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The Montauk Books #1
The Montauk Project, Experiments in Time
Discover the truth about time. This book chronicles the most amazing and secretive research project in recorded history. We all know something is out there, we're just not sure exactly what. This book begins to provide some solid clues.
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May 13, 2010
"It's all true!" barked a passer-by who happened to catch me reading Preston Nichols' The Montauk Project: Experiments in Time at a sidewalk cafe. "Every word of it!"
And with that, he ducked into the door of a nearby building. I didn't get more than a glimpse of the man from behind before he vanished.
Author Preston Nichols visited the Pleiades star cluster, where he was given an extra-terrestrial education. Or so the claim goes, at least. Mr. Nichols also worked for a "well-known defense contractor on Long Island" (to which he has granted a pseudonym, for reasons not explained in the text). During his tenure with this firm, Mr. Nichols began to observe mysterious Band-Aids placed on his hands - he had no recollection of having put them there, nor was there any viable explanation readily available (He made a point of not utilizing first aid kits on the job, so as to have a "witness" - by means of the company nurse - to any injuries sustained. She never admitted seeing anything.) Further research revealed that Mr. Nichols had a "second self" employed with this company - that is to say, his memory had been wiped clean in his current state, though there was an alternate personality within him who was under the secret employ of the firm, with his own private underground office and everything.
So, how did this bizarre turn of events come to light? Enter Duncan Cameron. Mr. Cameron happened into Mr. Nichols' life one day completely by accident, it would seem. As the two got to know each other, it became appearant that Cameron's memory, too, had been tampered with due to his involvement with various government-subsidized mind-control / time-altering experiments. Together, the two men worked on reclaiming their "hidden" memories of these experiments, and their own roles in such.
Over the years, Mr. Nichols met with time travellers - and possibly even alien life forms - who tried to clarify his role in the Montauk Project. The trouble is, Nichols aims to protect their privacy, and so he offers false names, or omits names entirely. Even matters which ought to be public record - the name of a senator "from the Southwest" who is alleged to have investigated the Montauk military base in the mid-1980s, for instance, is obscured for reasons of "security" - are concealed from the reader. Why? Either Nichols fears for his life (a reason which could make sense, though would not explain his allusions to acts of impropriety regardless of the threat), or is protecting classified secrets (which, again, completely invalidates the presence of a book discussing such issues). Either way, Nichols is writing the proverbial cheque which his mouth can't cash.
The Montauk Project is filled with wild conjecture and inconceivable tales of mystique, none of which are provable, and none of which are adequately backed up with verifiable evidence - even the names have been changed to prevent such independent fact-checking!
But then, this book can also be read as "pure science fiction," as the brief introduction states. This, however, proves unsatisfying as well, since the book ends abruptly with a sentence beginning with "To conclude..." in reference to a specific receiver found a Montauk. The end. Next come the appendices, with similarly wild tales of time travel, alien visitations, and mind control (such as was allegedly seen in the Gulf War back in 1991, with scores of Iraqis surrendering to American troops without a fight). As a work of science fiction, The Montauk Project will not be seeing any Hugo awards any time soon.
More likely, this book was written by a conspiracy theorist who, through self-involvement, lends some borrowed credence to the material at hand, although not terribly convincingly. His explanations of technical elements are both too garbled for the layman, and too simplistic for anyone of mechanical bent. This book remains a very, very strange artifact to one of the United States' greatest conspiracies, but precious little else.
As for he who asserted that the book remained "all true" - well, I suppose I can't blame him for disappearing as quickly as he did. If I had seen his face, there's very little chance that I would respect his opinion on any subject again.
And with that, he ducked into the door of a nearby building. I didn't get more than a glimpse of the man from behind before he vanished.
Author Preston Nichols visited the Pleiades star cluster, where he was given an extra-terrestrial education. Or so the claim goes, at least. Mr. Nichols also worked for a "well-known defense contractor on Long Island" (to which he has granted a pseudonym, for reasons not explained in the text). During his tenure with this firm, Mr. Nichols began to observe mysterious Band-Aids placed on his hands - he had no recollection of having put them there, nor was there any viable explanation readily available (He made a point of not utilizing first aid kits on the job, so as to have a "witness" - by means of the company nurse - to any injuries sustained. She never admitted seeing anything.) Further research revealed that Mr. Nichols had a "second self" employed with this company - that is to say, his memory had been wiped clean in his current state, though there was an alternate personality within him who was under the secret employ of the firm, with his own private underground office and everything.
So, how did this bizarre turn of events come to light? Enter Duncan Cameron. Mr. Cameron happened into Mr. Nichols' life one day completely by accident, it would seem. As the two got to know each other, it became appearant that Cameron's memory, too, had been tampered with due to his involvement with various government-subsidized mind-control / time-altering experiments. Together, the two men worked on reclaiming their "hidden" memories of these experiments, and their own roles in such.
