From: pierce@lanai.cs.ucla.edu (Brad Pierce)
Subject: Re: [cover-up] extraterrestial spacecraft / Philadelphia Experiment
Organization: UCLA, Computer Science Department
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 08:31:14 GMT

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From: jtchew@csa3.lbl.gov (Ad absurdum per aspera)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.folklore.science
Subject: Re: Philadelphia Experiment
Date: 9 Nov 1992 10:36 PST
Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory - Berkeley, CA, USA

>I've recently been hearing vague mutterings about something called the
>Philadelphia Experiment. 

The people who believe in it are indeed given to vague muttering.
A useful trick is to gradually move out of their field of vision
to determine whether they are addressing *you* rather than the
fire hydrant, absent friends, or so forth.  

Various stories have it that a destroyer was subjected to an
ultrahigh magnetojargonic field and thereby (cloaked) (twisted
through the space-time continuum and deposited in another place)
(sterilized of all life forms).  In other words, technoid hocus-
pocus of the same caliber found in the lesser episodes of Star Trek, 
only instead of punting the football of plausibility by setting it 
in the 23rd century, they claim it was done in 1943.

I never even succeeded in watching the entire movie, possibly
because of excessive sobriety.

Joe "The Trilateral Commission pays me to spread this disinformation
because the technology was adapted from the flying saucer at Wright-
Patterson Air F... HEY! STOP TH7834qR)%^

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From: pratta@rpi.edu (Anthony Edward Prattico)
Subject: Re: Philadelphia Experiment
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 23:28:39 GMT

In article <9NOV199210360473@csa3.lbl.gov> jtchew@csa3.lbl.gov (Ad absurdum per aspera) writes:

>>I've recently been hearing vague mutterings about something called the
>>Philadelphia Experiment. 

>Various stories have it that a destroyer was subjected to an
>ultrahigh magnetojargonic field and thereby (cloaked) (twisted
>through the space-time continuum and deposited in another place)
>(sterilized of all life forms).  In other words, technoid hocus-
>pocus of the same caliber found in the lesser episodes of Star Trek, 
>only instead of punting the football of plausibility by setting it 
>in the 23rd century, they claim it was done in 1943.
>
>
It wasn't devoid of life, but supposedly things happened that caused several
crew members to completely lose their minds, and some to have memory blocks
about the experiment because the memories are too horrible.

Things like some officer walking through a compartment wall, strange creatures
from another dimension, and, in the movie, a crew member materializing in the
middle of the steel deck (Half in, half out).

The boat supposedly was spotted in some Southern river (Potomac?) at the same
time the experiment was being conducted in Philadelphia. I read the book and it
didn't say much of anything at all about it. The destroyer's name, in case
anyone's interested, was the Eldridge. The book was very difficult to find-
eventually we got it through interlibrary loan.

-Anthony
pratta@rpi.edu
Anthony_Prattico@mts.rpi.edu

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From: cliffw@sequent.com (Cliff White)
Subject: Re: Philadelphia Experiment
Organization: Sequent Computer Systems, Inc.
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 00:02:37 GMT

In article <9NOV199210360473@csa3.lbl.gov> jtchew@csa3.lbl.gov (Ad absurdum per aspera) writes:
>>I've recently been hearing vague mutterings about something called the
>>Philadelphia Experiment. 
>
>The people who believe in it are indeed given to vague muttering.
>A useful trick is to gradually move out of their field of vision
>to determine whether they are addressing *you* rather than the
>fire hydrant, absent friends, or so forth.  
>
The basic story comes from a book, written by Charles Berlitz
His basic source, as i recall was a fella who admitted to various
periods of residence in various mental institutions. Berlitz believed
this consititued proof, since the goverment obviously locked the guy
up and scrambled his brains because he knew too much.   
He also spends most of a chapter proving that the US Navy did,
*in fact*, repair and service destroyers in the Philadelphia Navy Yard during
World War II...The book is full of amazingly well documented stuff
like that..:) 
Berlitz claims the purpose of the prject was to make the ship
'invisible' visually. He is kinda vague on how you achieve optical
invisibilty with magnets, but thats life...

>Various stories have it that a destroyer was subjected to an
>ultrahigh magnetojargonic field and thereby (cloaked) (twisted
>through the space-time continuum and deposited in another place)
>(sterilized of all life forms).  In other words, technoid hocus-
>pocus of the same caliber found in the lesser episodes of Star Trek, 
>only instead of punting the football of plausibility by setting it 
>in the 23rd century, they claim it was done in 1943.
>
>I never even succeeded in watching the entire movie, possibly
>because of excessive sobriety.
>
>Joe "The Trilateral Commission pays me to spread this disinformation
>because the technology was adapted from the flying saucer at Wright-
>Patterson Air F... HEY! STOP TH7834qR)%^

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From: dkelly@bio2.acpub.duke.edu (Dianne Kelly)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.folklore.science
Subject: Re: Philadelphia Experiment
Keywords: phillidelphia experiment cream cheese
Date: 10 Nov 92 04:15:43 GMT

By the way, Charles Berlitz was the same guy who brought us those highly
documented reports of Atlantis and the Bermuda Triangle. Some of his
in-depth research on the Philadelphia Experiment turned up that the Navy
had several"mad scientists" working for them at the time. These crazed
harbingers of doom were none other than Dr. Isaac Asimov, Robert
Heinlein, and the still living L. Sprague DeCamp. The three of them had
to finally threaten legal action to get Berlitz to apologize.
							
								Diane Kelly
								Duke Zoology

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