Working by torch inside his Omaha garage, a science professor and former air force meteorologist claims he has created the holy grail of sci-fi technology.
David Pares believes he has developed a proof-of-concept for a warp drive motor— a propulsion system that allows a spacecraft to travel at speeds faster than light.
The concept of warp drive technology has been made popular through science fiction movies such as Star Trek, in which spacecraft’s quickly move from one universe to another avoiding what would usually be thousands of years of transit time.
However, it was an encounter with a UFO when he was 16 that first sparked Mr Pares’s interest in the concept.
Mr Pares said he was at his home in upstate New York when he witnessed a silver saucer fly into the distance at hypersonic speed.
“I sighted a UFO and I can describe to you in great detail what I saw,” he told Motherboard.
“That was one of the driving forces and what pushed me towards engineering and the sciences, and learning as much as I could about every discipline possible because they’re all interconnected.
“If I were just in the physics discipline, I would have never figured this out.
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