The ship that disappeared — or did it?
By P. Lal

DID it happen or did it not? The disappearing of a ship, from Philadelphia Navy Yard in the USA in October, 1943, its appearance in Norfolk, Virginia and then its reappearance in Philadelphia, all this within a matter of minutes. Many in the USA believe that it did happen. The US navy denies that such an experiment was ever carried out.

In 1943, another important project was being pursued vigorously and secretly in the USA. This related to the making of a fission bomb. The project was code-named the "Manhattan Project". It eventually succeeded. The result was the dropping of two atom bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, in Japan, in August, 1945. It is believed that simultaneously, the "invisibility experiment" i.e. making the ships and planes invisible was also going on under the patronage of the United States Navy. However, with the ringing of the curtain on the World War II after the surrender of Japan in August, 1945, and more particularly, in view of the severe adverse effects produced on the crew members of the U.S.S. Eldridge (DE 173) during the course of the experiment when the said ship is reported to have disappeared from Philadelphia Yard, the project is believed to have been abandoned.

It appears that the navy succeeded, either by accident or design, in creating forcefield invisibility and teleportation. If it were true, it provided evidence of the existence of dimensions other than time and space and possibly could also provide explanation of the seemingly inexplicable disappearances of planes and ships in an area in the Atlantic known as the Bermuda Triangle.

One Carlos Miguel Allende, in two letters addressed to Morris Jessup, the author of The Case for the UFO, in 1955 and 1956 respectively, gave certain details of the disappearing and re-appearing of the navy ship at Philadelphia Yard, and also admitted to have observed the phenomenon while at sea on board the Liberty Ship S.S. Andrew Furuseth, out of Norfolk, in October, 1943. According to Allende: "All that could be seen by anyone outside the forcefield was the clearly defined shape of the ship’s hull in the water". Allende also mentioned names of the other men on the deck at the time who witnessed the event. He stated, "I actually shoved my hands, up to the elbow, into this unique forcefield as that field flowed, surging powerfully in counter clockwise direction around the little experimental navy ship, the DE173. I felt the push of that forcefield against the solidness of my arm and hand outstretched into its humming-pushing-propelling flow. I watched the air all around the ship turn slightly, ever so slightly, darker than all the other air. I saw, after a few minutes, a foggy green mist arise like a thin cloud. I watched as thereafter the DE173 became rapidly invisible to human eye. And yet, the precise shape of the keel and underhull of that ship remained impressed into the ocean water as it and my own ship sped along somewhat side by side and close to inboards. ....... in trying to describe the sounds that the forcefield made as it circled around the DE173 .... it began as a humming sound, quickly built up ... to a humming whispering sound and then increased to a strongly sizzling buzz, like a rushing torrent".

It is believed that the experiment was conducted by using naval type magnetic generators known as degaussers which produced pulses at resonant frequencies to create a tremendous magnetic field on and around a docked vessel. It is also believed that Albert Einstein who was working on the Unified Field Theory which, simply stated, concerns unifying, through a mathematical equation, the four fundamental forces existing in nature, including the gravitational and the electromagnetic, was actively involved in the experiment as he was seen visiting the Philadelphia Naval Yard several times in 1943. In fact, it appears that the work on the Philadelphia Experiment started in 1940, the year in which Einstein re-started his work on the Unified Field Theory, having completed a version of it earlier during 1925-27. Now declassified records of the US navy show that Einstein was employed intermittently in a special services contract of the Department of the Navy, Washington, D.C. as a scientist from May 31, 1943 to June 30, 1944. Another noted physicist and antigravity researcher T. Townsend Brown was also reportedly involved with the project.

The experiment is said to have produced extreme physical and mental side effects — both short term and long term — on the ship’s crew. The temporary effects included "seeing double", "staggering like a drunk" and "passing out". Most became mentally unbalanced and unfit for further service and were reportedly discharged. Later, after the war, the then Soviet Union’s studies of the effects of high frequency electromagnetic forcefields upon human beings showed that such radiations caused changes in brain function and body chemistry. The effects produced included "severe neurological and cardiovascular (circulatory) disturbances, dizziness, forgetfulness, lack of concentration and alternating states of anxiety and depression".

Five British merchant seamen who were waiting one day on October, 1943, in Norfolk for berths in a ship which was to sail to England are also reported to have seen a ship appear and disappear in their view. "Looking at the harbour from the dock, they were understandably amazed to see a sea-level cloud suddenly form in the harbour and almost immediately dissipate, leaving a destroyer escort in full view, which stayed but a few moments before it was covered by a cloud and vanished again".

It appears that the US Navy was actually involved in developing a system that might deflect incoming projectiles, specially torpedoes, away from a ship by creating an intense electomagnetic field around the ship. The idea was probably extended to include electronic camouflage of the US naval ships so that enemy ships might not detect them. Experiments were in fact carried out on U.S.S. Eldridge (DE173). Whether the experiments led to the teleportation of the ship, by accident or design, cannot be said with certainty. However, the evidence shows that the one carried out in October, 1943 did produce adverse effects on the physical and mental health of the crew. Also, for whatever reasons, the US navy has tried to keep under wraps the details and the results of the experiments.