John Searle - Inventor of the Searle Effect Generator, a free energy device

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Čišćenje ove planete biće veliki posao ako želimo da vratimo klimu na ono što želimo. Mnogo posla bi moglo biti urađeno, ali jedna stvar je sigurna – potrebna ti je energija. To je važno. Bez Džona, ne bih bio čovek kakav sam danas. Džon je promenio moj ceo život, potpuno ga okrenuo. On je najiskreniji i najsrdačniji prijatelj kojeg ikada možeš da poželiš. Ima ogromnu izdržljivost i skoro neverovatnu sposobnost da ide bez sna. Može da funkcioniše na tri ili četiri sata sna, maksimum, već 40 godina. Tražim već 40 godina da pronađem trag do ćelijskog efekta, ali ono što je uradilo za moj um je to što ga je stimulisalo, motivisalo i potpuno promenilo moj život.

Upoznao sam profesora Serla i njegove saradnike, to su dobri ljudi, očigledno veruju u SEG i u efekte o kojima govore. U osnovi, dizajn je konvencionalni generator, pa je Sarl, kako kažu, pristupio nultoj tački energije, a da nije znao kako je to uradio. Imali smo nešto što nismo mogli da razumemo. Nije radilo ono što sam želeo da radi. Samo jedan čovek kojeg poznajem ikada je uspeo da napravi Sarlov generator efekta, koji je neko drugi nazvao tako. Jedini čovek za kojeg znam da je ikada napravio jedan je Džon Sarl.

Problem je u tome što ljudi žele da vide demonstraciju. Mislim da je bilo između 1969. i 1971. godine kada je nemačka televizija poslala izveštaj u boji, gde je prikazan leteći disk kako lebdi na vrhovima drveća, mislim na visini od 25 metara. Tok elektrona se ubrzava do izuzetno velike brzine i stvara vakuum oko uređaja, a u tom vakuumu se razvija ukočujuća hladnoća, koja je, kako danas znamo, funkcija superprovodljivosti. Takođe, što nije bilo poznato, to je funkcija gravitacione sile. Ova stvar želi da leti.

Više od 60 godina, Džon Sarl pokušava da svetu ponudi novu vrstu energetskog sistema, onaj koji bi oslobodio čovečanstvo od tereta nafte i fosilnih goriva. Iz njegovih snova kao deteta u pred-ratnoj Engleskoj, došlo je razumevanje matematike i magnetnih sila koje će mu promeniti život. Iz dečje igre hopscotch došlo je novo razumevanje magičnih kvadrata, matematičkog principa starog pet hiljada godina.

Džon Sarl je gluv. Njegova gluvoća je rezultat batina i zanemarivanja koje je pretrpeo kao dete. Ali izolacija bi mu služila svrsi. Možda ovaj fizički nedostatak objašnjava njegovu slobodu u razmišljanju. Mogao je razmišljati lateralno i nije bio vezan za konvencionalna pravila koja se podučavaju kroz uobičajene metode koje mogu imati nepovoljan uticaj na ljudski um. U svom tihom univerzumu, njegovo iskustvo imalo bi drugačiji efekat – neobičan efekat, prirodan efekat – Sarlov efekat.

Sam, bez ikakvog pravog formalnog obrazovanja, Džon Sarl je posedovao nezasitnu radoznalost koja bi ga navela da zaključi da ništa nije nemoguće, osim onoga što stanje tvog uma učini takvim.

Džon Sarl je poznat širom sveta kao pronalazač Sarlovog generatora efekta, magnetskog uređaja koji se sastoji od jednog ili više prstenova (takođe nazvanih ploče) i nekoliko cilindričnih valjaka koji, kada su u pokretu, generišu električnu energiju.

Generator je magnetski uređaj koji je potpuno magnetičan. On je svoj sopstveni pokretač; sam se pokreće i nastavlja da radi, i koliko znamo, nikada neće prestati. Sarlov efekat se zasniva na magnetskim poljima koja generišu kontinuirani pokret magnetizovanih valjaka oko magnetizovanih prstenova, proizvodeći električnu energiju. Generator radi u skladu s prirodom; zakon kvadrata je u harmoniji s prirodom. Ali Sarlov efekat je mnogo više od običnog generatora.

U našem zagađenom svetu, gladnom energije, to je nada celog čovečanstva da pronađemo rešenja koja nas vode ka prosperitetu i harmoniji s prirodom. Da li je moguće održati industrijsku proizvodnju čovečanstva i istovremeno smanjiti zagađivače koji polako ubijaju planetu Zemlju? Postoji li način da se poveća produktivnost ljudske vrste dok se oslobađamo otrova i obnavljamo vode ovog sveta?

Ako želimo da vratimo klimu na ono što želimo, potrebno je mnogo rada. Jedno je sigurno: potrebna ti je energija, i mora biti što jeftinija, po mogućstvu bez zagađenja, buke, toplote i vibracija. Sarlov generator efekta – savršena mašina. Kada ga gradiš, otkriješ da radi bez trenja, bez regulatora, i prihvata bilo koji teret i odgovara na njega. Ako ga izgradiš pravilno, u jednom trenutku će se spustiti u temperaturi i zapravo će levitirati i podići se sa Zemlje, razvijajući sopstveno gravitaciono polje.

Kada vidiš sve ove stvari, shvatiš da je ovo savršena mašina. To je entitet; to je najbliža stvar živom biću koju čovek može da napravi.

Da li Džon Sarl ima odgovor? Da li je Sarlov izum tačka susreta između pitanja „Šta ako postoji mašina koja može spasiti čovečanstvo?“ i odgovora „Sarlov generator efekta“? Ljudi kažu: „Pa, ne možeš to uraditi; uzdrmaćeš celu svetsku ekonomiju. Cela ekonomija se zasniva na nafti.“ Oni kažu: „To veoma dobro funkcioniše za ljude koji upravljaju ekonomijom, ali ne nužno i za sve ostale.“ I dalje tvrdim da to neće uništiti ekonomiju. Biće to vrlo snažan pomak u paradigmi, slično prelasku sa konja i kočija na automobil.

Svakako, ova tačka susreta bi proizvela energiju samu po sebi – ljudsku energiju, emocionalnu energiju: radost, olakšanje, nadu, čudo – ili možda mračniju stranu ljudskih emocija: pohlepu, mržnju i ljubomoru. Sve ove godine sam naučio jednu stvar: ne možeš nikome verovati s ovom tehnologijom. Žele da je ukradu, i bilo koji radnik koji to vidi i sazna kako funkcioniše mogao bi je prodati drugoj kompaniji za milione. Jer i ovo je Sarlov efekat.

Džon Roj Robert Sarl rođen je u Daunsu, radnoj kući – mestu sramote – u Vontidžu, Engleska, 2. maja 1932. godine. Ironično, iste godine Verner Hajzenberg iz Nemačke dobio je Nobelovu nagradu za fiziku za stvaranje kvantne mehanike. Jednostavno rečeno, kvantna mehanika je proučavanje odnosa između energije i materije, posebno odnosa između elektrona i fotona – oblasti u kojoj se zapravo događa Sarlov efekat. To su fotoni koji uzemljuju svoju energiju u kalemu. Oni jednostavno izbacuju fotone – to je ono što vidiš zarobljeno u magnetskom polju oko njega.

Džonov otac, Robert Henri Sarl, i majka, Vajolet Gertruda Mod Pirs, imali su još dvoje dece. Džonova sestra Iris rođena je 1934. godine, a njegov brat Piter došao je neko vreme kasnije. Robert je tvrdio da Piter nije njegovo dete, i jedne večeri se jednostavno nikada nije vratio kući. Vajolet je bila napuštena i ubrzo nakon toga osuđena na zatvor zbog zanemarivanja dece. Za Robertom je izdat nalog za hapšenje, ali nikada nije pronađen.

Izgleda da sam kao dete, prema svim zvaničnim zapisima, bio zlostavljan i maltretiran, i na kraju su me sudovi stavili pod starateljstvo doktora Menarda Holmsa u Engleskoj, koji me potom dao u hraniteljsku porodicu. Džon bi izgubio kontakt sa svojim bratom i sestrom. Bio je smešten u hraniteljske domove, prvi je bio u Česnatsu, okrug Safolk, Engleska. Tamo bi bio odgovornost dve žene; nije bilo muškarca u Česnatsu. Škola nije imala učitelje, tako da nije bilo muškarca koji bi me primoravao da verujem u bilo šta ili da radim bilo šta.

