The Philadelphia Experiment is one of the most interesting mysteries of the twentieth century, giving rise to many of the most contradictory and even incredible rumors.
According to legends, during the Second World War, the US military department tried to create a ship invisible to radars, as well as enemy magnetic mines. Using calculations made by Einstein himself, special generators were installed on the destroyer Eldridge. But during the test, conducted in October 1943 in one of the docks in Philadelphia, the unexpected happened - the ship, surrounded by discharges of a powerful electromagnetic field, disappeared not only from the radar screens, but literally evaporated in the truest sense of the word. After a while, the Eldridge materialized again, but in a completely different place and with a distraught crew on board. This is the ins and outs of the whole story.
It should be emphasized that when presenting the legend of the Philadelphia experiment, no attempt is made to confirm or deny the reliability of the events described.
On October 28, 1943, the so-called "Philadelphia Experiment" was carried out at the naval port of Philadelphia.
A naval destroyer named DE 173 (better known as U.S.S. Eldridge), stuffed with hundreds of tons of electronic equipment, was docked at the Port of Philadelphia, then the experiment was launched. It was supposed to generate huge electromagnetic regions, which, if properly configured, would cause bending of light and radio waves around the destroyer.
So the powerful generators are on; the ship begins to envelop in a greenish fog, then the fog began to disappear ... together with the destroyer, only the ship's imprint on the water remained. The result was the complete disappearance of the ship. A few minutes later (according to some reports, several seconds), the ship reappeared.
But something startling was discovered, it turns out after the ship disappeared in Philadelphia, it moved to the docks of the port of Norfolk, Virginia, and then moved back to Philadelphia. As a result of the experiment, most of the sailors became mentally ill, some people disappeared altogether and never appeared again, but the most terrible and mysterious thing was that five people were “fused” into the metal shell of the ship! People claimed that they fell into another world and observed unknown creatures.
Perhaps, as a result of the experiment, a "gate" to a parallel world was created! This experiment had a disastrous effect on the physical and mental state of people.
The mystery of the Philadelphia experiment begins with Morris Ketchum Jessup's name. He was a man with versatile interests - astrophysicist, mathematician, writer. He had to deal with various problems, but he never sought a public vocation. Jessup was interested in the flying saucers phenomenon. Having accumulated some material, he decided to write a book about it, which was to become the first truly scientific attempt to answer the question - what is a UFO? In his opinion, the driving force of the UFO was based on the principle of antigravity, still unknown to us.
The 1955 book, Arguments for UFOs, was not a bestseller, but it was after its publication that Jessup received a strange letter. Its author was interested in sections of Jessup's book, which talked about levitation, which may have been known to our ancestors. According to the author of the letter, levitation not only existed, but was once a "well-known process" on Earth. The letter was signed with the name Carlos Miguel Allende. Jessupe asked the author of the letter for details, and a year later, in 1965, Jessupe received a message from Carlos Miguel Allende, but before that a small digression.
If you trust some data, then the foundations of the Philadelphia experiment project should be sought in a very vague and very complex scientific theory developed by Albert Einstein and known as the Unified Field Theory. In his second letter to Allende, he writes that Einstein first published this theory in 1925-1927. Moreover, Allende says that Albert Einstein, when publishing his work, was guided not so much by mathematics as by humanistic considerations.
Allende, he claimed, served in 1943 on the transport ship Andrew Furesset, and from this ship, which was part of the control group of the Philadelphia experiment, he allegedly perfectly saw how it melted into the greenish glow of the Eldridge, heard the hum of the surrounding destroyer fields and is familiar with many of those who watched all this too.
The most interesting thing in Allende's story is the description of the consequences of the experiment. After a while, incredible things began to happen to people who returned “from nowhere”: they seemed to fall out of the real course of time (the term “froze” was used), there were cases of spontaneous combustion (the term “ignited”), and once two “frozen” suddenly “ignited” “And burned for eighteen days (?!), And no efforts were made by the rescuers to stop the burning of the bodies!
Other oddities also occurred, for example, one of the sailors of the "Eldridge" disappeared forever, passing through the wall of his own apartment in front of his wife and child.
The result of later calculations, which he carried out, angered him. Therefore, we are told today that this theory was incomplete.
Dr. B. Russell claims the theory is complete. He also says that man is not ripe for this and will not be until the end of the third world war. Dr. Bertrand Russell himself is a renowned writer, philosopher, humanist and pacifist who was friends with Einstein.
What is the Unified Field Theory? The meaning of the theory is mainly to explain mathematically the interaction between three fundamental universal forces - electromagnetism, gravitational force and nuclear energy with the help of a single control. There are suggestions that there is a fourth, weak universal force associated with the force of gravity in the same way as electricity is with magnetism.
It is not yet known whether this field is inter-spatial or temporal. If we assume that this theory can be fully developed, then its final equations should also include light and radio waves, pure magnetism, X-rays, and even matter itself. You can understand the complexity of the problem if you remember that Einstein often complained that he didn’t know enough mathematics to complete the task.
Here is the letter itself:
... The "result" was the complete invisibility of the destroyer-type ship at sea and its entire crew. The magnetic field was in the shape of a rotating ellipsoid and extended 100 meters (more or less, depending on the position of the moon and degree of longitude) on both sides of the ship. Everyone who was in this field had only blurred outlines, but perceived all those who were on board this ship, and, moreover, in such a way as if they were walking or standing in the air. Those who were outside the magnetic field saw nothing at all, except for the sharply delineated trace of the ship's hull in the water - provided, of course, that they were close enough to the magnetic field, but still outside it ... Half of the officers and crew of that ship are completely insane now. Some even to this day are kept in appropriate institutions, where they will receive qualified scientific assistance, when they either "soar", as they themselves call it, or "soar and get stuck." This "soaring" is a consequence of being in a magnetic field for too long.
If a person "gets stuck", then he is not able to move at will, if one or two comrades who are nearby do not come up and touch him, because otherwise he "freezes". Usually "deep frozen" loses his mind, rages and bears nonsense, if "freezing" lasted more than one day according to our countdown.
I'm talking about time, but ... the "frozen" perceive the passage of time differently than we do. They resemble people in a twilight state who live, breathe, hear and feel, but do not perceive so much that they seem to exist only in the next world. They perceive time differently than you or me.
There were very few of the team members who took part in the experiment ... Most lost their minds, one simply disappeared "through" the wall of his own apartment in front of his wife and child. The other two crew members “caught fire,” that is, they “froze” and caught fire as they dragged the small lifeboat compasses; one carried a compass and caught fire, while the other hurried to him to "lay his hand," but also caught fire. they burned for 18 days. Faith in the efficacy of the method of laying on of hands was shattered and madness ensued. The experiment as such was absolutely successful. He had a fatal effect on the crew. "
Maurice Jessup began to investigate: he began to visit the archives, talk with the military, and in the end he found a lot of evidence that gave him the opportunity to express his opinion about the reality of these events as follows:
"... The experiment is very interesting, but terribly dangerous. It influences too much the people participating in it. The experiment used magnetic generators, the so-called" demagnetizers ", which worked at resonant frequencies and created a monstrous field around the ship. In practice, this gave a temporary withdrawal from our dimension and could mean a spatial breakthrough, if only it was possible to keep the process under control! "
... Perhaps Jessup learned too much, because in 1959 he died under very mysterious, and even too suspicious circumstances - he was found in his own car, suffocated from exhaust gases. The investigation did not lead to anything, but according to the unanimous opinion of the scientist's supporters, it was carried out without sufficient enthusiasm on the part of the authorities, who probably tried to hide from the public some more unsightly facts related to the subject of Jessup's study - the Philadelphia experiment ...
The leadership of the US Navy, as best they could, disowned the Philadelphia experiment, claiming that nothing like this had happened in 1943. But many researchers did not believe the government. They continued to search for the murdered, in their opinion, Jessup and received some results. For example, documents were found confirming that from 1943 to 1944, Albert Einstein was in the service of the Naval Ministry in Washington. Witnesses turned up, some of whom personally saw the disappearance of the "Eldridge", others held in their hands sheets of paper with calculations made by the hand of Einstein, who had a very characteristic handwriting.
Even a newspaper clipping of those times was found, telling about the sailors who got off the ship and melted before the eyes of eyewitnesses.
Attempts to find out the truth about the Philadelphia Experiment continue to this day. And, from time to time, new interesting facts appear. As a vivid illustration, it is necessary to cite excerpts from the recorded story of the American electronic engineer Edom Skilling.
"... In 1990, my friend Margaret Sandys," Skilling narrates, "who lives in Palm Beach Florida, invited me and my friends to visit Dr. Karl Leisler, her neighbor, to discuss some details of the so-called" experiment in Philadelphia. " Karl Leisler is a physicist, one of the scientists who worked on this project in 1943. Leisler said that scientists led by the military wanted to make a warship invisible to radars. On board this ship was a powerful electronic device such as a huge magnetron (magnetron - generator This device was powered by electrical machines installed on the ship, which were powerful enough to power a small city.The idea of \u200b\u200bthe experiment was that a very strong electromagnetic field around the ship would serve as a screen for radar beams.Karl Leisler was on the shore to observe and control the experiment riment. When the magnetron started up, the ship disappeared. After a while, he reappeared, but all the sailors on board were dead. Moreover, some of their corpses turned into steel - the material from which the ship was made. During our conversation, Karl Leisler was very upset, it was clear that this old sick man still feels remorse and his guilt for the deaths of the sailors on board the Eldridge. Leisler and his colleagues in the experiment believe that they sent the ship at a different time, while the ship disintegrated into molecules, and when the reverse process occurred, then a partial replacement of organic molecules of human bodies with metal atoms happened ... "
... And here is another curious fact that came across the Russian researcher V. Adamenko: in the best-selling book of American scientists Charles Berlitz and William Moore, who were investigating the events of Philadelphia, it is said that for many years after the incident the destroyer Eldridge was in the reserve of the US Navy , and then the ship was named "Lion" and sold to Greece.
Meanwhile, Adamenko visited a Greek family in 1993, where he met a retired Greek admiral. It turned out that this admiral is well aware of the Philadelphia experiment and the fate of the Eldridge, confirming that the destroyer is one of the ships of the Greek Navy, but is called not "Lion", as Berlitz and Moore write, but "Tiger".
The unequivocal truth about the Philadelphis experiment has never been established. Researchers of this mysterious story did not find the most important thing - documents. The Eldridge's logs could explain a lot, but they disappeared strangely. At least, all inquiries to the government and the US military department received an official answer: "... It is not possible to find, and therefore put at your disposal." And the logs of the escort ship "Fureset" were completely destroyed by orders from above, although this contradicts all the existing rules.
Could this have happened in reality? Yes, there are many gaps in this story. Indeed, the names of Einstein and Tesla are associated with the Philadelphia experiment, whose authority is not questioned. Einstein is believed to have been secretly testing his unified field theory. And the FBI allegedly found out the authenticity of Nikola Tesla's guesses regarding the possibility of teleportation.
This is the history of the Philadelphia Experiment, but, unfortunately, it is far from official. She also cannot boast of completeness, since there is still a lot of unclear in it. As already mentioned, no documents have been found, and numerous rumors, you yourself understand, cannot satisfy a real researcher in any way. Therefore, we should try to somehow systematize all the materials devoted to the event of interest to us, in order to begin to deal with it with completely different methods, and not those that have yielded practically no results over the sixty years of the mystery's existence.
This mystery has been stirring people's minds for over 70 years. The Philadelphia Experiment has been called either the world's biggest military secret or science fiction. He has inspired many researchers, writers and filmmakers to work.
Based on this story, several films were released in 1984, 1993 and 2012 under the title The Philadelphia Experiment.
Story details
It all began in 1955 after the publication of the book "The Case for UFOs". Its author, astronomer Morris Jessup, has long researched information about UFOs. Jessup believed that aliens warped cosmic time to traverse vast interstellar distances.
Unfortunately for the astronomer, UFOs attracted more attention from Hollywood than from the scientific community, so the scientist's research was not taken seriously.
After the book was published, Jessup received a letter that changed his life. The author of the letter reacted positively to the work of the ufologist and said that the described facts are similar to what he experienced himself.
The man introduced himself as Carlos Miguel Allende. He told Jessup in detail about the Philadelphia Experiment.
The letter says that 12 years ago, during the Second World War, the Navy conducted sophisticated experiments on the destroyer Eldridge. During the experiments, the warship literally disappeared into thin air.
Once the destroyer moved 320 kilometers, appeared, then disappeared and ended up in the same place in Philadelphia.
The technology that made the ship invisible is attributed to Albert Einstein. The great genius secretly developed the Unified Field Theory. The theory combines the fields of electromagnetism and gravity into one field.
Einstein did say that he worked on this theory, but never tested it.
Using the data of the Unified Field Theory, you can deform the flow of light, change the relationship between space and time, make things invisible or teleport objects.
The experiment failed?
But the technology of the experiment was imperfect. The first time the ship disappeared and reappeared, many sailors were injured. Almost all crew members were injured the second time. Some became part of the ship in the literal sense of the word, others went crazy. The surviving sailors signed a confidentiality agreement.
Allende claimed that he watched the scene from a nearby ship. The author of the letter also said that he risked incurring the ire of the navy because he had leaked a national secret.
After reading the letter, Jessup didn't know what to think. Either this is one of the country's top secret secrets, or the delirium of a madman. There is no man in the Navy named Carlos Miguel Allende, and no part of the story matches up with official documents. According to military journals, the Eldridge was in the Bahamas at this time.
Interestingly, in 1943, just at the time of the alleged disappearance of the destroyer, Albert Einstein really worked with the US Navy on a project related to the Unified Field Theory.
Morris Jessup spent months researching the military archives, trying to find at least some clue in this case, but to no avail.
Some researchers later claimed to have discovered the person behind the name Allende. It turned out to be Karl Allen, originally from Pennsylvania. The man suffered from a mental disorder. Carl Allen served in the Navy during World War II.
The Fate of Morris Jessup
In the spring of 1957, Morris Jessup was summoned to Washington to the Naval Research Bureau. The ufologist turned out to be a suspect.
The man was shown a copy of his book, which stated that aliens are capable of warping space-time. The book was covered with notes, and the military wanted to know who made them. The Navy became interested in this topic.
Despite the close attention of the military, Jessup continued to search for a way by which UFOs and navies could overcome the barriers of space-time. Still, the astronomer told his friend that he was getting strange phone calls and thought that someone was following him.
Jessup's ex-wife said that at the time Allende wanted to meet him.
Dr. Reed, who examined the body, declared Jessup's death a suicide. An autopsy was not done.
Time travel
But the story of the disappeared ship did not end there. Al Bilek gave a sensational press interview in 1992. He claimed to have participated in the famous Philadelphia Experiment.
The test on the destroyer was part of a large Montauk project, which for many years took place at a secret military base in Montauk, New York.
The goal of the Montauk project, according to Bilek, is the creation of psychological weapons and mental objects, the study of the properties of super-resistant electromagnetic fields for time travel and teleportation.
Al Bilek claimed that on August 13, 1943, he was aboard a destroyer that mysteriously disappeared. The man spoke about the journey to the future. According to him, he lived for about six weeks in 2137 and then in 2749.
Bilek described in detail how he lived in the future, and about the structure of the world seven hundred years later. According to him, strong geographical changes began to occur on the planet until 2025. The sea level rose, the magnetic poles began to move. The population dropped to 300 million. At some point, a war broke out between Russia and China, as well as the United States and Europe.
