6,000 Patents Hidden By Government | U.S. Invention Secrecy Act ~ Forgotten History (8/9/25)

In 1998, Stanley Meyer claimed to invent a car that ran on water. Days later, he was dead—and his invention disappeared. But Meyer wasn't the only one. There’s a federal law, still active today, that allows the U.S. government to classify and bury private inventions deemed a “threat.” It's called the Invention Secrecy Act—and it's already been used over 6,000 times.

From Nikola Tesla’s wireless energy to Townsend Brown’s anti-gravity tech to Joseph Papp’s engine that ran on noble gases, history is littered with breakthrough inventors who vanished into obscurity... and whose technologies never made it to the public.

This episode uncovers the case studies, the hidden power of secrecy orders, and the chilling question: What else have they buried?

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📚 Sources
– U.S. Patent and Trademark Office – Patent Secrecy Statistics
– Federation of American Scientists – The Invention Secrecy Act of 1951
– Office of Scientific Research and Development – WWII Patent Restrictions
– FBI Records: Nikola Tesla Files – The Vault (FBI.gov)
– “The Water Fuel Cell” by Stanley Meyer – US Patent No. 4,936,961
– Townsend Brown Archives – The Biefeld-Brown Effect & Electrogravitics
– “Joseph Papp and the Noble Gas Engine” – Los Angeles Times, 1989
– U.S. Government Accountability Office – Secrecy Orders and Patent Review