Teleportation experiences. The Philadelphia Experiment: What Happened During a Secret Experience
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According to the official history of the Eldridge, as presented in the documents of the Ministry of the Sea, the ship was launched on July 25, 1943 in Newark, New Jersey, and was put into operation on August 27, 1943 at the New York Sea Port.
The Philadelphia experiment is one of the most famous unsolved secrets of the twentieth century.
During the Second World War, the countries participating in the conflict were looking for a new way to win quickly and effectively, no matter how fantastic this method may seem. At that time, the US Navy was obsessed with the idea of \u200b\u200bcreating the perfect camouflage for a ship that could make it invisible to enemy radars and protect against magnetic mines. According to some sources, in 1943 in Philadelphia, the US military department allegedly tried to create such a vessel, but the experiment got out of control and led to the most unexpected consequences.
Versions and assumptions regarding the course of the Philadelphia experiment and its results are still being made, and researchers continue to argue about whether it was a fait accompli, a newspaper duck, or well-crafted misinformation.
Experiment
It is believed that with the help of this experiment, U.S. military scientists tried to verify whether the electromagnetic field of ultrahigh power, in a special way generated around any object, can lead to its complete visual disappearance due to the fact that light and radio waves begin to envelope it. If successful, scientists and engineers hoped to build several destroyers that could disappear not only from enemy radar screens, but literally out of sight. In addition, physicists were going to practice testing a unified field theory formulated by Albert Einstein. And according to some unconfirmed data, he himself was involved in this experiment.
According to the most common version, the experiment was conducted on October 28, 1943 in the port of Philadelphia. The destroyer Eldridge, with the entire crew on board, numbering 181 crew members, was chosen as the object. For the experiment, 4 powerful generators of electromagnetic waves were mounted on board the ship, which, according to scientists, were supposed to create the same invisible electromagnetic cocoon around the ship’s hull.
From early morning, the destroyer took up a position in the dock assigned to him. The experiment from a headquarters ship moored nearby was monitored by senior naval officials and scientists, and observers from other departments were stationed on the Andrew Fureset merchant ship. Exactly at 09:00 an order was given to start the generators, and after a few minutes a thick greenish haze enveloped the destroyer, and after 12 minutes it disappeared in front of the amazed viewers.
Only after 4 hours the ship appeared a few tens of kilometers from the place of the experiment - in Norfolk, not far from its emergency parking lot, having arisen literally from the air. He remained practically intact (except that the onboard clock and compasses were out of order), which could not be said about his large team. Most of the sailors died during the experiment, and some of them died under extremely strange and unusual circumstances. Most of the survivors went crazy, and when they were found, they were busy rushing along the corridors of the ship with loud laughter and inarticulate cries, beat against the walls or tearing their hands and faces apart with their nails. Only 21 out of 181 people returned safe and sound, but they still came to their senses for a long time after what they saw. All survivors were immediately quarantined and thoroughly interrogated in order to recreate in detail everything that happened on the destroyer Eldridge during his absence. Judging by the data obtained, in the course of the experiment, something happened on board the ship that scientists had never encountered before and could not give explanations to.
As a result, according to the testimonies of the respondents, the following was established. Immediately after turning on the generators, without exception, all the people on board began to experience inexplicable increasing alarm. When the greenish fog thickened, the anxiety of many escalated into panic. And by the time the ship disappeared from the field of view of the observers, the horror had become so intense that none of the crew could do anything or conduct any kind of observation. So many members of the team preserved only fragmentary memories and vivid images of what happened. Moreover, at first the testimonies of the survivors were not even taken seriously, they were so unrealistic - they were attributed to severe stress. But further investigation and a detailed inspection of the Eldridge confirmed much of what was told by the sailors.
Some of the dead crew members motionlessly froze in place in various poses and stopped breathing, turning into an eerie likeness of statues. Others were burned by the fact that in several places on the ship temperature anomalies arose - the heat there was such that even the metal melted. The lucky ones, who managed to escape from such places, said that people began to smoke, and their skin poured red and seemed to be getting hot. Some burned for a very long time - according to witnesses' estimates, it took about several hours, although it was not possible to establish this precisely, since the sailors admitted that at that moment they could not adequately estimate the time. Some surviving madmen also had burns, sometimes so severe that the victims later died. One of the sailors was exposed to radiation, which was revealed later during medical examinations and autopsies; others received strong electric shocks. 27 sailors seemed to have grown into bulkheads and ship structures, as if human bodies and metal had become one. The two survivors later said that they saw with their own eyes how people passed through walls. That is exactly how the bodies merged with the ship appeared: some of the "people" who entered the bulkheads froze in the middle and could not get out.
Of course, the experiment itself and its consequences were strictly classified. All investigation materials, photo and newsreels, autopsy results and testimonies of surviving eyewitnesses were sent to protected archives, and some of them were immediately destroyed. Representatives of the US Navy and other witnesses in the case were ordered to categorically deny the fact of the experiment, and call any information about it an invention and a lie. But rumors still continued to spread.
Publicity
For the first time, the Philadelphia experiment became known to the public through astrophysicist, mathematician and ufologist Maurice Ketchum Jessup of Iowa. He did not seek public recognition - he simply wrote articles and books on topics of interest to him. In the 1950s, he was especially interested in issues related to the then popular “unidentified flying objects,” so in 1955, Mr. Jessup published his next book, Arguments for UFOs. This work, trying to scientifically answer the question “What is a UFO?”, Did not become a bestseller, but it was thanks to it that Maurice received a strange letter from a certain Mr. Carlos Miguel Allende, who was very interested in the section of the book on the properties of space and time. In this letter, an unknown asserted that the US military, using a secret technique in practice, can, paradoxically, move objects "outside the usual Space and Time." Mr. Jessup asked for clarification and a year later received a much more detailed letter, which described in detail all the details of a secret experiment.
The author of the message claimed that he served in 1943 on the ship Andrew Fureset, which was part of the control group of the Philadelphia experiment, and saw with his own eyes everything that happened with the destroyer Eldridge. Here are excerpts from his letter, which was later released:
"Carlos Miguel Allende, New Kensington, PA
The “result” was the complete invisibility of the destroyer-type ship at sea and its entire crew. The magnetic field had the shape of a rotating ellipsoid and extended 100 m (more or less, depending on the position of the moon and degrees of longitude) on both sides of the ship. All who were in this field had only blurry outlines ...
