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Saturday, June 20, 2026

Marcel's collaborators : Bob Crane (I)

As a child, Bob’s interests included astronomy, engineering, constructing things, and music (keyboards and stand-up bass, and later electric bass guitar, which he played professionally for years). He enjoyed nature, hiking, rafting, and camping with his brothers and his friends.


From 1963-1968, Bob attended UCLA, where he received a B.A. in Mathematics. On his own, he studied physics, and voraciously read everything he could find on the subject. Beyond what he read, his understanding of the nature of energies and their interactions on every level was extraordinary. He was very intuitive in his thinking, and his mind could visualize down to subatomic levels with great clarity. He fluently drew many diagrams which he supported with detailed descriptions and explanations that supported theories he developed.

1974 – Bob chose to live in the relatively mountainous and remote area of Hayfork, California, where he built himself a cabin. His brother, Steve, did the same. He enjoyed country life, and had a garden and even some farm animals. Bob got married to a woman (who had a child from a previous relationship), but the marriage was short-lived. Although Bob enjoyed the company of others, he was predominantly involved with his studies. Yet he also enjoyed listening to and playing music, and became a member of a local band, called Friends, which played in bars on weekends.


He was an avid reader, and was predominantly drawn to scientific information. Being unique himself, he sought out people who were often unusual and creative, ones who stimulated and inspired him. One of these people was Leroy Cook, a man he met in Hayfork, where they were neighbors. Leroy was immersed in the engineering of alien technologies, and was greatly interested in aliens themselves. This was when Bob’s interest was first piqued by “the how” of UFO phenomena, particularly the workings of anti-gravity devices.

Together, Bob and Leroy constructed a nearly four-foot diameter flying saucer that operated using a magnetic propulsion system. However, this device was short-lived, for when they turned it on, it disappeared! This experience further sparked Bob’s interest in physics, which never waned. He read everything available on the subject, and developing new theories of physics became his life’s passion.


From 1974-1978 Bob delved into the work of George Van Tassel, who had been an employee of both Hughes Aircraft and Lockheed Aircraft companies. Van Tassel was very interested in alien spacecraft, and in time travel.  Van Tassel wrote several books on all things alien, and also published a newsletter, which Bob read with great enthusiasm. George also gave lectures and did channeling on many subjects. He was said to have communicated with aliens who shared their technologies with him. Bob heard him speak, and also met with him a few times, and their stimulating discussions further peaked Bob’s interests.

George Adamski, founder of the George Adamski Foundation, claimed to have photographed spaceships originating from other planets, met with friendly aliens, and went on flights with them. He was the first, and most famous, of the contactees of the 1950s. Adamski authored three books that described his meetings with aliens, and his travels with them aboard their spaceships: Flying Saucers Have Landed (co-written with Desmond Leslie), Inside the Space Ships, and Flying Saucers Farewell. These books further amplified Bob’s interest in aliens and space travel.

Bob attended UFO conferences annually in Laughlin, NV, where he was exposed to the latest information on aliens and spacecraft, paying particular interest to their technology.


It was in 1980 when Bob first met Marcel Vogel. How he heard about Marcel is a story in itself. Bob was driving down a highway in southern California, and an actual spaceship landed not more than 100′ from his car. He could not get his car to move forward, so he just watched and waited. A tall, thin female being disembarked from the ship and approached his car. It was a tall, thin female. She spoke to Bob, telling him to go see Marcel Vogel. And so he did.

Marcel Vogel was one of the most prolific inventors in IBM’s history, holding over 140 patent disclosures in the fields of liquid crystals, fluorescent compounds, and computer hard drive coatings. Marcel eventually left IBM to create his own laboratory, P.R.I., located in San Jose, CA, where he could research new technologies, including the use of specially cut and programmed quartz crystals to alter the structure of water.

Bob repeatedly visited Marcel, and developed a solid relationship with him. In these visits, Marcel taught Bob an indispensable skill, the ability to access higher (other dimensional) information, which Bob utilized throughout the remainder of his life.


It was at Marcel’s lab that Bob met Jennét Grover, Marcel’s director of operations. A strong friendship and working relationship were forged, extending through jobs and enterprises from that date forward. The alliance formed between Bob and Jennét lasted for 33 years, until Bob passed away.

At Jennét’s suggestion, Bob was hired to work at P.R.I., Marcel Vogel’s laboratory, where he remained from 1986-1988, analyzing and interpreting Marcel’s research results, and having long talks together.


In 1988, Lynn (Buck) Charlson, of the Durance Corporation, a research organization, met Bob at Marcel’s Lab, and hired him as his scientific advisor. Buck Charlson held the patent for the development of hydraulic systems. Several years later, Buck created a non-profit, the Life Science Foundation, where Bob worked as a scientific consultant and also became a member of the Board of Directors. After Marcel Vogel died, Bob had Charlson hire Jennét, who served as editor-in-chief for the papers Bob wrote while he was working for Charlson over the course of 12 years. Jennét worked for Charlson for 3-1/2 years, but then Bob left, and Jennét soon followed suit. Several months later, Charlson convinced Bob to come back, but Bob changed the terms of his employment so that he only had to be in Minnesota for one week per month. Bob had Jennét reinstated, but this time she was able to work out of her home in Livermore, Colorado, 28 miles northwest of Ft. Collins, where Bob also settled. and where the two purchased a piece of property together and built houses for themselves. This working arrangement lasted almost six years, until Buck Charlson died in 2004.


While at LSF, Bob worked and conferred with Dr. Norm Shealy, neurosurgeon, inventor of the T.E.N.S. unit, and founder of the American Holistic Medical Association, Dr. William “Bill” Tiller, professor emeritus of Materials Science and Engineering at Stanford University, and founder of the William A. Tiller Institute for Psychoenergetic Science, and Muharrem Gökçen, M.D., a rheumatologist and Medical Fellow Specialist for the Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, who developed a cure for cancer that was simple, non-toxic, and effective, but which pharmaceutical companies preferred to bury.

In 2017, LSF morphed into Charlson Meadows Retreat Center, and in 2018, Bob relinquished his position on its Board of Directors, as its direction digressed from science research.

Bob was published in Marcel Vogel’s P.R.I. newsletter several times, and also in the Journal of Atlantis. His speaking engagements included Nevada City (outside of Lake Tahoe), NV, and others. Bob was not a fan of public speaking, and preferred to talk to individuals or very small groups, where he could more specifically answer questions and share information one-on-one. People who engaged with him at this level found it almost impossible to separate from the fascinating conversation, and often stayed over at his home for days at a time. Bob was incredibly knowledgeable on almost any topic, but particularly on “new” science.

Robert William Crane, aka Bob Crane, aka Uncle Bob, passed away on February 9th, 2018.

Source : https://bobcranephysics.com/