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Salvatore Pais

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Salvatore Pais · 0:20:30

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American Alchemy · 0:24:59

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American Alchemy · 0:41:06

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Pais filed patents through the Naval Air Warfare Center for a craft using an inertial mass reduction device and a room-temperature superconductor. The Navy said tests found no effect. The corpus discusses the patents as either disinformation or a hint of hidden physics.

Who

RoleUS Navy aerospace engineer whose 2016–19 patents describe inertial-mass reduction and a 'pais effect'
Sidecontractor
Statusverified public figure (does the person exist and hold the stated position — not whether their claims are true)

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Claims made

  • US10144532B2 ('Craft using an inertial mass reduction device') lists Salvatore Cezar Pais as inventor and the U.S. Department of the Navy as assignee; application US15/141,270 was filed 2016-04-28 and granted 2018-12-04.

    FACT documented 2025

    • 0:20:30 Meet the Navy Scientist With UFO Patents (Ft. Salvatore Pais) · Salvatore Pais
      five patent applications, mind you, three of them became patents. The two that did not become patents are the ones that seem to be most mundane. The high frequency gravitational wave generator became a patent.
  • Pais states that of five Navy patent applications, three issued as patents (including the high-frequency gravitational wave generator and the craft/inertial-mass reduction device) while two more mundane applications did not issue — and that the room-temperature superconductor application was refused by the examiner.

    FACT well-supported 2025

    • 0:20:30 Meet the Navy Scientist With UFO Patents (Ft. Salvatore Pais) · Salvatore Pais
      five patent applications, mind you, three of them became patents. The two that did not become patents are the ones that seem to be most mundane.
  • Pais explicitly ties his mechanism talk to the Schwinger limit for electron-positron pair production from the vacuum — a real QED threshold — while offering no measured lab field near that threshold.

    INFERENCE well-supported 2025

    • 0:30:47 Meet the Navy Scientist With UFO Patents (Ft. Salvatore Pais) · Salvatore Pais
      The Schwinger limit really this whole idea of generation of particle antiparticle fields.
  • Pais names USPTO examiner Philip Bonsel/Bonzel as initially arguing the claimed electric fields (~10^18 V/m) were impossible outside neutron-star conditions, yet the inertial-mass craft patent later issued.

    FACT contested 2025

    • 0:21:02 Meet the Navy Scientist With UFO Patents (Ft. Salvatore Pais) · Salvatore Pais
      Philip Bonzel was extremely uh uh in awe of the he said this is not possible I mean neutron stars cannot produce this electric fields and magnetic fields we're talking about electric fields on the order of 10 to the 18 volts per meter
  • Pais asks Jesse to post his 2019 AIAA SciTech slide deck together with the USPTO examiner interview materials as public-domain enablement context for the patents.

    FACT contested 2025

    • 0:28:11 Meet the Navy Scientist With UFO Patents (Ft. Salvatore Pais) · Salvatore Pais
      look into the the slide presentation that I presented at the 2019 AIAA Scitec. That presentation, please also post that in in your podcast as along with the the patent uh examiner interview
  • On American Alchemy, Salvatore Pais states he works for the United States Navy, previously worked for the United States Space Force, and speaks only as a private citizen whose views are not Navy/Space Force positions.

    FACT contested 2025

    • 0:03:13 Meet the Navy Scientist With UFO Patents (Ft. Salvatore Pais) · Salvatore Pais
      my name is Salvatore Chesar Pis. I
  • Pais testified that a high-energy electromagnetic field generator experiment was attempted at NAVAIR but could not obtain surface charge above about 10^-8 C/m^2, far below the ~1 C/m^2 he says is needed to demonstrate the 'Pais effect'.

    FACT thin 2025

    • 0:26:09 Meet the Navy Scientist With UFO Patents (Ft. Salvatore Pais) · Salvatore Pais
      We worked on a high energy electromagnetic field generated experiment uh at Navier. Uh however we weren't able to obtain a charge an electrical charge of more than 10 the minus 8 kms. We need at least one to show that the pis effe
  • Pais notes claimed room-temperature superconductivity replications and Nobel-motivated author-count games in that literature — adjacent to why his own RT-superconductor patent was refused.

    FACT thin 2025

    • 0:46:59 Meet the Navy Scientist With UFO Patents (Ft. Salvatore Pais) · Salvatore Pais
      there are these uh claimed replications of room temperature. Okay. 99. They refer.

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  • Meet the Navy Scientist With UFO Patents (Ft. Salvatore Pais) 24 January 2025

    • 0:00:00 interview
    • 0:03:13 Salvatore Pais On American Alchemy, Salvatore Pais states he works for the United States Navy…
      my name is Salvatore Chesar Pis. I
    • 0:20:30 Salvatore Pais
      five patent applications, mind you, three of them became patents. The two that did not become patents are the ones that seem to be most mundane. The high frequency gravitational wave generator became a patent.
    • 0:20:30 Salvatore Pais
      five patent applications, mind you, three of them became patents. The two that did not become patents are the ones that seem to be most mundane.
    • 0:21:02 Salvatore Pais Pais names USPTO examiner Philip Bonsel/Bonzel as initially arguing the claimed electric…
      Philip Bonzel was extremely uh uh in awe of the he said this is not possible I mean neutron stars cannot produce this electric fields and magnetic fields we're talking about electric fields on the order of 10 to the 18 volts per meter
    • 0:26:09 Salvatore Pais Pais testified that a high-energy electromagnetic field generator experiment was…
      We worked on a high energy electromagnetic field generated experiment uh at Navier. Uh however we weren't able to obtain a charge an electrical charge of more than 10 the minus 8 kms. We need at least one to show that the pis effe
    • 0:28:11 Salvatore Pais Pais asks Jesse to post his 2019 AIAA SciTech slide deck together with the USPTO…
      look into the the slide presentation that I presented at the 2019 AIAA Scitec. That presentation, please also post that in in your podcast as along with the the patent uh examiner interview
    • 0:30:47 Salvatore Pais Pais explicitly ties his mechanism talk to the Schwinger limit for electron-positron…
      The Schwinger limit really this whole idea of generation of particle antiparticle fields.
    • 0:46:59 Salvatore Pais Pais notes claimed room-temperature superconductivity replications and Nobel-motivated…
      there are these uh claimed replications of room temperature. Okay. 99. They refer.
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  • CIA Contractor: "Obama Received An Alien Prophecy" 14 December 2024

  • Why The Pentagon Tried To Censor This UFO Book 21 May 2026

Named in 2 uploads (automatic name matching, 4 mentions)

Sources on this record

  • 0:20:30 Meet the Navy Scientist With UFO Patents (Ft. Salvatore Pais) · Salvatore Pais
    five patent applications, mind you, three of them became patents. The two that did not become patents are the ones that seem to be most mundane. The high frequency gravitational wave generator became a patent.
  • 0:20:30 Meet the Navy Scientist With UFO Patents (Ft. Salvatore Pais) · Salvatore Pais
    five patent applications, mind you, three of them became patents. The two that did not become patents are the ones that seem to be most mundane.

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