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:
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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.