the philadelphia experiment (M37)

time travel. a navy ship in 1943 is part of an experiment trying to cloak it from radar, by using large amounts of electricity. unfortunately the experiment goes awry and the entire ship disappears. two of the sailors (who worked in the electricity room) are thrust forward in time to 1984, when the same scientist who was responsible for the first experiment is again experimenting with large amounts of electricity. the sailors land on an army base that is top secret and thus they are being sought by the army. the second experiment has created a vortex that is swallowing things up into its space time hole and part of the town in nevada has disappeared. one of the sailors is molecularly unstable and he causes damage to the video games at the truck stop where they visit. the owner of the truck stop wants payment for the damages and pulls out a gun. david, the second sailor, grabs the gun away and holds it on nancy allen who drives the two sailors away with her. the electricity from the vacuum is attracted to sailor number two and their car is often hit by lightning. they take sailor number two to the hospital where he raises curiosity and questions. finally he disappears in an electric flourish. nancy allen and david head to california, david's hometown back in 43. (they stop at a motel, where they are chaste and he watches a lot of television.) they visit his father's gas station and nancy sees his photos from 43 and for the first time she believes him. they go to the ranch of sailor number two, but sailor number two was treaty as loony when he returned to 43, so the appearance of his friend from that period is something he wishes to ignore. david decides to return to nevada where he expects to find answers. he meets the scientist responsible for the experiments and he is informed that he has to return to the ship to turn of the electricity in order to close the vortex. he says goodbye to nancy allen and returns to the vortex. (the scientists had sent a camera into the vortex and thus established the fact that the navy ship and the nevada town were up in the vortex.) he goes to his ship, turns off the electricity and jumps off the ship. the ship returns to 43, the nevada town returns to 84 and david returns to 84 and nancy and david live happily ever after.

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