Did a top secret U.S. Navy experiment in 1943 really succeed in making a newly built destroyer invisible? Or even as some versions of this extraordinary tale have it-disappear altogether from its berth in Philadelphia and reappear only minutes later in Norfolk, Virginia? This is the storv that has been kept alive for thirty-five years, although never properly verified. And if so spectacular a result was actually achieved at the height of World War Two, why was the project apparently abandoned and erased from the official records?
Speculations about the Philadelphia Experiment only acquired a firmer basis of fact thanks to the efforts of Charles Berlitz and his indefatigable research- er, William Moore, both men with a uniaue talent for finding answers when others had long abandoned the trail.
Embarking on an experimen in invisibility by using intensified force fields around the ship, the USS Eldridge. the Navy, the authors suggest, could have acted on the principles of Einstein's as yet unproved Unified Field Theory, with a success beyond their wildest dreams. But there were tales of side effects that made any further experiments totally undesirable: crew members who disappeared without a trace, others who went mad, claimed to have met alien beings or became physical and mental wrecks, unwilling or unable to tell what had happened to them,
Further evidence came from the sinister Carlos M. Allende who claimed in letters to have witnessed the experiment but who resisted all attempts to track him down; from the strange....
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