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Internet Archive (archive.org)

Investigator (STEP I), run 2026-10-08. Saved page text (evidence trail, not for publication) is in research/pages/. Findings are leads, not verdicts.

Searched

  • advancedsearch API: Vassilatos (40 rows); title:(prodigal genius) AND creator:(O'Neill); metadata for GeophysicalAnomalies
  • Fetched OCR text (djvu.txt) of Declassified Patents of the Cold War and SDI, and of Corliss, Lightning, Auroras, Nocturnal Lights and Related Luminous Phenomena. The first fetch of the Vassilatos text failed because the file name begins with a space; the URL was found through the item page in Chrome.

Found

  1. Gerry Vassilatos, Declassified Patents of the Cold War and SDI: Companion Study Guide for "Secrets of Cold War Technology" (Copyright 1997, PO Box 220, Bayside, California) [web: https://archive.org/details/gerry-vassilatos-declassified-patents-of-the-cold-war-and-sdi-1997-borderland-sc]. Uploaded 2025-06-26 to the "folkscanomy" collection by a third party; the copyright status of the upload is unknown. OCR text saved to pages/archive-declassified-patents-djvu.txt (2.7 MB). - Contents: Commentary; Beamray Weapons; Radiation Modulators; Radiation Detectors and Demodulators; Radiation Communications Systems. - Prologue: "What your eyes will presently feast upon represents technology which ... has already been superseded in countless new forms and parameters by its military developers." - CAL: "this system used such warheads for the production of super powerful light beams (De Ment, patent) ... the inventor referred to the resultant emissions as CAL (Clear Atomic Light)." This names the patentee behind claim 4's CAL. Patent number not yet extracted. - Farnsworth: "Cathode optics was the principle means by which Dr. Philo Farnsworth was ultimately able to successfully produce contained nuclear fusion reactions with control." He is also listed among makers of "true and powerful radiant energy receivers ... (Tesla, Hubbard, Moray, Ammon, Farnsworth)". - Keyword counts in the OCR: HAARP 0, electrojet 0, Eastlund 0, Raytheon 2 (lasers only), Mossbauer 69, Tesla 232, Farnsworth 37.
  2. Vril Compendium Vol. 1-11 (scans with OCR) [web: https://archive.org/details/vril-compendium-vol-1-vril-white-ray-conductors_202602]. Not read this run. Vol. 1 holds the aerial-battery patents cited in Ch.7.
  3. Lost Science (1999, ISBN 0-932813-75-5): several uploads, for example identifiers LostScience_201902 and lost-science-by-gerry-vassilatos. Not read. Its chapters on Tesla, Moray and Farnsworth overlap claims 2 and 7.
  4. Corliss, Lightning, Auroras, Nocturnal Lights... (Sourcebook Project) [web: https://archive.org/details/GeophysicalAnomalies]: - GLA21-X2, Norwood, Ontario, winter 1929: the radio set was "'dead', though the valves were alight ... a curtain of streamers extended from the sky to the ground and completely surrounded the house but at a distance of several feet ... accompanied by visible sparking and by snapping sounds." Source R2: "A Low Aurora and Its Effect on a Radio Receiver," Nature, 127:108, 1931. - GLA6, artificial low-level auroras: "The 1881-1882 experiments of Selim Lemstrom in Lapland are the only attempts found so far ... Lemstrom's experiments were widely reported but apparently never replicated. Rating: 2." - Low-aurora examples include Calgary on 31 Oct 1903 ("Tips of auroral shafts touched the ground") and Tromsø on 8 Mar 1932 (photographic measurement at 65 km).
  5. O'Neill, Prodigal Genius (1944): only lending-library copies (e.g. prodigalgeniusli0000john); full text not open.
  6. Court dockets named Vassilatos (e.g. Vassilatos v. Odessa Restaurant) are unrelated people. Not pursued.

Bearing on the claims

  • Claim 4: the companion volume is the patent base. Next run: extract the De Ment patent number and the gamma-ray communication patents for the physicist.
  • Claim 6: the Norwood account traces to Nature (1931). Corliss records Lemström as never replicated, which is that compiler's characterization, rated 2 on his own scale.
  • Claim 7: the author's own 1997 wording ("with control") sits beside the Farnsworth archive's "no longer than thirty seconds" (archiveswest note).