In 2749 Bilek saw some land pillars and floating cities. Instead of the government, everything was controlled by a computer system. The basic goods for life were provided to the people.
From 2749, Bilek moved to 2013, where he met his brother Duncan. Then both of them were returned to their "native" 1983 year.
Another witness
Electrical engineer and inventor Preston Nichols says he worked on the Montauk project for 10 years. The engineer wrote the book Montauk: Experiments with Time.
Nichols claims that after the disappearance of the destroyer in Philadelphia, experiments did not stop. Scientists continued to electronically examine the brain and influence the human mind.
The engineer also talked about the Philadelphia experiment. The tests were stopped after the crew failure. It was too risky to continue.
Project leader Dr. John von Neumann was recruited to work on the Manhattan Atomic Bomb Project.
At the end of the 40s, studies were resumed and carried out until 1983. According to Nichols, scientists managed to punch a passage through space-time in 1943.
The Philadelphia Experiment (also known as Project Rainbow) is a mythical experiment in which Albert Einstein took part, conducted by the US Navy on October 28, 1943, during which the destroyer Eldridge allegedly disappeared and then instantly moved in space for several tens of kilometers »With a team of 181 people. The US Navy has not officially confirmed the experiment, but rumors about it are widespread. The sailors from the crew who have survived to this day Eldridge deny the fact of the experiment and consider the statements about it to be fiction and falsehood.
Public fame
The whole story began in 1955, after the publication of the book by Morris Ketchum Jessup, a ufologist and astrophysicist. Flying saucers were considered in his books. In the same year, Jessup received a letter from Carlos Miguel Allende, which stated that levitation, thanks to which, according to Jessup, the plates moved, not only existed, but was once a "common process" on Earth. Maurice was interested in this letter and asked to meet with the author. At this meeting, Allende spoke about the experiment.
Allende's letter
"... The result was the complete invisibility of the destroyer-class ship at sea and its entire crew. The magnetic field was in the shape of a rotating ellipsoid and extended 100 meters (more or less, depending on the position of the moon and degree of longitude) on both sides of the ship. those who were in this field had only blurred outlines, but they perceived all those who were on board this ship, and, moreover, in such a way as if they were walking or standing in the air. Those who were outside the magnetic field did not have anything at all saw, except for the sharply outlined trail of the ship's hull in the water - provided, of course, that they were close enough to the magnetic field, but still outside it ... Half of the officers and crew members of that ship are now completely insane. Some are even kept in appropriate institutions where they will receive qualified scientific assistance when they either “hover,” as they call it themselves, or “hover and get stuck.” This “hover” is too long a consequence stay in a magnetic field.
If a person "gets stuck", then he is not able to move at will, if one or two comrades who are nearby do not come up and touch him, because otherwise he "freezes". Usually, a "deep frozen" loses his mind, rages and shouts if the "freeze" lasted more than one day according to our countdown.
I'm talking about time, but ... the "frozen" perceive the passage of time differently than we do. They resemble people in a twilight state who live, breathe, hear and feel, but do not perceive so much that they seem to exist only in the next world. They perceive time differently than you or me.
There were very few of the team members who took part in the experiment ... Most lost their minds, one simply disappeared "through" the wall of his own apartment in front of his wife and child. The other two crew members “caught fire,” that is, they “froze” and caught fire as they dragged the small lifeboat compasses; one carried a compass and caught fire, while the other hurried to him to "lay his hand," but also caught fire. They burned for 18 days. Faith in the efficacy of the method of laying on of hands was shattered and madness ensued. The experiment as such was absolutely successful. He had a fatal effect on the crew. "
Experiment progress
On October 28, 1943, the so-called "Philadelphia Experiment" was carried out at the naval port of Philadelphia.
Destroyer named DE173 Eldridge, which was supposed to conduct an experiment, equipped with special electronic equipment, was at the docks of the port of Philadelphia. It was supposed to generate huge electromagnetic regions, which, if properly configured, would cause bending of light and radio waves around the destroyer.
After turning on the generators, the ship began to envelop in a greenish fog, then the fog began to disappear, but the ship was gone. The result of the experiment was the complete disappearance of the ship. A few minutes later (according to some reports, several seconds), the ship reappeared. The ship was found in an intact condition at the docks of the port of Norfolk (Virginia), later the ship returned back to Philadelphia. As a result of the experiment, most of the sailors became mentally ill, some people went missing, according to the testimony of some eyewitnesses, five sailors were "melted" into the metal skin of the ship. People claimed that they fell into another world and observed unknown creatures.
Legend details
The legend claims that it was supposed to generate powerful electromagnetic fields, which, if properly configured, should have caused the destroyer to bend around by light and radio waves. When the destroyer disappeared, a greenish fog was observed. Of the total crew of 181 people, only 21 returned unharmed. Of the rest, 27 people literally merged with the structure of the ship, 13 died from burns, radiation, electric shock and fear.
It is also claimed that through the "Philadelphia Experiment" Einstein secretly tested his Unified Field Theory.
There is an opinion that during the experiment, the FBI verified the authenticity of Nikola Tesla's guesses regarding the possibility of teleportation (Tesla himself died a few months earlier, and his archive was transferred to the disposal of the American government).
Scientific explanation
In 1943, scientists in all belligerent countries conducted experiments on the use of demagnetization (or, as physicists say, "degaussization") of the ship as a method to make it undetectable ("invisible") for the recently appeared magnetic detonators of mines and torpedoes.
The main method of demagnetization is to expose magnetic materials to an alternating magnetic field with decreasing amplitude. An electromagnet coil was used as a source of an alternating magnetic field, with a decrease in the amplitude of the current passing through it.
Naturally, during the operation of the demagnetizer, mechanical watches and magnetic compasses "go crazy". And the very type of demagnetizer - a large coil of thick copper wire wound around the ship's hull in the longitudinal direction - can serve as an object for speculation.
Do we believe in invisibility? An opportunity to become invisible to others? Few people can answer yes. And that is mainly because others will say a categorical "no". However, perhaps "invisible" really does not exist. But you, at least once, wanted to become THEM ... Is it so incredible? After all, there are rumors about the "Philadelphia Experiment". About the legendary destroyer Eldridge. Was there such a ship? Yes. It is a fact. Was there really an attempt to make him invisible? The authorities give a categorical answer ... But they would never have revealed this secret ...
In the United States, for more than 20 years, rumors persist that during the Second World War in Philadelphia, the Navy allegedly managed to create a powerful force field in the strictest secrecy, as a result of which the warship disappeared from sight and, according to some reports, was teleported for several seconds. from Philadelphia to Norfolk and then returned back.
Is it incredible? I think, yes. However, if you collect and analyze all the materials, this story may appear in a slightly different light.
So what happened to the destroyer?
For starters, the legend itself.
On a gloomy October morning in 1943, the destroyer Eldridge, hull number DE 173, was stationed in the protected area of \u200b\u200bthe Philadelphia naval base. Specialists from the Department of Naval Research of the US Navy decided to use it for the secret experiment "Rainbow". Based on the Unified Field Theory, developed by Albert Einstein, they created an electromagnetic system capable of making a ship invisible.
After turning the switch, the air around the ship began to darken. A greenish mist floated from the water. A few minutes later the Eldridge disappeared from sight, although the water could still see the depression from its hull.
When the Eldridge disappeared in Philadelphia, many people saw her sudden appearance at the port of another base, Norfolk. A few minutes later, the "ghost" began to melt, and immediately the ship "appeared" in Philadelphia.
But the worst thing is that the experiment had dire consequences for the ship's crew. Most of the sailors died, and those who survived were immediately discharged from the army and spent the rest of their lives in some kind of closed clinic for the insane. This forced the US military to abandon risky research.
Many people, and authors, like to say here: "This is this incredible legend, which can be found in almost any book devoted to anomalistic, among the standard set of miracles" ... But what exactly do they mean by a miracle? Don't believe in the reality of what is happening? All this is considered a fairy tale? .. But let me show you a motorcycle, what will be his reaction? But we, in principle, are the "cavemen" who "got hold of" high technologies. Many of us know how this or that card works in a computer? But they, that is, computers, are used by almost all of us. Without thinking, just taking it for granted. So how unreal can this legend be?
History of the Philadelphia Experiment
The first rumors about the experiment in Philadelphia appeared only in 1955, when the book of the ufologist Morris K. Jessup "Arguments in favor of UFOs" was published. The destroyer "Eldridge" was not mentioned in it, but it was after the publication that Jessup received several unusual messages in the mail.
The letters were written with multi-colored pencils and ink in a very strange style. In the middle of a sentence, words were suddenly written in capital letters, there were a lot of spelling and lexical errors, and punctuation marks seemed to be scattered at random. Whole sentences have been underlined. Such creativity is a formidable symptom of a "gone roof".
The author, who introduced himself as Carlos Miguel Allende, indicated that he was interested in the sections of the book that talked about levitation, and for the first time in history, a story about a destroyer was born: The secret of teleportation of the stealth ship Eldridge was solved a field shaped like an ellipsoid. Everything, objects and people that fell into the field, had blurry outlines ... Half of the crew of that ship are now insane ... "
Further, "Senor Allende" talks about the "miracles" that subsequently happened to the surviving sailors:
“One walked through the wall of his own apartment and disappeared in front of his wife and child and two guests. Two other officers flashed like matches and burned ... "
And in the last message, the author admitted that he served during the war on another ship - "Andrew Furesset" and personally watched from its board how the "Eldridge" disappeared, and then reappeared in the same place.
Jessup's first reaction was to brush off the strange, delusional messages. However, he soon learned that the Pentagon's Office of Naval Research had received by mail a copy of his book, The UFO Case, written in the same style. And instead of throwing it in the trash, the military republished the book with all the notes in a limited edition.
It is written interesting. Interesting in the sense that it doesn't even make you think. Just "chops off the shoulder." Familiar trick and style. "Hypnotic text". Starting to read, we already support the author, who, say, does not believe in the possibility of this experiment. He, among other things, does not lie. He just speaks short. By the way. Rumors about the experiment were born precisely because of this correspondence. But the author of the above, somehow "omits" the part of the letter where the "Eldridge" is not mentioned. He immediately jumps to "solving the mystery of teleportation" ...
Here is an interesting part of the very first letter, from "Carlos Miguel Allende".
My dear Dr. Jessup, your appeal to the public to bring their representatives in large numbers in motion and thereby put enough pressure on the relevant institutions to issue the law on the study of Dr. Albert Einstein's Unified Field Theory (1925-27) is not at all necessary. You will probably be interested to know that the dear Dr., when withdrawing his work, was guided not so much by mathematics as by humanism.
The result of later calculations, which he carried out, angered him. Therefore, today we are “told” that this theory was “incomplete”.
Dr. B. Russell claims privately that it was completed. He also says that man is not ripe for this and will not be until the end of the third world war. Nevertheless, Dr. Franklin Reno's "results" were used. They were a complete recalculation of that theory in terms of any quick application possibilities if they could be done in a short time. Moreover, these were good results, as far as theoretical recalculation and a good physical “result” are concerned. Yet the Navy is afraid to exploit this result! This result was and is today proof that the Unified Field Theory is correct to a certain extent. On the other side, not a single person in their right mind, or even having reason at all, dares to go. It is true that this form of levitation was carried out as described. It is also a commonly observed reaction of certain metals to certain fields surrounding the current, and this field is therefore used for this purpose ...
And only then there are paragraphs where it is said about the experiment itself and its consequences. One thing is strange - everyone who wants to refute this "legend" "forgets" about the beginning of the letter, not considering it necessary. By the way, everything goes on quite reasonably:
The “result” was the complete invisibility of the destroyer-type ship at sea and its entire crew (October 1943). The magnetic field was in the shape of a rotating ellipsoid and extended 100 meters (more or less, depending on the position of the moon and degree of longitude) on both sides of the ship. Everyone who was in this field had only blurred outlines, but perceived all those who were on board this ship and, moreover, as if they were walking or standing in the air. Those who were outside the magnetic field saw nothing at all, except for the sharply delineated trace of the ship's hull in the water - provided, of course, that they were close enough to the magnetic field, but still outside it. Why am I telling you this today? Very simple: if you want to lose your mind, disclose this information.
Ravings of a madman? Maybe. But could a madman think of this? Quite possible. But in the same way, one can believe that the last sentence in the above part of the letter was sincere. Moreover, it could contain a hidden hint of danger. After all, the aforementioned Morris Ketchum Jessup died. It seemed like it was suicide.
On the evening of April 20, 1959, Morris Jessup was found in a coma while driving a car. He took a huge dose of sleeping pills, washed down with alcohol. On top of that, he tucked a hose from the exhaust pipe into the half-open window. On the way to the hospital, Jessup passed away.
Neither the police nor relatives doubted that it was a suicide, especially since he wrote two farewell letters to relatives and friends. Jessup was severely depressed due to numerous failures - he got into a car accident, his wife filed for divorce, books were not sold ... But in the UFO community there was talk that he "came too close to the truth", "he was removed." Rumors around the "experiment" immediately perked up noticeably.
The famous researcher of anomalous phenomena Charles Berlitz, the author of more than once exposed
Let's take a look at the information presented
What we have? Suicide, as well as the "disregard for the authorities" to the secret of the destroyer. My brain is non-standard, I confess. I see this as an attempt, if not to hide the truth, then to "ridicule" it. A person will never see what is right under his very nose. But it still won't reveal the truth.
Interesting fact: The Eldridge left the stocks in the New York docks and was accepted by the Navy on August 27, 1943. Throughout the fall and December, the destroyer accompanied convoys to the US capital, did not even come close to Philadelphia. During this time, the "Andrew Furesset", assigned to the port of Norfolk, also took part in Atlantic convoys and never entered Philadelphia! His captain, US Dodge, categorically denied all his life that he or members of his crew saw anything unusual, and even more so took part in the experiments. Although Eldridge and Andrew Fureset went to Norfolk in 1943, they never met, as they were there on different days!
Is it real? It's almost a fact. Why almost? Because the author refutes himself. The Eldridge was actually created, shall we say, "shortly before the experiment." Now let's strain our brains and think. Which ship is more convenient for experimenting? On "old" and "rusty"? Or at developed specifically for this experiment?
What do we have? The theory of ship movement. Although, they tried to make him "just" just invisible. What is needed for that? Colossal power. Lots of brand new equipment. Put on an old ship? Dismiss - EASIER AND CHEAPER TO BUILD NEW.
But okay. And why was it not mentioned in the refutation, more precisely - it was mentioned very briefly, about a parcel addressed to "Admiral N. Firth, head of the Naval Research Department, Washington-25"? In which was Jussep's book with numerous notes? And how to respond to this:
As Vincent Gaddis, one of the UMI employees, recalls, “as he read the notes, Morris Jessup's face became more and more embarrassed, as more and more comments were about things that, although he had heard, but did not mention in his book. In addition, the author of the notes, apparently, had extensive information about "creatures from UFOs", about extraterrestrial phenomena and many other things that were discussed, as a rule, only by psychiatrists and people involved in cults and mysticism. And the main thing was not even whether they correspond to reality or not. Much more important was the amazing awareness of the unknown author of the message in these matters. "
After that, the book was corrected, and some facts about "Eldridge" are included in the preface.
Good. We now have the most important question: are those letters genuine? Here we see three options. First: the experiment with the ship, letters to Allende and he himself are nothing more than a swindle. Second: letters are a true story about a real event. And third, they are an exaggerated, distorted and sensationalist narrative of a real event.
