Montauk Project

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AN/FPS-35 Radar at Camp Hero
This AN/FPS-35 Radar at Camp Hero State Park in Montauk, New York State in Long Island, and is the centerpiece of the "Montauk Project Conspiracy". The decommissioned AN/FPS-35 Radar is still behind a fence but one can walk around the grounds in the state park. The radar is the only one of its kind still in existence and was not torn down because boaters on Long Island Sound preferred the massive AN/FPS-35 Radar as a daymark rather than the Montauk Lighthouse nearby.
This AN/FPS-35 Radar at Camp Hero State Park in Montauk, New York State in Long Island, and is the centerpiece of the "Montauk Project Conspiracy". The decommissioned AN/FPS-35 Radar is still behind a fence but one can walk around the grounds in the state park. The radar is the only one of its kind still in existence and was not torn down because boaters on Long Island Sound preferred the massive AN/FPS-35 Radar as a daymark rather than the Montauk Lighthouse nearby.
Background information

The Montauk Project was alleged to be a series of secret United States government projects conducted at Camp Hero or Montauk Air Force Station on Montauk, Long Island for the purpose of developing powerful psychological warfare weaponry. Little evidence confirming the experiment actually occurred has surfaced. It is also believed that Project Monarch that began in 1962 contributed to the Montauk Project that was established from 1971 up until 1983 and then continued under another designated type of "project name insignia". Many cultural links have been made in the 'Montauk Books' by Peter Moon and Preston Nichols about the American film industry and Hollywood and the Montauk Project itself.

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[edit] The legend of the Project

There are those who believe that the Montauk Project was an extension or continuation of the controversial Philadelphia Experiment, which supposedly took place in 1943, that was also known as Project Rainbow.

Montauk Project
Associated Projects
Operation Paperclip
Project Rainbow
Philadelphia Experiment
Project Stargate
People

Nikola Tesla
Al Bielek
Preston Nichols
John von Neumann
Russell Targ
Duncan Cameron
Stewart Swerdlow
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According to proponents, sometime between 1952-1953, surviving researchers from Project Rainbow began to discuss the project with an eye to continuing the research into technical aspects of manipulating the "electromagnetic shielding" that had been used to make the USS Eldridge invisible, and the reasons and possible military applications of the psychological and emotional effects of a magnetic field upon individual Humans and upon Humans collectively and socially.

The legend goes on to say that a report was supposedly prepared and presented to the United States Congress, and was soundly rejected as far too dangerous. So a proposal was made directly to the United States Department of Defense promising a powerful new weapon that could drive an enemy insane, inducing the symptoms of psychotic disorders and schizophrenia at the touch of a button. Without US "Congressional Approval", the project would have to be top secret and secretly funded. The Department of Defense approved. Funding supposedly came from a cache of US$10 billion in Nazi gold recovered from a train found by US Army soldiers in a train tunnel in France, near the Swiss border. The train was blown up and all the soldiers involved were killed. When those funds ran out, additional funding was secured from ITT and Krupp AG in Germany.

Work began at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) on Long Island, New York under the name of the Phoenix Project, but it was soon realized that the 'project' required a large and advanced radar dish, and installing one at Brookhaven National Laboratory would compromise the security of the project. Luckily, the US Air Force had a decommissioned base at Montauk, New York, not far from BNL, which had a complete SAGE radar installation. The site was large and remote and Montauk Point was not yet a 'tourist attraction'. Water access would allow equipment to be moved in and out undetected. More importantly, the SAGE radar worked on a frequency of 400 MHz - 425 MHz, right in the range of 410 MHz - 420 MHz signal that is said to influence the "Human Mind".

Equipment was moved to Camp Hero at the Montauk AFB in the period of 1967-1968, and installed in a Deep Underground Military Base that the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) were redeveloping and expanding beneath the Montauk AFB on the surface at Montauk Point. According to "Conspiracy Theorists", to mask the nature of the project the site was closed in 1969 and donated as a wildlife refuge/park, with the provision that everything underground within the "D1 Base" would remain the property of the US Air Force, although technically, in reality, the Montauk AFB remained in operation until 1987. The park has never been opened to the public, under the excuse of "environmental contamination". (see Addendum below) The park is open to the public and has been for several years. All of the old military buildings are fenced off and boarded up. They maintain tight security.