Those who were outside the magnetic field did not see anything at all, except for the sharply defined trace of the ship’s hull in the water, provided, of course, that they were close enough to the magnetic field, but still outside it ... Half of the officers and crew of that ship now completely insane. Some even to this day are kept in appropriate institutions where they will receive qualified scientific assistance when they either “soar”, as they call it, or “soar and get stuck”. This “evaporation” is a consequence of staying in a magnetic field for too long.
If a person is “stuck”, then he is not able to move of his own free will, if one or two of his comrades who are close by do not come and touch him, because otherwise he will “freeze”. Usually the “deep-frozen” loses his mind, goes mad and carries a bunch of nonsense if the “freeze” lasted more than one day according to our countdown.
I am talking about time, but the “frozen” perceive the course of time differently than we do. They resemble twilight people who live, breathe, hear and feel, but do not perceive so much that they seem to exist only in the next world. They do not perceive time the way you or I do.
There were very few team members who took part in the experiment ... Most lost their minds, one simply disappeared "through" the wall of their own apartment in front of the wife and child. The other two team members “ignited”, that is, they “froze” and caught fire when they dragged small boat compasses; one carried a compass and caught fire, and the other hastened to it to lay its hand, but also caught fire. They burned for 18 days. Belief in the effectiveness of the laying on of hands was destroyed, and the general craziness began. The experiment itself was absolutely successful. On the crew, he acted in a fatal way ... "
Of course, having received this letter, Maurice Jessup admitted the possibility that it is not a very real, but rather an exaggerated story about a mysterious event. And yet, during the Second World War, many secret experiments were conducted - why not the Philadelphia experiment be one of them? Indeed, in the letter there were too many real details: names, geographical names, dates and events.
Jessup could not get past such a sensation and immediately began to investigate: he turned to the archives, looked for eyewitnesses, talked with the military and sailors and, they say, found a lot of evidence that the experiment took place. He finally established his opinion when he was unexpectedly summoned to the US Naval Research Directorate. The fact is that shortly before this, a parcel arrived with an Easter card and Jessup’s new book, “An Extended Argument for UFOs,” all of which were covered with blue, violet, and green ink. The notes contained undisguised hints of Einstein's unified field theory, the Philadelphia experiment, the names and surnames of the high command of the US Navy, and links to classified documents and materials. Of course, Mr. Maurice Jessup was asked for an explanation. He immediately appeared and, having studied the book, came to the conclusion that the marginal notes in blue ink were written in the same handwriting as the letters of the mysterious Mr. Allende. According to Jessup, the staff of the Office of Naval Research during the conversation admitted to him that such an experiment was actually carried out in the autumn of 1943, but if it was so, we will never know.
After this conversation, Allende began to search seriously, but he remained elusive, although he continued to write regularly to Jessup. In his letters, he reported more and more facts of the Philadelphia experiment. He spoke in detail about the static electricity field that enveloped the Eldridge, into which he even put his hand in and survived after that only thanks to tall sailor's rubber boots and a rubberized southwest. He wrote a lot about the unique force field that moved counterclockwise around the Eldridge, and its alleged properties. Also, according to him, Albert Einstein himself was present at a certain stage of the experiment.
Such letters arrived for two years, until, finally, the correspondence was interrupted in the most tragic way. Perhaps the Philadelphia experiment would never have been made public, if not for the mysterious and sudden death of Maurice Jessup. On April 20, 1959, he was found in his own car suffocating from exhaust gases. Perhaps he committed suicide due to numerous debts, or maybe the reason for the sudden decision to take his own life was a protracted creative crisis - he could not finish his new book, which was completely dedicated to what happened with the destroyer Eldridge. There is an opinion that Jessup learned too much, and he was helped to quickly die. Nevertheless, the police unequivocally decided that Morris, being heavily drunk and being under the influence of a large number of antidepressants, himself brought the hose from the exhaust pipe into the passenger compartment, plugged all the cracks, started the engine and soon suffocated. This is confirmed by the fact that shortly before his death, he wrote two farewell letters to relatives and friends.
But Jessup's case was not left without followers. His comrades and co-authors Ivan Sanderson and Dr. Manson Valentine immediately after the death of Maurice with double enthusiasm took up their own investigation - and soon got the results. So, some documents were found confirming that from 1943 to 1944 Einstein served in the Naval Ministry in Washington. Both living witnesses of what happened to Eldridge and those who allegedly personally saw the sheets with calculations made by Einstein's handwriting were discovered. They even found an old clipping from some kind of yellow newspaper of those times, telling about sailors who left the ship and instantly melted in the air in front of many witnesses. Collecting this material, Jessup's followers released a book called The Philadelphia Experiment: The Invisibility Project, which used the information gathered, letters to Allende and all of Jussup's insights. Later the world saw another 16 bestsellers and 3 feature films. So the Philadelphia experiment, whether it really was or not, gained worldwide fame.
So what really happened with the Eldridge destroyer? Was everything described in the book true or inflated to an incredible size by the fantasy of the authors? Or did the experiment really take place, and the hype around the disappearance of the ship was raised only in order to hide from the general public its real results?
In search of truth
Since the publication of the book The Philadelphia Experiment: The Invisibility Project, attempts to find out the truth have not stopped. Many believe that everything written by Allende, Jessup and his followers is pure truth.
For many years, searches were made for the very Carlos Miguel Allende, and both independent researchers and journalists, as well as representatives of the authorities searched for him. Telephone books, mailing lists of address bureaus, information bases of morgues and police stations, and even personal files of military personnel were used. Dozens of impostors handed out interviews, fueling interest in the topic and telling more and more “fried” facts about the Philadelphia experiment. At the same time, the US military, the White House and the Capitol were literally littered with letters from worried citizens who were interested in only one question: was the Philadelphia experiment conducted or not? The government did not immediately answer these questions, further convincing the broad masses that the US Navy has something to hide. A denial by the Office of Naval Research published only on September 8, 1996 in an official communique, where the experiment was denied as fact. But interest in the topic after this statement did not disappear, but rather even reached a new level. In the press and on television appeared a lot of rebuttals from independent experts and researchers.
