Type of bind: Paperback
EAN num: 9780448157771
ISBN number: 0448157772
Label: Putnam Adult
Manufacturer: Putnam Adult
Page Count: 177
Printing Date: September 01, 1978
Publishing house: Putnam Adult
Sale Popularity Level: 1548139
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One day in 1943, at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, something happened . . .
Suddenly the U.S.S. Eldridge, a fully manned destroyer escort, vanished into a purple fog, within seconds appeared in Norfolk, Virginia, and then reappeared in Philadelphia!
For over thirty-six years officials have denied this, have denied any experimentation to render matter invisible -- have denied the reality of THE PHILADELPHIA EXPERIMENT.
If so, why --
* were all the men aboard ship who survived discharged as mentally unfit?
* did a scientific researcher on the project meet a mysterious death?
* were identities hidden, documents lost, and amazing connections between UFO sightings and events in the Bermuda Triangle denied?
THE PHILADELPHIA EXPERIMENT -- the very first full-length documented report on a chilling unsolved mystery that's been discussed for years. Now, official documents and first-hand stories have been revealed. Here is the truth in a report so shattering it is difficult to believe it's NOT fiction.
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A book that raises many questions, answers are merely hinted at.
The US. Navy strenuously denies that anything unusual happened in 1943 at it's Philadelphia docks and has provided a standard letter to discourage all enquiries concerning the "Philadelphia Experiment." All that is known of the Philadelphia Experiment is revealed in this classic work by Berlitz and Moore from 1979, the rest is concealed amongst the Navy Departments Above Top Secret files. According to Berlitz and Moore, the Experiment was concieved as an endeavor to engineer a "Stealth Ship". The idea was to produce optical invisibility, with the use of a powerful electro- magnetic field. During this period Albert Einstein was employed by the Navy having thrown in his lot with the military, after witnessing the rise of the Nazis. It was Einstein who supervised the Experiment and who made many of the necessary calculations regarding power levels and depth of field. Subsequently he was appointed to a secret committee by Dr. Vannevar Bush of MJ12.
Berlitz and Moore describe how they tracked down the mysterious Carlos Allende who witnessed the astonishing results of the Experiment, which was apparently abandoned due to the affects the high energy resonant field had on sailors. It is difficult to believe that the stunning outcome of the Experiment would have merely been forgotten.
Spectacularly, optical invisibility was achieved; witnesses saw only the imprint of the ship's hull on the sea, not only this but the ship was also said to have momentarily teleported to another dockyard at Norfolk Virginia. One wonders therefore, how the co- ordinates of the second dock were factored in? How could the experiment have been so sophisticatedly controlled at such an early stage? Although there is no documentary proof, not only was teleportation achieved, but contact was made with inter- dimensional, extra- terrestrial entities. A contact that has been maintained to this day. Perhaps the date of very first contact between the military and "extra- terrestrials" can be pushed back even further.
Allende speculated in his wild writings that the teleportation effect discovered in 1943 is the same as that employed by ufos that seem able to tune in and tune out of "our dimension". Perhaps by now whole cities and populations may be made to "disappear". Einstein spent most of his working life on the "Unified Field Theory", which provided the framework for the Philadelphia Experiment. Before his death he was said to have destroyed many of his papers, as humanity was not prepared for their implications. Bertrand Russell considered the theory complete but felt that, "Man is not ready for it and shan't be until after WW3"
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This book was so good they made a movie out of it , and much more info came out later , much of it dis information as the , [Shadow government ] does not wish for us regular folk to know about this stuff.But we find out one way or another . The truth is out there , and more accurately its within you and me .
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The Philadelphia experiment is one of those conspiracy theory type of books, with perhaps enough in it to make you wonder if it was true or not.
However, the likelihood of being able to make a large US Navy ship disappear in the 1940s isn't very high, you would think. :) Makes for a groovy X-Files sort of investigation, though.
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Though I wasn't expecting to finish PE a believer, I was surprised by how much of my skepticism stemmed from the authors' willingness to believe anything, and mask suspension of disbelief as objectivity.
