What is the Philadelphia experiment?

also known as "Project Rainbow", the Philadelphia experiment was reportedly carried out by the US Navy in 1943, as part of the initiative of the military assignment of one of their invisible ships. The incident reportedly occurred in Philadelphia, the Pennsylvanian naval shipyard at the USS Eldridge before witnesses claiming that the ship was invisible for a short time. US However, the Navy denies that the experiment occurred. The most widespread version of the events is that the test phase of the experiment first appeared in the summer of 1943, when the USS Eldridge first achieved partial invisibility. On October 28, 1943, according to reports, the ship not only achieved complete invisibility, but also teleported Norfolk, a naval base in Virginia before it reappeared in its original location in Philadelphia.

The USS Eldridge crew is said to have suffered serious psychological and physical problems as a result of the experiment, while others allegedly disappeared completely. One of the conspiracy theories about what happened to the crew is that they were militaryThe brain washed by the brain to forget the trauma of the incident.

Philadelphia's skeptics point to a lack of credibility in some alleged witnesses themselves. One account of witnesses provided by the supposed witness and a member of the USS Eldridge crew, Alfred Bielec, was finally unveiled by a team of investigators who were able to confirm that Bielec was not on board or near the ship at the time of the experiment.

also inconsistency in the time line of events also caused skepticism about the Philadelphia experiment. In 1999, Philadelphia newspaper said some USSELLDRIDGE veterans claim that the ship has never anchored in Philadelphia. It seems that documents from World War II also testify; At the time of the October incident, they place a boat on the Bahamas.

Philadelphia experiment attracted the attention of the literary world and Hollywood. Inspired the 1978 novel, thin air as well as nEjeznávánná source of information about the incident, Experiment Philadelphia: Project Invisibility in 1979. In 1984, the story reached a large screen in the Philadelphia experiment, and in 1993 the Philadelphia experiment II . The Philadelphia experiment has also been the subject of a small screen showing that it solves conspiracy theories such as unresolved mysteries and x-files .