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The '''Montauk Project''' is a [[conspiracy theory]] that alleges there were a series of [[United States]] government projects conducted at [[Camp Hero State Park|Camp Hero]] or [[Montauk Air Force Station]] in [[Montauk, New York|Montauk]], [[New York (state)|New York]], for the purpose of developing [[psychological warfare]] techniques and exotic research including [[time travel]]. The story of the Montauk Project originated in [[The Montauk Project: Experiments in Time|the ''Montauk Project'' series of books]] by [[Preston Nichols]] which intermixes those stories with stories about the Bulgarian Experiment.{{clarify|date=February 2021}}<ref name="scientificexploration.or">{{cite journal |author-link= Jacques Vallée |last= Vallée |first= Jacques F. |year= 1994 |title= Anatomy of a hoax: The Philadelphia Experiment fifty years later |journal= Journal of Scientific Exploration |volume= 8 |issue= 1 |pages= 47–71 |access-date= January 13, 2010 |url= http://www.scientificexploration.org/journal/jse_08_1_vallee.pdf |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20091222023540/http://www.scientificexploration.org/journal/jse_08_1_vallee.pdf |archive-date= December 22, 2009 }}</ref><ref name="Frissell2003">{{cite book|last=Frissell|first=Bob|title=Something in This Book Is True, Second Edition: The Official Companion to Nothing in this Book Is True, But It's Exactly How Things Are|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hoU3m8T0IukC&pg=PA76 |access-date=May 27, 2011|date=2003 |publisher=Frog Books|isbn=978-1-58394-077-8|page=76}}</ref>
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== Origin ==
The '''Montauk Project''' was purportedly a series of secret [[United States]] government projects conducted at [[Camp Hero]] or [[Montauk Air Force Station]] on [[Montauk, New York|Montauk]], [[Long Island]] for the purpose of developing a powerful [[psychological]] war weapon. It is considered by most to be a hoax. No evidence confirming the experiment actually occurring has ever surfaced nor has evidence of any underground facility been found.
Stories about the Montauk Project have circulated since the early 1980s. According to [[UFO]] researcher [[Jacques Vallée]], the Montauk Experiment stories seem to have originated with the highly questionable account of [[Preston Nichols]] and Al Bielek, who both claimed to have recovered [[repressed memory|repressed memories]] of their own involvement. Preston Nichols also claims that he was periodically abducted to continue his participation against his will.<ref name="bibliotecapleyades">{{cite web |url=http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/montauk/esp_montauk_1.htm |title=Preston Nichols |publisher=bibliotecapleyades.net}}</ref><ref name="scientificexploration.or" /> Nichols, born May 24, 1946, on [[Long Island, New York]], claims to have degrees in [[parapsychology]], [[psychology]], and [[electrical engineering]],<ref>The Montauk Project: Experiments in Time, Chapter 1</ref> and he has written a series of books, known as the ''Montauk Project'' series, along with Peter Moon, whose real name is Vincent Barbarick. The primary topic of the Montauk Project concerns the alleged activities at Montauk Point. These center on topics including United States government/military experiments in fields such as time travel, teleportation, mind control, contact with extraterrestrial life, and staging [[Moon landing conspiracy theories|faked Apollo Moon landings]], framed as developments that followed the 1943 [[Philadelphia Experiment]].


Both Peter Moon and Preston Nichols have encouraged speculation about the contents; for example, they wrote, "Whether you read this as science fiction or non-fiction you are in for an amazing story" in their first chapter,{{citation needed|date=August 2018}} describing much of the content as "soft facts" in a ''Guide For Readers'' and publishing a newsletter with updates to the story.{{Citation needed|date=January 2020}}
==The legend of the project==


