AN ALTERNATE EXPLANATION OF THE PHILADELPHIA EXPERIMENT by Rick Andersen The "Philadelphia Experiment" -- fact, legend, or whatever it is -- continues to haunt those of us who have been hooked by that persistent tale of electromagnetic space-time warping that may have teleported a U. S. Navy ship in 1943. I, for one, want to crack this nut wide open, and so I'm always looking for new info on this and related subjects. In the classified ad section of Popular Science, October 1991, the following ad appeared: PHILADELPHIA EXPERIMENT: Ship rendered INVISIBLE (1943). Thorough TECHNICAL details U. S. $40. Alexander Strang Fraser, Box 991-C, Nelson, BC, Canada V1L6A5. Forever a fool for new tidbits, no matter how tiny, I sent Mr. Fraser the $40 he requested and waited for the technical secret of secrets. Two weeks later a small 4 x 6 inch package arrived. I am reporting on it here for the benefit of all you good KeelyNetters who have better things to do with your $40 (like paying your phone bills, what with all that modem use!) than wasting it on a risk, when I am here to tell you what you would be getting--and all for FREE! (Well, minus the phone bill.) Why did I send $40 to Canada to someone I'd never heard of before? Because A. S. Fraser promised "thorough TECHNICAL details". Holy smokes, maybe this guy was ON the U.S.S. Eldridge, or designed the electronic equipment, and has been hiding out in Canada all these years and is now ready to spill the beans for all of us hungry researchers!? Heck, I'll risk $40 to find out! My $40 investment turned out to be a small booklet entitled "Invisibility Technology" which, to quote Fraser, "includes concise specialized information that seems to be nonexistent in any other publicly accessible literature". Already I was breaking out in a cold sweat. What could Fraser possibly have to reveal to us eager researchers? Fraser's booklet begins by rehashing the PE story as most of us have Page 1 heard it, beginning with the "Allende" letters. He then presents a list of historical dates chronicling the Navy's wartime activities, as a background to the PE events. Fraser relates that the Navy was looking for a way to camouflage its ships (optically), which would serve to push the battleship back up to the forefront of our military arsenal; it seems that the development of aircraft and refinements of submarine technology were causing the battleship to lose some of its former importance and glory. Artificial camouflage would be a definite fix for that problem. FRASER'S MAIN THESIS Alexander S. Fraser's main thesis is that the "field" created around the U.S.S. Eldridge (or whatever ship was used) was NOT electromagnetic in nature, contrary to what most of us have assumed; it was a THERMAL field. He asserts that any warping of space-time (a la Einstein) would have exhibited "enormous gravitational anomalies", which are absent from the usual PE accounts. Fraser interprets Einstein's theory to anticipate such gravitational 'shock waves' if space-time had actually been warped by massive electromagnetic fields. He then concludes that, although INVISIBILITY is probably what the Navy was indeed trying to accomplish, the MAGNETIC WARP explanation is probably mere legend-- perhaps first suggested by Carlos M. Allende's ASSUMPTIONS that the tests involved Einstein's Unified Field Theories. At this point Fraser looks at what Allende alleges to have WITNESSED, rather than simply speculated about-- Allende's remarks about a "scorch" field, fire, optical wavering like that seen through heated air-- all components of Fraser's "thermal field". Fraser speculates that the Navy was trying to induce an artificial OPTICAL MIRAGE effect via a blanket of heated air surrounding the ship. He compares the "optical wavering" effect to the mirage effects one can see across a hot pavement on a Summer day; similar atmospheric effects and "temperature inversions" have been known to cause certain islands to "vanish" optically when conditions are just right. How was this air blanket heated? Fraser cites scientific literature of the time to support his hypothesis that SONIC (sound) waves of high intensity were used to excite and heat the surrounding air molecules. Well, you certainly don't want the enemy to HEAR your sound source, so you must use an ULTRASONIC air horn-- or siren, to be more exact. Apparently, high power ultrasonic sirens were in use in the 1940's and it is interesting, as Fraser points out, that Carlos Allende's description of a pushing "flow" seems to fit the description of a "sonic wind" that would be experienced by anyone close to a high- power ultrasonic siren. Such a strong sonic field with its capacity to vibrate and heat matter (as in the ultrasonic cleaning machines used by industry today) would have detrimental effects on any crewmen nearby. Page 2 Fraser even explains the mysterious "green haze" (similarly noted in Bermuda Triangle accounts) as being a result of exciting the surrounding sea water with powerful ultrasonics -- "sonoluminescence" and related phenomena. But what about the reported TELEPORTATION of the Eldridge from Philadelphia to its other port at Norfolk, Virginia? Fraser speculates that some of the crew (on deck, only?) must have lost consciousness due to the powerful ultrasonic field-- and so lost track of time. In other words, the ship DID go to Norfolk--only it SAILED there, it didn't TELEPORT! To those crewmen who were out "cold", though, the trip seemed instantaneous. Fraser's brief "Appendix" does discuss more exotic possibilities such as gravity control, Zero-point Energy, etc., but he doesn't think that these were employed in the actual Philadelphia Experiment. As he suggests, the idea that Einstein's theories were the basis for the PE may "literally turn out to be a lot of hot air"! Fraser's ideas do seem to fit a number of aspects of the PE story. One gets the feeling that there are some good points to ponder, but also some rather flimsy assumptions-- the "unconscious crew" theory being one that I can't buy too easily. We should also consider the book by Berlitz & Moore, in which the anonymous elderly scientist (in the chapter, "The Unexpected Key") is quoted as saying that he, in fact, DID suggest to the Naval scientists that it would be easier to camouflage a ship by means of a "light air blanket", than by using high-power electromagnetics -- but he was told curtly that the trouble with having him at meetings was that he was good at getting the others off the subject! And to 'let these scientific fellows get on with their work' or some similar statement. This anonymous elderly scientist had also voiced his concern over the "Zeemanizing" of the atoms of both ship and crew when the field was turned on. The Zeeman Effect is defined as a spreading out of the spectral lines of atoms under the influence of a strong magnetic field. So this line of evidence appears to contradict Fraser's scenario. But Fraser's paper does present a balance, a counterpoint to some of the wild and unsubstantiated stuff being published about the Philadelphia Experiment. So from that standpoint I guess my $40 wasn't totally wasted. I just wanted to save my fellow KeelyNetters from blowing their hard-earned bread on a THEORY. Alexander S. Fraser's ad implied that he had a TECHNOLOGICAL SCOOP. Instead, he delivers a SPECULATIVE explanation for the PE. His guess is as good as the next guy's. Mr. Fraser is $40 richer, I am $40 wiser, and you can contact me for copies of his report-- for FREE-- if you'd like to see his material firsthand. His booklet is copyrighted but I'm not selling it, so I'm not stealing his research for resale. Page 3 My $40, however, is now in his pocket, which makes his report MINE, and if you request it from me, you'll at least know you're getting your money's worth!! 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