Cultural References
The computer game Command & Conquer: Red Alert references this in a video regarding the Allied Chronosphere, in which footage is shown of a ship disappearing then reappearing seconds later. One of the commanders remarks that some of the men on board died and the process is still experimental.
The experiment has been the subject of several television shows dealing with the paranormal and with conspiracy theories, including The Unexplained, History's Mysteries, Vanishings!, Unsolved Mysteries, and Dark Matters: Twisted But True.
References to the experiment can be found in many other works, including an episode of The X-Files titled "Død Kalm", Sanctuary, The Triangle, the Doctor Who audio drama The Macros, the collaborative science-fiction novella Green Fire, and the novels The Spy who Haunted Me, Ship of the Damned, and Retromancer.
The "Experiment" is also referenced again in the fourth Doctor Who:The Adventure Games release, "Shadows of the Vashta Nerada".
The date and name of "The Philadelphia Experiment" are referred to in the first game of the video game series Assassin's Creed. The password to access the conference room is "10281943" (the proposed date in American format) and an email also refers to the "project". An email to one of the characters in the game mentions that the ship, instead of turning invisible, "briefly manifested in a future state for approximately 18 minutes." The same email also says that the fictional company that engineered the project, Abstergo Industries, chose to drop the project, "citing paradox concerns."
The ship's barometer from the Eldridge is an Artifact on the Syfy show Warehouse 13. Activating it freezes time in a localized area for forty-seven seconds, with the person who activated it being unaffected.
"The Philadelphia Experiment" is referenced in Brad Thor's The Athena Project. The novel suggests that the US Navy was trying to recreate matter teleportation experiments originally conducted by Hans Kammler and the Nazi SS Wunderwaffen group.
At Morey's Pier's theme park in New Jersey there's a haunted attraction called "Ghost Ship" in which a second ship "Ignis Fatuus" who took part in the "Philadelphia Experiment" has come back from beyond the grave and the crew are not happy with what has happened to them.
In the manga Mudazumo Naki Kaikaku, the experiment is mentioned for it's proof the Tesla Coils can be used to create invisibility fields.
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