When we look at geniuses, we have to admit that they are few and far between. When we look at geniuses that actually gave us something physical that we could see and understand the numbers shrink even more. One of the people that fit this category and who I believe rose to the top of the heap. was Nicola Tesla. Someday when this world comes to an end, maybe some alien will look at our history and to try to decide who was the greatest human who ever lived, he just might select old Nikola. Some people have suggested that we don't even know half of what he invented. What we do know, was incredible. There are even those that suggest that he wasn't human, or even a time traveler that came here to advance the technology of the human race. There are certainly many scientific fields that benefited from what he discovered and if it wasn't for him, we still might not have something as simple as the alternating current that we all enjoy. We have to remember that Edison wanted us to use direct current which was very primitive in comparison.

The US Government must have thought that some of Tesla's inventions were valuable, because they are the ones that have been accused over the years, of breaking into his hotel room after he died and taking away all his papers. There is no proof of this, yet everyone will tell you the same thing when it comes to this event. We know some of the things that Tesla was working on. One of them was a death ray. He has long been accused of causing the explosion in Tunguska Russia, by shooting his ray halfway around the world to that Siberian area. The story goes that he built a huge tower behind his laboratory on Long Island and used it to send some sort of electrical ray into that area. It goes on to say that he begged the government to use this ray during World War II instead of the Atom Bomb, but to no avail. I had the honor of visiting the site where the lab had stood. The building was still there, but the tower was gone. His lab had been turned into a photo lab and was finally closed, because the area had become contaminated by all those chemicals used to develop pictures.

While the Tunguska explosion still remains a mystery, many scientists are not willing to accept the fact that a death ray caused this damage and chalk it up to a meteor busting in the air above the forest. One very interesting question is, did Nikola Tesla design some sort of advanced flying machine? Not much has been mentioned about this. He had said, "I am now planning aerial machines devoid of sustaining planes, ailerons, propellers, and other external attachments, which will be capable of immense speeds". He wrote a letter to a manager at Westinghouse and in it he said, 'You should not be at all surprised, if some day you see me fly from New York to Colorado Springs in a contrivance which will resemble a gas stove and weigh as much. ... and could, if necessary enter and depart through a window." He described his invention as a small box and not a huge cigar. Could Tesla have discovered what we have been working on for years, a platform that uses ions to lift it. It just might turn out the the government captured these plans with his papers and has been working on this for the last 60 years plus and we didn't know about it. It goes even further. Officials at the Nikola Tesla Museum in Belgrade state, "he left sketches of interplanetary ships. This information, however, has not been made available to western scholars."

Could all these UFOs that are being seen, really be advanced versions of Tesla flying machines? Here is how Tesla described his flying machine. "The flying machine of the future, my flying machine, will be heavier than air, but it will not be an airplane. It will have no wings. It will be substantial, solid, stable. You cannot have a stable airplane. The gyroscope can never be successfully applied to the airplane, for it would give a stability that would result in the machine being torn to pieces by the wind, just as the unprotected airplane on the ground is torn to pieces by a high wind. My flying machine will have neither wings nor propellers. You might see it on the ground and you would never guess that it was a flying machine. Yet it will be able to move at will through the air in any direction with perfect safety, at higher speeds than have yet been reached, regardless of weather and oblivious of 'holes in the air' or downward currents. It will ascend in such currents if desired. It can remain absolutely stationary in the air even in a wind for great lengths of time. Its lifting power will not depend upon any such delicate devices as the bird has to employ, but upon positive mechanical action."

Some people call Tesla the man that invented the twentieth century, I call him the man that may have invented the twenty first century. He boasted that his flying machine would have the simplest means of propulsion and that it wouldn't even be recognized as a flying machine if seen on the ground. There is so much speculation on his mystery flying machine, but there are also some opinions. I even have my own opinion on it, would you like to hear it? Well I guess you don't have much choice do you? Anyway, Tesla was experimenting with being able to direct electricity to different places without wires. He even conducted an experiment where he succeeded. I think that it is possible that he may have been designing more than one type of aircraft. One for terrestrial travel and one for interplanetary travel. The one for terrestrial travel could have been powered by beaming electricity to it, making it very light, since it would not have to carry fuel. If he had invented some sort of anti-gravity engine, it could have gotten its power this way. His plan may have been to place towers around the world so that a steady supply of electricity would always be available, no matter where the craft was in the sky.

If we talk about his interplanetary vehicle, it might have used the same motor, but carried some sort of electrical power source on board. It could have still used anti-gravity to get around the solar system. Was an advanced capacitor somehow tied into his propulsion system? The odds were that it was. He had gotten several patents on improved capacitors and he had mentioned their value many times. He had a strange idea of electricity and thought that just maybe, dynamos and other power generating equipment really didn't generate electricity at all, but only let it flow through, because it was always there. He felt that the capacitor was a great way to magnify the amount of energy produced by electricity.

When Tesla was 78 years old, he had over 700 inventions, of which we only know about a limited amount today. One of the most mysterious of his inventions was spoken about by the great man. He said it was an impenetrable dome of particles that would end all wars and he was going to the Geneva Peace Conference to talk about it. He claimed the same particles in a beam could instantly wipe out millions of troops or knock all aircraft out of the sky within 250 miles of their target. He went on to say that one plant producing this dome could protect 40,000 square miles. He also said that if a target could be seen through a telescope, it could be destroyed. He went on further to say that this has nothing to do with his death ray.

I think that we in this country have become sophisticated enough to realize that any beam that could protect a country from war, would not be allowed to exist by the military industrial complex. It would completely ruin their profits. Could this be the reason we don't have it? If it truly existed, I would have to say yes. As for the aircraft that would have set the aerospace industry on its collective hind quarters, this we might just have. When we hear that there is a sighting of some craft that can't possibly be man made because of the way it moves, it just might be an aircraft that was invented by one of, it not the greatest inventor that ever lived, Nicola Tesla.