John Searl - Electromagnetic Flying Discs - The Story Behind The Story

by Bradley Lockerman, BKL Films
Executive Producer, Writer, Director, Camera for the The John Searl Story.

Comments by John Searl about the film and excerpts from the film log.  Follow-up dialogue about coming film sequel that will address the topic of the powers that be who not only suppressed the technology, but stole it.

Bradley Lockerman in the Scottish Highlands filming scenes for The John Searl Story, released on DVD Jan. 15, 2009. (Ref.)

“It’s marvelous… maybe people will realize that ALL of it is interesting information…” said John Searl.

“People are more impressed with lies… than the truth.  I can’t (lie) because I’m speaking from the heart… about what I know… and what I do.”

Throughout the making of The John Searl Story there was one distinct, undeniable constant, Searl was telling his truth.

I spent several years shooting, logging, collecting and then pouring over the sixty plus hours of raw footage in the edit waiting to find a blink or flinch or a stutter that would indicate he was concocting this portion or that portion of his story. It never came.

We were lucky to get permission to enter Saint John’s Hall. This auditorium is where the Sunday lectures were held in the 1960s. Attended by scientists, the press and the public, crowds numbered up to four hundred persons at times, all listening to Searl explain his “flying disc generator”, and his intention to build a “manned craft”.

“The press came… to make mockery,” said Searl. At the end of the ten-hour lecture reporters approached Searl amazed by his continuous delivery.

“They said, we have never seen a man stand there… and talk for ten hours without looking at any papers or references” Searl continued, “And I said, when you talk from the heart… you don’t need papers…”

The anticipation as we approached the locations where Searl had worked or done his research was already high, but that anticipation increased dramatically in Searl himself. Every location was found through Searl’s recognition of the surroundings. “That’s it… stop here,” he said. Then, while walking (and filming) through the field he commented, “I used to have to get permission, to do ‘sort of’ shows (fly the disc!)… they never refused me.” Searl said. “We used to do our take-offs and landings there (pointing to an open area in the field); the audience would be here.” He continued, “The people that say it never happened… they’re dreaming! Here’s the very field.”

An animated gif from TheLivingMoon.com.

Professor John Searl revisits the field where he had done many test flights.

While standing in one of the fields where John Searl flew his “levity disc”, I was struck by his demeanor. There were moments when he paused, as if he were reliving the events of the past. The look in his eyes was certain as he examined the geography around him. Occasionally he would glance at the sky, as if he were remembering a particular launch or flight path that he and his team had used.

The documentary states: “The Demo 1 would prove that electromagnetic flying discs were not only real, but that they represent the future in power and transportation.”  In the segment of the documentary in which the above image is shown, Searl’s voice is played back from that period, saying: “We feel the time is right to go ahead and carry people.”  “One day you’ll see a [name of] craft, a lone star in the sky; and within a year, you’ll see massive giants coming up into the sky taking 2000 people from New York to London in twenty minutes, or fifteen minutes; from London to Sidney in thirty minutes; and we won’t think nothing about it.”  Then, showing his confidence in the goodness of humanity, he continues: “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.”  Later in the documentary he states: “From 1963 until about 1978, …Demo 1 flew 500 times around the world through the use of ham operators.”

As he relived the end of the “Demo 1” effort, his pain from the memory was too much. He broke down in tears. This lasted for a considerable time. I thought I should cut the cameras and give him some privacy because his pain was real. But I chose instead to capture it all. Here was a man who chose his life work over his family. And the memory of that “ripping apart” was flowing out of him.

Searl was pleased with the structure of the dream 1 and dream 2 sequence in the film. “It showed the dreams… that’s always been difficult to explain” he said. “Now you can see it… from the hopscotch game, to the Law of the Squares, to the SEG”.

He also liked the Crawley Road location sequence. “This is where it happened” (the first model crashed through the roof and destroyed the house)… “It was an accident” he said, “and the house is gone!” The police put him in jail for a few nights after that. “They put me in a place where I won’t blow holes through roofs and that again…”

Searl said he thinks the film will help people understand the difficulties he’s had to overcome. “Some people are greedy… once they see it (the SEG) they want to own it” he said. “Greed and ignorance… it’s a terrible combination.”

On the general content and flow of the film. “I hope everyone has a chance to see it… I’ll be able to spend more time talking about the (present) development of the SEG” said Searl. “I don’t mind talking about the past… just rather talk about how we’re doing it again!”

There’s more like this. I have phone conversations with him regularly.

Some of the early reviews are in and we are pleased. Seems people like the film. This latest review (five stars):

Guy Thomas… “Awesome Documentary!!!”

