According to legend, on October 28, 1943, during one of the studies of the US Navy, the destroyer Eldridge allegedly instantly moved from one naval shipyard to another. The Philadelphia Experiment is one of the most popular legends among ufologists and numerous supporters of conspiracy theories.
According to this story, already in 1943, the Americans, either by accident or by mistake, discovered teleportation, learned to make military equipment invisible, and were even able to travel in time. Over the years, the "Philadelphia Experiment" has acquired new versions and details. The original legend was as follows.
Photo: Destroyer "Eldridge" / beforeitsnews.com
In 1943, the Americans allegedly conducted experiments at the Philadelphia shipyard to camouflage ships using an electromagnetic field - the technology being developed would allow US Navy ships to confuse enemy radars and magnetic mines. In July, during one of these experiments, the destroyer Eldridge became invisible not only to instruments, but also to humans.
When the generators were turned on, the ship was enveloped in clouds of green fog, and then, under a deafening howl, the ship disappeared, leaving only a trace on the water. The destroyer reappeared after turning off the electromagnetic field, its crew was alive, but many of its members complained of dizziness and nausea.
The second experiment was carried out on October 28. This time the electromagnetic field was even stronger, and the green fog did not appear any more - the destroyer first became translucent, and after a bright flash it disappeared and appeared only a few minutes later. During this time, he allegedly moved from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to a base in Norfolk, Virginia, located 320 kilometers south. The mysterious appearance of the destroyer from the air was witnessed by the crew members of the ship "Andrew Fureset", stationed in Norfolk.
Not everyone on board the Eldridge managed to survive these adventures. While the field was working, some of the crew disappeared, someone caught fire and died from burns, someone froze, as if they had been doused with liquid nitrogen, someone was "fused" into the metal structures of the ship, and the rest went crazy … The experiments had to be stopped, and information about the experiment remained classified for a long time.
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For the first time this story "surfaced" only 12 years after the "experiment" in 1955, when astrophysicist Morris Jessup, the author of the recently published book "UFO Arguments", received a letter from a certain Carlos Allende.
Written in multi-colored ink, with many errors, underlines and capital letters in the middle of the sentence, the message argued that levitation, to which Jessup devoted several chapters in his book, had long existed. In further letters, Allende continued to send astrophysicists detailed descriptions of experiments carried out in 1943, backing up his words with unverifiable evidence and links to the local press.
“Look in the Philadelphia newspapers for a tiny paragraph (“top of the page, about the last third of the newspaper, 1944/46 spring, fall or winter, not summer”) - a note on the actions of the sailors after their maiden voyage,” these references looked like. It is unknown in which newspaper to find a "tiny paragraph" for such a long period of time, of course, no one tried. According to Allende, the sailors "attacked the" Sailor's Rest "- a tavern at the sea shipyard, plunging the waitresses into shock and swoon", and one of the survivors went through the wall of his apartment "in front of his wife and child."
Despite Allende's dubious argumentation, his tales aroused interest not only among Jessup, but also (according to one version) among FBI Director John Hoover himself. True, despite all the might of the secret service, the head of the department could not find the author of the letter.
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In April 1959, Jessup was found driving in a coma. A hose from the exhaust pipe was inserted into the slightly open window of the car. The writer died on the way to the hospital, and a large amount of drugs and alcohol were found in his blood. Despite the fact that the last years of his life Jessup suffered from depression and wrote two farewell letters before his death, not everyone believed that he had committed suicide.
The death of the author of a book about UFOs spurred the interest of ufologists and researchers of anomalous phenomena in the "Philadelphia Experiment". One of them managed to find Allende, who turned out to be an American named Carl Allen, a mentally unhealthy person and has long been in correspondence with many ufologists. When the official documents were raised, it turned out that the Eldridge had not yet been commissioned in July 1943, and on October 28 the destroyer was in New York.
The ship in "Andrew Fureset" at that time was sailing to the shores of North Africa, respectively, in Norfolk it was not there either. The members of the Eldridge crew, who survived until the end of the 1990s, like the US Navy, categorically denied conducting such experiments.
The connection with the experiment of two physicists, Nikola Tesla and Albert Einstein, was not confirmed either. Tesla died at the beginning of January 1943, and the secret services had long been eyeing Einstein because of his sympathy for the communists, and it is unlikely that he would have been entrusted with testing the Unified Field Theory at a military shipyard.
It is believed that the legend of the "Philadelphia Experiment" was based on degaussization, or demagnetization, which is actually used to protect the ship from sea mines. In this case, the vessel is wrapped in a wire through which a current with an alternating magnetic field with a decreasing amplitude is passed.