Ken Shoulders Primary Research: A Search for the Energy Behind UFO’s/UAP

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9 min readOct 7, 2022

Ken Shoulders was an experimental physicist that worked at SRI and pioneered modern day microelectronics. He also pioneered early drone technology. He worked with Hal Puthoff in trying to understand EVO’s, which he figured out how to control and measure. This is detailed in his short wiki page, but it only scratches the surface.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_R._Shoulders

EVO’s stands for exotic vacuum objects. They can also be called condensed charge clustors. They are described as being extremely tightly packed electrons to the point of resembling physical matter, but in plasma form. They also are described as having the ability to create electric double layers with protons attached to the negatively charged cluster. Such extreme densities are often thought to be in violation of physics, however, Richard Feynman has expressed under certain circumstances such arrangements are possible and evidence of this bizarre phenomena has been collected by Ken Shoulders.

An enormous amount of Ken’s well documented work is archived in Philadelphia, PA at the Science History Institute.
https://www.sciencehistory.org/

So, I paid a visit and started taking pictures of what I found. There was too much for me to document it all and the amount I did manage to walk away with in no way can be covered in a single post. This is a preliminary dissemination of the information I found in the archives (much of which is not on the internet) and related information I’ve found elsewhere. Ken’s work could be studied for years if not decades and he documented a lot of it as well as much of his correspondences even personal notes about people he met. There are letters between him and Puthoff at the archives, but unfortunately I somehow missed them and will have to go back. This research will give a lot of insight and lead to many rabbit holes, but my primary focus is his discoveries related to EVO’s, which are a very real phenomena.

TLDR: Ken Shoulder’s is basically like the Nikola Tesla of our era and discovered how to make a new kind of plasma that most physicists would claim violates the laws of physics, but it’s very real and in fact does not. Richard Feynman didn’t believe him at first then apologized in a letter. Additionally, it can be explained and replicated. It also explains many reports of “cold fusion” and Ken documented it all with a few others while he tried in earnest to patent and commercialize the technology. It’s also covered in one of the DIRDs as “ideal for further research.”

I made a YouTube video version of this post if you don’t want to read all this. https://youtu.be/V0lp5w2XxUI

Ken became interested in EVO’s after realizing others had documented there existence in the literature, but never bothered to fully investigate them as he details in his self published book EV: A Tale of Discovery.
https://freel.tech/charge-clusters/publications/shoulders/1%20-%20Ken%20Shoulders_EV,%20a%20tale%20of%20discovery.pdf

He realizes the work of Winston Bostick is the best source of investigation into a potentially new discovery early in his research. Bostick was a plasma physicist that discovered plasmoids, plasma focus, and plasma vortex phenomena.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_H._Bostick

Ken went on to immerse himself in investigating what he coined EV’s or EVO’s. He published a number of patents related to them including a patent to generate energy from them in 1992.
https://patents.google.com/patent/US5123039A/en

One of the recently published DIRDS, Concepts For Extracting Energy From The Quantum Vacuum, covers EVO’s and concludes that “topic is ideal to pursue for further research.”
https://www.reddit.com/r/observingtheanomaly/comments/tm023c/ken_shoulders_evos_mentioned_in_dird_extracting/

Ken shared his discovery with Richard Feynman who initially refused to believe him, but I found a letter from Feynman to Shoulders in which he apologizes and admits that it’s real.
https://i.imgur.com/T4iveGP.jpg

I made a title “EV’s, EVO’s, Condensed Charge Clusters, and CCT” if you want to skip directly to EVO’s. Also, if you want to skip even further to just the biggest finds from the archives go down to “The Meat and Potatoes”

Primary Research (From the Archives)

These are picture of the documents archived in the museum of his work. I will share some brief notes that corroborate his work in microelectronics and drones to establish his credibility as a physicist. I will share as much as I can about his work with EVO’s, but it’s difficult to cover it all. I will also share some personal notes that I found interesting and could possibly be used by investigative sleuths to learn more.