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Later in life, John would insist that being raised by women was one of the most beneficial aspects of an otherwise difficult and, at times, brutal childhood. Now, I never knew the ABCs. I couldn't do psalms; I couldn't do anything, basically. Nobody cared about me. What they didn't know was that I have no hearing, so they were wasting their time talking to me. Did they beat me, thinking that would help? That made no difference.

The 1930s were a time of great depression and great breakthroughs. Albert Einstein's contribution, E=mc², made way for huge strides in science. Very soon, abstract mathematical proofs would replace ether theory as the best explanation of all things and their relativity. Others, like Nikola Tesla, would cling to the idea that energy was all around us and that we could access this energy and transport it through the atmosphere without the need for meters or utility companies. Relativity would win the day, and ether theory would become a relic of the past. It would soon be known as archaic physics.

While the greatest minds of the 20th century uncovered theories about how the universe works, far beneath this lofty exchange, four-year-old John Searle was dreaming. His dreams were specific and repeated—two dreams that would alternate four times a year over the next six years.

I had dreams, and those dreams are the key to all the work I do. In fact, they're the key to all my knowledge.

The dreams were actually recurring nightmares that frightened John as a boy. He would remember them but not understand their meaning until the right time.

You wake up screaming. My mother said, "That's the devil." That's my foster mother, so she'd give me a good belt—the devil out of me.

He finished his schooling at Thornton Infant in 1942. He then entered I Secondary School in Suffolk County, England. John would leave Suffolk County in 1944; he was transferred to Russell Coates Naval School in Dorset, where he trained to take his part in the war effort. By 1946, the war was over, and John left Naval School. He got his first job at British Rewinds Electrical Repairs and boarded at number 30 Crawley Road in London.

That was the first job I was given by Dr. Menardo Holmes, who placed me there as an apprentice in electrical engineering. This would be the turning point in the life of John Searle.

The Searle Effect is developed from the Law of the Squares, and it is from these squares that John Searle developed his generator and flying discs. But it didn't stop there. Over the course of his lifetime, John Searle's understanding of the squares would be used by him to explain all aspects of life in the universe—from DNA to relativity, from single-celled life to the human being, from transportation to the construction of buildings. The squares could be used to understand everything.

When I took up my training as an apprentice electrical engineer, on the third day, I presented a docket to take to the stores, and I saw this two with a small tube buff. I asked the foreman what that meant. He said, "That's two square." So I said, "What is two square?" So he draws two by two, tells me four squares, four. And I said to him, "It doesn't make sense to me. What on earth do we have empty squares for? If it's a square, there must be some value there."

You can take a square, if you run the numbers in normal, one, two, three, four, five, six—that's uniform in. But when you total them up, each row, each column, each diagonal, you'll find that they add up differently. Putting numbers in random, we come up with a uniform output—every line, every column, the two diagonals come out precisely the same. Random numbers in squares will produce a uniform total.

John Searle would soon call this the Law of the Squares—nature's way of achieving order from chaos. This led to Searle's revelation and gave meaning to his recurring nightmare.

At the age of 14, I looked at my dream. It's a game you'll probably know; we call it hopscotch. The first dream, as I call it, is going to school. On my way to school, a one and a half mile walk, I would pick up all the children, and just before we got to the school gate, we had what we call a hopscotch patch on the road itself. It consists of three squares, four, five, then the odd one, six, then seven and eight. Now, it's always that type of pattern, and there's a reason for it.

I obviously had been playing with all the children. It's now my turn. I've reached the point where I throw the pebble in square three. I hop to square two; my left leg is firmly on the ground, the right leg is now up in the air, about to move across square three, where the pebble is, into square four. Suddenly, all the children vanish. In the picture now comes an entirely different ingredient: a steamroller, the village steamroller—the only mobile object I've seen outside a horse and cart. This time, it's coming at me from the top of the squares towards me, and it's many times bigger. We have the roller done in two massive sections, and it's coming to me and saying, "Stop. Think. Act. If not, you had it."

It's telling me by my leg movement that it's not square three I need to go to; it's square four that you've got to calculate out. The ingredients here are the story of how to do it mathematically, and of course, the dream was telling me everything I wanted to know, but I had to find those answers. I had to relate what the dream was saying to what I was trying to do. So it was a slow, tedious job, and because I got the sums wrong on a number of occasions, I had to start over.

From those numbers, John Searle had the exact amount of each ingredient in the rollers and rings of his generator.

Now, every one square represents a quantity of a material, and that's very important. This is precisely how I developed the SEG. So I copy nature in every way; I work at trying to think how nature is doing it and then produce this object.

The first recurring nightmare had become a dream with meaning. Searle's revelation continued with his second recurring nightmare.

This time, it relates to what I'm doing. On the way back from school, my job in the evening after I've changed my clothes and had a meal is to put the ladder up to the loft, the shed, open the door, get the straw, and bed the hens down for the night. Now, when I get up this ladder, which is many times longer than normal, the door opens, and now instead of bales of straw, straw stems are laid out as straps of a structure. I am now standing towards the middle part of all this structure. Then suddenly, the room is blazing away, a fire so massive that no one could put it out, and it's all around me. But something says, "Have no fear. You'll be lifted out from the center of that flame."

John would interpret the second dream to mean that the device would be circular and have many struts moving out from the center to the rim. Climbing the long ladder meant understanding the infinite combinations of numbers in squares. Then he would break through the trap door and be at the center of the ring made of straw. The fire meant that there would be great energy at the rim of the device.

World War II had ended, brought about by the most devastating weapons ever conceived—the product of those lofty minds who, 20 years earlier, wondered what would happen if you hit a single atom hard enough. What kind of energy was stored in this tiny place? The answer, they thought, was the source of all energy in the universe. The practical answer was bang—in fact, the biggest bang mankind could ever devise. Einstein opened the door a bit further.

Like most people, they come up with a wonderful formula—Einstein—and then he stops at that and says, "There's no way you can get this massive energy out of an atom; the cost would be too high. It's not worth it." Then another person comes along and thinks about this—"Oh no, just bump it with a proton or neutron."

His job at British Rewinds introduced John Searle to some of the vocabulary he would use for the rest of his life—words like volts, ohms, amps, and watts.

The first job that really got the dream moving, and it was a simple task in Grayson Road at the British Rewind Limited, where I was an apprentice. My job was to learn to strip motors, strip the coils, measure them, and count the turns, then re-make a new coil and put it back, and the rotors as well. So I came into contact with motors for the first time—electric motors.

By 1946, John Searle had a different idea. How could this energy be tapped without smashing the atom into bits? His idea was a completely new generator design.

We didn't call them Searle Effect Generators then. We were just trying to produce a generator to run the house lights on—something simple—because I felt that the big generators at the power stations were a waste of money. They would present us with vast pollution problems in the future. So the whole idea was to get something simple, not difficult to produce, and produce electricity.

Basically, the design is a conventional generator as far as how it looks. You've got a magnet passing by a coil, and all generators of electricity are based on magnetics and coils. You can pass a coil by a magnet or a magnet by a coil, but that gives you your deflection in the electron flow and the force in one direction. I already knew most of the fundamentals. What I was doing here was trying to get rid of the petrol engine or other devices to turn the generator—that was the objective.

This led to his first experiment, conducted at home on a kitchen table with his landlady present.

So what do you remember?

I remember every—well, we must have had the house here because they were looking at the distance at the end of the road and then it's the side, alright? And I think it must be in this area, and it's gone. The first model that was built by John Searle at the age of 14 and a half, after receiving some inspirational dreams, was assembled on a kitchen table with his landlady's permission. He put it together and then started to load it—it's a generator, so let's put a light on it, let's put a cooker on it, let's put an iron on it. Let's see what it'll hold and how much it'll do before it bags down, heats up, and burns up, because that was a bad thing to do indoors—I should always do experiments outside, as I discovered.

Well, as you increase the load at one, at a certain point, the temperature mysteriously dropped down to close to four Kelvin, which is almost absolute zero, and when it did that, it became superconductive, developed its own gravitational field (we found later), and hit the ceiling. And it was on the ceiling, and I said to the young lady after, "That's a stupid thing; what's it doing up there?" She said to me, "You told me nothing would happen," and it had cracked the plants because they passed the ceiling. It could crack the—it hit really hard, and it was holding them, carrying all the wiring and the cookers and the irons behind it, dangling down.

So I, stupid enough, got a ladder, went and grabbed it, and I couldn't let go of it. And as a result, his hands froze to the framework. So the landlady put a screwdriver in to stop it, and luckily it didn't shatter, and then he got his hands off of it, and that was the first experience of it levitating. Twice he conducted the same experiment at number 30 Crawley Road, London, England, and both times had the same startling result.

