Project Rainbow

Now this is a very fun conspiracy theory.  Project rainbow, also called the Philadelphia experiment was a speculated experiment aboard the USS Eldridge is mid to late 1943.  Now that by itself is not too interesting.  What makes it interesting is the experiment that was conducted.  It is said that the tests conducted involve something like experimenting in magnetic invisibility, optical invisibility, or radar invisibility.  The United States Navy denies that any such experiment every occurred or took place.


The USS Eldridge as seen in 1944

The experiment

What is known for certain is that there were programs to make United States ships be invisible to magnetic torpedoes.  Experiments were conducted by wrapping ships in big cables and sending high voltages through in hopes to scramble the magnetic structure.  What makes this experiment significant though is the results of this experiment.  What conspiracy theorists believe is that with the Philadelphia experiment a green fog seemed to cover the ship.  It is said that the ship was out of sync or not phased in reality properly.  Crew members were able to walk through walls during this and when it re-phased some people were stuck in walls and some were missing entirely.

Is it a hoax?

The ship logs of the USS Eldridge show that it was never even near Philadelphia at the time of the experiment and the United States Navy denies that an experiment like this ever was even conducted, so at the surface it would be easy to call it a hoax.  If this experiment actually did happen like people say it did then the Navy would do everything in their power to keep it a secret and faking ship logs would have been an easy thing to do to cover it up. Yes, evidence points to it being a hoax, but if I were to dismiss any conspiracy where the powers at be denied it then there would be no point to this blog. I think this conspiracy has a nice plausibility to it.  I think that invisibility experiments were likely conducted and they did not go as planned.  Whether or not people could walk through walls during this experiment is not known for sure and I do not think the Navy would ever admit to it if it were true.  With that I call this conspiracy plausible.

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Sources

Krystek, Lee. "The UnMuseum - The Philadelphia Experiment." The Philadelphia Experiment. 1999. Accessed November 30, 2015. http://www.unmuseum.org/philex.htm.

"Philadelphia Experiment." The Philadelphia Experiment. Accessed November 30, 2015. http://skepdic.com/philadel.html.

 "THE PHILADELPHIA EXPERIMENT." THE PHILADELPHIA EXPERIMENT. Accessed November 30, 2015. http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/montauk/rainbow/philadelphia_experiment.htm.