I've been reading up on the claims of the navys "project rainbow" a.k.a. the philadelphia experiment I think the U.S. government does keep information from the general public,but this sounds pretty crazy! I want to know if anyone else has any info or opinions on this.Thank you.

care to ellaborate on this? I vaguely remember eading about it.

The Philidelphia Experiment (Project Invisibility)

Project Rainbow was allegedly an experiment conducted upon a small destroyer escort ship during World War II, both in the Philadelphia Naval Yard and at sea; the goal was to make that ship invisible to enemy detection. The accounts vary as to whether the original idea was to achieve invisibility to enemy radar or whether the prize sought after was more profound: optical invisibility. Either way, it is commonly believed that the mechanism involved was the generation of an incredibly intense magnetic field around the ship, which would cause refraction or bending of light or radar waves around the ship, much like a mirage created by heated air over a road on a summer day. The legend goes on to say that the experiment was a complete success... except that the ship actually disappeared physically for a time, and then returned. They wanted to 'cloak' the ship from view, but they got de-materialization and teleportation instead... It has been claimed that the Philadelphia Experiment was partly an investigation into how Albert Einstein's 'Unified Field Theory for Gravitation and Electricity' might be used to advantage in the development of electronic camouflage for ships at sea. Einstein allegedly published his Unified Theory around 1925-27 in German, in a Prussian scientific journal, but it was later withdrawn as incomplete. This research was aimed at using intense electromagnetic fields to mask a ship from incoming projectiles, mainly torpedoes. This was later extended to include a study of creating radar invisibility by a similar field in the air rather than in the water. The story begins in June of 1943, with the U.S.S. Eldridge, DE (Destroyer Escort) 173, being fitted with tons of experimental electronic equipment. This included, according to one source, two massive generators of 75 KVA each, mounted where the forward gun turret would have been, distributing their power through four magnetic coils mounted on the deck. Three RF transmitters (2 megawatt CW each, mounted on the deck), three thousand '6L6' power amplifier tubes (used to drive the field coils of the two generators), special synchronizing and modulation circuits, and a host of other specialized hardware were employed to generate massive electromagnetic fields which, when properly configured, would be able to bend light and radio waves around the ship, thus making it invisible to enemy observers. The experiment, said to have taken place at the Philadelphia Naval Yard and also at sea, took place on at least one occasion while in full view of the Merchant Marine ship S.S. Andrew Furuseth, and other observation ships. The Andrew Furuseth becomes significant because one of its crewmen is the source of most of the original material making up the PX legend. Carlos Allende, a.k.a. Carl Allen, wrote a series of strange letters to one Dr. Morris K. Jessup in the 1950's in which he described what he claims to have witnessed: at least one of the several phases of the Philadelphia Experiment. At 0900 hours, on July 22nd, 1943, so the story goes, the power to the generators was turned on, and the massive electromagnetic fields started to build up. A greenish fog was seen to slowly envelop the ship, concealing it from view. Then the fog itself is said to have disappeared, taking the Eldridge with it, leaving only undisturbed water where the ship had been anchored only moments before. The elite officers of the Navy and scientists involved gazed in awe at their greatest achievement: the ship and crew were not only radar invisible but invisible to the eye as well! Everything worked as planned, and about fifteen minutes later they ordered the men to shut down the generators. The greenish fog slowly reappeared, and the Eldridge began to dematerialize as the fog subsided, but it was evident to all that something had gone wrong. When boarded by personnel from shore, the crew above deck were found to be disoriented and nauseous. The Navy removed the crew, and shortly after obtained another. In the end, the Navy decided that they only wanted radar invisibility, and the equipment was altered. On the 28th of October in 1943, at 17:15, the final test on the Eldridge was performed. The electromagnetic field generators were turned on again, and the Eldridge became near-invisible; only a faint outline of the hull remained visible in the water. Everything was fine for the first few seconds, and then, in a blinding blue flash, the ship completely vanished. Within seconds it reappeared miles away, in Norfolk, Virginia, and was seen for several minutes. The Eldridge then disappeared from Norfolk as mysteriously as it had arrived, and reappeared back in Philadelphia Naval Yard. This time most of the sailors were violently sick. Some of the crew were simply 'missing' never to return. Some went crazy, but, strangest of all, five men were fused to the metal in the ship's structure. The men that survived were never the same again. Those that lived were discharged as 'mentally unfit' for duty, regardless of their true condition. So, what had begun as an experiment in electronic camouflage, ended up as an accidental teleportation of an entire ship and crew, to a distant location and back again, all in a matter of minutes! Although the above may seem fantastic, one must remember, that in the 1940’s the atomic bomb was also being invented.

yeah they based it on an idea einstien had for time travel using reverse magnetism but apparantly the people on board the ship were hurt badly in the experement but the ship did disapear and emerge at the other location so apparantly they abandoned the idea, but we never know, oh and einstien was very unhappy about them using his idea for milatary puropses.

The ship vanished and is apparently supposed to have travelled in time 40 years but i dont know if that is true or not but when the ship reappeared. Alot of the crew was melded with the walls and floor of the ship , Others had gone crazy and some were sick and others had died from heart attacks which could mean they died of fear. Also when the ship arrived it was supposed to have a stange green mist floating on the ships deck and inside the ship

There was a pamphlet written about this years ago. It contained supposedly legitimate copies of government documents concerning the experiment. It also had interviews with survivors. I was dodgy though, spiral bound like from a copier shop. It was a good read if you removed your common sense.

I have had an interest in this for most of my life (about 50 years) The basic points do not seem to have changed in that time, but two movies have added a lot of imagination to the original story.The older of the two movies is worth having a look at, while the newer one is really just an action flic based on the original premise. I believe that the experiment did occur, (it seems to have been well documented from an early stage) that something very stange did happen, (I am not sure if the results were what was expected or not) and that something did go wrong . I do not believe that this did prevent ongoing experimentation. ( some modern stealth technology, and theoretical work on worm holes, as well as real advances in particle aceleration could be linked to this kind of experiment. If nothing else, it is one of those cases where a real event has created a huge range of speculative fiction about time travel, dematerialisation/matter transfer and even alternate universes.

Every member of the ship's crew denies that any form of this event ever occurred, except for Al Bielek, who was nowhere near the ship on the date he claims to have witnessed the experiment... LINK-> Philadelphia Experiment

The ship that disappeared was also said to have fused other things then people together (engines, controls, etc...) The entire experiment was sunk shortly after, If I am not mistaken.
Also, I would see no reason for them to shut down the experiment, they would have done all that for near no reason. So, keeping the data, modifying equipment.... along with general advances in technology, would give them more of a reason to keep it going.

uh i don't think it travelled in time, rather, it moved to another location pretty far away (well it was spotted there) for a quick bit

the Philadelphia Experiment was a military experiment, and was supposed to see if a sort of camoflauge works. I think it was implementing the use of magnetic waves to bend something or other. Anyway, when they activated it, the ship disappeared, and as i mentioned, reappeared somewhere else.

it then did the disappearing act again, and went back the original place. when it did, crew members were fused to the ship, like melded to the metal and sh**. some were ill, mentally and physically.

some guy who had something to do with it was supposed to do an interview on the scifi show "sightings". he had talked to the producer and everything, and been filmed showing (a minor version) of how something like this COULD work. he used a toy model of a ship and made it disappear.

the segment didn't air the way it was supposed to, though. it was horribly edited, and the showing of the ship never made it. they twisted his interview around and gave viewers the wrong idea.

hmm i think there's more. any questions? try to jog my memory or something

i gotta go make some ramen now