The Summer of 1943. In the midst of World War II, an American battleship tested a technology designed by Einstein himself and managed to become invisible and teleport. That is, at least, what the conspiracy theorists say. This is the true story of the USS Elridge, the ship that "traveled in time
The whole legend of the Rainbow Project
In What is popularly known as the Philadelphia Experiment, alludes to an alleged dark program of the US Navy called Project Rainbow. Urban legend says that the military was testing a generator of electromagnetic fields with which they sought to find practical applications to the unified field theory proposed by Albert Einstein. In one sentence, they tried to achieve invisibility.
Private technicians who did not know what they were installing provided two powerful generators, dozens of meters of electrical cable around the hull and other complex electronic devices to the USS Elridge, a 93-meter-long battleship. On July 22, 1943, the first supposed experiment took place. The generators activated an electromagnetic field that made the battleship disappear for a few minutes surrounded by a greenish fog. Some sailors complained of strong nausea caused by the test.
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The equipment was readjusted and the second test took place on October 28. This time, the whole ship completely disappeared and appeared at the navy base in Norfolk, 600 kilometers away and 15 minutes in the past. There he was sighted during that time. After that he disappeared again in the middle of a blue lightning to return to Philadelphia
Official statements of the navy after the disaster that was tried to hide saying that the ship was undido by a submarine nazi. But this was the truth of what happened
The Truth About The Philadelphia Experiment
The Philadelphia Experiment is a complicated concoction of Allen's feverish imagination, Jessup's credulity, real facts, and gossip about sailors. The first thing that does not agree are the dates. Official records say that the USS Elridge was launched on July 25, 1943, two days after the alleged first experiment. It officially entered service in the Naval Shipyard of New York 27 of August of 1943.
What is certain is that, in the 1940s, the US Navy experimented with invisibility. Of course, it was not invisibility to the naked eye. The USS Elridge and its twin, USS Engstrom were equipped with a new system that surrounded the whole hull with electric cables. The technique was called Degaussing, and its aim was to reduce the ship's magnetic field to prevent it from being an easy target for the mines and magnetic torpedoes used in Nazi submarines. The technique became very popular in the 40's and was even applied to military and civilian vessels alike.