Victor Stepanovich Grebennikov is an enthusiastic entomologist, his area of interest is insects. But one day he made an unexpected discovery, which he described in sufficient detail and honestly in the book "My World", published in Novosibirsk with a circulation of only one thousand copies.
An amazing discovery occurred in the summer of 1988, when the scientist examined the chitinous covers of the May beetle through a microscope. He was struck by the pattern on the inner side of the wing - it was an orderly, stamped composition, reminiscent of a honeycomb of bees. It would be difficult to understand why nature had to create such an exquisite structure, if not for an accident.
The researcher, without any purpose, put on one plate exactly the same one with extraordinary cells. And then a strange thing happened: the detail escaped from the tweezers, hung in the air for a couple of seconds, then smoothly fell onto the table. The plates were clearly interacting! Victor Stepanovich repeated the experiment - one plate was hovering over another!
After that, the scientist fastened several wings with a wire, having received a "chitinoblock" - and here not only light objects, but even a pushpin easily hung over the "block", and at some point it even completely disappeared from view, as if it had gone to another measurement. Grebennikov realized that he had accidentally bumped into something else: he had discovered the phenomenon of antigravity! Later, the scientist called his discovery the effect of cavity structures.
Grebennikov carefully examined the structure of the wing substrate under a microscope and was able to repeat it on an experimental model. It took him two years to make a compact flying platform for one person out of his artist's easel and a rack attached to it with control over the overlapping sectors of the cavity structures.
Grebennikov made his first flight on the night of March 17-18, 1990 from the VASKHNIL street - a small town (agricultural academy) near Novosibirsk, where he lived.
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Here is how he describes the first flight: “I got up straight from the street, believing that at 2 am everyone was asleep and no one saw me. The ascent seemed to start normally, but after a few seconds, when the houses with rare luminous windows went down and I was a hundred meters above the ground, I felt sick, as if I had fainted. I would have gone down here, but I didn’t, and in vain, since some powerful force seemed to wrest control of movement and gravity from me - and inexorably pulled me towards the city”.
He crossed the zone of nine-story buildings, flew past a snow-covered field, the Novosibirsk-Akademgorodok highway and rushed towards the bulk of the sleeping city. He was carried to the factory chimneys that were smoking thickly in the night.
“With the greatest difficulty, I was able to make an emergency reconfiguration of the block-panels with half a sin,” writes Viktor Stepanovich. - The horizontal movement began to slow down. Only from the fourth time it was possible to extinguish it and hover over Zatulinka - the Kirovsky district of the city … With relief, convinced that the "evil force" had disappeared, I slid back, but not towards VASKHNIL-town, but to the right, towards Tolmachev - to confuse the trail in that case if someone noticed me."
The next day, news, television and newspaper reports were more than disturbing to the tester. Headlines "UFO over Zatulinka", "Aliens again?" - clearly said that his flight was detected. Some perceived the "phenomenon" as luminous balls or discs, others argued that a "real saucer" with windows and beams was flying …
Since then, the inventor began to improve his "apparatus", undertaking sometimes very distant, up to 400 km, trips to places of nature reserves, where he continued to study insects. As a rule, flights took place in the summer.
Gennady Moiseevich Zadneprovsky talked about this, showing on the screen pictures of Grebennikov himself, and his strange apparatus, and a photo of the platform taking off. To admit, even for us, ufologists, accustomed to a variety of situations and surprises, it was difficult to grasp the reality of such a discovery.
Grebennikov's flights
This is how Grebennikov himself describes his flights.
“A sultry summer day. Dali are drowning in a bluish-lilac haze. I fly about three hundred meters above the ground, taking the distant lake as a reference point - a bright, elongated speck in a foggy haze. Paths wind between fields and copses. They run to the dirt roads, and those, in turn, stretch there, to the highway … Now I am in the shadow of a cloud; I increase my speed - it’s very easy for me to do it - and I fly out of the shadows … I am not held in the air by updrafts, I have no wings; in flight, my feet rest on a flat rectangular platform, slightly larger than the chair cover - with a stand and two handles, which I hold onto and with which I control the apparatus. Fantastic? How can I say …
… I can't be seen from below: even at very low flight, I mostly do not cast shadows at all. But still, as I found out later, people occasionally see something in this place of the sky: either a light ball or disk, or a semblance of a vertical or oblique cloud with sharp edges, moving, according to their testimony, somehow “not over a cloudy ". For the most part, people do not see anything, and I am still satisfied with that - you never know. Moreover, I have not yet established what the" visibility-invisibility "depends on. And therefore, I confess, I diligently avoid meeting people in this state, for which I fly far, far around cities and villages, and cross roads and paths at high speed, only making sure that there is no one on them.
… Alas, nature immediately set me its own severe restrictions: just look, but you can't take pictures. So here too: the shutter did not close, and the films taken with us - one cassette in the device, the other in the pocket - turned out to be completely and harshly exposed. At the same time, almost all the time both hands are busy, only one can be released for two or three seconds."
I would like to quote Grebennikov again and again, but anyone who is familiar with the Internet may well read the details and comments, see photos of the device on a number of sites. By the way, the average flight speed on the platform was calculated - up to 1200 km per hour. Like a jet plane, but no discomfort! Fantastic!
The fate of Grebennikov's discovery is unenviable. In Novosibirsk, the so-called committee for combating pseudoscience was actively operating, and the scientist was immediately and unconditionally enrolled in charlatans. Moreover, the natural scientist had only ten years of education. When it was necessary to study, he sat in Stalin's camps as the son of "enemies of the people."
And in the spring of 2001, due to a stroke, the scientist was gone … Now many enthusiasts are trying to restore the Grebennikov Antigravity Platform from his notes - this is the name his apparatus received.