Editing Philadelphia Experiment (section)

===Repetitions===

In 1965 [[Vincent Gaddis]] published a book of [[Charles Fort#Fortean phenomena|Forteana]], titled ''Invisible Horizons: True Mysteries of the Sea.'' In it he recounted the story of the experiment from the Varo annotations.

George E. Simpson and Neal R. Burger published a 1978 novel titled ''Thin Air.'' In this book, set in the present day, a [[Naval Criminal Investigative Service|Naval Investigative Service]] officer investigates several threads linking wartime invisibility experiments to a [[List of conspiracies (political)|conspiracy]] involving [[Teleportation|matter transmission]] technology.

Large-scale popularization of the story came about in 1979 when the author [[Charles Berlitz]], who had written a best selling book on the [[Bermuda Triangle]], and his co-author, [[ufologist]] [[Bill Moore (ufologist)|William L. Moore]], published ''The Philadelphia Experiment: Project Invisibility,'' which purported to be a factual account.<ref name="Bainton 2013">{{cite book |author-last=Bainton |author-first=Roy  |date=2013 |title=The Mammoth Book of Unexplained Phenomena: From bizarre biology to inexplicable astronomy |location=London |publisher=Robinson |page=461 |isbn=978-1780337968}}</ref> The book expanded on stories of bizarre happenings, lost [[unified field theory|unified field theories]] by [[Albert Einstein]], and government [[coverup]]s, all based on the Allende/Allen letters to Jessup.<ref name="Donovan 2011" />

Moore and Berlitz devoted one of the last chapters in ''The Philadelphia Experiment: Project Invisibility'' to "The Force Fields of Townsend Brown", namely the experimenter and then-U.S. Navy technician [[Thomas Townsend Brown]]. Paul LaViolette's 2008 book ''Secrets of Antigravity Propulsion'' also recounts some mysterious involvement of Townsend Brown.

The story was adapted into a 1984 [[time travel in fiction|time travel film]] called ''[[The Philadelphia Experiment (film)|The Philadelphia Experiment]]'', directed by [[Stewart Raffill]]. Though only loosely based on the prior accounts of the "Experiment", it served to dramatize the core elements of the original story. In 1989, Alfred Bielek claimed to have been aboard USS ''Eldridge'' during the Experiment.<ref name="Hughes 2012">{{cite book |author-last=Hughes |author-first=Kara |title=Myths and Mysteries of Pennsylvania: True Stories of the Unsolved and Unexplained |location=Guilford, Connecticut |publisher=Globe Pequot Press |date=2012 |pages=63–65 |isbn=978-0762791064 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TEmLBAAAQBAJ |access-date=2021-07-11}}</ref>  Addressing the [[Mutual UFO Network|MUFON]] Conference in 1990, Bielek asserted that Raffill's film was largely consistent with the events he claimed to have witnessed in 1943.<ref name="Bielek 1992">{{cite web
|author-last=Bielek |author-first=Alfred |title=Al Bielek's Speech at the MUFON Conference, January 13, 1990 |website=Bielek Debunked |url=http://www.bielek-debunked.com/MUFON_Int.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181001192056/http://www.bielek-debunked.com/MUFON_Int.html |archive-date=2018-10-01 |access-date=2021-07-11 |others=Transcribed by Tippen, Clay; edited by Andersen, Rick |date=October 1992 |orig-date=1990-01-13}}</ref> Bielek would later add details to his claims on radio talk shows, conferences, and the Internet.<ref>Bielek interview with Art Bell, Coast to Coast AM Radio, Phoenix, AZ, 1993</ref><ref name="Barnes, Houpt, & Schelm">{{cite web |author1-last=Barnes |author1-first=Marshall |author2-last=Houpt |author2-first=Fred |author3-last=Schelm |author3-first=Gerold   |url=http://www.bielek-debunked.com |title=Al Bielek Debunked | access-date=2021-07-11 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181009201438/http://www.bielek-debunked.com/ | archive-date=2018-10-09 | url-status=dead }}</ref>