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''The Montauk Project: Experiments in Time'' by Preston B. Nichols and Peter Moon, published in 1992, is the first book in a series depicting
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experiments at the Montauk Air Force Base at the eastern tip of
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. It is considered the progenitor of the "
Montauk Project The Montauk Project is a conspiracy theory that alleges there were a series of United States government projects conducted at Camp Hero or Montauk Air Force Station in Montauk, New York, for the purpose of developing psychological warfare t ...
" conspiracy theory.


Overview

The 1992 book and its follow up books are written in a first person style. The real photographs of the base and crude drawings of the project electronics in the book contribute to the authentic feel. Using a time travel theme, the characters alter history with visits to
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, as well as altering the outcome of
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and
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battles. The authors claim the book is based on their recovery of repressed childhood memories of being abducted and experimented on against their will. In the book they also throw doubt on their claims saying ''‘Whether you read this as science fiction or non-fiction you are in for an amazing story.’'' The book has been looked on as true by followers of the conspiracy theory, some of whom visit Montauk Air Force Base inside Camp Hero State Park. It has also been classified as
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.


Book details


The Philadelphia Experiment

The book's narrative is centered around the
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, which is believed to be an extension or continuation of the
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(also known as
Project Rainbow #REDIRECT Project RAINBOW Project Rainbow Is A Roblox Hacker And Real Life Murder He Comes At 3:00 Am And Will Kill U If Project Rainbow Is A Death Killer Or A Reasoning Hunter ...
), which supposedly took place in 1943. Sometime in the 1950s, surviving researchers from the original Project Rainbow began to discuss the project with an eye to continuing the research into technical aspects of manipulating the electromagnetic bottle that had been used to make the invisible, and the reasons and possible military applications of the psychological effects of the
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. A report was supposedly prepared and presented to the
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, and was soundly rejected as far too dangerous. So a proposal was made directly to the
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promising a powerful new weapon that could drive an enemy insane, inducing the symptoms of
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at the touch of a button. Without 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
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recovered from a train found by U.S. soldiers in a train tunnel in France. The train was blown up and all the soldiers involved were killed. When those funds ran out, additional funding was secured from
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and
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AG in Germany.


The experiment comes to Long Island

Work was begun at
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on
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, New York under the name Phoenix Project, but it was soon realized that the project required a large radar dish, and installing one at Brookhaven would compromise the security of the project. Luckily, the U.S. Air Force had a decommissioned base at
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, not far from Brookhaven, which had a complete
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(SAGE) radar installation. The site was large and remote (Montauk was not yet a tourist attraction) and water access would allow equipment to be moved in and out undetected. Equipment was moved to
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at the Montauk base in the late 1960s, and installed in an underground bunker beneath the base. According to conspiracy theorists, to mask the nature of the project the site was closed in 1969 and donated as a
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/park, with the provision that everything underground would remain the property of the Air Force (although, in reality, the base remained in operation until the 1980s).


Key parts of the original book

Experiments began in earnest in the early 1970s and during this time one, some or all of the following are claimed to have occurred at the site: * The facility was expanded to as many as twelve levels and several hundred workers, without anyone in the town noticing the tons of building materials or hundreds of workers required. Some reports have the facility extending under the town of Montauk itself. * Homeless people were abducted and subjected to huge amounts of electromagnetic radiation. Few survived. * 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 instability, post-traumatic stress disorder, and other issues. * Experiments were conducted in
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. * A "porthole in time" was created which allowed researchers to travel anywhere in time or space. This was developed into a stable "Time Tunnel". * Contact was made with alien
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through the Time Tunnel and technology was exchanged with them which enhanced the project. This allowed broader access to "
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". * An alien monster traveled through the time tunnel, destroyed equipment, and devoured researchers. The tunnel was shut down and the creature destroyed. * Mind control experiments were conducted and runaway 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, then their minds were re-programmed. Many were supposedly killed during the process and buried on the site. * On or about August 12, 1983, the time travel project at
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interlocked in hyperspace with the original Rainbow Project 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 ''Eldridge'' while it was in hyperspace and ended up after a period of severe disorientation at Camp Hero in the year 1983. Here they claim to have met
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, a famous physicist and mathematician, even though he was known to have died in 1957. Von Neumann had supposedly worked on the original
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, but the U.S. Navy denies this. * Staff from the Camp Hero site traveled to the and shut down the generators, causing the ship to return to Philadelphia naval yard in 1943 and causing the time tunnel to collapse. *
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s and experiments in special serums to create such individuals were tested there. * After the experiments were completed or the destruction of the facility, depending on which book you read, the facility was closed for good, all the staff were brainwashed, shot, or sworn to absolute secrecy, and all records destroyed. According to some stories, research continues at the site to this day with enhanced security.


Experiments discussed in the other books of the series

* Filmmakers were brought to the facility to begin work on a project that would culminate with the
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. * The military personnel in charge were in fact cultists who built a
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or step pyramid out of titanium for some esoteric reason. * Early work on inventing the
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and its implementation were undertaken there. * Nazi scientists from
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were involved in some of the experiments there. * Experimental "flying saucer" aircraft prototypes were created there, and shipped to other secret bases for testing. * Bioengineering projects undertaken there eventually created the
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. * Black helicopters were manufactured and flown there. *
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, whose death was faked in a
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, was the chief director of operations at the base. * Mass psychological experiments, such as the use of enormous
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projects and the creation of a "
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" corps to confuse and frighten the public, were invented there. * The
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virus was created there.


Other books in the Montauk Project series

The following books have been published by Sky Books which lists its home at Westbury in
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on Long Island. * ''Montauk Revisited: Adventures in Synchronicity'' by Preston B. Nichols and Peter Moon published in 1993 () * ''Pyramids of Montauk: Explorations in Consciousness'' by Preston B. Nichols and Peter Moon published in 1995 () * ''The Black Sun: Montauk's Nazi-Tibetan Connection'' by Preston B. Nichols and Peter Moon published in 1997 () * ''Montauk: The Alien Connection'' by Stewart Swerdlow with Peter Moon (editor) published in 1998 ()


See also

* List of alleged conspiracy theories


References


External links


Sky Books website
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