The choice of the first option means the termination of further research of the issue without proper verification of the available material. We don't believe, period. In the second or third case, you will have to analyze the facts.
But while working on the topic, its researchers initially had the same reaction as Jessup himself - "the story is too incredible to be believed." But the amazing thing is that the deeper you plunge into it, the more firmly it gets stuck in consciousness. Is it just a desire to believe something incredible? Desire to BELIEVE in the incredible? Or, logic itself suggests that to come up with this one thing, but to substantiate, back up with facts is completely different? You can think of anything, the flight of human imagination, an unpredictable thing. But to come up with a justified one is already more difficult.
The bottom line? Rather start
Some information on this topic, but let's say "from another branch".
Albert Einstein created the Unified Field Theory in 1925-27, but then withdrew it out of fear that an insufficiently mature humanity would use it for evil.
Allende claims to have partially observed the experiment himself in October 1943 from the Andrew Fureset. According to Allende, the following people were present on the deck and witnessed the experiment: First Officer Moseley; Richard Price, an 18 or 19 year old sailor from Roanoke, Virginia; a man named Connelly from New England (possibly Boston).
Here, unfortunately, we "meet a certain inconsistency." From the logbooks, the Eldridge could not have been there.
But what about one truly shocking statement, Dr. J. Manson Valentine?
"Why," he was asked, "did Jessup commit suicide?" The response was overwhelming: “If it was suicide,” Valentine said, “it must be depression. The Navy offered him to work on the Philadelphia Experiment or other similar projects, but he refused - he was worried about the dangerous side effects ... Perhaps he could be saved. He was still alive when they found him. Perhaps he was allowed to die. "
Now I will give the floor to the critics of the experiment.
Eldridge veterans make a point
In 1999, for the first time since the end of the war, sailors from the destroyer Eldridge gathered in Atlantic City. The meeting was widely covered in the United States, but somehow went unnoticed in Russia. There are only fifteen of them left, including the captain of the ship, 84-year-old Bill van Allen. Of course, at the meeting, talk about an "experiment" surfaced, giving the veterans a lot of fun minutes.
"I have no idea how this story came about," van Allen threw up his hands. The other sailors were also unanimous.
"I believe that someone invented this, fuming dope," - said 74-year-old Ed Weisz. Another former sailor, Ted Davis, said simply and clearly: "No experiments have ever been done with us."
“When people asked me about the 'experiment', I agreed and said yes, I disappeared. True, they soon realized that I was playing them, ”admitted Ray Perrigno.
It was not my goal to convince you. To be honest, simple faith is not to my soul. Truth pulls me in. It's up to you to believe one or the other. But maybe it's worth spitting on everything and not trusting anyone but yourself? Try to understand this "legend" yourself? Carry out your own "investigation"? ..
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Key Eldridge articles
- What happened to the destroyer Eldridge?
Invisibility becomes especially attractive in war. One can imagine the confusion of an enemy attacked by someone unknown ... But let's say for a minute that this is possible and that someone has discovered, yes, actually achieved the invisibility of a limited area for a certain time. Let us also assume that such a discovery was made directly on the eve of or during the Second World War and that its authors managed to attract attention from the military. - The Eldridge Stealth Ship's Teleportation Mystery Solved
When the Eldridge disappeared in Philadelphia, many people saw her sudden appearance at the port of another base, Norfolk. A few minutes later, the "ghost" began to melt, and immediately the ship "appeared" in Philadelphia.
The legend of the teleportation of the destroyer was invented by a crazy sailor - The Mystery of Albert Einstein and the Eldridge destroyer
On April 18, 1955, at about one in the morning, the aorta burst and the heart of the author of the famous Theory of Relativity stopped. Quietly, with only those closest to him, his body was cremated near Trenton, New Jersey. At the request of Einstein himself, the burial of the ashes was carried out in secret from everyone. But there is a legend that together with him they buried the ashes of the manuscripts of his last scientific works, burned by Einstein before his death. He believed that this knowledge so far can only harm humanity ... - New versions of the old
In brief ... The parallel between the Kursk case and the Eldridge case. The 99% similarity is incredible and absent ... but what about that one percent?
Question mark 1991 # 3
Alexander Kuzovkin, Nikolai Nepomniachtchi
To the reader
Who among us has never dreamed of being invisible among our unsuspecting brethren at least once? With what inexplicable ecstasy we followed the experiments and adventures of Griffin - the hero of H. Wells' novel "The Invisible Man"!
Invisibility becomes especially attractive in war. One can imagine the confusion of an enemy attacked by someone unknown ... But let's say for a minute that this is possible and that someone discovered - yes, he actually achieved the invisibility of a limited area for a certain time. Let us also assume that such a discovery was made directly on the eve of or during the Second World War and that its authors managed to attract attention from the military. What could, in this case, serve as a venue for a highly classified test program of such an interesting concealment system? Land? But even if a limited area with all buildings becomes invisible, an enemy who knows the coordinates of this place can still bombard it. Objects on land are a fairly easy target, not to mention the fact that invisibility on land would be purely defensive.
Air? Possibly, but unlikely, especially considering the size and weight of the electronic equipment of the 1940s and the low payload of the aircraft. Such experiments, as we know, took place much later. Thus, there remains one possibility that seems to meet all the requirements - the camouflage of ships at sea.
What we will tell you about can be evaluated in different ways. To some, this will seem fantastic. Indeed, it is difficult to believe in such a thing. But someone will find a rational kernel here: too many details are lined up in a consistent logical line and confirmed by witnesses.
Indeed, there is much we do not know here yet. It is completely unknown, for example, how far secret laboratories have advanced in studies of invisibility in the 30-40s both here and abroad, although it was in this area that certain experiments were carried out ...
In a word, the last point in the study of the Philadelphia experiment, which will be discussed below, has not yet been set!
What happened to the destroyer Eldridge?
“Documents obtained during the lawsuit against the CIA confirm that it has been studying UFOs since 1949. The CIA periodically indicated that the investigation into UFO sightings was completed in 1952. However, 1,000-page documents obtained through freedom of information law courts show that the government has cheated us all these years. A local UFO study group of about 500 scientists set out to prove or disprove the existence of UFOs. The leader of this group, W. Spaulding, said: “After reviewing the documents received, our group came to the conclusion that UFOs are really real, and the US government turned out to be dishonest and is pursuing a policy of complete concealment of information on UFOs ... The information was sent to the CIA, the White House and the National Security Agency "."
The scene is a neighborhood of Colorado Springs, one of the quiet evenings of 1970, late autumn. Two pilots - James Davis from Maryland and Allen Hughes from Texas - went for a walk to the nearby War Memorial Park, taking their camera with them. The air was soft and pleasant, and as it started to get dark, Hughes began to photograph the moon. Davis wandered aimlessly through the park, trying to distract himself from the daily worries of a nearby air force base, where both had served for several months.
Suddenly, one of the visitors to the park approached Davis. Davis had noticed him even earlier - a rather unkempt-looking short and bald man, loitering aimlessly near the monument to the soldiers of the last war. At first, Davis, who especially remembered the detached expression in the stranger's eyes, decided that he was dealing with a beggar. But he was wrong.
“I see you are from the Air Force,” said the stranger. - Well, how do you like it? Davis replied that, in general, he was quite pleased, if not for the daily drill.
“There's no time to just relax,” he said. The interlocutor nodded in agreement.
They got into conversation. “You know,” said the undersized man, “I was a naval officer during the war. But they dragged me into some kind of adventure there, and then they kicked me out. They said I was crazy. " He tapped his forehead lightly with his index finger. “Just don't believe it, this is all a damn experiment. And I just could not stand the damn load. So they threw me out. " The man pulled his wallet out of his pocket and showed him a battered and apparently outdated ID. "See - the Navy."
Davis found this interesting. "Experiment? He asked. "What kind of experiment are you talking about?"
The answer was incomprehensible to say the least. “Invisibility,” the man said, “they wanted to make the ship invisible. Imagine what a great disguise if it all worked out! However, it did. With a ship, I mean. And here we are, the team ... Something didn't work with us. We simply could not stand the impact of this force field. "
Davis couldn't figure out what it was about. “What are you talking about? - he asked. "Was it an experiment or something?"
"Electronic disguise," the man replied. “A kind of electronic camouflage achieved by pulsating force fields. I do not know what kind of energy they used, but the power was brutal. And we couldn't bear it, neither of us. Although the consequences were different for everyone. Some had only double vision, others laughed and staggered like drunkards, and some fainted. Imagine, some even claimed that they were in another world, where they saw strange unearthly creatures and communicated with them. Someone even died. Well, anyway, I never saw them again. But we, those who survived ... We were simply written off. As mentally unstable and unfit for military service. In short, they were dismissed, ”the stranger concluded bitterly.
Meanwhile, Hughes, who caught snatches of this strange conversation, came closer and joined the conversation. Davis introduced his friend to the stranger, and they shook hands.
Davis was overcome with curiosity. "So you think the command has declared you all insane because the experiment has failed?"
“Absolutely right,” the interlocutor replied, “that's exactly what they did.
To begin with, we were, of course, isolated for several months - “for rest,” as they called it. And one more thing, I suppose, in order to get it into our heads that nothing like this has ever happened to us. In any case, in the end we were all obliged to remain silent, although, of course, no one would have believed in such a story anyway, wouldn't it? Well, you, are you still from the Air Force? Do you believe me?
Do you believe what I told you? "
“I don’t know what to do,” Davis said uncertainly. “The story is truly incredible. Just some kind of fantasy. No, really, I don’t know. ”
“Yes, everything is cleverly thought up. Who will believe an officially certified madman? And yet I swear it's all true. "
They looked at each other and Hughes rolled his eyes pointedly. But the stranger had already changed the subject and started talking enthusiastically about weather forecasting and sunspots.
After about an hour, they parted, and the pilots headed to their base. Neither Davis nor Hughes ever met that strange man again, but in the following months they returned to his fantasy story more than once. Hughes, who had missed the start of that conversation in the park, was more skeptical. And yet both of them had a feeling that there was something “like that” in the story.
Several years passed, and in January 1978, Davis, who had already retired, fell into the hands of Charles Berlitz's book "The Bermuda Triangle."
Imagine his amazement when he found in it a mention of the so-called Philadelphia experiment. The book reported on a case that allegedly took place during the Second World War, giving invisibility to a convoy destroyer together with the crew by using some force fields. Davis immediately recalled that long-standing conversation with a strange stranger in Colorado Springs, and after several days of reflection, decided to write to the author of the book. In a phone call, Davis spoke about his friend Hughes, regretting not knowing anything about him since he retired. “If I could find him,” Davis said to Berlitz, “he will surely remember that conversation and confirm my story.”
He, in general terms, confirmed the story of Davis and recalled that together with a friend he met a stranger in the park, whom they often remembered afterwards over a glass of beer. True, Hughes vaguely remembered the content of that night conversation.
"Did he mention his involvement in any experimental Navy project in Philadelphia?" Moore asked.
“Yes, I think so,” Hughes replied after a moment's thought. - He then in general uttered a bunch of all nonsense. I don’t remember the details, but he was talking about some experiment. Honestly, I didn't really believe it all. " "Do you remember the details?" “No sir. Perhaps Davis knows more than I do, after all, he was the first to enter that conversation. "
"Have you heard anything about Mr. Davis lately?" "No, nothing since I left the Air Force, which was sometime in June 1973."
"But why did that man in the park tell his story to you?" “I don’t know. Maybe because we were in shape? It seems that he needed to speak out, to ease his soul. "
"Do you have any idea where this person is from or where he lives?" "No, he appeared somehow suddenly, and then somehow imperceptibly disappeared."
Here's a story. Is this possible?
Of course, no one is in a hurry to take such messages and their sources seriously. But still, nevertheless ... In the United States, for more than 20 years, rumors persist that during the Second World War in Philadelphia, the Navy allegedly managed to create a powerful force field in the strictest secrecy, as a result of which the warship disappeared from sight and, according to some reports for a few seconds was teleportated from Philadelphia to Norfolk, and then returned back.
Is it incredible? I think, yes. However, if you collect and analyze all the materials, this story may appear in a slightly different light.
We will try to do this together with American researchers Charles Berlitz and William Moore.
Proof or delirium of a madman?
The Philadelphia Experiment. Its mystery begins with Morris Ketchum Jessup's name. He was a man with versatile interests - astrophysicist, mathematician, writer. He had to deal with various problems, but he never sought public recognition. In the late 40s and early 50s, Jessup became interested in the phenomenon of "flying saucers", at first out of curiosity, and later purely professionally.
Having accumulated some material, he decided to write a book about it, which was to become the first truly scientific attempt to answer the question - what is a UFO? - based on available data. In his opinion, the driving force of the UFO was based on the principle of antigravity, which is not yet known to us.
The UFO Case, published in 1955, was not a bestseller, but it was after its publication that Jessup received an eminently bizarre message. It came with a bunch of traditional readers' letters that the publisher regularly sent to the author.
This particular letter had a Pennsylvania stamp and was written in multicolored crayons and ink scribbles, not to mention in a very strange style. In the middle of a sentence, words were suddenly written in capital letters, there were a lot of spelling and lexical errors, and punctuation marks seemed to be scattered at random. Often, entire sentences were highlighted in different colors.
But even more surprising was the content of the letter. its author was interested in sections of Jessup's book, which talked about levitation, which may have been known to our distant ancestors. According to the author of the letter, levitation not only existed, but was once a "well-known process" on Earth. The letter ended with the signature "Carlos Miguel Allende."
Jessup wrote a short reply to the enigmatic Senor Allende asking for details. Over the next several months, no answer came, and he gradually began to forget about the incident.
On January 13, 1956, exactly one year after the completion of the manuscript "Arguments in favor of the UFO", Jessup, now in Miami, received the following letter from the same Carlos Miguel Allende, who, however, this time signed "Carl M. Allen ". It was written in the same odd manner, referring to a former Pennsylvania sender, but it had the Gainesville, Texas postmark on it. We quote it here from the text of a small edition pamphlet published in the USA in 1962.
Carlos Miguel Allende
New Kensington, Pennsylvania
My dear Dr. Jessup, your appeal to the public to bring their representatives in large numbers in motion and thereby put enough pressure on the relevant institutions to issue the law on the study of Dr. Albert Einstein's Unified Field Theory (1925-27) is not at all necessary. You will probably be interested to know that the dear Dr., when withdrawing his work, was guided not so much by mathematics as by humanism.
The result of later calculations, which he carried out, angered him.
Therefore, today we are "told" that this theory was "incomplete."
Dr. B. Russell claims privately that it was completed. He also says that man is not ripe for this and will not be until the end of the third world war. Nevertheless, Dr. Franklin Reno's "results" were used. They were a complete recalculation of that theory in terms of any quick application possibilities if they could be done in a short time. Moreover, these were good results as far as theoretical recalculation and good physical "result" are concerned. Yet the Navy is afraid to exploit this result! This result was and is today proof that the Unified Field Theory is correct to a certain extent. On the other side, not a single person of sound mind, or even having reason at all, dares to go. It is true that this form of levitation was carried out as described. It is also a commonly observed reaction of certain metals to certain fields surrounding the current, and this field is therefore used for this purpose ...
