Philadelphia Experiment

Excerpted from "Hypotheses - Superatoms, Neutrinos and Extraterrestrials"

The Philadelphia Experiment - Chapter 15 by Bob Beckwith and Drew Craig SUMMARY/DISCUSSION: In one author's (Bob's) experience, the Philadelphia Story did happen during WW2 (in early 1944) but was related to the battle of sonar under water just off our coast. It was not related to the battle of radar over the skies of Europe as told in the movie THE PHILADELPHIA STORY. Also the boat involved was the minesweeper IX97, not the USS Destroyer Eldridge as in the 1984 science fiction version of the event. Just as early in the war we were losing the radar war over Europe, we were losing the sonar battle against German mines and submarines off our shores. Could we get troops to England in time? We did! Would the atomic bomb be finished in time? We used it! Was the war of radar and sonar won in time for us to win the war without needing the two atomic bombs? How will we ever know? In the actual Philadelphia Experiment the minesweeper IX97 was moved in time from a position in the Philadelphia harbor outside the Navy shipyard to a position at dock in Newport News CT where the IX97 had been two weeks previously. As the experimental power was raised nothing happened until suddenly, wham! It happened and sailors died as a result.

Col. Corso Author Col. Philip J. Corso has confirmed The Experiment from work he did with Admiral Burke while Chairman and chief policy maker of President Eisenhower's National Security Administration. Corso tells me (Bob Beckwith) of Burke's knowledge of the experiment and his deep concern and regret over the loss of life that resulted. Corso tells me that my recall of the event has greater detail than any source that he knows of. Adm. Burke He tells me that the project continued and has progressed greatly since then. Col. Corso has kindly given permission to use his name to this important confirmation of my 55 year old memory. The Experiment used and confirmed the principle of Chapter 13: Divided Space. As a result we now know that once the threshold of divided space is crossed, levitation, teleportation and time travel all become possible. The ability of gifted humans to levitate, teleport and travel in time can now be supported, duplicated and studied in university Biology and Psychology laboratories. Concurrently the barrier to low energy levitation, teleportation and time travel can be crossed in Engineering and Physics laboratories. Results from studies with humans and studies with machinery can

then be compared in recognition of the same underlying principle: Divided Space! (Note: Divided Space is what Dr. Greer refers to as the space on the other side of the Crossing Point of Light.) We cannot creep, however, using conservative scientific methods, into the realm of levitation, teleportation and time travel any more than we could have crept slowly into setting off the bomb. History leading up to this subject starts with Nicola Tesla in 1907. According to some reports he performed an experiment which was immediately classified. When he passed away in 1943 a custody battle evolved over ownership of his many notes. Some were taken to the Beograd N.T. Museum in Yugoslavia. Others were reported to have been seized and kept secret by our government. Many guesses have been made as to the nature of his experiment. So why not include ours as well? It is possible that Tesla put an object at point A on a table and then moved it to point B on the table. By applying power to an inventive circuit he was able to move it back to point A. Turning off the power brought it back to point B. This much is pretty well understood. Our guess is that he put coils under the table creating a three phase magnetic field around the object operating at a frequency of about 7.5 Hertz. When he applied power to the coils the object appeared to move from point B to point A and when power was removed, move back again to point B. What he did was use the fields to move the object in time back to when it was at point A and then remove power and let it come back to the present at point B. The principle of divided time needs to be expanded into theories which separates the

phenomena of levitation, teleportation and time travel. Without these theories very small scale experiments should be safely possible without knowing in advance just what to expect. There may be a source of information from synchronous electric power generators that are not totally enclosed so that the rotors are visible at least on one end. Hydro generators are generally of this type. Actually we have heard stories of generator rotors becoming hard to see as the generators are brought up to speed with their fields applied. Perhaps the phenomena is so common that operators pay no attention. The authors need to schedule a trip to a generating plant to watch a nonenclosed generator when it is started up. It is likely that Tesla was not using Einstein's principles as much as he was defying them. The government may have convinced him to keep time travel a secret and he went through the rest of his life frustrated in feeling people didn't listen to him but not able to tell them of his experiments. Or perhaps he did tell some who would not believe him and considered him somewhat crazy. The answers may be found in his notes if they are ever declassified. Tesla's experiment may have been the secret starting point for the Philadelphia Experiment. It is known that Tesla was interested in the possibility of transmitting alternating current power using purely magnetic waves. Our hypothesis of a six dimensional space uses the fifth and sixth dimension for electro and magnetic fields respectively. The experiment described herein used very large currents producing huge magnetic fields with only very small voltages to drive the currents. The waves used here would have been almost purely on the sixth, magnetic plane. If the stories of his experiments in 1907 are true, it seems likely

