What is the Philadelphia Experiment?

The Philadelphia Experiment is a rumor that has been circulating for a long time, claiming that the U.S. Navy conducted a secret experiment on October 28, 1943 at a dock in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, destroying the USS Eldridge Eldridge DE-173) is invisible to the observer.

Basic Information

Chinese name: Philadelphia Experiment
Foreign name: Philadelphia Experiment
Time: October 28, 1943

Place: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
People: US Navy
Object: Guard destroyer Eldridge

In the history of science, there was also a "Philadelphia experiment", which is much more famous than the former, that is,

For this experiment, which "has profound significance in science," the US Navy has utterly modestly denied that it has ever done it. In order to cope with frequent inquiries, the US Navy has specially compiled a fact sheet for this purpose. The destroyer that was said to have been used for the experiment was the USS Eldridge. The logbook produced by the U.S. Navy's Military Operations Archives shows that the ship was built in 1942.

Causes of the Philadelphia Experiment

In 1955, Morris K. Jessup, a car parts salesmanalso referred to as the Dr. Jisop who participated in this experiment in the former cult propagandapublished a book Book The Case for the UFO. This Jun studied astronomy at the University of Michigan, but graduated without a Ph.D., and continued to do research in his spare time, especially interested in UFOs. In this book, he classified many "mysterious phenomena" (the earliest works referring to the "Bermuda Devil's Triangle") as alien mischief, speculating that the alien flying saucer uses an anti-gravity propulsion system, calling on the public to ask the United States The government investigated UFOs and conducted research on anti-gravity propulsion systems based on Einstein's unified field theory.

Letter from Philadelphia Experiment Alan

Shortly after the book was published, Jessup received a letter from a reader writing in several different colors of ink to discuss with him the antigravity propulsion system, signed by Carlos Miguel Allende. A few months later, Jessup received another letter with a slightly changed signature, Carl M. Allen. The former name was actually a Latinized version of the name. In the spelling-laden, punctuated letter, Alan described what was later called the "Philadelphia Experiment." He told Jessup that there was no need to call on the public to ask the U.S. government to conduct antigravity research based on Einstein's unified field theory, because in October 1943 the United States Navy had conducted such experiments at the Philadelphia Naval Dockyard to allow a destroyer It disappeared from Philadelphia with its crew, appeared in Norfolk a few minutes later, and returned to Philadelphia a few minutes later. But this experiment had terrible consequences, which caused the US Navy to terminate further experiments: under the action of the invisible field, some crew members were frozen and frozen, and it took 6 months to be thawed, and some bodies caught fire and were burned for 18 days. Some have since disappeared, half of them have gone crazy, and so on. Alan claimed that he had witnessed the experiment on the Frusses at the time and provided his seafarer identification number. Jessup returned a postcard and asked Alan to provide evidence to support his claim. A few months later, Alan received a letter saying that if he was hypnotized, he might recall the date of the experiment, the names of the participants, and the name of the Philadelphia newspaper covering the incident. In these letters Alan did not mention the names of the warships involved in the experiment.

Philadelphia Experiment Mystery Package

In 1956, the Naval Research Office received a package sent anonymously. Inside was a UFO Case, annotated with three inks in the margin of the book. These blunders, upside-down comments on UFOs, anti-gravity propulsion systems, etc. in pseudo-scientific terms have aroused the interest of two naval officers and wanted to know what was going on. In the second The author of the book, Jessup, was invited in. Jessup read these annotations and found that the 1943 experiment mentioned the disappearance of the ship. Based on the handwriting of the annotations, he determined that the annotator was Alan and handed over Alan's two letters. The two officers asked a printing company to oil-print the book, annotations, and these two letters, requesting 25 copies to be printed. The actual number of copies may be hundreds. This version is still alive. It is said that the Naval Research Office also checked Alan's mailing address and found that it was an empty farmhouse. The US Navy's involvement in this matter ends here.

