Philadelphia experiment

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USS Eldridge (DE-173) , ca.1944

The Philadelphia Experiment is a legend surrounding an experiment with camouflage technology that is said to have been carried out in the United States during World War II .

The legend goes back to public letters from a single eyewitness, the sailor Carlos Miguel Allende alias Carl Meredith Allen, who first made these claims twelve years after the alleged experiment. As a result, the destroyer escort USS Eldridge is said to have become completely invisible and even briefly suddenly appeared in the port of Norfolk , Virginia , 500 kilometers away , before it was rematerialized in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania .

The Myth of the Philadelphia Experiment

The story of the Philadelphia experiment is based on the so-called Allende letters.

The Philadelphia Project was originally code-named Rainbow .

In the early 1940s, the US Navy experimented with magnetic self-protection methods to make their ships less sensitive to the magneto torpedoes of German submarines and not, as was often claimed, to develop anti-radar technology.

According to the testimony of eyewitness Carl Meredith Allen, the USS Eldridge was made optically invisible on the high seas during a test with a strong force field in October 1943 . Allen was reportedly eyewitness when he was in the same convoy on a Merchant Navy ship . All that remained was the keel print of the ship in the water for 15 minutes.

The effects on the ship's crew were devastating. Some have merged with the ship, others burned, disappeared without a trace or suffered intellectual damage. Years later, some of those involved are said to have spontaneously vanished into thin air or succumbed to serious illnesses.

In another incident, the ship is said to have disappeared from the port of Philadelphia and appeared at the Norfolk naval base. The ship returned to Philadelphia within seconds. Everyone admitted, however, that they had only heard of it.

The United States Navy denies having conducted this experiment. All facts, experimental arrangements and other so-called evidence are made up. The eyewitness to this incident, Carl Allen, was a swindler who simply wanted to make money with a story made up. The Naval Historical Center published the logbooks of the USS Eldridge from its entry into service on August 27, 1943 through late 1943. According to them, the ship was never in Philadelphia at that time.

Facts

A strong magnetic field alone cannot ensure optical invisibility, and certainly not teleportation .

There are two options for getting from Philadelphia to Norfolk. The usual route is across the open Atlantic along the coast of the Delmarva Peninsula ; a second, shorter route leads through the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal into Chesapeake Bay , which allowed ships to get from one port to another much faster. If the Eldridge has shuttled between Norfolk and Philadelphia via this channel, it could potentially cause irritation to observers traveling the normal route.

None of Carl Allen's comrades either confirmed or denied his report. However, they described Carl Allen as very intelligent and easily confused.

media

literature

  • Charles Berlitz , William L. Moore: The Philadelphia Experiment. Grosset & Dunlap, New York 1979, ISBN 0-448-15777-2 (English, conspiracy theory).
  • Joseph P. Farrell: Secrets of the Unified Field. The Philadelphia Experiment. The Nazi Bell, and the Discarded Theory . Adventures Unlimited Press, Kempton IL, March 2008, ISBN 1-931882-84-3 .
  • George E. Simpson, Neil R. Burger: Thin Air. Dell, New York 1978, ISBN 0-440-18709-5 (novel based on the history of the Philadelphia experiment).

Movie

Series

In the Warehouse 13 series, the ship's barometer on the USS Eldridge allows the time to be paused for a few seconds in order to give the owner of the barometer a small advantage in terms of time.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Copy of Carlos Miguel Allenda Letters to Dr. Jessup. Message from Andrew H. Hochheimer, October 28, 1992. Quoted from: Science-Explorer.de.
  2. ↑ Philadelphia Experiment. Naval History and Heritage Command, November 20, 2017.
  3. ↑ cf. Andrew H. Hochheimer: USS Eldridge DE173 War Diary On Microfilm. The Philadelphia Experiment from AZ. (English).
  4. ↑ Geohack