that Tesla used the same fields produced by what are now conventional three phase currents. Now we must get into the mindset of the nation during WW2. In about July of 1939 the Hearst Sunday supplement section of the Cleveland Plain Dealer carried an article telling of Fermi's theoretical work on nuclear fission. I remember reading about the predicted tank of water in everyone's basement with a bit of uranium heating the house for years at very low cost. Nuclear trains, planes, automobiles and everything else were projected. And also, so was the bomb. If a copy of this article could be found it would be of great historic interest! After getting an engineering degree from Case School of Applied Science I (Bob) went to work with General Electric. In 1942 I developed highly successful frequency shift keyed (FSK) transfer trip equipment. This eliminated one high voltage circuit breaker at each substation where generator power was stepped up in voltage for sending over a distance. The work had AAA priority as a part of a nationally coordinated electric utility crash program to connect existing generation together to supply power to Oak Ridge and to Hanford. Our use of FSK was some 5 years ahead of a second use in FSK telemetry (we had always called it telemetering) used after the war in test firing captured German V2 rockets at White sands. The FSK telemetry was derived from our work by Walt Hausz and others from the GE lab at Ithaca NY who had a contract for the test firing. FSK has since blossomed into world wide use. Remembering the Hearst article, there was never a doubt in my mind that our work was related to whatever was happening on the Manhattan project. I was silent, however, since

everyone else seemed to have missed or forgotten the Hearst article. Or perhaps some were playing the same discrete game of silence that I was. I wish I had kept a small article in the paper about a congressman, Harry Truman, who demanded to know why a lot of young men at Oak Ridge Tennessee and Hanford Washington were deferred. Someone must have taken Congressman Truman aside and told him it was OK since no more of his objection followed in the newspapers. In April, 1945, President Roosevelt died and Truman became president. Soon after president Truman made the big decision to drop the bomb. There were three major problems for electronic engineers during WW2. One was the battle of radar and very nicely presented recently in an hour long program on the Discovery channel. Sir Watson Watt of England was given credit for the development however others were also working on it. Professor Jack Martin at Case told me rather secretly about the development in 1941 before I graduated. I remember meeting Sir Watson Watt at an AIEE winter power meeting in New Your City shortly after the war ended. A second problem was the making and breaking of cryptographic codes, always kept very secret. There are few secrets anymore with most principles of cryptology available in technical papers readily available to anyone with the smarts to understand them. The only truly secret code may be quite simple but one requiring the receiving party to carry a decrypting message with him. The most elemental code is a 1 or 0 meaning 'yes' or 'no'-but what is the question? Or the question is 'well known but which is 'yes', the 1 or the 0?

A third, also kept quite secret, was the battle, using sonar against German submarines and mines. Our sonar was all made by the Submarine Signal Co of Groton CT, and I remember working with engineers from Sub Signal. They bragged about furnishing all of the sonar to the German and Japanese navies. As a result both the Germans and the Japanese had an earlier, lower frequency version than the one we were using. Neither enemy country had developed sonar technology and couldn't catch up with ours during WWII. The older technology used essentially electro-magnetic (EM) 'big loudspeaker' technology and our newer heads used a very secret barium titanate transducer. These sonar heads could be extended downward from surface ships much as an upside down periscope and generally built in place on submarines. These EM heads operated at top frequencies of about 15 kilohertz. Ours, on the other hand, used newly developed barium titanate transducers operating with top ranges above the audible band at about 26 kHz. We could hear them but they could not hear us! In late 1942, the success of the FSK power line carrier equipment attracted the interest of people at Bell Telephone's Muray Hill Laboratories near Morristown NJ. In a trip by my supervisor at GE, Ed Kenefake and me to Bell Lab we learned of the problem of the bottom anchored German mine with its magnetic detector. As I remember, one meeting included a nationally known scientist. He took on the problem of the mine since it seemed we could lose the war by not being able to get troops to England before the development of the bomb was complete. The Germans developed a mine towards the end of WW1 that was set off without necessary

