Actor Terrence Howard Says He Invented New Technology for Uganda Defense

Former Empire actor Terrence Howard gave an address in Uganda this week claiming that he has helped invent "a new form of flight" that he wants to give to the country for military defense.

Howard briefly quit acting after leaving the six-season television series Empire in 2019 and has been open about his scientific endeavors, going viral that same year for saying on a red carpet that he had "made some discoveries in my own personal life with the science that, y'know, Pythagoras was searching for."

This week, the American actor made an appearance in Uganda per an invitation from Uganda's Minister of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries Frank Tumwebaze. On Twitter, Tumwebaze wrote that Howard was there to "explore Uganda's uniqueness & spread the word."

In an address given to a group of government officials, which was posted on Twitter by UBC Uganda, a broadcasting corporation, Howard said that his nominations for Oscars and Golden Globes "weren't the things that really moved me."

He stated that while studying chemical engineering at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn in the early '90s, he found an "inconsistency with the math there. I went out to explore a new way of understanding how the universe works, and I was able to define the grand unified field equation they've been looking for and put it into geometry. With that geometry, I was able to put props on that."

"And what I'm saying is now we have invented a new form of flight that I would like to bring here to Uganda to replace the drones, to replace the helicopters, to replace the planes. We have all the funding necessary, what we need is just a fertile ground in which to build this," he continued.

Howard said that his technology uses the "geometry of hydrogen" and involves "unlimited" hydrogen bonding.

"The Lynchpins are now able to behave as a swarm, as a colony, that can defend a nation, that can harvest food, that can remove plastics from the ocean, that can give the children of Uganda and the people of Uganda an opportunity to spread this and sell these products throughout the world," the actor said, referencing a project in which he partnered with entrepreneur Andrew Sobko to create a new type of drone known as The Lynchpin.

So far, the internet remains skeptical of his plans. One user on Twitter wrote, "I will be glad when we stop conflating celebrity status with expertise—because what is Terrence Howard talking about? Big science fair presentation energy for real-life issues."

Another tweeted, "Terrence Howard needs to get very far out of Uganda, alongside any other insidious investors attempting to exploit the country."

It is unclear how and if Howard's plans for Uganda will come to fruition, but he remained hopeful in his address, saying, "The main purpose is to defend the sovereignty of a peaceful place and a peaceful people without having to have our young men lose their lives."

Newsweek reached out to a representative for Terrence Howard for additional comment.