Editing Philadelphia Experiment (section)

===Timeline inconsistencies===
USS ''Eldridge'' was not commissioned until August 27, 1943, and it remained in port in [[New York City]] until September 1943. The October experiment allegedly took place while the ship was on its first [[shakedown cruise]] in [[the Bahamas]], although proponents of the story claim that the [[ship's logs]] might have been falsified or else still be [[Classified information in the United States|classified]]. An alternative explanation is that {{USS|Hammann|DE-131}} was actually used rather than USS ''Eldridge'' as USS ''Hammann'' arrived in the shipyard on October 20, 1943.<ref name="de173.com">{{cite news | title = The Philadelphia Experiment From A-Z | url = https://de173.com/uss-hammann-de-131/ | work = Reprint by Sam Kuncevich, Originally published in The Blurb, March, 1989}}</ref>

The [[Office of Naval Research]] (ONR) stated in September 1996, "ONR has never conducted investigations on radar invisibility, either in 1943 or at any other time." Pointing out that the ONR was not established until 1946, it denounces the accounts of "The Philadelphia Experiment" as complete "[[science fiction]]".

A reunion of Navy veterans who had served aboard USS ''Eldridge'' told a Philadelphia newspaper in April 1999 that their ship had never made port in Philadelphia.<ref name="Lewis 1999">{{cite news | title = The Where Ship? Project: Though long dismissed by the Navy, the legend of The Philadelphia Experiment shows no signs of disappearing | first = Frank | last = Lewis | url = http://citypaper.net/articles/081999/news.cb.ship.shtml | work = [[Philadelphia City Paper]] | date = August 19–26, 1999 | access-date = 2008-02-05 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120624005111/http://archives.citypaper.net/articles/081999/news.cb.ship.shtml | archive-date = 2012-06-24 }}</ref> Further evidence discounting the Philadelphia Experiment timeline comes from USS ''Eldridge’s'' complete World War II action report, including the remarks section of the 1943 deck log, available on [[microfilm]].<ref name="NHHC"/>