During the 1950s, stories about the Philadelphia Experiment were printed, thanks to the work of investigative journalists. Through the years more information has been uncovered. Skeptics claim Operation Rainbow is a pack of lies concocted by loons who could tell a tall tale. Maybe not...?
Oddly, journalist Carl Jessup, who led the investigation on the Philadelphia Experiment committed suicide. Weird Beards claim, Jessup was on the verge of breaking the story wide open, so he was silenced. His murder was made to look like self-destruction.
Respected UFO investigator J. Allen Hyneck who died in 1985, at age seventy-five, probed for facts about the top-secret Philadelphia Experiment. In Mexico, Hyneck met with an ex-naval officer who was in fear for his life and lived under an alias. The expatriate claimed to have been on the Eldridge during one of the ship’s experiments. According to the old salt, shore technicians had the ship vanishing and reappearing in less than fifteen minutes. But minutes on the Eldridge were skewered.
On the destroyer escort, the time lost in the vanishing was estimated to be in months. The Eldridge materialized in a hazy lighted void that could have been another planet or another dimension. The crew encountered intelligent insect or reptilian type creatures. These beings conducted experiments on the ship’s compliment. When the Eldridge rematerialized, the dimensional door or star gate it came through did not close. Since 1943, these evil non-humans have been entering into this world. Let’s hope there is no truth to this tale, but this yarn archive-wise, looks legit!
It has been documented; the War Department, which is now called the Pentagon, has experimented on American servicemen without their consent. In the guise of national security, soldiers have been radiated or given LSD while under surveillance. Then is it not probable the military experimented with invisibility during World War II, specifically on the Eldridge and its crew?
World War II was no pillow fight, when a government is fighting for its survival against tyrannical enemies anything and everything will be tried to gain victory. By that corollary, then the Philadelphia Experiment did take place.
Invisibility bah! How about bat bombs? In 1941, sixty-year-old dentist, Irwin Lyle, had a brainstorm concerning bats. While traveling the Southwest, Lyle witnessed tens of thousands of bats leave their caves as they swarmed into the dusk, in search of food.
The dentist pitched to the War Department, the radical idea of strapping incendiary bombs onto bats for use against Imperial Japan. The high command green lighted the scheme; “PROJECT X-RAY” was commenced.
The secret weapon project was not a slack wire production, great amounts of money and research went into making the bat bombers a reality. So keen was the military on the fruition of Project X-Ray, ordinance specialists were given the task of designing a small firebomb that could be put onto Free Tailed bats. The napalm like bomb had to be very small, the device could not interfere with the bomb carrier’s flight capabilities. Bombs of seventeen and twenty-eight grams were devised.
The Free Tailed rodents were specifically chosen for the project because they were deemed strong enough to carry the warhead. After much trial and error, a workable strategy was devised in how to deliver the animal bombers, with maximum effect to the enemy.
At five thousand feet under the cover of darkness, the shell carrying aerial rodents would be dropped over Japan in crate like carriers. The containers would break part at one thousand feet. The freed bats would fly over Japanese cities; find sanctuary inside houses, factory overhangs, and building crawl spaces.
Each shell would detonate when acid inside the weapon’s casing would corrode its firing pin. Every conical bat bomb was timed in hours, of how long it would take for the tension wire to break due to the acid. Once the firing pin was free, it would hit the detonator with a spring like effect.
Bang, the bomb and bat would burn for one to six minutes. With thousands of these bats combusting while inside Japanese production plants, the enemy’s war machine would come to a halt.
Bat bomb rehearsals were an astounding success. A dummy Japanese town at the Dugway Proving Grounds in Utah, went up in flames after bat bombers had been released over the target at night. Unfortunately some of the aerial weapons flew off the range and nested at the nearby American military base. Hangars and other military structures were destroyed by these airborne time bombs.
Hidden by darkness the flying rodents found shelter in buildings. The bombs went off in “X” amount of hours, giving the winged creatures plenty of time to find a haven, inaccessible to humans.
The bat bombs were perfected at military reservations near Carlsbad, New Mexico, and El Centro, California. The success of the Manhattan Project, the building and firing of the atomic bomb, made the bat bombers obsolete. In July of 1945, Project X-Ray was canceled.
If American strategists can implement a top-secret operation using bomb-carrying rodents, then does the Philadelphia Experiment sound that far fetched? (5)
THEY DIDN’T COME BACK ALIVE
(SEABOARD MYSTERY)
North Carolina’s, Roanoke Island, is twelve miles long by three miles wide. This small dot of land is home to a centuries-old mystery. In 1587, one hundred and seventeen English colonists established a settlement on the island. The homesteads were built atop a previously abandoned English camp.
The deserted camp had been home to fifteen Englishmen, who had vanished. There was no sign of combat or message detailing what had become of the settlers. It was thought, the small company of men had been destroyed by hostile Indians on the North Carolina mainland.
This bad omen did not dissuade the new pioneers from making the old home their new home. The hardy colonists were determined to make a better life for themselves in the new lands off the Atlantic seaboard.
The voyagers constructed numerous buildings and farmed the island. With the township secured, expedition leader John White promised the pioneers, “In less than a year more ships will return with more colonists and supplies.” White sailed for England with the flotilla that had brought the immigrants to Roanoke; his mission was to report to the English Crown on the progress of the lodgment.
For three years European ships did not visit the Atlantic outpost. War with Spain and economical upheavals prohibited White’s charter company from sending men and supplies to the Carolina anchorage.
Privateers did venture from England to check on the Roanoke colony, but their missions were aborted by greed. As the buccaneers engaged non-English ships all over the Atlantic, the divested pilgrims became an afterthought. The island roadstead was never visited because there was no profit in beaching at Roanoke.
By 1590 the Spanish naval threat to England had been checkmated. Only then was White able to assemble a convoy. Filled with supplies the task force sailed for Roanoke.
On arrival the fleet was greeted with silence. The colony’s houses were in a state of disrepair or had been torn down.
Where had the colonists gone? No graves were found. Carved onto a tree were the letters “CRO”. On a wooden fortification were emblazoned, “CROATAN”, which was the name of a nearby Indian tribe. It had been agreed upon, a Maltese cross would be carved upon large and small timbers if a disaster had over taken the English enclave. None were found.
The search was abandoned for the missing inhabitants when a storm chased the rescue ships into the Atlantic. In the open sea, the convoy sailed back to England. Protests by White about duty and lives in the balance did not move the ships’ officers from their decision. The squadron had taken storm damage; there was no profit at deserted Roanoke, and the crews were spooked.
Roanoke