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| From: Maximillian
| Posted: 2/18/2002 9:06:58 PM | Message
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Has anybody heard the story between this ship
and "The Philadelphia Experiment"?
I think it had something to do
with using Tesla coils and such to make the ship invisible to radar
but actually managed to make it physically invisible. And when the
ship reappeared some people were reported to be fused with the metal
of the ship.
Any thoughts? |
| From: Holy
Ajora | Posted: 2/18/2002 9:16:44 PM | Message
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I think I heard a similar story before, although
quite different. Back in WWII, Nazis employed mines with
electromagnetic fuses. These mines were threats ships on the high
seas. So the Allies developed these huge wires that were wrapped
around ships. These wires hd electricity run through them to
generate electromagnetic fields to defeat the mines. No ship ever
actually became invisible though.
---
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City Murond
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war"~Mossad> |
| From: TamaNeko
| Posted: 2/18/2002 10:16:05 PM | Message
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Yeah, I know about the "Philedelpia Experiment"
and all that stuff about men being fused into the metal of the ship.
I remember reading this on a magazine about the supernatural. There
was this story about a guy who was supposedly one of the crew
members. Basically, it's all the same story, but after the
experiment, his version of the story is that the ship still
continues to travel through time and space and occasionally pops up
at different locations. He also claimed that because his body was
supposedly radiated by the experiment, the government transferred
his soul back into the past to a young boy, and only now he is
remembering these things...
Honestly, I think most of it is just
a bunch of crap. That guy would be much better as a sci-fi writer.
=P
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| From: DarthZant
| Posted: 2/20/2002 11:30:50 AM | Message
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| The Philadelphia Experiment was the precursor to
the Montauk Project.I live near Camp Hero where the Montauk Project
took place and weirder things happened there than on the
Eldridge.Weird things still happen on a regular basis which leads me
to believe the project has been restarted.Check out the books on the
project written by the assistant project director Preston
Nicholls. |
| From: Melancholy
| Posted: 2/20/2002 12:11:51 PM | Message
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I have heard this before while playing Command
and Conquer: Red Alert.
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lies not in its gold or silver but in its learning, wisdom and in
the uprightness of its sons."
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| From: Bigsbys
Hand | Posted: 2/20/2002 12:28:00 PM | Message
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Lol, me to Melancholy. That Einstein was a smart
guy, wasn't he ;)
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| From: greatness
| Posted: 2/20/2002 12:33:34 PM | Message
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Allegedly, in the fall of 1943 a U.S. Navy
destroyer was made invisible and teleported from Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, to Norfolk, Virginia, in an incident known as the
Philadelphia Experiment. Records in the Operational Archives Branch
of the Naval Historical Center have been repeatedly searched, but no
documents have been located which confirm the event, or any interest
by the Navy in attempting such an achievement.
The ship
involved in the experiment was supposedly the USS Eldridge.
Operational Archives has reviewed the deck log and war diary from
Eldridge's commissioning on 27 August 1943 at the New York Navy Yard
through December 1943. The following description of Eldridge's
activities are summarized from the ship's war diary. After
commissioning, Eldridge remained in New York and in the Long Island
Sound until 16 September when it sailed to Bermuda. From 18
September, the ship was in the vicinity of Bermuda undergoing
training and sea trials until 15 October when Eldridge left in a
convoy for New York where the convoy entered on 18 October. Eldridge
remained in New York harbor until 1 November when it was part of the
escort for Convoy UGS-23 (New York Section). On 2 November the
convoy entered Naval Operating Base, Norfolk. On 3 November,
Eldridge and Convoy UGS-23 left for Casablanca where it arrived on
22 November. On 29 November, Eldridge left as one of escorts for
Convoy GUS-22 and arrived with the convoy on 17 December at New York
harbor. Eldridge remained in New York on availability training and
in Block Island Sound until 31 December when it steamed to Norfolk
with four other ships. During this time frame, Eldridge was never in
Philadelphia.
Supposedly, the crew of the civilian merchant
ship SS Andrew Furuseth observed the arrival via teleportation of
the Eldridge into the Norfolk area. Andrew Furuseth's movement
report cards are in the Tenth Fleet records in the custody of the
Modern Military Branch, National Archives and Records Admnistration,
(8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD 20740-6001), which also has
custody of the action reports, war diaries and deck logs of all
World War II Navy ships, including Eldridge. The movement report
cards list the merchant ship's ports of call, the dates of the
visit, and convoy designation, if any. The movement report card
shows that Andrew Furuseth left Norfolk with Convoy UGS-15 on 16
August 1943 and arrived at Casablanca on 2 September. The ship left
Casablanca on 19 September and arrived off Cape Henry on 4 October.
Andrew Furuseth left Norfolk with Convoy UGS-22 on 25 October and
arrived at Oran on 12 November. The ship remained in the
Mediterranean until it returned with Convoy GUS-25 to Hampton Roads
on 17 January 1944. The Archives has a letter from Lieutenant Junior
Grade William S. Dodge, USNR, (Ret.), the Master of Andrew Furuseth
in 1943, categorically denying that he or his crew observed any
unusual event while in Norfolk. Eldridge and Andrew Furuseth were
not even in Norfolk at the same time.
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| From: greatness
| Posted: 2/20/2002 12:34:03 PM | Message
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The Office of Naval Research (ONR) has stated
that the use of force fields to make a ship and her crew invisible
does not conform to known physical laws. ONR also claims that Dr.
Albert Einstein's Unified Field Theory was never completed. During
1943-1944, Einstein was a part-time consultant with the Navy's
Bureau of Ordnance, undertaking theoretical research on explosives
and explosions. There is no indication that Einstein was involved in
research relevant to invisibility or to teleportation. ONR's
information sheet on the Philadelphia Experiment is
attached.
The Philadelphia Experiment has also been called
"Project Rainbow." A comprehensive search of the Archives has failed
to identify records of a Project Rainbow relating to teleportation
or making a ship disappear. In the 1940s, the code name RAINBOW was
used to refer to the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis. The RAINBOW plans were
the war plans to defeat Italy, Germany and Japan. RAINBOW V, the
plan in effect on 7 December 1941 when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor,
was the plan the U.S. used to fight the Axis powers.
Some
researchers have erroneously concluded that degaussing has a
connection with making an object invisible. Degaussing is a process
in which a system of electrical cables are installed around the
circumference of ship's hull, running from bow to stern on both
sides. A measured electrical current is passed through these cables
to cancel out the ship's magnetic field. Degaussing equipment was
installed in the hull of Navy ships and could be turned on whenever
the ship was in waters that might contain magnetic mines, usually
shallow waters in combat areas. It could be said that degaussing,
correctly done, makes a ship "invisible" to the sensors of magnetic
mines, but the ship remains visible to the human eye, radar, and
underwater listening devices.
After many years of searching,
the staff of the Operational Archives and independent researchers
have not located any official documents that support the assertion
that an invisibility or teleportation experiment involving a Navy
ship occurred at Philadelphia or any other
location.
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