What is the "Montauk Project"? Source: Esoteric Physics January 2000
The Montauk Project, also called the Phoenix Project
during some of its phases, was basically a
mind-control-using-pulsed-radar program that, according to Preston B.
Nichols, took place during the 1970's and early '80s at an abandoned
Air Force radar base at the southeast tip of Long Island.
Built during WW1, Camp Hero was used by the Army until
the 1950s or '60s, after which it became an Air Force S.A.G.E. radar
facility, in the days before "over-the-horizon" radars came into
being. By the late 1960s or early '70s, the base at Montauk had been
closed down officially, and in 1984 the property was donated to the
state of New York as park land.
But the story goes that there were certain "experiments"
being conducted in secret, from the 1970s until 1983, by a renegade
group of scientists associated with Brookhaven National Labs in Camp
Upton, Long Island. They needed a secluded spot with some unused radar
equipment on it, where they could develop "unusual" technologies "off
the books" as far as the government was concerned. The Camp Hero radar
base at Montauk Point was the perfect techno-hideaway, complete with
underground and secret tunnels connecting to other sites on Long
Island.
Allegedly, the technology used was in some respects a
continuation of the Philadelphia Experiment of 1943: they subjected
human subjects to a complex interacting mixture of pulsing radar
energy and rotating magnetic fields; this supposedly allowed them to
alter moods, amplify and transmit "thought- forms", materialize
thoughts into physical things, alter the weather, and even travel
through time!
Please note: None of this is proven, nor is the
Philadelphia Experiment, for that matter.
No one knew of any "Montauk Project" before Nichols and
friends came along. The Philadelphia Experiment legend was essentially
about the disastrous effects experienced by the crew of the U.S.S.
Eldridge when an early attempt at radar invisibility ("cloaking")
turned into a dematerialization and teleportation of ship and crew
between Philadelphia harbor and Norfolk, Virginia in 1943. 41 years
later, in 1984, the Hollywood movie "The Philadelphia Experiment" was
released; this movie introduced a new twist to the "PX" story: The
ship didn't just teleport, it TIME-TRAVELED 40 years into the future
and "linked up" with a similar experiment going on in 1984.
Seeing that movie, Alfred Bielek and Duncan Cameron were
"shaken", and began to "remember" that THEY had been the two sailors
who jumped over the side of the Eldridge while it was in "hyperspace";
in the movie the two men time- traveled to 1984 and ended up in the
Nevada desert. In Bielek's version, they ended up at the Montauk Point
radar station in 1983, where an aging John von Neumann (head of the
projects of 1943 and now in 1983) was waiting for them.
Preston Nichols, an RF engineer who is a member of the
U.S. Psychotronics Association (researchers/builders of esoteric
electronic gadgets that affect psychic functioning), claims to have
been brainwashed to forget that he was the chief RF engineer for the
Montauk project, leading a "double-life": working at AIL (Airborne
Instrument Labs) on Long Island during the day, but ALSO being sent
out to Montauk to work on the Project--- but he claims they "sent him
back in time to just before he left AIL" so that he would not remember
having put in a full day at Montauk... and so he could do both jobs in
one day's time. (He claims to have been chronically exhausted during
this time period, and could not understand why.)
Nichols first suspected that something was weird about
Montauk when he noticed that, at about the same time each day, certain
psychics with whom he was working (in his "psychotronics" hobby
capacity, I presume), would find their psychic abilities "blocked" by
what turned out to be a radar transmission from Montauk, in the 425
MHz range, which he says is a "psychoactive" frequency range that can
affect human brain functioning.
At first Nichols had no idea of his alter-ego
connections with the Montauk radar base, but later, when someone began
insisting that they "remembered" him having worked out at Montauk,
Preston slowly began "remembering" that he did indeed lead a double
life. His main job involved revamping the obsolete S.A.G.E. radar
transmitter for mind-amplifier/time-warping applications. So Bielek
and Cameron remembered having been a part of the Philadelphia
Experiment, while Nichols was the key engineer on the Montauk project,
an 'updated' Philly Experiment. Bielek and Cameron also remember
having taken part in the Montauk project: Bielek as a computer
engineer/metaphysical advisor/physicist, and Cameron as a
government-trained psychic who would project "thought forms" from the
"Montauk Chair."
