Subject: Philadelphia Experiment
JS>George ... are you sure this is the Eldrige ... I mean, why would
JS>the U.S. Navy send such a ship to Greece ... is hard to believe?
JS>Is there any proof that the "LEON" is the Eldridge or could it be
JS>some other ship that looks like the Eldridge?
Joshua
Of course there are solid proofs that the USS Eldridge is in Greece under
the name of the "Leon". As I wrote you it is one of the four Bostwick
class ships that was send to Greece as military aid after WW 2. You can
check it yourself from Jane's Book of Major Warships, edited by captain
John E. Moor RN, or from the Greece Ministry of Defence. Anyway I have
double checked all the sources my self and I am positive 100% for all
information that I do send to you.
Second, I told you that I have seen the ship's logbook myself and third,
the entire Greece Navy knows very well that the "Leon" is the ex USS
Eldringe...it is nothing new in Greece.
No, it is not any other ship in this class Escort Destroyer (DE), or any
other ship with the name Eldridge that served in US Navy in 1943. So the
ONE AND ONLY ONE USS Eldridge that some years after the Philadelphia
Experiment was sent
to Greece and it is still here serving the Greek Navy. You can check this
also by Jane's Books and catalogs.
JS> George, it sounds like you have had a very special and interesting life
Well, I have not any special kind of life, but as I wrote you in my previus
e.mails, I am a profesional journalist and due to my interest with the paradox
and themes connected I have done and I am doing till today as a producer
long in field investigations and research on this kind of subjects. This is
the reason that I always doublecheck everything that I send to you or in
public through videos or TV stories. Some people say here in Greece that I
am famous for taking the cover off strange stories or sometimes they say
that I am the only one who can risk his head to find the truth.
I have no any objections to pass the info to Mr. Drue.
Thanks for all
George
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 05:25:15 -0200
To: rshapiro@interaccess.com
From: "George N.Pantoulas" {gepan@hol.gr}
Subject: Interviews
Joshua
Here are the two interviews with Greek Navy officers who served on the A/T Leon
(ex USS Eldridge) the ship that is conected with the Philadelphia
Experiment. Both of these officers served on the ship for a period of 2 years
in the early '80s when the ship was in regular service as some years ago
the A/T Leon
was placed into
reserve service at Suda Bay Naval Base. Also both of the officers
are still in service in the Greek Navy and this is the reason that I can not
share their names publicly. One of them is a commanding officer, who served on
the A/T Leon as its commander, and the other one is a naval engineer who
served on the ship as the first engineer. For the purpose of this
interview I will use "A" for the Commander and "B"
for the Engineer.
So let's see what they have to tell us:
=============================
George Pantoulas Presents:
An Interview with
Two Naval Officers Serving
Upon the A/T Leon
(ex USS Eldridge) |
George Pantoulas: Gentlemen, when you served on the A/T Leon did you
know that the ship was connected with the Philadelphia Experiment?
"A": Yes, of course. Almost everyone in the Greek Navy knows that
the A/T Leon was the USS Eldridge, the ship that was used in the Philadelphia
Experiment in 1943. We have known this story since we were cadets in the Naval
Academy. So I was very curious to check the whole story myself when
I was dispatched as the captain of the ship.
"B": Yes, I know this story. For many years we have known the
connection of the ship with Philadelphia Experiment.
George Pantoulas: Did you ever notice anything strange occur on the ship
during your service there?
"A": Well, nothing weird I can say, if you mean that. But there are
few things that we coull call as strange. First of all when I checked
the logbook of the ship I found something very unusual. As you know
logbooks on every ship is something...let's say that is sacred. No one can
change anything writen in the logbook. So I was surprised when I found
that the pages of the logbook which referred to the date of the Phladelphia
Experiment and
some days before and after were missing. Somebody had cut out all these pages.
I asked the three previous commanders of the ship about this and all of
them told me that the pages were missing since the ship came to Greece and
became a Greek Naval unit.
During my service on the A/T Leon I had some reports from crew members
stating
that they had seen something mysterious like an illusion (i.e. some type
of ghost), or they reported that they were missing things
(objects, possesions), nothing of value which would suggest that a
thief was onboard. Usually they would find the lost objects after a couple
of days in a different place than they had placed them. We used to make
jokes between us about
the "ships ghosts" that changed the place of things. Also there was some
reports about a greenish glow that sometimes covered the ship during the
night but I did not see this myself.
"B": I agree with all the things that the captain has said. Well, I
want to add something more. The first thing that impressed me when I took
over the ship as the first engineer was an enormous amount of wiring, I mean
there were cables which started from nowhere and ended nowhere. As I found
out later, all
this stuff seems to be the remains of the electrical machinery that was
used on Philadelphia Experiment aboard the ship.
The second strange thing that I noticed was a kind of vibration along the
whole ship even if everything was shut down (i.e. when we were doing repairs
in the dry dock). Once I felt it myself and my first thought was that
it was an earthquake. I checked and there were no earthquakes reported
in the area (at that time).
George Pantoulas: Do you think that all these incidents have anything
to do with the Philadelphia Experiment?
"A": I don't know, but it is possible.
"B": Yes, I think that all these things are connected with
the Philadelphia Experiment. Maybe a part of the energy field that was used
during the experiment is still with the ship.
These are the answers from the two officers who spent some of their
career aboard the A/T Leon - ex USS Eldridge ..............
George
Confirmation of the AT Leon
(Rolf Fey, Switzerland)
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 1996 15:51:37 +0100
Subject: USS Eldridge became "Leon"
From: (fey@hyperion.ch)
To: "Joshua UFO Covers" (rshapiro@interaccess.com)
Dear Joshua,
I would like to make some comments on Mr. George Pantoulas' letter about
the ship "USS Eldridge".
As far as my information go, the ship was given to the Greece Navy after
world war II and served under the name "Leon".
This information was given in the book "The Philadelphia Experiment" by
Charles Berlitz written 1979. (I have the German edition: KNAUR ISBN
3-426-03679-7, page 81)
In this book Mr.Berlitz writes: (my translation from German to English)
The USS Eldridge served after the Philadelphia experiment in the atlantic
region until the end of WW II. Afer returnin to New York she went to the
dry dock at June,17th 1946. After revision work, she was sold to the
Greek Navy and changed the name to "Leon".
Mr. Berlitz further states, that the Log pages between Aug,27. 1943 and
Dec. 1st.1943 were not available anymore and that the log books from the
other ship involved in the experiment (USS Furuseth) have been destroyed.
There is more information in the book, covering the "official" story
about when the ship entered service and about the "true" story that the
ship took part in those experiments just short before starting NAVY
service.
Maybe this second source might help you in gathering more information
about USS Eldridge.
Thank you for brining us such interesting topics.
Rolf FEY
Switzerland