Over the years, Mr. Nichols met with time travellers - and possibly even alien life forms - who tried to clarify his role in the Montauk Project. The trouble is, Nichols aims to protect their privacy, and so he offers false names, or omits names entirely. Even matters which ought to be public record - the name of a senator "from the Southwest" who is alleged to have investigated the Montauk military base in the mid-1980s, for instance, is obscured for reasons of "security" - are concealed from the reader. Why? Either Nichols fears for his life (a reason which could make sense, though would not explain his allusions to acts of impropriety regardless of the threat), or is protecting classified secrets (which, again, completely invalidates the presence of a book discussing such issues). Either way, Nichols is writing the proverbial cheque which his mouth can't cash.
The Montauk Project is filled with wild conjecture and inconceivable tales of mystique, none of which are provable, and none of which are adequately backed up with verifiable evidence - even the names have been changed to prevent such independent fact-checking!
But then, this book can also be read as "pure science fiction," as the brief introduction states. This, however, proves unsatisfying as well, since the book ends abruptly with a sentence beginning with "To conclude..." in reference to a specific receiver found a Montauk. The end. Next come the appendices, with similarly wild tales of time travel, alien visitations, and mind control (such as was allegedly seen in the Gulf War back in 1991, with scores of Iraqis surrendering to American troops without a fight). As a work of science fiction, The Montauk Project will not be seeing any Hugo awards any time soon.
More likely, this book was written by a conspiracy theorist who, through self-involvement, lends some borrowed credence to the material at hand, although not terribly convincingly. His explanations of technical elements are both too garbled for the layman, and too simplistic for anyone of mechanical bent. This book remains a very, very strange artifact to one of the United States' greatest conspiracies, but precious little else.
As for he who asserted that the book remained "all true" - well, I suppose I can't blame him for disappearing as quickly as he did. If I had seen his face, there's very little chance that I would respect his opinion on any subject again.
March 25, 2014
For those playing at home, the Tinfoil Hat Bingo results are: John von Neumann, Nazi Gold, Sirians, Nicola Telsa, the face on Mars, and orgone energy.
For those reading for serious purpose: You have your work cut out for you. Schematics are provided and concrete technology mentioned, but verifying statements will require a bottomless well of time and expertise.
"To conclude, this receiver is actually a multi-dimensional space-time resonator." (p.123)The comparison I'm drawn to is the body of work associated with the Shaver Mystery. The writing is the same spill of information, mostly of technical jargon, with failed attempts at organization. But here it is mostly chapters of dense technical information occasionally mined with a surprising way-out-there sentence to catch the reader off guard.
"Initially, I had asked different psychics to do readings on Duncan. They determined he was brain dead." (p.58)The writer never makes a coherent thesis statement to encapsulate the entirety of his material, proceeding from generalities down to specifics and incidents. Instead it reads partly like a historical account and partly like memoirs, as the investigator discovers that he was himself involved in the Montauk projects in an alternate time-track, with these memories suppressed by some use of the Montauk Chair's mind-controlling capabilities.
"It is still a mystery how this technology was developed. It has been suggested that the research was aided by the Sirians, an alien race who came from the star system known as Sirius." (p.65)The technology under discussion--the Montauk chair and its derivatives--are surprisingly versatile, and its function evolves over the course of the book. At the beginning it is relatively mundane mind control apparatus using large radio transmitters, but by the end it has become time-and-space tunneling, alternate time-tracks, and matter creation. It is the floor wax and dessert topping of instrumentality.
"It was in late 1981 or `82 when the first actual use of this technology was employed to gain entrance into the underground areas in the big pyramid on the planet Mars."(p.95)For those reading for entertainment or camp value: you'll be picking nuggets out of a surfeit of electronics. For every statement about sending derelict children to the year 6037 AD to examine a horse statue, you'll have a chapter on the operation and internals of a radiosonde.
For those reading for serious purpose: You have your work cut out for you. Schematics are provided and concrete technology mentioned, but verifying statements will require a bottomless well of time and expertise.
October 19, 2015
This book is a personal account of the Montauk Project and a little bit of the Philadelphia experiment. It is written in a take it or leave it attitude with little official evidence. There are some diagrams and photos, but not too much. The account itself I found very interesting and intriguing. It was a bit hard to follow and understand everything. I definitely did not understand all the physics explanations but still found it fascinating. Even those with a very open mind will probably find some parts extremely hard to believe, like for me what happened with the souls and how they got transferred to different bodies in order to save them and prevent time paradoxes, but who knows what really happened. I found the beginning of the book especially fascinating when it talked about the beginning of the Montauk Project being used for mind control, the weather energies and anomalies,the animals flooding into town, and teenagers aggregating, the crime waves. I wish the book went into more detail about those things maybe with some more evidence and details about what happened. Overall I think this is an interesting and good introduction to the subject. It's a very fast read. I definitely think something strange happened with the Philadelphia Experiment and Montauk Project.
