Philadelphia Experiment
Welcome to the Oil City/Reno Area of North Western Pennsylvania. This page 'lives' only a couple of miles from the soon to be infamous FRANKLIN 8/RENO 3 sign, that inspired “Dr Franklin Reno” to adopt the pseudonym.
One of the locals told me that the original sign was destroyed in a car accident, this is the current one:
See also:
FRANKLIN 8
RENO 3
The Philadelphia Experiment
By William L.Moore
in consultation with
Charles Berlitz
Author of the Bermuda Triangle
Published By Ballantine Books
Cover Up - Or Uncanny Truth?
"Are you saying that the Navy tried to make you invisible,
in some sort of experiment?"
"Electronic camouflage," came the answer. "Some sort of
electrical camouflage produced by pulsating energy fields...We
couldn't take it-none of us. Though it affected us in different
ways. Some only saw double, others began to laugh and stagger
like they were drunk, and a few passed out. Some even claimed
that they had passed into another world and had seen and TALKED
to strange alien beings. And in some cases the effects weren't
temporary. I was told later that several had died...But as for
the rest of us who survived-well, they just let us go.
Disability, they called it. Discharged as mentally unbalanced and
unfit for further service...That way, if the Navy ever got
questioned about it, they could just chalk it up as a story
cooked up by a bunch of nuts..."
"The Philadelphia Experiment"
A bizarre excursion into the unknown
From chapter 9, pg 173:
The Unexpected Key
"....The reader will recall that early in his second letter
to Dr. Jessup, Allende made an assertion to the effect that not
only was Einstein's Unified Field Theory completed between 1925
and 1927, but an entire theory was subjected by the Navy to a
"complete (Group math) recheck...with a view to any and every
possible quick use of it...in a very short time." If Allende is
to be believed, then it was the results of this mathematical
process which supposedly provided the theoretical basis for what
was eventually to become the Philadelphia Experiment."
PG 174: " the name of the scientist allegedly in charge of
this "recheck." This man is identified as Dr. Franklin Reno,"
{TAKE NOTE OF THAT NAME!} "a man whom Allende refers quite
offhandedly as "my friend."
"Obviously if this Dr. Reno could be found, and if he could
be convinced to add his testimony...."
"Now, after several years of persistent research into this
aspect of the affair, the authors at last feel that the riddle
surrounding the identity of the elusive Dr. Reno has been solved!
And with it comes a fantastic tale which seems to provide for the
first time some substantial insights into the mystery which for
so long has enshrouded the so-called Philadelphia Experiment...."
PG 175: "The substance of that story is that man referred to by
Allende as Dr Franklin Reno was not only a very real person but,
before his death only a little more than a year before this
writing, he personally verified to Moore the substantial truth of
Allende's statements concerning the beginnings of the project
which came to be known as the Philadelphia Experiment."
The book was copyrighted in 1979.
"the reason why earlier researchers were completely
unsuccessful in their efforts to find this Franklin Reno is
easily explained by the simple fact that they were looking for a
man whose name was not Franklin Reno, although a clue to the name
and the whereabouts of the man was on a road map of the state of
Pennsylvania!
In the oil-producing region of northwestern Pennsylvania,
along U.S. Route 62 not far from Oil City, lies the city of
Franklin, Pennsylvania-a peaceful little trading center of about
8,000 population and the county seat of Venango County. Five
miles to the east, still on the same road and about midway
between Franklin and Oil City, lies the village of Reno, home of
a large refinery of the Wolf's Head Oil Company. Just outside
this same Oil City, on the west bound side of Route 62, stood,
until a few years ago, the road sign that explains why so many
diligent researchers have been so consistently unsuccessful in
their efforts to identify Allende's mysterious "friend." Printed
on this sign were the words
FRANKLIN 8
RENO 3
-the same words which inspired a very real scientist over thirty
years ago to create a very effective pseudonym.
But if "Franklin Reno: is nothing more than a pseudonym,
then the question now become: (1) Who is the real person? (2)
What is (or was) his connection with Carlos Miguel Allende? (3)
What, if anything, can he add to the story?
Unfortunately the matter is so sensitive that these
questions cannot be entirely answered even yet for reasons which
the reader will come to understand as the story progresses. For
even though the man Allende knew as Dr. Reno has since died, we
have been enjoined to be discreet by those still living who are
very interested in maintaining the status quo. Consequently, we
have chosen to refer to this individual as Dr. Rinehart, the name
given to him in a fictionalized version of the Philadelphia
Experiment published recently, representing yet another
indication of increasing public interest and awareness in the
"impossible" experiment."
PG 177: "...Dr Rinehart, who, when he began to suspect he knew
too much for his own good (and perhaps his survival), chose to
hide himself away from the segments of society that seemed to
threaten him the most."
"They still watch over me, you know. In fact, it's actually
come to the point where I try to avoid going certain places in
the town because of the sudden interest my appearance there seems
to create-especially around certain buildings down at the
university."
PG 194: "Do you recall what the code name of this project might
have been?"
Rinehart: "Rainbow" or "Mirage".
From Inter-Service Code-Word Index 9/1/1941
7470 RAINBOW 334
PG 198: "No one at this point had ever considered the possibility
of interdenominational effects or mass displacement."....
I've talked with Mr Moore about his “Great Detective” work, he went to college at Thiel in Greenville Pennsylvania nearby, and knew of this area because he travailed through it to go to Titusville basketball games.
While this is lost on most, at least on paper, T.T.Brown was in charge of the Philadelphia Shipyard at the time. Defying Gravity: The Parallel Universe of T. Townsend Brown by Paul Schatzkin; Kindle Edition.
