Exploring The Philadelphia Experiment In Person

During my trip to Philadelphia in May of this year, I decided to save the best exploration for last. Thankfully, the last day of the training that I was in Philadelphia for ended a half-day early, providing me with nearly a full day to explore the alleged site of the famous Philadelphia Experiment.

It would be irresponsible of me, as a journalist, to pretend that I believe the Philadelphia experiment actually took place. I don’t. However, I do believe that there was an experiment that took place – a grossly misunderstood experiment that evolved into the modern myth known as the Philadelphia Experiment.

The story originally came from an shady source that contacted Morris Jessup, following the publication of his book, “The Case for UFO’s”. A man named Carlos Miquel Allende told Jessup that he had personally witnessed the experiment, codenamed “Project Rainbow”, where the USS Eldridge was made invisible when it was teleported to and from Norfolk, Virginia.

As the story goes, following the experiment, a number of the sailors went mad, forcing the Navy to shelve the research until the technology – based on Einstein’s “Unified Field Theory” – was better understood.
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