DIA Report Details Invisibility Cloaking Science Under AAWSA Program

The Defense Intelligence That provenance is the reason the document matters beyond its physics content. " The document also carries a copyright warning stating that further dissemination of its photographs is not authorized. The report's own introduction frames its purpose plainly: the idea of invisibility has fascinated people for millennia, inspiring myths, novels, and films, and invisibility cloaking has recently become a subject of science and technology.

The paper describes what it calls the important current theoretical and experimental developments and tries to project into the future. Its table of contents runs from camouflage and transparency through cloaking, metamaterials, optical metamaterials, a stated fundamental problem, curved space, broadband invisibility, implementation, and optical cloaking, closing with a summary and references. What the document is not is equally important for reading it accurately.

It is a scientific and technical review, not an operational report, and it describes theory and laboratory experiments rather…