I thought, "Well, the lead is heavy; let's put some lead on the bottom. Yeah, that'll keep it down." Okay, I felt I was wrong. I know—by increasing weight, I've increased the density now, that was more energy, and it went down quicker. Not only did it go quicker, but the floors are chest-stressed downwards, never upwards. The forces said that they split through the plaster timber, out through the tiles. The tiles were also stretching the wood, not outwards, and it just went through, like selling a pee, and out and away. We don't know where it went—just all we know is that it just went on and on. But not right away—when it was clear of the building, it hovered.

And that's where trouble number two comes in, you see. People's radio sets went off—they were all absolutely turned off—when that started to glow, the radio sets all came on. So then, if you haven't turned them on, they come on full blast and dim that makes, and of course, I wasn't a very popular man. Eventually, it shot away, and I was taken to the police station and given free home accommodation.

His new idea about tapping the energy of the atom resulted in the destruction of his home at 30 Crawley Road. It was an accident that happened—not intended or planned. Unfortunately, some people didn't like it, and they chucked me into a place where I'd be secured and wouldn't blow holes through roofs and that again.

What was happening to cause this simple generator design to quickly overload and lift off the kitchen table? Apparently, this was a new idea, but even the inventor could not explain what happened. It was a learning curve—I was being forced to follow.

What he wanted to know was how electric motors work.

The two key issues are electrons and magnetic fields. John Searle understood the basic principles for generating electricity. He knew electricity was made up of electrons traveling down the wires into our homes. To generate, you've got to have electrons for most and great motion—that's why you go to the rare earth.

The basic component, the primary component, is a rare earth. Although it can be any of the rare earths, the component that we use is neodymium—that's element number 60 on the periodic chart. That unit puts out an excess of electrons for some reason, and it will also replenish them very easily. Rare earth is the greatest weight of the whole substance, whole materials that you're using—that has got to hold the mass of electrons.

John Searle's idea was to find a way to ease those spare electrons out of the structure and use them. Instead of smashing the atom into bits, why not tap this vast electron reservoir by using magnetic fields? Same as any generator of that time. So I say to myself, "If you can release all the energy with a simple particle, surely we could ease it out gently by tunneling it, coming in and giving it something to run up. So if we put a straight line magnetic line through, and the electron spins around all this energy, spinning around and coming out, we get a constant flow."

Tunneling into the atom using a specific magnetic field will cause the electrons to move in one direction, and they can be collected and used. With the production of electricity, you have two choices: you either rotate the magnetic field or you rotate the conductors. In our case, we prefer to rotate the magnetic flux. So as the roller rotates, it's auto-rotating around the base plate.

To make his generator work, John Searle had to overcome many problems. Most of these occurred with the shape and design of his magnets and in the behavior of their magnetic fields. How can you make a round magnet orbit another round magnet without stopping or flying off? He studied the behavior of a bar magnet and a round magnet.

There's something wrong with it—it tormented me. There must be a way to go straight. It's the dream saying, "Slice the roller into eight segments, now it will keep straight." Well, I did this; I placed it on, and it kept straight. And not only did it keep straight, but it also freely moved up and down. What happens if you make a ring?

He knew magnetic fields could be impressed or printed on certain materials using a magnetizer, a device common to shops and factories that use magnets, such as British Rewinds. The question about battle scientists is, "Why, when three was on, did they just run round and round?"

The picture here was that there were two states involved here, and of course, there are two states referred to—the two magnetic fields printed at right angles to each other. Both the roller and the plate had independent magnetic fields—one vertical and the other radial from the center to the rim. Clearly, the magnetic field was completely different from the magnetic fields we knew of. For some reason, why they were different at the time, I had no idea.

The intersection of these two fields produces a wave that carries the roller around the ring. Although this wave was unknown at the time, the phenomenon was present.

So we've got two right angles, that's why the whole thing moves. If you have got two fields, it won't move.

Now, the two key issues for the production of electricity were present in a totally new generator design. The electrons were available in the rare earth material, and the magnetic fields induced the roller to run on the plate.

We didn't even know what the field looked like until a few years ago in Germany when we remade a segment. I said, "Well, let's have a look at this field." And we dusted it with very fine iron dust, shook off the surface. Do you know what that looked like? A bicycle wheel, exactly as it was laid out in the shed in the dream. That is the field that makes this work; any other field won't work—this field does it. So we know that the magnetic field can be set to perform functions quite different from what we were taught in my day at school, and I think we're only scratching the surface of magnetism.

Was this thing a generator? It created an extremely high voltage, but John Searle had no control over it whatsoever. With each experiment came a new set of questions. I was certainly looking for a generator, but it obviously was a generator that wanted to fly. So I had to put a body to it—there was no sense in just throwing it away, forgetting it was to put a body to it. We're hoping that that would solve some of the problems.

The unit that went through the roof at 30 Crawley Road was crude by comparison to later models. 1946, just before Christmas, that last one was done, so I had a good Christmas.

What came next for John Searle would be a lifetime spent on the study of this phenomenon, soon to be known as the Searle Effect.

When I started this technology, there was absolutely nothing to turn to in book form or scientific form by which it could be designed. In fact, I had to rely on dreams, dreams as a child. These dreams, which were nightmares, now were going to be changed into a world reality.

John Searle was learning to match pieces of knowledge with his dreams as he began his lifelong effort to explain the startling result each time he powered up his generator. Lack of education as a child was actually useful to me because I now had to look at things and question what I saw.

In 1950, he enlisted in the Royal Air Force and was stationed at an airfield in Suffolk. By 1952, John Searle was back in civilian clothes. He boarded at the home of George Haynes, a terminal cancer patient in the West Midlands.

It was my highly religious person; it was down to cancer. It wouldn't—it said it wouldn't die in horse, but he'd want to go home. Every night, I went up to his bed at eight o'clock to listen to him telling me about the Bible and that, and then he'd ask me what my interest was, and I told him about this. He said, "John, if you can make people look up in the sky," he said, "because they're always walking with their heads down, I will pay the cost of doing it."

So he called his son up and said, "When's I'm going to take John down to Wednesbury to the government sales market, sales of government equipment? Get everything he wants."

Here came the first real opportunity to build his generator as a flying disc and observe the phenomenon. So we got the shared cables and all the sort of bits and pieces one needs to do some experimenting, and eventually, we made the first three-foot. We powered it up, and of course, it went—it sort of hovered there some yards above the treetops, radio sets all switched on in the area, and then it shot off, and the radio sets went dead again.

So I went up to the room. I said to him, "Sorry, we've lost it. Did the people look up?" I should think so. Make another one.

From his deathbed, George Haynes Senior financed the earliest experiments on the flying disc generator. Searle tried to keep the three-foot disc from shooting off into space.

I said to him, "I cannot control it."

"Oh, don't worry, make the people look up."

We did alright—there was no history. But at that point, though, I tried different ideas each time to try to overcome this lifting effect. I never won.

Six flying discs were built, and all six were lost.

We had to do six before the man died. Each one, we were trying different ideas, and we couldn't solve the problem—we lost them. The last one, we had a 60-ton shear pin connected, but even that sheared and was lost. From then on, we had a break. The old man died. Now, the chap told me to get out of the house—I wasn't wanted there, so I moved on to other accommodations. So for a few years, a couple of years, nothing happened. Then, where I was staying, a man wrote to the electric board and said that this man is very clever in magnetics and electrics. I would like you to interview him for a possible job.

John Searle, at age 21, was made foreman, part of a three-man team in charge of 11 areas in research and development at Midlands Electricity Board.

There were three of us in the team; we were in charge of 11 areas. All technical problems which they couldn't solve at the workshops came to us to carry out the research on.

Research and development at Midlands Electricity Board—this was a perfect fit. Just like it was at British Rewinds, electrical engineers and experts in magnetism and electricity again surrounded him. He could tap their knowledge and begin to understand this phenomenon of the flying disc generator.

John Searle made a critical decision to investigate what it was and not what he wanted it to be.

Before we reach that point where we can say, "Right, we can now design your generator. How much output do you want?" and we'll get down to designing it for you, we had to check and find a lot more little steps—a lot of little problems we had to try to identify. This thing wanted to fly, so to me then, the easiest thing was to work on a body—let it fly.

Well, I've been playing with this equipment. I've uncovered a lot of things which I suspected but couldn't prove. Whenever possible, John Searle engaged in dialogue with anyone willing to share their knowledge on things mechanical and especially things magnetic or electric.