So even now almost every year there are more and more interesting facts about the sensational experiment. One of them was a taped and made public story by an American electronic engineer Edom Skilling: “In 1990, my friend Margaret Sandys invited me and my friends to visit Dr. Karl Leisler, her neighbor, to discuss some details of the Philadelphia experiment. Karl Leisler, a physicist, one of the scientists who worked in this project in 1943. They wanted to make a warship invisible to radars. On board was a powerful electronic device such as a huge magnetron. Magnetron is a generator of ultrashort waves, classified during the Second World War. This device received energy from electric machines installed on the ship, whose power was enough to supply electricity to a small city. The idea of \u200b\u200bthe experiment was that a very strong electromagnetic field around the ship would serve as a screen for the radar rays. When the magnetron started working, the ship disappeared. After a while he reappeared, but all the sailors on board were dead. Moreover, part of their corpses turned into steel - the material from which the ship was made. Laysler and his colleagues in the experiment believe that they sent the ship at another time, while the ship broke up into molecules, and when the reverse process occurred, then there was a partial replacement of the organic molecules of human bodies with metal atoms. ”
Rebuttals
Of course, in addition to the “fans” of the story of the Philadelphia experiment, there are also skeptics who flatly refuse to believe in the individual details of what happened, or in the existence of the entire project. I must admit that their arguments also sound very convincing.
So, if you believe the letters Allende and later found data, Albert Einstein took part in the work on the project. Nevertheless, the US government did not trust the genius too much, because it was well known that he openly sympathizes with the Communists. FBI Director Edgar Hoover delivered a stern verdict: “Because of his radical views, Professor Einstein cannot be considered suitable for use in secret work, since it seems unlikely that such a warehouse would make a person a trustworthy American citizen in such a short time.”So at that time Einstein was assigned only secondary tasks that could not seriously affect the course of the war, and in 1943-1944 he worked for the US Navy artillery command. It is safe to say that his work had nothing to do with either electromagnetism, and even less so with invisibility.
The second argument of the Malovers is that, according to logbooks, the destroyer Eldridge could not be in the port of Philadelphia in October 1943, since it was being repaired at the Norfolk docks.
But the main argument was and remains the fact that the sailors who served on the destroyer Eldridge all deny the fact of the experiment as one. In 1999, Atlantic City saw their first meeting since the end of the war. By this time there were only 15 of them left, including the 84-year-old captain. Of course, the meeting did not go without questions about the Philadelphia experiment, to which the captain and the rest of the sailors unanimously answered that they had no idea how this ridiculous story arose. For example, Ed Wise categorically asserted that such a thing could have been invented, only "Smoking a dope". And Ray Perrigno admitted: “When people asked me about the“ experiment ”, I agreed and said that yes, I disappeared. True, they soon realized that I was kidding them. ".
Facts
But the facts remain facts - in 1943 many scientists in all the warring countries were concerned about the safety of ships. Then, a large number of experiments were carried out, designed to protect the ship from newly appeared magnetic mines and torpedoes. Such a procedure - de-Gaussing - could make battleships and destroyers “invisible” to them. According to many researchers, the legend of the Philadelphia experiment created by Miguel Allende could be based on one of those experiments that were carried out at that time, including in the port of Philadelphia.
Degaussing offered two possibilities: multiple amplification of the ship’s magnetic field so that the mines would explode in the distance without causing harm, or neutralization of the ship’s own magnetic field so that even the most sensitive mine would not work. The first method just assumed the presence of huge electric coils on board the ship, an abundance of wires and equipment. For protection in the second embodiment, the steel vessel was equipped with a special belt, carefully selected personally for him, that surrounded the entire hull. A current was supplied to the belt, which made it a powerful electromagnet that neutralizes the ship’s magnetic field. By the way, after the experiments, it became clear that it was the latter that recommended itself better.
Naturally, during the de-Gaussing work, some devices on board the ship, for example, mechanical watches or magnetic compasses, literally went crazy or instantly went out of order. It is not surprising that many stories appeared among sailors about such mysterious cases where the facts were generously flavored with fiction. In addition, the procedure of demagnetizing the ship and changing its own magnetic field was at first a strictly secret military development, so there was not enough evidence about such experiments. But there were plenty of rumors.
Probably, Miguel Allende somewhere saw a similar procedure or heard about it and thought up the missing: incomprehensible equipment, huge cars and a secret government experiment could impress and inspire anyone. Over time, it also explained how he could have thought of the invisibility and disappearance of the ship. Philadelphia researcher journalist John Kiel wrote in his book: “During World War II, magician Joseph Dunninger, a spectacle organizer, suggested that the US Navy make their ships invisible. Perhaps Dunninger had in mind a tricky trick or a special disguise, but at that time his proposal received wide publicity in the press. It is very possible that Allende saw these articles and invented his story on their basis. ”
Another, no less convincing version says that Maurice Jessup made a fuss about the Philadelphia experiment, not by chance, but with the aim of spreading misinformation in order to hide real facts about de-Gaussing experiments and, most importantly, about their results. But here in the opinion, whether Jessup wrote what is called “dictated” by officials of the US Department of the Sea or was himself a victim of misinformation that was correctly launched by an unknown Mr. Allende, the researchers disagree.
Will the secret of the Eldridge destroyer ever be revealed? It is impossible to unequivocally answer this question. Time passes, and fewer people remain who could claim first-hand knowledge of the facts. It is possible that the truth will go into oblivion along with the witnesses - or those who call themselves such. Or maybe he will forever settle in a burden in the bowels of some archives, in a folder labeled “Top Secret”.
Planet Magazine, September 2015
(C) Zero transportation?
Experiment Legend Fans
Philadelphia say that after the appearance of the destroyer Eldridge in
a few dozen kilometers from Philadelphia on the high seas it turned out
that some sailors lack limbs, and the stump is tight
rooted in the metal parts of the ship. simply put, molecules
human bodies and ship equipment mingled with each other,
as if man and machine were one organism. This is claimed
supporters of the theory, it is possible only with zero transportation - instant
moving objects at the molecular level. Although it’s somehow not
i believe, given the fact that even today success in such experiments
not a single scientist has achieved.
Disappearance of people
According to rumors, some sailors with
"Eldridge" during the experiment simply disappeared without a trace and were announced
missing. True, no one has published the missing list, and indeed
demonstrations of angry relatives of the missing were not seen ...
Invisibility cloak?
Some claim the Philadelphia experiment was launched
uS government to test technology that would allow
hide ships from enemy radars. However, judging by the fact that this
the technology was never used, it was unlikely to be ready for
practical application in 1943. Or maybe the project was stopped,
because the experiment failed? No answer...
Malicious aliens? ..
Ufologist Morris Jessup, auto book "The Case for UFO," after
of the war declared that he had found a witness who had seen the disappearance of the Eldridge, and
that he is going to conduct his own investigation of the incident. That's just
no one saw the results of this investigation. Once in the evening
Jessup called his friend, promising to come and talk about
the sensational results of their investigation. But to a friend, he never
arrived, and the next day was found choked in his car
from exhaust fumes. The investigation announced that Jessup committed suicide
due to trouble in the family. Or maybe the aliens are still to blame? ..
