The Philadelphia Experiment

"" The result of the experiment was COMPLETE INVISIBILITY of a ship destroyer type, AND ALL its crew, while at sea (Oct. 1943). The field was effective in an oblate spheroidal shape, extending 100 yards...OUT from each beam of the ship. Any person within that sphere became vague in form...Somehow, also, the experimental ship disappeared from its Philadelphia dock and only a very few minutes later appeared at its other dock in the Norfolk, Newport News, Portsmouth area...the ship then AGAIN disappeared and went BACK to its Philadelphia dock. ""

The above is an extract from a letter written on January 13, 1965, by Carlos Miguel Allende (also known as Carl Allen), a former seaman, to Dr. Morris Jessup, an astronomer and author of "The Case For The UFO" (1995). The experiment, claimed Allende, was an application, by a scientist called Dr. Franklin Reno, of Eintein's unified field theory (a theory that attempts to connect the fundamental forces of nature). Reno, Allende claimed, had successfully connected the field of gravity with that of electromagnetism.

Allende stated that he WITNESSED the disapearance of the destroyer, the USS Eldridge, while on board a merchant ship, the SS ANDREW FURUSETH. However, the appearance of the ELDRIDGE in the Norfolk area was something that Allende claimed he had only read about, in a Philadelphia newspaper (oh yeah??).

According to Allende, the success of the experiment was marred by terrible side effects on the Eldridge crew. Once, during a dockside bar brawl, some of these crewmen, contended Allende, vanished into thin air. He further claimed that there was a report about this incident which had appeared in a Philadelphia newspaper, sometime in 1944-46 (a small lack of precision, here!). In the best-selling book they wrote about this "mystery", "The Philadelphia Experiment" (1979), Berlitz and Moore reproduce a newspaper clipping os such an account. YET THE CLIPPING DOES NOT BEAR ANY NEWSPAPER NAME OR DATE, AND ITS COLUMN WIDTH IS GREATER THAN THAT OF ANY PHILADELPHIA NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THE 1940s.

Dr Jessup seems to have BELIEVED Allende's story and conducted research on it (good boy...). Naval records show that Allende was, as he had claimed to be, aboard the ANDREW FURUSETH in October 1943. BUT THESE RECORDS SHOW THAT THE ONLY POSSIBLE DATE ON WHICH THAT SHIP AND THE ELDRIDGE COULD HAVE BEEN (THOUGH THERE IS NO EVIDENCE THAT THEY WERE) IN THE SAME VINCINITY WAS AUGUST 16, 1943. In addition, no other former crew members of the Andrew Furuseth have at any time corroborated Allende's story......(!) Interesting!

THERE IS ALSO NO MENTION OF DR. FRANKLIN RENO, THE ALLEGED MASTERMIND BEHIND THE EXPERIMENT, IN ANY REFERENCE WORKS.

THE US NAVY HAS ALWAYS DENIED THAT THE EXPERIMENT TOOK PLACE, AND THERE IS NO OTHER EVIDENCE THAT THIS OR SIMILAR EXPERIMENTS OCCURED. IN OTHER WORDS, IT IS MORE THAN HIGHLY PROBABLE THAT THE PHILADELPHIA EXPERIMENT EXISTED

ONLY IN THE MIND OF CARLOS ALLENDE..........

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