2026-10-04 Inexplicata blog (inexplicata.blogspot.com)

Page: "Jacques Bergier: The Occult at NASA and The Pentagon", posted 20 May 2026. It is Scott Corrales' 1992 translation of a chapter of Jacques Bergier's The Secret War of the Occult (1978). Read in Chrome. https://inexplicata.blogspot.com/2026/05/jacques-bergier-occult-at-nasa-and.html [web]

Bergier is a French writer (co-author of Le Matin des magiciens) whose own stance in this chapter is that "flying saucers do not exist". He is an interested party with his own framing (UFO groups as an espionage tool).

Passage on Rho Sigma (summarised; one short quote): - He calls Rho Sigma "a distinguished German scientist who was at Peenemunde and who currently works for NASA. His identity is unknown to me." - He cites the German book "Forschung in Fesseln. Elektro-Gravitation UFO-Phänomene: Das Rätsel der Elektro-Gravitation" (Wiesbaden: Ventla Verlag, 1972). In his reading, its thesis is that the study of levitation leads to anti-gravity; this research is disrupted in the West, while the East has built experimental electro-gravitic aircraft classified as flying saucers; the West would have to restart the research for its military survival. - He asserts that "This report was taken seriously and led to the creation of a team to pursue investigations: Electrodynamic Gravity Inc., P.O. Box 1976, Sarasota, FL 33578."

Bearing: - It independently confirms (1978, before the Schaffranke attribution became common) the pseudonym's Peenemünde/NASA story and the 1972 German original. - Bergier's causal claim about Electrodynamic Gravity Inc. is in tension with the record found this run: that company was W.J. Hooper's, it was the assignee on a patent filed 19 April 1968, and Hooper died 14 February 1971, both before the 1972 book (see the google-patents note). Possible readings: Bergier conflated two things; Ventla had an earlier Rho Sigma text; or the company continued after Hooper. Florida corporate records (sunbiz.org) and the Ventla publication history would decide it. Recorded as a lead, not a finding. - It also places Edgar Mitchell's Institute of Noetic Sciences (Mitchell wrote the book's foreword) in the same 1970s milieu.