03/12/2024
Air Force Institute of Technology Citation.
Was sorting through some old files and found an unframed Citation from the United States Air Force Institute of Technology awarded to me in 1985.
This was after I had volunteered for and covered research into the Super Cooled Quantum Interference Device (SQUID) that measured flux and Josephson (junction) electromagnetic and other types of waves.
Sealed inside a thick concrete vault and seated in an equally insulated and isolated (very thick rubber bumpers) pilot type seat, the SQUID was directed towards my head to measure/graph brain waves.
I was instructed to view a series of colored light bulbs in an adjoining control room (also equally isolated and free from interference). As each bulb was lighted, my instructions were to concentrate on turning the bulb off. The SQUID was to detect the brain wave and make the bulb turn off based on replicating the same brain wave each time for the "off" function.
No words, no wires, just brain wave connectivity with the light bulbs. Turn the bulb(s) on. Turn the bulb(s) off by thought.
Other details I cannot discuss.
I can and did report on the purpose of the research. It was meant to free up a pilot in an advanced cockpit and next generation of fighter aircraft to train pilots and their electronics (imagine Ai) to use brain waves, some may consider it telepathy, to control certain aspects of either flight systems or armaments.
Lots of other fascinating research at that time by AFIT and some of the advanced directives at Wright Patterson Air Force Base and in the field at Eglin and Cleveland/NASA and others.
Some, like SQUID, were very interesting.
Thinking...you get the message.