According to legend, the US Navy conducted invisibility experiments on one of their ships during WWII and actually teleported the ship from Philadelphia. The little-understood process played havoc with the crew - even after the experiment's end, some crewmen would "blink" in and out of existence, become frozen in time or catch fire. One man walked through a wall, never to be seen again. Of course, the Navy denies the whole thing....
While the legend places the story in 1943, the legend itself arose in the 1950's, with the publication of "The Case for the UFO" by Morris Jessup. (Giving us a taste of the authors' objectivity, they acknowledge that Jessup is no scientist but nevertheless repeatedly refer to him as "Dr. Jessup".) Believing that spacecraft propulsion would rely on solving Einstein's "Unified Field Theory", Jessup encouraged readers to press for research in that area. Jessup's book caught the attention of Carl Allen (AKA Carlos Allende), who spent the war in the Merchant Marine. In a series of rambling letters Allen insisted that Einstein had solved UFT, and described what is now known as Philadelphia Experiment as an application of UFT's solution. Though claiming at very first to be an eyewitness, Allen goes further than detailing his observation - exhaustively describing the travails of the crew, Einstein's seeming retraction of UFT, his admission to Bertrand Russell that UFT was complete but had to be suppressed at least until after WWIII, the identity of one of the chief scientists attached to the project, and that UFT had anything to do with the experiment - Berlitz never explains Allende's being both the sole named eye-witness of the experiment (including its appearance in another harbor miles away) and his close contact with principal personalities of the experiment (given the necessary secrecy that such a project would have had). To get his point across, Allen/Allende even forwarded a copy of Jessup's book (heavily annotated with his own theories, many having nothing to do with the Philadelphia Experiment, and which should have by then alerted everybody that Allende was an utter crackpot) to the Office of Naval Research. There it piqued the personal interest of at least 2 officers, and became the story-that-wouldn't-die.
A depressed Jessup was found dead in his car, a suicide. Some of Jessup's friends proved ready to attach any conspiratorial implication to Jessup's death, but not the futility of his work, or the humiliation of having his work share attention with Allende's half-baked theories. Allende became a cult celeb, sometimes retracting claims, often warning against UFT even as he seemed to beg others to look into it.
The authors piece Allende together with other pieces of a puzzle that will prove the Philadelphia Experiment actually occurred, but end up with a result far less than the sum of its parts: Berlitz/Moore place more weight on any individual piece than common sense would allow, finding a better fit than you'd get in a jigsaw puzzle. Nothing in PE lacks a more reasonable explanation than the authors can provide. The authors mention coming in contact with others who claim to have met alleged crewmembers of the ship involved in the experiment - but neither name nor any other convincing corroborating information is disclosed. (Allende at least included his Merchant Marine ID.) The authors add to the puzzle, but never actually establish that the Philadelphia Experiment actually occurred. An anonymous radar scientist, who doesn't claim to have worked on the project, clarifies how events would have had to occur were the legend. Another scientist - given a pseudonym because it would upset "the status quo" - describes wartime discussions on a project that we're supposed to believe developed into the Philadelphia Experiment. Named "Rinehart" after a similar character in the novel "Thin Air" (a thriller inspired by the legend) the doctor describes discussions but never mentions witnessing the experiment, nor any discussions of its aftermath - obvious details for such a pivotal figure - not even mentioning Allende, even though it had been Allende's who clued the authors into Rinehart's existence (under yet another pseudonym). The authors never explain how they managed to find "Rinehart" - they need to protect his identity even though the government obviously knows who he is, and anybody else would have the same difficulty tracking him down as the authors of this book. The authors describe how the experiments of another scientist in "electrogravity" never caught on despite their apparent sucess - suggesting they were suppressed. Though Allende described reading stories about the Experiment's sailors in Philadelphia newspapers, the ... Read More
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I am surprised to see so many negative reviews of this book. Unlike most authors who tackle the subject of the Philadelphia Experiment, Moore and Berlitz stick to hard evidence as much as possible, and endeavor to make a genuine argument instead of simply printing incredible stories. The book is also well written, which is a testament to the professionalism of the authors. The problem it suffers from most is that many of its human sources wish to remain anonymous, which hinders any research ino their credibility. I am still skeptical of the whole incident, but here is my final thought: If you want to be entertained by Al Bielek, look elsewhere. If you want something with some real substance, Moore and Berlitz are your source.
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