Death of the Philadelphia experiment author

"UFO Case" sold well, and Jessup was ambitious about writing for a living, and raised funds to visit Mexico. But the good times didn't last long. His sequel, published in 1958, was not popular with readers, and the publisher was reluctant to publish his work again. He was in financial difficulties and his wife left him. In October of that year, he went to New York to attend a friend's dinner and gave three friends one annotated version of the "UFO Case", asking them to save it if something happened to him. Then he went to Florida, and soon after he got there, he suffered a serious car accident, which made him even more desperate for life. In April 1959, he sent a suicide note to a friend. On the 20th, in a park not far from his home, he was found dying in the driver's seat of the car and died while en route to the hospital. The police believed that he had committed suicide. The cause of death was apparently carbon monoxide poisoning: he connected a car's exhaust pipe with a pipe, reached from the window into the car, sealed the window with a blanket, and started the car.

But conspiracy theorists believe that Jessup was actually murdered by the U.S. Navy, and Alan also fled to avoid hunting. The United States Marine Corps was fired 10 months later for health reasons and went to Philadelphia to become a merchant mariner. The first merchant ship he served was the Fruses, and later went to sea with other merchant ships. In 1952 he bid farewell to his sailing career, wandering around, constantly changing jobs, and once went to work in Mexico, so he also used Latinized names. He has a habit of writing comments on books and communicating with authors. He may not have expected, however, that his comments on the UFO Case and his correspondence with the author in 1955 would have such a profound effect. After the US Navy had lost interest in it, civilian researchers began to appear. In 1965, Vincent H. Gaddis published "Invisible Horizons: True Mysteries of the Sea", in addition to introducing many mysteriously missing islands, planes, and The ship also wrote the "Philadelphia Experiment" based on Alan's letter. In 1967, Brad Steiger wrote an article introducing Alan's letter and annotated version of the "UFO Case". After reading Alan, he angrily wrote several strong wording warnings to the publisher Letter, but did not prevent Sturger from publishing a book entitled "The Allende Letters, New UFO Breakthrough" the following year. In 1969, Alan went to the publishing company that published the annotated UFO Case and asked for an annotated copy, and then went to the headquarters of the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization, an amateur organization that studies UFOs. Frankly, he wrote those letters to Jessup, just a prank, and wrote these words in the letter included in the annotations:

"All words, phrases, and sentences underlined in brown ink on the following pages are all false. The words at the top of this and subsequent pages are the craziest lies I have ever written. Purpose? To encourage the Office of Naval Research to study and Dissuade Professor Morris Jessup from doing further investigations that may lead to actual research. At the time I was worried about stealth and force-field research; I don't know. "

This confession is as upside-down as his comments and letters, but one thing is clear: he concocted a scam in order to scare people to prevent similar research. Alan's confession did not end the farce. In 1977, Charles Berlitz, one of the most ardent contributors to the mysterious phenomenon, published "Without a Trace: New Information from the Triangle" with a chapter dedicated to Introducing the Philadelphia Experiment. In 1978, George E. Burger and Neil R. Simpson published a novel, Thin Air, depicting a retired sailor who had been dreaming about ships and seafarers Suddenly disappeared, an investigation by a U.S. Navy officer revealed that someone had covered up the teleportation experiment with the Aldridge in Philadelphia in 1943. The story was apparently based on Alan's letter, and the author clearly stated on the cover of the book that it was a "fiction." The following year, Belize and William L. Moore published The Philadelphia Experiment: Project Invisibility. The book was actually based on "Air", whose words were plagiarized as testimony, but Belize and Moore claimed it was a true story. This book became the authoritative work of the "Philadelphia Experiment", and later introductions to the Philadelphia Experiment were basically based on this version of the novel as a true story.

Alan died of illness on March 5, 1994 and disappeared from the world, but the Philadelphia experiment showed no signs of disappearing. There is nothing mysterious about Philadelphia. What is mysterious is why a prank is so easily regarded as a historical fact by everyone. Unintentionally, Alan did an experiment in which a lie was repeated thousands of times to become a truth.