The "result" was the complete invisibility of the destroyer-class ship at sea and its entire crew (October 1943). The magnetic field was in the shape of a rotating ellipsoid and extended 100 meters (more or less, depending on the position of the moon and degree of longitude) on both sides of the ship. Everyone who was in this field had only blurred outlines, but perceived all those who were on board this ship and, moreover, as if they were walking or standing in the air. Those who were outside the magnetic field saw nothing at all, except for the sharply delineated trace of the ship's hull in the water - provided, of course, that they were close enough to the magnetic field, but still outside it. Why am I telling you this today? Very simple: if you want to lose your mind, disclose this information. Half the officers and crew of that ship are completely insane right now. Some even to this day are kept in appropriate institutions, where they receive qualified scientific assistance, when they either "soar", as they themselves call it, or "soar and get stuck." This "soaring" - a consequence of being in a magnetic field for too long - is not at all unpleasant for sailors with a healthy curiosity. But it becomes so if they get stuck. In this state, they are not able to move of their own accord, unless one or two comrades who are with them in a magnetic field quickly approach and touch them, otherwise they will “freeze”.
If a person "freezes", his position is carefully marked and then the magnetic field is turned off. Everyone, except for the "frozen" one, can now move again and rejoice in their seemingly material body. Then the team member with the shortest service life should go to the place where he will find a face or a naked, uniformed piece of skin "frozen".
Sometimes it lasts only an hour or a little more, sometimes a whole night and day, and once it took six months to "unfreeze" a person.
It took the construction of a highly sophisticated apparatus to return the "fresh frozen" and "deep frozen". Usually "deep frozen" loses his mind, rages and bears nonsense if the "freeze" lasted more than one day according to our countdown.
I'm talking about time, but ... the "frozen" perceive the passage of time differently than we do. They resemble people in a twilight state who live, hear and feel, but do not perceive so much that they seem to exist only in the next world. These people perceive time differently than you or me. As I said, it took six months to return the first "deep frozen". In addition, the electronic equipment needed for this and a special berth for the ship cost over $ 5 million. If in or near the seaport you see a group of sailors who put their hand on one of their comrades, or "in the air," rather go there and put your hands on him, for this is the most unfortunate person in the world. None of them would like to become invisible again. I think this cannot be continued, because a person is not yet ripe for working with force fields.
These people use expressions like "hang in the stream," or "toffee," or "fireworks," or "get stuck in syrup," or "I got a whistle," to describe some of the consequences that follow decades after the force field experiment. ...
There were very few of the team members who took part in the experiment ... Most lost their minds, one simply disappeared "through" the wall of his own apartment in front of his wife and child. The other two crew members “caught fire,” that is, they “froze” and caught fire when they carried the small boat compasses; one carried a compass and caught fire, while the other hurried to him to "lay his hand," but also caught fire. They burned for 18 days. Faith in the efficacy of the method of laying on of hands was shattered and madness ensued.
The experiment as such was absolutely successful. He had a fatal effect on the crew.
Look in the Philadelphia newspapers for a tiny paragraph (top of the page, about the last third of the newspaper, 1944/46 spring, fall or winter, not summer) - a note about the actions of the sailors after their maiden voyage.
They attacked the "Sailor's Rest" - a tavern at the sea shipyard, leaving the waitresses in shock and swoon.
Check the crew of surveillance ship Andrew Fureset (Matson, home port Norfolk. The company may have a logbook for that voyage, or it may be with the Coast Guard), First Officer Moseley (I will establish the name of the captain later, the list of the crew in the logbook) ...
One of the crew members, Richard Price, could recall the names of the other members of the deck crew (the Coast Guard has information about the sailors who were issued the "documents"). Mr. Price was 18 or 19 in October 1943. He is or was living at the time in his old family home in Roanoke, Virginia, a small town with a small phone book. These people are eyewitnesses, people from the team. Connelly from New England (Boston?) Could have been a witness too, but I doubt it (maybe the name is spelled differently). He was an eyewitness. I ask you to conduct this little investigation ...
Sincerely yours
Karl M. Allen
PS. I will be happy to provide additional help, if you tell me what kind.
A few days later, an addition came.
In addition to the letter. (To confirm the information given here, contact Rear Admiral Rawson Bennett. Chief of Naval Research. Maybe he will finally offer you a job).
As a result of a cold and sober analysis, I want to inform you and in your person - science the following.
1. The Navy did not know that people can also become invisible if they are not on the ship, but under the influence of the field.
2. The Navy did not know that people could die from the side effects of the hyper-“field” inside or outside the “field”.
3. In addition, they still do not know why this happened, and are not even sure that the "P" in the "P" is generally the reason for this. I myself "feel" that something related to the boat compass "caused a fire." I have no proof, but neither do the Navy.
4. What's even worse and that was never mentioned: when one or two people, visible to everyone inside the field, simply went into nothing and nothing tangible remained of them - neither when the "field" was turned on, nor when it was turned off, - when they simply disappeared, the fears increased.
5. It was even worse when one seemingly visible left "through" the wall of his house, and the surroundings were carefully surveyed using a portable field generator, and no trace of it was found.
Then the fears increased so much that none of those people or people who worked with the experiments could continue them.
I also want to mention that the test ship disappeared from its dock in Philadelphia and reappeared a few minutes later at another dock off Norfolk, Newport News, Portsmouth. There he was clearly and clearly identified, but then disappeared again and a few moments later returned to his dock in Philadelphia.
It was also in the papers, but I don't remember where I read it or when it happened. Perhaps during later experiments. Perhaps also, in 1946, after the experiments were interrupted. I cannot say this with certainty.
For the Navy, this whole story was very inconvenient, because it had such a morally destructive effect that the normal operation of the ship was very difficult. In addition, after this incident, it turned out that even the elementary operation of the ship cannot be counted on.
I think if you then worked with the group that participated in the project, and if you knew what you know now, then the "fire" would not have been such an unexpected or such a terrible mystery. It is more than likely that none of these cases could have happened. In fact, they could have been prevented, in particular by using a more cautious program and more careful selection of officers and crew. But that didn't happen. The Navy simply used whatever human material it had at hand, with little consideration, if any, of the nature and personality of that material. With care, great care in choosing a ship, officers and crew, with careful training and enough attention to jewelry such as rings or watches, as well as personal insignia and belt buckles, and especially to nailed boots, I think for sure one could to some extent successfully dispel the fear-filled ignorance surrounding this project. Naval personnel records at Norfolk, Virginia (for nautical graduates) will reveal who was assigned to the ship Andrew Fureset in late September or October 1943. I well remember another observer who stood next to me during the tests. He was from New England, with dark blond curly hair. I forgot his name. I leave it to you to decide whether it deserves more work or not, and I write in the hope that it will be done.
Best regards, Carl M. Allen.
The story is definitely crazy, fantastic, but it attracted Jessup. However, in his 1964 book Invisible Horizons, researcher Vincent Gaddis says that "Jessup's first reaction was to dismiss this letter as a prank of some eccentric."
Yet, according to Gaddis, Jessup conceded the possibility “that the letter is an exaggerated account of a real event. After all, many secret experiments were carried out during World War II. And in 1943, research was also carried out that led to the creation of the atomic bomb. The impetus for them was given by Einstein's letter to President Roosevelt, and the Unified Field Theory of the famous scientist could well serve as a basis for other, less successful experiments. "
But if the letter was really nothing more than a fiction, how then can one explain the abundance of details it contained - regarding names, geographic locations and events? It is unlikely that even one obsessed "joker" will make so much effort to provide his story with such details, which, moreover, may lead to the exposure of his trick.
Dr. Jessup was clearly puzzled. He wrote to "Allen" a response in which he emphasized the "greatest importance" that he immediately send in any additional material at his disposal in support of his strange statements.
Months passed, but there was no answer. Business distracted Jessup. However, five months later, another message from Allen arrived - as mysterious and difficult to understand as the previous ones. We present it with abbreviations that do not exclude the general meaning.
Carlos M. Allende
New Kensignton, Pennsylvania
Dear Mr. Jessup, just returning from a long journey, he found your postcard. Since you want me to answer you "immediately", I thought thoroughly and decided to do it. What you want from me is tantamount to positive proof, which, however, you could only be presented with a duplicate of the equipment that caused "this phenomenon." Mr. Jessup, in this position, I could never have come close to satisfying your desires. For the reason that I could not. And the Department of Naval Research (at the time under the leadership of the current Chief of the Navy Burke) would never have allowed disclosure.
You see, this experiment could only be carried out through Burke's curiosity and persistence. He turned out to be a sheer failure, but his stance on progressive and ultra-progressive research is precisely “the” thing that made him who he is today.
If the stench of the results of those experiments ever escaped, Burke would have been crucified on the cross. Be that as it may, I have noticed that after the outbursts caused by the reaction have cooled, the crucified achieve a kind of holiness. You write that this is "of the greatest importance." I am of the opposite opinion not only sincerely but also passionately. At the same time, your ideas and your curiosity are akin to mine. I personally could be of some positive help to you, but for that we would need a hypnotist, sodium pentothal, a tape recorder, and an excellent typist to get something really valuable to you.
As you know, a person under hypnosis cannot lie, and a person under hypnosis and received a “vaccination against lies,” as it is called in everyday language, is not at all capable of lying. In addition, by this, my memory would be brought into the ability to recall in all details those things that my present consciousness does not remember at all or remembers only faintly and uncertainly, so that the use of hypnosis would be of much greater benefit. Thus, I would be brought into the ability to remember not only full names, but also addresses and phone numbers, and, perhaps, even extremely important numbers of those sailors with whom I went sailing or even came into contact.
I hope you understand that their failure consisted not in the realization of metallic and organic invisibility, but in the realization of the involuntary transportation in the blink of an eye of thousands of tons of metal together with people. Although this latter effect was a matter of prolonged experimentation (for the Navy), which they presented as a failure, I believe that further experimentation would quite naturally lead to the controlled transport of large tonnages at ultra-fast speeds at the right time and place.
Inadvertently and to the great embarrassment of the Navy, this had already happened once to an entire ship along with the crew. I read about this and also about the actions of sailors who left their base without permission and who at that time were invisible, in one of the daily newspapers in Philadelphia. Under drug hypnosis, I could reveal the title, date and page number of this or another newspaper. Consequently, the archive of these newspapers will provide even more positive evidence of this experiment. Thus, one can find the name of the reporter who so skeptically investigated these incidents and described and interviewed the waitresses, so that it would be possible to obtain testimony from him and from the waitresses.
The end result will be a truth too monstrous, too fantastic to be hidden. Well-founded truth backed up by clear positive evidence. I would love to find out where these sailors live now. It is known that a small number of people can name the address and name of a person whom they have never met or only seen. These people have a very high PSI factor, which can intensify under pressure or stress, or usually intensify with severe fear. It can also be activated under hypnosis - which means it is as easy as reading a handbook.
Checking the registrations of shipyard pharmacies or hospitals, ambulances or prisons on the very day the restaurant was attacked could reveal the exact names of those people and their service numbers, which means it could be found out where they come from and, with some effort, their current addresses.
The Navy may have already used that accident to build your UFOs. From any point of view, this is the logical next step. What do you think ???
Best regards, Karl Allen
It's not hard to imagine what Jessup's thoughts were as he read all this. One out of two. Either the most important event of our time fell on him like snow on his head, or someone is fooling him in the most sophisticated way.
Meanwhile, events continued to develop, and more than strange.
Mysterious parcel
If this whole story ended there, Jessup would be happy to attribute these letters to the fantasies of a madman. He didn’t seem to really believe in all this yet. In any case, the doctor was too busy preparing a new expedition to Mexico to hunt for tales of disappearing ships and invisible crews. But, we repeat, some events made him radically change his attitude to this whole story.
This part of the story apparently begins in late July - early August 1955, that is, if the date is correct, at least a few months before Jessup received Allende's first letter. At any rate, it all started with a parcel addressed to "Admiral N. Firth, Chief of Naval Research, Washington 25," which Major Darell L. Ritter, an officer in the Marine Corps Air Navigation Projects Division at the Office of Marine Research (UMI), discovered in your inbox. The brown wrapping paper was stamped Seminole, Texas, 1955. There was no sender's address, no cover letter. The only content of the package was a paperback book by M. Jessup, The UFO Case.
When Ritter opened it, his eyes were immediately struck by numerous random handwritten margins and places highlighted in at least three colors. The tags gave the impression that their author had a lot of knowledge about UFOs - their history, origin, and driving force. The book itself was already pretty shabby - someone, obviously, spent a lot of time working with it.
Today's researchers have not been able to find out whether Firth himself was interested in this anonymous message. But Major Ritter, apparently, considered it at least a noteworthy curiosity. In any case, it seems that it was thanks to him that the book did not immediately fall into the trash can. His immediate reaction is unknown, but reading the notes must have surprised him. Marginal markings were mainly devoted to the mysterious disappearance of ships, planes and people - mostly in the area of \u200b\u200bthe mysterious Bermuda Triangle. They also dealt — sometimes in great detail — with "unusual storms and clouds, objects falling from the sky, strange signs and footprints, and the like" that Jessup wrote about.
Major Ritter probably knew that military institutions at that time were taking a special interest in antigravity research. Anyway, he kept the book. And it was from his hands that, a few months later, two UMI employees who showed interest in scrawls received this book - Captain 3rd Rank George W. Hoover and Captain 1st Rank Sidney Sherby. At one time, both participated in the Avangard project (the codename for the design work to create the first artificial satellite of the US Earth) and were interested in research in the field of antigravity. One of them wrote a letter to Jessup inviting him to Washington, UMI to discuss the book.
Jessup has arrived. He was shown a marginalized copy of his book. "Who could have authored the notes?" They asked him.
As Vincent Gaddis, one of the UMI employees, recalls, “as he read the notes, Morris Jessup's face became more and more embarrassed, as more and more comments referred to things that, although he had heard, but did not mention in his book. In addition, the author of the notes, apparently, had extensive information about "creatures from UFOs", about extraterrestrial phenomena and many other things that were discussed, as a rule, only by psychiatrists and people involved in cults and mysticism. And the main thing was not even whether they correspond to reality or not. Much more important was the amazing awareness of the unknown author of the message in these matters. "
Jessup was confused. Why, he probably wondered, were the Navy so interested in the fruit of an apparently mentally ill person? It hadn’t occurred to him yet that there was a direct connection between “Karl Allen's” letters and these markings. But then he noticed a note regarding the 1943 Navy project. And again - an invisible ship ... And Jessup remembered Allende! Yes, he has two letters from "one of the commentators".
And he told Captain Hoover about it.
“Thank you, Mr. Jessup,” Hoover said. "It is very important for us to see these letters." Hoover reiterated his exceptional interest in the case and said that he had already taken the necessary steps to ensure that the book with notes was reproduced in a limited edition and then presented to "influential people in management." “We'll make sure you get a copy too,” he assured Jessup.
Presumably, Jessup complied with Hoover's request, for after a while the letters appeared as part of the "introduction" to Jessup's "limited edition" book. Hoover and Sherby wrote the rest of the preface.
There is information that Jessup visited UMI on this case at least three times.
Hoover tried to track down Allende at the address he had indicated in his letters to Jessup. But unsuccessfully. Allende fell through. He found an empty farmhouse and learned from the neighbors that someone named Carlos or Karl had indeed lived there for a while with an elderly married couple, and then moved out. The spouses also moved.
But back to the fate of Jessup. By 1958, he practically ceased his professional activities, deciding to make a living by publishing his works. Despite the rather modest income, this brought him a certain independence. However, she did not save him from deep depression.
The situation was further complicated by a car accident.
