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- From: hummell+@pitt.edu (Andrew G Hummell)
- Newsgroups: alt.folklore.ghost-stories
- Subject: Re: Phantom Ship Inquiry
- Keywords: Philadelphia Experiment
- Message-ID: <1176@blue.cis.pitt.edu>
- Date: 27 Dec 92 01:09:12 GMT
- References: <BzFwp4.CMz@world.std.com> <1992Dec23.153519.1@stc10.ctd.ornl.gov>
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- In article <1992Dec23.153519.1@stc10.ctd.ornl.gov> ibc@stc10.ctd.ornl.gov writes:
- >I seem to remember hearing something about a large naval ship, maybe a
- >battleship, "disappearing" temporarily in the Philadelphia ship yards. I
- >don't recall when this was supposed to have happened. Can anyone fill
- >in the details?
- >
- >Thanks,
- >Brian
-
- From what I remember reading about the incident (in a book and numerous
- articles), the destroyer escort (?) Eldridge was part of a top secret
- experiment sometime between 1945 and 1948. The experiment was to render
- the ship invisible to radar. What supposedly happened ranges from source to
- source, but apparently the ship became really invisible and was teleported
- to Norfolk (where it was supposedly spotted appearing from thin air). Most
- of the crew were killed or disappeared. The survivors supposedly went insane
- and later disappeared as well. The military then (supposedly) went ito a full
- scale cover up (reporting the crew lost at sea/training accidents/plane
- crashes, etc.). Albert Einstein was also supposedly involved in the project.
- The only actual facts that I have seen regarding the incident were papers
- detailing the transfer of the ship to a Greek (?) shipping company after it
- was decomissioned. There was a 600 (maybe 60, I'm not sure, since I'm
- quoting from memory here) discrepancy (sp?) in the listed
- weight of the ship. It's military weight was 600 tons more that other ships
- of the same type, while its stripped-down weight matched that of other ships
- of its type (that were stripped for civilian use). The discrepancy was not
- a typo (it had appeared in two unrelated documents, supposedly), and it was
- not a result of the removal of weapons systems. That's all I really remember.
- There are a lot of things about this story which seem far-fetched and a lot
- that actually point towards an actual event. Unless someone in the military
- or government actually offers any proof, it will likely be just regarded as
- another (urban) legend.
-
- Andy
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