In March 1953, Searle married Doris Shirley Foster. They would have six children. Family life would be difficult—he was consumed by the phenomenon of the flying disc generator.

Now I was shot at the headquarters of the Midlands Electricity Board. I had 11 different subunits around to look after. Because I started talking in my spare time about this effort, and because everyone was laughing at me, one day the boss heard all the news. They came in to me, and they said, "John, you're here as a member in charge of 11 areas. The men under you are laughing at you. Now we have three options: A) pack your bags and go, B) shut up, or C) do it."

So I thought about it a minute and said, "Well, I like my job, so I don't want to go. B) I can't shut up. C) I'll do it."

So I said, "Well, what do you want?"

They said, "We want a press arc and oven—magnetic."

"Alright, we've got all that here. What else do you want?"

"Ingredients."

"Well, you tell us the ingredients, and we'll get them."

With this opportunity, John Searle's knowledge of electricity and magnetism grew to a point where he began to theorize the startling behavior of his generator. One such theory in magnetism met with stiff resistance and would help to form the genesis of mockery and ridicule that follows him to this day.

My magnetism is not your magnetism. Could it be that general magnetism contains multiple bands—a magnetic spectrum—exactly the same as white light contains a spectrum of colors? Magnetism is identical to light in a way—that's how I look at it. They are identical. That pairs.

John Searle used a combination of AC and DC current when magnetizing the components of his generator.

If we isolate the particular band we want and then print that, we have something different. We have a wave—this is the Searle Effect—the intersection of two magnetic fields creating a magnetic wave that can be measured and amplified.

John Searle designed a generator using magnetic fields to induce a flow of electrons from a rare earth element through a system of rotating magnetized components so that those electrons would be collected, compressed, used, and recycled. Magnetic forces and electrons in motion—the two key issues necessary for the production of electricity.

Here I am—they won't come and see that what I say is true. There is a condition where you can't get away in a magnetic sense, like a wave, a sine wave, and they act as a river. Now, at stage three, until reaction effects take place—and to do that, you have to set a cylinder on it, magnetized, and then that wave goes into motion.

Another roller placed on that field floats—we know it cannot touch that; it's too dense with energy, so it will float. So we've got something floating there. Then if this wave is moved due to reaction between this plate, this roller, and this plate, then that wave is going to carry that regardless, so the roller maintains still its constant height, though it's now running many times faster—it does not fly off.

The magnetic field is holding the roller tightly to the plate. At the same time, the electrons moving through the layered elements are collected and compressed on the surface of the plate, lifting the roller and creating space between the roller and the plate. So the roller flies around and doesn't roll around. As it moves, the floors are being rewritten all the time, so the field never diminishes—it cannot diminish because a magnetic field is in constant running order. The energy or electrons moving through the system recycle. The rare earth element attracts new electrons that also move through the system and recycle. Because of their negative charge, the electrons compress, causing the drop in temperature and creating the energy field that radiates from the generator.

In 1956, I was soldering—I had produced another unit, and this time we weren't partly up. I wanted to try to meter up things to see what the oscilloscope was showing me, and it was accidental that when I took the hot iron to solder the wire on, I couldn't solder it. Soldering from a machine was cooling things faster than you could heat them. That was accounting for some of the behavior of those early models.

Counter for why, when I got hold of it, I was stuck to it.

John Searle created a generator design that became a superconductor, producing extreme cold and incredibly high voltage that caused it to lift off the ground. But could he control this flying disc generator? In the late summer of 1954, he left Midlands Electric Board and moved to Berkshire near Pangbourne.

We see the actual field—this view is the field where it's joined today, and I could get on to it. The beauty of it, as you see, is quite nice and open.

Here, I would do experiments—experiments to discover how to control the flying disc generator.

You see, we use gyro technology now. Gyro—that's only one problem about the gyro is that you can't put it at the rim of the craft right on the rim because you've got to control it by striking it from outside of it. You can't do good straightening on the inside because it don't do nothing—it won't respond. But if you strike a gyro on the outside, it tips at that point. Instead, the inside of the flying disc generator was equipped with switches and circuits to activate 64 hammers positioned around the rim.

That's in this field—we solve that problem. So which way would they fly—down this way, all over the trees? And it depends whether it's late evening or day. At this day time, we'd go to the trees. When it starts getting dark like this, you could run up and down this. The chance of vehicles coming up there was very unlikely.

John Searle's time here was short. By 1955, he moved his family to 17 Stephen's Close, Mortimer, Berkshire. But now he could control the flying disc generator.

And I haven't been here for a very long time, but that was where my early days experiment was done—that's before we use Warminsteria for the big work.

We built 41—a total of 41 crafts that actually flew and were fully controllable. There were six before that that were lost—they could not be controlled.

During the 1950s, John Searle continued to experiment with his flying disc generator, but it needed a name.

One thing I didn't know was that gravity can be inversed—no scientist ever had come up with that idea. Clearly, the magnetic field was completely different from the magnetic fields we knew of. The heavy rollers spinning as they rotate around the plates acted like a flywheel and caused a gyroscopic effect. The extremely high voltage created a dense field surrounding the generator, a device built with individually magnetized components. It was a device, and it contained all these signs within it. You've got that gyro, cyclotron effect, frequency control, magnetic, electrons, photons—basically, every sign involved in one engine.

Incorporating these principles displayed by the device, he christened it the Gyro Flywheel High Energy Density Mechanical Magnetic Device. But it would soon be known as the Levity Disc, and the first successful one was launched in 1956.

It went up—we flew across the houses because Crompton Hill, we up above the house—it's a wonderful sight, used to go there, and we flew this over the rooftops. And then we had a surprise, you see—we saw the tiles waving as it went along, and the dinette made it in the middle of the night was absolutely fantastic.

And the reason is, of course, there's a suction underneath this—it's in a way this suction head, and it pulls these tiles up and down. Some fall to the ground, obviously. But what we also found is that when pigeons or birds flew near to it or they were taken by surprise and they got caught, they fell to the ground and caused it to hit the ground and break their necks. So you saw in the papers, "Birds died from UFO." I made it quite clear to them it was not a UFO. The government knows it's identified—they know what it is. Every government knows what it is—they've known it for years. I said, "So we're dealing with something in reality."

By 1956, the first team of investors agreed to fund John Searle and the research on his Levity Disc. This group of 13 pensioners assembled as a club called Launch Unit Navigable Individually Controllable, or LUNIC Enterprises.

And we toyed with this down in Warminster, where we built these, what was labeled UFOs. We called them Levity Discs, but we built this. Now 13 old-age men backed that project, and they only backed me on the following condition—that I did not go commercial with this. They didn't want any problems with the taxman. They were doing this for fun. But to me, that was alright—it was giving me a chance to experiment with ideas to prove two things: it could hold together, and it could fly. And this is what we proved—that it could hold together, and it could fly.

The device as an electric generator for domestic use became an afterthought. John Searle knew this was the beginning of his lifelong battle with official persons and with the scientific community. Very soon, British Civil Aviation had questions about the Levity Disc: What happens if the power fails? How do you steer it? And the big question: How does it fly?

You've got to put a load—a resistance load—on the generator to speed it up. And once it starts, you get to about, on average, about a million volts. It begins to really build up a charge. Then this superconductivity switches in, and the earth pushes it up. But it's also affecting the atmosphere above it—it is making it pull to the rim and rotate with a field. So you've got like a hurricane effect—it's sucking it up.

Over the years, we experimented with many ideas. The trouble was, the authorities said that we could not fly this device in public on show unless we made some means to control it in the event of power failure. We call this a flight cell, and what we've done is that all around the vehicle, we've chopped it into 64 sections in which we can open a section. The idea was that by opening one, you could direct the angle across to the past. The smallest flying machine we could fly, which would be controllable, would have operated 121 footer. The need for a craft that large was because anything smaller than that couldn't hold the vacuum tubes or valves, as John calls them, or the transformers or the radio equipment—there just wasn't enough room.

Also, in order to direct this craft, it needed certain electronic solenoid equipment and some hydraulics. In those days, we had to use very large bottles, big heavy transformers, big chokes—they all take up a muscle. Relays—there was a GPO type—they were very large. So we're looking at a massive weight—64 flight cells at the rim of the Levity Disc could be opened or closed independently, changing the energy flow, which caused the disc to tilt and turn, to accelerate or stop, to gain or reduce altitude. Signals to the flight cells were sent using ham-operated radio. The command signal was always preceded by a coded radio signal to prevent outside interference.

