Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Nearly Released 20 Tons of Mercury Annually Into Atmosphere
"In 2018, Apollo Fusion, Inc. began quietly pitching Mercury engines to satellite manufacturers. Mercury is cheap and efficient. A few pounds of mercury could power a satellite for a year. Thousands of satellites mean saving billions of dollars. Small problem, though. All those engines emit their mercury waste back to Earth. A whistleblower did the math. In 2018 alone, about 4,000 satellites were launched. Just a thousand satellites would dump around 20 tons of mercury into the upper atmosphere, and that was 20 tons every year."
About this episode
The Y Files host AJ examines claims that Nazi Germany developed an anti-gravity weapon called Die Glocke (the bell) during World War II and traces alleged connections to modern US Navy patents for advanced propulsion technology. The episode explores how ancient Indian king Bhoja wrote about mercury-powered flying machines in 1010 AD but deliberately withheld construction details due to mercury's toxicity. AJ details how the Nazis allegedly attempted to build a bell-shaped device powered by counter-rotating mercury cylinders that could warp time and gravity, though project leader Hans Kammler and the bell itself disappeared at war's end. The episode reveals that NASA engineer Harold Calfman successfully built a mercury-powered ion engine in the 1960s that operated for 11 years on the SERT 2 satellite before the program was abandoned due to mercury poisoning of workers. In 2017-2018, aerospace engineer Salvatore Pais filed multiple US Navy patents for gravity-warping, cloaking, and advanced propulsion technologies allegedly based on spinning charged matter, with the Navy claiming the technology works and that China is pursuing similar capabilities. Most dramatically, the episode exposes how Apollo Fusion, Inc. nearly commercialized mercury-powered satellite engines in 2018 that would have released 20 metric tons of mercury annually into Earth's atmosphere before a UN treaty closed the loophole in 2022. AJ ultimately concludes that while the Nazi bell story lacks solid documentation and likely originated from a single journalist's unverified source, the recurring pattern of mercury-based propulsion attempts throughout history demonstrates humanity's repeated failure to heed ancient warnings about the metal's catastrophic toxicity.
Key takeaways
- US Navy filed patents in 2017-2018 for anti-gravity propulsion, cloaking technology, and advanced spacecraft allegedly based on spinning charged matter principles similar to Nazi bell weapon claims
- Apollo Fusion company attempted to deploy mercury-powered satellite engines in 2018 that would have released 20 metric tons of mercury into Earth's atmosphere annually before UN banned the practice in 2022
- NASA engineer Harold Calfman built mercury-powered ion engine in 1960s that successfully operated for 11 years on SERT 2 satellite before program abandoned due to worker poisoning
- Aerospace engineer Salvatore Pais, inventor of Navy's controversial patents, currently works for United States Space Force with most details about his technology remaining classified
- Ancient Indian king Bhoja documented mercury-powered flying machines in 1010 AD but deliberately withheld construction instructions warning the technology was too dangerous to build
- Nazi SS commander Hans Kammler, who allegedly oversaw Die Glocke bell weapon project, disappeared in 1945 with US documents showing him in American custody despite official death claims
- Die Glocke story originated from single journalist Igor Witkowski in 2000 based on interrogation transcripts that no other researcher has verified or seen