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Larry717
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Let's get this right the first time. The proponents of the Philadelphia Experiment were wacko UFOnauts. Jacques Vallee proved it was a hoax. And it was Morris K. Jessup, the "intrepid" UFO investigator who believed Carlos Allende's wonderful fabrications about a Navy Destroyer disappearing from one port and reappearing at another!
Now, you may ask, why do I bring this up? Only to say that the story has become further distorted by people like the man who claims to have assumed the personality of a crew member and traveled back and forth in time!
How about getting the "facts" in order. The experiment supposedly involved some sort of movement of the ship through the fourth dimension, which was construed to be an extra spatial dimension, not time.
What's worse is that this phony who claims to have been inside the body of a crew member, invented his own story called the "Montauk Project." It seems that one hoax is re-fashioned into another.
But what is it about the Philadelphia Experiment that is so appealing to the masses?
First, its secretiveness. It was supposed to be on the same level as the Manhattan Project. And, doesn't it always feel good to know a "secret" about something "really important"?
Second, that it is a military secret. Oh, what power and intrigue. I can't remember the person who said this, but here it is: "Military secrets are the most fleeting of all." Not much of a secret after all!
Third, a whole new form of "space travel" is opened up. Mason Valentine, a close friend of Jessup's, claimed that we would soon go to the "farthest" stars with a "phase change" of matter, inorganic and vital, through an "interdimensional gateway."
Finally, that humans would make contact with ETs as a consequence of the "trans-dimensional" experiments.
More to come...
Larry
Now, you may ask, why do I bring this up? Only to say that the story has become further distorted by people like the man who claims to have assumed the personality of a crew member and traveled back and forth in time!
How about getting the "facts" in order. The experiment supposedly involved some sort of movement of the ship through the fourth dimension, which was construed to be an extra spatial dimension, not time.
What's worse is that this phony who claims to have been inside the body of a crew member, invented his own story called the "Montauk Project." It seems that one hoax is re-fashioned into another.
But what is it about the Philadelphia Experiment that is so appealing to the masses?
First, its secretiveness. It was supposed to be on the same level as the Manhattan Project. And, doesn't it always feel good to know a "secret" about something "really important"?
Second, that it is a military secret. Oh, what power and intrigue. I can't remember the person who said this, but here it is: "Military secrets are the most fleeting of all." Not much of a secret after all!
Third, a whole new form of "space travel" is opened up. Mason Valentine, a close friend of Jessup's, claimed that we would soon go to the "farthest" stars with a "phase change" of matter, inorganic and vital, through an "interdimensional gateway."
Finally, that humans would make contact with ETs as a consequence of the "trans-dimensional" experiments.
More to come...
Larry