In mid-April 1959, barely overstepping the 59-year mark, he decided to put the last point.
It is known from reliable sources that Jessup wrote at least two farewell letters to his close friends. On April 20, 1959, at about 6:30 pm, Dr. Morris K. Jessup was found still alive driving his car, parked near his home in Coral Gables. It is reported that he died either on the way or immediately upon arrival at the hospital, poisoned by carbon monoxide, by routing a hose from the exhaust pipe into the passenger compartment through a half-closed window.
A few years later, Ivan Sanderson, a renowned scientist and one of Jessup's closest friends, was the first to dare to claim that "the mysterious circumstances surrounding Allende's case set off a chain of events that ultimately led to Jessup's death."
The mysterious circumstances surrounding the death of Dr. Jessup have prompted researchers to take a closer look at this topic. Was it suicide, as it seems at first glance, or was he killed because he knew too much?
The first starting point was information from Miami from Anna Genslinger, who, along with her friend, a police lieutenant, was able to access documentation on the examination of corpses in Dade County, Florida. Documents indicate that by the time of his death, Jessup's blood was saturated with a lethal dose of alcohol. According to Mrs. Genslinger, Jessup was constantly on medication at the time, which, combined with such a dose of alcohol, could lead to immediate death - at least that would be enough to completely disable his ability to move. He simply could not get behind the wheel of a car on his own, let alone drive a few miles to County Park, write a suicide report, and then fasten a hose to the exhaust pipe of his car, then covering the window. By the way, a full autopsy was never carried out, which in itself is very unusual for suicide cases.
No less interesting is the case of the writer James R. Wolfe, who for some time was engaged in investigating the riddle of Allende. Wolfe began writing a book on the subject, but before the book was finished, he suddenly disappeared.
So what was it?
Over the years, interest in the riddle faded, then flared up again, more and more new questions arose. Indeed, if the Navy really succeeded - accidentally or intentionally - to achieve the effect of invisibility or even teleportation (instantaneous movement of a material object from one point to another), then the results of such experiments could not also serve as an explanation for a number of mysterious events and numerous cases of disappearance without a trace. in the area of \u200b\u200bthe Earth, which is commonly called the Bermuda Triangle?
But the biggest question is: are those letters genuine? Here we see three options. First: the experiment with the ship, letters to Allende and himself - nothing more than a hoax. Second: letters are a true story about a real event. And third, they are an exaggerated, distorted and sensationalist narrative of a real event.
The choice of the first option means the termination of further research of the issue without proper verification of the available material. In the second or third case, you will have to analyze the facts. While working on this topic, its researchers initially had the same reaction as Jessup himself - "the story is too incredible to be believed." But the amazing thing is that the deeper you plunge into it, the more firmly it gets stuck in consciousness.
Therefore, we will nevertheless delve into the details, try to summarize in a short form the information contained in Allende's letters.
1. Albert Einstein in 1925-27 created the Unified Field Theory, but then withdrew it for fear that insufficiently mature humanity would use it for evil. Dr. B. Russell can confirm this, Allende said.
2. The concept of this Unified Field Theory was tested during World War II by the US Navy "in terms of general and specific applications in a very short time." One Dr. Franklin Reno, whom Allende describes as his friend, is said to have something to do with the results at this stage of the project.
3. These results were used to achieve "complete invisibility of a destroyer-type ship with a crew at sea (October 1943)" by creating a certain kind of energy or force field around the ship. The people on the ship could probably see each other more or less clearly, but all observers outside the field saw only a sharply outlined trace of the ship's hull in the water. The effect of this invisible force field on humans was, according to Allende, terrible.
4. The Philadelphia Marine Shipyard had a dedicated pier for an experimental ship.
5. In one of the daily newspapers in Philadelphia, there was a small note.
It speaks of "the actions of the sailors after the first voyage" when they "attacked" a bar or restaurant (presumably "Sailor's Rest").
6. Allende claims that he himself partially observed the experiment in October 1943 from the ship "Andrew Fureset". According to Allende, the following people were present on the deck and witnessed the experiment: First Officer Moseley; Richard Price, an 18 or 19 year old sailor from Roanoke, Virginia; a man named Connelly from New England (possibly Boston).
7. Rear Admiral Rawson Bennett - Naval Research Director could presumably confirm that the experiment did take place.
8. The experimental ship disappeared mysteriously from its dock in Philadelphia and reappeared in the Norfolk area. Then, just as suddenly, he returned to his dock in Philadelphia. Everything happened in a matter of moments.
9. Allende hints that the Office of Naval Research at the time of the experiment with force fields was directed by "the current (at the time of writing, that is, in 1956) Navy chief Burke" and that the experiment was made possible "thanks to the curiosity and perseverance of Burke ".
10. Finally, Allende gives Jessup, in addition to his then address, the following details about himself: his Z number (416175) of a merchant sailor; the fact that he served on the Andrew Fureset for about six months; he describes himself as "a kind of dialectic and astrologer" and reports that he is in the habit of being on "long journeys."
Checking out all this fragmentary information seemed both extremely laborious and unusually interesting. Berlitz and Moore needed additional information and advice from many people.
Did the Philadelphia Experiment really go as Allende describes it? And remember the closing words of his third letter: “Perhaps the Navy has already used that transportation disaster to build a UFO. From any point of view, this is the logical next step. "
Maybe. But before offering possible answers to this question, let us turn to the person who, apparently, is at the center of this whole mysterious story - Senor Carlos Miguel Allende.
Who are you, Dr. Allende?
Despite many years and numerous attempts to unravel the mystery of Allende's letters, no one was able to find the most mysterious senor.
The problem became even more complicated with the appearance in the 60s of several “false aliens” who were ready to sell “their history” for a corresponding amount. Fortunately, it was not possible to persuade a single buyer.
The search for Allende took Berlitz and Moore a lot of time. The laborious study of the phone books of numerous cities and rural areas, the personal files of employees of the army, the military and merchant fleets, the review of police reports, newspaper archives and lists of the dead, inquiries to writers and researchers in the field of unexplained phenomena - all were in vain. And here is the case.
The answer came from Jim Lorenzen, to whom the researchers wrote one of the first. Lorentzen is director of the Aerophenomenon Research Organization in Tucson, Arizona. He said that their magazine published an article about Allende in 1969, after which they had a man on the board who called himself by that name. Lorenzen even sent a photo of Allende during an interview at the editorial office, but he could not say more, since he had not heard anything about Allende since then and did not have his address. About a month later, Moore turned to Lorentzen on a completely different matter. Several weeks passed, and a letter came from Lorenzen, at the end of which, among other things, he said that “with today's mail I received a letter from K.A.”, and then the address followed. And although it was not the address of Allende himself, it still gave a trail, and so fresh that Berlitz and Moore hurried to use it, this ultimately led to ... a meeting.
As a result of conversations with Allende, it turned out that from August 1943 to January 1944 he served on the ship "Andrew Fureset" as a member of the deck crew. He knows only a little more about the experiment than he has already told about this topic in his letters to Jessup. Here you need to make allowances for the fact that he was neither a scientist, nor even a professionally trained observer, but just a simple sailor who, by chance, was destined to be at the right time in the right (or inappropriate) place and witness the spectacle, the explanation of which he could not find either then or now. Did he really see the ship disappear? He himself claims that - yes, he did. How was this done? He cannot give an exact answer, but he knows that some force fields were used for this. "A huge amount of static electricity was at work." Can he tell you the name of the ship? Yes, maybe: "It was DE-173." Has he witnessed multiple ship disappearances? No, I was not. "But he disappeared more than once." Where does the information about Einstein, Russell and Admiral Bennett come from? "From friends in the upper echelons, whose names I will not name." Albert Einstein, he said, was present at a certain stage of the experiment. Allende also claims that before his eyes, a man became invisible in the loading dock; however, he does not remember the date, nor in which dock it happened.
Figure: 2. Carlos Miguel Allende
However, let us give the floor to Allende himself (a tape recording of one of the conversations):
“So you want to hear about Einstein's great experiment, right? You know, I actually plunged my arm up to the elbows in its unique force field, which flowed counterclockwise around this small test ship - DE-173. I ... felt the pressure of this force field on my hand, which I held in its humming, oppressive stream.
I saw the air around the ship… very lightly, very gradually… getting darker than the rest of the air… After a few minutes I saw a milky greenish mist rising like a cloud. I think it was a fog of elementary particles.
I saw how DE-173 quickly became invisible to the human eye after that. And at the same time there was an imprint of the keel and bottom of this ship in the sea water. Yes, today I can talk about it, but on the other hand, who is interested in this now? If you try to describe the sound accompanying this force field as it circled around DE-173 ... well, at first there was such a buzzing sound that quickly turned ... into a humming hiss, and then amplified to a seething rumble, like a stormy stream.
The field was surrounded by a shell of pure electricity. This stream was so strong that it almost knocked me off balance. If my whole body were inside this field, I would surely be thrown to the floor ... on the deck of my own ship. Fortunately, my entire body was not within this force field when it reached its maximum strength and density - I repeat, density - so I was not knocked over, but my hand was pushed out by that field.
Why wasn't I electrified when my bare hand touched this ... shell of electricity? Probably because I was wearing high sailor rubber boots and a southwestern jacket.
... People from UMI still do not know what happened that time. They say the field was 'twisted'. "
And then he talks about a newspaper article that he read while, in his own words, on shore leave in Philadelphia. True, he admits that he slightly embellished his story about the consequences of the experiment for the sailors. He said he did it out of fear that Jessup would get the government to speed up Unified Field Theory research, and just wanted to scare him away. He feared that the results of such studies would fall into the wrong hands and have dire consequences.
But then who was that strange little man who told his story to pilots Davis and Hughes in 1970 in Colorado Springs Park? Exactly - not Allende. Both of them stated that they would surely recognize the person if they saw him again, but neither of them was able to identify the person in Allende's photo. But who? This question opens up new facets of the puzzle.
The circle of actors
Allende mentions several names in his letters: Dr. Albert Einstein; Dr. B. Russell; my friend Dr. Franklin Reno; first officer Maudsley; Richard Price, team member; Rear Admiral Rawson Bennett; current Navy chief Burke.
The first two names are well known. Dr. B. Russell is none other than Bertrand Russell, a renowned writer, philosopher, humanist, and pacifist who truly was friends with Einstein. Identifying the third person on the list was not so easy. It took a lot of time and effort to establish that Carlos Allende really knew the absolutely real "Dr. Franklin Renault", although this name actually turned out to be a pseudonym.
The next three persons, according to Carlos Allende, were the sailors aboard the Fureset and eyewitnesses to the experiment. And although the first officer on the "Fureset" was indeed Arthur Maudsley, the attempt to get information from him about the time of his service on this ship crashed against the wall of silence.
We can say even less about Richard Price of Roanoke, Virginia, and "Connelly" of New England. A short investigation revealed that Price passed away in 1973. As for Connelly (whose name was either Frank or Peter), it is probably unnecessary to say that there are a great many people with such a surname in New England.
Since Fureset's crew rosters no longer exist, it is difficult to find out anything definite about the crew members who might have served on the ship at the same time as Allende. Persistent searches have revealed the names of three more possible team members - none of them has yet been found.
As for Admiral Rawson Bennett, whom Allende calls "the head of the Navy's research" and with whom he advises Jessup to contact "to confirm the information given here," upon closer examination, one highly interesting circumstance emerges.
What is surprising above all is that by the time Jessup received Allende's second letter (January 13, 1956), Bennett was indeed head of the Office of Naval Research. However, he took office only on January 1, 1956, replacing Admiral Frederick R. Ferth (the same "Admiral N. Firth", to whom Allende had sent Jessup's book marked in the margins a few months earlier). But Allende had to send the letter much earlier so that it could get to Jessup by a roundabout way through the publisher on January 13! The question arises: how could Allende know that Bennett would become the head of UMI instead of Firth?
If someone "above" was the source of information for Allende, then there is an annoying mistake in the letter. It turns out that his definition of "the current chief of the Navy Burke", who at the time of the Philadelphia experiment allegedly headed the UMI, was erroneous. Although a certain Admiral Arlie A. Burke did exist, he had nothing to do with naval research either during or after the war. In 1943, Burke commanded a destroyer squadron in the Pacific Ocean and, in general, apparently spent the entire service as a naval officer.
At the same time, the description of Burke, given to Allende, as a person of "inquisitive and persistent" who owes his admiral's rank to his "attitude to progressive research", is quite suitable for Admiral Harold Bowen, who not only headed UMI at the time of the Philadelphia experiment, but was also the driving force behind countless many secret "ultra-progressive" projects of the Second World War.
Thus, some similarity of names could be to blame for Allende's mistake.
But then why was the information regarding Admiral Bennett so accurate, and in the second case, completely wrong? This can only be explained by his desire to disguise the real name of this person!
The appearance of an article entitled “M. K. Jessup, Letters to Allende and Gravity ”, published in 1962 by Crabbe himself, apparently served as a spark for the subsequent discussion and a source of invaluable material for everyone who strove for a detailed study of this problem. For the first time were published not only letters to Allende, but also in facsimile version of some pages of Jessup's book "Arguments in favor of UFOs" with the same notes in the margins.
In a nutshell, it says that T. Townsend Brown, a famous physicist and researcher in the field of gravity, at least had something to do with the experiment to create invisibility when he headed one of the departments of the Ship Bureau, and that (according to Crabbe) in in fact, it was Brown who was somehow connected with this project, however, as we will see, he was not the author of the idea.
Second behind Crabbe was perhaps Gray Barker, a flying saucers researcher and publisher in Clarksburg, West Virginia.
Another interesting person is Dr. J. Manson Valentine, an oceanographer, zoologist and archaeologist who has intensively studied what is happening in the Bermuda Triangle since 1945, was a close friend of Jessup when he lived in Florida.
Jessup, increasingly depressed and in need of a grateful listener, spent a lot of time in the company of Valentine in the last months before his tragic death, trusting many of his thoughts to him.
Why, he was asked, did Jessup commit suicide? The response was overwhelming: “If it was suicide,” Valentine said, “it must be depression. The Navy offered him to work on the Philadelphia Experiment or other similar projects, but he refused - he was worried about dangerous side effects ... Perhaps he could be saved. He was still alive when they found him. Perhaps he was allowed to die. "
Valentine recalls that Jessup told him about some of the amazing things he learned about this incredible project.
The experiment, he said, was carried out using magnetic generators, the so-called demagnetizers, which operated at resonant frequencies and thus created a monstrous magnetic field around the docked ship.
It is striking that Valentine's message, based on direct information from Jessup, almost completely coincides with Allende's data, according to which the experiment produced amazing results, but had dire consequences for the crew.
“When the experiment began to manifest itself,” Valentine continued, “an impenetrable green mist arose at first. By the way, the survivors of the Bermuda disasters talked about the glowing green fog.
Soon the entire ship was filled with this green fog and, together with the crew, began to disappear from the field of vision of the people in the dock, until finally there was only one trace on the water.
Valentine was asked to explain this theory as simply as possible.
“It practically touches electric and magnetic fields,” he said, “namely: by directing an electric field in the coil, a magnetic field is created; the lines of force of both fields are at right angles to each other. But since space has three components, there must also be a third field, presumably gravitational. Then, by such a series switching on of electromagnetic generators, in which magnetic pulsation occurs, it would probably be possible to create this third field according to the principle of resonance. Jessup believed the Navy encountered this by accident. "
The publication of Dr. Valentine's story had the effect of a bomb exploding.
