John Hutchison

John Hutchison is a Canadian self-proclaimed inventor who claims to have discovered, and promptly forgotten, the secrets of levitation, free energy, and how to make certain metals vanish. He also claims to work for the US Military while living in Vancouver, Canada.

Hutchison also runs a blog, Waiting on the Edge of Forever. This blog contains scans of documents which supposedly help support his claims.

The Hutchison Effect
While attempting to recreate the experiments of Nikola Tesla in the late 1970s, Hutchison claims to have discovered new phenomena, including effects manifesting in metals. The effects of his experiments supposedly included metal objects floating to the ceiling, shattering, melting while keeping enclosing wood cool, fusing with other objects and other interesting manifestations. These disparate manifestations are all being lumped together under the name "Hutchison Effect". Explanations of the effect rely heavily on technobabble, especially referencing zero point energy and the Casimir effect.

In particular, Hutchison claims to have invented batteries (called "Crystal Batteries" or "Hiroshima cells") which are capable of creating free energy. This purported technological revolution, which he says has the potential to change the world around us is yet another example of Hutchison's extraordinary effect(s). It's certainly odd too, when one considers the fact that no other scientific breakthroughs have been blocked in such a way in democratic countries such as Canada and that making such a breakthrough should make a person a billionaire.

Replication woes
No attempt to replicate Hutchison's experiments by a third party has so far been successful. Many agencies, including NASA, have attempted to recreate the Hutchison Effect. After extensive testing, Marc Millis, NASA's head of finding new propulsion methods for spacecraft, wrote:

Fraudulent footage
Hutchison himself claims to have replicated the results numerous times prior to 1991, while admitting some footage he has released since (at $100 per tape) was faked, as he is no longer able to recreate the effects. He assumed that nobody would notice that the "levitating" objects were actually falling in front of an upside-down camera  or held up with in visible strings, which he initially tried to convince his audience were cords supplying power to the levitating objects. As Hutchison said:

Tim Ventura later removed this explanation from the American Antigravity website, and claimed that Hutchison got "creative" with the footage because the EPA won't let him do experiments anymore.

The "levitation" effects have been mockingly reproduced by Ace Baker (while juggling in the background) and Bill Beaty.

9/11 nonsense
When asked why he is unable to demonstrate the results of his experiment anymore, Hutchison claims he has been coerced and had his work destroyed by the government, which then used his technology to do 9/11.