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The Philadelphia Experiment
Copyright © 1979by William Moore and Charles Berlitz
First published in the U.S.A. byGrosset & Dunlap Inc.,First British Edition published 1979 bySouvenir PressLtd., 43 Great Russell Street,London WC1B3PAReissued in paperback 1990Reissued 1994Reprinted 1997Reprinted 2004All Rights Reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, inany form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the priorpermission of the Copyright owner.ISBN 0 285 62999 9Made and printed in Great Britain by Cox & Wyman Ltd, Reading, Berkshire.The publishers gratefully acknowledge permission to reprint the following:Selection from Albert Einstein, Creator and Rebel by Helen Dukas and Banesh Hoffmann. Copyright © 1972 byHelen Dukas and Banesh Hoffman. Reprinted by permission of Viking-Penguin, Inc.Selection from The New York Times © 1940 by The New York Times Company. Reprinted by permission.Dedicated to the outriders of science whose quest for knowledge takes them to the most distant stars and to theinnermost worlds.
PUBLISHER'S NOTE
It is more than thirty years since the events surrounding the PhiladelphiaExperiment are purported to have taken place. Many of the people who may havebeen concerned are now dead; others may be too afraid to come forward; anydocumentary evidence, if it ever existed, has vanished and is unlikely to come tolight. Whether or not there was ever an experiment in invisibility which succeededso dramatically and terribly, cannot under present circumstances be completelysubstantiated.All that can be said is that during his long experience as a researcher and lectureron the mysteries of the world, Charles Berlitz has been questioned more frequentlyon the Philadelphia Experiment than on any other subject. Despite a succession of dead ends, denials by the American Office of Naval Information and a total lack of concrete evidence, the subject will not die. Somehow, somewhere, it originated,and enough faith in its possible authenticity survives to lead the authors to suggestthat it could have happened. They have carried out the most painstaking research,and while no final proof has emerged, they feel that the evidence they havecollected is probably as much as we shall ever possess with which to judge thetruth. The fact that Einstein progressed to a certain point with his Unified FieldTheory means that the possibility of making something - or someone - invisiblecannot be ruled out; many equally incredible theories have in recent years achieved
 
respectability through sound scientific research, and we know that we are butscratching the surface of the many strange phenomena crowding our universe.Here, then, is the story of the Philadelphia Experimem. The authors leave it to usto make up our own minds as to whether we can believe it or not.
CONTENTS
Introduction1 A Close Encounter with the Incredible2 Fan Mail for a Scientist3 The Navy Takes Note4 Some Clues and a Few Conjectures5 The Mysterious Senor Allende6 Investigations Can Be Fatal7 The Einstein Connection8 The Elusive Archives9 The Unexpected Key10 The Force Fields of Townsend Brown11 The Reality of the Impossible12 The Circle Closes Acknowledgements Chronological BibliographyWhen a distinguished but elderly scientist slates that something is possible, he isalmost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is probablywrong. Arthur C ClarkeActually the biggest deterrent to scientific progress is a refusal of some people,including scientists to believe that things that seem amazing can really happen.George S. Trimble (of Glenn L. Martin Co. 1955; and later, director of NASA Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston)
INTRODUCTION
by Charles BerlitzDuring my research for the writing of The Bermuda Triangle I came across anincident so unusual in terms of accepted scientific possibility as to be almostincredible. In earlier ages, perhaps, it would doubtlessly have been easier tobelieve, but only as a manifestation of pure magic - the work of wizards. For thealleged incident concerned nothing less than a successful experiment in invisibility,performed in 1943 in the decidedly unmagical surroundings of the PhiladelphiaNavy Yard.According to one version of this incident, a Navy destroyer escort was caused, bya series of magnetic manifestations, to vanish temporarily and then to reappear atanother place. More detailed versions tell of deleterious effects on crew memberswho manned the disappearing craft and whose psychological after-effects and insome instances deaths caused further experimentation to be abandoned.
 
This incident, story, or legend has been consistently denied by the Office of NavalInformation but nevertheless appears to have a persistent and ever-expanding lifethrough references in print and insistent declarations by individuals (who generallyare unwilling to be named) who claim to have witnessed the events which now, forwant of a better (or code) name, are referred to as the 'Philadelphia Experiment.'My own special interest in the Philadelphia Experiment was connected with thepossibility that a shift in the molecular composition of matter, induced by intensifiedand resonant magnetism, could cause an object to vanish -one possible explanationof some of the disappearances within the Bermuda Triangle. In my lecturesthroughout the nation and overseas I noted an extraordinary public interest when Imentioned the Philadelphia Experiment, and. surprisingly, occasionally thereappeared a 'witness,1 who usually had a passion for anonymity.During a college lecture appearance two years ago I met a young English teacher,an author with a flair for research. His obsessive interest in the PhiladelphiaExperiment story has taken him to various parts of the country, and his dedicationhas helped him to overcome official denials, to locate conveniently missingdocuments, to renew the memory of forgetful witnesses, and even to find certainkey scientists whose proximity to and familiarity with this experiment *which nevertook place* had impelled them to live quietly in an extremely isolated area, perhapsfor reasons of health (or survival).This new research unearthed by Bill Moore, the tireless researcher referred toabove, has been incorporated into the following joint investigation which presentsinformation never before revealed; information which indicates that the 'impossible'experiment actually took place. The research itself is a fascinating exercise inovercoming official inertia, camouflage, and cover-up. The inference isextraordinary, for if the experiment was carried on as indicated, we once stood, andperhaps still stand, at the edge of the discovery of how to make objects and people,others and ourselves, invisible - one of the oldest dreams of man.But this and other ancient dreams no longer seem so unattainable, especiallysince 1945, when a dream of supreme and explosive power first became anactuality at Alamogordo. Coincidentally, at least two other projects more properlyreserved to the domain of science fiction were reportedly under way at a time(1943) when America was seeking unusual aids for protection and survival. One of these was concerned with antigravity and the other with invisibility, but work onthese was reportedly suspended with the evident success of the atom bomb.This unusual book makes a surprisingly concrete case for the actuality of thisexperiment in invisibility. At the same time one might consider the premise that themost remarkable discoveries of science should not necessarily be triggered bywartime conditions - an example being the peaceful exploration of space.If the Philadelphia Experiment was stopped at the edge of success, one feels thatperhaps it should be started again or continued. For, as the universe expands
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