Microelectronics

Here are some personal notes dated from 1956–57 about microelectronics. Back then the term didn’t even exist. I work in this field and can tell you he is describing things that didn’t commercially exist for another 20 years. Below are some notes describing building logic gates using field emitters and micro transistors, ion gauges, clean room design, physical vapor deposition, micro patterning, sputtering, and lift off techniques known to those skilled in the art of microelectronics fabrication.
https://i.imgur.com/A5bwAwE.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/ibhUd9n.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/n9blgel.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/MAEFk1i.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/zqframU.jpg

Vertitek (Drones)

In 1970 he formed the drone company Vertitek. He planned to make a commercially available toy that operated via ultrasonic frequency to avoid collisions powered by a free piston engine. There’s a lot of documents on this endeavor, but I’ll just share a few for now.
https://i.imgur.com/QeNEVJD.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/9iEucvd.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/ovwAsY3.jpg

He has a unique approach to his drones in that they operate with a single wing design as you can see in his patent.
https://patents.google.com/patent/US3915414

I’ve found correspondences between Ken and SRI and the military discussing his drone technology as apparently it was first conceived while still employed by SRI. Ken appeared to have some disputes over who owned the technology and was more interested in making a toy out of it. If I recall correctly, he has long pages of notes about discussing opportunities with KB toys and Mattel, but I’m pressed to find them among the 250+ pictures at the moment. It appeared to me that he was given permission to make toys, but that SRI and the military wanted to retain rights to any military applications. If anybody requests I find these I’ll dig them up.

Here is a previous post I made showing the potential connection between Ken’s company Vertitek and contemporary drone companies.
https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/t8vnm5/a_little_known_drone_that_can_appear_invisible/

Notes

I found some interesting notecards from 1972 that mention Pete Peterson, J.G. Gallimore, Eyring Research Institute, a missing bismuth wound dielectric motor, White Star Ranch and antigravity.
https://i.imgur.com/R446oHX.jpg

He mentions some of these names again as well as “psychic stuff” and accuses one of them of being a “complete squirrel”
https://i.imgur.com/zqpXdyx.jpg

Ken appears to have been researching gravity around this time and notes a new theory by Dr. Jakob Mandelker.
https://i.imgur.com/Wfpn5fp.jpg

Roger Billings is a pioneer of hydrogen energy technology
https://i.imgur.com/U9z5B1m.jpg

Jim Hollenhurst, who was at Stanford at the time and is big in technology today.
https://i.imgur.com/52ahzdI.jpg

Related research to the notes

I tried looking up Pete Peterson and found an interview with David Wilcock S4Ep2 where he discusses meeting Ken in the 70’s and seeing his lab. He claims Ken showed him working prototypes of the drone and that it was small enough to fit in your hand with 17 horse power and powered by isobutene. He also says Ken was at least 50–200 years ahead of everyone else. I do take this guy with a grain of salt, however, because he claims a lot of wild things and it’s basically hearsay. Pete covers psychotronics pretty heavily in this series which Lue Elizondo recently confirmed is a real field.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9072966/?ref_=tt_ep_nx

Timestamp of Lue confirming Russians experimented with psychotronic weapons
https://youtu.be/3mkYu7Wbyz4?t=3474

Eyring Research Institute is a “non-profit” formed around that time with known ties to top secret programs according to wiki.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyring_Research_Institute

Dr. Jakob Mandelker’s 1951 book on gravity is hard to find but here is one below.
https://www.amazon.ca/New-Theory-Gravitation-Jakob-Mandelker/dp/125876928X

Roger Billings has a wiki
https://yamm.finance/wiki/Roger_Billings.html

Jim Hollenhurst is on linkedin
https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-hollenhorst-181b944/

EV’s, EVO’s, Condensed Charge Clusters, and CCT

EVO’s (This is where it get’s really interesting)

Intro

There’s a lot to take in and I’m honestly not sure where to start. I linked Ken’s book to EV’s at the top, but even that is overwhelming. He has numerous patents related to them, but patents are also very difficult to make sense of. The good news is that Ken provided sources to try to explain his discoveries using what he called “mainstream” terms. I also was able to find his old website where he shares a lot of information. It appears Ken wanted to get this information out. I also found some correspondences and work of others that helps put things into perspective. This all culminates in a patent that was written, but appears to have been rejected by the patent office using EVO’s for cold fusion.