physical contact by detection of the magnetism of a ships steel hull. We were shown the magnetic detectors which involved a spring loaded solenoid with a permanent magnet floating against the spring. Between WWl and WW2 we had developed minesweepers that set these off using cables hanging along the sides of a surface operating minesweeper boat. The cables carried a low frequency AC current at the resonant frequency of the solenoid and spring. The frequency was in the 5 to 8 Hertz range. This caused the mines to detonate far enough away from the minesweeper so as generally not to cause damage. Then at the start of WW2, the Germans surprised us with a mine anchored to the bottom that would not explode when the detector was activated by the minesweeper but first would rise to the surface just in time to get the minesweeper. This was often fatal to our minesweeper and became a major problem in keeping our shipping lanes open. I don't remember how these mines were laid by the Germans but most likely from submarines just off the US coastline, far removed from the radar war over Europe. The actual fuse was quite sophisticated in that it would count ships before releasing the mine to the surface. The intent could have been to try to get the minesweeper or perhaps a troop carrier as a more important target than supply ships. Ed Kenefake and I visited Bell Laboratory in late 1942. The new problem of the bottom anchored German mines was studied and it was hoped that FSK sonar would detect the mines at a sufficient distance to find and destroy them. After all, we were enthusiastic about the excellent results that we were getting with the very new FSK technology applied to power line carrier equipment.

An experiment was carried out early in 1943 in a very secret lake and unfortunately found out that the FSK sonar didn't work. The sonar head ran along a track in the lake. Using the FSK sonar, the head would run up and touch a dummy mine without seeing it! The very secret lake was found by following one's way through the woods beyond a particular mail box along a rural road outside Boonton NJ. One very helpful mailcarrier helped us find the lake by telling us where this mailbox was where he left mail for the laboratory. There was no evidence of a road whatsoever. We simply followed the only possible path between trees having been told vaguely how to do this. The lab at the lake was operated by Bell Laboratories with Dr. Horton as our technical director. I remember Dr. Vannevar Bush being mentioned as the 'big man in charge' with names of Einstein and Tesla mentioned as involved. 'The bomb' wasn't ready and it was feared that the German submarine/mine problem might cause us to lose the war before the bomb could be used. During that first visit we did hear of a program to quickly move a minesweeper out of the way when a mine was detected by sonar as rising from the bottom. After failure of the FSK sonar we received a continuing contract to develop frequency modulated sonar at 26 kHz for surface to surface and surface to submarine communications. This was potentially a secret means of communications since the Germans couldn't hear 26 kHz and might not know of its presence. Even if they did, there were no 26 kHz equipment on the German submarines. The FM communications was to be tried out at a laboratory facility at the New London CT Navy base.

For our communications experiments we used the Sardonix, a luxury yacht converted for sonar work and the minesweeper IX97. The IX97 had degaussing cables hanging over the port and starboard sides of the boat. A third cable was supported on masts over the top of the boat. The officers took their ships where we needed them to go to carry out our experiments and had little involvement in the experiments except to volunteer to judge their ability to talk with the communications noise and distortion that was always present. I was issued the civilian pass SHIPS 3777 shown in Fig. l5.la giving me access to government and military facilities and especially to come aboard surface ships and submarines as required. The pass also got me my first ride on an airplane. It was on a DC3 on a flight to visit Hanford WA for work not related to the story here. At General Electric we developed equipment for FM voice modulation of 26 kHz sonar 'heads' for ship to ship to submarine voice communications. These were tested from June 16 to July 7, 1944, at the Underwater Sound Laboratories at the New London CT Naval base. Figs. 15.2a through 15.2e show my expense account for the trip. Note the reference on the page for June 26 to 15,000 yards communications between the Sardonix and the IX97 using FM. Also note the lunch charges of 45 and 50 cents for meals on the Sardonix when at the dock with no charge on days at sea. Dr. Horton and I usually traveled with the Sardonix where we were always guests of the officers. No food could have been better. I remember the toast consisting of a loaf of bread with the crust removed and toasted as a loaf on all four sides so that just the edges of

