Yes, it was real. Engineering theorist Marshall Barnes has spent decades unravelling the threads in the complex story of the Philadelphia Experiment, and brings this complex piece of Naval folklore squarely into focus as a real piece of World War II history. In addition addressing the core story outlined in the classic Berlitz book, "The Philadelphia Experiment", he also tackles the more difficult challenge of decades of folklore, cover-ups, and bunk-stories from popular late-night radio programs.

"I began researching the Project Rainbow (otherwise known as the Philadelphia Experiment) in 1991. My first lecture on it was before the St. Louis MUFON UFO Day meeting in a hotel in St. Charles, MO that same year. That's where I first introduced the quantum mechanical connection to the Philadelphia Experiment's teleportation element - macroscopic quantum tunneling. Originally, the first thing I had looked into was the matter of invisibility and teleportation. I used physicists from the IBM Watson Research Center in up-state New York and at the Columbus Community College as sounding boards. I also eventually consulted with Fred Alan Wolf, PhD. In fact, Wolf confirmed the self-consistency of my space-time diagrams which married the original Allende account with the (now known to be completely bogus) Al Bielek account. I was the first and only one to do that, again, trying to make sense and apply physics to this complicated story." -- Marshall Barnes

Interview Link: Inside the Philadelphia Experiment
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