Tom Valone

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Tom Valone

Tom Valone

Tom Valone (born c. 1952) is an American physicist, engineer, and researcher who has spent decades documenting suppressed technologies in electrotherapy, electrogravitics, and free energy, and who served as a U.S. patent examiner from 1996 to 2006. He founded the nonprofit Integrity Research Institute and has authored multiple books on Nikola Tesla, electrogravitics, and bioelectromagnetics.

Background and credentials

Valone grew up in the Buffalo, New York area, where proximity to Niagara Falls sparked a lifelong interest in Tesla's work: it was at Niagara Falls that Tesla's turbines first generated and transmitted electricity to Buffalo in 1895–1896. He trained as an engineer and applied physicist, teaching at community colleges, and his master's degree thesis focused on the homopolar generator — a device Tesla had also independently researched. He attended a 1980 gravity field conference in Germany and has organized twelve conferences on free energy under the title COFE (Conference on Future Energy), the twelfth of which was held online via Zoom in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Electrotherapy and suppression

Valone documents the history of electrotherapy as a legitimate medical field promoted by Tesla himself. The American Electro-Therapeutic Association held annual meetings in Buffalo from 1898 at which Tesla presented research on Tesla coil applications to healing. He identifies the Flexner Report (c. 1934) as the pivotal document through which the American Medical Association and Food and Drug Administration drove electrotherapy out of hospitals in favor of pharmaceutical medicine, with homeopathy surviving the purge but high-voltage therapy eliminated except for heat-based applications.

Valone describes two mechanisms by which high-voltage therapy acts on the body: boosting the transmembrane potential of cells (the cell membrane can store up to 10 million V/m as an electrical gradient) and delivering electrons that function as antioxidants, quenching free radicals. He worked with Robert O. Becker, author of The Body Electric, and cites Becker, Bassett, and Pillow as the three physicians who patented pulsed electromagnetic bone-healing frequencies, findings that were quickly adopted through a dedicated FDA approval office before commercial development stalled.

Patent Office and firing

Valone joined the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in 1996. He organized the first free energy conference at the U.S. State Department through its Secretary's Open Forum, for which he had an official invitation letter, but the conference was shut down after physicist Robert Park of the American Physical Society intervened through a contact at the State Department, directing its cancellation — a fact later confirmed through a Freedom of Information Act request revealing Park's emails. Valone was subsequently fired; an arbitrator issued an 80-page ruling finding no precedent for the conflict-of-interest charge and ordering reinstatement, a process that took six years. After reinstatement, Valone worked in the measuring and testing division and was barred from accessing the classified patent wing across the street from his desk. He describes having seen secrecy-order notification forms at his desk, noting that military agencies including the Air Force, Army, DoD, and DIA reviewed patent applications before orders were issued; once classified, a patent is placed in a vault and unavailable to the public for approximately 50 years, with no required compensation to the inventor even if the technology is used. Michael Salla noted that by 2023, the total number of inventions suppressed through patent secrecy orders stood at over 6,000. Inventor James Schwartz independently corroborated Valone's testimony, confirming on the same program that he had received a national secrecy order identical in format to the one Valone described — imposed on a Tesla-derived energy device he had mass-produced in Japan — and that no official signed the order, preventing identification of the responsible party.

Electrogravitics and propulsion

Valone has authored two volumes titled Electrogravitics documenting the work of Thomas Townsend Brown, who discovered that highly charged capacitors produce thrust in the direction of the positive anode — a phenomenon Valone distinguishes from simple ion-wind effects. He describes an incident at a Space Society conference in Orem, Utah, where a military contractor in the audience stood up and confirmed to the panel that he had levitated a hockey puck using pulsed high voltage, silencing a skeptical Robert Zubrin, and vindicating what Valone had been describing.

He corresponded with Hal Puthoff about Mark McCandlish's description of three alien reproduction vehicles demonstrated at Norton Air Force Base in 1988, as reported by eyewitness Brad Sorensen. Valone states that Puthoff sent him a written email, reproduced in his books and slide presentations with permission, in which Puthoff placed the Sorensen report in his "possibly true" basket and corroborated it with other eyewitnesses. Valone identifies propulsion as the technology category most susceptible to patent secrecy orders, citing unnamed consultants who told him that even the energy-generation aspects of certain devices might be allowed to commercialize, but the propulsion aspects would always be classified.

Free energy and zero-point energy

Valone's doctoral thesis examined zero-point energy as a practical conversion technique. He describes the work of University of Arkansas physicist Paul Sabato, who over twenty years developed a circuit that extracts usable electrical energy from the thermal oscillation of graphene — a few atoms thick and oscillating continually at room temperature — using a capacitor-diode circuit, and who had engaged a company to produce a microchip version at the time of the 2022 interview. On Tesla's wireless transmission of power, Valone holds that the approach is projected to achieve ~95% efficiency versus the ~33% efficiency of wired grid transmission, but that full commercialization has remained elusive due to corporate and scientific resistance.

Independent corroboration

Steven Greer identified Valone as a key Disclosure Project whistleblower in a 2025 interview, describing him as "Thomas Valone who was in the patent office, a physicist, and he witnessed perfectly good patents that would help humanity with energy and things like this being confiscated illegally, abusing the Secrecy Act. He blew the whistle on it." Greer stated that Valone had provided testimony at Greer's home in 2000, describing what he had observed being confiscated — including electrogravitics and energy patents — and that after being fired and winning reinstatement, Valone received a settlement that precluded further public discussion of the specifics.

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