Brad Steiger and Sherry Hansen Steiger’s

The Rainbow Conspiracy

Megan Browning

Philosophy 101

Professor Zammiello

April 28, 2010

Many people in our society have claimed to have seen UFO’s or had encounters with extraterrestrials. The authors of The Rainbow Conspiracy, Brad Steiger and Sherry Hansen Steiger, believe that not only are these extraterrestrials traveling to our planet Earth, but they are also talking with our presidents, making treaties with us and helping us make our naval ships disappear. There are many scientific theories and facts that I will present to help disprove this idea. This paper will present the Brad and Sherry Steiger’s hypothesis, reasons why the authors’ hypothesis is not plausible and provide a more plausible theory to help explain what happened with the Project Rainbow.

Project Rainbow, or more commonly known to the public as the Philadelphia Experiment, was a U.S. naval project that was supposed to reduce the chances of our naval ships being detected and tracked by Soviet radars. The idea presented in the book is that while our Navy tried to make the ship the U.S.S. Eldridge invisible to the radars, it also tried to achieve optical invisibility. The authors’ hypothesis is that they achieved this optical invisibility and the ship was transported in the blink of an eye from Philadelphia Naval Yard to Norfolk, Virginia. There was a green fog that appeared around the boat, and covered the view of the boat, when it originally left and when it disappeared again from Norfolk. There are many small details that are involved in this story. According to the authors, not only did the ship disappear, but weird things also happened to the crew. The men were disorientated and nauseous after the ship disappeared, some of the men were melted into the ship and “some burst into flames days after the experiment” (B. Steiger, S. Steiger 51). A member of the crew had disappeared from a bar as well. When the men got back from the experiment, they were unable to continue serving because of their bad mental state.

Alfred Bielek was one of the main sources that gave the authors their information. He claimed to “[have] survived time-warping, teleportation, invisibility, electromagnetic bombardment, and a period of brainwashing by an ultra secret agency to be able to tell his story” (B. Steiger, S. Steiger 52).

 One would questions such a theory and why our navy would even want to transport our ships in this way, and yes the authors have an answer for this too, aliens did it. These aliens met with our very own president Franklin D. Roosevelt to make a pact to trade alien intelligence and technology for “certain planetary privileges”(B. Steiger, S. Steiger 52) This was done so the aliens could create easy access to Earth.

The authors claim that the aliens created this so called “space-time continuum” known as Einstein’s Unified Field theory. The problem with this is that Einstein’s theory was never proven to be true. Britannica encyclopedia says that “Most of this work typically appears in non-peer reviewed sources, such as self-published books or personal websites” about the continued use of the Unified Field theory, suggesting that it is not reliable evidence to base a different hypothesis on. This is a reason to believe that the author’s are not using reliable sources to base their hypothesis on.

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Brad Steiger and Sherry Hansen Steiger try to prove their story through the stories told by some of the crew men of the U.S.S Eldridge and on the S.S Andrew Furuseth, a merchant Marine ship that saw this event happen. Using eye witnesses as a means of fact is something that makes these authors seem less creditable. “For well over half a century, research has been showing that the memory of witness can be unreliable, and the constructive nature of memory helps explain why” (Schick, Vaughn 122). While giving the stories as an explanation for what happened, they also say that ...

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