The work has been characterized as fiction, because the entire account was fabricated by Preston Nichols, and to some extent, Stewart Swerdlow, who has consistently been shown to contradict his own backstory, and it does appear as if Swerdlow just wanted to become famous in the New Age Community, and establish a reputation for himself.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fictiondb.com/author/preston-b-nichols~montauk-revisited-adventures-in-synchronicity~314888~b.htm |title=Montauk Revisited: Adventures in Synchronicity |first=Preston B. |last=Nichols |publisher=FictionDB}} Categorises Nichols's work as "speculative fiction" and "science fiction".
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—also known as [[Project Rainbow]].
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According to some, sometime in the 1950s, surviving researchers from [[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 [[USS Eldridge|USS ''Eldridge'']] invisible, and the reasons and possible military applications of the psychological effects of a [[magnetic field]].


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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 [[schizophrenia]] 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 [[Nazi Germany|Nazi]] gold 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 [[ITT]] and [[Krupp]] AG in Germany.


==In media ==
Work began at [[Brookhaven National Laboratory]] on [[Long Island]], 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 [[Montauk, New York]], not far from Brookhaven, which had a complete [[Semi Automatic Ground Environment|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.


In 2015, ''[[Montauk Chronicles]]'', a film adaptation of the conspiracy featuring Preston Nichols, Alfred Bielek, and Stewart Swerdlow, was released online and on DVD and Blu-ray. The film won the best documentary award at the [[Philip K. Dick|Philip K. Dick Film Festival]] in New York City<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.scifibloggers.com/the-2015-philip-k-dick-science-fiction-film-festival-winners |first=Marlo |last=Clingman |title=The 2015 Philip K. Dick Science Fiction Film Festival Winners! |website=scifibloggers.com |date=January 20, 2015 |access-date=July 19, 2017}}</ref> and has been featured on ''[[Coast to Coast AM]]''<ref>{{cite AV media |people=[[Connie Willis]] (host), Preston Nichols, Christopher Garetano (guests) |date=February 14, 2015 |title=Montauk Chronicles |medium=Radio |language=en |url=http://alpha.coasttocoastam.com/show/2015/02/14 |access-date=July 19, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304075115/http://alpha.coasttocoastam.com/show/2015/02/14 |archive-date=March 4, 2016 |publisher=[[Coast to Coast AM]]}}</ref> and ''[[HuffPost|The Huffington Post]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/24/montauk-chronicles-time-travel-aliens_n_1543063.html |first=Lee |last=Speigel |title='Montauk Chronicles' Claims Time Travel, Mind Control, Aliens At Camp Hero |website=[[HuffPost|The Huffington Post]] |date=May 24, 2012 |access-date=July 19, 2017}}</ref>
Equipment was moved to [[Camp Hero]] 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 [[wildlife refuge]]/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). The park has never been opened to the public, under the excuse of environmental contamination. (see Addendum below)


The [[Netflix]] TV series ''[[Stranger Things]]'' (2016) was inspired by the somewhat dubious Montauk Project, and at one time ''Montauk'' was used as its [[working title]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sciencealert.com/there-s-a-crazy-government-conspiracy-theory-that-inspired-stranger-things |first=Jason |last=Guerrasio |title=This Is The Crazy Government Conspiracy Theory That Inspired 'Stranger Things' |website=sciencealert.com |date=September 20, 2016 |access-date=July 19, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/stranger-inspired-secret-government-experiments-article-1.2774525 |first=Jessica |last=Schladebeck |title=A look at 'Stranger Things' and the secret government experiments that inspired it |newspaper=New York Daily News |date=September 1, 2016 |access-date=July 19, 2017}}</ref><ref name="slashfilm">{{cite web |last1=Anderton |first1=Ethan |title='Stranger Things' Was Inspired By a Creepy, Supposedly Real Experiment Called The Montauk Project |url=http://www.slashfilm.com/stranger-things-inspired-by-the-montauk-project/ |website=[[/Film]] |date=September 6, 2016 |access-date=September 7, 2016 }}</ref><ref>{{Citation|title=Stranger Things Cast Answer the Web's Most Searched Questions |publisher=Wired|date=2017-11-21|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EvMYEfF_hQ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211222/_EvMYEfF_hQ |archive-date=2021-12-22 |url-status=live|access-date=2017-11-25}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
==Specific claims==
{{Unreferenced|date=March 2007}}


