The year is 1943 and the U.S. is knee-deep in World War II. The United States Navy is struggling to combat the German U-boat, struggling so much that they are losing ships daily to the Nazi naval forces. In a retaliation effort, the Navy begins Project Rainbow, a secret experimental program spearheaded by some of the most brilliant scientific minds in the world including Albert Einstein. The goal of this experiment is to render warships invisible. This is what proponents of the Philadelphia experiment conspiracy theory would have you believe happened anyway. But is their truth to any of it? What, if anything, happened in the Philadelphia naval shipyard in 1943?
According to the theory a US Navy Destroyer Escort Ship, the USS Eldridge, was docked in Philadelphia. On board was a small crew of hand picked men. The ship was rigged with experimental equipment that was developed by a team of scientists using the knowledge of Albert Einstein whom had secretly came up with a unified field theory. According to a witness a green mist suddenly appeared around the ship and the 300 ft. vessel vanished. 200 miles away the ship reappeared in a naval dock in Virginia. It then again vanished and returned to the pier in Philadelphia. The experiment was an apparent success until the senior officers over the experiment caught sight of the crew.
The men on board were all in horrific conditions. Some were fused with parts of the ship. One man was fused with the deck of the ship, another fused with the bulkheads. Many were deceased, partially engulfed by the ship. Others simply vanished and never returned and those who appeared to be in good health suffered psychological effects that rendered them institutionalized for the rest of their lives. The Navy listed all the men involved with the experiment as “missing in action” and halted the project completely.
Why it is crazy
First of all this is fairly easy to debunk using science. What made the disappearance and teleportation of the ship possible is the creation of a unified field theory. The unified field theory attempts to unify fundamental forces (gravity and electromagnetism) with elementary particles (protons, neutrons, etc) this means that the two fields become one field. If you really want to unify all the fields you also have to include the laws of nature and thereby you will have one single theory for everything. If we had this theory could we do incredible things? We absolutely could, the problem is a working unified field theory has yet to be discovered. World renowned physicist Steven Hawkins doubts it is possible for a human being to ever come up with this theory, and the silly idea that only a man as smart as Albert Einstein could have come up with it is a gross over-glorification of Einstein.
Second, all the information we have that this even took place is one guy; no documents, no physical evidence, no other eyewitnesses, just one guy. One guy who makes a subtle reference to a secret experiment in Philadelphia in the margins of a book titled The Case For UFOS by Morris K Jessup. He then mails the book to the Navy, who launch an investigation of the source of the notes going as far as to contact the author of the book, Jessup, and question him on the source of the notes. The reason the Navy took interest in the notes was not so they could find the writer and kill him before he exposed their terrible secret. It was because it was 1957! It was at the height of the Cold War. Paranoia was at an all time. We were spending tax dollars on building nuclear fallout shelters. It is really no surprise that the Navy took a cryptic note written in the margin of a book about UFOS referencing a secret experiment seriously. Also at the time it was theorized by the U.S government that UFOS were actually secret Russian technology.
The only reason the theory is believed to be true by some is that there was a series of coincidences that coincided with the Navy investigation. First, the Navy attempted to track down the man who sent the book to them, but was unsuccessful in doing so. Second Jessup, the author of the UFO book that the mysterious notes appeared in, committed suicide. Proponents of the theory suggest that Jessup had proof that the Philadelphia experiment actually happened and the Navy had him killed to keep the information from leaking and made it look like a suicide. The proponents choose to ignore the fact that Jessup was failing in his writing career as his publishers repeatedly rejected his manuscripts. His wife also left him. He was also involved in a car accident and was very slow to recover. When his daughter was informed of his death she replied with, “how did he do it?” In other words his depression was no secret.
That leaves one loose end. Who wrote the notes in the margin of the book? That answer came in the 1970s when a man researching a book he was writing on the Philadelphia experiment made a few phone calls and discovered that this illusive enigma was a man named Carl Allen. Allen had used the alias “Allende” on the postmark of the book he sent to the Navy and also included his Naval service number. Upon investigating, Allen’s service number matched Allende’s. Allen had a history of psychiatric illness and was also a known prankster.
Pictured: Carl Allen AKA “Allende” Just Kidding
Why It Is Not That Crazy
The story, though exaggerated it may be, does have some truth. The government absolutely suppresses technology. Some believe their motivation for doing this is because they like to behave jerkishly toward the American public, but in actuality they do it so they can keep the technology a secret and prevent other countries from engineering similar technology. I am by no means sticking up for the U.S. government because they have been involved in several real-life conspiracies that are reprehensible.
Between 1932 and 1972 the U.S. Public Health Service recruited 399 African Americans with syphilis to study the, then, untreatable disease. The problem occurred because instead of treating the patients like they said they were going to they instead just injected them with placebos and watched the disease progress until the patient died. Even after penicillin was discovered to be a cure for syphilis in the 1940s the experiment continued for 30 more years with no use of penicillin.
Also, during the Kennedy administration in the 1960s the CIA wanted to implement a false-flag plan titled Operation Northwood. The plan called for members of the CIA to commit acts of terrorism in U.S. cities in order to gain public support for a war with Cuba. The plan included bombings, hijackings, and the placement of phony evidence that linked terrorist attacks to the Cuban government. Luckily Kenney squashed the plan and removed the mastermind behind the operation from his position.
These are real conspiracies that actually happened. If you don’t believe me do a little research and see for yourself. It is the existence of these types of occurrences that give other conspiracy theories, even those as outrageous as the Philadelphia experiment, clout. Perhaps it is a good thing that there are so many conspiracy theorists out there plotting about the evil things that the government might be plotting. It is a nice check and balance and who knows maybe they are more right than wrong.
Author: Jonathan Kaulay Copyrighted © paranormalhaze.com
