Philadelphia-Experiment
The Philadelphia Experiment is a legend of an experiment with a cloaking device, believed to have been carried out in the United States during the Second World War.
The legend goes back to public letters of a single eyewitness, Carlos Miguel Allende of sailors aka Carl Meredith Allen, who set up the first time twelve years after the alleged experiment, these assertions. Consequently, the warship USS Eldridge to become completely invisible and be even appeared briefly suddenly in 500 km from the port of Norfolk, Virginia, before it rematerialized in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The myth of Philadelphia Experiment
Here is his story of how she, according to the so-called Allende letters (see web link) and other sources should have happened:
The Philadelphia project was originally code-named Rainbow.
In the early 1940s, the U.S. Navy experimented with methods for magnetic self-protection in order to make their vessels more resistant to the working with magnetos torpedoes of the German U - boats and not, as was often claimed to develop an anti- radar technology.
According to the testimony of the eyewitnesses Carl Meredith Allen said to have been made optically invisible on the high seas in October 1943 in a test with a strong force field, the USS Eldridge. Allen was allegedly an eye-witness as he drove on a ship in the merchant navy in the same convoy. All that remained, had been for 15 minutes of Kiel impression of the ship in the water.
The effects on the crew of the ship had been devastating. Some were fused with the ship, others burned, disappeared or had taken mental damage. Even years later, to isolated parties have spontaneously disappeared into thin air or serious illnesses have succumbed.
In another incident, the ship should be gone from the port of Philadelphia, and appeared in the Naval Base Norfolk. Within seconds, the ship then returned to Philadelphia. However, Allen admitted to have only heard of it.
The United States Navy denies having performed this experiment. All the facts, experimental arrangements and other so-called evidence was invented. The eye-witness of this incident, Carl Allen, was a fraud who just wants to make money with an invented story. The Naval Historical Center published the logs of the USS Eldridge of the commissioning on 27 July 1943 to end of 1943. According to them, the ship was at this time never in Philadelphia.
Origin of the myth
A possible explanation assumes that actual testing of magnetic fields have been carried out. The aim of the experiments was to neutralize the action principle of magnetos in torpedoes and sea mines and thus to prevent that such a weapon detonated under the ship. Probably saying the people involved colloquially it, " to make a ship invisible" for this kind of magnetic detonator.
Facts
A strong magnetic field alone can not provide for optical invisibility, and certainly not for a teleportation. Even assuming a teleportation would be the probability that at a completely random teleportation a ship would be teleported calculated from a (yet to U.S. ) port in another, extremely low.
For the way from Philadelphia to Norfolk, there are two possibilities. The usual route runs over the open Atlantic on the coast of the Delmarva Peninsula along; a second, shorter route leads through the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal to the Chesapeake Bay, were much faster travel from one port to another on the ships. When the Eldridge is shuttled through this channel between Norfolk and Philadelphia, this could possibly lead by observers, who drove the normal range in irritation.
None of the comrades of Carl Allen confirmed or denied the report. They described Carl Allen, however, as very intelligent and easily confused.