The Montauk Chair, Nichols relates, was a chair in which
a psychic would sit; this chair was surrounded by magnetic pickup
coils which fed into modified radio receivers which could pick up a
noise peak from 3 different directional axes (x,y, and z) and glean
information from this tri-dimensional signal--- i.e., an electronic
"aura" or electromagnetic body-field reader. The signals that were
extracted from this 3D pickup arrangement were processed digitally and
correlated with thoughts, moods, etc. Later, a digital signal was
generated artificially which mimicked the original signals. This
signal drove the radar transmitter and radiated "thought forms"
outward from the base. With this technology the experimenters were
able to affect the moods and thoughts of anyone they selected as a
"target".
At some point they began to have the psychics in the
"Montauk Chair" visualize very specific things-- such as a "vortex
connecting 1980 to 1940"-- and the digitized/recorded/replayed version
of that "thought form" supposedly led to actual time travel "portals"
opening up, through which one could be physically transported to
another place or time.
With further refinements and transmitter power
increases, the story goes, they were ultimately able to "precipitate
matter out of pure thought" by generating an electromagnetic "lattice"
or pattern that formed the "ghost" of a material object. Continued
pumping of energy into this "space-form" would eventually cause it to
"solidify" into a real object (sort of the "opposite" of the E=mc^2
Einstein equation which led to the A-bomb, where a piece of matter is
converted very quickly to a lot of energy. Here a lot of energy
gradually became solidified as a piece of matter).
At some point our storytellers began getting
conscience-qualms and decided to sabotage the operation. The project
was finally crashed in 1983 when a psychic (Duncan Cameron) purposely
visualized a "monster" which then materialized via the Montauk radar
transmitter. This monster began wrecking the base, and they found they
could not kill the power to the transmitter because the Montauk
Project had accidentally "linked up in hyperspace" to the Philadelphia
Experiment from 40 years earlier, on July 12, 1983 ---> 1943, through
an "Earth biorhythm cycle that peaks every 20 years on July 12th".
Preston Nichols and others hacked the radar waveguides with axes and
finally the power went down. The "monster" dematerialized, and the
project was closed down by the panicked scientists who "ran for the
hills", abandoning the project for the last time.
I first learned of this bizarre story via a videotape
shot in 1988 or '89, called "The Truth About the Philadelphia
Experiment" which was being circulated among "UFO" groups. The tape
featured Preston Nichols telling about the Phoenix/Montauk Projects,
Alfred Bielek telling about the Philadelphia Experiment (he claims to
have been there), and Duncan Cameron acknowledging that he too was
involved in both projects. (Bielek and especially Cameron are too
young to have been sailors on the U.S.S. Eldridge in 1943, but claim
that "the government used advanced technology to physically regress
them in age".)
[As of this writing, January 2000, I believe Duncan
Cameron has separated himself from the whole Montauk story. Whether he
now calls it a hoax, or what the reason for his separation is, I don't
know for sure. If my information is incorrect about his disassociating
himself from the story, please let me know and I will correct these
remarks. If he HAS separated himself, it would be interesting to find
out whether he still supports the story or now declares it to be
false!]
Later (1992 or 1993) Preston Nichols teamed up with
publisher Peter Moon of Sky Books, and wrote "The Montauk Project--
Experiments in Time". More books followed, with each telling a less
"technical" and more conspiracy-oriented, metaphysical-occultic
embellishment to the original story.
Now, about 11 years after the original video was
released, the Montauk "legend" has taken on a life of its own, just as
the Philadelphia Experiment story did (except that one got started way
back in the 1950's). Visitors to the park at Montauk Point often sneak
into the off-limits ex-radar base to look for clues as to whether
Nichols' story can be verified or not; the many concreted-in entrances
to what appears to be an underground area, plus the many WW2 bunkers
and tunnels that can be found at the base, only add to the mystery of
the facility. One wonders why the park has not bulldozed the place to
dissuade trespassers once and for all from putting holes in boarded-up
doors and lurking around the base, looking for Preston Nichols'
torch-marks on the walls of the transmitter rooms which would be
interpreted as proof that they were indeed trying to hack apart a
running megawatt radar transmitter so as to pull the power plug from a
monster materialized from the aether.
by Rick Andersen
http://www.tricountyi.net/~randerse/montauk0.htm