The disappearance of America's leading anti-gravity researcher

In the early 1990s, Chinese-American physicist Ning Li published a series of controversial papers theorizing about anti-gravity. In 2001, she received a Defense Department contract to fund experimental efforts based on her theories... And in 2004, Ning Li disappeared — prompting a flood of conspiracy theories.

Let's dive into the work of Ning Li and the mystery surrounding her disappearance to see which parts of this story we can finally put to rest for good.

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[willywonka]

finally, someone is talking about her, in great detail 👏
Thanks Alex

[Brian-pqkv]

Fantastic video, Dr. Ning Li was an American patriot and should be remembered as such.

[bencapps]

Having lived in the Huntsville area for over 20 years now, I can confirm you cannot throw a rock in Huntsville without hitting a software engineer, a software developer, somebody who works for the missile defense agency or the defense department or something along those lines at all. They're everywhere. The amount of space and military research that goes on in Huntsville is insane

[Investigativeevents]

Oh wow. I’m the Huntsville journalist who interviewed her son George.

Love the video!

[Pearly-nmkn]

Alex, this is by far one of your best stories. Thanks for bringing Dr Li's story to us. My wife is an Asian American, born in Fujian province China and lived in Hong Kong for 25 years. She loves her birth country, but she would never betray her American roots where she has lived with me for the last 15 years. Based on what you've shared with us, it sounds like Dr. Li was likewise, a true American patriot.

[galacticgregs]

I knew Ning Li and Whitt Brantley. I have even been in her lab. She was a member of my Huntsville Alabama L5 Society (HAL5) when I was president of the group. She was a great scientist and a great lady. I will do another video on this before too long.

[claytondennis]

Who was driving the car that hit her? That's the most important unanswered question.

[jerrywatt]

She and her research went black its probably now a special access program with DARPA funding

[samiamgreeneggsandham]

Ning Li sounds like a badass American.

[Eggster]

I read an article about Ning Li a long time ago ... probably back in the Naughties. When she disappeared from public view, I created a Google Alert for 'Ning Li' &/or 'AC Gravity', so when that 2023 article came out, I got an alert after a decade and a half. I had hoped for better news, but at least I finally had some answers.

Thanks for bringing this to the broader public. I dearly hope her colleagues carried on with her work.

[rwilson]

I am strongly anti-gravity. Horrible stuff





Edit: Wouldn’t be a YouTube comment section without people arguing in the replies

[mysterion]

Really enjoyed your video.

The one thing I'm left wondering about is the car that hit her. Back in '81 an old colleague that had worked in the OSS during WWII was killed. He came out of the OSS, refusing a job with their successor organization, and soon had several patents in chemistry and chemical processes. They made him very rich. He went out the same way Ning Li did. He stepped off a curb in San Francisco, the car that hit him sped away, and it was never found. It's odd how some things play out...

[AudioFileZ]

I live less than an hour away from Huntsville, AL. I first read about Ning's research and forming a spin-off company about six or seven years ago when that story said she'd disappeared. There was scant little known about if she was even still in the country or alive. Your video here clears up what happened. It seems like the biggest part of her work, the "accidental" hit and run was mostly kept on the down-low (previously published papers would only give hints as to the real depth of what she was pioneering it would seem). It's pretty jarring as imagine pedestrian/car accidents are extremely low, almost non-existent, in North Alabama. My sister was seriously injured as a passenger in a vehicle driven by her then husband when he actually hit and killed a man between Decatur and Huntsville on I-65 in the early eighties. It was at night and the man had actually been picked up by State Troopers earlier in the day as he was walking on the highway (illegal for obvious reasons). He was released however and somehow made his way back on to the interstate. I only mention this because the whole thing was bizarre as there weren't any other pedestrian/vehicle deaths we had ever heard of in North Alabama at the time. These kind of things just don't seem to be even sporadic here. That said, finding out that Ning was basically taken out, along with her husband, by an unknown driver of a vehicle seems like it could have been a kind of planned hit. I wonder what the actual police report may have included since it seems to be a closed case with no resolution? You certainly did a good job of revealing that Ning did not disappear, but what you did find raises more questions to be sure. It's like where are the other witnesses besides her husband? Where in Huntsville did it occur? Why was it not a story that was reported as local news at the time? You certainly did a noble service to her family as it put an end to any of those who were saying she defected back to China or anything regarding her loyalty to the USA. As such, this remains a very real enigma.

[Llyrin]

In state legal parlance, domestic is within the home state, foreign is in another US state, and alien is outside US borders.

[sethnorbeck]

She said. "We have conquered gravity by 50% now and will have antigravity cars within ten years" in a public article in 1998 that I read but lost the magazine in a life of turmoil. That statement stuck with me like glue.

[Alex-ucbd]

A moment of silence for everyone who disappeared for for discovering something... We may not even heard of you, but you did great and we thank you. R.I.P.

May God have mercy and protect those people who will discover something again that could get them in trouble...

Those evil people silencing the truth will not always exist. And they're NOT unstoppable.
Evil can end when the good unites .

[frankrivera]

Ning Li passed away on July 27, 2021, after suffering permanent brain damage from a car accident in 2014, which led to Alzheimer’s disease . There’s no evidence of her disappearing in the sense of being missing; instead, her later years were marked by her health struggles.

[onebridge]

Thanks you Alex for brining her story to the masses. I never heard of Dr. Li before this episode. She was a Patriot and taken from us too soon from the accident. A brilliant mind indeed.

[GeoffBlackmore]

She died in July 2021. And she didn't go missing. Just because someone stays out of the limelight doesn't make them a missing person.

[cccaaa]

Thank you for this reporting. I followed Ning Li's work and the reporting on her until she disappeared and occasionally would try to search for her online over the years until it was reported she left the country. It is good to have closure on the myth of Ning Li. The only remaining mystery now is how far she and others got in their research.