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April 7, 1991
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John Searl and his flying disks.
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a personal commentary by Anders Heerfordt
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I heard a speech by John Searl around 5 Dec 1990. During the speech
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he claimed that he could produce antigravity and free energy
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effects, using special magnets, and that he had been building flying
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saucers. He also said that he had a special magnet bar and some
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magnetic cylinders with such unusual properties. He could not
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demonstrate the bar, he said, because British customs had prevented
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him from bringing the magnets.
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According to Searl, many people had seen his flying disks. I tried
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to find somebody who had seen Searl demonstrate something. That
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turned out to be difficult.
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During the speech Searl said that Gunnar Sandberg (a scientist at
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Sussex University) had seen him demonstrate perpetual motion with
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his magnet bar and his magnetic rollers. Sandberg was not present at
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the speech.
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I visited Sandberg at Sussex University and asked him about the
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demonstration. Gunnar had seen the magnetic bar and the magnetic
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rollers, and Searl had told him a lot about them, but Searl had not
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demonstrated any unusual effects to him.
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In this case Searl was apparently not being truthful.
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I asked Searl if he could demonstrate the unusual effects to me, but
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he said that unfortunately he couldn't, because some of the magnets
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had been lost, and he no longer had a complete set.
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I asked Searl to help me find someone who had known him in the past,
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so that I could ask them to confirm his claims. He tried to
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discourage me from searching for his past associates, saying that
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they had all died, or disappeared.
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That he and others had spent thousands of pounds on advertising in
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newspapers to find old witnesses, but none had surfaced. I mentioned
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Sandberg, but Searl did not think I should talk to Sandberg. As he
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had claimed Sandberg was a witness, it seems strange that he should
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first say that no witnesses could be found, then acknowledge that
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Sandberg was available, then try to discourage me from talking to
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Sandberg.
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I mentioned to Searl that he had been married, and one would assume
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that his family had known about his experiments, and that I would
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like to hear their story.
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Searl said that his wife had been a very evil person, who had
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ridiculed his experiments, and who had prevented his children from
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seeing any of his experiments. Searl did not want me to talk to his
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family.
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Sandberg, however, had managed to find a son, who had seen disks
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being suspended from wires, so that they could be photographed, but
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who hadnt seen any demonstration of antigravity or free energy.
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I managed to find a Mr. Louis Avilio, who had worked with Searl for
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5 years, and I asked him whether he could confirm the claims of
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Searl. He could not.
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Searl has certainly told him a lot about such claims, but he had
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never seen Searl demonstrate his claims of perpetual motion or
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antigravity. He had however not known Searl in the fifties or
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sixties, where some experiments should have been done.
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Louis Avillio had met somebody, who had worked with Searl during the
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fifties or sixties, but he hadn't seen any proof of the claims
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either.
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Searl should have had a childhood friend. His father was a George
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Haynes. Searl and the friend made experiments together. They made
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the first free energy magnet together, and the friend's father paid
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for the materials.
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The father is dead by now, but the son should still be alive, and
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should be able to tell about Searl's first experiments. I asked
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Searl for the name of the friend, but Searl said he couldn't
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remember it.
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I asked him where his friend lived at the time, but again Searl
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evaded and said that he could not remember it. I had the impression
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that Searl did not want me to find his childhood friend.
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Searl said his magnet bar with the unusual properties was made of
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neodynium, titanium and bakelite. A small chip of the bar was
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analyzed by a scientist at Sussex University. The results were
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published in Raum & Zeit. According to the analysis the bar was
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made of a magnetic mixture of iron and titanium.
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There were some rare earth metals in the mixture, including
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neodynium. Iron-titanium magnetic powders were commercially
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available in fifties or sixties. A small amount of a rare earth
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mixture was included as an antioxidant .
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Searl's magnet is apparaently made from such a powder. It does
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not appear that Searl has been truthful about how his magnetic bar
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was made.
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I asked Searl about news paper articles, but he did not think I
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should look for newspaper articles. He said however that there had
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been a lot of articles about his work back in 1981, when he was
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building a large flying saucer that could carry passengers.
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He was then living in Mortimer, near Reading west of London. The
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work had stopped when he became very ill, and went to hospital.
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Somebody then destroyed all his materials and models, and all that
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survived was his magnet bar and the magnetic rollers. When pressed
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he admitted that he had not gone to hospital, but he had gone to
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jail after a court case in June-July 1981 at a court in Reading.
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He said he had been sentenced for not paying his electricity bill.
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He said he had only used electricity from his free energy generator,
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not from the public network.
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I asked the court in Reading whether they could confirm this, but
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they said that the court records were not public.
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I went through the issues of the London newspaper Times from June-
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July 1981 but there was no mention of Mrs Searl and his flying
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saucers.
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I called the newspaper in Reading, but they said I would have to go
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to Reading myself and go through their archives, if I wanted to find
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anything from that period. I haven't been to Reading yet.
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So I haven't used up all possibilities of research into the past of
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John Searl. If I went to Reading and went through the newspaper I
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might find that Searl was sentenced for something else than not
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paying his electricity bill.
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Perhaps he was sentenced for fraudulently selling tickets to the
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Moon?
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The research I have done, does not support that Searl ever made any
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flying disks or free energy machines, but rather it supports that he
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has a good phantasy.
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The people who have met him say that he seems convinced that his
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claims are possible, which is strange, because he has no evidence to
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support them.
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Perhaps antigravity and free energy can be demonstarted in a way
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similar to the one Searl describes. But as he doesnt seem to have
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demonstrated it himself, it seems strange that he should be so
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convinced that it can be done.
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Anders Heerfordt, 1 Mar 91.
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