Ham operators—and I must admit that without their help, this could not be done. You have to have some signal coming from it to trace it. If you have a series of ham radio operators that are willing to help you—and the professor did—John would call them and tell them when the unit should be, when the disc should be over their position, and then give them, have them—it also emitted a beacon, so they could triangulate on it and then make a course correction. He would tell them the code to use, so they would give a frequency code to the ship, and it would make a course correction if needed to go wherever he wanted. And he had a whole series, a whole network of hams all across the world.

I used 1200 cycles for my transmission carrier—that's why the tortoises came after me. When they saw the transmitter I was using on television, there was military—we got to confiscate that. That's illegal—I have no rights to that. So I said, "Well, if you take that away, how do I protect the public from this massive weight up there? This equipment gives me the carrier of 1200 cycles a second—I need that to carry my information to that craft so I could continue transmitting and carrying out this flying research work."

Although he tried, it was hard to keep the Levity Disc secret. John Searle saw a future that would want to take advantage of his generator and Levity Disc.

It's the flying side that brought the money in. In 1968, we reached the greatest height we've ever done. The generator could be used as a power source, but it was the flying side that caused excitement. These crafts had designations and sequence numbers, such as the P11. Probe means a probe—it's a manned, PM. If it's a manned vehicle like this, these first ones we did were all manned.

In his growing library, John Searle kept extensive records of his generator and Levity Disc. Among these documents are calculations and descriptions of experimental flight tests, some of which survive today. These are photos and excerpts from the original record of the P11 launch on June 30, 1968:

We have carried the P11 weighing 100 weight to a position clear of the overhead high voltage lines. The sun is shining, but it is not pleasant—the wind is cold, and a force of eight is blowing. We shall attempt a full launch and run at 1500 hours Greenwich Mean Time. We prepared the power supplies to all equipment on the craft. We are very busy, yet from the corner of my eye, I can see watchers, but none have dared to enter the field. People rushed to hide from us as if we were some kind of aliens from another world. Time to start the craft's generator up. This is connected to an outside source—in our case, a small diesel engine. A minute passes by, and the cutout switch of the craft breaks contact with the outside power source. The call comes through from Cornwall that all is ready—the carrier beam is on for the run. We accelerate the craft's generator—now she is on her own. When the generator started, there was a wine rising to a high pitch, but that has stopped. The craft is shorting up very fast. Yes, the craft will clear the power lines with no trouble. I have stopped taking photos to record what I saw—the ground appeared to be rocking, yet I could not sense any such rocking.

No noise was heard, but leaves and other material on the ground around us began to move in circles. I glanced over to the far side, where two strangers were—what happened to them? They were running for cover in the direction from which they had come, most likely scared stiff. Then the call came in—she's crossing Cornwall now, time 1503 hours Greenwich Mean Time. Our team in Cornwall turned the craft for its run back.

The P11 was over Cornwall three minutes after launch, a distance that would take four hours to travel by car. She climbed at rates of up to one mile per second and, during that day, rose to heights of 15 miles above the surface of the earth. We went over to the launch point and found that all the small undergrowth had been pulled up with the soil and had left a scooped-out effect where the craft had stood. Another problem we must solve is this pulling up of earth on liftoff and this burnt ring mark effect. We found that it does tend to mark the ground. The reason for this is that there's an iron content in the ground, and it's this iron that's been pulled up, and it pulls that surface of ground up with it. It should have the rare earth on the outer layer—put it on the inner. Reversal, of course, solved it just in one action. Instead of having a magnetic field focusing to the ground, it made a doughnut shape around the vehicle. The field now is a very small C field around the rim of that craft. The result is no focus to the ground—no ground distortion occurs.

The other problem often presented in my case when scientists speak about my work is that it ionizes the air around the craft. This is not true—there is no air around that craft. There's a magnetic field—there's a gap, a vacuum between that and the rim, and it's the photons which are discharged, trapped by the magnetic field, which gives it the glow.

The P11 was a great secret success story—a beginning to a new age which promised that one day in the future, man would travel by this method into space. Was it sacred? It was supposed to be, but only the media was allowed to come and watch. First, we had 400 scientists who were also allowed to come, who doubted it. What they said was this: "It could not support itself, let alone fly." So I said, "Right, we have now tested 40 different structure ideas. I'm going back to the one I originally proposed—you are invited, and the media, to come and watch." But fighting, you do not disclose where the work is done.

Sunday Tip Bits came and watched the flight test. Then we had the News of the World come to the fight because they'd seen it. We want to see this disc.

At St. John's Hall in Mortimer, Berkshire, England, scientists, the press, and the public were invited as he demonstrated his technology and declared his intention to build a manned craft.

This was the hall which we used to hold our first Sunday of each month shows. This is the hall that was known as St. John's Hall. That's the stage which I used to stand on to deliver my lecture. The audience would sit here, as the press used to be at the back. When we had a load of press come to make mockery, we had to cut sport. I stood there, we had the national anthem played there, so they all had to stand.

All these people came to make mockery. At the end of 10 hours, the press came up to me and said, "We have never seen a man stand there, talk for 10 hours, without looking at any references whatsoever." So I replied to them, "When you speak from the heart, you don't need papers."

John Searle may have spoken from his heart, but by 1969, his message played to a world that had witnessed American astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin returning safely to earth, having walked on the moon—the single greatest achievement in history. The media made the Levity Disc a sideshow and John Searle the original urban spaceman—a crackpot, the flying saucer man. Few would take him seriously. The merits of his generator design as a power source were lost in his single-minded effort to prove his Levity Disc.

The press and the publicity grew—there must be thousands of newspaper articles, television footage, and there were thousands of people who came, and they filmed, and they filmed, they took pictures. That was the type of publicity we had, and there are many books on the market written by many writers that include my work.

We had BBC regularly each month for nearly two years, who would come and update the people. First, they would take them back to what happened last month, then they'd say, "We went down to the woods today, and this is the progress." The structure of the Demo One is now together, and the housing is going in that will house the power unit that will lift it into the skies.

At this point, the Demo One would prove that electromagnetic flying discs were not only real but represented the future in power and transportation. In 1968, John Searle formed the NSRC for this task—the National Space Research Consortium, headquartered in his home at Mortimer, Berkshire, England. Scientists and the media were invited to watch the Demo One being built outdoors on a piece of land loaned to him for this purpose.

This is the voice of John Searle during the construction of Demo One:

The position today is that we now know so much about defining these vehicles on the point of an unknown vehicle that we feel the time is right to go ahead and carry people. John Searle had plans for a larger craft that would carry three people. He continues: This three-seater craft, which we've been asked to do, will be a 90-foot diameter vehicle. It will weigh roughly 90 tons on completing, and then the purpose is that one pilot will carry two official experts with him. One day you'll see a three-seater car with a lone star in the sky, and within a year you'll see massive giants coming up into the sky, taking 2,000 people from New York to London in 20 minutes or 15 minutes, from London to Sydney in 30 minutes, and we won't think nothing about it. And I think that this is business—this is really what industry wants: fast movement, cheap price, no noise, and no pollution, and the Levity Disc will give you this.

While the press and publicity pushed John Searle to the scientific fringe, some individuals examined the merits of his generator design. Was this a revolutionary new way to generate electricity? Searle came to an important realization that will stay with him for the rest of his life.

Once I see that they want it, they want to own it. That's everywhere I go—the same thing happens. It's the same ignorance and greed coming together as a terrible, dangerous situation.

John Searle came out into the open with his Levity Disc, expecting a different reaction from the one he got. The press and media were quick to mock and ridicule the flying saucer man.

Inventors, I think, will always hit problems. There will always be ridicule; they'll be laughed at, they'll be mocked. All the big—you name them—they all came under the same bombardment.

Searle saw himself as an inventor like so many others before him. He would endure the mockery because he knew his truth about the generator and Levity Disc. His confidence never wavered.

Well, everybody who does something different is a crank, and if this is the good side of an inventor, then I don't mind being called one. The interviewer that was interviewing me way back in 1968, when he said, "Are you a crank?" and I said, "Well, everybody that invents is a crank by you people, so I don't mind being one. That must mean I'm going to be important one day."

Did he invent something so astounding it had to be marginalized? His generator and Levity Disc could no longer be kept secret. Searle tried to patent his new generator design—the power source for his Levity Disc.

Back then in 1968, the patent office rang me to say that they had studied my patent I submitted. "We advise you not to patent it—it's a know-how. Never, never patent know-how. When you're ready to go to the market, you have two options: you can either take out a watermark in your name or in the name of the company who's going to produce it. You've got two options. Never, never tell anyone all the details—the vital bit that makes it work—keep it to yourself until you're on the marketplace."

