From: Bill Hamilton <skywatcher22@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 06:25:19 -0700
Fwd Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 11:39:08 -0400
Subject: [SO] Bielek's Faked Philadelphia Experiment Story 



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Al Bielek's Philadelphia Experiment Story Faked

Having known Al Bielek since the 70s, this comes as no surprise
to me. The only difference was that he was weaving other tall
tales before he rented a video of the Scifi thriller "The
Philadelphia Experiment" and then decided that his memories were
triggered. He knew he had a winner and has been wowing audiences
ever since for more than 10 years and more like 20.

BH

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International Net News
copyright June 2003

(cleared for all media use)

For Immediate Release:

Philadelphia Experiment Survivor A Fake

by Bob Florida

Al Bielek has made a living over the last 10 plus years by
selling books and claiming to to be a survivor of the mythical
Philadelphia Experiment, the legend of a top secret WWII test in
early stealth technology for destroyers. The legend has it that
the U.S.S. Eldridge was used for the test and at some point
during the experiment it went completely invisible and
teleported from the Philadelphia coast to Norfolk, Virginia and
the back again. Bielek's version of events is even more
elaborate - he and his half brother, Duncan Cameron, jumped
overboard as things started going heywire on deck and they
landed in 1983, 20 years into the future and on dry land at the
Montauk Air Force Base in Montauk, Long Island. What follows is
an extensive bit of sci-fi sounding adventures that include
nearly everything from time travel to mind control and despite
being too fantastic to believe, Bielek has plenty of believers
around the world. That may change now, and Bielek may well
consider an other vocation, and not because anyone can prove his
time travel claims wrong. Instead, his tall tale house of cards
is coming down because it's now come to light that he stole the
identity that he claims he had when all his adventures began.

An unlikely trio of X-File sleuths from three different
countries joined forces due to their shared interest in the WWII
legend and they each at some point became too skeptical of
Bielek's claims. For German Gerold Schelm it was the same as for
your typical detective - too many wild and baseless claims from
Bielek despite some known and traceable facts. For Canadian Fred
Houpt it took longer for his suspicions to cause him to take
action, but after a while too many descrepencies began to appear
in Bielek's tale, like so many holes in Swiss cheese, until
Houpt knew there was something very wrong. For American Marshall
Barnes, the most active of the three and a leading expert on the
Philadelphia Experiment, it was after he had compiled fact after
fact that supported the idea that something like the
Philadelphia Experiment had indeed taken place but he never
found a shred of evidence to support Bielek's version.

Finally the three, with the help of additional friends and
coconspirators, began their own investigation focusing on Bielek
himself, analyzing every aspect of every version of his story.
Tracking down names, dates, places, military facts. Whether it
was conferring with an expert on ship interior's who was able to
establish that a photo that Bielek claimed was taken inside the
Eldridge was actually from inside a much bigger ship, to
discovering that many of the scientists that Bielek claimed were
involved with the secret test were either dead before the test
was ever conducted or were really characters from a science
fiction book!

The most damning evidence against Bielek's account, however came
with the discovery by Barnes that Bielek had stolen the identity
of a millionaire yarn manufacturer who had attended Princeton
back in the 1930s. Alex Cameron III was from Pennsylvania and
appeared in a Princeton 1936 year book as "A. Cameron". That
same photo was placed by Bielek on his web site where Bielek
claims that it's a photo of Edward A. Cameron, the son of
Alexander Duncan Cameron and half brother of Duncan Cameron.
Through a series of adventures, Bielek claims that Edward
Cameron was age regressed by intelligence agency scientists and
then sent back in time to 1927 and placed as a young child in
the Bielek family where he was raised and grew-up as Al Bielek.
He regained his memories after watching a sci-fi movie about the
Philadlephia Experiment on TV.

The photo of A. Cameron was the first piece of hard evidence
that Bielek had ever produced to support his identity as Edward
Cameron. Being that the source of the picture was known, Barnes
went to Princeton and visited the archives there to verify the
photo. There he made the shocking discovery that it wasn't of an
Edward "A." Cameron but that the "A." stood for Alex and he was
from Reading, Pennsylvania not anywhere near Lond Island. Not
only that, but Barnes was able to obtain a phone number and
address for the man. After calling it he discovered that Cameron
had died 2 years before but was able to get the phone number of
his surviving son.