July 7, 2022
I actually read 50 pages only and made sure that stranger things is real
May 22, 2021
I believe in telepathy. Time-travel... why not? Stargates? Sure.
I am open to many things, including the rumoured events of the Montauk Project.
But I do not believe anyone who was there, or had first-hand - or even second - knowledge and experience of the project would write about it like this.
The other reviews give more examples but I'll provide one that I found particularly hilarious.
"At this moment, he let loose a monster from his subconscious, and the transmitter actually portrayed a hairy monster. It was big, hairy, hungry and nasty. It showed up somewhere on the base. It would eat anything it could find, and it smashed everything in sight. Several different people saw it but almost everyone described a different beast. It was either 9 feet tall or 30 feet tall, depending who saw it. "
What did it look like? Where did it turn up? What (or who) did it eat? What did it smash? How many different people saw it? Who were they? Any examples of their description?
It's laughable. And this vagueness goes on throughout the book.
This book is so badly written - so unconvincing - that it's either the work of the hackiest hack of all-time, or disinfo thrown out there to put people off.
I am open to many things, including the rumoured events of the Montauk Project.
But I do not believe anyone who was there, or had first-hand - or even second - knowledge and experience of the project would write about it like this.
The other reviews give more examples but I'll provide one that I found particularly hilarious.
"At this moment, he let loose a monster from his subconscious, and the transmitter actually portrayed a hairy monster. It was big, hairy, hungry and nasty. It showed up somewhere on the base. It would eat anything it could find, and it smashed everything in sight. Several different people saw it but almost everyone described a different beast. It was either 9 feet tall or 30 feet tall, depending who saw it. "
What did it look like? Where did it turn up? What (or who) did it eat? What did it smash? How many different people saw it? Who were they? Any examples of their description?
It's laughable. And this vagueness goes on throughout the book.
This book is so badly written - so unconvincing - that it's either the work of the hackiest hack of all-time, or disinfo thrown out there to put people off.
June 24, 2019
One star for quality, but four stars for sheer absurdity.
June 18, 2024
Încă de mică mi-au plăcut acele cărți care abordau călătoriile în timp, precum cea scrisă de H.G Wells "Mașina timpului". La rândul său, "Proiectul Montauk Experimente în timp" este o relatare ciudată și fascinantă a unui proiect guvernamental ultra-secret, care se presupune că a dezvoltat și perfecționat metoda de călătorie în timp. Cartea conține detaliile experimentelor care utilizau puterea minții pentru a manipula și folosirea undelor electromagnetice pe o anumită rezonanță Hertz, menite să influențeze în masă omenirea. Datorită uluitoarelor descrieri din carte, m-am gândit instantaneu cât de mult se asemănau cu faimosul serial "Stranger things", detaliile părându-mi inițial ancorate in ficțiune, fructul unei imaginații bogate. Dar atunci când autorul insertează referințe plauzibile, ei bine...aici am început eu să tatonez acest teritoriu "și dacă este adevărat?". Se știe că atât Einstein cât și Tesla au fost implicați în scandalosul experiment Philadelphia al vaporului militar USS Eldridge, presupus dispărut preț de câteva minute, atât de pe radar cât și în realitate, fiind teleportată dus-întors undeva prin spațiul temporal. Tesla ar fi sabotat experimentul, distrugând o parte din echipament, nedorind să divulge cu de-amănuntul motivul sabotajului. În esență, se susține că nu numai că, călătoriile în timp sunt posibile, dar un braț secret al guvernului SUA a cercetat călătoriile în timp de peste 60 de ani la baza militară Montauk. În plus, Preston Nichols a fost un participant activ la această cercetare, căruia ulterior i s-a șters memoria printr-un program avansat de control mental. Ceea ce este diferit la această carte este că autorul explică admirabil modul în care dinamica călătoriei în timp este facilitată de fizica cuantică, care permite mișcarea în diferite dimensiuni. Sunt enumerate și explicate nenumărate noțiuni de fizică, matematică și geometrie spațială cu ajutorul unor schițe avansate și definiții, pe care nu le-am înțeles, deoarece cunoștințele mele în aceste domenii sunt limitate: componentă non-hertziană, orgon, conjugare de fază, modulație de impulsuri, bandă laterală.