Carlos Miguel Allende
And here is the man who has deprived Jessup of peace. his name is Carlos Miguel
Allende. Already after the death of Jessup, Allende declared publicly that
he witnessed the Philadelphia experiment and knows a lot about it. Here
only everyone who talked to him (by the way, including Jessup) recommended
him as a person, to put it mildly, with quirks. Or maybe it's all the machinations
intelligence services? ..
Or maybe Russians are involved here?
Only stubborn conspiracy theorists believe in this version, but they truly believe
like all fanatics. In their opinion, Jessup still managed to unearth something
interesting about the experiment "Philadelphia", and not just "something", but the whole
invisibility cloak technology for ships! Intelligence found out about this.
russian and tried to steal Jessup. But U.S. intelligence found out about it and
killed the ufologist-investigator first, so as not to get the enemies.
Twisted, huh? There is only one weak point in this theory: the absence
any traces of this mysterious technology in the real world.
Where is the list of Eldridge sailors
So, no one knows with certainty whether the Eldridge sailors became victims
mysterious experiment or not. But one thing is certain: not one
the investigator over the past decades could not get a list
eldridge sailors as of October 1943. Meanwhile, at
navy commands have such lists for each ship. It turns out that the military
have something to hide? ..
Time travel?
The most mysterious version of the disappearance of "Eldridge" was voiced in 1984
year in the feature film "The Philadelphia Experiment." According to this version,
the ship did not travel through to hide from enemy radars
space, and through time. And for a while he was in the future!
The version is exciting - but alas, only proof can be given
script of the picture ...
Green fog
So was the Philadelphia experiment all the same, or was it not? To
to prove that something similar did happen, supporters
conspiracy theories found witnesses who claimed that in the bay
Philadelphia on this day suddenly formed a green fog, hiding
ship. It is not easy to invent such a convex and memorable detail ...
of course, if they don’t tell you. So were the witnesses sincere, or
is it just about the tricks of the conspiracy theorists? No answer.
Some Eldridge sailors are crazy
Another evidence found by proponents of the legend of the experiment
"Philadelphia". According to them, after the war, some sailors with
ship "Eldridge" after World War II ended up in a psychiatric
hospital. Did the green fog drive them crazy or were they stuffed into a psychiatric hospital
government agencies to ensure silence? Reply to this
the question is impossible - first of all, because no one was able to
present a list of crazy sailors. Cheating again? Or good
cover for special services?
Did Einstein participate in the Philadelphia experiment?
Be that as it may, the two acts are undeniable. First, Albert Einstein in
1943 really worked for the US Navy. Secondly, at this time
somewhere in the bowels of the lot a certain experiment was really being realized
"Rainbow" associated with attempts to hide American ships from attention
enemy radars. guesses begin further. In fact, Albert
Einstein is a recognized genius, so wouldn't he have invented a way to do
destroyer invisible? Or you command not to believe in genius anymore
Einstein? By God, it’s much easier to believe in the disappearance of Eldridge!
Department of Naval Research
Direct communication of existence in the US Navy Department
naval Research and Philadelphia Experiment Nobody Find
did not succeed. However, conspiracy theorists find in existence itself
department of semblance of evidence. Is there a whole department for the whole
failed to make a war
Cinema - for the experiment!
In addition to the conspiracy theorists, the Philadelphia experiment has another group
stubborn supporters are Hollywood cinematographers. First movie
under the name "The Philadelphia Experiment" was filmed back in 1984, and in
2012, the screens appeared his full namesake - the film "Experiment
Philadelphia, in which the same experiment was repeated a second time,
with the participation of former sailors of the Eldridge. Everything turned out very
convincingly, with one exception: what about merging with
metal handrails, disappeared and gone crazy? They were called too?
Second experiment?
According to the same single witness of the experiment, "Philadelphia"
Carlos Miguel Allende, destroyer Eldridge disappeared at least twice.
As Allende explains, during his service on the destroyer Andrew Uruset,
while parked in Norfolk, he and his co-workers saw the first
the disappearance of the Eldridge. It supposedly happened a few months before
the infamous Philadelphia experiment. But apparently that time
something went wrong, and so the experiment had to be repeated. However,
other supporters of the version of the second experiment, in addition to Aljende, never
announced. Maybe because Hollywood refused the film "Experiment
Norfolk is still at the stage of scenario application?
Testimony of Robert Gorman
Robert Gorman - Another Amateur Investigator Who Published
some materials about the Philadelphia experiment. Must
say, he didn’t give a single real proof of his views
brought. But at least with his appearance as public conspiracy theorists,
confident in the reality of the experiment, it became 50% more - if
remember Allende and Jessup.
Frame from the movie of the same name
Human bodies fused into the metal hull of the ship, a strange greenish glow, people passing through walls and disappearing in time and space! They don’t tell about what happened to the crew of the Elridge destroyer in 1943.
About the "Philadelphia Experiment" - so dubbed this legend, started talking in 1955. It was then, the American writer, author of the book “Arguments in favor of UFOs” Morris Jessup received a message from a certain Carlos M. Allende, in which he described the movement of a material object “outside the usual Space and Time”. This object was the US military destroyer Eldridge, on which, according to Allende's story, a new technology was tested in 1943 in order to hide the ship from enemy radars. The vessel was mounted electromagnetic field generators, which was supposed to cover the entire ship. The tests took place in two stages: the first experiment was carried out in the dock, July 22, 1943. When the generators were turned on, the ship completely disappeared to the waterline, with a greenish glow.
When the ship returned, the crew members were very sick, and some sailors were merged with the structure of the ship. In particular, one of the sailors fell half a meter under the deck, and his arm disappeared to the elbow in the bulkhead. After that, the military concluded that the generators were not configured correctly, but decided to adjust and repeat the experiment.
The second test was conducted on October 28, 1943, already in the raid. But here either haste or negligence affected. Because the experimental destroyer Eldridge didn’t just disappear from the radar’s field of view, it completely melted in the blue light and materialized in Norfolk (Virginia), where many eyewitnesses saw it. Allende himself was a member of the crew of another vessel - Andrew Futureset, which was part of the destroyer escort group, only because of this he survived. For, after the destroyer again found itself in Philadelphia, irreversible changes occurred with its crew.
Allende also listed the data of some individuals who were allegedly involved in this experiment. He believed that the government, in view of the complete failure of the experiment and its catastrophic consequences, classified the project, destroyed all evidence and logbook entries, and subjected the surviving crew members to intensive brainwashing. However, the experience was not in vain - the unique electromagnetic field generators served to create the UFO, which Allende considered completely terrestrial objects developed by the military, however, as Jessup suggested, not without the possible participation of aliens.
