George Hathaway demonstrates how the Hutchison Effect alters the properties of various materials and induces deformation and jellification in metals in this 1980’s footage taken from a VHS overview of the Hutchison Effect. Steel, aluminum, brass, and other metals are literally turned into a jelly-like substance that often mixes with other materials like plastic and wood – when the fields are turned off, the metals re-harden with their original properties, but typically have a distorted molecular structure in the process.

The metal deformation and “jellification” are among the most dramatic and controversial claims associated with the Hutchison Effect. These alleged phenomena describe how solid metals, when exposed to John Hutchison’s unique electromagnetic fields, would seemingly lose their structural integrity and behave in highly anomalous ways:

• Metal Deformation: This effect is the reported twisting, bending, fracturing, or shattering of metal objects without the application of heat, physical force, or mechanical tools. In videos and accounts from Hutchison and his supporters, metal rods have been shown to spontaneously bend into curves or even break into pieces. The deformation is said to occur in a sudden and erratic manner.
• “Jellification”: This is a more extreme form of the metal deformation claim, where solid metal objects are said to temporarily transition into a soft, putty-like, or “jellified” state. During this alleged state, the metal would be pliable and could be easily twisted or even molded by hand. It would then supposedly revert back to a solid state after the electromagnetic fields were turned off, retaining its new, deformed shape. Reports also describe a “cold fusion” phenomenon where different materials, such as metal and wood, would become permanently embedded within each other during this jellified state.

Later research by George Hathaway demonstrated additional data: first, that the Hutchison Effect in materials typically begins at the center of the material and works it’s way towards the ends, and second, that impurities in all metal samples are worked through the molecular structure of jellified metals and “pushed” towards the ends of the sample, where they were found in concentrated amounts.