Was Stan Meyer under a secret patent order? What the record shows

The Invention Secrecy Act of 1951 (35 U.S.C. 181-188) lets the US patent office order an invention kept secret and withhold the patent. People say it was used on Stan Meyer. Stan himself said he was "subject to being compliant with… the National Security Laws" and, in 1989, that he used two arguments at the Pentagon "to get us off of national security". The secrecy-order notice he bound into his own 1995 report is a sample from Ken MacNeill's 1983 talk, headed "Consider your receiving this", not an order with his name on it. His water fuel patents were granted and published, which a live order would have stopped. No order naming Stan has surfaced. If you hold one, send it to us.

About the voices. The narrator is NeuralStan, an AI voice the archive uses for its made films. Where you hear Stan Meyer, it is Stan: every word of his is cut from an original recording, and nothing he says was synthesised.

Sources

• Stan Meyer · evening workshop, probably Denver · 1993
• Stan Meyer · house meeting, New Zealand · 1989
• Stan Meyer's 1995 test-evaluation report, p. 7 · K. MacNeill, 1983
• US Patent 4,936,961 · public record
• 35 U.S.C. 181-188, the Invention Secrecy Act of 1951
• WFC International Independent Test-Evaluation Report (1995), binder p. 7: Ken MacNeill, "Insights into the Proprietary Syndrome", presented 23 September 1983 — stanslegacy.com
• Stan Meyer, evening workshop, at 11:59: "subject to being compliant… under the National Security Laws" — stanslegacy.com
• Stan Meyer, house meeting, New Zealand, 1989, part 1, at 11:40: "to get us off of national security" — stanslegacy.com
• WFC Public Notice to Inform (1996): the injector tech-base "still under U.S. National Security Review" in 1990 — stanslegacy.com