The fact that the logbooks of the Eldridge and Andrew Futureset ships disappeared during the war turned out to be in the hands of supporters of the legend. It was announced that there was a government conspiracy around the Philadelphia Experiment, and it was said about the technology itself that it was either derived from Einstein's Unified Field Theory, or it was an approbation of some of Nikola Tesla’s developments, whose archives, at the time of the experiment were transferred to the US military.
The fate of Jessup himself was also quite strange: after he began to look for other data about the experiment, in 1959, he was found in a state of coma in his own car. He took a large dose of sleeping pills and alcohol, and also stuck a hose from the exhaust pipe into the cabin. They tried to take him to the hospital, but on the way the ufologist died without regaining consciousness. Many supporters of the theory of the "experiment" still believe that the journalist was simply removed for the fact that he "knew a lot", despite the fact that Jessup left 2 letters, with a confession of suicide.
Moreover, shortly before his death, he wrote: “The experiment is very interesting, but terribly dangerous. It affects too much the people involved in it. In the experiment we used magnetic generators, the so-called “demagnetizers”, which operated at resonant frequencies and created a monstrous field around the ship. In practice, this provided a temporary withdrawal from our dimension and could mean a spatial breakthrough if it were only possible to keep the process under control! ”
Following the theory of the "Experiment" took two well-known researchers of anomalous phenomena, Charles Berlitz and William Moore. They tracked down Allende, although they hid from readers the facts about his real name and occupation. In 1979, they published the Philadelphia Experiment, which became a bestseller. In it, they adjusted the number of victims of the experiment to a lesser extent, since Allende "overestimated the mortality data" in order to turn people away from the thought of repeating the experiment. In addition, at this time, there was already evidence that powerful electromagnetic fields are really harmful to human health and the psyche, so their chain of evidence about the conduct and purpose of the experiment, as well as its tragic consequences, convinced very many of the reality of such a project.
Jessup's followers searched and found eyewitnesses to the “materialization” of the “Eldridge” in Norfolk, some calculations written by Einstein’s characteristic underscore even found records that in 43 he really worked for the US Department of the Navy. There was even a newspaper clipping of those times, telling about sailors who left the ship and melted in front of eyewitnesses.
American electronics engineer Ed Skilling dictated another interesting testimony to the film: “In 1990, my friend Margaret Sandys, who lives in Palm Beach, Florida, invited me and my friends to visit Dr. Karl Leisler, her neighbor, to discuss some details Philadelphia experiment. Karl Leisler, a physicist, is one of the scientists who worked on this project in 1943. They wanted to make a warship invisible to radars. A powerful electronic device such as a huge magnetron was installed on board (a magnetron is a generator of ultrashort waves, classified during the Second World War). This device received energy from electric machines installed on the ship, whose power was enough to supply electricity to a small city. The idea of \u200b\u200bthe experiment was that a very strong electromagnetic field around the ship would serve as a screen for the radar rays. Karl Leisler was ashore to observe and supervise the experiment. When the magnetron started working, the ship disappeared. After a while he reappeared, but all the sailors on board were dead. Moreover, part of their corpses turned into steel - the material from which the ship was made. During our conversation, Karl Leisler was very upset, it was clear that this old sick man still feels remorse and his guilt for the death of the sailors aboard the Eldridge. Laysler and his colleagues in the experiment believe that they sent the ship at another time, while the ship broke up into molecules, and when the reverse process occurred, then there was a partial replacement of the organic molecules of human bodies with metal atoms. ”
The evidence sounds ominous enough to make clear the whole danger of the experiment and the horror of its consequences.
However, in the early 90s, the skeptic Robert Goerman took up the investigation of the "legend" and under the evidence he found the myth of the tests with the "Eldridge" began to fall apart before our eyes. First, he revealed to readers the “secret” identity of Carlos Allende.
It turned out to be one hundred percent American Carl Allen, suffering from mental illness and "turned" on the subject of UFOs. In Allen's letters to Jessup, there are clear signs of schizophrenia, in the form of capital letters in the middle of the sentence, incorrect punctuation marks, the use of ink and colored pencils, underlining of individual sentences.
Goerman did not stop at "exposing" the creator of the myth. He confirmed with documents that the Eldridge and Andrew Futureset were not in Philadelphia during the "supposedly" experiment. Moreover, the Eldridge did not enter Philadelphia at all in the summer and fall of 1943, and the Andrew Fureset was never assigned to it as a convoy.
In addition to these completely confirmed facts, skeptics also make a number of more general comments:
The Philadelphia area during the war years was one of the "densely populated" naval convoys, German submarines and merchant ships. Due to such a busy traffic and the possibility of espionage, the port of Philadelphia, and especially the space beyond, could not become the venue for a secret military experiment.
The effect described by Allen contradicts the laws of physics, and they, in fact, are the most incontrovertible.
During the war years, the US Navy tested the methods of "de-Gaussing" ships in order to protect them from mines with magnetic detonators. The ships were equipped with a special "belt", which formed an electromagnetic field so that the mine could not react to the steel bottom. At first, this technology was also kept secret, and the most incredible rumors creeped among the sailors about what kind of devices and cables they were and what they were for. In particular, many believed that these devices would certainly lead to impotence. However, the “invisibility” of the ship could also be borrowed by Allen from newspapers of the Second World War: magician Joseph Dunninger publicly promised the US Navy that he could make their ships “invisible”. But one thing is a show, and another is a scientific experiment.
If you trust the data of Carlos Allende and Dr. Valentine, then the foundations of the Philadelphia experiment project should be sought in a very vague and highly complex scientific theory developed by Albert Einstein and known as Unified Field Theory. In his second letter to Jessup Allende, he writes that Einstein first published this theory in 1925-1927, but then removed it from the considerations of the “humanist,” as Allende put it. True, he does not explain what he actually meant by this term.
Albert Einstein really created in 1925-1927 a version of his Unified Field Theory, for gravity and electricity. The results appeared in German scientific journals of the time. Allende is right in claiming that the work was withdrawn as incomplete. It is noteworthy that this theory again surfaced only in 1940, that is, after Einstein, the pacifist to the bone, came to the conclusion that National Socialism should be destroyed under any circumstances and that any means would be suitable for this. And - what is amazing - it was 1940 that seemed to be the year when the US Navy began working on a project that could subsequently result in the Philadelphia experiment ...
