The Real Philadelphia Experiment

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The Real Philadelphia Experiment

Did a US Navy warship completely disappear in 1943?
Today we're going to pull a giant switch on the wall and activate
powerful generators, which will create a mysterious force field around
us and cause us all to disappear. For we're going to discuss the
perennially silly "Philadelphia Experiment."
The story goes that in October of 1943, at the Philadelphia Naval
Shipyard, an experiment was conducted aboard a US Navy Cannon-class
destroyer escort called the USS Eldridge, number DE-173. The experiment
involved the creation of a force field which rendered the ship invisible
both to the eye and to radar. The experiment was witnessed by hundreds,
possibly thousands, of sailors both ashore and on other ships nearby.
Unfortunately, there were severe side effects to the crew on board ship.
Some were found materialized inside the metal of the ship, others were
never seen again, and still others were driven insane or plagued for
years by mysterious cases of phasing in and out of existence. In typical
Navy fashion, everything has been denied.
None of the above ever actually happened. What follows, did actually happen.
The secret of the mysterious experiment and its terrible aftermath was
kept for 12 years, until one day when Morris Jessup, the author of a
book about UFO's, was unexpectedly summoned to the US Navy's Office of
Naval Research. The ONR had received, in the mail, a copy of Jessup's
UFO book, filled with handwritten annotations. The notes were all in the
same handwriting, but in three characters, in three colors of ink. The
notes revealed all the details of the Philadelphia Experiment, and the
ONR wanted to know if Jessup knew anything about who might have written
these notes and sent the book to them.
Jessup recognized the crazy handwriting immediately. He had received a
series of letters from a man calling himself Carlos
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