Assuming that such an experiment was planned and attempted, could it be successful? At least partially.
The Mystery of Albert Einstein
According to Carlos Allende and Dr. Valentine, the foundations for the Philadelphia Experiment project are to be found in a very vague and highly complex scientific theory developed by Albert Einstein and known as Unified Field Theory. In his second letter to Jessup Allende, he writes that Einstein first published this theory in 1925-27, but then removed it for reasons of "humanism," as Allende put it. True, he does not explain what he actually meant by this term.
Albert Einstein actually created in 1925-27 a version of his Unified Field Theory for the force of gravity and electricity. The results appeared in German scientific journals at the time. Allende is correct in stating that the work was withdrawn as unfinished. It is noteworthy that this theory surfaced again only in 1940, that is, after Einstein, a pacifist to the core, came to the conviction that National Socialism must be destroyed under any circumstances and that any means are suitable for this. And - amazingly - 1940, it seems, was the year that the US Navy began working on the project that could later result in the Philadelphia Experiment ...
Einstein was indeed friendly with Bertrand Russell, especially after the Second World War, and often discussed issues of pacifism with him. Both were disgusted with the deplorable tendency of man to use the achievements of science for self-destruction, and both devoted a significant share of their strength and personal material resources to the cause of peace.
It is tempting to believe that Einstein destroyed papers before he died, but let's not insist on an unproven fact. The only thing that is known for certain: William Moore, one of the researchers, recalls a discussion in the lecture hall after Einstein's death in 1955, when it was said that Einstein, several months before his death, burned documents concerning some of his well-developed theories - from - because humanity is not ripe for them and without these theories it will feel better.
In 1943, that is, at the time that Allende, he said, witnessed the Philadelphia Experiment, Albert Einstein was a scientific adviser to the Navy. Documents from the General Services Administration in St. Louis indicate that Einstein served with the Department of the Navy in Washington, DC, from May 31, 1943, to June 30, 1944, as a scientist.
Einstein's own comments on this matter are rather dry, but not uninteresting. In July 1943, he wrote to his friend Gustave Buckley: "While the war is going on and I work for the Navy, I would not want to do anything else." In August, he wrote to Buckley again and described his close relationship with the Navy's Research Bureau. In the same month, Dr. Rannevar Bush placed him at the disposal of a committee "where his special knowledge would be most likely useful." Neither the type of activity of the “committee” nor the nature of the relevant knowledge was ever disclosed.
To a request to Dr. Otto Nathan, financial advisor and executor of Einstein's will, about how close Einstein's relationship with the Navy was, a very unexpected response came. “Einstein,” he reported, “was an advisor to the Naval Directorate in 1943 and completed his work for the Navy, as far as we know, long before the end of the war ... If you are interested in details, we advise you to contact the Department of the Navy in Washington. Since Einstein's work was by no means classified, you could have been provided there with more accurate information about his advisory activities, which we were unable to obtain when we were preparing the report for publication. "
The reader is apparently surprised: why, since Einstein's activities "were by no means secret," the Navy was not ready to provide detailed information?
It seems that Einstein had to do not only with the mathematical justification of the project, but also with the experiment itself. According to some reports, after the first experience was unsuccessful, officials of the Naval Ministry brought Einstein to the scene in order to receive additional recommendations from him according to the principle: “Now that you have seen everything yourself, explain to us what our mistake is! "
So what is Unified Field Theory? As Berlitz and Moore explain, the point of the theory is mainly to use a single equation to explain mathematically the interaction between the three fundamental universal forces - electromagnetism, gravity and nuclear energy. It is noteworthy that the simultaneous discovery of two new elementary particles in New York and California in 1974 suggests that there is a fourth "weak" universal force associated with the force of gravity in the same way as electricity with magnetism. It is not yet known whether this field is interdimensional or temporal. Assuming the possibility of a complete development of such a theory, then its final equations should also include light and radio waves, pure magnetism, X-rays and even matter itself. The enormous complexity of such a problem can be roughly imagined if we recall that Einstein devoted the lion's share of his life to achieving such a goal and even in his declining years often complained that he did not know enough mathematics to complete this task.
Some researchers are inclined to believe that even decades after the death of Einstein, a significant part of his life's work remains obscure even for the most prominent scientists. If the Philadelphia experiment really confirmed some of his theoretical constructs, then knowledge about this is so camouflaged that even today his concept of the Unified Field Theory is considered more as a goal than as a real theory. This is despite the fact that Einstein, less than two years before his death, announced "extremely convincing" results of a search for mathematical proof of the relationship between electromagnetism and gravity. This is consistent with Allende's statements about the completeness of Einstein's Unified Field Theory.
As interesting as theoretical discoveries are, only demonstrable practical results can awaken true attention. So weren't similar results already achieved back in 1943, when the US Navy attempted to use some of these principles to make that ship invisible or even teleport it, as Allende claims? Or did the experiment fail in some way, and this led to fatal consequences? Consequences that - if we can believe what was told at the time to Davis and Hughes in Colorado Springs - could even lead to contact with unearthly beings?
Maybe Allende was right in hinting in the closing lines of his letter to Jessup about a possible connection between the results of the secret experiments of the Navy and the driving force of UFOs? Or was it all nothing more than a mirage - one of those "ghost ships" that suddenly appear in the sea fog and just as suddenly disappear?
Our search for an answer to this question leads us to the State Archives in Washington.
It just so happens - there are too many “ifs” in our story. And so, again ... If Allende's unusual story is true, and DE-173 was indeed invisible, and if the people from Andrew Fureset can confirm the reality of the experiment, then some documents regarding these ships must be preserved. The archives have revealed the facts, but which ones?
Firstly, it turned out that there were apparently not one, but two ships called "Andrew Fureset". One of them - an ore carrier, apparently, and today plows the waters of the Pacific Ocean; we can safely discard it, since it was accepted into operation only after the Second World War.
The second is a warship, to which the data given by Allende just fits.
Archival documents made it possible to establish the following. The name "Andrew Furesset" was proposed in July 1942 to the US Shipping Commission by the Pacific Seamen's Union in honor of the founder and long-term chairman of that organization. In October of the same year, ship # 491 left the stocks of Kaiser Industries # 1 shipyard in Richmond, California. As Allende wrote, the ship was leased shortly thereafter to the Matson Navigation Company in San Francisco, which operated it for the next four years.
On August 13, 1943, the Andrew Furesset set out on another voyage - this time along the coast to the ports of Norfolk and Newport News, where she accepted cargo for a further transatlantic voyage. And from that moment on, it becomes especially interesting for us, since one of the members of the deck crew hired for this voyage was a young man who had just graduated from a nautical school and was listed under the name Karl M. Allen. Especially important is the fact that he only gets permission to board the ship in Norfolk - so he overcomes the distance to him by land, staying overnight in Philadelphia. He arrives at Norfolk Harbor on the morning of August 16, well timed to get on board before the Fureset leaves Newport News at 10.18. This was his third voyage in the convoy. Destination port - Casablanca.
On October 4, the Furesset again docks at Newport News for repairs and loading, and remains there until October 25. On this day, he again departs from Norfolk for North Africa, and again the name of Karl M. Allen appears on the team's rosters. The ship reached Orange Harbor on November 12 and did not return to any American port until January 17, 1944. A few days later, a crew member named Karl M. Allen leaves the Fureset. He is believed to be transferring to another ship, the Newton Baker.
As for the escort destroyer DE-173, aka "Eldridge", according to official documents, its history is outwardly quite cloudless. Construction of the vessel began on February 22, 1943 at Federal Shipbuilding and Drydocks, Newark. The length of the vessel was 102 meters, the standard displacement was 1240 tons, the total displacement was 1520 tons.
The official acceptance ceremony took place on August 27, 1943 at New York Seaport, and command was transferred to Lieutenant Commander Charles R. Hamilton.
At first, the Eldridge sailed in the Atlantic and Mediterranean, and then, fulfilling his escort and reconnaissance duties, was seconded to the Pacific Ocean, where he remained until the end of the war. Upon returning to New York, it was decommissioned on July 17, 1946, and docked until January 15, 1951, in order to be sold to Greece as part of a bilateral defense agreement. There he was renamed "Leon" and could be in operation for some time.
Everything is decorous and smooth and there seems to be no reason to check if it were not for Allende's story about this ship. If we look at it in the light of Allende's information, then this official history of "Eldridge" appears as a "patchwork quilt" with many holes.
We'll have to start over. The first suspicions that not everything was as described in the official papers arose when researchers tried to get hold of the logs of both ships. Here Berlitz and Moore were in for surprises. It turned out that the Eldridge's logbooks for the period from the date of commissioning (August 27, 1943) to December 1, 1943 "cannot be found and therefore placed at your disposal." And the logs of the "Fureset" were destroyed by order from above, that is, they simply no longer exist.
Since the only period of interest for our investigation was the one in which Allende served on the "Fureset" - that is, from approximately August 13, 1943 to January 30, 1944 - the researchers tried to focus their attention as much as possible on this segment. Here's what came of it.
From the documents still in the possession of the shipping company "Matson", it follows that during this period "Fureset" made two voyages to the shores of North Africa; the first began on August 13, 1943, when the Fureset departed from Norfolk south along the coast and from there on to North Africa; on his second voyage, he left Linhaven Roads, Virginia (near Norfolk), to Oran, Algeria. For Allende, the first voyage did not begin until August 16. The second voyage ended for him when he left the ship on January 17, 1944, a few days before the Fureset arrived at Hampton Roads.
According to the official history of the Eldridge, as presented in the documents of the Department of the Navy, the ship was launched on July 25, 1943 in Newark, New Jersey, and entered service on August 27, 1943 at the New York seaport. His reconnaissance mission began in early September, extended to the Bermuda region of the British West Indies, and continued until December 28, 1943. The same documents indicate that his first transoceanic voyage began on January 4, 1944, and ended with his arrival in New York on February 15.
If we take these data on faith, then it turns out that during this period of time none of the ships of interest to us approached the other.
The only question is how reliable this information is. The first piece of data found in the archives remained secret until recently, and it is she who seems to completely discredit the official version. This is the report of the anti-submarine action, drawn up by the commander of the Eldridge on December 14, 1943, and concerning the events of November 20 in the North Atlantic. According to official figures, the Eldridge was from early September to late December 1943 with a reconnaissance mission in the Bermuda area; his first transoceanic voyage began on January 4, 1944. But according to an operational report by the commander of the ship, Lieutenant Commander C.R. Hamilton, the Eldridge dropped seven depth charges against a suspected enemy submarine on November 20, 1943, shortly after 13:30 local time, moving as an escort ship in convoy UGS 23 to the west , towards the USA. The reported coordinates of the Eldridge were 34 degrees 3 minutes north and 8 degrees 57 minutes west - which means that it was about two hundred miles from Casablanca and about three thousand miles from Bermuda!
And the second piece of information: while the deck logs remained unattainable, an engineering logbook was found. It, however, did not contain information directly necessary to resolve the issue, however, the ship's coordinates were given according to disputed dates. These and other documents, which appeared almost simultaneously, indicated that the Eldridge left Brooklyn on November 2 to collect ships from convoy UGS 22, scattered by the hurricane in late October. And it was really valuable information, because it was about the very convoy that left Norfolk on October 25 - Linghaven Roads and which included the Fureset. The most interesting thing here is that the "Fureset" was in the last row of the convoy, catching up with the stragglers, and most certainly should have seen DE-173. In addition, the November 22 location of the Eldridge near Casablanca indicates that the Eldridge accompanied the Fureset and its UGS 22 convoy all the way to North Africa (where the convoy is known to have arrived on November 12) and was in as an escort of UGS 23 on the way back, when there was a meeting with the said submarine. If it had not been possible to find the operational report that the Ministry of the Navy kept locked up for thirty-four years, these things would never have come to light. After such an "error" was found in the official version, a question arose about other "errors".
Thus, the Furesset and the Eldridge appear to have met during a convoy mission on their way to Africa. The only question is whether the Navy would have dared to conduct such a risky and top secret experiment in full view of the entire convoy. In addition, Allende insists that the experiment was carried out at the docks of Philadelphia and at sea, that is, off the coast of the mainland.
The time data he indicated - the end of October - is consistent with the timing of the convoy operation, but otherwise there is no agreement.
First, the Eldridge apparently came from Brooklyn, not Philadelphia, when she joined the USG 22 convoy. It is not mentioned anywhere in the ship's documents for this period that the Eldridge was in Philadelphia at all - except at that time when it was being built in Newark. Allende also reported that he had read about the consequences of the experiment in a daytime newspaper in Philadelphia. However, Allende (or Allen) was not in Philadelphia at all in October 1943. But he was there in August, around the time the Eldridge was supposedly waiting in Newark for an order to travel to New York for a commissioning ceremony. In the letter, he says that this newspaper article appeared in the fall or winter, and not in the summer. If this detail is attributed to the imperfection of human memory, then everything else takes on some meaning.
While the chain was unfolding, the researchers received a letter from a former ship commander who recalled that the Eldridge, shortly after the first hurricane of the 1943 season, approached Bermuda in late July or early August. There he did not long anchor next to his ship and went to sea again.
Figure: 3. Norfolk Dock, where the Eldridge is believed to have materialized after disappearing from the Philadelphia shipyard
Needless to say, unusual behavior, but even more unusual is that that ship, if it was the Eldridge, appeared at Bermuda just a few days after launching in Newark, that is, at a time when construction work was not yet supposed to end.
So either the commander was wrong, or ... The Eldridge was launched in Newark before July 25. The documents of the American Navy ruled out such a possibility.
Well, what about the Greeks?
A new surprise awaited here, because, according to the Greek documents (which, of course, they should have received from the Americans), the Eldridge was launched not on July 25, but on June 25, that is, a whole month earlier! Moreover, Greek documents show that the Eldridge, when it was transferred to Greece in 1951, had a standard displacement of 1240 tons and a total of 1900 tons, giving a deviation of about 380 tons. Was the electronic equipment removed from it before it was handed over to Greece? ..
Now the story is gradually clearing up. The Eldridge left the stocks not on July 25, but on June 25, 1943, and the Newark-Philadelphia area was its home until sailing in August for the commissioning ceremony; in late July - early August, he was at sea and reached at least Bermuda, and the official version of the period before January 4, 1944 is certainly a fake.
Armed with this corroborating material, William Moore reached out to an authority figure who had done little for him in the past. This man, who, due to certain circumstances, must remain incognito, during the war was employed in the Navy's radar program, and in such a position that, if a project like the Philadelphia experiment existed, he would inevitably be associated with him. In the end, he agreed to answer some questions.
QUESTION: Please tell us how you could get a test ship for this project?
In 1943 it was very difficult to obtain a ship for experimental purposes. Immediately after being commissioned, the ships became part of the operational plans, and it was almost impossible to use them for experiments. The simplest and practically the only way to get hold of the ship was to use it for a short time between launching and commissioning. This path was never simple and required certain maneuvers in the higher echelons, but it was real, of course, if the scientists managed to convince the high-ranking officials of the expediency and prospects of the project.
QUESTION: Considering that in the middle of 1943 there was a noticeable progress in the Manhattan project and it began to absorb a significant part of the funds allocated for military research, was not 1943 the most critical year for a significant part of other top secret defense projects?