Einstein was really friendly with Bertrand Russell, especially after the Second World War, and often discussed the problems of pacifism with him. Both were disgusted with the regrettable tendency of man to use the achievements of science for self-destruction, and both gave a significant share of their strength and personal material means to the cause of peace.
It is tempting to believe that Einstein destroyed papers before his death, but we will not insist on an unproven fact. The only thing that is known for certain: William Moore, one of the researchers, recalls the discussion in the lecture hall after the death of Einstein in 1955, when it was said that he burned documents several months before his death concerning some of his well-developed theories - from - due to the fact that humanity is not ripe for them and without these theories will feel better.
In 1943, that is, at the time when Allende, according to him, witnessed the Philadelphia experiment, Albert Einstein was a scientific adviser to the Navy. Documents from the St. Louis Office of the General Services Administration report that Einstein served as a research scientist from May 31, 1943 to June 30, 1944 in the Washington Department of the Navy.
Einstein’s comments on this subject are rather dry, but not without interest. In July 1943, he wrote to his friend Gustav Buckley: “As long as the war is on and I work for the Navy, I would not want to do anything else.” In August, he again wrote to Buckley and spoke of close ties with the Navy's bureau for research. In the same month, Dr. Vannevar Bush sent him to the disposal of one committee, "where, in the highest degree, his special knowledge would be most useful." Neither the type of activity of the “committee” nor the nature of the relevant knowledge has ever been disclosed.
Upon a request to Dr. Otto Nathan, financial adviser and executor of Einstein’s testament, about how close the relationship between Einstein and the Navy was, a very unexpected answer came. “Einstein,” he reported, “in 1943 he was an adviser to the Naval Directorate and completed his work for the Navy, as far as we know, long before the end of the war ... If you are interested in the details, we advise you to contact the Naval Ministry in Washington. Since the work of Einstein was not at all secret. They could provide you with more accurate information about his advisory activities, which we could not get when we prepared the report for publication.
The reader is apparently surprised: why, since Einstein’s activity “was by no means secret,” the Navy was not ready to provide detailed information?
It seems that Einstein was related not only to the mathematical justification of the project, but also to the experiment itself. According to some reports, after the first experiment was unsuccessful, officials of the Ministry of the Sea brought Einstein to the scene to receive additional recommendations from him on the principle: “Now that you yourself have seen everything, explain to us what our mistake is!”
So what is Unified Field Theory? As explained by Berlitz and Moore, the meaning of the theory consists mainly in using a single control to explain mathematically the interaction between the three fundamental universal forces - electromagnetism, gravitational force and nuclear energy. It is noteworthy that the simultaneous discovery of two new elementary particles in New York and California in 1974 suggests that there is a fourth “weak” universal force associated with gravity in the same way as electricity with magnetism. It is not yet known whether this field is interdimensional or temporary. If we allow the full development of such a theory, then its final equations should also include light and radio waves, pure magnetism, x-rays, and even matter itself. The exorbitant complexity of such a problem can be roughly imagined if we recall that Einstein devoted the lion's share of his life to achieving such a goal, and even in his advanced years he often complained that he did not know enough mathematics to complete this task.
Some researchers are inclined to believe that even decades after Einstein’s death, a significant part of his life’s work remains obscure even to the most prominent scientists. If the Philadelphia experiment really confirmed some of his theoretical constructions, then the knowledge about it is so camouflaged that even today his concept of the Unified Field Theory is considered more as a goal than a real theory. And this despite the fact that Einstein, less than two years before his death, announced "extremely convincing" results for mathematical proofs of the relationship between electromagnetism and gravity. This is consistent with Allende's statements regarding the completeness of Einstein's Unified Field Theory.
No matter how interesting theoretical discoveries are, only visual practical results can awaken true attention. So, weren’t such results achieved already then, in 1943, when the US Navy attempted to use some of these principles to make that ship invisible or even teleport it, as Allende claims? Or was the experiment unsuccessful in some ways and this led to fatal consequences? Those consequences that - if you can believe what was told at the time to Davis and Hughes in Colorado Springs - could even lead to contacts with unearthly creatures?
Perhaps Allende was right in hinting in the final lines of his last letter to Jessup about the possible connection of the results of secret naval experiments with the driving force of UFOs? Or was all this nothing more than a mirage - one of those "ghost ships" that suddenly appear in sea fog and just as suddenly disappear?
Our quest for an answer to this question leads us to the Washington State Archives.
It just so happens - in our story there are too many “ifs”. And here again ... If the unusual story of Allende is true and the “DE-173” was really invisible, if people from “Andrew Furesset” can confirm the reality of the experiment, then, then, some documents relating to these ships should be preserved. Archives revealed facts to the world, but which ones?
Firstly, it turned out that there apparently was not one, but two ships called "Andrew Furesset." One of them is an ore carrier, obviously still plowing the waters of the Pacific Ocean; we can easily dismiss it, since it was only allowed to operate after the Second World War. The second is a warship, to which the data given by Allende is just suitable.
Archival documents have established the following. The name “Andrew Futureset” was proposed in July 1942 by the US Shipping Commission to the Pacific Seafarers' Union in honor of the founder and long-term chairman of this organization. In October of that year, at number 491, the ship left the stocks of the Kaiser Industries shipyard in Richmond, California. Kai wrote to Allende, the ship was soon leased to the Matson Navigation Company in San Francisco, which operated it for the next four years.
On August 13, 1943, Andrew Futureset set sail again, this time along the coast to the ports of Norfolk and Newport News, where he received cargo for a further transatlantic expedition. And from this moment it becomes especially interesting for us, since one of the members of the deck crew hired for this voyage was a young man who had just graduated from a sailing school and was listed under the name of Karl M. Allen. Especially important is the fact that he gets permission to board the ship only in Norfolk - so that he overcomes the distance to it by land, stopping for the night in Philadelphia. He arrives at Norfolk harbor on the morning of August 16th, quite timely, to be able to board aboard before the Firesett at 10.20 leaves Newport News. This was his third voyage as part of a convoy. The destination port is Casablanca.
On October 4, the Futureset again docked in Newport News for repair and loading and remained there until October 25. On that day, he again departs from Norfolk to North Africa, and again the name of Carl M. Allen appears on the team lists. On November 12, the ship reached Oran Harbor and did not return to any of the American ports until January 17, 1994. A few days later, a member of the team named Carl M. Allen leaves the side of the Futureset. He is believed to be moving to another ship, the Newton Baker.
