For more than 50 years, James W. Moseley's famous journal "Saucer Smear" brings the latest news about
Ufology and unexplained celestial events research. They even published an article about bielek-debunked.com back in
2003, after this web site was put online. This is what they wrote about bielek-debunked.com:
ECHOS OF THE "PHILADELPHIA EXPERIMENT"
"A man named Al Bielek has made something of a living for many years by lecturing
and writing about his claim to be a survivor of the mythical Philadelphia Experiment.
This is the legend of a top secret test in 1943, during World War II, of some sort
of early stealth technology, intended to make a ship invisible. The story has it
that a destroyer called the U.S.S. Eldridge was used for such a test, and at some
point during the experiment the ship went completely invisible and teleported itself
from the Philadelphia coast to the Navy yard at Norfolk, Virginia - and then back
again!
Bielek's version of events is that he and a half brother named Duncan Cameron jumped
overboard when things started going heywire on deck, and they landed in the year
1983 - forty years into the future, and on dry land at the Montauk Air Force Base at
Montauk, Long Island, N.Y. What followed was a period of extensive sci-fi sounding
adventures that included everything from time travel to mind control.
In spite of the fantastic nature of these claims, Bielek has many Believers. This
may change now, as recent research by three civilian investigators has shown that
Bielek stole the identity that he claims he had when all these adventures began.
The details are extremely complicated, but the fact is that Bielek's story just
doesn't hold water when carefully scrutinized. (The Net version of this research
is very long, and was kindly sent to us by both Kenn Thomas and Tom Benson a few
days ago.)"
you will find enclosed in these pages verifiable facts published for the first time
that will conclude a long term investigation into the so called "PX" experiment but more specifically into the claims made by one Alfred Bielek.
Mr. Bielek gained a degree of public recognition for the first time with his well-know testimony at the MUFON conference in 1990.
At that time he stated that he was a true eyewitness and participant to the Philadelphia Experiment. The facts published here will clearly demonstrate that
Mr. Bielek, as well as his companions Preston Nichols and Duncan Cameron, willfully crafted one of the biggest hoaxes to spread from the internet.
According to his own records, Bielek has been on over 50 radio talk shows and a featured speaker at over 40 conferences. We will outline in the body of our
presentation the following re-evaluation of Al Bielek.
· He never participated in the PX
· He never witnessed the PX
· He was no where near the PX test when it occurred
· He has changed the nature of his story many times over the years with additions, embellishments, deletions and wholesale fabrication of events
· He has stated historical events that can be completely verified to be totally false
These points are a sampling of what we will present in our report.
What remains amazing is that Bielek's story was widely accepted by the media and his 'fan community' without criticism.
People of all backgrounds were quick to repeat his quotes, often just borrowing them from someone else's web page, without
checking the claims or presenting any critical analysis of whether they 'could' be true.
The most astute observer and researcher of the PX is Marshall Barnes. He has been doing a thorough investigation of the Philadelphia
Experiment since the early '90's. Barnes asked basic questions that no one else thought pertinent and with time he began to find great
discrepancies with Bielek's claims. Starting from a basic dissatisfaction with Bielek's so called "facts", observing that not one claim
was supported by a "hard evidence" [which means that it can be verified] Marshall began a large-scale investigation. Eventually a small
number of people joined Marshall in his endeavors and the result of this long-term research is this report.
Among this group of researchers were Marshall Barnes (USA), Fred Houpt (CAN) and Gerold Schelm (GER), making this investigation a real international event.
Our group effort can demonstrate that the claims of Al Bielek and his companions is nothing short of very impressive media manipulation, dis-information,
partially correct data mixed into fabrications and completely false statements. Where there will always be those of the opinion that Bielek's media circus is the creation of a government-guided operation,
what we can say with certainty is that to some degree it has been a profitable venture for
Bielek and friends. Whether they were selling hokum and malarkey never seemed to stop the curious and naïve from buying tapes and videos and
attending conferences.
The fact is that the one factor missing for over a decade, is a step by step de-construction of the PX-Bielek saga as it was told by Al Bielek. We have accomplished that
and we are confident that his version, his story, does not hold up to severe scrutiny.
The references used for this presentation are the common transcripts of some speeches and interviews given by Al Bielek, which are still
accessible on the internet. Additionally, we make reference to the content of Al Bielek's own web site, www.bielek.com, which has
presented the photo material referred to in this report. Often, we use Al Bielek's own data to point out where he has either
lied, mixed and matched bits and pieces of the real story or else just made up a great deal of nonsense. When we say that
someone has 'lied', we are required to show evidence for the accusation. We have documentary evidence showing Bielek
lying on several of the main subjects and the source is emails and official documents, which we have provided as part of the report.
The facts presented on these pages were collected by Marshall Barnes, Fred Houpt
and Gerold Schelm. Personal statements of the investigators can be found in the final
chapter of this web site.
The right hand menu will bring you to the results of this investigations.
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According to his own records, Bielek has been on over 50 radio talk shows and a featured speaker at over 40 conferences. We will outline in the body of our
presentation the following re-evaluation of Al Bielek.