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Date sent: Sun, 12 Jan
1997 02:14:33 -0500
From: Ashley Rye <106064.3617@compuserve.com>
Subject: IUFO: USS Eldridge
The Current
Whereabouts of the USS Eldridge
The Ship Tested
in the Philadelphia Experiment
( reported by
George Pantoulas )
The more I have correspondence
with our new friend George, the more I begin to
see that we have found the "Indiana Jones"
of Greece. Once again, George surprises me by saying
the ship used in the 1943 Invisibility Test, out
of the Philadelphia Harbor, known to us as the Philadelphia
Experiment is a ship now part of the Greek Navy,
known as the "Leon". So please find attached
to this page, George's account of the Eldridge in
Greece including an interview with two Naval Officers
that served on this ship.
For those interested in contacting
George directly, or to obtain copies of any film/video
he has created, he can be reached at his email address
at: gepan@hol.gr.
Enjoy ... what a story ...
ILLINOIS
[Image]
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 1996 19:51:42
-0200
To: rshapiro@interaccess.com
From: "George N.Pantoulas"
Subject: Philadelphia Experiment
Joshua Hello again
I read the WWW page with the
Mr Drue's interview about Philadelphia Experiment
which is quite interesting. I'd like to make a short
comment in reference to Mr Drue's statement about
USS Eldridge (DE-173), a ship that I have had the
luck to know very well. What do I mean? Let me tell
you some things about this ship.
The USS Eldridge is of the
Bostwick class and was given as military aid from
US to Greece sometime between the late 40's and
early 50's (I can find exact the date) and took
the name Leon (means lion). To be more specific,
the Greek navy took, among others, 4 ships of the
Bostwick class. All of these ships have wild animals
as names: Leon (x USS Eldridge), Panthir (means
Panther), Aetos (means eagle) and Lerax (means Hawk).
All of these ships served in the Greek Navy till
1990 when Leon and Panthir entered the reserve service
while the other two are still in service.
So I disagree with Mr. Drue's
phrase: "I would also like to point out that
the USS Eldridge had sustained serious damage during
the experiment and was no longer sea worthy after
we returned."
Due to the ship's logbook,
which I have seen, the USS Eldridge took part in
the Normandy Assault in 1944 and then was given
to the Greek Navy...so it was and, believe me, still
it is sea worthy! Now the ship is located in the
Suda Bay Naval Station in Crete.
However, I disagree with Mr.
Drue's comment: "I do know that on August 18th,
1943, the USS Eldridge was sent to Montauk Point,
Long Island, New York to the year of 1983, at which
time it was dismantled.". This is absolutely
wrong because, as I told you the ship is still in
one piece at Suda Bay.
I have visited the ship three
times, the commander and first engineer are very
close friends of mine, and I had the opportunity
to have a look in the ship's logbook. I can assure
you that the pages of the time of Philadelphia Experiment
are missing, someone cut them out from the logbook.
Also inside the ship are a
lot of wires that do not go anywhere... they just
exist and give the ship engineers a big headache
until they realized that this wiring were the remains
of the experiment's machinery.
There are some stories from
crew members that they sometimes had strange illusions
when they served on the ship, or they felt some
strange vibrations even when the entire ship's machinery
was out of operation.
I am sending this information
(to you because I) believe that it helps (for others
to know) the truth about USS Eldridge. If you want
some more info about this story just tell me...OK?
waiting news from you, greetings
George
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Date: Sat, 10 Feb 1996 00:20:14
-0200
To: rshapiro@interaccess.com
From: "George N.Pantoulas"
Subject: Philadelphia Experiment
JS>George ... are you sure
this is the Eldridge ... 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 Defense. 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 previous
emails, I am a professional 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
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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 connected 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 could 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 writing in the logbook.
So I was surprised when I found that the pages of
the logbook which referred to the date of the Philadelphia
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, possessions),
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
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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. After
returning 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 bringing us such
interesting topics.
Rolf FEY Switzerland
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