Searl Effect Generator (SEG)

John Roy Robert Searl (born May 2, 1932 in Wantage, Oxfordshire), made the claim that between 1946 and 1956 he designed and constructed an open system perpetual motion type electrical generator known as the Searl Effect Generator (SEG).

Searl claims that he was employed as an apprentice engineer at Grays Inn Road, London. He further claims that, whilst there he gained access to use the company's facilities and the technical resources needed to make the device. Furthermore, that in December 1946, with all of the magnetic components manufactured to his specifications, he claims to have assembled it in his residential home in London, UK.

Searl makes the further claim that, once assembled, it started rotating by itself, increasing speed gradually. It finally left ground and crashed into the ceiling. While Searl was still wondering how this could happen, the SEG drilled itself through the ceiling, then the roof and disappeared. The same happened to the following 5 (other sources quote 9) models. He has claimed to have built a flying machine based on this antigravity effect, which he named Inverse-G-Vehicle (IGV). To date, Searl has produced no evidence whatsoever of any of his claims and mainstream science maintains that all his claims are, in fact, completely impossible.

Despite this fact, many people believe Searl`s story, and he has inspired many people to try and replicate Searl`s perpetual motion device. If you do a search on google you will find several examples of works produced by inventors trying to mimic Searl`s perpetual motion device.

In 1991 Anders Heerfordt investigated the claims of Searl concerning the devices that Searl claimed to have shown, as well as verifying claimed witness reports. None of these claims could be verified. Furthermore, Gunnar Sandberg has never seen any of the effects described. Sandberg, as reported through Heerfordt, found a son of Searl "who had seen disks being suspended from wires, so that they could be photographed, but who hadn't seen any demonstration of antigravity or free energy."