In the world there is a huge number of unexplained phenomena that cause arguments among scientists and horror in people. They can be attributed to the Philadelphia experiment, the mystery of which has remained unanswered. There is a huge number of versions of what happened, but there is still no consensus.
What is this - a Philadelphia experiment?
A great mystery, an unproven experiment, a mystical phenomenon, all this relates to the Philadelphia experiment, which was conducted by the US Navy on October 28 in 1943. His goal was to create protection for the ships so that they could not be detected by radar. The Philadelphia experiment (the Rainbow project) was conducted on the Eldridge destroyer and had 181 people aboard it.
Who conducted the Philadelphia experiment?
According to the existing versions, Nikola Tesla was the main driver in the development of the experiment, but he died in fact shortly before the completion of the research. After that, the leader was John von Neumann, who is called the man who tested the destroyer Eldridge. There is an assumption that all calculations were handled by specialists led by Albert Einstein.
Philadelphia experiment - what happened?
On board the warship was a secret installation, which was to create an electromagnetic field of enormous power around the ship. There is a version that it had the shape of an ellipse. Witnesses who were in the dock at the time when the American experiment with the destroyer Eldridge began, say that after the generator was launched, they saw a strong glow and a fog of green color. As a result, the ship not only disappeared from the radar, but also dissolved in space.
The next fact in the story about what happened to the destroyer Eldridge is connected with mysticism, as the ship literally teleported to a distance of about 320 km from the site of the experiment. Nobody expected this result, so it can be argued that everything went out of control. If the destroyer "Eldridge" Philadelphia experiment suffered without damage, then about the team this can not be said.
Of the 118 people, only 21 remained completely healthy. Several people died from radiation, some crew members were literally immured in the ship, and another part simply disappeared without a trace. People who survived after the experiment were very frightened, they experienced strong hallucinations and told unreal things.
Philadelphia experiment - true or false?
On the website of the Naval Research Department there is a special page devoted to the facts of this incident. At the end of the publication, a statement is made that the disappearance of the Eldridge destroyer is a story from science fiction literature and no experiments were conducted in 1943. A lot of research has been done, books and films have been published, but the government has done everything possible to hush up this story. The Philadelphia experiment remains in history as an inexplicable and unconfirmed phenomenon.
Philadelphia experiment - facts
The Rainbow project, dedicated to conspiracy research, did take place in the history of the military services of America. But the latter state that no experiments have been conducted on Eldridge. Some interesting facts about the experiment on the destroyer:
- In 1955, the ufologist Morris K. Jessup published the book "Evidence of UFOs." Soon he received a letter from a certain Carlos Allende (Karl Allen), who, according to him, survived during the experiment. After that, the whole world began talking about the destroyer "Eldridge", in 1959 Jessup died, death through suicide is the official version.
- Karl Allen, who wrote the same letter with details chilling the soul, is recognized as a madman with serious mental problems. He is considered the creator of the story of the Philadelphia experiment. He stated how, from the ship on which he served, I saw the appearance and disappearance of the Eldridge in the port of Norfolk. None of his team saw anything like this, and their ship was not in Norfolk in October 1943, as was the destroyer Eldridge.
- The mysterious legend of an American military ship prompted director Neil Travis to make a film that was released in 1984. In 2012, director Christopher A. Smith filmed another motion picture about the mysterious disappearance of Eldridge.