The Philadelphia Experiment was an alleged event claimed to have been witnessed by an ex- merchant mariner named Carl M. Allen described an experiment where the U. Navy attempted to make a destroyer escort , the USS Eldridge , disappear and the bizarre results that followed.
The story surfaced in late when Allen sent a book full of hand-written annotations referring to the experiment to a U. Navy research organization and, a little later, a series of letters making further claims to a UFO book writer. Allen's account of the event is widely understood to be a hoax.
Several different—and sometimes contradictory—versions of the alleged experiment have circulated over the years in paranormal literature and popular movies.
The U. Navy maintains that no such experiment was ever conducted, that the details of the story contradict well-established facts about USS Eldridge , and that the physics the experiment is claimed to be based on are non-existent. The story of a "Philadelphia Experiment" originated in late when Carl M.
Allen sent an anonymous package marked "Happy Easter" containing a copy of Morris K. Office of Naval Research. The book was filled with handwritten notes in its margins, written with three different shades of blue ink, appearing to detail a debate among three individuals, only one of whom is given a name: "Jemi". They commented on Jessup's ideas about the propulsion for flying saucers , discussed alien races , and expressed concern that Jessup was too close to discovering their technology.
