Well I just got this in an email.

Hey, gang:

For those of you who wondered where things stood on an answer to the
question of whether Foucault pendulums are affected by forces during a Total
Solar Eclipse, here's a response I've just received from Dr. David Noever,
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center. I believe Dr. Noever is the lead
scientist for the Allais Global Gravity Experiment. A lot of interesting
stuff here.

-Thanks for your email which was forwarded to my attention. We are no less
excited as time passes in the analysis and as we uncover a very extensive
historical scientific interest in this fascinating and rather mysterious
question. I can only report that we will discuss any results after going
through the scientific peer review process. As Professor Allais indicated
to us in his latest September 19 letter: It is best to proceed in this
field methodically.

I can indicate some online sources of information that may assist in
understanding the goals and methods of the experiment. A relatively
complete set of links is available at


http://naturalscience.com/ns/letters/ns_let23.html


>The historically important scientific papers now are online
>
>There are previous pictures available at
>http://science.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/Eclipse_Mishra.html
>
>And although we have no association with these sites, the original pictures
>from Allais' work are available now online at:
>http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Lab/7919/Allais.htm
>
>And also the Harvard study
>http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Lab/7919/Saxl.htm
>
>The most current updated website is in Vienna.
>
>The Vienna Research group has the following site online:
>http://amok.astro.univie.ac.at/~wuchterl/Foucault/
>It is in german for the moment.
>
>We are still analyzing the results, which should be available following
>submission for peer review.


>And the rough text translation from Canadian French to English:
>From http://www.cybersciences.com/cyber/3.0/n1404.asp
>http://www.cybersciences.com/Cyber/3.0/N1388.asp
>>
> Pendulums and eclipses
>>
> Which forces affect the Foucault pendulums at the time of eclipses?
>
> While waiting for the most recent data, here is an assessment of the
>contradictory observations carried out since 1954.
>>
> Do the pendulums of Foucault oscillate oddly at the time of the solar
>eclipses? And if so, why? Many readers wrote in Cybersciences to know what
>was the result of the experiments carried out on last 11 August.
>Unfortunately, the experiment is not finished yet: the researchers also
>wish to accumulate data (possibly relevant) when the moon is in
>opposition, August 25. While waiting for the results, here's more
>information on this scientific enigma.
>>
>>The initial experiment of Maurice Allais took place in 1954. It consisted
>>in launching a pendulum every 14 minutes, then to follow its evolution
>>thereafter. An eclipse occurred during the 30 days that the experiments
>>lasted. The pendulum then made a jump of 13,5 degrees before returning in
>>its normal state at the end of the eclipse, two hours and half later. The
>>researcher obtained a comparable result in the 1959 eclipse.
>>
>> One suspects that a gravitational effect is in question, but
>>two measurements taken by a gravimeter in Scotland (1954), then in Italy
>>(1965) do not give anything. On the other hand, in 1970, an eclipse again
>>oscillated a pendulum in Boston. The data point out those of Maurice
>>Allais, but the gravitational theory does not manage to explain them. "
>> The Allais Effect ", as one starts to call it, was recorded once more in
>>Romania, in 1981, on a pendulum.
>>
>> On the other hand, another experiment on a pendulum carried
>>out in Finland in 1990 does not give anything. The same team of
>>researchers led a new experiment to Mexico City in 1991 and this time, it
>>concluded: " Perhaps ". The most recent test took place in India in 1995.
>>This time, it is a gravimeter which recorded the Allais effect. The
>>researchers recommended to carry out a series of additional experiments at
>>the time of eclipses in a network. The planetary effort of August 11 was
>>coordinated by Marshall Space Flight Center of NASA. It included a group
>>of pendulums and gravimeters located in seven countries, all along the
>>zone affected by the eclipse.