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This Black Vault compilation contains a September 1997 reply from the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense to John Greenewald's FOIA request, enclosing its UFO records. The enclosures include a Navy information sheet dismissing the Philadelphia Experiment and an Air Force UFO fact sheet listing 12,618 Project Blue Book sightings, 701 of them unidentified. They also include the National Academy of Sciences review endorsing the University of Colorado report and the concluding pages of a 1994 Air Force Roswell report attributing the wreckage to Project MOGUL.
“Nature”13 pages
P ~ rsonnel a~ the Fourth Naval District believe that the ouestions -surrounding the so-called -Philadelphia Experiment" arise from quite routine research which occurred during World War 11 at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard. Until recently, it was believed that the foundation for the apocryphal stories arose from degaussing experi~nts which have the effect of making a ship undetectable or "invisible" to magnetic mines. ~ther likely genesis of the bizarre stories about levitation, telepor- tation and effec:;ts on human crew menbers might be attributed to experi- ments with the generating plant of a destroyer, the USS TI~. In the 1950's this ship was part of an experiment to test the effects of a small, high frequency generator providing l,OOOhz instead of the standard 400hz. The higher frequency generator produced corona discharges, and other well known phenonena associated with high frequency generators. None of the crew suffered effects from the experiment. ONR has never conducted any investigations on invisibility, either in 1943 or at any other time (ONR was established in 1946.} In view of present scientific knowledge, ONR scientists do not believe that such an experiment could be possible except in the realm of science fiction. ' 2 -• - •• l . I
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