Case file · Non-fiction & research literature
Berlitz & Moore, 'The Philadelphia Experiment' and the Allende letters
Book claiming that the US Navy made the destroyer escort USS Eldridge invisible in 1943, based on letters from 'Carlos Allende' (Carl M. Allen).
1979 CE · 39.89, -75.18 · status: hoax
The account
For: the story drew on annotated copies of a UFO book sent to the Office of Naval Research in the 1950s, and the Navy did research ship degaussing in wartime.
The sceptical view
Against: Allen's account is widely understood to be a hoax; the Navy says no such experiment occurred, and ship records place the Eldridge elsewhere.
Connections in the atlas
- The Philadelphia Experiment: Project Invisibility