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note: the following was archived from "The Philadelphia Experiment Murder" by Alexandra "Chica" Bruce, ISBN 0-9631889-5-X on November 8, 2001.
StealthSkater note: "Peter Moon" (alias Vince Barbarick) helped Preston Nichols recall his alleged experiences in a secret program involving time-travel and mind-control called the "Montauk Project". These tales appear in a series of books by SkyBooks Publishing. The Project was supposedly a logical extrapolation of unfinished research done in "Project Rainbow" and "the Philadelphia Experiment". These 2 men -- along with Al Bielek -- have come under great scrutiny and raised many eyebrows from even radical paranormal researchers. A 4th -- Duncan Cameron -- is now withdrawing his testimony which was quoted at length by the other three. And the fact that the tales have grown "wilder" in each succeeding book (despite Mr. Moon's very scant disclaimer remarks) have left many would-be researchers abandoning their quest for any truths. But these books nevertheless have attracted a "cult" following and have proved to be popular.
A new writer/investigator -- Alexandra "Chica" Bruce (http://www.chica.bruce.net )-- has joined the SkyBooks "family". She had accumulated much prior research experience on other topics BEFORE and independent of SkyBooks. Her book "The Philadelphia Experiment Murder" ISBN 0-9631889-5-X (published by SkyBooks and edited by Peter Moon) starts with the life & death of Phil Schneider and examines possible consequences of "alternate realities" (i.e., is this what really happened in the Montauk Project) if the quantum-based Many Worlds theory is true. This area is one of her main intellectual strengths.
Although I was very enthusiastic when I read my first Montauk book, I became more doubtful with each succeeding one I purchased. I find that I'm in good company -- I don't know a single well-published researcher who gives the tales much credit. One investigator (Dr. Boylan) did tell me "there is so much disinformation and lies about Montauk that the real truths (if any) will probably be never be known".
But I do NOT share that sentiment with Ms. Bruce's book. In fact, I almost wish she published it with another company else she be "guilty" by association with these others whom no one seems to take seriously. She does bring to the table a bewildering array of theories. But at the same time, she makes the repeated point that these are just "theories" and even reveal exchanges between advocates on the "same side of the fence" disagreeing with one another over these concepts. The book was worthwhile in that it revealed to me concepts that I had not previously known, plus clarifying some of those of which I had read. It's a good purchase as reference material and it is priced very modestly.
One of the subjects that stood out was her interview with a "Bob Beckwith" who said that the purpose of the Philadelphia Experiment was NOT radar-invisibility but pseudo-teleportation via backward time-travel to avoid German mines. The normal P-X story was alleged to be tricky Navy disinformation. This corroborates with an e-mail I received from "Bob King" who said his WWII experience knew that the P-X trials from-the-start were geared for teleportation. (His email is also posted on the P-X page at my site). The following is a small excerpt from Chica's book dealing with Mr. Beckwith's assertions. Please buy her book to learn more!
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… Bob Beckwith is the owner of a successful electrical engineering firm that services utility industries throughout the world. Beckwith is an innovator who has patented many electrical systems over his long career, and he shows no signs of quitting today.
Late in 1942 while still in his early 20s, Beckwith invented Frequency Shift Keyed transfer trip equipment which facilitated the sending of electrical power over long distances. … Bob's wunderkind status led to his being tapped by Bell Labs for a project to improve sonar technology. This was urgently needed to defend against German mines that were being laid off the U.S. coasts and were blowing Navy boats out of the water before they could reach the European theater.
Beckwith recalls that while the refinement of radar and grappling with its ramifications were of chief importance to wartime electrical engineers on the European front. "Radar was not a major problem to the Navy in the defense of the U.S. coast whereas submarines and the new German mine were." This is an interesting divergence from the predominating accounts of the Philadelphia Experiment legend which usually include a tangent about the Navy's frantic rush to develop "radar invisibility". As Beckwith remembers it, however, the radar war took place mainly in the skies over Europe. According to him, the protection of the U.S. coast was the primary objective of the real Philadelphia Experiment. And it was not a test of radar, per se.
Between WWI and WWII, the Germans had developed underwater mines that were set off by the magnetism of passing ships' hulls requiring no direct contact with the targets. The U.S. countered by developing minesweepers that were successful in setting off the German mines with the use of low-frequency AC current-carrying cables dragged in the water over the sides, much in the manner of commercial fishing nets. The AC current from the cables activated the mines' detectors thus exploding them at a safe distance. The Germans responded by developing a nasty new mine anchored to the bottom that would not explode when their detectors were activated but would, instead, rise to the surface to get the minesweeper. There were many fatalities and keeping the U.S. shipping lanes open became a major problem.
As a civilian working for a U.S. Navy contractor, Bell Laboratories, Beckwith was involved in sonar and communications tests over the course of many months. At the time, he was told that Vannevar Bush -- the Presidential appointee in charge of the Office of Scientific Research and Development -- had commissioned his project. Initial tests were carried out in a secret lake in New Jersey. Later, he says tests were carried out in Long Island Sound using the experimental minesweeper IX-97 and the private yacht Sardonix. The Navy's underwater sound lab in New London, Connecticut was also utilized.
There were other ways around the problem of the new German mine that were evidently tested as well. In January of 1943, Beckwith says he attended an initial briefing with the father of the atom [should be the hydrogen] bomb -- Dr. Edward Teller. Teller described to him a small-scale teleportation demonstration by Nikola Tesla which he intended to duplicate using a full-scale minesweeper.
