[quote="CSF_Jaizen":d17df]okay for one you got the WHOLE story messed up. My friend and I are big navy and coverup buffs so we know a bit about this.

The USA government was trying to make "invisible ships" or ships with "cloacking devices". Basicly wanting a new way to be able to fight without risk. The Phili experiment was named thus because of the ship that was tested. USS Philidalphia. Although it never made it to an official ship, it was the name of the test ship. When the ship came back after its first test only a few sailors were alive. They reported seeing very bright lights and everything being white around them.[/quote:d17df]

I think they may have been trying to "stealth" the ship using electric currents. The Russians have made a "plasma stealth" for fighter planes recently but it makes the plane glow like a torch so anyone with an IR seeker can track it.

A more reasonable theory is that the experiment was a new degaussing device (cancels out ship's magnetic field so that magnetic mines can't detonate under keel) and the heavy EM waves made the crew go nuts.