Philadelphia Experiment – The Strange Story of U.S Navy Ship which was made to Disappear

The Philadelphia Experiment also called the USS Eldridge Conspiracy, is among the most famous military legends ever.

It has everything from disappearing ships, aliens, paranormal activities, Albert Einstein, and everything else that could fascinate the human mind.

However, did the Philadelphia Experiment happen?

As the story goes, this Experiment was about the secret testing of an alien technology, which was carried out at the peak of World War II in accordance with Albert Einstein’s unified field theory, a term coined by Einstein to describe the interrelated nature of the forces of electromagnetism and gravity, in other words, to unite their individual fields into a single field.

Per stories, the U.S was in the middle of war and wanted to win the Battle of the Atlantic. Hence, this Experiment was conducted at the Philadephia Naval Shipyard to make ships invisible and give the U.S an advantage over its enemies at sea.

What was the Philadelphia Experiment?

Per the accounts, the newly commissioned destroyer USS Eldridge was the subject of this Experiment, which is said to have been conducted on 28 October 1943 in the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard while the ship was docked here.

The ship was fitted with generators that could make it invisible to the enemy. The crew members readied themselves for the system test. On a clear summer day, it was daylight when the generators started, and a greenish-blue glow or fog from the destroyer’s hull surrounded the vessel from all sides.

The ship disappeared completely from the shipyard in no time, only to appear suddenly in the Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Virginia, over 200 miles away.

Witnesses reported seeing the ship appear in the waters in Virginia before it vanished again in the blink of an eye and showed back in Philadelphia.

If this is not weird enough, the crew members of USS Eldridge reported to have experienced nausea and burn marks, and some even went insane. Others were said to have been embedded in the ship’s metal structure, while others were transported from one deck or floor to another. Some even suffered from unexplained, mysterious illnesses.

The story about this too-far-to-be-true Experiment has lived on for decades, even though much of what is known cannot be actually proved. Among the several versions of this story and the additional details that have made rounds throughout history, some facts remain certain.

Origins of the Philadelphia Experiment Conspiracy

It is said that many people witnessed the Philadelphia experiment, i.e., seeing the ship Eldridge appear and disappear again. However, just one witness came forward, and it was in the 1950s that more details emerged, though just from a single source: a man named Carl Meredith Allen, an ex-merchant mariner who also went by the name Carlos Allende.

In 1956, Carl Allen began to write hundreds of letters to Morris K. Jessup, author of The Case for the UFO: Unidentified Flying Objects, published in 1955. In this book, he argued that unidentified flying objects or UFOs were mysterious objects that should be the subject of further research.

He wrote the letters under the name Carlos Allende and informed him about the Philadelphia Experiment, which he …

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