Philadelphia Experiment Cards
Description: Philadelphia Experiment - The Philadelphia Experiment is a popular 1943 naval urban legend claiming that the US Navy successfully cloaked the destroyer escort USS Eldridge from radar. Conspiracy theories allege the ship was accidentally teleported to Norfolk, Virginia, and traveled through time.
Description: 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, sometime around October 28, 1943. Allen described an experiment where the U.S. Navy attempted to make a destroyer escort class ship, the USS Eldridge, disappear and the bizarre results that followed.