Yes, sometime in 1943, a clear change began in relation to current projects and ideas. By that time, the end of the war had already dawned, and therefore the following became the decisive question for scientists: "Can you achieve results before the end of the war, so that they can still be used?" Those who were not entirely confident in their projects were pushed to conduct urgent experiments and tests so that they could better assess the possibilities of their practical application. Unpromising projects were put aside "for later use."
QUESTION: If the experimenters then managed to get hold of the ship at all, then the military and scientific administration attached great importance to it?
I believe the Navy scientists were told something like, “If you can test this year, we will support you. If not, stop. Our participation in this matter depends solely on the test results. "
QUESTION: Do you remember how this project started, who was behind it and what they wanted to achieve in the end?
I have not the slightest idea of \u200b\u200bthe origin of this project or the launch of it. After all, I had to do with this only at the very end. I suppose they somehow managed to get a ship for a limited time in Philadelphia or Newark, probably only for two to three weeks, and it seems to me that they conducted several tests both on the river (Dellaver - author) and off the coast - primarily in order to find out the effect of a strong magnetic force field on location installations. I can’t tell you more — I simply don’t know. My assumption - I stress the assumption - is that all receiving equipment has been deployed on other ships and along the coast to find out what happens “on the other side” as both radio and low and high frequency radar waves pass through the field. Undoubtedly, scientists had to observe what effect this field would have on visible light. But it seems to me highly unlikely that such experiments will be carried out on a ship that is officially commissioned and manned.
The value of this information is in indicating the near-exact time of the Philadelphia Experiment and possibly the fact that at least some of it took place in the Philadelphia-Newark area. Perhaps Allende made his observations then, and not during the second meeting with the "Eldridge" in November.
Confessions of ... Dr. Reinhart
Now, after evaluating the information contained in the surviving ship documents, we need to turn to that point in Allende's letters, which, if confirmed, could provide a key to solving the whole riddle.
The reader apparently remembers that Allende, in his second letter to Jessup, asserted that Einstein's Unified Field Theory was not only ready in the period 1925-27, but that the whole of it was subjected to a "careful recalculation ... use ... in the shortest possible time. " If Allende can be believed, then it was the results of this mathematical analysis, in all likelihood, formed the theoretical basis of the Philadelphia experiment. It is likely that Allende could have provided Jessup with the name of a certain scientist who allegedly participated in this recalculation. Allende introduces this man as Dr. Franklin Reno and casually refers to him as "my friend."
Now, if I could find this Dr. Renault ...
Until now, no one has succeeded. Therefore, they decided that if this mysterious person cannot be found, then the whole story is nothing more than a bluff.
And now, after several years of searching, the mystery of the mysterious Reno's personality was solved.
In Northeastern Pennsylvania, on Federal Highway 62, there was a signpost "Franklin - 8, Reno - 3" indicating the distance from the bend to the two small towns. It was this index that inspired an eminently real scientist over thirty years ago to create a spectacular pseudonym.
If Franklin Reno is a pseudonym, then who is this real person? What does it have to do with Carlos Miguel Allende? Could she have contributed to this story, and if so, how?
Unfortunately, the story is so delicate that even today these questions cannot be fully answered for reasons that will soon become clear to the reader. And although the person whom Allende knew as Dr. Renault is no longer alive - he died in the late 70s - W. Moore, one of those who was involved in the investigation, was required to maintain complete anonymity from the side of living participants in the events. Moore tentatively called the man "Dr. Rhinehart," a name he got from a recently published fictionalized version of the Philadelphia Experiment.
He was born a little later than Morris Jessup in a completely different part of the country. After working for several years - with brilliant results - in a private scientific institution and receiving a doctorate, in the 1930s, during the depression, he was forced, along with many others, including Jessup, to work in the military scientific institutions of the American government. Having advanced fairly quickly in the service, he became the head of the department and, being in this position, came into contact with the project, which, by all indications, was the beginning of the Philadelphia experiment.
When he began to suspect that he knew more than he should have, he decided to "lie on the ground." Having retired to almost the other end of the continent, he abandoned a brilliant and promising career and settled in a small cozy bungalow, became a hermit.
Here is a transcript of a conversation between W. Moore and a recluse who agreed to meet after almost a year of preliminary correspondence.
“You, of course, know,” he began, “that every experiment begins with an idea, then a proposal appears from it, possibly with calculations already carried out, then a project, and finally experiments. In the beginning, only a very small number of people were associated with them. Most had a variety of primary responsibilities from which they first needed to be relieved.
The unified field theory has remained unfinished, even today. In my opinion, no one can rightfully claim to have done a complete recalculation of this theory.
I remember conferences during the war, in which naval officers took part. Regarding the project you are interested in, my memory tells me that it began much earlier than 1943 - perhaps as early as 1939 or 1940, when Einstein was working on an idea of \u200b\u200btheoretical physics presented to him by physicists and other people who thought about their military use. Einstein and Ladenburg were the authors of this proposal. I do not know which of the two should be put first, but I remember that Professor Rudolf Ladenburg and Einstein had known each other since 1908 in Switzerland. Ladenburg was a taciturn, over-punctual man with the manners of a Prussian nobleman, but he was highly respected by his colleagues as a calm, solitary thinker and hard worker.
Ladenburg spent the whole summer and fall of 1939 at Princeton working on nuclear fission experiments. I think I read that he discussed these problems with Einstein. Anyway, I remember that it was sometime in 1940, and the proposal that I associate with the subsequent ship project was supposedly the result of a conversation between Ladenburg and Einstein about the use of electromagnetic fields to protect against mines and torpedoes ... and Einstein himself wrote a proposal ... Einstein and Ladenburg were always ahead when it came to submitting proposals, but in front of important persons they preferred to stay in the background. Von Neumann was a modest-looking man who knew how to involve those in power in his projects.
So, it was Neumann who spoke with Dr. Albrecht, my boss, about this proposal, and one of them was able to get practical consent from the research laboratory of the Navy.
One day in early 1940, Albrecht came to his office at eight in the morning and saw there two or three visitors from the NPOI (National Defense Research Committee), who were already waiting for him. This event was not special, and I did not attach much importance to it. However, at about half past nine, Captain Gibbons peeped in the door. He raised his finger, which was a signal for me to go out into the corridor, because he wanted to tell me something without witnesses. I remember this because I was just doing a rather complicated theoretical work and was going to contact the calculators.
I realized that it was about something quite important, interrupted work and went out into the corridor. Gibbons accompanied me to the chief's office, where there was a conference in which, on the one hand, two people (or is it three?) From the NCOI took part, and on the other, Albrecht and von Neumann.
When I walked in, they were talking animatedly about what ended up being a project that interests you. Albrecht, apparently, believed that I was the only one who knew enough about gravity and the theory of relativity to present without unnecessary questions the mathematical calculations that he needed immediately.
In front of Albrecht were three sheets of paper, one of which was covered in a small, ornate handwriting, characteristic only of Einstein. Albrecht gave me a look at the sheets without interrupting my conversation. At the same time he gave me instructions on what was required of me. On one of the sheets was the equation of wave radiation, and on the left side there were some unfinished scribbles. In addition, he gave me a rather detailed report on the naval demagnetizers, and I marked with a pencil the places where he pointed with my finger. Albrecht then told me to take a look at what it takes to achieve, I think, 10 percent light curvature. When I asked how much time was given to me, he answered “not for long”. Then he continued the conversation with those present.
Here the discussion turned to the principles of resonance and how to use this principle to create the intense fields necessary for such an experiment. I never got a real answer to my question about how much time I have at my disposal, but Albrecht had already signaled to me to go and get to work. So I went back down the corridor to Captain Gibbons and said to him: “When do you think Albrecht should get all this?” Gibbons thought for a second and said: “I'll take you to the officers' club, then you will also have lunch time, but no more. So, at one or two, not later. "
Apparently, lunch went by very quickly, for at 1:15 am Gibbons had already returned, and my work was in full swing. I explained to him that I wanted to make a memorandum and make a typewritten copy, and that I would be up and running by three o'clock if he could stop the others until then. Gibbons replied that this would not work and that there could be no question of a printed copy. Let everything remain as it is, written in pencil. “A miracle,” I said, “they want a miracle all the time! Listen, give me another twenty-five minutes and I'll see what I can do. " Gibbons was clearly not happy about this, but what could he do if he wanted results? I had to agree.
Nevertheless, I have made two small tables and several explanatory sentences for them. When we returned to Albrecht, he quickly glanced at my work and said: “You did this in relation to the field intensity at different distances from the side of the ship, but you seem to have forgotten about the bow and stern?” Albrecht was always a pedant. I did not take into account these particulars, because I did not know exactly what was required of me, and the time for such work was less than necessary. All I could suggest were the points of greatest curvature just outside of the vessel opposite these settings.
Albrecht needed calculations to test the strength of the field and the practical likelihood of the light being bent so that the desired mirage could be achieved. I swear to God, they had no idea what would come of it! If they knew, then the case would have ended then.
The driving force at that point in time, I think, were NCOI and Ladenburg or von Neumann. They discussed everything with Einstein, and he even calculated the order of magnitude needed to achieve the required intensity, and then talked with von Neumann about which installations would best demonstrate the possibilities of practical use. I don’t remember exactly when the naval research laboratory got involved, but Captain Parsons, one of the leading Navy specialists, spoke to Albrecht quite often - perhaps it was about the use of the ship.
The only thing that I have preserved from this in writing is fragments of Albrecht's equations and some small tables. "
Moore asked Reinhart, "Do you remember what the project's codename might sound like?"
Rhinehart thought for a second.
“You remember,” he said, “that Albrecht and Gibbons forbade making typewritten copies, and there were only memoranda written in pencil.
I think I used the word “deviation” in one of the documents. I also remember, during a later discussion, saying that it is possible to make a ship invisible with an ordinary light smoke screen and that I do not understand why it was necessary to address such a complex theoretical problem. In response, Albrecht looked at me over his glasses and said that I had an exceptional talent for distracting people from the topic. I think the codename was invented by the people from the NCOI. In this connection, something like a "rainbow" or "fata morgana" has been preserved in my memory.
I attended at least one other conference on the agenda of which this topic was. We tried to identify the most obvious side effects that could be caused by such an experiment. At the same time, it was about “boiling water”, about ionization of the surrounding air, and even about “zetisation” of atoms, but no one at that time could take into account the possibility of interdimensional effects or mass displacement. In 1940, scientists classified such things as science fiction. We wrote a warning that ended up in NCOI that all this must be taken into account and that in general this whole thing requires the greatest care.
I can still recall several subsequent discussions on this issue, but the details are already rather vague. But I remember very well that for several weeks after the meeting at Albrecht's office, we were constantly demanded of tables concerning the resonant frequencies of light in the visible range. Often there was no explanation for this, but, apparently, the connection did exist.
The mock tests, by the way, could be carried out in the Taylor mock pool, or maybe not, since I am not sure if the conditions were suitable there. Some of the work was definitely done in Anacostia Bay - where most of the early locating work took place. ”
"How do you think they managed to get a ship for real trials?" Moore asked.
By the way, about a merchant ship that could be used as an observation ship ... I think that here, perhaps, it was not without the help of Admiral Jerry Land, the head of the US Maritime Commission. He was pretty impenetrable, but often helped, especially if the Navy was denied. There were many cases when we were able to get permission from MK to test new equipment on merchant ships against the wishes of the Navy. "
After this conversation, W. Moore managed to exchange letters with Reinhart several more times, and then the doctor suddenly died.
"One terribly expensive job"
So, was it possible to practically use the kind of energies and force fields that, according to the information available, were used during the Philadelphia experiment to make invisible?
Some light on this problem is shed by the biography of the not-so-famous, but extremely talented American physicist and inventor Thomas Townsend Brown, a man who, like Dr. Rhinehart, played a certain role in the project.
He developed an early interest in space travel, which at a time when even the success of the Wright brothers was viewed with skepticism was considered pure fantasy. His youthful fascination with the seemingly naive knowledge of radio and electromagnetism at that time served him invaluable later, providing him with basic information on these areas of science. In the process of his "experimenting" he once got hold of Coolidge's pipe, which then led him to an amazing discovery. Brown was not interested in X-rays as such. He wanted to establish whether the rays emanating from the Coolidge tube could have a useful effect.
He did something that no scientist of his time had thought of yet: he fixed Coolidge's tube on a sensitive balancer and began to test his device. However, whichever way he turned the apparatus, he could not establish any measurable action of X-rays. But suddenly his attention was attracted by the strange behavior of the tube itself: whenever he turned on the tube, it made a kind of forward movement, as if the apparatus was trying to move forward. It took him a lot of effort and time before he found an explanation. The newly discovered phenomenon had nothing to do with X-rays - it was based on the high voltage used to produce the rays.
Brown conducted a series of experiments to establish the nature of these new "forces" discovered by him, and in the end he managed to construct a device, which he called the "gravitor". His invention looked like a simple bakelite box, but as soon as it was put on a scale and connected to a 100 kilovolt power source, the apparatus, depending on the polarity, added or lost about one percent of its weight.
Brown was convinced that he had discovered a new electrical principle, but did not know how to really use it. Despite the fact that some newspapers reported about his work, none of the prominent scientists showed interest in his invention, which, however, was not surprising - then Brown was just finishing high school.
In 1922 he entered the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. But there no one attached importance to his work.
Without giving up his positions, Brown moved to Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio in 1923, spent one year there, and then went to Denison University in Granville, also in Ohio, where he studied electronics at the physics department. His teacher was Dr. Paul Alfred Biefeld, professor of physics and astronomy and one of eight former classmates of A. Einstein in Switzerland.
Unlike his Pasadena colleagues, Biefeld took a keen interest in Brown's discovery, and both the professor and the student experimented with charged electrical capacitors and developed a physical principle that became known as the Biefeld-Brown effect. The essence of this effect was the tendency of a charged electrical capacitor to move in the direction of its positive pole - the same movement that Brown once discovered at the Coolidge tube.
Upon completion of his education, Brown worked for four years at the Swayze Observatory in Ohio, and left it in 1930 and worked as a field physicist and spectroscopy at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington.
Despite the fact that in the 30s he had to change his occupation, Brown continued to engage in physical research in his free time, in particular the Biefeld-Brown effect. Over time, the gravitor has undergone numerous improvements.
In 1939, Brown became a lieutenant in the naval reserve and was named the Naval Bureau's magnetic and acoustic mine action officer. Shortly after this appointment, Brown made contact with the first phase of the project, which probably later culminated in the Philadelphia Experiment.
It is impossible to say with certainty whether Brown actively worked on the Philadelphia Experiment, because a significant part of the work of his scientific team concerned the area close to the demagnetization of ships. In addition, he was engaged, in his own words, "one terribly expensive work on deep vacuum."
In any case, his work in the Ship Bureau, where he had, as it turned out, $ 50 million for scientific purposes and a dozen employees with academic education, could be considered exemplary. True, it did not last too long, because in the terrible confusion that followed Pearl Harbor, he was transferred, now with the rank of captain of the second rank, to Norfolk, where, while continuing his research work, he simultaneously headed the Radar School of the Atlantic Fleet of the Navy ... In December 1943, he was sent home on vacation, and soon, at the insistence of doctors, he was dismissed. Here it seems interesting to the opinion of some researchers that Brown's disease is directly related to the Philadelphia experiment. In 1944, Brown went to Hawaii and continued his research.
In the same years, he was captured by the more frequent cases of UFO sightings.
Keeping a close eye on the debate between the military and science in the late 1940s and early 1950s, he suggests that the question of the driving force of UFOs could possibly be resolved on an international basis. Brown hinted that in his studies of electrogravity, he may already have found a clue to this problem.
