the philadelphia experiment what really happened to ss eldridge and all its crew.?

Answer 1

Mark Pilkington
Thursday April 28, 2005
The Guardian


Radar-invisible Stealth aircraft and ships are a regular part of modern warfare. The next generations are said to blend into their environment using what's called "adaptive camouflage", making them invisible to the eye as well as radar.
The most famous invisibility tale, however, is the Philadelphia Experiment, a classic story of military experimentation gone wrong. As part of Project Rainbow, while docked at Philadelphia Navy Yard in 1943, the cannon-class destroyer USS Eldridge (DE 173) was fitted with a number of powerful generators and something called a "time zero generator". When this was switched on, the Eldridge was engulfed in a greenish haze, then, with the imprint of its hull still visible in the water, the ship disappeared from view for 20 minutes.

Following the experiment, the Eldridge's crew appeared highly excitable, even ravingly insane. Those onboard claimed to have seen another port, Newport News in Virginia, 600 miles from Philadelphia. Had the ship been teleported there during the experiment? A second experiment took place a few weeks later, this time at sea accompanied by SS Andrew Furuseth.

Once again, the Eldridge vanished but, when it reappeared, many of its crew were horribly burned, others had "merged" with the structure of the ship. One vanished entirely.

The Philadelphia Experiment was the subject of a best-selling book, and a 1984 film. Both proposed that the vanishing crew were somehow catapulted forwards in time. Men claiming to be those crew members still make the rounds of the conspiracy and UFO lecture circuits to this day.

Of course, the story is hokum, created by eccentric UFO enthusiast Carl Allen in 1956. He claimed to have been onboard the Furuseth at the time of the second experiment. The Eldridge did exist, and so did Project Rainbow. But the ship never docked at Philadelphia and Rainbow was the second world war US codename for the Axis alliance.

The Allied Navy did actually conduct electromagnetic experiments during the war, in which high voltage cables were wrapped around ships' hulls to degauss them, making them immune to magnetic mines. But they remained visible to both radar and the human eye. In 1999, the crew of the USS Eldridge had their first reunion. One joked: "The only true part is that the crew were a little crazy."




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Answer 2

Apparently, Carlos Allende was just a nut-case. The Eldridge has official logs for those times, and she wasn't where he said she was. Additionally, none of her surviving crew know anything about such an experiment. As there is no reason to hide it now that they are getting so old, and lots of reason to spill for book bucks, it's beginning to look as if it was all just a story. Too bad. I really liked that one.

Answer 3

They got fried. Bzzzt. Bug-Zappr time in old Philly harbor.
See the Navy was trying to rig a radar jammer. They figgured that high energy on the superstructure would do the trick, so they took old Eldridge, and wired her up like a Christmas tree, and pulled the switch.
Bzzzt.
Major snafu. Many dead. Many many burned.
Bad deal.
Cover it up? You betcha. It's wartime. Don't tell and write them off as "died heroically for their country."
Time passes, leaks happen, mystery nuts cruising the records find "Experiement" and "lost crew" and wierd statements from hysterical observers.
And a legend was born.
Bzzzt.

Answer 4

According to a contemporary sailor who was on one of the support ships, the invisibility experiment succeeded but proved to be impractical. The idea was to bend light waves around the ship (presumably at enough distance to take care of the ship's wake, too). There was no teleportation. He also said a couple of the crewmen were affected by it but remained in the service. The rest was all fiction, and he considered the "Philadelphia Experiment" hype to be ridiculous.

I allow that this, too, may be a sea story.

Answer 5

According to some sources, it kept disappearing and reappearing hundreds of miles apart. When it eventually stopped, most of the crew were insane, some were fused half in and half out of the structure, and some had just disappeared.

Answer 6

the "Philadelphia Experiment" is a myth, made a fun book and movie, but is a myth. The only thing that disappeared was Michael Parre's career!

Answer 7

Now that's an interesting story!! I would like to know myself. I mean you have so many military eye witnesses who claim it completely disappeared then re-appeared. They said crewmen were violently ill, insane, and some were fused to the ship!!!

Answer 8

yes caused by technology given to the government by aliens. read: Nothing in This Book Is True, but It's Exactly How Things Are by BOB FRISSELL

Answer 9

i read this sumwere that 1/2 the crew wud sontanulasly combust

Answer 10

Try looking up *everything* you can regarding 'Nikola Tesla' and the 'Hutchinson Effect', that way, you can make your own mind up about the truth...

Knowledge is power, but ignorance is bliss.