Before you write off EVO’s and cold fusion I want to reiterate that EVO’s are real and very well documented. Ken has slide after slide of SEM and other characterization analysis. EV’s or EVO’s can also go by the name of high energy charge clusters or a whole host of other terms. It turns out that many people have discovered and documented them and used different terminology because it’s not well published information. Before I get into sharing Ken’s work I want to point out that Ross Coulthart, famed journalist and author of In Plain Sight, in his interview on TOE mentions cold fusion and the SAFIRE Project using EVO’s (he specifically uses the term EVO around 2:19:10 .) Here is a link to the spot where they discuss this.
https://youtu.be/JM3kxeU_oDE?t=8316

SAFIRE has been looked at by Puthoff and Eric Davis as well as Los Alamos and few other notable names. Couthart says he’s taking the project seriously and notes that academic dismissiveness in cold fusion research is “not entirely legitimate.”
https://www.safireproject.com/
https://aureon.ca/

It’s also worth noting SAFIRE is working off of the electric universe theory of Bostick (the discoverer of plasma phenomena that inspired Ken Shoulders I linked above.) What many people don’t seem to realize is that SAFIRE isn’t the first project to get these kinds of repeatable results. Ken’s work was repeatable and thanks to the work of others is now well described as you will see. One project Ross mentions is the Martin Fleischmann Memorial Project.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEy09JW5XAd95JmknU1JOeQ

Ross actually interviews Bob Greenyer of this project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rsHAd9GzLU

and Bob Greenyer does a great presentation to APEC on EVO’s
https://www.altpropulsion.com/events/apec-1-29-evos-gravity-theory-john-hutchison/

If you read my comment on the post below you can see how EVO’s may potentially be related to the Pais Effect (assuming it’s real) because they do in fact create the energy density he claims is necessary.
https://www.reddit.com/r/observingtheanomaly/comments/tsqkzd/interview_with_salvatore_pais/

In this paper it’s shown that EVO’s can reach 10⁶ Tesla and 10¹⁹ J/m³ using an input of 2.5 kV. It stands to reason that if it scales and I’m not fudging the math, an input that approaches 1 mega volts should also approach the values Pais is claiming will bridge the quantum vacuum with general relativity. (Look around page 11 equation 40.)
https://freel.tech/charge-clusters/publications/others/2%20-%20JNE1N4_5-20%20-%20Characteristics%20Of%20High-Density%20Charge%20Clusters%20-%20A%20Theoretical%20Model.pdf

The Meat and Potatoes

If you’ve made it this far good for you. I promise I will be posting more primary research related to EVO’s directly from Ken Shoulders and his associates in the next post. Frankly, I’m running out of bandwidth myself. Some Juicy stuff below.

Observations on the Role of Charge Clusters in Nuclear Cluster Reactions
http://oriharu.net/evo/nev_clusters_2.pdf

Here is a letter from Hal Fox describing intent to patent an EVO apparatus to facilitate nuclear reactions with Ken.
https://i.imgur.com/zO2SeZb.jpg

Here is first page draft of said patent from 1996.
https://i.imgur.com/XB2bGEN.jpg

Here’s the first page of said patent with docket number. Any lawyers care to look it up for us?
https://i.imgur.com/LN97XD4.jpg

Here is the first page of a 1997 Nevada business plan with Larry Azure to remediate radioactive materials and obtain funding from the Department of Energy. It names Tom Shanks as funder of Ken’s laboratory.
https://i.imgur.com/gbvgDF8.jpg

Ken has an entire print out of the book Cold Fusion: The Scientific Fiasco of the Century in his archives.
https://www.amazon.com/Cold-Fusion-Scientific-Fiasco-Century/dp/0198558171

I managed to find Ken’s old website on the wayback machine and it’s full of more information. I found this because Ken had printouts from the website in his archives. It saves me a lot of work actually.
https://web.archive.org/web/20070928100909/http://www.svn.net/krscfs/

Related information

I found and bought a book that covers experiments in Kiev, Ukraine done in the early 2000’s that also claim to transmute elements and allow for nuclear remediation. I shared it in the post below.
https://www.reddit.com/r/observingtheanomaly/comments/tjogh3/controlled_nucleosynthesis_breakthroughs_in/

The point being numerous people have been reporting transmutations and anomalous energy output since the famous Pons-Fleischmann results of 1989. Shoulders, Adamenko and SAFIRE are not the only people since then to report these kinds of results. Much like the stigma of UAP/UFO’s keeps academia out of the subject the same can be said for “cold fusion.”

This is just part 1 of my preliminary research into Ken’s work and EVO’s. It’s so much I haven’t had enough time to dive into everything I just shared deeply yet myself. It’s like drinking out of a firehouse and I’m sharing this research with you all in real time. There’s so much more to come.

Ken Shoulders Primary Research: A Search for the Energy Behind UFO’s/UAP

I made a YouTube video version of this post if you don’t want to read all this. https://youtu.be/V0lp5w2XxUI

Written by Observing The Anomaly