Xref: utzoo alt.alien.visitors:557 sci.energy:4549 sci.electronics:19666 sci.skeptic:10510 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!van-bc!ubc-cs!alberta!herald.usask.ca!ccu.umanitoba.ca!bison!sys6626!draco!swrdpnt!ford From: ford@swrdpnt.bison.mb.ca (Scott Young ) Newsgroups: alt.alien.visitors,alt.conspiracy,sci.energy,sci.electronics,sci.skeptic,misc.mi Subject: Re: INFO: How To Build A UFO - T Pawlicki, Nikola Tesla Message-ID: Date: 25 Apr 91 19:14:14 GMT References: <1991Apr24.151848.3696@watmath.waterloo.edu> Organization: Swordpoint BBS, Winnipeg MB (204) 474-6531 Lines: 33 mwtilden@watmath.waterloo.edu (Mark W. Tilden) writes: > > In 1978 I caught a hitchike with an engineer who, during an interesting > discussion, gave me a photocopy of an article describing the > construction of a 'Searle generator', a device which exhibits > all the properties associated with flying saucers. > > The basic principle is that two flat rotating conductive disks form > a charge-capacitive effect which generates obsene amounts of static > charge, sufficient to lift the device from the ground. The article > shows several devices built by Searle and a discription of what happened > (flight, bizarre pink halo, disappeared into distance). > > For years I have been keeping an eye out for appropriate flat disks to > prove or disprove this theory. Anybody know anything more about it? > Is it the crank I think it is? > > Is all. Sounds kind of fishy, but it's hard to tell from the brief description. What lifts the disks? Is it an electromagnetic repulsion of the ground? Or an attraction to charged particles in the air? Either way, I don't think it would work; you would have to have an *immense* charge buildup on the disks, which would probably be difficult to insulate from each other and from grounding out via a lightning-type discharge. And what's this taken yet. Please post further details, it sounds interesting. Scott ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Reply to: ford%swrdpnt.bison.mb.ca@niven.cc.umanitoba.ca ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++