As for the convoy destroyer "DE-173", aka "Eldridge", then, according to official documents, his history is apparently completely cloudless. Construction began on February 22, 1943 at the Federal Shipbuilding and Drydox, Newark. The length of the vessel was 102 meters, standard displacement - 1249 tons, total displacement - 1520 tons. About five months later, on July 25, the ship left the slipways. The official commissioning ceremony took place on August 27, 1943 at the New York Seaport, and command was transferred to Captain Lieutenant Charles R. Hamilton.
At first, the Eldridge sailed in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean Sea, and then, performing its escort and reconnaissance duties, was seconded to the Pacific Ocean, where it remained until the end of the war. Upon his return to New York, he was decommissioned on June 17, 1946, and docked until January 15, 1951, so that he could be sold to Greece as part of a bilateral defense agreement. There he was renamed “Leon” and could still be in operation for some time.
Everything is decorous and smooth, and there seems to be no reason to check if it were not for Allende's story about this ship. If we consider it in the light of Allende’s information, then this official story of Eldridge appears as a “patchwork quilt” with many gaps.
Have to start over. The first suspicions that not everything was as described in official papers appeared when the researchers tried to get the ship logs of both ships. Here Berlitsa and Mura were waiting for surprises. It turned out that the Eldridge ship's magazines for the period from the moment of their commissioning (August 27, 1943) to December 1, 1943 “cannot be found, and therefore cannot be placed at your disposal”. And the logbooks of the Futureset were destroyed by order from above, that is, they simply no longer exist.
Since the only time interval of interest for our investigation was the one in which Allende served on the “Firesuret” —that is, from about August 13, 1943 to January 30, 1944 — the researchers tried to focus their attention on this segment as much as possible. Here is what came of it.
From the documents that are still at the disposal of the Matson shipping company, it follows that during this period the Fureset made two voyages to the shores of North Africa; the first began on August 13, 1943, when the Firesett left Norfolk south along the coast and from there on to North Africa; during the second voyage he left Lynhaven Road, Virginia (near Norfolk), to Oran, Algeria. For Allende, the first voyage began no earlier than August 16th. The second voyage ended for him when he left the ship a few days before the arrival of the Futures at Hampton Roads (January 17, 1944).
According to the official history of the Eldridge, as presented in the documents of the Ministry of the Sea, the ship was launched on July 25, 1943 in Newark, New Jersey, and put into operation on August 27, 1943 in the New York Sea Port. His reconnaissance mission began in early September, extended to the Bermuda area, the British West Indies, and continued until December 28, 1943. The same documents indicate that his first transoceanic voyage began on January 4, 1944 and ended with his arrival in New York on February 15.
If we take these data on faith, it turns out that during this period of time none of the ships of interest to us approached the other. The only question is how reliable this information is. The first batch of data found in archives, until recently, remained secret, and it seems that it completely discredits the official history. This is a report on the anti-submarine action drawn up by the commander of the Eldridge on December 14, 1943 and relating to the events of November 20 in the North Atlantic. According to official figures, the Eldridge from the beginning of September to the end of December 1943 was on a reconnaissance mission in the Bermuda area; his first transoceanic voyage began on January 4, 1944. But, according to the operational report of the ship’s commander, Captain Lieutenant C. R. Hamilton, on November 20, 1943, shortly after 13.30 local time, dropped seven depth charges against the alleged enemy submarine, moving as an escort ship as part of the UGS convoy 23 ”west, towards USA. The Eldridge coordinates given in the report were north latitude and 08 ° 57 west longitude - which means that it was located about two hundred miles from Casablanca and about three thousand miles from Bermuda!
And the second piece of information: while the deck logbooks remained unattainable, an engineering logbook was found. True, it did not contain information directly necessary to resolve the issue, however, the coordinates of the ship were given according to disputed dates. These and other documents, which appeared almost simultaneously, showed that the Eldridge left Brooklyn on November 2 to collect ships from the UGS 22 convoy scattered by the hurricane in late October. And this was really valuable information, because it was about the very convoy that left Oct. 25 from Norfolk - Lynhaven Road and which included the "Firesett". The most interesting thing here is that the "Firesuret" closed the convoy, catching up with the laggards, and probably should have seen the "ДЕ-173". In addition, the location of the Eldridge near Casablanca on November 22 indicates that the Eldridge escorted the Fiureset and its UGS 23 convoy on the way back when they met with the submarine. If it had not been possible to find the operational report that the navy ministry had kept under lock and key for thirty-four years, these things would not have come to light. After such an “error” was discovered in the official version, a question arose about other “errors”.
Thus, the Futures and Eldridge apparently met during an escort mission on their way to Africa. The only question is whether the Navy would decide to conduct such a risky and top secret experiment in the sight of an entire convoy. In addition, Allende insists that the experiment was conducted on the docks of Philadelphia and at sea, that is, off the coast of the mainland. The temporary data indicated by him - the end of October - are consistent with the timing of the escort operation, but otherwise there is no agreement.
Firstly, the Eldridge apparently came from Brooklyn, not from Philadelphia, when it joined the UGS 22 convoy. In the ship's documents for this period of time it is not mentioned anywhere that the Eldridge was generally in Philadelphia - except for the time when it was being built in Newark. Allende also reported that he read about the consequences of the experiment in a daily newspaper in Philadelphia. However, Allende (or Alley) in October 1943 was not at all in Philadelphia. But he was there in August - around the time when the Eldridge allegedly waited in Newark for orders to leave for New York for the commissioning ceremony. In the letter, he reports that this newspaper article appeared in the fall or winter, and not in the summer. If this detail is attributed to the imperfection of human memory, then everything else takes on some meaning:
While this chain was being developed, the researchers received a letter from a former ship commander who recalled that the Eldridge soon after the first hurricane in the 1943 season approached Bermuda in late July or early August. There he did not briefly anchor next to another ship and again went to sea.
Needless to say, unusual behavior, but even more unusual is that that ship, if it was an Eldridge, appeared at Bermuda just a few days after launching in Newark, that is, at a time when construction work was not yet supposed to end.
So, either the commander was mistaken, or ... The Eldridge was launched in Newark until July 25. Documents of the US Navy ruled out such a possibility. Well, what about the Greeks?
A new surprise awaited here, because, according to Greek documents (which they naturally should have received from the Americans), the launch of the Eldridge did not take place on July 25, but on June 25, that is, a whole month earlier! Moreover, according to the Greek documents “Eldridge”, when it was transferred to Greece in 1951, it had a standard displacement of 1240 tons and a total of 100 tons, which gives a deviation of about 380 tons. Could it be that the electronic equipment was removed from him before he was transferred to Greece?