each slice were brown. This was saturated with butter as a loaf and served with 1" cubes of butter. It was about the only butter that I saw during WW2! On June 27, Dr. Horton appeared with a Bell Lab single sideband transmitter and receiver converted for the 26 kHz we were using; saying "Today we are going to test SSB." We did and it worked better than FM for a reason that surprised us both. On an oscilloscope, the distortion of the FM and SSB were about the same. The difference was that the SSB distortion was linear. Even when the voice changed between 'rain-barrel' to dolphin squeak quality, the meaning of the messages was recognizable. With FM the distortion was non-linear and reduced the voice quality to unintelligible. I graciously conceded Dr. Horton, our boss, was very correct in his choice of single sideband. I had long technical discussions with Dr. Horton about the merits of FM and SSB for the task at hand. Our Bell Lab supervisor was Vic Graff, and I must pause to tell his story which may never be recorded otherwise. Before the war started, Vic was testing a Goodyear blimp with a prototype radar mounted on nylon cords glued to the air and gas bags between the upper gas filled portion of the blimp and the lower air filled portion. Air was pumped in and out of the lower part of the blimp in order to go up or down. Before the submarine nets were closed at the entrance of Long Island Sound, it was found by sonar that a German sub had entered the sound waiting for the war to start. On an experimental run one evening, the sub was found on the surface charging its batteries. It immediately dove, however the blimp shut off

its engines and drifted waiting for the sub to run out of air and to surface. Shortly before the time expected for the sub to have to surface, a vacuum tube in the radar quit. Vic stripped to his shorts and crawled out on the lower fabric, changed the tube, and got the radar working. Very soon after the repair was made the sub surfaced. As soon as the sub surfaced it was picked up again on the blimps radar and the blimp drifted just over the unsuspecting sub while Vic and others opened the door and rolled bombs, brought along 'just in case', out the door sinking the sub. I can remember Dr. Horton telling us about a short trip to Pearl Harbor just before our June, 1944 experiment and telling of his ride on a submarine while there. It seems the sub got stuck in a bow up situation and had difficulty getting the ballast tanks straightened out so as to get horizontal again! In appreciation for the work that I did, Dr. Horton arranged for me to go to sea on a sub hunt sub mission on Monday July 3. This turned out to be a game of our sonar vs the German sub sonar. Our boat made no contact during the day but I well remember the return to base in the evening. We were entering the narrows leading to New London harbor where ships had to proceed one after another. Our sub was coming in on the surface and I was outside watching when suddenly a sub surfaced just ahead of us, cutting us off. Our skipper had to reverse props fast to avoid a collision. It seems that the other sub was French and had a broom tied to the periscope, the recognized indication of a kill. The bars that evening were full of French submarines that could do no wrong. Unfortunately, while I found myself always well accepted when working with the Navy

personnel of all ranks, I felt very much out of place in the bars in the evening. Not really any place for a civilian. The movie, PHILADELPHIA EXPERIMENT, stated that the experiment was for the purpose of making a ship invisible to radar. Radar was not a major problem to the Navy, whereas submarines and the new type of German mine were. It appears that the true Philadelphia Experiment was planned in part at least, by Dr. Horton and others at Bell Lab and people at the underwater sound lab that we worked with in the communications experiment. The IX97 must have been the minesweeper involved since what other reason would there have been for the third overhead 'degaussing' cable? The amazing happening just a few months before our experiment was the constant scuttlebutt conversation during meals and idle time as our boats moved in and out of the New London harbor. The stories were about the disappearance and movement of the IX97 and disturbing results that led the skipper and experimenters to quickly shut down the experiment when they suddenly found themselves at the dock in Newport News. Navy operators and undoubtedly at least one civilian in charge of the experiment may have been completely enclosed in the inner ships cabin space and 'went along for the ride' with no ill effects. The IX97 may have stayed in Norfolk long enough for those frightened operators of the experiment, enclosed in the space, to see where they were and suddenly turn off the power bringing the ship back to Philadelphia yards. Unfortunate sailors on deck or the dock must have been partly moved in time giving them the mind disturbing space separation of Fig. l5.lb.

