The Philadelphia Experiment
 

Someone at work mentioned this to me. Sounds very hair brained and fishy.

Anyone have any opinions?

One would think that is this was done in 1943 that it would be in use today, at the very least to transport goods and not people.

Who knows, maybe it is but the government just is not telling us? I guess stranger things could happen.

Yes, I read a book about Philadelphia Experiment long time ago. Supposedly the military was conducting teleportation experiment between Philadelphia Naval shipyard and Virginia Beach/Norfolk Naval Base based on Eistein's Theory of Relativity. The experiment was a success, but tradegically when the ship reappeared in Norfolk, all the sailors on board somehow melt into the infrastructure. Some died but some were still barely alive. What amazed me was the list of names of the sailors in the back of the book. Can't tell if it was a true event or not. Fun reading nonetheless.

There was a movie about it as well. I find it far fetched that they would use a large ship instead of a dingy to test the theory.

I think it was purely the result of someones imagination.......

Look at the state of technology then........

I have seen several TV shows regarding the Experiment and read a little about it. I was not under the impression that it was "teleportation" but rather "cloaking" a ship so radar could not detect it. Supposedly the ship did "vanish" for a few seconds from the site of observers not on the vessel. Also, supposedly, several crewman spent the rest of their lives "phasing".. fading slowly from sight of watching family members.. then coming back into full view. But no real proof of anything about the Experiment that I know of exists today.

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From what I have read over the past few days cloaking (from radar) was the objective but during one of the trials, the ship did disappear and "transported" to a different location and then "came back"

Most Sailors were violently sick and a few were "melted into the superstructure" of the ship.

As far as size, from what one of the articles indicated, the generators, coils, magnets ... etc were huge so a dingy would not be an option. Why it was tested with a full crew complement seem ludicrous but the government has a history of doing stupid things like that so it would not surprise me n the least.

I guess the thing that makes it unbelievable for me is that there is no indication that further study was done. The ability to transport something “through space and time” seems like it would be a very desirable ability to possess and there is no indication that we can do it today. One would think that in 60 years we might have refined it a bit.

Yes for sure. I’ve heard that many of the crew disappeared when going for cigarettes or just a quart of milk. The ship grew rust like red areas from the crew that had been fused into the metal --------------------Here comes another one --- Pete can you see it????

I'm pretty sure it is a tall tail. If it did take place and was successful they would have persued it. Even if the crew died that technology would be very valuable.

Yes, I'm sure it's all quite real, but then again, I also believe in Klingons and Romulans.....

Well their was a show on the History channel awhile back that pretty much destroyed it. The Philadelphia wasn't in port at the time and I guess the captian and crew said that it was a crazy story. Sailors talk their is no way something like that could be kept a secret.

But it sure does make for some good science fiction reading.

True, although I don't find it nearly as compelling as Roswell....

If it DID work, how would you ever know? :D

It explains everything from Judge Crater to Elvis.

You skeptical guys don't know anything. It is common knowledge this ship appears on the 15th of every month at Area 51, and it is on this ship where the Roswell Space Aliens are kept from public view. Also, it is well known that on this very same day, alien abductees are boarded, so the space aliens can experiment on them as the ship passes into the 5th Dimension. Not only that, as the ship is teleported, it sends off high-band signals that affect corn crops by cutting strange circles in them. If you wake up and see a heiroglyph cut into your corn crop, you know the Philly has flown over your neighborhood. If you don't beleive me, refer to Nostradamus, 33rd Quatrain, verses 81 thru 99.

I've never, ever seen it, not even once. And that's the truth.