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May 2010_june_july_2009.qxd 31/05/2010 6:15 PM Page 15 UFO Inspires Inventor 15 UFO Inspires Inventor to Get Better Gas Mileage By Grant Lawrence A UFO and a Eureka Moment helped a man figure out a way to get better gas mileage. Cliff Baillargeon was stationed in Morocco in the Navy. In 1959, he noticed a UFO out there in the ocean and many years later it dawned on him what this green saucer shaped object, doing incredible turns and vanishing in an instant, was doing. According to Baillargeon, the saucer was drinking its fuel. Just 5 grams of hydrogen when burned with oxygen can power starships so he figured he could do a pretty good job of powering his Toyota using similar technology. .…Baillargeon’s key to fuel economy is a black box that he purchased for $800 from one of the Hawking Says Aliens universe now advising us to avert our eyes if the many websites selling “HHO generators.” The view gets too interesting. WTF? box sits in an old milk create in the trunk of his Likely, Media Scoffs ... On Monday, May 10, Washington car among wires, tubes and a solar panel he Again lobbyist Stephen Bassett will hold a press uses to charge his car battery in emergencies. conference at the National Press Building. He’ll This box takes water and breaks it into technorati.com use the conference to pressure the media to take hydrogen and oxygen at a ratio two to one. The seriously what he calls “the alien presence” and process is called electrolysis and the gas it British astrophysicist Stephen he’ll ask the current administration to release its produces is usually referred to as HHO, Hawking’s recent statement that the outcome of UFO files into the public domain. oxyhydrogen or Brown’s human contact with extraterrestrials “would be It’s a drum he’s been banging for 13 gas…..(source:fosters.com) much as when Christopher Columbus first years with only marginal success. landed in America” has mainstream media Stay tuned. Skeptics that have tested the type of reporters clutching their pearls. system Baillargeon uses and say it has no The Christian Science Monitor ran a Space invaders: Teens say impact on fuel economy. photo of the sitcom alien puppet Alf with its But Baillargeon disagrees. coverage of Hawking’s comments, and NBC car was `picked up' by “I don’t believe it. All I can say is I’m Nightly News anchor Brian Williams wrapped UFO in arcade parking lot getting the fuel mileage,” he says. up his 30-second news brief with this: “Make a note. He indicates we should stay away from ….According to the Environmental Protection them at all costs.” Two teens parked at the Funspot arcade Agency, a 2003 five speed manual transmission Yes, Brian, and if we happen to touch in Laconia, N.H. say their car was picked up by Celica like Baillargeon’s gets 27 miles per one, we’ll be sure to wash our hands. an unidentified flying object, then dropped to gallon in the city and 33 on the highway. Why the reflexively dismissive the pavement. Baillargeon hadn’t determined what his treatment of matters ufological? Why the A 16-year-old, identified as ``D'' by the homemade hybrid’s city gas mileage was. nervous chuckles and flip commentary, U.S. National UFO Reporting Center However, with the help of an electronic mileage regardless of the credibility or credentials of the (NUFORC), says the Ford Focus he was driving gauge sitting on his dash, he placed his highway people involved? was lifted into the air by a brightly lit object ``as mileage at 42 miles per gallon. That’s only nine In 2007, former two-term Republican big as 14 houses.'' miles per gallon less than the Toyota Prius and governor Fife Symington told CNN’s Gary D told investigators he and his girlfriend one less than the Honda Insight…..(source) Tuchman that he’d been among the thousands ``saw the parking lot park lines started getting who, in 1997, witnessed what’s come to be smaller'' and their ears began to pop before the So the jury is still out on whether known as The Phoenix Lights. “In your gut, you intergalactic tow truck dropped the car, Baillargeon’s electrolysis making box could just tell it was other-worldly,” Symington deploying the air bags. producing what is called ‘brown gas’ is actually said, “Unless the defense department proves In a report filed with the Laconia Police really saving on gas. otherwise, it was probably some form of alien Department, Officer Adam Batstone says But the idea seems sound. Or at least to spacecraft.” damage to the car's windshield was consistent me. In 2008, astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell with an air bag deployment. D's girlfriend says The now retired Baillargeon, who has told Kerrang (U.K.) radio host Nick the car belonged to her mother. built airplanes, gyrocopters, and even what he Margerrison that “the UFO phenomenon is ``[The officer] didn't check underneath claims is a perpetual motion machine, says it is real,” an assertion he said was backed by the car,'' she told NUFORC investigators. ``But all about experimenting. Pentagon sources. we found out later that the underside was Evidently Baillargeon isn’t giving up the But Tuchman concluded his piece about totalled.'' future to big oil monopolies and oil disasters. Symington with, “It’s as much a mystery today Instead he is using his UFO inspired as it was a decade ago” and let the matter go at imagination to help power machines and point that. No further investigation. And when CNN to the future.[] invited Mitchell to discuss his statements on Larry King Live, it paired the sixth man to walk The ‘X’ Zone Radio Show on the moon with none other than children's television personality Bill Nye the Science Guy. with No less curious than the Fourth Estate’s Rob McConnell lack of investigative moxy is Hawking’s failure NOW AVAILABLE AT to call for the scientific equivalent of a full court www.xzoneradiotv.com press. Here’s a man who’s spent most of his www.xzonestore.com professional life expanding our view of the