18 months later in June of 1944, while Beckwith was running his advanced sonar tests aboard the IX-97, he recalls overhearing the enlisted shipmates' repeated remarks about the apparent results of Teller's secret teleportation project. A very strange series of incidents were reported to have taken place during a previous clandestine experiment aboard the IX-97 in which Beckwith was not personally involved. The details of the stories he continually overhead from his fellow shipmates are strikingly similar to the salient features of the Philadelphia Experiment legend. These highlights included the accidental teleportation of a Navy vessel from Philadelphia to a naval base in Virginia and the horrible consequence of a sailor's body becoming fused with the ship's hull. Beckwith is convinced that these anecdotes -- which he overheard from the crew about the previous experiment aboard the IX-97 -- were about the real Philadelphia Experiment.
In a letter to me, Beckwith writes: "As I have said in my book Hypotheses (published in 1996), the remarkable time-reversal trip of the previous experiment on the IX-97 was common scuttlebutt shared with me at meals, etc. during 'my' experiment. … The stories (I constantly overhead) were about the disappearance and movement of the IX-97 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, Virginia where the ship had been berthed 2 weeks previously."
Beckwith's testimony is a very interesting and exciting development in the unraveling of this WWII secret. Conspicuously absent from this version of the Philadelphia Experiment are the figures of John von Neumann, "Dr. Rinehart", and the USS Eldridge which are all normally associated with the legend. Beckwith is convinced that these details are part of the disinformational campaign set up by the Navy to confuse the issue and discredit accounts of what actually took place.
In another letter to me, he says: "My first meeting before the experiment was with Dr. Edward Teller. He had been assigned to the anti-sonar project by the President. Dr. Teller told of an experiment done by Tesla in 1907 where Tesla moved an object along a laboratory bench, then turned on his electric field making the object move back in time to its original position. When the power was turned off, the object moved forward to its place in present time. … Teller said he had no time to repeat Tesla's work and had to believe it would work when scaled up to the size of an experimental minesweeper (the IX-97). The plan was to add a third current-conductor high in the rigging of the boat, forming a 3-phase field. High-current rotating generators manufactured by GE at the Pittsfield, Massachusetts plant supplied the 3 currents."
Beckwith saw these "time-travel" generators located at the rear of the craft. They consisted of 3 single-phase units placed 120 electrical degrees apart. Each unit was approximately 5' tall by 2' in diameter. The generators put out low voltage but did more than 1,000 amps. … The proposition of Beckwith's real Philadelphia Experiment aboard the IX-97 had nothing whatsoever to do with radar invisibility. It was actually an elaboration of Nikola Tesla's earlier work in teleportation.
Beckwith conjectures that the premise of Teller's IX-97 test was to teleport the minesweeper to a previous point in its space-time trajectory by encapsulating the boat in a highly specialized 3-phase "electromagnetic bottle". As incredible as it sounds, this would allow a ship to "blip" out of the way of a mine to safety. He proposes that the Experiment's intent was to give a U.S. vessel -- at the flip of a switch -- the instantaneous ability to be physically removed from the universal space-time coordinate in which it detected the presence of an enemy mine. Beckwith suggests that the creation of such a separated space-time field can be done by engaging the principles of what he calls "divided space".
In his book Hypotheses, Beckwith develops a series of fascinating postulates based on some premises which I will grossly oversimplify here. [The strong nuclear force which holds an atomic nucleus together] can be broken with the application of what is called "a 3-phase neutrino field" which, in turn, creates a bubble of "divided space". Beckwith explains that a related phenomenon which occurs haphazardly in Nature is "ball lightning". Interestingly enough, such ball lightning or "Tesla balls" have figured repeatedly in UFO eyewitness accounts.
… he explains: "A space divided from universal space can be created by causing a small percentage of neutrinos [that permeate all matter in our Universe] passing through the space to travel in a vortex rotating at a frequency in the order of 7.5 Hertz. Strong force lines at the boundaries of the space are interrupted so long as the vortex exists. This twisting field is necessary to break the field of strong force lines between all matter in universal space and to create an inner space separated from universal space."
"If a rotating magnetic field is operated in synchronism with the Earth's 7.32-Hz fundamental resonance, objects within one such space can be moved with respect to our 'universal space' when power is applied. The divided space is then free of forces of inertia or gravity. Once the space is divided, objects within the space may levitate, teleport, or move in time. Divided inner space can pass through universal space but is dependent on the drag and surface sharpness between spaces being low enough to prevent piercing the shell of the missing strong force lines. Electromagnetic waves -- including visible light and infrared heat -- can pass through the boundaries of the divided spaces."
As to how these hypotheses apply to his recollection of the minesweeper's layout and how this teleportation experiment played out, he says: "… I believe 3-phase currents were placed through the wires at a low frequency. This frequency was most likely the 7.32 Hz fundamental frequency recognized by Tesla and first measured by Jack Shulman. As they gradually eased the power up, the experimenters found that lower power levels had no noticeable effect. Suddenly, a frequency threshold was crossed and wham! they traveled back 2 weeks in time instead of the desired 15 minutes-or-so to get out of the way of a mine. Once separated, the inner space containing the ship apparently moved back to a time when the ship was berthed at Newport News, Virginia."
"… Turning off the power when the skipper saw what had happened reconnected the divided space to universal space, jerking the boat back the Philadelphia Navy yard harbor. The return of the IX-97 to Philadelphia was within seconds of the time it left …"