The Lost Century: 100+ Years of Suppressed Energy and Propulsion Technologies

Greer's 2023 documentary 'The Lost Century and How to Reclaim It' systematically catalogs over a century of suppressed energy and propulsion technologies with named inventors, patent numbers, and documented suppression events. This is the most comprehensive single source connecting the individual cases already in our hub. KEY TECHNOLOGIES DOCUMENTED: NIKOLA TESLA (1856-1943): Wardenclyffe Tower — wireless energy transmission. JP Morgan (who funded it) pulled funding when he realized he couldn't meter wireless electricity. Tesla's papers seized by the Office of Alien Property after his death in January 1943. The FBI and Naval Intelligence reviewed them. Over 80 trunks of documents. Some remain classified. Tesla demonstrated wireless power transmission, resonance-based energy systems, and claimed to have achieved communication with non-human intelligences through his equipment. T. TOWNSEND BROWN (1905-1985): Discovered electrogravitics — that high-voltage capacitors produce thrust independent of ion wind. Demonstrated this to the Navy in the 1950s. Project Winterhaven proposed electrogravitic propulsion for military aircraft. The research was classified and disappeared into black programs. Aviation Studies International (UK, 1956) published two reports — 'Electrogravitics Systems' and 'The Gravitics Situation' — documenting that major aerospace companies (Douglas, Glenn Martin, Convair, Bell, Lear) were actively researching electrogravitics. Then silence. The entire field vanished from public discourse. Brown's work connects directly to the Pais Navy patents (inertial mass reduction via electromagnetic fields) and to the TR-3B's claimed propulsion mechanism. THOMAS HENRY MORAY (1892-1974): Built a 'radiant energy device' in the 1920s-30s that reportedly produced 50 kilowatts from an unknown energy source — no fuel, no moving parts. Demonstrated before witnesses including engineers and a Salt Lake City newspaper editor. His lab was broken into, his equipment was smashed, and he was shot at. Despite multiple public demonstrations, the technology was never commercialized. JOHN SEARL (1932-present): Built the Searl Effect Generator (SEG) — a magnetic device that reportedly produces energy and thrust. Multiple witnesses to demonstrations. Has rebuilt the device multiple times after equipment was confiscated or destroyed. THE PATTERN THE DOCUMENTARY MAPS: (1) Inventor develops breakthrough energy technology. (2) Technology is demonstrated and verified by witnesses/engineers. (3) Inventor is approached with buyout offers (often millions). (4) If inventor refuses, escalation: threats, lab break-ins, equipment destruction. (5) If inventor persists: patent seizure under Invention Secrecy Act, or worse (Mallove murdered, Meyer poisoned, Michigan team eliminated). (6) Technology disappears. The documentary argues we have lost over 100 years of energy independence to this pattern — hence 'The Lost Century.' Every year of delay means another year of fossil fuel dependence, petrodollar wars, and environmental destruction. THE THESIS: Greer's central argument is that the technologies behind UAP propulsion are not exotic — they are extensions of physics that human inventors independently discovered throughout the 20th century. Tesla, Brown, Moray, Searl, Pons and Fleischmann (cold fusion), Mallove, Meyer — they all found pieces of the same puzzle. The suppression isn't just about hiding alien technology; it's about hiding the HUMAN technology that keeps being independently rediscovered. The 6,543 patents under secrecy orders (per the 1971 leaked list) aren't all reverse-engineered alien tech — many are human inventions that got too close to the same physics.