Biefeld-Brown effect (high voltage 'flying' discs?

[FuZZ1L0G1C]

This may belong in the Woo-Woo category, as I'm not entirely sure that the experiment was real or a clever hoax.
While paging through some older paperwork, I came across this photo-copied article from Omni magazine, several decades old, describing an experiment supposedly performed at a University, involving high a voltage wire attached to a lightweight metal disc.
The article claimed that the researchers were able to "fly" the disc in a continuous circular arc around the sealed room, using the Biefield-Brown effect (basically, capacitive thrust from an asymmetrically charged device).
Curious I looked this up on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biefeld–Brown_effect
where opinions range from disbelief to maybe.
Is this a feasible concept in practice, as in the vacuum of deep space, or just pie-in-the-sky theory?

 

[Martaine2005]

I recall seeing something similar a decade or so ago. In a lab ‘scientists’ had a metal disc with a vertical multi strand twisted wire through it. The disc shot up real fast. I think they called it magnetic propulsion. If I am correct, the ‘scientists’ were ‘proving’ that we nearly have the technology to develop ‘flying saucers’ and visit our interstellar neighbours!.
So, not so much ‘woo woo’ , just believe it if you want!.

Martin

 

[Hopup]

It is certainly real technology but the voltages needed are very high ( hundredths of thousands to millions of volts) in order to produce interesting and practical results.