Now the story is gradually clearing up. The Eldridge did not come off the slipways on July 25, but on June 25, 1943, and the Newark – Philadelphia area was the place of registration until departure in August for the commissioning ceremony; in late July - early August he was at sea and reached at least Bermuda, and the official version of the period until January 4, 1944 is probably false.
Armed with this reliable material, William Moore turned to one authoritative person who had previously provided him with small services. This man, who due to certain circumstances should remain incognito, was involved in the Navy's radar program during the war, and in such a position that if there was a project like the Philadelphia experiment, he would inevitably be associated with it. In the end, he agreed to answer some questions.
Question. Please tell us in what way could you get an experimental ship for this project?
Answer. In 1943, it was very difficult to get a ship for experimental purposes. Immediately after commissioning, the ships became an integral part of the operational plans, and it was almost impossible to use them for experimental purposes. The simplest and almost the only way to get a ship was to use it for a short time between launching and commissioning. This path was never simple and required certain maneuvers in the higher echelons, but it was real, of course, if scientists managed to convince high-ranking officials of the expediency and prospects of the project.
Question. Given that in mid-1943, significant progress was made in the Manhattan project and it began to absorb a significant part of the funds allocated for military research, was not 1943 the most critical year for a significant part of other top secret defense projects?
Answer. Yes, somewhere in 1943, obvious changes began in relation to current projects and ideas. By that time, the end of the war had already awakened, and therefore the decisive question for scientists was the following: “Can you achieve results before the end of the war so that they can still be used?” Those who were not completely sure of their projects were urged to carry out urgent experiments and tests, so that you can better assess the possibilities of their practical application. Unpromising projects were put aside “for later use”.
Question. Do you remember how this project began, who was behind it and what they wanted to achieve in the end?
Answer. I have no idea about the origin of this project or its launch. After all, I had to do with this only at the very end. I suppose they somehow managed to get a ship for a limited time in Philadelphia or Newark, probably for only two to three weeks, and it seems to me that they conducted several tests like on a river<Делавэр>, and off the coast - primarily in order to find out the influence of a strong magnetic force field on location installations. I can’t tell you more - I simply don’t know this. My assumption - I emphasize the assumption - is that all the receiving equipment was placed on other ships along the coast in order to find out what happens “on the other side” when both radio and low- and high-frequency radar waves pass through the field . Undoubtedly, scientists should have watched the effect this field will have on visible light. But it seems to me highly unlikely that such experiments would be carried out on a ship that was officially put into operation and manned.
The value of this information is in indicating the almost exact time of the Philadelphia experiment and, possibly, at least part of it took place in the Philadelphia - Newark area. Maybe Allende made his observations then, and not during the second meeting with Eldridge in November.
The Philadelphia experiment is a classified experience of the US Navy, delivered on October 28, 1943 with the combat destroyer Eldridge. The essence of the experiment was to create a super-powerful electromagnetic field around the ship, which as a result of this manipulation was supposed to become invisible to the radars of enemy equipment. The project, which conducted the Philadelphia experiment, bore the working name "Rainbow".
Against the background of the war at that time with fascist Germany, the Philadelphia experiment was crucial. Secret technology to create invisibility for large military installations could significantly increase their level of survival in combat conditions.
How the destroyer Eldridge became invisible
On board the Eldridge was a secret installation that created a super-powerful electromagnetic field around the entire hull of the ship. Presumably it had the shape of an ellipse. Those who observed the experiment said that they saw a strong glow and greenish fog around the destroyer.
The result of the manipulations carried out by scientists was the literal disappearance of the Eldridge from the port in which it stood. After some time, the destroyer was spotted in Norfolk. The distance between him and Philadelphia is more than 320 km. This suggests that the experiment went far beyond the original design. The ship did not just become invisible to enemy radars. He literally teleported to another place on the map.
What happened to the Eldridge team
At the beginning of the experiment, 181 crew members were on board the destroyer. Upon completion, only 21 people remained completely healthy. 13 sailors died from the radiation received during the operation of the installation. The rest are missing. Almost all crew members who survived the Philadelphia experiment experienced extreme stress and were very scared. They experienced strange hallucinations and told implausible things.
What the military department says
The U.S. Navy has not formally confirmed the Philadelphia experiment. But it is known for certain that work in this direction was carried out. Their result was the emergence of the military technology of stealth "Stealth" (Stealth). It represents a whole range of methods that allow military ships and fighter aircraft to be invisible to enemy electronics.
Stealth has a slightly different scope. The ship is given a special geometric shape, allowing it to become as invisible to radars as possible. But the main achievement is the special skin of the vessel, which absorbs radio waves and turns the fighting machine for echo sounders into "invisibility".
How rumors of a secret experiment leaked to the press
Most of the military serving at Eldridge do not confirm rumors of an experiment with teleportation. And yet they leaked to the press and became the property of the wide world public. This happened in 1955, when the book of the famous American ufologist M. Jessup was published. In it, the author made various arguments in favor of the real existence of UFOs.
In response to the publication of the book, Jessup received a letter from one of the readers, a certain K. M. Allende. Auto letters claimed that he had seen with his own eyes the teleportation of a naval ship. And so the famous story of the destroyer Eldridge became. Based on Allende’s short stories, the Philadelphia Experiment movie was shot in 1984. He made a lot of noise and contributed to the enormous popularity of the Eldridge.
Could teleportation happen
Opponents of the theory of teleportation argue that between the Norfolk and Philadelphia a military submarine could well pass through the Chesapeake-Delaware Canal. By civilian vessels, this waterway between the Delaware River and Chesapeake Bay has not been used for a long time, but it has always been open to the military.
The ability of the ship to be invisible to enemy radars using an electromagnetic field, many scientists confirm. This is possible due to the phenomenon of degaussization, or demagnetization. The amplitude of the oscillations of the magnetic field generated by the coil of a powerful electromagnet is clearly regulated. An alternating field is able to demagnetize electronics located within the limits of access of the electromagnetic radiation source.
Due to the mystery and fantasticness of the Philadelphia experiment, many rumors circulated around him. It was assumed that such a grandiose experiment could be delivered only by the brilliant scientist A. Einstein, who was still alive at that time. But hardly the US Navy could have resorted to its services in its secret developments. Einstein sympathized with the Communists, which a priori made him unreliable in the eyes of the US military.
The real members of the crew of the Eldridge could shed light on the Philadelphia experiment. But they all unanimously denied the existence of the Rainbow project. Even if the experience with the teleportation of the destroyer actually took place, the survivors must have been bound by military secrets. One can only guess about the real state of things from indirect “evidence”.
