The Philadelphia Experiment

Further Reading For The Philadelphia Experiment

The Philadelphia Experiment: Project Invisibility: The Startling Account of a Ship that Vanished-and Returned to Damn Those Who Knew Why… by Bill Moore

The Case for the UFO: Unidentified Flying Objects by MK Jessup

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In the waning days of World War 2, The United States Navy was suffering huge losses of ships in the Atlantic due to German submarine attacks. The German U-boats used torpedoes guided by magnetism and this technology made their sub to ship attacks unbelievably effective as the Navy attempted to send supplies to Europe and Africa. To combat this, Navy engineers proposed wrapping ships in the Atlantic with magnetized cables that would reverse the magnetic polarity of their hulls and would actively repel incoming torpedo attacks, thus making the ships invisible to submarines.

That’s the official state cover story.

The Philadelphia Experiment, also known as Project RAINBOW, was an alleged secret US military project put to work in October of 1943. According to letters received by writer, Morris K. Jessup, sent by a Carlos Allende, The Navy Destroyer, USS Eldridge, in dry dock at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard had been outfitted with technology intended to cloak the ship at sea. That rather than the official story of metaphorically rendering the ship invisible, that it would literally render the ship invisible.

According to conspiracy theory, the Eldridge actually disappeared from the dry dock and reappeared at sea off the coast of Virginia before reappearing back at dry dock with the ship’s crew either dead, insane, or physically joined with the ship’s bulkhead.

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