“I’ve bought 2 of these DVDs now and I am really impressed. The documentary builds on the information in the book ‘Antigravity: The Dream Made Reality‘, so you won’t be disappointed if you’ve already read up on the life of John Searl. The documentary provides a fair and impartial view of the SEG / IGV technologies and doesn’t alienate its audience in overly-technical explanations. I found the illustrations of the magnetisation process to be particularly enlightening as this is an area many SEG replication attempts have completely ignored. Overall this is an excellent DVD, buy it now!!!”  (PESNews/Published under GNU Free)

John Searl

From PESWiki
John Searl is one of the most controversial figures in Antigravity research, but since beginning his work in the 1940’s, he’s arguably become “the father of modern Antigravity”. His claim is simple: that after a childhood dream showing a rotating set of rollers on a metallic ring, he constructed a device called the Searl Effect Generator (SEG) that seems to produce massive Antigravitational thrust. Searl is one of the cultural icons in the Antigravity movement.

John Searl Profile

John Roy Robert Searl (born 2 May 1932) is the inventor of the Searl Effect Generator (SEG) and the Inverse Gravity Vehicle (IGV), both are open system (system theory) energy converting devices, utilizing linear motor technology with sets of multi-phased rollers riding on a magnetic bearing. An electrical autodidact, Searl conducted his initial experimental research and development from 1946 to 1956. The SEG successfully generated electricity, but also unexpectedly repelled itself from the earth’s gravity with a powerful lifting force; subsequently he was able to control it with the development of the IGV.

A repeating set of simple dreams spanning six years inspired John Searl to build the first SEG prototype. Convinced of their import, he diligently interpreted them, realizing they detailed the principles for creating a uniquely superior electrical generator, yielding massive forces of energy. His first attempts to prove his theory took place as an apprentice employee of BR Rewinds at Grays Inn Road, London. There he gained permission to use the company’s facilities and all of the technical resources needed to make the device. In December of 1946, with all of the magnetic components manufactured to his specifications, he assembled the unique generator at his residence at 30 Crawley Rd, Haringey, London, UK.

Searl Effect Generator (SEG)

When Searl first activated his device, the rollers (rotors) began to rotate around the plate (stator), generating a charge-pumping action on an open circuit configuration. At threshold speed, the device maintained its rotation with no additional energy input from the peripheral electromagnets. In the case of the original prototype, however, Searl had not provided a dampening mechanism, which caused a positive energy feedback loop to occur (circuit virtually closed) as the machine charged or ionized the air surrounding it, causing the device to accelerate. Eventually the generator experienced a severe drop in temperature inversely proportional to the increasing electric current as the electrical resistance decreased into lines predicted by the Pinch (plasma physics) effect. The random kinetic energy of the electrons became uniform in motion (physics), directly resulting in very high electron velocity, and thus the SEG quickly achieved superconductivity at extremely low temperatures. In this state, quantum tunneling electrons surged through the generator in the form of unimpeded Cooper pairs, resulting in very high negative potentials at the device’s periphery.

Through a process similar to ionization, a pink halo formed about the machine and intense electric fields repelled the surrounding negatively charged air strongly enough to form a vacuum. This vacuum and the geometry of the SEG prevented flashover of the millions of volts generated. The energy levels escalated enormously as the SEG effectively absorbed or converted the ambient temperature and all other environmental sources of the electromagnetic spectrum immediately surrounding the machine into useful electrical power. The process is believed to strip the electron’s kinetic energy by rectifying its normally random motional state in to a uniform state, accelerating it back into the environment, where the electrons regain normal levels of kinetic energy. The SEG’s electric fields would then re-attract the surrounding electrons through the relativity positive center of the generator creating a continuous cycle, a process that Prof. Searl has described as an “electron ramjet”.

Upon reaching a threshold level of efficiency, the generator’s weight dramatically decreased to a negative state at very cold temperatures. The SEG’s mass inertia concurrently also inverted its state which effectively created what may be termed as an anti-gravity machine with superconductivity due to the extreme electrical and spin-orbital rotating magnetic fields. Then most unexpectedly, the SEG promptly shot through the roof of Searl’s lodge and was never seen again.

Several more units were made and lost outdoors until he incorporated a dielectric layer to its construction and the practical power generator (SEG) was thus realized.

Prof. John Searl is currently pursuing developmental work again on the SEG, particularly in Thailand and the United States. His efforts center upon a revised prototype of the machine that can be produced more cost-effectively employing a proposed solid-layering manufacturing technique, rather than the powder-pressed original method.

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