The Montauk Experiment was featured on a season 8 episode of [[Discovery Channel]]'s ''[[Mysteries of the Abandoned]]'' on October 23, 2003. The episode, titled, "The Montauk Conspiracy" documented the conspiracies that "swirled around an abandoned military base" ([[Camp Hero]]) in Long Island. Experts discussed the critical role that the base played in defending America's coastline.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.discovery.com/shows/mysteries-of-the-abandoned/episodes/the-montauk-conspiracy | title=The Montauk Conspiracy }}</ref>
Various conspiracy theorists claim that experiments began in earnest in the early 1980s. 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:


== See also ==
* 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.
* [[List of conspiracy theories]]
* Homeless people and orphans were abducted and subjected to huge amounts of electromagnetic radiation to test [[mind control]] technology and remote brain programming. Few survived.
* [[Project MKUltra]]
* 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. An [[Extraterrestrial life|alien]] supposedly designed a chair, which an individual could sit in to boost his mental and precipatory powers. A prototype duplicate was given to Britain and put in a facility on the [[River Thames]].
* Experiments were conducted in [[teleportation]].
* 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.
* Enrico Chekov, a Spanish-Russian dissident, reported in 1988, after defecting to the USA, that satellite surveillance captured during the 1970's showed the formation of a large bubble of space-time centered on the site, lending further support to the underground time tunnel research. After Chekov shared photographs with a reporter from the NY Times, his apartment in Manhattan was burglarized and the photos were all that was taken.
* Contact was made with alien [[extraterrestrials]] through the Time Tunnel and technology was exchanged with them which enhanced the project. This allowed broader access to "[[hyperspace]]".
* 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, 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 cell]]s who could be activated to perform missions.
* On or about on August 12, 1983 the time travel project at Camp Hero interlocked in hyperspace with the original [[Rainbow Project]] back in 1943. The [[USS Eldridge|USS ''Eldridge'']] was drawn into hyperspace and trapped there. Two men, [[Al Bielek]] and [[Duncan Cameron (time traveler)|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 [[John von Neumann]], a famous physicist and mathematician, even though he was known to have died in 1957. Von Neumann had supposedly worked on the original Philadelphia Experiment, but the U.S. 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.
* 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.
* In 2007 Christopher Campbell claimed he had been subjected to a battery of tests at the end of which he had acquired superhuman and extra sensory abilities.


== References ==
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.
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== External links ==
Despite rumors, no traces of secret underground facilities have been found.
* {{cite web |url=https://www.de173.com/the-montauk-project/ |title=The Montauk Project: Stranger Times |website=The Philadelphia Experiment from A–Z}}
* {{cite web |url=https://www.de173.com/montauk-project-questioning-character/|title=The Montauk Project: Questioning Their 'Story'|website=The Philadelphia Experiment from A-–Z}}
* {{cite web |url=http://www.bielek-debunked.com/ |title=Alfred Bielek debunked |website=Bielek-Debunked.com |access-date=2006-08-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181009201438/http://www.bielek-debunked.com/ |archive-date=2018-10-09 |url-status=dead }}
* {{cite web |url=http://www.bielek.com/ |title=Alfred Bielek: The Philadelphia Experiment and Montauk Survivor Accounts |website=Bielek.com}}
* {{cite web |url=http://disinfo.com/2012/07/the-montauk-project/ |title=The Montauk Project |work=Disinfo.com |access-date=2013-05-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131214062234/http://disinfo.com/2012/07/the-montauk-project/ |archive-date=2013-12-14 |url-status=dead }}
* {{cite web |url=http://www.expansions.com/ |title=Stewart Swerdlow |work=Montauk Boy - Expansions.com}}


{{Conspiracy theories}}
==Montauk in the media==
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===Films and television===
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The Montauk Project has appeared in a number of TV shows and films including:



A 2005 issue of the Pulse[http://www.skybooksusa.com/pdf/pulse/2005v3n1a.pdf] 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.

