The Philadelphia Experiment
During World War two, the German submarines known as the U-boat was dominating the oceans. U.S. ships were being taken out at a high rate. They needed something to overcome the threat. The claim to the Philadelphia Experiment was that the U.S. came up with technology to overcome that problem. It has been said that On October 28th, 1943, the U.S. Navy destroyer escort USS Eldridge was outfitted with advanced and extremely experimental technology. With a greenish-blue glow surrounding the ship, it disappeared from the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard and appeared in the Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Virginia. A few minutes later, it disappeared again and reappeared back in Philadelphia. There were rumors of reports that claimed the crew members abord experienced nausea, insanity, burn marks, bodies embedded within the metal ship itself, having fallen through floors and walls during the event. Einstein himself was said to have been involved with the experiment, which was based off of his unified field theory as well as from ideas off of Nikola Tesla’s notes that were confiscated after he died a short time before the event.
The claim was revealed when a man named Carl M. Allen revealed to American ufologist Morris K. Jessup in 1955 about the account. Carl said that he witnessed the event while serving aboard the SS Andrew Furuseth. Later that year, an anonymous package arrived at the U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR). It contained a copy of Jessup’s book “The Case for the UFO: Unidentified Flying Objects” that was filled with handwritten notes in its margin, written with three different shades of blue ink, appearing to detail a debate among three individuals. They discussed ideas about the propulsion for flying saucers, alien races, and express concern that Jessup was too close to discovering their technology. When Jessup was invited to the Office of Naval Research a year later and shown the annotated copy of his book, he noticed the handwriting of the annotations resembled a series of letters he received from Carl Allen, wo also signed some of his letters “Carlos Miguel Allende.” Jessup was later reported to have said that he was on to something big. A short time later on April 20th, 1959, in Dade County, Florida, Jessup’s car was found along a roadside with Jessup dead inside. A hose had been run from the exhaust pipe into a rear window of the vehicle, which had filled with toxic fumes when turned on. The death was ruled a suicide.
In 1984, a time travel film called The Philadelphia Experiment was created in reflection of the apparent event. A short time later, a man named Alfred Bielek watched the movie. He claimed that he was on the USS Eldridge during the experiment and that the movie brought back suppressed memories. He said that his previous name was Ed Camron who served with his brother Duncan on the Eldridge. During the events of the experiment, the two of them fell overboard. Instead of falling into water, they found themselves falling into endless clouds of nothingness until they passed out. When they woke up, they were lying in hospital beds covered in radiation burns. They were informed that the burns were hyperspace burns and that they were in the year 2137. After several weeks of recovery, they were for some unknown reason transported to the year 2749 where he worked as a tour guide for two years. He somehow was sent back in time to 1983 where he inherited the name Alfred.
There are many different variations of the claim as to what exactly happened during the event. The U.S. retains the claim that the events mentioned never happened.
Some information gathered from Wikipedia