically implement the spatial partitions than to produce some currently unavailable ideal materials, while its con is the lowered efficiency of ionization and combustion for every small cell. This is because it would be desired to have relatively cool air filled in the cell after the lid is closed in order to reduce the local heat leak into the outside flow field from a single cell due to the poor insulation of the covering materials, and thus next time when we ionize the air for that cell, it would be started from a relatively low temperature.

In fact, the calculated magnetohydrodynamic flow field for those two options would be expected to be quite different.

5) As mentioned in my other writings listed in the reference, the air plasma around the flying saucer could help to dissipate radar waves and even air shock waves. With internal ionization, the plasma flowing from the grille-like air outlets to the surrounding region could still form a plasma layer around the flying saucer. The thickness of the required plasma layer will be an important parameter to determine the size of the aperture of the grille-like air outlet and the efficiency of the air suction and compression. If experimental data show that a thicker plasma layer is needed to dissipate radar waves and shock waves more effectively, then a larger aperture size and higher air absorption and compression efficiency will be required.

In the future, if humans can produce materials with controllable thermal insulation, we might not need the grille-like air outlets. The direction and magnitude of the thrust for the flying saucer can then be controlled only by adjusting the heat transfer coefficient in different parts of the hull surface. When that happens, other measures needed to be considered to form a plasma layer around the flying saucer.

6) In the future, we might even build the surface of the craft hull with materials of controllable transparency, and thus the glowing light of the internal plasma could be used as a luminal source when the transparency of certain parts of the surface is increased in a controlled manner. We might even change the color of the plasma by changing the ionization voltage.

7) One critical element of the 2019 design would certainly remain in the internal ionization design, which is the portable nuclear reactor. Reports of radioactive residual signatures at flying saucer landing sites are the good indication that the existing extraterrestrial flying saucers commonly carry portable nuclear reactors. Nevertheless, if putting a portable reactor on a flying saucer raises concerns about a nuclear accident in the sky, then alternative, efficient energy sources need to be found. Its basic requirements are: a) it can produce ultra-high voltage; b) it can be used for a long time. While producing ultra-high voltage might not be a big barrier, maintaining an ultra-high voltage for a long time could be a very demanding task.

8) A potential negative impact of all propulsion systems using ionization of air which could be much worse than carrying a nuclear reactor onboard of the flying saucer is the generation of nitrogen oxides as the end products of the ionization. This would be further discussed later.

5. Internal Ionization for Jet Engines of Conventional Aircraft

In a previous section, it is pointed out that confusion of the internal ionization propulsion for flying saucers with the jet engine of conventional flying craft should be avoided. But on the other hand, it is technologically completely viable to use ionization of air instead of combustion of fossil fuel to generate the high speed air flux at the exit of the jet engine. The jet engine of this type might be called as internal ionization jet engine.

6. A Major Negative Consequence of Air Ionization Propulsion

It is mentioned above that the nitrogen oxides as the end products of ionizing air could be potentially much worse to the environment than the notoriously hazardous reactor aboard the flying saucer. While the negative impact of the nitrogen oxides from some rarely occurred flying saucers might be negligible, if tens of thousands of commercial airliners flying over the skies of the earth everyday would be all equipped with internal ionization jet engines, then the pollution caused by the nitrogen oxides from the ionization propulsion systems could be utterly disastrous to human civilization.

Nevertheless, unfortunately, the temptation of using unlimited air resource to fuel the flight for virtually arbitrary long distances could easily make industries to lose conscientious mind about the existential condition of the whole mankind. Therefore, it is important for the international community to establish a relevant convention to curb irresponsible large scale abuses of internal ionization jet engines for airplanes.

7. Final Remark

The design of the internal ionization system presented in this writing is highly inspired by the famous Falcon Lake flying saucer incident [[5]] of Canada reported by Stephen Michalak at Falcon Lake, within Whiteshell Provincial Park in the Canadian province of Manitoba. After a tough ordeal of the reporting witness, this incident is officially recognized in Canada through the issuing of $20 non-circulating silver coin featuring the incident by the Royal Canadian Mint in 2018.

While the Falcon Lake incident is a strong indication that flying saucers driven by internal ionization of air might have been flying in the skies over the earth since long ago, if tens of thousands of commercial airliners flying over the skies of the earth daily are all equipped with internal ionization jet engines, then the production rate of nitrogen oxides could potentially far exceed the absorption rate of nitrogen oxides by oceans [[6]], global plantations and soils [[7]]; when that happens, it could be the doomsday disaster for the whole humanity.

Accordingly, the main objective of this writing is not to help the world to develop internal ionized flying saucer, but rather to help the general public to understand some phenomena of UFO’s that might be driven by the ionization of air instead of widely purported advanced unknown antigravity technology; moreover, the author strongly hope that this writing might help to promote global willingness to sign an international treaty banning the large-scale abuse of the internal ionization propulsion technology, by raising public awareness of the potentially harmful effects of the nitrogen oxide products from air-ionization.

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