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[[Image:0617302.jpg|right|300px|thumb|USS ''Eldridge'' (DE-173) in 1943.]]

[[Image:0617302.jpg|right|300px|thumb|USS ''Eldridge'' (DE-173) in 1943.]]

The '''Philadelphia Experiment''' was an alleged test conducted by the [[United States Navy]] in [[Philadelphia]], [[Pennsylvania]] during [[World War II]], and involving [[Albert Einstein]]'s [[unified field theory]].  The object of the experiment was to make a ship and its crew completely disappear from the naked eye as well as to teleport the ship from one location to the other.

According to some conspiracy theorists and UFOlogists, the '''Philadelphia Experiment''' was a test conducted by the [[United States Navy]] in [[Philadelphia]], [[Pennsylvania]] during [[World War II]]. Points of fact aside, the biggest flaw in the Philadelphia Experiment myth is the central part played by [[Albert Einstein]]'s [[unified field theory]] - Einstein didn't come up with a Unified Field Theory.  The alleged object of the experiment was to make a ship and its crew completely disappear from the naked eye as well as to teleport the ship from one location to the other.

==Facts of the account==

==Facts of the account==

''Eldridge'' was stricken from the Naval Register in 1951, and sold to the Royal Hellenic Navy of [[Greece]] as ''Leon''.  Her complete World War II action report and war diary coverage, including the remarks section of the 1943 deck log, is available on microfilm, NRS-1978-26, from the Operational Archives of the Department of the Navy.

''Eldridge'' was stricken from the Naval Register in 1951, and sold to the Royal Hellenic Navy of [[Greece]] as ''Leon''.  Her complete World War II action report and war diary coverage, including the remarks section of the 1943 deck log, is available on microfilm, NRS-1978-26, from the Operational Archives of the Department of the Navy.