One most unfortunate mate fell from the deck to a position where he was trapped in the steelwork. Part of his body was inside and part outside of a cowling just forward of a port side cabin door. There was fresh paint on the inside and outside of this curved cowling. The main cabin formed the research room housing our experimental gear. The bridge was above us. A small room towards the stern housed three special looking generators motor driven from ships power. Controls for these generators were in the back of the main cabin. The IX97 was very cramped whereas the Sardonix was deluxe with a lounge, kitchen, officers mess and quest bedrooms. More sophisticated equipment may have been involved in preparing the minesweeper than that described here. I had the sense of a quick experiment gotten together in a matter of a few months and must have been rather simple addition to the 'standard' minesweeper. Since we needed all the minesweepers we could get into active service, it surely was the IX97 which made the time trip and was kept out of duty a few months longer for our experiment with FM/SSB communications. I believe three phase currents were placed through the wires at a low frequency. This frequency could have been at one of the earth's resonances recognized by Tesla and first measured by Schulman. The frequencies were approximately 7.5, 14 and 21 Hz. I believe the generators operated over this range of frequencies. Both in space ships per HYPOTHESES, and in the experiment, this twisting field must be necessary to break the field of strong force lines and create an inner space separated from universal space. Once separated, the inner space containing the ship apparently moved

about two weeks back to a time when the ship was berthed at Norfolk VA. As they gradually eased the power up, the experimenters found that lower power levels had no noticeable effect. Suddenly a threshold was crossed and, wham, they traveled back two weeks in time instead of the desired 15 minutes or so needed to get out of the way of a mine. Actually they may have hoped just to levitate or teleport and did not recognize the possibility of time travel. The idea of a discontinuity in the power level vs. travel function fits perfectly in support of the divided space hypothesis of Chapter 13. As the current level in the three cables is increased, force lines begin to tear between the ship and universal space. Only when the level reached the point that all lines were broken was the IX97 free from the pull of the earth and the time of the present. Once free, the boat was free to suddenly go wherever it is that things within a divided space go. In the case of the IX97, that place was two weeks back in time to the place where it was at berth in Newport News. Turning the power off when the skipper saw what had happened reconnected the divided space to universal space, jerking the boat back to the Philadelphia Navy yard harbor. The return of the IX97 to Philadelphia was within seconds of the time it left, not in 1984 as in the science fiction version released to movie houses in 1984. It could be that the jump point uses less energy if the frequency of the rotating magnetic field is synchronous with the Earth's Schulman resonant frequency. Tesla may have known of the relationship of the Earth's resonance but not to the depth of predicting the results of The Experiment. Besides Tesla passed away in 1943 and may not have been personally involved in the experiment. The frequency may have been varied along with the power level. With the power up and nothing going on, a small change

in frequency may have moved into a well of high sensitivity equivalent to, say, a ten fold increase in power. The 'Q' of the earth's resonances may be known to some readers and may well be between 10 and 100. The size of the three generators in the rear of the IX97 were about that of a 50 horsepower 60 Hz motor. Scaled down to 7.5 Hz, the power used may have been about 15Kw. Let's assume a weight of 1500 tons for the 1X97 and one kW equivalent to one horsepower. This gives l5xl03watts/3xl06 pounds = 5 milliwatts per pound. This is exactly the order of magnitude one can assume for a human who can levitate and teletransport without 'frying their brain'! And so another piece of the puzzle of HYPOTHESES fits together! It seems clear that the power used was far greater than needed if the phenomena were only better understood at the time. All that was intended was to move the minesweeper a mile or so out of the way of the mine, corresponding to a time movement of a few minutes. It then could be kept there until the mine surfaced and was destroyed. Of course those details were not worked out since first it was necessary to find out whether the ship could, indeed, be quickly moved. One must remember that, at the time, we were losing the war and especially a lot of shipping of material and troops to England. There was only time for one quick experiment as the minesweeper was vitally needed using the older technology with the expected high fatality rate. Knowing what was known after The Experiment, the sailors on the deck could have been either sent off the ship or back inside before removing power in Newport News. We didn't know, however. The sailors who were injured by the experiment had little choice which could have improved their chance of survival.

