| The Philadelphia Experiment, otherwise known as | | | | A newspaper article was written about the raid, but no |
| Project Rainbow, has been a subject of long | | | | specific date was named. Most crewmembers went |
| controversy and debate. It was an attempt by the | | | | insane, but a few retained their sanity, only to be thrust |
| Navy to create a ship that could not be detected by | | | | into worse situations. One man sat down to dinner with |
| magnetic mines and/or radar. However, its results | | | | his wife and child, but then got up from the table, |
| were far different and much more dangerous than the | | | | walked through the wall, and was never seen again. |
| Navy ever expected. Although the story itself seems | | | | Two others simply disappeared into thin air and were |
| too bizarre to be true, far too many coincidences have | | | | also never seen again. Another crewmember |
| occurred for it to not be based upon some small iota | | | | vanished in the middle of a fight, much to his |
| of truth. The technical data that has also been | | | | opponent's astonishment. All three incidents had |
| presented upon the subject hold far too much | | | | several witnesses. Yet the worse side effects were |
| credence to be ignored. Many of the stories | | | | when men got 'stuck'. Getting stuck consisted of |
| associated with this infamous experiment are wild: | | | | becoming invisible and being unable to move, speak, or |
| whispers of men 'freezing' in time for months, rumors | | | | interact with other people for a period of time. |
| of men traveling through time, and horror stories of | | | | Getting stuck by the crewmembers was known as |
| men becoming stuck in bulkheads or even the floor of | | | | "Hell Incorporated". (The Philadelphia Experiment, 42). It |
| the ship itself. | | | | was also known as the Freeze. A common freeze |
| In the early 1930's, the University of Chicago | | | | would last minutes to hours and was damaging |
| investigated the possibility of invisibility through the use | | | | psychologically, but did not cause madness. A man |
| of electricity. This project was later moved to | | | | would only come out of the Freeze if other |
| Princeton's Institute of Advanced Studies. The | | | | crewmembers laid their hands upon him to give him |
| research went unnoticed and continued on until the | | | | strength. Unfortunately, in one instance of the "Laying |
| 1940's. The ship that was eventually used for the | | | | of Hands," two men who attempted to lay hands upon |
| experiment, the USS Eldridge, was commissioned at | | | | the man burst into flames and burned for eighteen |
| the New York Navy Yard on August 27, 1943 | | | | days (The Philadelphia Experiment, 44). The fires could |
| (Department of the Navy). According to Alfred D. | | | | not be stopped, despite multiple attempts to quench |
| Bielek, a man who claims to have been a | | | | the flames. Needless to say, the Laying of Hands was |
| crewmember, the first tests done were in July of 1943 | | | | discontinued from that point on. Then, men started |
| and the final test was on August 12, 1943. | | | | going into the Deep Freeze, when a man would be |
| Alfred D. Bielek claims that he was transported in time | | | | frozen for several days to several months. During this |
| to the future and that here in the future he was | | | | time, the man is completely aware of others and their |
| brainwashed by the Navy. This brainwashing led him to | | | | actions but was unable to communicate to them or |
| believe that his name was Alfred Bielek, rather than his | | | | interact with them. Men in the Deep Freeze can only |
| true name, Edward Cameron. Upon discovering his | | | | be seen by other crewmembers. It only takes two |
| true identity, he tracked down his brother who had also | | | | days for a man to go completely crazy in the Deep |
| participated in the experiment. Bielek claims that his | | | | Freeze. The first deep freeze took six months and |
| brother time traveled to 1983 and lost his 'time-lock'. As | | | | five million dollars worth of research and equipment to |
| a result, his brother aged one year every hour and | | | | correct (The Philadelphia Experiment, 43). The man |
| eventually died. Bielek then claims that his brother was | | | | who was stuck for six months went completely insane |
| reborn. Needless to say, only a small group of people | | | | by the time he got out. |
| believe Bielek and nearly everyone thinks that his | | | | The Philadelphia Experiment has become a saga of |
| stories are based on some truth, but he's exaggerating | | | | strange occurrences and peculiar coincidences. A full |
| the truth for personal reasons. This popular opinion | | | | report of the Experiment was given to Congress and |
| seems to be reinforced when Bielek starts | | | | the members were so horrified that they disbanded |
| remembering things only after having seen the movie | | | | the project immediately. |
| "The Philadelphia Experiment". Bielek has a Ph.D. in | | | | However, research continued at the Montauk Project, |
| Physics, so he does have some technical experience. | | | | a.k.a. the Phoenix Project, which was headed by Dr. |
| He is also a retired electrical engineer with thirty years | | | | John Von Neumann, who also directed the Philadelphia |
| of experience. Because of his obvious intelligence and | | | | Experiment. The Montauk Project centered mostly on |
| skill, he cannot be discounted entirely. Bielek stated that | | | | how the mind reacts to inter-dimensional travel. It took |
| the technology used in the Philadelphia Experiment | | | | place at the Brookhaven National Laboratories. Von |
| was given to us by aliens. | | | | Neumann attempted to link computers with minds and |
| The principle that lay behind the Philadelphia | | | | was apparently successful beyond his wildest dreams. |
| Experiment was the Unified Field Theory. This theory | | | | Using this computer-human link, Von Neumann could |
| states that gravity and magnetism are connected, just | | | | affect others minds and was eventually able to open |
| as mass and energy are connected through the | | | | a time vortex back to 1943 to the Philadelphia |
| formula E=mc2. Einstein never solved the Unified Field | | | | Experiment. He even made claims that the mind could |
| Theory, but the very nature of the Philadelphia | | | | create matter at any point in time. He also claimed to |
| Experiment suggests otherwise. It is probably that this | | | | have sent a man named Preston B. Nichols through |
| theory has become a government secret because it is | | | | two times lines, a fact which was actually confirmed |
| capable of doing many things, possibly even space | | | | by Duncan Cameron in 1985 (Montauk). Cameron was |
| travel without the assistance of rockets. | | | | trained by the National Security Agency, so his |
| When interviewed regarding the various experiments | | | | testimony is valid. Many people believe that the |
| that took place on the USS Eldridge, witnesses state | | | | Montauk Project is continuing to this day, although |
| that matter itself was changed and that men were | | | | much of the information available about it is only rumor. |
| able to walk through physical objects. When the field | | | | The Philadelphia Experiment was a key part of |
| was shut off, some crewmembers were found stuck | | | | American history because it demonstrates what a |
| in bulkheads, others in the floor. Some were found with | | | | government is willing to do to have an advantage in |
| the railings of the ship stuck through their bodies. It was | | | | war. |
| a horrendous sight. The sailors supposedly went crazy | | | | You may download The Philadelphia Experiment PDF |
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