"The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings"
John F. Kennedy
I swear that sometimes you can find the strangest stuff on the internet by accident. This is a fascinating story I stumbled across while trying to find a movie on Netflix. I decided to rent a movie I saw many years ago called The Philadelphia Experiment. It was a low grade science fiction movie about a US Navy ship (USS Eldridge) that in World War II, acted a test bed for a radar cloaking experiment. That was the cover story. It turns out this experiment was much more than just radar cloaking. It was an outgrowth of a bizarre theory Nikola Tesla came up with decades ago. Not much happened with Tesla's theory until World War II. It was adopted by Albert Schweitzer and this revolutionary new technology continued to be developed under code name Project Rainbow, or better known now as The Philadelphia Experiment.
The movie was entertaining enough to make me want to see it again. After seeing it for the second time, I decided to do some sleuthing on the internet to see if there really was a USS Eldridge, or if the entire premise of the movie was fiction. Surprisingly, I did find there really was a USS Eldridge. It was one of the new destroyer escorts built to protect our convoys in the sea lanes from Nazi U Boats attacks. The Navy knew it was outgunned in 1943 and the losses in the Atlantic were staggering. The war was being lost. We needed to come up with something new, and fast.
Project Rainbow was developed to test Einstein's Unified Field Theory. This theory was "star wars on steroids". It was the uniting electromagnetism and gravity into one field. Consequently, if light was bent, then space-time would be bent, effectively creating an invisible time machine. Even though the Navy denies any of this nonsense ever took place, eye witness accounts keep popping up. Many from the Philadelphia Navy Yard in 1943. These eye witness accounts swear a Navy ship sitting stationary in the Philadelphia harbor, start to glow, become encased in greenish fog, and then disappeared. After four hours, the ship reappeared with some very strange after effects.
Here is where the tale gets stranger, much, much stranger. Once the Eldridge reappeared (or as some say, "rematerialized") in Philadelphia harbor, it was immediately noticed the crew had suffered some unfathomable trauma. Some went crazy, two were missing, and four had been "fused" into the superstructure of the ship, and then died. The Navy immediately classified the entire proceeding "above top secret", de-commissioned the ship, and then sold it to a South American country to be used in their Navy.
However, that is not the end of this tale. As bad as the outcome was for the crew, certain sectors of the government were very interested in how the Eldridge disappeared, appeared 300 miles to the south and then reappeared back in Philadelphia. Consequently the experiment continued under a very heavy wrap of secrecy at Camp Hero, a derelic Air Force Station at Montauk Point, New York. This locale was chosen because it housed a huge Sage radar antenna that emitted a frequency of approximately 400-425 Megahertz coincidentally the same band used to enter the consciousness of the human mind. Under the code name Project Phoenix, this clandestine endeavor was primarily to study mind control and how to link the human mind and powerful computers. There are some very reluctant witnesses who where involved in Project Phoenix at that time who said it was much more that that. They were using the results of the Eldridge experiment and developed time portals and worm holes. The base is now abandoned and the "beyond top secret" findings and continued experimentation has moved elsewhere.
There you have it. What started out in a seach for a movie to watch ended up with this tale. Is it real, or is it just another internet urban legend? I don't know. Be it real or unreal, it was an interesting tale to discover.
425 megahertz...no coincidence
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