Having been advised that his generator design is a know-how and he should keep it to himself until ready for the marketplace only served to further isolate Searle. During this period, he held a full-time job and spent all of his spare time developing the generator and Levity Disc. Several events helped to explain his conviction. The first happened near Warminster, England, where John flew his P11 craft on Sundays.

When I first came into the open, I was caught red-handed flying a craft. Every Sunday night, we'd pour the craft in, take the plates out, put new ones, and send it off again. Off we go to the next weekend. Now this one night, we'd done this so often we never, never dreamt of anyone coming by—not at that time of night. And there we are, it sent the craft off, and unknown to us, we were actually seen by a television crew on the way back from something they did that night.

So Monday, they went to the Warminster area to see the two RAF people in charge of the UFO investigation that went and studied UFO claims, and they said, "That's all this craft." "Listen, no, we got no new craft on test," because they thought it was a new Air Force project being secretly tested. "No," they said. So they go down to the radar unit of theirs and ask them to check last night's report—nothing there. "We saw it. Let's go down there next Sunday and see if anything happens." And of course, the Air Commodore agreed to go with them.

We brought the craft down, we changed everything that didn't interfere—they were watching, but unknown to us—and putting a new place in and sent it off. I said to Tony, "Let's pack up, get out of here—I feel something strange, let's get out," and then, bang, on my shoulder, Tony stopped pulling it back—we got it. This is the Air Commodore of Great Britain, if they say his name, oh, and the ITV camera crews turned on the cameras.

Searle was at home in Mortimer the following Thursday with his friend Reverend George Nicholson and a visitor from Aldermaston Atomic Works at 3:15. I read George Nixon with me as a witness.

Newsflash, newsflash, it's saying the Air Commodore has a message to tell you. Then I do. The voice said, "This is the Air Commodore of Great Britain," and I knew instantly what they were going to say. And he said, "People in Warminster may now be able to sleep in peace."

For weeks, people in the Warminster area had been reporting numerous UFO sightings. The British Air Commodore broadcast a news flash assuring that it was John Searle's flying discs and not UFOs.

"There are no aliens—it is the work of John Searle. We caught up with him last Sunday night. On asking him when that was going to return, he said, 'Next Sunday.' We didn't believe him; we called him a liar, but he insisted we could stay, we wished, but it wouldn't come back until next Sunday, and we did. I'd like to inform you, we are now packing our bags and moving on because we agree—John Searle means what he says." And then he said the words, "When this man comes out in the open and shows the world, he will overrule the Americans and the Russians. He will be the master of all air and space." And the flash ended.

After the news flash, the scientist from Aldermaston Atomic Works insisted Searle turn over his Levity Disc.

The scientist just like that, "Give it to me." I said, "Oh." They poked me again and said, "Give it to me." I said, "Oh." She turns to Reverend George Nixon, pokes him, and said, "Make him give it to me." "I can't make him give it to you. What are you offering him? Nothing." "It's about to keep a lot of people employed, and he will get royalties from the work done." So Reverend George Nixon said to him, "It's not royalties he wants—he wants cash now." He said, "We're actually not giving it to me—I'll stop everyone helping you, then you'll give it to me," and he went off.

A month later, checks started to come in from Australia and Japan because the news had flashed all over the world about this Air Commodore catching me with this attention. Searle was further convinced that the outside world would eagerly accept his generator and Levity Disc.

The activity around the building of Demo One drew the attention of Dr. Arthur Kane from NASA in the United States.

Here's the view—Dr. Kane from NASA, there. He wrote a serious report to NASA. He came and interviewed the injectivity, and he stated in his reply that unless NASA married this technology when I hit the marketplace, they'd be completely finished. They would have nothing to match it or to touch it.

By June of 1976, this letter arrived. It reads in paraphrase:

Dear Mr. Searle, I have the responsibility for U.S. Air Force propulsion and energy conversion research and development. We would like to acquire a copy of your report entitled "Disk-shaped type of flying craft." The letter is signed George Eulig, Major, United States Air Force.

The engineering division at Edwards Air Force Base examined my work. I was requested to submit my work to them to evaluate so that I could get funding. They said they'd be in London, and they'd like to collect all the materials to take back for the scientists to examine. All I had to do was to be in London to deliver the goods to him. That was only a small unit of four feet, which we just took around to show what it's made up and how we make them up, but not letting it fly—just showing people how the thing works. So the unit runs very slow.

As the major's letter said back to me, they could find no inertia, and that goes against all grains.

They were people who developed rockets for war and were still making ballistic missiles for the purpose of future wars. So you've got people geared to rocketry. Though they did look at this technology, they decided that it would take a lot of study work to understand it, and therefore, forget it—rocketry was vital. I was in the wrong place at the wrong time regarding NASA and the Edwards Air Force Base people.

Whether John Searle was thought of as a serious inventor or just the flying saucer man, he had gained worldwide notoriety. The weekend work on his Levity Disc was updated regularly and featured by some media outlets. In one case, a demand was made for time that he didn't have. Searle explains:

You were invited last Sunday to come and see—everybody was invited. All the media was—you didn't want to know. John Searle was nothing. This was all dreams—now you're suddenly seeing a paper who did take the trouble to come. That is true. Alright, so you're not going to show me the IGV? No, certainly not. Alright, we'll put paid to that—something came out front page, "Don't show Con Man. Do not invest in it." Thinking that that would force me to sell, what I did, I said that to the government. I told them, "You know what I'm doing—this is slanderous definition of character." And they wrote back:

"Dear Mr. Searle, we can't do anything, but what we will do is we'll ask all our authorities to supply you with all the information you need to help you."

The British government was aware of John Searle, if only as a result of his own letters complaining of the press coverage. This was a one-of-a-kind story. The flight performance claims for his Levity Disc were astonishing.

It's easy for us to put a craft up and set it to anywhere in the world, man or unmanned, and it will reach the point in the shortest possible time. The program on the models used to do from England to Australia in 30 minutes with no trouble at all. And we anticipate the manned craft we're building now will also easily cope with that speed.

From 1963 until about 1978, where we had to stop because of the cost of operation, we flew unsafely into the Demo One. That flew 500 times around this globe through the use of ham operators.

500 times around the earth—had the unmanned Levity Disc reached outer space? In his plans for the manned craft, Searle openly spoke to the press about a trip to the moon.

The moon, as I said, we could say an hour trip. You landed after you cleared the air belt, so you're 20 minutes climbing out. And what did the newspaper say? You also say two seconds to the moon? John Searle didn't say that. John Searle said 20-minute gentle time out, two seconds switch off power on the top plate to let it pick up speed, then put it back to hold it at that new setting. In 52 minutes, we should be in orbit around the moon to look for an ideal spot—probably ten minutes to find an ideal spot to put down on.

From the earth to the moon in one hour—the flight tests of his Levity Disc established stunning claims that did not go unnoticed by the Cold War superpowers. They accused each other after detecting unknown spacecraft.

There was a time when we did put a test—we did take a vehicle up there, and Russia and America were accusing each other of having a secret device out there.

The Americans were accusing the Russians of it. It wasn't either. And that was the Air Commodore's statement really—here, the Americans and the Russians are jumping away at each other, accusing each other of these secret things going on, and here's the man in England twirling the nuts that is causing wholesale chaos with the big boys.

Searle caused even more trouble—the high energy from his disc interfered with radio communication at nearby Blackbushe Airport. Ironically, this was where he would earn his fixed-wing pilot's license to avoid any civil aviation objection to him piloting the first manned Levity Disc.

I think it was the Daily Mirror report—a Derby area about UFO night watch, where thousands were watching the sky for UFO—just a sort of right away. John Searle and a colleague are testing one of their UFOs. The press rang me and said that Blackbushe Airport said that they had phoned you up and asked you to remove your disc from the airfield area because you're blacking out the radio—is that right? I said, "Yes, they have asked me to remove it. This has now been done." So we'll be putting this in the paper, this report. So I went and got the papers, okay. UFO over Blackbushe—UFO appeared over Blackbushe, blacked out the radio communications of incoming aircraft. That's all it said. Now, from that moment on, every article that came out said UFO, never, ever mentioned my name. But I had invited them to come and see the show.

The press treatment of Searle began to take its toll. With the high level of attention, some of the Demo One team members became suspicious. Was there something genuine beneath the ever-growing circus around John Searle? Dispute and dissension came to the Demo One team.