[edit] Specific claims

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Various "Conspiracy Theorists" claim that experiments began in earnest from 1982 through to 1987-1988. They claim that during this time one, some or all of the following occurred at the site. No evidence has ever been provided that any of the following is true:

  • The facility was expanded to as many as twelve levels and several hundred workers. Some reports have the facility extending under the town of Montauk itself and interconnected with vast maglev tunnel networks to other Deep Underground Military Bases, also known as "D1 Bases".
  • Homeless people and orphans were abducted and subjected to huge amounts of electromagnetic radiation to test mind control technology and remote brain programming. Apparently up to 300,000 + individuals were abducted and less than 1% survived the horrific "sexual ritual magick" and mind control they were subjected to.
  • People had their psychic abilities enhanced to the point where they could materialize objects out of thin air. Stewart Swerdlow claims to have been involved in the Montauk Project, and as a result, he says, his "psionic" faculties were boosted, but at the cost of emotional and psychological instability, post-traumatic stress disorder, and other issues, including being programmed with microchips, and also through the use of Psychotronic Mind Control. An alien supposedly designed a chair, which an individual could sit in to boost his mental and precipatory powers. A prototype duplicate was given to the Britain and put in a facility on the River Thames.
  • Experiments were conducted in teleportation, parallel dimensions and time travel.
  • A "porthole ("portal") in time" was created which allowed researchers to travel anywhere in time or space. This was developed into a stable "Time Tunnel." Underground tunnels with abandoned cultural archives were explored on Mars using this technique where apparently some kind of "Martians" had once lived many thousands and thousands of years earlier.
  • Enrico Chekov, a Spanish-Russian dissident, reported in 1988, after defecting to America, that satellite surveillance captured during the 1970s showed the formation of a large bubble of space-time centered on the site, lending further support to the D1 Base Time Tunnel research. After Chekov shared photographs with a reporter from the NY Times, his apartment in Manhattan was burgled and the photos were all that was taken.
  • Contact was made with alien extraterrestrials through the Time Tunnel and advanced kinds of 'etheric technology' was exchanged with them which enhanced the Montauk Project. This allowed broader access to "hyperspace". Stewart Swerdlow also developed the Language of Hyperspace, utilizing Archetypes and Glpyhs as well as Colour and Tone, in other words, a "non-linguistic language", the language of the Creator, that is God itself. However many researchers have questioned the validity of Stewart Swerdlow and what he actually did within the Montauk Project.
  • Mind control experiments were conducted and runaway and kidnapped boys were abducted and brought out to the base where they underwent excruciating periods of both physical and mental torture in order to break their minds, which resulted in the development of Multiple Personality Disorder and acute forms of psychosis, then their minds were re-programmed. Many were supposedly killed during the process and buried on the site. Others were released with programming as mind-slaves with alternate personalities to be sleeper cells who could be activated to perform missions. It is alleged that a number of these children were imported from Canada, and that many were kept alive while the top portion of their skulls was permanently removed in an effort to minimize "cranial interference." While most of these subjects suffered massive cerebral infections and consequently died, a handful are rumoured to have survived; these "fortunate" few developed adequate neural immunities to live despite the obvious complications of exposed brain syndrome (EBS).
  • On or about on August 12, 1983 the time travel project at Camp Hero interlocked in hyperspace with the original Project Rainbow back in 1943. The USS Eldridge was drawn into hyperspace and trapped there. Two men, Al Bielek and Duncan Cameron both claim to have leaped from the deck of the "USS Eldridge" while it was in hyperspace and ended up after a period of severe disorientation at Camp Hero in the year 1983 at Montauk Point. Here they claim to have met John von Neumann, a famous physicist and mathematician, even though he was known to have died in 1957. John Von Neumann had supposedly worked on the original Philadelphia Experiment, but the US Navy denies this.
  • Flying saucers were observing the Philadelphia Experiment in 1943 and got sucked into a time warp and was transported to one of the underground tunnels in Montauk and got stuck there. The aliens demanded a large quartz crystal to help get their ship's engines started to be able to leave. The time machine was used to obtain one from another planet.
  • Nikola Tesla, whose death was faked in a conspiracy, was the chief director of operations at the base (which if they started in the 80s would make him 120+).
  • Mass psychological experiments, such as the use of enormous subliminal messages projects and the creation of a "Men in Black" corps to confuse and frighten the public, were invented there.

