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It is claimed that during the experiment the military managed to make the USS Eldridge, a US Navy destroyer escort, invisible to enemy devices. 56 (1901) Puget Sound, Naval Station to Navy Yard, General Order No. 1 (1863) Rules to Disseminate General Orders, General Order No. It's a wonder that this thing ever caught on, let alone endured for decades. ), Documents, Official and Unofficial, Relating to the Capture and Destruction of the Frigate Philadelphia at Tripoli - 1850, Documents Related to the Resignation of the German Commander in Chief, Navy, Grand Admiral Raeder and to the Decommissioning of the German High Seas Fleet, DoD Rules for Military Commissions - 2006, Elementary Map and Aerial Photograph Reading, Emancipation Proclamation, Navy general Order No. 152-41, Perspectives on Enhanced Interrogation Techniques, Philadelphia Experiment: ONR Information Sheet, The Pioneers - A Monograph on the First Two Black Chaplains in the Chaplains Corps of the United States Navy, Plea in Favor of Maintaining Flogging in the Navy, Pocket Guide to New Guinea and the Solomons, Posse Comitatus Act and Related Matters: A Sketch, Post Mortem CIC [Combat Information Center] Notes, Radio Intelligence Appreciations Concerning German U-Boat Activity in the Far East, Ready Seapower: A History of the US Seventh Fleet by Edward J. Marolda [pdf]. Kind of an underwhelming end for a ship claimed to be able to turn invisible and teleport. According to prevailing wisdom, it never happened. According to them, the ship was nowhere near Philadelphia in October1943. 175 (1872) Division of the Pacific Station into Two Stations, General Order No. Their text contained non-standard use of capitalization and punctuation, and detailed a lengthy discussion of the merits of various elements of Jessup's assumptions in the book. The movie, The Philadelphia Experiment, emerged. Others reported being entirely embedded within the metal structure of the ship, having fallen through floors, or walls during the time it was missing. There are no reliable, attributable accounts, but in most accounts of the supposed experiment, USS Eldridge was fitted with the required equipment at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard. No proof exists apart from the writings of Carlos Allende that supports the legend of the PhiladelphiaExperiment. So, there is no proof of Einsteins connection to a naval project aimed at the invisibility of solid objects and teleportation. Through the late 1970s, for example, Allende/Allen was often described as mysterious and difficult to locate, but Goerman determined Allende/Allen's identity after only a few telephone calls. Robert Goerman wrote in Fate magazine in 1980, that "Carlos Allende"/"Carl Allen", who is said to have corresponded with Jessup, was Carl Meredith Allen of New Kensington, Pennsylvania, who had an established history of psychiatric illness and who may have fabricated the primary history of the experiment as a result of his mental illness. He also declared that the experiment was proof of Einsteins unified field theory, which Allende claimed taught him the theory. Over the years, the Philadelphia Experiment has become somewhat of a gambit amongst conspiracy theorists. Some claim to have re-materialized inside out, or not at all. Monitor and the C.S.S. The movie is set in 1943 where two sailors, David Herdeg (Par) and Jim Parker (Di Cicco), are stationed on the USS Eldrige used for an experiment to make it invisible to radar. Learning that they are near Jim's birthplace, Santa Paula California, David decides to try to find his family. 48, USS Canberra CA70 War Damage Report No. Despite the fact that there were now two men who claimed to have firsthand knowledge of the test, the idea that it was a hoax still dominated conversations about the Philadelphia Experiment. According to some accounts, unspecified "researchers" thought that some version of this field would enable using large electrical generators to bend light around an object via refraction, so that the object became completely invisible. 232 (1877) Working Hours at Navy Yards and Stations, General Order No. In the 1940s, the code name RAINBOW was used to refer to the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis. [14]:59 Hoover discussed the annotations with Austin N. Stanton, president of Varo Manufacturing Corporation of Garland, Texas, during meetings about Varo's contract work for ONR. Allende outlined an experiment called Project Rainbow, what would later be known as The Philadelphia Experiment. Project: Though long dismissed by the Navy, the legend of The Philadelphia Experiment shows no signs of disappearing", "Anatomy of a Hoax: The Philadelphia Experiment Fifty Years Later", The Philadelphia Experiment by the Department of the Navy Naval Historical Center, PDF version of "The Case for the Unidentified Flying Object" by Morris K. Jessup 2003 transcription of the Office of Naval Research (ONR) annotated "Varo edition", with three-color notes supposedly by Carlos Miguel Allende, Alias Carlos Allende by Robert A. Goerman, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Philadelphia_Experiment&oldid=1149710370, Articles lacking reliable references from February 2020, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 13 April 2023, at 23:52. The historian Mike Dash notes that many authors who publicized the "Philadelphia Experiment" story after that of Jessup appeared to have conducted little or no research of their own. A man named Al Bielek came forward in 1988, four years after Hollywood had gotten their hands on the story of the experiments and released a movie. After reading about the Philadelphia experiment and the USS Eldridge, check out the Stanford prison experiment, and the Helmut Kentler pedophilia experiment. Bielek said that Tesla gave von Neumann a cryptic warning about a "personnel problem" that might occur in their experiment, but he continued anyway and the Navy trained a crew specifically for the operation. 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[CinCPOA Bulletin 93-45, 1945], The Diary of Michael Shiner Relating to the History of the Washington Navy Yard 1813-1869, Digest Catalogue of Laws and Joint Resolutions: The Navy and the World War, Master Chief Boatswain's Mate Carl Maxie Brashear, USN (Ret. The Philadelphia Experiment is a 1984 science fiction film. One reporter from Allen's home town of New Kensington, Pennsylvania, interviewed his family and was handed a pile of documents and books, all scribbled with Allen's annotations. The USS Eldridge was not commissioned until August 27, 1943, and it remained in port in New York City until September 1943. By Grunherz at en.wikipedia [Public domain], from Wikimedia Commons. Longstreet says that David must go through the vortex to the Eldridge and terminate the experiment or the vortex will destroy the Earth. Director Stewart Raffill Writers Michael Janover William Gray Wallace C. 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