Dispute occurred, and the team would turn up because, unknown to me at the time, the one chap in charge of the work with me had another team down in Eastleigh. He was making the same vehicle, but he would join my team to find out how we did it. They had a craft in exactly the same construction as mine, so we dropped them—basically, I just dismissed the whole group and just finished it myself.

John Searle would not patent his generator, so whatever was secret would remain secret. The money stopped coming in, and he terminated the Demo One project in 1978. Soon, he was faced with something new.

I had a good team, agreed, at Mortimer—very good team. But then, you see, like all teams, you'll get one who suddenly realized the value of what they're doing, and then greed comes into play. They think that by owning it, they control the world—they dictate who can do what and who can't, how much you gotta pay for that right. And that's the shame of it because here was something that should have been on the market—generator should have been on the market '68.

At home in Mortimer, Searle was served with court papers stating that he owed the electric board over 10,000 pounds. By 1982, he was arrested and accused of stealing electric power. Here's how he answered the charges:

Well, what happened was electricity was expensive, and I didn't have the wage packet to meet the cost of that, working on this, trying to get this idea right. And we did have two units—one I took to shows, and the one I fitted in the house and put all the wiring on it. They weren't in my house for 30 years—they took apart, they found no wear or tear. In fact, they were almost sure they only just been made. That was that good.

What happened to that one?

Well, the court asked if they could bring the generator in for the court to see it. They said they had confiscated it. So I should—I feel inclined to think that they broke it open, not knowing what was inside.

Who confiscated it?

The electric boards themselves because they told the court that it did not comply with their standards. The judge wasn't quite satisfied that I was this dangerous man that they were trying to project. So they asked the chief man, "What was strange about this man's house?"

So he said, "Why, there were two little switches—block switches were called grid switches—on the wall."

So he pointed over to it, and they said, "See those two switches?"

"Yes."

"What's strange about that?"

"Well, he's got 16. We took the floorboards up—they've got power transformers on them."

"What's strange about that?"

"I've never seen anything like that before."

So he asked him, "What else was strange?"

So he said, "Well, out in the shed, he's got all this equipment from the floor to the ceiling—it looks like NASA."

He said, "What else was strange?"

"Well, we were trying to find where the electric came from. We cut the walls open, we cut the walls open—we came on this box. You see, we took it out, and when we opened it, we got these plate things, and we got rollers running around."

So the judge said, "What's strange about that?"

"Is that—well, we can't understand how they run."

"Can't you do that?"

"No."

"Can anyone do that?"

"No."

"Is that man there cleverer than you?"

"Yes."

"Is your bill back?"

"No way am I going to make that man pay you 10,975 pounds."

I knew what the judge was trying to point out to him—that I can't be insane if I'm cleverer than him. The electricity to run his home sometimes came from his own generator—that generator was never returned to him.

The semi-favorable court decision was costly. The price he would pay was divorce and the breakup of his family. The memory is difficult.

I'm a loyal person, and I wouldn't walk out unless pushed out. Only the work kept me going.

John Searle sacrificed his family in favor of his invention. He left his home and disappeared into the Midlands of England, taking nothing with him but the secret know-how he had refused to patent. His extensive research library, records, documents, all equipment, and his family were left behind—very little has been recovered.

He had this, he had that, he showed no evidence, he said things were destroyed by fire—we've heard that story many times before, bad people—a load of crap. I don't believe a word the man says.

Man, that is the standard thing.

Four years later, in 1986, Searle was found and asked to return to his lifelong work. He had lost nearly everything, but here was the chance to tell his story and prove his generator with a more scientific approach.

He was a man that hunted for two years to find me, and when he did find me by that, that he contacted somebody in America—oh, yes, we just spoke to him, he's in the Midlands. So they gave him my address, and he came up, and he said, "If I come back, I'll put 2,000 in—2,000 pounds then to get you started."

For the next 15 years, John Searle lectured all over the world—England, Australia, Scotland, Canada, and the United States, to name only a few. Crowds were sometimes shocked to discover he was still alive, but eager to hear him tell the story of his generator and flying disc.

In Germany, 1989, he was awarded the honorary title Professor of Mathematical Structures of Creation and Energy.

I was well-known. I was known by people like Sir Freddie Laker and other people like that. I met princesses—we talked, they enjoyed every minute with me.

John Searle had become Professor Searle, and an aura of mystery had formed around the flying saucer man. But where are the witnesses?

There are plenty of witnesses around, but there seems to be a problem—they do not like to come out in the open. They have read too many books about men in black breaking in, destroying their homes, burning that property, and FBI and things like this, breaking in, stealing—they're stealing that, and they're frightened, that dead frightened.

Is the Searle Effect Generator so profound a device that it would change everything we know? Perhaps Searle's refusal to patent his secret was working against him.

This is Richard Vere Compton. I worked with John—I was responsible for converting ordinary 250-volt electric drills so that they would run on 12 volts so we could cut up the timber rather than using hand saws, and we could speed the process of building the disc—the 30-foot disc. Ken Pirelli turned up on my doorstep and told me about Searle. I went to see him and saw what he was doing—was rather amazed that he was building a disc in somebody's garden, so I thought, well, this could be fun—let's see what happens. And of course, very soon, one began to feel that nothing was really going to happen.

If nothing would happen, what was it that captured Vere Compton's interest?

Well, basically, the Searle Effect was meant to turn the ether, which is all around us, which contains energy, and tap into this energy, which has eudaimonistically now been known as zero-point energy, and various other people who followed Searle's footsteps have also potted around, and they've tapped into it by mistake.

At his home in Mortimer, Searle had been arrested for stealing electric power. Vere Compton had visited Searle years before the arrest and remembers the switching over to the Searle Effect Generator.

He said what he was going to do was to switch the Searle Effect Generator on by cutting off the electric power, and it would then be running on the Searle Effect Generator. Well, as I said before, and I keep using this book, the jury is still out as to what John actually did. Were the puffs of smoke and mirrors, did he switch a straightforward inverter on? Was there any dip in the voltage? As far as we were concerned, one minute the lights were on, and the next minute, the lights were still on, and there was no dipping, there was no fading, there was no bleep. So this is unusual if you're switching from one power source to a next. But no, I have not seen the Searle Effect work.

Vere Compton never saw it work. Why then have so many tried to copy this Searle technology?

The story is always the same—John is told the really big money is not coming unless he can prove the generator by revealing how it is made. John Searle refuses to give up his secret.

The secret will never be there until the conditions have been met as the patent office advisement will be fulfilled, and the sooner they understand that and get down and get it done, the sooner we're going to do it. Where is the secret, John?

Right here.

Over the years, the standoff has continued. Searle has been involved with numerous individuals and companies making the same promises to rebuild his generator—they all fail for this same reason.

They are working with scientists around the clock to get that engine out. I told you before, I sign a contract with someone else to make it.

But the controversy around Searle and his generator continues to grow. Some take a different approach. This is Michael Nelson from NASA, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in the United States.

A lot of people have an interest in anything that has to do with more efficient electric motors, more efficient energy devices because we're in a situation where we're in an energy crunch. I do work for NASA—I can't say I'm representing NASA at this point, but we just have an interest in what you're doing and what's going to come out of it, hopefully. What people want to say is impossible is that you keep a couple of magnets continuously moving—you have one big stationary magnet, and you have a smaller magnet that rotates around that. And if you can just show that, you've made a major step forward as far as showing, hey, this principle will sustain movement. That's the big question that I'm seeing people raising about what is possible or impossible.

You have done this in the past, and so you're trying to get to a point where you can do this. You're looking at just trying to do a small demonstration of, say, one roller, or how are you thinking about it?

Well, at the moment, I'm hoping that down there in California, Morris will make what I call the glass demonstrator and get that running and have a bulb so that as it revolves, the bulb lights, and it just keeps on running all day long by your lecturing. There you go—once you do that, you've stepped beyond the bounds of what people say is possible.

There are legitimate experiments that are going on to manipulate gravity involving superconducting discs where an intense magnetic field or an intense electromagnetic field is applied while a disc is spinning at a high rate of speed and where there are experiments that are being conducted to investigate this phenomenon.

Superconductors and rotating magnets may hold the key to generating an unlimited source of energy, but did John Searle's combination of rare earth materials and magnetic fields in his Searle Effect Generator already do that?

Magnets have been used in a thousand different ways over the years, and this type of behavior has never been exhibited—has never been seen. This information was never given out before. Others who have gotten a hold of a piece of a demonstrator that would show the Searle Effect, and they broke it apart, then they looked and studied, and it cannot be back-engineered.