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A 2005 issue of the Pulse[http://www.skybooksusa.com/pdf/pulse/2005v3n1a.pdf] notes that the [[Jim Carrey]] movie which was filmed in [[Montauk, New York]], entitled ''[[Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind]]'', was a thinly disguised description of the time travel popularized by the series. The issue notes an effort was made to film at [[Camp Hero State Park]] but that officials tried to discourage them with higher filming fees.
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''[[The Philadelphia Experiment (film)| The Philadelphia Experiment]]'' film follows the adventures of the two sailors through time, which touches on the 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 (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.

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:[http://imdb.com/title/tt0187995/]


===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 Junturna.

The band Bayside plays it on theit self titled cd "Meet Me in Montauk"

===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 aliens attack through a portal through space.

The [[D20 Menace Manual]], a sourcebook for the [[D20 Modern]] [[role-playing game]] 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 RolePlay, there is an extensive scenario regarding a congressional investigation following an attack from an alien during testing.

==See also==
*[[Camp Hero]]
*[[Philadelphia Experiment]]
*[[List of conspiracy theories]]

==Further reading==

Many books have been published on this subject, in particular the [[Montauk Project (book)|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:

*{{cite book | first=Charles | last=Berlitz | authorlink=Charles Berlitz | coauthors=William Moore | year=1979 | title=[[The Philadelphia Experiment - Project Invisibility]] | publisher=Souvenir Press | id=ISBN 0-285-62999-9 | pages=288 pages }}
*{{cite book | first=Brad | last=Steiger | coauthors=[[Al Bielek|Alfred Bielek]] and Sherry Hanson Steiger | year=1990 | title=The Philadelphia Experiment and Other UFO Conspiracies | publisher=Inner Light Publications & Global Communications | id=ISBN 0-938294-97-0 | pages=160 pages }}
*{{cite book | first=Preston B. | last=Nichols | authorlink=Preston B. Nichols | coauthors=[[Peter Moon (author)|Peter Moon]] | year=1992 | title=The Montauk Project: Experiments in Time | publisher=Sky Books | location=New York | id=ISBN 0-9631889-0-9 | pages=160 pages }}
*{{cite book | first=Preston B. | last=Nichols | authorlink=Preston B. Nichols | coauthors=[[Peter Moon (author)|Peter Moon]] | year=1993 | title=Montauk Revisited: Adventures in Synchronicity | publisher=Sky Books | location=New York | id=ISBN 0-9631889-1-7 | pages=254 pages }}
*{{cite book | first=Commander | last=X | year=1994 | title=The Philadelphia Experiment Chronicles: Exploring the Strange Case of Alfred Bielek and Dr.M.K.Jessup | publisher=Inner Light Publications & Global Communications | id=ISBN 0-938294-00-8 | pages=137 pages }}
*{{cite book | first=Preston B. | last=Nichols | authorlink=Preston B. Nichols | coauthors=[[Peter Moon (author)|Peter Moon]] | year=1995 | title=Pyramids of Montauk: Explorations in Consciousness | publisher=Sky Books | location=New York | id=ISBN 0-9631889-2-5 | pages=257 pages }}
*{{cite book | first=Peter | last=Moon | authorlink=Peter Moon (author) | year=1997 | title=The Black Sun: Montauk's Nazi-Tibetan Connection | publisher=Sky Books | location=New York | id=ISBN 0-9631889-4-1 | pages=295 pages }}
*{{cite book | first=Stewart | last=Swerdlow | editor=[[Peter Moon (author)|Peter Moon]] | year=1998 | title=Montauk: The Alien Connection | publisher=Sky Books | location=New York | id=ISBN 0-9631889-8-4 | pages=250 pages }}
*{{cite book | first=K.B. | last=Wells | year=1998 | title=The Montauk Files: Unearthing the Phoenix Conspiracy | publisher=New Falcon Publications | id=ISBN 1-56184-134-X | pages=220 pages }}
*{{cite book | first=Preston B. | last=Nichols | authorlink=Preston B. Nichols | coauthors=[[Peter Moon (author)|Peter Moon]] | year=2000 | title=Music of Time | publisher=Sky Books | location=New York | id=ISBN 0-9678162-0-3 | pages=234 pages }}
*{{cite book | first=Alexandra | last=Bruce | editor=[[Peter Moon (author)|Peter Moon]] | year=2001 | title=The Philadelphia Experiment Murder: Parallel Universes and the Physics of Insanity | publisher=Sky Books | location=New York | id=ISBN 0-9631889-4-1 | pages=244 pages }}
*{{cite book | first=Wade | last=Gordon | editor=[[Peter Moon (author)|Peter Moon]] | year=2002 | title=Brookhaven Connection | publisher=Sky Books | location=New York | id=ISBN 0-9678162-1-1 | pages=250 pages }}
*{{cite book | first=Peter | last=Moon | authorlink=Peter Moon (author) | year=2005 | title=The Montauk Book Of The Dead | publisher=Sky Books | location=New York | id=ISBN 0-9678162-3-8 | pages=456 pages }}
Forthcoming in 2007: [Montauk Unveiled] [http://www.thedragonflygroup.org] — a documentary by Christopher P. Garetano and co produced by John David Brodie.
Soundtrack by The Unquiet Void vs. 4th Sign of the Apocalypse [http://www.myspace.com/montaukunveiled]