Meanwhile, Schelm and Houpt were busy double checking the
identity of "A. Cameron" as well and were able to get a
confirmation in writing of his true identity as well as some
background history on the man. He had made a good living in the
yarn business and also had a daughter. Schelm got a photo of the
man and his wife in their later years, sitting comfortably in a
convertible automobile, proving that he had not been aged
regressed and sent back in time and was now running around as Al
Bielek spouting conspiracy theories about time travel, UFOs,
aliens and the secret government.

Barnes prepared a secret email account for Cameron's son and
when he was able to talk to him, he got permission to tape the
conversation. In it, Alex IV told the true story of his father
and admitted to not having any idea of who Al Bielek or any of
the other colorful characters are that are associated with
Bielek's tale of the Cameron brothers. Then Barnes had Alex IV
open the secret email account and listened as he identified the
photos of his father, confirming that in fact he was A.
Cameron's son.

Then Barnes guided Alex IV to Bielek's web site at
http://www.bielek.com and had him click on the bar for Al Bielek
and then where it said "Ed Cameron". When the page came up
describing Ed Cameron's life Alex let out a "Oh my God. That's
my dad!" There at near the top of the page was his father's 1936
Princeton year book photo. Then when asked by Barnes to identify
the photos of Alexander Duncan Cameron, who should be his
grandfather by Bielek's account, Alex IV couldn't. "My grafather
was never in the navy". This confirmed suspicions that Barnes
had been having since discovering the true identity of A.
Cameron. Bielek had taken two different Cameron families and put
them together, with him claiming to be A. Cameron so that he
could then be a part of the other Cameron family if only by
name.

This twisted scenario was confirmed later by Schelm's contact
with an H. Van Pelt and a member of Barnes' American team's
contact with an M. Long. Both are related to Alexander Duncan
Cameron and both deny any knowledge of the man in the A. Cameron
photo. In particular, from M. Long's account it seems that the
stories about Edward and Duncan Cameron's youth are based on the
true life of Alexander Duncan Cameron. They were probably told
to Bielek by one of his sons who is also named Duncan Cameron.
This Duncan is a friend of Bielek and used to claim that he was
the half brother who jumped overboard with Ed Cameron and
traveled through time. He claimed that his spirit was placed in
his current body when his previous one began to breakdown due to
adverse effects from his time travel experiences. Both he and
Bielek would later join Preston Nichols as part of the secret
government's Montauk Project program at the abandoned Air Force
Base at Montauk, Long Island and eventually be brain washed to
forget after the project was shut down. Of course since the one
man that Bielek claims was Edward Cameron wasn't, that means
there was no Ed Cameron, thus causing a chain of deletions that
cancel out not only Bielek's version of the Philadelphia
Experiment but blow a king size hole in Nichols' claims of the
Montauk Project as well, since Nichols is on record saying that
Bielek's tale connecting the two projects together is true. A
cottage publishing industry has been based on these stories for
Sky Books, a small press house run by one Vincent Barbarick who
uses the name of Peter Moon to publish under. There is no
telling whether these revelations will help or hurt future book
sales.

"I think poor Al has smoked one too many," commented Aex IV
about Bielek's story. The son of the man who Bielek claimed to
be said that he wasn't going to sue Bielek because the "story
isn't true" and "it's just too crazy to believe", but he did
give Barnes and his investigators the right to use the taped
conversation and photos of his father to set the record
straight.

Meanwhile, Barnes says this does nothing to harm his further
invesigation of the WWII legend. "Really," he said, speaking on
vacation in Southwestern, Ohio, "this is pretty good. It clears
the decks of this crazy story and realigns the focus on the hard
evidence that has been suppressed repeatedly but documents a
real basis for trying to make a destroyer escort invisible to
sight and radar during WWII. We've discovered so much more that
we haven't even had a chance to organize it all, but we will
fairly soon. When we do, we'll have a clear and verifiable line
of evidence showing much of the who, why, when and where of the
true events and also the efforts to misappropriate the legend,
like what Bielek did, and the efforts to cover it up. After
that, I don't think I'll ever want to deal with it again."

The web site that exposes Bielek can be found through:

http://www.pxarchive.de

The true account of how the A&E Channel program "The
Unexplained" suppressed Barnes' evidence for the Philadelphia
Experiment and lied to the public is at:

http://www.viewzone.com/philadelphia.html


Bill Hamilton
Executive Director
Skywatch International, Inc.
Website:
http://www.skywatch-research.org
Fiat Lux et Veritas