Radar-invisible Stealth aircraft and ships are a regular part of modern warfare. The next generations are said to blend into their environment using what's called "adaptive camouflage", making them invisible to the eye as well as radar.
The most famous invis
Radar-invisible Stealth aircraft and ships are a regular part of modern warfare. The next generations are said to blend into their environment using what's called "adaptive camouflage", making them invisible to the eye as well as radar.
The most famous invisibility tale, however, is the Philadelphia Experiment, a classic story of military experimentation gone wrong. As part of Project Rainbow, while docked at Philadelphia Navy Yard in 1943, the cannon-class destroyer USS Eldridge (DE 173) was fitted with a number of powerful generators and something called a "time zero generator". When this was switched on, the Eldridge was engulfed in a greenish haze, then, with the imprint of its hull still visible in the water, the ship disappeared from view for 20 minutes.
Following the experiment, the Eldridge's crew appeared highly excitable, even ravingly insane. Those onboard claimed to have seen another port, Newport News in Virginia, 600 miles from Philadelphia. Had the ship been teleported there during the experiment? A second experiment took place a few weeks later, this time at sea accompanied by SS Andrew Furuseth.
Once again, the Eldridge vanished but, when it reappeared, many of its crew were horribly burned, others had "merged" with the structure of the ship. One vanished entirely.
The Philadelphia Experiment was the subject of a best-selling book, and a 1984 film. Both proposed that the vanishing crew were somehow catapulte