The date was November 10th, 2020, and nearly a year into a global pandemic, Zoom calls and Google meetings had become commonplace. However, on this night, the conference about to take place, and the people in attendance were anything but common.
Unlike the countless online meetings held since last Spring, this first-ever Alternative Propulsion Energy Conference (APEC) would bring together Harvard University-trained PhDs, former and current National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA) Scientists, veteran engineers from places like the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), and put them in the same (virtual) place with fringe theorists and “garage” hobbyists, all with the common goal of trying to understand and hopefully conquer one of the most fundamental forces in our universe: gravity.
“The Alt Propulsion community is highly intersectional, and we’re sandwiched between the aerospace, defense, electrical engineering, physics, UFOs, and ‘frontier science’ cultures,” said the conference’s moderator and organizer Tim Ventura in an email to The Debrief. “We have folks from all of these cultures who visit the conference and present, and despite the fact that these various communities don’t always agree on some topics. We’ve been able to avoid conflict.”
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