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Philadelphia Experiment

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Also known as Project Rainbow

urban legend about a supposed US Naval experiment in 1943

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Within Vinony's link graph, Philadelphia Experiment is referenced by 505 other articles, and connects out to temporal paradox, unidentified flying object and ufology.

It is catalogued under topics including 1943 in Pennsylvania, American urban legends and Conspiracy theories involving the United States military.

Its subject is documented across 36 Wikipedia language editions.

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USS Eldridge (DE-173) underway, circa in 1944.jpg
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USS Eldridge (DE-173), c. 1944

The Philadelphia Experiment was an alleged event claimed to have been witnessed by an ex-merchant mariner named Carl M. Allen at the United States Navy's Philadelphia Naval Shipyard in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, some time around October 28, 1943. Allen described an experiment where the U.S. Navy attempted to make a destroyer escort, USS Eldridge, disappear and the bizarre results that followed.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Philadelphia Experiment” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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