The Philadelphia Experiment

I haven't done an entry on just the The Philadelphia Experiment by itself, so here goes.

One of the strangest conspiracy theories I think.
If you go back through it, it involves Science, Aliens, Time Travel and Magic.
Not to mention connections to Montauk and Aleister Crowley.

The Theory....
"A destroyer escort, the USS Eldridge, was fitted with the required equipment at the naval yards in Philadelphia. Testing began in summer 1943, and was successful to a limited degree. One test, on July 22, resulted in the Eldridge being rendered almost completely invisible, with some witnesses reporting a “greenish fog” in its place. However, crew members complained of severe nausea afterwards. At that point, the experiment was altered at the request of the Navy, with the new objective being invisibility solely to radar. None of this has been substantiated.

The theory continues that the equipment was not properly re-calibrated, but in spite of this the experiment was performed again on October 28. This time, Eldridge not only became entirely invisible, but actually vanished from the area in a flash of blue light. According to some accounts, the U.S. naval base at Norfolk, Virginia, just over 215 miles (346 km) away, reported sighting the Eldridge offshore, whereupon the Eldridge vanished from their sight and reappeared in Philadelphia at the site it had originally occupied, in an apparent case of accidental teleportation. The "Eldridge", after the experiment's conclusion was given to the Greek Militiary Navy and renamed "Leon"(Lion)."


As far as Science goes, research from Albert Einstein and Nikola Tesla both figure into the Conspiracy.
Interesting that Tesla died on January 7 1943 and the Experiment was run in summer of 1943.
Of course if you've ever played Command and Conquer, all that makes perfect sense.

Pyramids of Montauk:Explorations in Conciouness by Preston Nichols and Peter Moon brings in the Montauk angle and Aleister Crowley.
This part is just way too involved, so here's a link you can go to to read all this for yourself here

And here's another interesting read on the Conspiracy angle:
http://www.spiritual-endeavors.org/abilities/phila.htm

Like I said before, going into this theory will lead you and link you to a lot of other theories.
Just take it all with a grain of salt.

Montauk Project Links

Some interesting Montauk based sites......

http://www.geocities.com/infomon_2000/


http://www.subversiveelement.com/camphero.html


Not exactly Montauk, but in the same general area:
http://www.lioddities.com/


Debunking site with a cool opening page graphic:
http://www.bielek-debunked.com/


Big page with a lot of info:
http://www.alienshift.com/id33.html


The Philadelphia Experiment: New Evidence Surfaces:
http://www.paranormalnews.com/article.asp?ArticleID=999


As always, Happy Hunting!

The Montauk Project

The Montauk Project is one of those conspiracy theories that wraps itself around all the others so that its easy to use it as a jumping off point for thousands of threads.

If you look hard enough, Montauk can tie just about everything else together.

Aliens, UFOs, interdimensional vistors and travel, time travel, The Golden Dawn, The Philadelphia Experiment, Alistair Crowley, Nikola Tesla, the list goes on and on.

The Montauk Project was purportedly a series of secret United States government projects conducted at Camp Hero or Montauk Air Force Station on Montauk, Long Island for the purpose of developing a powerful psychological war weapon. It is considered by most to be a hoax. No evidence confirming the experiment actually occurring has ever surfaced nor has evidence of any underground facility been found.

There are those who believe that The Montauk Project was an extension or continuation of the controversial Philadelphia Experiment, which supposedly took place in 1943—also known as Project Rainbow.

According to some, sometime in the 1950s, surviving researchers from Project Rainbow began to discuss the project with an eye to continuing the research into technical aspects of manipulating the electromagnetic bottle that had been used to make the USS Eldridge invisible, and the reasons and possible military applications of the psychological effects of a magnetic field.

The legend goes on to say that a report was supposedly prepared and presented to Congress, and was soundly rejected as far too dangerous. So a proposal was made directly to the Department of Defense promising a powerful new weapon that could drive an enemy insane, inducing the symptoms of schizophrenia at the touch of a button. Without congressional approval, the project would have to be top secret and secretly funded. The Department of Defense approved. Funding supposedly came from a cache of US$10 billion in Nazi gold recovered from a train found by U.S. soldiers in a train tunnel in France. The train was blown up and all the soldiers involved were killed. When those funds ran out, additional funding was secured from ITT and Krupp AG in Germany.

Work began at Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island, New York under the name Phoenix Project, but it was soon realized that the project required a large radar dish, and installing one at Brookhaven would compromise the security of the project. Luckily, the U.S. Air Force had a decommissioned base at Montauk, New York, not far from Brookhaven, which had a complete SAGE radar installation. The site was large and remote (Montauk was not yet a tourist attraction) and water access would allow equipment to be moved in and out undetected.

Equipment was moved to Camp Hero at the Montauk base in the late 1960s, and installed in an underground bunker beneath the base. According to conspiracy theorists, to mask the nature of the project the site was closed in 1969 and donated as a wildlife refuge/park, with the provision that everything underground would remain the property of the Air Force (although, in reality, the base remained in operation until the 1980s). The park has never been opened to the public, under the excuse of environmental contamination

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