Project Rainbow: Ship Sacrifice

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Project Rainbow In 1943, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 120 men disappear, 40 are found dead, and 21 are stuck with mental illness after succeeding at turning the U.S.S Eldridge invisible. "The supposed effect on the crew sent them to the hospital for the remainder of the war [WWII]. The ship was so affected that the vessel disappeared and reappeared on one other occasion" (The Philadelphia Experiment Revisited by Joseph Pothier page 15). The ship had undergone an experiment that caused it to disappear from the Philadelphia Navy Yard, reappear in Norfolk, Virginia, then return rematerialized back to the ship yard just short of 15 minutes. It is said that this rematerialization caused men to become fused with the ship. “The men on board …show more content…

Project Rainbow, also known as the Philadelphia Experiment, was a military experiment conducted by Dr. Franklin Reno. This test was an attempt to create a ship that could be "invisible" to enemy radar using special equipment -including large oscillating magnets- and a sufficient amount of energy to bend light and space in time in order for the ship to undergo an invisible and obliterated state. Making objects turn invisible populated the minds of scientists in the 1930's. Famous scientists such as Albert Einstein and Nicola Tesla worked on it …show more content…

Allende" (The Philadelphia Experiment by William Moore and Charles Berlitz page 18). The letters presented Allende's claims of seeing the Eldridge disappear and reappear and also witnessing odd things happen to crew members such as one man disappearing during a bar fight. "In his letters, Allende revealed horrifying details of the Philadelphia Experiment to Dr. Jessup. Because Dr. Jessup was something of a believer in odd phenomenon he did not entirely dismiss the ideas presented to him. He wrote back to Allende and requested new information…Allende responded with more detailed letters, but…Dr. Jessup dismissed it as a hoax" (crystallinks.com). Around the time of Jessup's dismissing of Allende, he received a copy of his book The Case for UFOs heavily marked and noted. He eventually went over and analyzed the notes after being advised to do so by the Office of Naval Research

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