The Philadelphia Experiment: The origin of the Montauk Project dates back to 1943 when radar invisibility was being researched aboard the USS Eldridge. As the Eldridge was stationed at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, the events concerning the ship have commonly been referred to as

the "Philadelphia Experiment" which was also known as the "Rainbow Project" to those who named and operated it. It was designed as a top-secret project that would help end World War 2. The forerunner of today's stealth technology, the Rainbow Project was experimenting with a

the technique to make a ship invisible to enemy radar. This was done by creating an "electromagnetic bottle" which actually diverted radars waves around the ship. An "electromagnetic bottle" changes the entire electromagnetic field of a specific area - in this case, the field

encompassing the USS Eldridge. While the objective was to simply make the ship undetectable by radar, it had a totally unexpected and drastic side effect. It made the ship invisible to the naked eye and removed it from the space-time continuum. The ship suddenly reappeared

in Norfolk, Virginia, hundreds of miles away. The project was a success from a material standpoint, but it was a drastic catastrophe to the people involved. While the USS Eldridge "moved" from the Philadelphia Naval Yark to Norfolk and back again, the crew found themselves

in complete disorientation. They had left the physical universe and had no familiar surroundings to relate to. Upon their return to the Philadelphia Naval Yard, some were planted into the bulkheads of the ship itself. Those who survived were in a mental state of disorientation

and absolute horror. The crew was subsequently discharged as "mentally unfit" after having spent considerable time in rehabilitation. The status of "mentally unfit" made it very convenient for their stories to be discredited. This put the Rainbow Project at a standstill.

Although a major breakthrough had occurred, there was no certaintity that human beings could survive further experimentation. It was too risky. Dr. John von Neumann, who headed the project, was now summoned to work on the Manhattan Project. This concerned the making of the

atom bomb which became the weapon of choice for ending World War 2. Although it is not well known, vast research that began with the Rainbow Project was resumed in the late 1940s. It continued on, culminating with a hole being ripped through space-time at Montauk in 1983.