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One day in 1943, at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, something happened . . . Suddenly the U.S.S. Eldridge, a fully manned destroyer escort, vanished into a green fog, within seconds appeared in Norfolk, Virginia, and then reappeared in Philadelphia! For over thirty-six years officials have denied this, have denied any experimentation to render matter invisible -- have denied the reality of THE PHILADELPHIA EXPERIMENT. If so, why -- * were all the men aboard ship who survived discharged as mentally unfit? * did a scientific researcher on the project meet a mysterious death? * were identities hidden, documents lost, and amazing connections between UFO sightings and events in the Bermuda Triangle denied? THE PHILADELPHIA EXPERIMENT -- the first full-length documented report on a chilling unsolved mystery that's been discussed for years. Now, official documents and first-hand stories have been revealed. Here is the truth in a report so shattering it is difficult to believe it's NOT fiction.… (más)
Original reading, mid- to late-1990s. Original review when I got LibraryThing in 2006ish (misspelling of weird and all):
A fun weave of half-baked theories and quarter-baked research. Was the US cooking up some wierd stuff? Sure. Did it include invisibility? Probably not. Did Moore and Berlitz have to engage in sloppy scholarship? No.
Second reading in 2023. New review:
To me it appears Moore did the lion's share of research and writing, and Berlitz was tacked on for publicity and sales. Moore appears to have been duped by some folks (on a newspaper clipping that appears to not exist), he is too credulous on Carl Allen, and he bounces around too much to make a proper case. The story of Jessup is the most interesting: his book on U.F.O.s, the annotations (by Allen only?), and the Varo Edition. But Moore is too credulous here too. Better research can now be found on the internet. To rehash my original review: did the U.S. try to make a ship invisible? Most likely not. Was it degaussing blown up by urban legend? Probably. A good book? Not really, but foundational for dozens of others in its ilk of government, conspiracy, ufology, etc. ( )
Really unconvincing attempt to make the reader believe that both a naval ship and naval personnel became invisible. The best part is the reproduction of the US Navy form letter. Nevertheless it is an entertaining even if you are just spotting the howlers. ( )
A fun weave of half-baked theories and quarter-baked research. Was the US cooking up some wierd stuff? Sure. Did it include invisibility? Probably not. Did Moore and Berlitz have to engage in sloppy scholarship? No. ( )
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One day in 1943, at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, something happened . . . Suddenly the U.S.S. Eldridge, a fully manned destroyer escort, vanished into a green fog, within seconds appeared in Norfolk, Virginia, and then reappeared in Philadelphia! For over thirty-six years officials have denied this, have denied any experimentation to render matter invisible -- have denied the reality of THE PHILADELPHIA EXPERIMENT. If so, why -- * were all the men aboard ship who survived discharged as mentally unfit? * did a scientific researcher on the project meet a mysterious death? * were identities hidden, documents lost, and amazing connections between UFO sightings and events in the Bermuda Triangle denied? THE PHILADELPHIA EXPERIMENT -- the first full-length documented report on a chilling unsolved mystery that's been discussed for years. Now, official documents and first-hand stories have been revealed. Here is the truth in a report so shattering it is difficult to believe it's NOT fiction.
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A fun weave of half-baked theories and quarter-baked research. Was the US cooking up some wierd stuff? Sure. Did it include invisibility? Probably not. Did Moore and Berlitz have to engage in sloppy scholarship? No.
Second reading in 2023. New review:
To me it appears Moore did the lion's share of research and writing, and Berlitz was tacked on for publicity and sales. Moore appears to have been duped by some folks (on a newspaper clipping that appears to not exist), he is too credulous on Carl Allen, and he bounces around too much to make a proper case. The story of Jessup is the most interesting: his book on U.F.O.s, the annotations (by Allen only?), and the Varo Edition. But Moore is too credulous here too. Better research can now be found on the internet. To rehash my original review: did the U.S. try to make a ship invisible? Most likely not. Was it degaussing blown up by urban legend? Probably. A good book? Not really, but foundational for dozens of others in its ilk of government, conspiracy, ufology, etc. (