Another modern myth - of Project Rainbow, an odd experiment in 'electronic camouflage' allegedly undertaken in October 1943 by U.S Office of Naval Research at the Philadelphia Naval Yard, and conducted on a destroyer, the USS Eldridge. The purpose was to render crew and ship invisible within an electromagnetic 'force field' by applying Einstein's Unified Field Theory.
Allegedly the Eldridge vanished, appeared in the harbour at Norfolk, Virginia, then rematerialised at Philadelphia. Not just invisibility but teleportation had been achieved. Many of the crew reportedly went mad, fell ill and died, burst into flames, walked through walls or vanished.
The evidence? In 1956 UFOlogist Morris K. Jessup received two letters from a man calling himself Carl M. Allen or Carlos Miguel Allende, claiming that, crewing the SS Andrew Furuseth out of Norfolk, he had seen it occur and knew the fate of the Eldridge's crew. Allende remains a mystery: Jessup committed suicide in 1959. Allende's main evidence was a newspaper article he said he read in 1943. Berlitz and Moore claim to own a photocopy of it.¹ Received anonymously, it is undated and the newspaper unidentified. Uder the headline 'Strange Circumstances Surround Tavern Brawl', it tells how the Philadelphia police, answering a call to break up a bar fight, arrived to find the bar empty. Two frightened waitresses said the Shore Patrol had already cleared the bar, but not before two of the sailors involved 'just sort of vanished into thin air...right there', as one of the waitresses claimed.
This story has survived half a centuary, but Einstein, said to have been party to this test of his theories, is no longer available for questioning.
¹The Philadelphia Mystery, Charles Berlitz and William Moore, Granda, London, 1980.
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