==External links==
* [http://www.pxarchive.de Link catalogue for the Philadelphia Experiment and the Montauk Project]
* [http://www.bielek-debunked.com/index2.html Site debunking the claims of one Alfred Bielek, allegedly an eyewitness and survivor of the Philadelphia Experiment an Montauk Project]
*[http://www.v-j-enterprises.com/montauk.html The Montauk Project and the Philadelphia Experiment]
*[http://ufos.about.com/library/weekly/aa123097.htm About.com: The Montauk Project]
*[http://www.disinfo.com/archive/pages/dossier/id95/pg1/ Disinformation: The Montauk Project] — links
*[http://www.lioddities.com]
*[http://www.fortunecity.com/marina/seafarer/665/index.html Montauk Air Force Station] website, including the debunking of [http://www.fortunecity.com/marina/seafarer/665/myth-00.html Montauk Myths]
*[http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=montauk,+ny&ll=41.062418,-71.873953&spn=0.00091,0.002704&t=k Google Maps Satellite Photo]

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Latest revision as of 13:36, 16 February 2024

This article is about the conspiracy theory. For the book series, see The Montauk Project: Experiments in Time.

41°03′44″N 71°52′26″W / 41.06222°N 71.87389°W / 41.06222; -71.87389

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 techniques and exotic research including time travel. The story of the Montauk Project originated in the Montauk Project series of books by Preston Nichols which intermixes those stories with stories about the Bulgarian Experiment.[clarification needed][1][2]

Origin

Stories about the Montauk Project have circulated since the early 1980s. According to UFO researcher Jacques Vallée, the Montauk Experiment stories seem to have originated with the highly questionable account of Preston Nichols and Al Bielek, who both claimed to have recovered repressed memories of their own involvement. Preston Nichols also claims that he was periodically abducted to continue his participation against his will.[3][1] Nichols, born May 24, 1946, on Long Island, New York, claims to have degrees in parapsychology, psychology, and electrical engineering,[4] and he has written a series of books, known as the Montauk Project series, along with Peter Moon, whose real name is Vincent Barbarick. The primary topic of the Montauk Project concerns the alleged activities at Montauk Point. These center on topics including United States government/military experiments in fields such as time travel, teleportation, mind control, contact with extraterrestrial life, and staging faked Apollo Moon landings, framed as developments that followed the 1943 Philadelphia Experiment.

