Urban legend about a supposed US Naval experiment in 1943
For other uses, see Philadelphia Experiment (disambiguation).
USS Eldridge (DE-173), c. 1944
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The Philadelphia Experiment was an alleged event claimed to have been witnessed by an ex-merchant mariner named Carl M. Allen at the United States Navy's Philadelphia Naval Shipyard in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, sometime around October 28, 1943. Allen described an experiment where the U.S. Navy attempted to make a destroyer escort, the USS Eldridge, disappear and the bizarre results that followed.
The story surfaced in late 1955 when Allen sent a book full of hand-written annotations referring to the experiment to a U.S. Navy research organization and, a little later, a series of letters making further claims to a UFO book writer. Allen's account of the event is widely understood to be a hoax.[1][2]: 300–301 [3] Several different—and sometimes contradictory—versions of the alleged experiment have circulated over the years in paranormal literature and popular movies. The U.S. Navy maintains that no such experiment was ever conducted, that the details of the story contradict well-established facts about USS Eldridge, and that the physics the experiment is claimed to be based on are non-existent.[4]
^Carroll, Robert Todd (2015-11-21). "Philadelphia experiment". The Skeptic's Dictionary. Archived from the original on 2021-05-18. Retrieved 2021-07-10.
^Dash, Mike (2000) [1997]. Borderlands. Woodstock, New York: Overlook Press. ISBN 978-0879517243. OCLC 41932447.
^Adams, Cecil (1987-10-23). "Did the U.S. Navy teleport ships in the Philadelphia Experiment?". The Straight Dope. Archived from the original on 2020-11-11. Retrieved 2021-07-10.
^"Philadelphia Experiment". Naval History and Heritage Command. 2017-11-20. Archived from the original on 2021-07-08. Retrieved 2021-07-10.
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