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DISASTER DELUXE

(INVISIBILITY AND FLYING RODENTS)

During the early years of World War II, German U-boats decimated allied shipping in the Atlantic Ocean. With the allied war effort teetering on defeat, America’s strategic planners were tempted to try anything in lessening tonnage sunk. One idea proposed and acted upon was the attempted cloaking of an American warship in a wave of invisibility.

The code name for this operation was “Project Rainbow”. Today it is commonly known as, “The Philadelphia Experiment”. If this scheme worked, Allied convoys would be immune to Nazi attacks; the fleets would be lost to sight.

The error-filled evanescence Project Rainbow experiments were conducted in 1943, in the Philadelphia Naval Yard. The US Eldridge and crew were selected for this dangerous venture.

To achieve ultimate concealment, scientists used Einstein’s unified field theory as a template. It was reasoned a large object could be rendered invisible if a constant field of electromagnetic refraction surrounded it.

The Eldridge, a destroyer escort, was loaded with generators and high-voltage equipment. When the machines were activated, it was thought the enormous amounts of energy swirling in and around the ship would create an energy cloud. The coursing power would create a dimensional bend in the fabric of space. The twisting of matter in the third dimension would render the ship invisible.

The Philadelphia Experiment was an unmitigated disaster. The first time the Eldridge was cloaked, the ship disappeared in a cloud of green smoke. The Eldridge reappeared fifteen minutes later. The experiment had undermined the vessel’s crew. Disorientated, sick, and dizzy, the Eldridge’s compliment had to be helped from the destroyer escort and given medical assistance.

The second attempt at concealment was more tragic. The ship vanished in a cloud of blue smoke. The warship materialized momentarily 200 miles away at the Norfolk Naval Yard. The Eldridge was then lost from view, and then burst forth at its old station in Philadelphia.

Operation Rainbow technicians boarded the now discernible warship and could not believe their eyes. The Eldridge’s crew was found at their duty stations, either unconscious or too weak to move. Some blue jackets were mad with delirium, others were found embedded in the ship’s superstructure and hull. For no apparent reason some of the remaining seamen burst into flames.

Even more frightening, some of the trial ship’s mariners were never accounted for. It was attested by some of the frigate’s survivors, the missing, out of pain and fear, had jumped off the Eldridge into the water or void that surrounded the corvette when it blinked out. These sailors were forever lost.

It was purported, hours and sometimes days after the second experiment. Some of the surviving sailors were seen to go out of focus, vanish, incarnate and sometimes never reappear. One incident had dazed, angry sailors materializing in a Philadelphia bar. A fight was started then the blue jackets melted into a back wall.

Obviously, the scientists guiding the trials did not know what they were toying with when they tried to bend light and matter by way of electromagnetic power. The Eldridge underwent two experiments in the Philadelphia Naval Yard, it was rumored more trials were conducted on the high seas. Eventually Operation Rainbow was cancelled. In its place the Montauk Project was commenced.

What was learned from the Philadelphia Experiment was honed and expanded upon at Camp Hero, near Montauk, Long Island. The top secret Montauk tests, were supposedly terminated in 1969.

With the experiment completed, the Eldridge was sent into harms way, as a ship of the line. Legend attests, the desertion rate for the vessel was high, bizarre occurrences arose on the warship. Years after the invisibility trials, ghostly figures would gleam into view, then fade away. Strange sounds were heard inside the ship; inexplicable vanishings happened.

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)