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### Defense work
A trade-press item reproduced on the site of the Salisbury archive reports that Varo, Inc., Garland, Texas, developed the "Varotron," a device generating infrared, visible and ultraviolet radiation by passing an electron beam over a grating, described by its inventor [[Winfield W. Salisbury]] in a report at the "recent American Optical Society meeting in [[Rochester, New York|Rochester, N. Y.]]," and covered by U.S. Patent No. 2,634,372, issued to Salisbury in 1953. The item says the device "appears to have application to communications and possibly exotic weapons, similar to optical masers (lasers)." The same archive lists Salisbury's position at Varo from 1958 to 1965 as "Research and Development in Radiation Weapons for [[U.S. Air Force]]; Chief Scientist."[^3] Later Varo night vision products included the Noctron series, for which Varo, Inc. filed trademark applications on March 5, 1973 (Noctron IV, a night vision passive viewer using a multiple stage image intensifier) and May 5, 1980 (Noctron V, a second generation viewer using microchannel plate image tube technology).[^5]
A trade-press item reproduced on the site of the Salisbury archive reports that Varo, Inc., Garland, Texas, developed the "Varotron," a device generating infrared, visible and ultraviolet radiation by passing an electron beam over a grating, described by its inventor [[Winfield W. Salisbury]] in a report at the "recent American Optical Society meeting in [[Rochester, New York|Rochester, N. Y.]]," and covered by U.S. Patent No. 2,634,372, issued to Salisbury in 1953. The item says the device "appears to have application to communications and possibly exotic weapons, similar to optical masers (lasers)." The same archive lists Salisbury's position at Varo from 1958 to 1965 as "Research and Development in Radiation Weapons for [[U.S. Air Force]]; Chief Scientist."[^3] Later Varo night vision products included the Noctron series, for which Varo, Inc. filed trademark applications on March 5, 1973 (Noctron IV, a night vision passive viewer using a multiple stage image intensifier) and May 5, 1980 (Noctron V, a second generation viewer using microchannel plate image tube technology), serial numbers 72450566 and 73260816. The full list of Varo Inc. marks also includes AMP-CHAMP (filed March 6, 1963, portable engine generators), SAR and IBR (March 17, 1964, silicon avalanche rectifiers and integrated bridge rectifiers), "V" (June 11, 1969, silicon diodes, semiconductors, integrated circuits, electric motors, power supplies and transformers), "V VARO" (March 5, 1973, research services in electricity, electronics, optics, electrooptics, electromechanics and microwave), "V VARO" and "VARO" (May 24, 1982, image converters, image intensifiers, ultraviolet detectors, reticles and electro-optical test apparatus), NITE-EYE (May 31, 1985, a passive low level light viewer and magnifier) and NIGHTHAWK (April 3, 1989, a battery-operated rifle sight system).[^5]
[^1]: Unsigned "Introduction" to the Annotated Edition, in M. K. Jessup, The Case for the UFO, Varo Edition, transcribed by the Quantum Future Group, 2003, pp. 7 to 9, https://archive.org/details/THECASEFORTHEUFOVaroEditionM.K.Jessup (djvu text, reread 2026-10-03).
[^2]: Gray Barker, preface dated July 1973, same volume, pp. 2 to 6.
[^3]: "Winfield W. Salisbury at Varo, Garland, Texas, 1958-1965," Salisbury archive page with reproduced trade-press item (publication and date of the item not shown on the page), https://mail.smecc.org/salisbury_at_varo.htm
[^4]: Naval Research Reviews, vol. 9, no. 1 (January 1956), "New Chief of Naval Research," p. 22, https://www.onr.navy.mil/media/document/naval-research-reviews-vol-9-no-1-january-1956
[^5]: Varo Inc. trademark filings, Justia Trademarks owner listing, https://trademark.justia.com/owners/varo-inc-79620 (the page returns 403 to command-line fetches; filing dates and descriptions taken from a search summary of the listing, not independently opened).
[^5]: Varo Inc. trademark filings, Justia Trademarks owner listing, https://trademark.justia.com/owners/varo-inc-79620 (the page returns 403 to command-line fetches; the full list of eleven marks, all shown as owned by Varo Inc., was saved from the vault owner's browser on October 3, 2026 and read from that file).