The SEG experiments, the initial ones that Professor Searle talks about, occurred at the height of the Cold War. If this technology was viable, and he says that military people looked at it, if the technology really is viable, it would have been irresistible to the military.

Whose hands the technology go into is the problem. That's why all these years, I sort of geared this technology away from the military establishment. The claim is that these things have been built previously, they've worked, they've been demonstrated, but today no working prototype exists. And in order to build a working prototype, some people want a half a million dollars, and they can't show you anything until that time.

As far as why hasn't anybody done it, many people have tried—the only one that has succeeded is Professor Searle. We want to succeed again—we want to build again and demonstrate again. This is our primary goal—the only thing holding us back is funds.

There's talk of power companies and utilities, big corporations who are threatened by this kind of a concept, and the theory is that they've tried to suppress it—they've tried to suppress the research and prevent it from reaching the market because it'll damage their markets. They want to maintain control.

The oil companies and some of the other big businesses run this world. Unfortunately, they run most of our governments, so that even our government, which we would think would be very interested in something like this, sometimes it doesn't respond because of pressures put on by big business, by economic advisors.

The most benefit to any individual, let alone a company, to be made from this is by appropriating it and distributing it to the public and by manufacturing it and making people pay to buy it from you, taking out a patent, copyrights, whatever you need to make yourself or your company the source for something so profound—the—you would just—you'd be the richest man in the world very quickly.

Now, if we give them a method where they can produce electricity at the cheapest method with virtually no input, I think that they would like that and go along with it and want to develop it themselves.

Once they see that this device is going to be a fact of life, they will try to cash in on it.

Maybe there are people somewhere researching this type of thing, but it's pretty obvious that no hard evidence really has turned up yet.

The effect was well-known in the scientific community—it was compared to, it was alluded to, this is much like the Searle Effect, or this is a lot like the Searle Effect, so he was used as a base point and not somebody that was off the wall.

If you can prove the technology, if you can demonstrate the technology is functional, that it really works, all questions will be answered. People can't argue with success—they can't argue with what they see right in front of their own face.

I can understand why people would have difficulty in understanding it because it does take a great deal of effort to make sense of it technically.

Fernando Morris, an electrical engineer and computer specialist, is responsible for the most credible attempt to rebuild the Searle Effect Generator.

We have something here that needs to be investigated, and really that's my role. I am a technical investigator of the SEG.

In his home laboratory workshop near San Diego, California, Morris is following the footsteps of John Searle, personally guided by Searle himself. He is rebuilding the generator precisely as Searle did long ago. Morris developed the unit that reveals a magnetic sine wave in the Searle Generator.

That's how I started off, is to try to build a magnetizer for it, and if I could develop this sine wave, which I'd never heard of before, I think we're on to something and we can build upon that. Now that is proven—repeatable—and I've got the unit to do that.

It's a process of magnetizing the rollers and the plate, and when you develop sine waves on it, what you, in fact, you're developing a motor. And that's essential if it's going to be a viable device.

That's exactly what I've been saying since 1946—there is a waveform in a magnetic domain on that metal. And the scientists say, "Impossible."

Morris has invested his time and considerable personal fortune into this effort. After years of studying Searle's books, trying to decipher their meaning, and endless question and answer sessions with the man himself, what does he know that assures him Searle is right?

I'm gonna release a piece of information here that I've shared before, and that is the law of squares. That's one of those question marks right now, is how does that come about? It took me a while to understand it, but what it is—it represents time, space, and energy. And what it says, it's in a random state—that's not useful energy. But what John has done is he has transposed that matrix so that the output is uniform, and within nature, uniformity means resonance.

So if you can resonate that random energy, you've got yourself an electric current, because electrons are the only things that are free to move on metal. So what we've got here is a converter of random energy into electrical current. And that's the brilliance behind the machine here, is not only was John able to decipher his matrix, but he will say, "Well, we'll make it into a workable device," and that's the SEG.

Morris's mock-up of the SEG needs an outside power source, just like Searle's original back in 1946. This unit does not contain the rare earth material and will not display the Searle Effect. It was built to demonstrate Searle's contention that spinning magnets give off an electric charge, as measured by the flashing LEDs.

What will be the reaction if and when the Searle Generator functions, as the inventor assures it will?

I think the public will demand to know why is this technology being ignored? Why have the experts failed to recognize it? John has a solution that is really the ultimate solution because we're using energy that's already available within nature, and it's benign. I think we have a wonderful opportunity here, and it's a shame it hasn't been taken advantage of. I mean, John has been struggling to get this technology out for years.

John A. Thomas Jr. wrote a book about Searle, then formed a corporation with him in 1996—DISC Direct International Science Consortium—for the purpose of rebuilding the Searle Generator. Thomas's study of the Searle Effect has convinced him beyond any doubt that Searle is telling the truth.

The funding that was done for all of this work originally was done by individuals that wanted to see this done. All private—no public money was put in. People in this country, in London, in England, all around the world have been lied to. They have been told that this does not, can't exist or doesn't work. Every Sunday, Professor Searle would go out and physically demonstrate a craft going up into the air in front of a whole crowd. There was no admission—here is the craft, here it is in the air, this is what it does. And they didn't believe it, and they shunned him and called him and classified him in with UFO people and fringe people. And he's showing you—my God, there it is!

And the United States has not heard of Professor Searle—they don't know who and how he is. The people of this world have been offered this technology in a refined form that's usable since the early '50s, and it was their right to have it, and it's been taken away from them by the media, and by the power companies, and by the people running this economic society. And we have been told that we cannot have this and it can't exist. Yet we could be living in a new world today that we should have had 25 years ago.

John Searle has since reformed the Searle International Space Research Consortium, or SISRC, an offshoot of his earlier organization. He lives and works in a small residence in the north of London. It is packed with equipment and computers—visitors come from all over the world and are mostly welcomed by the man with a wary eye.

All my life says that lesson—I see this everywhere. People are more impressed with lies than the truth. I can't because I'm talking from the heart—the truth of what I know and what I do.

But the proof that everyone wants to see is the generator running. It's not enough that Searle has written thousands of pages in his books—volume after volume demonstrating his knowledge of magnetism and the tremendous scope of his work. It is a standard problem—here is something that is not confirmed in print, technical books. It has to be confirmed in print. You market it—you'll get four Nobel Prizes, at least.

The Searle Effect Generator represents a fork in the road of scientific development that was abandoned nearly a century ago when ether theory became a relic of the past. John Searle came along, and whether he knew something special or just didn't know any better, he chose the empty road and traveled it alone. Could it be that Searle is right?

There you get Searle—oh, Searle, that's a silly old fool—lost his marbles, he'd be in a nursing home, being careful. If they don't make it, they don't want to know. If it doesn't come inside their rules, they don't want to know. The trouble is we're confronted by a brick wall called the expert scientific world. If they haven't done it or cannot do it, it's impossible to do.

If all these years—1964—we were at a peak, we were demonstrating, and still the scientists say, "It's impossible to do."

Really? Well, we're going to show you they're wrong, and they have held up this technology since 1946 to today.

Perhaps it's easier to believe that Searle's technology does not exist. The Searle Effect Generator, at first look, seems to violate known physical laws. Energy must come from somewhere. John says he found it in the rare earth material—could it be that simple?

Searle speaks his own language, a combination of known physics and terms he created to describe his invention. Could it be that John Searle is misunderstood? Numbers in squares told Searle that nature has a way of creating order out of chaos. Does the Searle Effect Generator convert random energy into usable electricity? When his generator is overloaded, it affects gravity and flies. John says he gave it a body and let it fly. What is the truth?

German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer was once quoted as saying, "All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." Could it be that John Searle's technology is passing through Schopenhauer's three phases of truth?

The movement toward alternative energy sources is worldwide and essential. The promise of a working Searle Effect Generator represents a paradigm shift and a renewed hope for all life on earth.

The questions around John Searle and his invention need only one answer: build a working generator. When the rollers are moving around the plates and the energy is there to use, or when the skies are filled with flying discs transporting goods and people from place to place, until that time, we have the man who speaks from his heart.

Seems strange—after all these years, they've been walking on this on the ground, and this is what they call the common. But to do sort of shows, you had to get permission. They never refused me—I was never refused. They came to the okay. So we used to do a lift-off and take the pedal over there—the audience would be here, that we would fly over here, make up, we were crushing, and everybody held him. Then up it would go again. This area was a good place for shows. People come from far away. Everything was done—the people said, "Never happened," and that dreaming is a very...