GREENGLOW

Project Greenglow was born when a British engineer named Ronald Evans, employed at aerospace company BAE Systems, somehow remained employed after he declared he wanted to defeat gravity. If Project Greenglow worked, engineers would have built the perfect flying saucer. Greenglow earned its name thanks to concept art, of ships hovering in the sky spewing a greenish glow, natch. From the point of view of conceptualism, this project actually worked. From the point of view of “success” — well, Greenglow didn’t find much. Evans wrote in 2005, at the time he retired, “Although it is true that we made advances in our understanding, leading to new experiments, it is also a fact that no major breakthroughs were made.”