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.

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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.

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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........

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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.

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There's a movie about it, so it must be true!

Philadelphia Experiment
Studio: Anchor Bay
Year: 1984
101 minutes

Category: Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Time Travel

Actor/Actors: Bobby Di Cicco, Eric Christmas, Kene Holliday, Louise Latham, Michael Pare, Nancy Allen, Stephen Tobolowsky

Direction: Stewart Raffill

Synopsis: The experiment that should never have happened 41 years ago...is still going on. Philadelphia, 1943: A top-secret experiment is underway to make U.S. Navy ships invisible to enemy radar, but something goes horribly wrong, and the Battleship Eldridge disappears. Two sailors jump overboard--and are mysteriously transported 41 years into the future. On the run and trapped by the past, can they stop the experiment that has torn a hole in time? Michael Pare (Eddie and the Cruisers) and Nancy Allen (Carrie, Dressed to Kill) star, executive produced by "Halloween" creator John Carpenter!

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You do this so well its scary!
( Helps me put some of your past political rants into some kind of perspective!)