[q]Okay, my memory is fuzzy but I seem to remember that a U.S. Navy ship,
a destroyer I think, was the subject of an oddball attempt at a full
spectrum EM cloak
experiment in the 40's through 60's. According to sources from the TV
show I remember, it vanished from both visual sighting and surface
radar for a
catalog-able period of minutes to hours. The crew of this ship also
experienced weird debilitating "ailments" ranging from spontaneous
combustion to
vanishing or phasing out from existence for periods of seconds to
hours. You could include this as a spectral ship phasing in and out
randomly. I figure
it's odd enough to use. I'll do some digging to see if I can unearth
the reference if one of the military buffs can't name it.[/q]
You're thinking of the USS Eldridge; the experiment was known as the Philadelphia Experiment.
a destroyer I think, was the subject of an oddball attempt at a full
spectrum EM cloak
experiment in the 40's through 60's. According to sources from the TV
show I remember, it vanished from both visual sighting and surface
radar for a
catalog-able period of minutes to hours. The crew of this ship also
experienced weird debilitating "ailments" ranging from spontaneous
combustion to
vanishing or phasing out from existence for periods of seconds to
hours. You could include this as a spectral ship phasing in and out
randomly. I figure
it's odd enough to use. I'll do some digging to see if I can unearth
the reference if one of the military buffs can't name it.[/q]
You're thinking of the USS Eldridge; the experiment was known as the Philadelphia Experiment.