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The Philadelphia Experiment, its results, and the potential of the technology involved have been the subject of many books, films, soundtracks, and video games.
Television
The Philadelphia Experiment has been the subject of several television shows dealing with the paranormal and with conspiracy theories, including The Unexplained, a series produced by Bill Kurtis on the Arts and Entertainment Network (A&E). One episode of The History Channel’s History’s Mysteries discusses the theory. A similar story also ran on the show Unsolved Mysteries which originally aired on NBC and is now occasionally seen on Lifetime Network. The Philadelphia Experiment was also featured in the The X-Files episode “Død Kalm” (episode 19 from season 2).
The Philadelphia Experiment may have been alluded to in an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation titled “The Pegasus”.
In 2005 director Bryan Singer (X-Men 1 & 2, Superman Returns) helped write and produce the television mini-series The Triangle, in which the Philadelphia Experiment is the main cause behind the creation of the Bermuda Triangle.
Literature
In “Green Fire” (1998), a collaborative novella by Eileen Gunn, Michael Swanwick, Pat Murphy, and Andy Duncan, the science fiction writers Robert A. Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, and L. Sprague De Camp, along with Grace Hopper, take part in the Philadelphia Experiment, with the assistance of Nikola Tesla and the Aztec deity Quetzalcoatl.
The Philadelphia Experiment is prominent in the book Sarah’s Landing by Elena Dorothy Bowman.
As noted above, the 1977 novel Thin Air by George Eaton Simpson and Neal R. Burger is based on the Philadelphia Experiment.
The William S. Burroughs novel Cities of the Red Night treats the experiment as a backdrop for a narrative taking place in non-linear time.
The Simon R. Green novel The Spy who Haunted Me explains the experiment as an interaction between the anti-radar technology and an ancient portal between our world and the world of the Fae. The ship entered this other world and were tortured by the elves until they managed to escape back through the doorway, appearing at the same moment they had left.