Tom Bearden website, "The Moray Radiant Energy Device" (cheniere.org via Wayback) (new site) - 2026-10-04

URL: http://www.cheniere.org/books/excalibur/moray.htm. The live domain now shows a blank or parked page in Chrome, so it was read from the Wayback Machine copy (https://web.archive.org/web/2015/http://www.cheniere.org/books/excalibur/moray.htm), found through a citation in Ostojic 2019. Saved text: files/Bearden_Excalibur-Briefing_Moray-page_cheniere-wayback2015.txt. Result: positive (related work: a later theorist's reading of Moray). Recheck: no.

What it says (Bearden's characterization; an interested party with his own scalar-electromagnetics theory) [web]

• Principle: Moray tapped "the metafrequency oscillations of empty space itself", i.e. zero-point vacuum energy. John Moray's "cosmic rays" are "the same as the present concept of 'zero-point' energy of vacuum". Each detector stage collects energy "in a subharmonically resonant manner"; the circuit ran cold because energy was "simultaneously collected at each stage rather than being processed ... in serial order".
• Device details as Bearden gives them: 29 stages of detector valves at about $500 each, about one in four usable. The pellet is "a mixture of triboluminescent zinc, a semiconductor material, and a radioactive or fissile material". Patent application filed 13 Jul 1931. In 1938 a Japanese representative offered Moray a position over a "deathray" (per John Moray).
• REA history as Bearden tells it: REA "infiltrated by Communist sympathizers"; an REA man "Z" (two months in the lab) may have been a Soviet agent; this is linked to "hyperspace amplifiers" in Soviet "psychotronic weapons". Cites Salt Lake Tribune, 2 Dec 1941, Rep. Thomas D. Winter calling for an investigation of Communist infiltration of REA. Says Moray was shot on 2 Mar 1940 and left REA in Feb 1941.
• Figures that differ from the folder's primary record: Bearden says the 157-h run "produced over fifty kilowatts of power". The folder's own record of the 1928 sealed test is about 110-120 W, with 560-635 W only at the end (claims.md, Claim 1). He also says the device was "completely disassemble[d]" by independent investigators "several times", while the folder records the detector withheld in every examination except the 1938 inspection.

Bearing

Priority 3 (related work). Bearden is the main later theorist to restate Moray's "sea of energy" as vacuum (zero-point) energy. That is the strongest modern form of Claim 3, and the reviewers should weigh it against the energy-density numbers in claims.md. His narrative adds the Salt Lake Tribune 2 Dec 1941 cite (checkable) and the "Z"/Soviet reading of the REA episode. The Senate record instead points to Technocrat investigators (Frazer, Wood). Bearden's numbers inflate the 1928 test, which shows how the 50 kW figure entered later literature.