Background
At the age of 12 (mid-seventies) I read about John Searl in a swedish
newpaper. There was a picture of him next to his saucer craft that
seemingly hovered in the air above and behind him.
(I still regret that I didn't contact him and his team in England back
then, but I was probably too young, anyway.)
The article stated that the drive system consisted of magnets that
rotated somehow.
Imagine all drawings I made for years thereafter, usually with a large
rotating disk at the bottom of the craft!
Actually, I was fashinated by -- and had drawn -- flying saucers long
before the newpaper article, and I guess it resonated in me more
than in the average swede.
The article marked the beginning of my life-long (although interrupted
by realities of life, and lack of workable tech clues) quest to
understand how to build a working flying saucer.
Later in the seventies, I bought a book about Viktor Schauberger, and
reading about the Repulsin only increased my interest in flying saucer
construction.
In 1993 I stumbled upon a few text documents about John Searl on the
KeelyNet BBS (dial-up), and I realized that this was the man in the
newspaper article.
In early 1996, a friend pointed me to a USENET newsgroup post (IIRC, could've
been on the web) that said that John Searl is going to present at two
seminars in England, so in the spring and summer of that year I
participated those seminars, and shortly thereafter I became member of
the newly-formed team ("the new team") based in England (now dead
website: sisrc.com). We tried to recreate the technology that John
Searl and his old team had created earlier, but for various reasons
(spelled
problems with magnetization) we did not succeed. We
didn't focus on the energy side and not the flying side, although the
prospect of the latter was a real driving force for many of us!
I spent a great deal of 1997 on this project, mainly procuring
components for our prototype (magnets and dielectric). I also
participated in general discussions about the technology with John
Searl and the other members of the new team.
The team broke up in 2003 after a row with John Searl.
So, what did I learn from this interesting experience?
- John Searl didn't really know how to build a working SEG. Those
who knew were the more skilled members of his first team (a group just
called "ONL") that consisted of retired workers/engineers from the
Midlands Electricity Board that, and that Searl had successfully
convinced to help him build his first SEG after he did some
fascinating experiments with unlubricated roller bearings propelled by
pressurized air (the alleged inspiration of the SEG, according to his
brother Peter). Midlands Electricity Board had at their premises a
decommissioned turbine shaft demagnitizer the size of a small room.
They modified it for the special magnetization required for the SEG
("magnetic sprockets"). This big machine was scrapped in the early
nineties after remaining for a long time at the Midlands Electricity
Board. The board actually contacted him before scrapping it, but he
had nowhere to put it! Now you might understand why the new team were
unable to build a working magnetizer!
- They could never control the flying versions of the SEG (IGV) --
they just shot right up into space, and this obviously raises questions
about the above photo.
I learned this from a long phone conversation with John's brother
Peter more than ten years ago. Peter also recounted when unidentified
men suddenly appeared (in the late sixties, IIRC) at their site and
smashed all the things they were working on. This didn't dissuade
them, and they rebuilt everyting and continued their work.
Note that this uncontrollability was also the case with Schauberger's
Repulsin -- his first Repulsin was destroyed when it hit the ceiling
just after turning it on.
- The SEG helped me understand other similar devices like the
Repulsin, most notably the MAGVID[/B} -- the interesting
solid-state device that I will focus on in coming posts. Please hear
me on this: the MAGVID directly relates to the ARV, in my
(probably not so humble) opinion!
In 2005 I wrote a paper describing my understanding of the SEG at
that point:
http://blog.lege.net/Mathias_Bage/The_SEG-Introduction_and_analysis.pdf
It is partly unfinished. And I hadn't talked to Peter Searl yet.
Now I must get some sleep.
/Mathias Båge