US Air Force ‘Teleportation Physics Study’
🏛️ Official record
AFRL (Edwards AFB) · Eric W. Davis · report AFRL-PR-ED-TR-2003-0034 · USA · 2004-08
An 88-page technical report reviewing wormholes, quantum teleportation and ‘psychic teleportation’, specifically citing Chinese experiments (Zhang Baosheng et al.) moving pills and insects between sealed containers, and recommending $7.5M more.
VerdictAfter a ‘USA Today’ story sparked doubt, the Air Force didn’t fund it further.
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Zhang Baosheng ‘pill through bottle’ & Institute 507 high-speed film
🏛️ Official record
Astronautics Medical Engineering Institute (507) · China Somatic Science Society · China, Beijing · 1983–1988
507 researchers reported high-speed footage of pills ‘passing out’ of a sealed glass bottle, published in ‘Chinese Journal of Somatic Science’, later cited by the Air Force report; in 1988 He Zuoxiu et al. caught the switching trick.
VerdictDebunked (see Telekinesis).
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Micius ground-to-satellite quantum teleportation
🔬 Achieved by science
Univ of Science & Technology of China, Pan Jianwei team (Nature 2017) · China, Ngari Tibet → Micius satellite · 2017
Teleported a single photon’s quantum state to the satellite 1,400 km away; earlier, in 1997, Zeilinger’s Innsbruck team first achieved quantum teleportation in the lab.
Verdict‘Teleportation’ holds at the quantum-information level, but transmits no matter and can’t exceed light speed.
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The Philadelphia Experiment (USS Eldridge)
✕ Debunked
US Office of Naval Research official denial · USA, Philadelphia · 1943 (legend)
Legend has the destroyer turn invisible in Philadelphia harbour and teleport to Norfolk; ONR has repeatedly stated it never happened, the story coming from a 1955 reader’s letter to a UFO author.
VerdictAn urban legend.
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Gil Pérez: Manila → Mexico City
📜 On record
Spanish colonial legend (first written 1698) · Philippines → Mexico · 1593 (legend)
A palace guard from Manila supposedly appeared overnight in Mexico City’s plaza, bringing news of the Manila governor’s assassination.
VerdictA legend; the earliest text postdates the ‘event’ by over a century.
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