Project Rainbow was a military project developed during the early Forties as an attempt to make a ship invisible to enemy radar. It can be considered a forerunner to today’s experiments with ‘stealth‘ technology and radar-invisible airplanes. To achieve this result, various experiments with electromagnetic fields were carried out. The project culminated with the infamous “Philadelphia Experiment“. Following that disaster, Project Rainbow was halted, and Dr. John von Neumann, the project’s director, was sent to work on the Manhattan Project.
Project Rainbow reappeared in the late 1940s. The project now concentrated on the technology behind the electromagnetic bottle created during the Philadelphia Experiment and how it could be further developed.
At the same time, Project Rainbow’s former director, Dr. Neumann started research into how and why the human crew of the Eldridge had been so horribly affected by the fields created. Finally, in the early 1950s, the two projects were merged, becoming the “Phoenix Project“.
The Rainbow project is the name of one of the Philadelphia/Phoenix Time Travel Projects. Phoenix 1 was a project that evolved out of the Philadelphia/Rainbow project and lasted from 1948 until 1968. (It only got the name Phoenix in 1953).
Phoenix 1 was, in fact, a “double” project.
Its purposes were
- 1° to create devices that could generate time/space tunnels in order to render objects and people invisible, and
- 2° to influence the weather.
In the late ’60s, they discovered that the devices they used had an interesting side effect: they could be used for Mind Control purposes.
Project Rainbow was allegedly an experiment conducted upon a small destroyer escort ship during World War II, both in the Philadelphia Naval Yard and at sea; the goal was to make that ship invisible to enemy detection.
The accounts vary as to whether the original idea was to achieve invisibility to enemy radar or whether the prize sought after was more profound: optical invisibility. Either way, it is commonly believed that the mechanism involved was the generation of an incredibly intense magnetic field around the ship, which would cause refraction or bending of light or radar waves around the ship, much like a mirage created by heated air over a road on a summer day.
The legend goes on to say that the experiment was a complete success… except that the ship actually disappeared physically for a time, and then returned. They wanted to “cloak” the ship from view, but they got dematerialization and teleportation instead.