Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein was a theoretical physicist whose General Theory of Relativity remains one of the foundations of modern physics. In 1916 he predicted that gravitational waves must exist as a consequence of the theory.¹ In April 1919, Theodor Kaluza, an obscure mathematician at the University of Königsberg in Germany, wrote to Einstein proposing to unify his theory of gravity with James Clerk Maxwell’s theory of electromagnetic radiation by introducing a fifth dimension.² Because Einstein had already designated time as the fourth dimension in formulating general and special relativity, Kaluza was forced to specify his additional spatial dimension as a fifth.³ The French mathematician Elie-Joseph Cartan is generally considered the theoretical father of torsion physics, having in 1913 published a refinement of Einstein’s general theory of relativity under which curved spacetime could flow in spiral patterns around rotating objects, a phenomenon termed torsion.⁴

According to Dark Mission, Einstein referred to quantum mechanics as “sorcery” on account of the rapidly multiplying population of fundamental particles produced by atom-smasher experiments,⁵ and he remained sceptical that quantum mechanics was a complete answer to the questions posed by the physical universe, even after accepting some of its experimental results.⁶ An anonymous correspondent of James L. Tuck wrote, in correspondence dated 1970-11-23, that James M. McCampbell’s chapter “Flight and Propulsion” in UFOLOGY strengthened their conviction that Einstein, while seemingly straying from the main current of physical research in his later years, was on the scent of a unified field theory.⁷ In 1932 Einstein stated that there was not the slightest indication that nuclear energy would ever be obtainable, and that it would mean the atom would have to be shattered at will.⁸ He later wrote a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt that started the United States on the road to splitting the atom and creating the atomic bomb.⁹ Chris Ramsay has suggested that Einstein’s refusal to be part of the Manhattan Project probably signalled to the US government that he could not be trusted,¹⁰ and considers that J. Robert Oppenheimer was possibly more involved in the Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) or Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) subject than Einstein was.¹¹

In an interview published in the London Daily Mail in January 1920, Einstein said there is every reason to believe that Mars and other planets are inhabited.¹² Asked how such creatures might attempt to communicate with Earth, he said he would not expect them to use wireless radio, but that light rays would more probably be the first method attempted since their direction can be controlled more easily.¹³ Chris Ramsay has said that these comments were made in response to contemporary claims by radio pioneer Giulielmo Marconi that he had received mysterious signals he thought might have originated from Mars.¹⁴

Einstein’s name also surfaces in accounts of the Roswell UFO crash and its aftermath, chiefly through the documentary Aliens and Albert Einstein - The Secret Document. According to the Irish Times report of 1947-07-09, Einstein told a United Press correspondent he had absolutely no comment to make regarding the Roswell reports from New Mexico.¹⁵ According to the documentary, during the 1952 Washington, D.C. UFO flap, Reverend Lewis A. Gardner sent Einstein a letter asking whether he believed flying saucers came from space - specifically Mars or Venus - or were advanced military technology experiments created by the United States Air Force or America’s foes.¹⁶ Einstein replied on 1952-07-23, writing from the Institute for Advanced Study in New Jersey Princeton, that “those people have seen something,” that he did not know what it was, and that he was not curious to know.¹⁷ Frank Edwards, in a 1956 lecture, maintained that in 1952 Einstein had delivered an urgent message to then-President Harry S. Truman warning that Truman’s shoot-down policy toward UFOs over Washington was unwise.¹⁸ According to Edwards’s account, the message read: “Mr. President, anyone who can cross millions of miles of space will be able to take care of himself after he gets there. Don’t start something you can’t finish."¹⁹ In a confession tape, Shirley Wright said she studied under Einstein at Princeton and was taken to the Roswell crash site, given a tour inside the craft, shown eight dead bodies and one living entity, and had an exchange and communication with one of the entities.²⁰ Records checked by Chris Ramsay do not show Wright as an official assistant of Einstein, though they do show she studied under him.²¹

The document known as The Relationships with Inhabitants of Celestial Bodies was allegedly written in June 1947 by Einstein and J. Robert Oppenheimer.²² The same documentary reports that it is signed by Dr J. Robert Oppenheimer, Director of Advanced Studies at Princeton, and Professor Albert Einstein of Princeton.²³ Chris Ramsay has described the document’s claim that the presence of unidentified spacecraft was accepted as de facto by the military as a bold claim, if true.²⁴

Einstein’s remarks recur elsewhere in the UFO literature. According to The Fatima Secret, Corrado Balducci related that Einstein, asked how a third world war would end, said he did not know, but that any war after that would be fought with bows and arrows.²⁵ Michael Hesemann has suggested that the fulfilment of the tenth Medjugorje secret, after which “those left on earth will live in harmony with God,” may hint that mankind will be returned to a primitive state, just as Einstein had predicted.²⁶ Ken Wilber has described the concept that the universe is a hologram - the “Holographic view of the universe” - as one also proposed by Max Planck, Einstein, and other major scientists.²⁷ Einstein is quoted as saying that the most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious, which he considered the source of all true art and science.²⁸ David Fravor has said that some theories proposed by Einstein, once considered fanciful, have since been experimentally proven with technology now available,²⁹ citing as an example the experimental confirmation that gravity can bend light, a prediction of general relativity,³⁰ and noting that some of the world’s leading physicists initially dismissed Einstein’s theories before he was proven correct.³¹