Philadelphia Probing

 

The project was termed as the 'Montauk Project' and was surrounded by a lot of rumours stating that the US government had been conducting experiments in psychological warfare in Montauk during the mid-1980's. The going narrative leads up to the 1983 movie based on the incident during World war II with a famous covert military operation. 

The Philadelphia Probing, in which the US Navy destroyer escort USS Eldridge was allegedly cloaked in invisibility, occurred on or around October 28, 1943. The warship was briefly rendered invisible and teleported from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Norfolk, Virginia. When the Eldridge reappeared, the bulkhead of the ship was reported as suffering from delusions. Some crew members purportedly vanished altogether. On October 28, 1943, at exactly 17.15 hours, the destroyer warship from the United States Navy, Eldridge, at anchor in the port of Philadelphia, disappeared under a flash of green light. A few minutes later the ship reappeared in the waters in front of Norfolk, 500 kilometres further North. It then once again, disappeared, returning to Philadelphia, in the same exact spot from where it disappeared. 

The experiment was conducted on a naval shipyard, on a quest to discover a way to foil Nazi radar so that they could safely transport supplies to the Allies in Europe, which the Navy has never admitted, but according to conspiracy theories as far back as 1955, it not only succeeded in uncovering how to make the ship invisible to radar but cause the battleship to travel to another place or another time. After the military learnt about the negative effects of the experiment, they shut the project down. For over thirty six years officials have denied this, have denied any experimentation to keep the matters hidden and this hiding has raised certain questions :

Why -

● Were all the men aboard ship who survived the incident have been discharged as mentally unfit?

● Did a scientific researcher on the project meet a mysterious death?

● Were identities hidden, documents lost and amazing connections between UFO, Sightings and Events in the Bermuda Triangle denied?

The probing is still a mystery and lies among many unsolved puzzles of the world...  

-Swagato Chatterjee

Kolkata