The site was opened to the public on September 18, 2002 as Camp Hero State Park. The radar tower has been placed on the State and National Register of Historic Places. There are plans for a museum and interpretive center, focusing on World War II and Cold War era history.

Despite rumors, no traces of secret underground facilities have been found.

[edit] Montauk in the media

[edit] Film and television

The Montauk Project has appeared in a number of TV shows and films including:

A 2005 issue of the Pulse[1] notes that the film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, starring Jim Carrey, was filmed in Montauk, New York. The issue claims an effort was made to film at Camp Hero State Park but that officials tried to discourage them with higher filming fees.

The Philadelphia Experiment film follows the adventures of the two US Navy sailors through space-time, which touches on the Montauk Project even if the details differ.

The TV show Stargate SG-1 contains a number of similarities to this, including space and time travel using energy portals in a secret military location; Aliens attacking through said portals; Earth being at war with aliens without public knowledge; and the city of Atlantis being discovered in another galaxy.

Al Bielek stated in an interview that the film, Total Recall was influenced by the Montauk Project, in general, and specifically, the chair in the movie being similar to the one used in the project and the Martian caverns indicating ancient intelligent Martian civilization that had built vast underground cities on Mars.

The 'alien designed chair' for boosting mental powers recalls a similar device in the 1956 science fiction film "Forbidden Planet".

The little known 1999 film, 'The Intruder', is a mystery about holes in time and features a character named “Charlie” (played by John Hannah) who claims to have been a part of The Montauk Project. IMDB Link:[2]

The 2007 film, "The Signal," focuses on a strange signal being sent out through television and telephones. The signal causes people to acquire paranoid schizophrenia, and they feel like they have to kill or be killed, with no real provocation.

[edit] Music

The album Strange Cargo Hinterland by electronic composer William Orbit includes a song called "Montauk Point" which is apparently inspired by the Montauk Project myth.

The album Of One Blood by the band Shadows Fall includes a song called "Montauk" which deals with the conspiracy.

There is an album by the Post-Industrial act Galerie Schallschutz entitled the Montauk Project. (Tesco Organisation (TESCO 063))

The band Circa Survive has a song entitled "Meet Me In Montauk" on their album Juturna. This is most likely a reference to Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

The band Bayside has a song entitled "Montauk" on their self titled Bayside.

The band Brand New mention Montauk Point in "Play Crack The Sky" off of the "Deja Entendu" record.

The band The Cubs (Athens,GA) have a song entitled "Montauk Soldiers".

The song "The Downeaster 'Alexa'" by Billy Joel (on the album "Storm Front") has a reference to Montauk in the lyric: "We took on diesel back in Montauk yesterday/And left this morning from the bell in Gardiner's Bay".

[edit] Games

The popular computer game Half-Life features an extensive underground facility called Black Mesa, which suffers from a similar fate as the Montauk facility when interdimensional creatures attack through a portal.

The D20 Menace Manual, a sourcebook for the D20 Modern role-playing game (RPG) by Wizards of the Coast contains a creature called the Montauk Monster. It is an elemental composed of living energy that can cause its victims to fatally fuse with nearby matter.

The Montauk is a mobile subterranean command centre for the Brotherhood of Nod in the computer game Tiberian Sun.

In Call of Cthulu role-playing game (RPG), there is an extensive scenario regarding a congressional investigation following an attack from an alien during testing.

[edit] See also

[edit] Further reading

Many books have been published on this subject, in particular the Montauk Project book series. There is also considerable crossover with the Philadelphia Experiment, so see that entry for more books on wider setting. Books that discuss aspects of the Montauk Project include:

Forthcoming in 2007: [Montauk Unveiled] [3] — a documentary by Christopher P. Garetano and co produced by John David Brodie. Soundtrack by The Unquiet Void vs. 4th Sign of the Apocalypse [4]

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