In 1952, having moved to Cleveland, he outlined one project, which he called "Winter Harbor", which, after appropriate study, hoped to propose to the military. He managed to increase the lift of his gravitator so much that the device was able to lift a weight significantly exceeding its own.
In theory, Brown tried to explain his results in terms of Unified Field Theory. He strongly believed in a visual docking effect between gravity and electricity. What his apparatus demonstrates is precisely this very effect. Brown designed a disk-shaped capacitor and observed the Biefeld-Brown effect in action by applying a constant current of various voltages. With the appropriate design and electrical voltage, the disc-shaped "air films" were set into independent flying motion, emitting a faint hum and emitting a bluish electric glow.
In 1953, Brown was able to demonstrate in the laboratory the flight of such a 60-centimeter "air disk" along a circular route with a diameter of 6 meters. The aircraft was connected to the central mast by a wire through which a direct electric current of 50 thousand volts was supplied. The device developed a maximum speed of about 51 m / s (180 km / h).
Brown worked with almost superhuman determination and high financial costs. He soon managed to surpass his own success. During the next screening, he demonstrated the flight of an entire set of 90 cm discs in a circle with a diameter of 15 meters. Everything was immediately classified. Nevertheless, most of the scientists attending the demonstration were skeptical, inclined to attribute this Brownian driving force to what they called it, an "electric wind," even though it would take a truly "electric hurricane" to produce such force.
Very few people believed that the Biefeld-Brown effect might represent something new in physics.
Until recently, Brown was convinced that, given the necessary means, the study of the Biefeld-Brown effect would lead to a breakthrough in the field of spacecraft movement, not to mention other areas of application. Sure, research costs a lot, but are financial considerations really the cause of attention deficit? Or maybe the ship's experiment still casts its long oblique shadow on it?
"Your inquiries will remain unanswered"
Once again, we will ask ourselves the question: did the US Navy really use DE-173 to conduct an experiment on electronic cloaking, as Allende claims and confirms the collected information? And did military science really use the results of such tests as a basis for further research in terms of possible anti-gravity modes of movement, energy sources similar to those that could be used in UFOs?
Accurate evidence can only be presented if it was possible to find and publish government documents on this project. And without knowing the military code name of the project, this is difficult, if not impossible. The result of any request to the Office of Naval Research was, at best, a standard letter, in which the whole case was completely denied. With regard to the Philadelphia experiment, the answer came: "UMI, neither in 1943, nor at any other time, did research on invisibility."
Ch. Berlitz's attempt to discuss this topic with representatives of the Varo Corporation in Garland, Texas, was equally unsuccessful. “The firm is not interested in discussing this topic with you or anyone else,” they replied. He was also told that "all your inquiries, letters and phone calls on this topic will remain unanswered."
But despite this, it was possible to find evidence of the great interest of the United States in the late 30s - early 40s in the use of powerful magnetic fields on ships - at least as a mine action. Here is the book “Magnets. Physicist training ”(Cambridge, 1956). Its author, the late physicist Francis Bitter, founder of the Magnetic Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, although he does not go too deeply into the technical details, however, devotes an entire chapter of his work to the development of the technology of electromagnetic demagnetization of ships as a defense against magnetic min.
According to the testimony of C. Fowler and T. Herber, Bitter's biographers, his research eventually led to "elaborate countermeasures, which consisted in making ships invisible to German mines."
Of course, "invisibility" for German mines and invisibility for the human eye are completely different things; however, we must ask ourselves if Bitter's research into "magnetic invisibility" was the pretext for a project aimed at achieving total invisibility?
There can be no doubt that relatively powerful magnets and correspondingly powerful magnetic fields were used during these early experiments. Bitter writes in Magnets that he “saw with his own eyes a relatively large ship equipped with a powerful magnet weighing many, many tons. It was a bar magnet that spanned nearly the entire length of the ship. The current was generated by huge generators. "
To determine whether these early demagnetization experiments were indeed the forerunners of the much more complex Philadelphia experiment, William Moore consulted a scientist working with the Navy in the field of demagnetization. Moore had recently written a short note about the life of this scientist, which was to be part of an article planned for one journal. Now Moore presented this article to him for approval, having previously included a specially added paragraph in it to find out if he knew anything about the experiment that Allende had told about in due time. This is the content of this added paragraph:
“During the war, he (name) worked almost without interruption ... in the National Defense Research Committee. In the course of work on one of his projects, a warship (after an experiment with a model) was exposed to an intense electromagnetic field in order to visually check the effect of the field on material objects. The field was created by ship demagnetizers using the resonance principle for extreme results. A number of reports speak of sensational results (at least one source claims that the experiment caused an extreme physical reaction in the ship's crew), but despite the actual results of the experiment, work on the project was interrupted in 1943.
It was important for Berlitz and Moore to find out the reaction of this man to the material offered to him for editing. The result was amazing. As expected, numerous suggestions, additions, deletions appeared during the editing, but the entire paragraph concerning the tests remained without any changes or comments. There could be only two explanations for this: either the scientist made a gross oversight, or the information regarding the experiment was fully consistent with reality. The cover letter for the edited manuscript led me to believe the second possibility: "As far as the draft of your article is concerned, the information it contains is for the most part absolutely correct."
But what about the consequences of the experiment? After all, it was this aspect of the story told by Allende that led many to conclude that these letters are nothing more than a figment of a sick imagination. Another point of view is that such effects did take place and that the fear and confusion of the military generated by them caused the veil of secrecy around those events.
Unusual information on this subject came from Patrick Macy, an electronics designer who worked in Los Angeles in the summer of 1977. He exchanged views with his colleague, whom he only remembers as "Jim," about UFOs and how much the government is hiding in this regard.
“I had a weird experience once,” Jim said, “when I served in the Navy during the war. I was then involved in the control of audiovisual materials and one day in 1945 in Washington, I got the opportunity to see part of a film about an experiment at sea, which was shown to the highest ranks of the Navy. I remember only certain parts of the film, because I was on duty and could not, like others, sit and watch it. I didn't know what the film was actually about, since there was no commentary in it. But I remember that it was about three ships. It was shown how two ships pumped some kind of energy into the third, which stood between them. I then thought that these were sound waves, but I can’t say anything definite, of course, I was not initiated into these matters. After some time, this medium ship - the destroyer - began to gradually disappear in some kind of transparent fog, until only one trace remained on the water. Then, when the field or whatever was turned off, the ship reappeared from a thin veil of fog. It was, apparently, the end of the film, and I accidentally overheard some of them discussing what they saw. Some said that the field was turned on for too long and that this explains the problems that some of the crew had. One of them mentioned a case when a member of the crew, allegedly, simply disappeared while sitting with a glass in a bar. Another said that the sailors "are still out of their minds and, apparently, forever." There was also talk that some sailors had disappeared forever. The rest of the conversation was already too far from me for me to hear. "
The question arises: why this film, if it really existed, was shown in 1945? Maybe because after the end of the war, some projects, interrupted or discontinued during the war, were revised for re-evaluation or renewal?
Perhaps the Philadelphia Experiment was among them?
The Suffern House Incident
As you remember, in the prologue we talked about a chance encounter in Colorado Springs Park, which was unexpected evidence of the Philadelphia Experiment. To an indifferent researcher, this story may, of course, seem very dubious, primarily because of the assertion that some of the participants in the experiment found themselves in the other world and not only saw extraterrestrial beings, but also communicated with them. Indeed, is it easy to believe that the US Navy, during its work with force fields and experiments to create radar invisibility, accidentally discovered a way to other worlds and that the American government, as a result of the so-called Philadelphia experiment, came into contact with an extraterrestrial civilization?
However, if this were the case, it would explain the official silence on so many topics, not least UFOs. But how can we prove all this?
And then the time has come to return again to the already familiar researcher and writer James R. Wolfe. Here is what W. Moore said:
“In February 1978, a few months after my last contact with Wolfe, I first heard that Wolfe had disappeared.
A series of extraordinary events followed. In early May 1978, I received a call from a woman named Michelle Alberti, who introduced herself as a member of a spiritistic research group in Willowdale, Ontario, Canada. She said that while working with her group on the problem of the Philadelphia Experiment, she heard about a certain James R. Wolfe, who was supposedly well informed about this case. When she tried to track him down, she learned, much to her disappointment, that he had disappeared. Further searches showed that he was not alive. She immediately suspected another Jessup-style death.
Two questions arise: how and why did this rumor spread and where is Wolfe now? During the conversation, I asked Michelle Alberti why she was interested in the Philadelphia Experiment. “This is in line with our research on a third-order encounter here in Canada,” she said. And this is the story she told me:
“Late on Tuesday evening, October 7, 1975, 27-year-old carpenter Robert Suffern in Bracebridge, Ontario received a phone call from his sister, who lives a little further down the street. She asked him to check what kind of strange glow emanated from a grain storage not far away. Suffern immediately got into the car and drove to the vault. Not finding anything unusual there, he turned back, intending to stop by his sister. Suddenly, to his complete amazement, he saw a dark object in the form of a plate with a diameter of 3.5-4 meters right in front of him on a gravel road.
“I was scared,” he later told a Toronto Sun reporter, “it was right in front of me - no light and no signs of life.” His car hadn't come to a complete stop yet, he went on to say, when the object "went straight up and disappeared."
According to Suffern, as soon as he turned the car to drive home, a strange human figure, about 1.2 meters tall and disproportionately wide shoulders, dressed in a silver-gray suit with a ball-shaped helmet, ran out onto the road right in front of the car. Suffern hit the brakes, the car skidded on the unsteady surface, and he barely managed to avoid a collision with this creature, which abruptly dodged to the side, ran to the edge of the road, jumped over the fence and, running out into the field, disappeared. In Suffern's story to the Sun correspondent, it looked like this: "When the figure ran to the fence, it leaned its hand on the counter and jumped over it without any difficulty, as if it were completely weightless."
Completely dumbfounded by this sudden meeting, Suffern finally recovered enough to go home. But suddenly I saw that the UFO had returned and hovered for a short time over the road itself. In the next instant, he flew around the mast of the high-voltage line and disappeared again, leaving as a candle into the night sky.
Neither relatives, nor friends, nor reporters, nor special commissions, nor simply curious, who later visited his farm, could not convince him of anything.
If the story ended there, it would be nothing more than another addition to the ever-growing list of mysterious and difficult to verify meetings in recent years.
On July 15, 1976, that is, about nine months after the incident in Bracebridge, Harry Tokarz, a colleague of Michelle Alberti, together with a "filmmaker" decided to visit Suffern in the hope of finding out something about the incident in 1976.
Neither Suffern, whom Tokarz describes as a person "weighing his words well," nor his wife, "a typical provincial woman who does not hide her views," showed particular interest in the discussion on UFOs.
When, at last, the Suffern couple got into the UFO theme, two curious circumstances emerged. First, both Suffern and his wife considered themselves absolutely knowledgeable in this matter, without attaching special importance to it, however. And secondly, it turned out that they had not yet discussed what they had said with anyone.
“On December 12, 1975, as the Suffern home gradually returned to normal, an Ontario Police Department vehicle brought three representative men to their home. They wore full uniforms, carried impressive letters of recommendation, and introduced themselves as the highest ranks of the Canadian Army in Ottawa, the US Air Force, and the US Navy's Secret Service.
Suffern, who until then was quite concerned about his encounter with the UFO, claims that the kind gentlemen answered all questions frankly and without delay. “They showed their cards” and answered everything “from where, what and why”. They made it clear that the governments of the United States and Canada literally still know everything about UFOs since 1943 and that they have been collaborating with aliens ever since.
Not only that, these gold-running know-it-alls also apologized for the incident on October 7, saying that it was an accident, an unexpected breakdown.
Suffern suggested that it was probably a top-secret military aircraft. No, they said, it was a functional defect that forced the saucer to land in his domain with the alien crew. Mrs. Suffern at first refused to believe it, but then one of the officers laid out to them the exact, up to the minute, time of landing - a detail that was known only to the Suffern spouses. Generally speaking, they observed a total of three UFO sightings, of which only one was reported. And the all-knowing trio did not hesitate to announce to them the dates and times of those previous observations. They were armed with a complete set of information (including UFO photos) and reiterated that the landing was caused by an accident and was not part of any plans.
Further, we learned that the officers who arrived spoke about the UFO crews only about humanoids. The first contact took place, apparently, in 1943, and since then our army has been aware of all the movements of aliens on our planet.
Suffern himself claims that he knows the identities of these three and that he can prove that they were not fraudsters. "
Another interesting point is the existence of evidence allegedly obtained by one expert indicating that the Canadian and American authorities subjected the Suffern spouses to a thorough medical and psychological examination before organizing that December meeting with them, apparently in order to predict their reaction to this. what they had to learn.
Professor Stan Friedman, a nuclear physicist from Hayward, California, cited the high concentration of electromagnetic super-flux generated during the experiment as a possible reason for the attention of extraterrestrial civilizations to the Philadelphia experiment. Professor Friedman has personally investigated several other cases in which UFOs are reported to have appeared as an unwanted reaction to electromagnetic experiments; according to his theory of UFOs, if they observe our Earth, they should use a functional electromagnetic map, and when somewhere they do not understand bright points or spots, they naturally try to find out the reason for their appearance on the spot.
Yet something happened in 1943 at the Philadelphia naval shipyard, leaving clear marks in stories, books, newspaper articles, documents, and people's memories.
This would, of course, not be the first time that a scientific discovery is ahead of its time, and it has to be abandoned due to unforeseen side effects or simply because the experiment has lost its relevance in the face of other, more pressing matters (the creation of the atomic bomb) ...
Here, one should heed the opinion of the famous physicist James Moffer of the University of Toronto. When asked about the likelihood of such an event as the Philadelphia Experiment, he replied that such phenomena are constantly encountered at the cosmic and astrophysical levels. According to him, working on problems of this kind is almost routine for him, although it is strictly limited to the area of \u200b\u200bhigh energies and large astrophysical bodies. “The transfer of such a phenomenon to the earthly level in modern conditions,” he said, “seems to be something that goes beyond the existing theories. It must be remembered that Einstein, when he proclaimed his theory of relativity in 1905, did so in relation to large objects of astrophysical order of magnitude. It simply did not occur to him that his theory could be applicable to processes occurring at the level of atoms. When, in the 1930s, the possibility of controlled splitting of the atom became obvious, it was necessary to answer the question: does the theory provide for this possibility? It turned out that yes, and this result became another argument in her favor. The same could apply to the Unified Field Theory. But it could have had other possibilities that are not yet known to science. "
The mystery of the Philadelphia experiment remains unsolved, and the final answer may be stored in the bowels of the archives of the US Navy. Perhaps all this is just a fairy tale, and such an experiment simply did not exist.
If, however, we take into account the multitude of materials that different people managed to collect at different times, and if the Philadelphia experiment was not carried out in the form as it appears, then what actually happened back in October 1943 in the secret area of \u200b\u200bthe Philadelphia marine shipyard?
And the last thing. Most recently, our press reported on a public demonstration at the US Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, of two previously considered top secret aircraft developed by Lockheed.
They are made taking into account the "technique of low visibility." The entire glider surface consists of many elements, each of which is oriented in a different direction. This significantly reduces the number of peaks of reflected electromagnetic radiation. By the way, it is believed that it was these coatings that caused unexplained diseases among the workers of the Lockheed plant ...