Both Peter Moon and Preston Nichols have encouraged speculation about the contents; for example, they wrote, "Whether you read this as science fiction or non-fiction you are in for an amazing story" in their first chapter,[citation needed] describing much of the content as "soft facts" in a Guide For Readers and publishing a newsletter with updates to the story.[citation needed]

The work has been characterized as fiction, because the entire account was fabricated by Preston Nichols, and to some extent, Stewart Swerdlow, who has consistently been shown to contradict his own backstory, and it does appear as if Swerdlow just wanted to become famous in the New Age Community, and establish a reputation for himself.[5]

In media

In 2015, Montauk Chronicles, a film adaptation of the conspiracy featuring Preston Nichols, Alfred Bielek, and Stewart Swerdlow, was released online and on DVD and Blu-ray. The film won the best documentary award at the Philip K. Dick Film Festival in New York City[6] and has been featured on Coast to Coast AM[7] and The Huffington Post.[8]

The Netflix TV series Stranger Things (2016) was inspired by the somewhat dubious Montauk Project, and at one time Montauk was used as its working title.[9][10][11][12]

The Montauk Experiment was featured on a season 8 episode of Discovery Channel's Mysteries of the Abandoned on October 23, 2003. The episode, titled, "The Montauk Conspiracy" documented the conspiracies that "swirled around an abandoned military base" (Camp Hero) in Long Island. Experts discussed the critical role that the base played in defending America's coastline.[13]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Vallée, Jacques F. (1994). "Anatomy of a hoax: The Philadelphia Experiment fifty years later" (PDF). Journal of Scientific Exploration. 8 (1): 47–71. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 22, 2009. Retrieved January 13, 2010.
  2. ^ Frissell, Bob (2003). Something in This Book Is True, Second Edition: The Official Companion to Nothing in this Book Is True, But It's Exactly How Things Are. Frog Books. p. 76. ISBN 978-1-58394-077-8. Retrieved May 27, 2011.
  3. ^ "Preston Nichols". bibliotecapleyades.net.
  4. ^ The Montauk Project: Experiments in Time, Chapter 1
  5. ^ Nichols, Preston B. "Montauk Revisited: Adventures in Synchronicity". FictionDB. Categorises Nichols's work as "speculative fiction" and "science fiction".
  6. ^ Clingman, Marlo (January 20, 2015). "The 2015 Philip K. Dick Science Fiction Film Festival Winners!". scifibloggers.com. Retrieved July 19, 2017.
  7. ^ Connie Willis (host), Preston Nichols, Christopher Garetano (guests) (February 14, 2015). Montauk Chronicles (Radio). Coast to Coast AM. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved July 19, 2017.
  8. ^ Speigel, Lee (May 24, 2012). "'Montauk Chronicles' Claims Time Travel, Mind Control, Aliens At Camp Hero". The Huffington Post. Retrieved July 19, 2017.
  9. ^ Guerrasio, Jason (September 20, 2016). "This Is The Crazy Government Conspiracy Theory That Inspired 'Stranger Things'". sciencealert.com. Retrieved July 19, 2017.
  10. ^ Schladebeck, Jessica (September 1, 2016). "A look at 'Stranger Things' and the secret government experiments that inspired it". New York Daily News. Retrieved July 19, 2017.
  11. ^ Anderton, Ethan (September 6, 2016). "'Stranger Things' Was Inspired By a Creepy, Supposedly Real Experiment Called The Montauk Project". /Film. Retrieved September 7, 2016.
  12. ^ Stranger Things Cast Answer the Web's Most Searched Questions, Wired, November 21, 2017, archived from the original on December 22, 2021, retrieved November 25, 2017
  13. ^ "The Montauk Conspiracy".
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