The Philadelphia Experiment was much like the atom bomb, it could either explode with a very large bang or it could fizzle. Some very forward looking scientists, starting with Fermi realized that. As a result, the Manhattan program was organized from the start on the grand scale required. The bomb program could not creep in the methodology still followed by conventional science from a small bang in a test tube and gradually building to a bang of the size desired. Likewise, neither can the jump into divided space be made by the conservative scientific approach. The Philadelphia Experiment must send a message to the free scientific world that profess all progress as creeping carefully along a path a step at a time with careful peer approval of each step. They will never reach the world of levitation, teleportation and time travel that way! HYPOTHESIS: Movement of a space into a divided space may be accomplished by creating a rotating magnetic field within the space. Separation of the divided space will occur suddenly above a line which is a function of the strength and the frequency of the field. The shape of the line will be that of a simple resonance of a cavity which in this case is the resonance of the earth's atmosphere. Once the space is divided, objects within the space may levitate, teleport or move in time. Parameters controlling the mix of these effects are unknown to the authors at present. The authors suggest that the effect of the rotating magnetic field is to create a vortex in the neutrino field. We suggest that gifted humans produce the vortex by causing the DNA molecules in the body cells to form a spiral configuration. The neutrinos follow this configuration in sufficient number to create the separated space.

Using nanotechnology it may be possible to create a curved surface of tiny moveable heavy metal surfaces so as to create a divided space that can be switched on and off by control of the moveable surfaces. HYPOTHESIS: If two rotating magnetic fields are operated in synchronism with one moving clockwise and the other counter clockwise objects within one such space can be moved to the other space when power is applied. This would be the fundamental principle of operation of the teleporter stations said to be operational between Eglin AFB and a base in Australia. It may be that the bodies of the sailors on the deck of the IX97 had become separated into a number of isolated spaces as shown in Fig. 15.3. Here, the areas marked by % are in a first zone, by $ in a second, by # in a third, by + in a fourth, by @ in a fifth and in * in a sixth. If so, heat and nerve signals could not flow across the dividing boundaries. It is easy to visualize the disruption of the functioning of a body so divided. QUESTION: Is the drastic effect experienced by sailors participating in The Philadelphia Experiment related to conditions of mental patients in general? Could something be learned from reports of the experiment if they could be declassified? Surely this 54 year old information could now be made available to the mental health industry if requested for possible use in the free portion of our scientific community. HYPOTHESIS: If an effect as shown in Fig. 15.3 can be produced magnetically, surely some physicist can find a way to re-couple all of the strong force lines within a human body. Intuitively this seems no more difficult than a

cat scan. If this is found to be a factor in mental illness, the procedure would certainly be beneficial. A procedure should be possible that is essentially without risk; surely so as compared to electric shock therapy. I clearly remember the scuttlebutt among those of us working together in New London concerning the experiments and I had no reason not to believe the stories which included men trapped in steelwork and men with very serious mental disorders. The mealtime and free time conversations may or may not have included Dr. Horton, but I believe that some did. As to the validity of the scuttlebutt concerning the ship moving experiment, I can only say that jokes of this kind simply were not made up during the war. Besides, how could one hoax a story involving so many people? The Experiment could well have been planned and carried out by civilian scientists with little involvement of the Navy, as with the work in which I was involved. Fig. 15.2a) through d) show my expense account book for the trip as evidence proving my work at New London. There seem to be no rumors of the technique being developed, and used during WW2, however the Philadelphia experiment surely was not forgotten. Where has this knowledge lead in the 50 years since the end of WW2? The magnetic mine is long since obsolete or if not, highly refined. The effect noted on the minds of the sailors near the minesweeper during the experiment and as illustrated by Fig. 15.3 may well have been independently developed into an insidious offensive anti-personnel weapon leaving little or no trace of its use. (c) February 14, 1998 Robert W. Beckwith

Born in 1919, Bob Beckwith is an ex-General Electric Electrical Engineer who was also manager of the computer section of their Electronics Lab in Syracuse for 6 years. He holds 5 patents establishing the principles of frequency shift keying (FSK), and several other patents. The book is self-published and can be obtained from the author at: Robert W. Beckwith 2794 Camden Road Clearwater, Fla 33759 Tel: 813 726 5411 RWB@psinet.com Note: there were actually three USS "Eldridge"s -- however the vessel that was involved in the experiment is still in storage in the US with the cable marks still on the sides, and one of the "Eldridge"s was indeed sold to the Greek Government as the myth has it. It is also strongly rumored that the results of this experiment will be de-classified in 2002.