{"product_id":"project-rainbow-the-real-story-of-the-philadelphia-experiment-and-the-invisible-ship-9798235676497","title":"Project Rainbow: The Real Story of the Philadelphia Experiment and the Invisible Ship","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Gary Covella\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Vector Zero Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Vector Zero Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Wars \u0026amp; Conflicts - World War II - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn 1955, a manila envelope arrived at the Office of Naval Research with two words written across the front: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHappy Easter.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInside was an annotated paperback. Three different ink colors. Three different hands. A conversation among voices that called themselves Mr. A, Mr. B, and Jemi - discussing alien races, gravity-field manipulation, and a top-secret 1943 Navy experiment that had supposedly turned a destroyer escort invisible in Philadelphia harbor.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Navy reproduced 127 copies for internal study. Within a decade, the story had escaped into paperback. Within thirty years, Hollywood had filmed it. Within sixty, Netflix had built a billion-dollar franchise on its bones.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere was just one problem.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIt was all written by one man. And he confessed. Repeatedly. For twenty-five years.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNobody listened.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe True Story Behind America's Strangest Sea Story\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor seventy years, the Philadelphia Experiment has been told one way: a covert wartime project, a vanishing warship, terrified sailors fused into bulkheads, a cover-up that reaches into the highest levels of American military secrecy. Books have sold millions. Films have grossed millions more. The legend has been absorbed into \u003cem\u003eStranger Things\u003c\/em\u003e, into Marvel's \u003cem\u003eLoki\u003c\/em\u003e, into Doctor Who, into the algorithmic feeds of TikTok and YouTube.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the first book to tell what actually happened.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProject Rainbow\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e is the documented, archive-driven account of how a single Pennsylvania merchant mariner named Carl Meredith Allen - writing under the alias Carlos Miguel Allende from a small apartment in New Kensington - invented one of the twentieth century's most enduring conspiracy theories. And how, despite his repeated and recorded confessions, the legend he created has continued to outpace the truth across seven decades and counting.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat You'll Discover\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe actual ship.\u003c\/strong\u003e USS \u003cem\u003eEldridge\u003c\/em\u003e, DE-173 - where she really was on October 28, 1943, documented hour by hour from the surviving war diaries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe real science.\u003c\/strong\u003e Degaussing, the wartime British invention that demagnetized hulls to defeat German mines - and how an ordinary procedure became, in Allen's imagination, the cover for spacetime manipulation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe man behind Allende.\u003c\/strong\u003e Allen's full biography, drawn from family records, Marine Corps service files, merchant marine seaman's papers, and the Greeley Tribune obituary that named him in 1994.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe annotated book.\u003c\/strong\u003e What the Office of Naval Research actually saw. Why two career naval officers chose to reproduce it. What the 127 copies of the Varo Edition actually contained.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe confessions.\u003c\/strong\u003e All of them. The 1969 APRO retraction inscribed in brown ink. The 1972 suitcase confession. The 1977 audio recording with the Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained. The October 1980 \u003cem\u003eFate\u003c\/em\u003e magazine investigation that named Allen on the public record.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe afterlife.\u003c\/strong\u003e Gray Barker, Brad Steiger, Charles Berlitz, William Moore, Stewart Raffill, Alfred Bielek, Preston Nichols, the Duffer Brothers - the chain of writers, filmmakers, and showrunners who built a billion-dollar mythology on a fabrication its own author could not stop confessing to.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book gives you the documents. The witnesses. The receipts. The actual physics. And the actual confessions - finally, in one place, after seventy years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis is the book the legend has been waiting for.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vector Zero Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47882618405015,"sku":"9798235676497","price":2208.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798235676497.webp?v=1781096279","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/project-rainbow-the-real-story-of-the-philadelphia-experiment-and-the-invisible-ship-9798235676497","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}