Bulversant a fost să aflu din această carte, că pe teritoriul României există peștera Cioclovina, care ar conține cel mai mare reactor temporal de pe planetă, o acumulare imensă de energie motrică spațio-temporală, ca rezultat al atingerii spațiului-timp curbat, necesar călătoriilor în timp. Peștera mai este vestită și pentru depozitele impresionante de guano, excremente de liliac, considerate a fi cel mai mare zăcământ de acest fel din Europa. Guano era la mare căutare în Occident încă de la începutul secolului XX. Sub conducerea Imperiului Habsburgic, la Cioclovina a început exploatarea industrială. Tone de guano erau extrase de localnici, încărcate în vagoneți și cărate apoi pe funicular, care transporta încărcătura până în Gara Pui. Aici guanoul era încărcat în vagoane și acestea luau drumul Austriei unde era valorificat. Pe vremea comuniștilor, exploatarea de guano s-a redeschis, îngrășământul fiind dus la serele lui Ceaușescu.
Dacă crezi în astfel de experimente această carte îți va deschide noi orizonturi asupra călătoriilor în timp. Iar dacă consideri că aceste informații sunt de natură științifico-fantastică, atunci cartea poate funcționa ca o poveste sf spusă de un bătrânel cu multă imaginație, îndrăgostit de România.
Bulversant a fost să aflu din această carte, că pe teritoriul României există peștera Cioclovina, care ar conține cel mai mare reactor temporal de pe planetă, o acumulare imensă de energie motrică spațio-temporală, ca rezultat al atingerii spațiului-timp curbat, necesar călătoriilor în timp. Peștera mai este vestită și pentru depozitele impresionante de guano, excremente de liliac, considerate a fi cel mai mare zăcământ de acest fel din Europa. Guano era la mare căutare în Occident încă de la începutul secolului XX. Sub conducerea Imperiului Habsburgic, la Cioclovina a început exploatarea industrială. Tone de guano erau extrase de localnici, încărcate în vagoneți și cărate apoi pe funicular, care transporta încărcătura până în Gara Pui. Aici guanoul era încărcat în vagoane și acestea luau drumul Austriei unde era valorificat. Pe vremea comuniștilor, exploatarea de guano s-a redeschis, îngrășământul fiind dus la serele lui Ceaușescu.
Dacă crezi în astfel de experimente această carte îți va deschide noi orizonturi asupra călătoriilor în timp. Iar dacă consideri că aceste informații sunt de natură științifico-fantastică, atunci cartea poate funcționa ca o poveste sf spusă de un bătrânel cu multă imaginație, îndrăgostit de România.
July 17, 2025
For me, impossible!
July 27, 2015
It's story time!
A few months ago a friend and I were discussing beach towns, and he mentioned spending his childhood on Long Island. He talked about Montauk, a town on the very tip of LI, so far out that if you went any more East you'd end up in the Atlantic. He brought up the Montauk Experiment, which I'd never heard of, and I thought it was interesting in that tinfoil-hat sort of way. I hardly paid any attention to it.
Fast forward a little while later, and friend brings up subject again. We laugh about the project, we think it's hilarious, who wouldn't? And then he asks me if I know about Preston. No, of course not. Preston? Who's that? Preston Nichols, of course! No, I have no idea who this guy is, so I look him up. He's written all of these books, he's on YouTube, lots of interviews... This guy is all over the place, and it's clear he has a few screws loose.
This story could not have a better main character. Fantastic.
I'm sure you're thinking, this can't get any more fascinating for Becca.
Au contraire...
Turns out Preston lives ten minutes from my house! I drive by his humble abode every day. (You can barely see it through the junk on his front yard). He eats cheese singles in the same McDonald's I get my sweet tea every afternoon. My friend knows him by name, and haspromised threatened to introduce him to me. Etc... etc... etc...
So when friend gave me the books to read... I had to read them.
Off the wall, insane, kind of hilarious. I don't know how they expect anyone to believe this crap. But now you know why it was so important that I read these.
A few months ago a friend and I were discussing beach towns, and he mentioned spending his childhood on Long Island. He talked about Montauk, a town on the very tip of LI, so far out that if you went any more East you'd end up in the Atlantic. He brought up the Montauk Experiment, which I'd never heard of, and I thought it was interesting in that tinfoil-hat sort of way. I hardly paid any attention to it.
Fast forward a little while later, and friend brings up subject again. We laugh about the project, we think it's hilarious, who wouldn't? And then he asks me if I know about Preston. No, of course not. Preston? Who's that? Preston Nichols, of course! No, I have no idea who this guy is, so I look him up. He's written all of these books, he's on YouTube, lots of interviews... This guy is all over the place, and it's clear he has a few screws loose.
This story could not have a better main character. Fantastic.
I'm sure you're thinking, this can't get any more fascinating for Becca.
Au contraire...
Turns out Preston lives ten minutes from my house! I drive by his humble abode every day. (You can barely see it through the junk on his front yard). He eats cheese singles in the same McDonald's I get my sweet tea every afternoon. My friend knows him by name, and has
So when friend gave me the books to read... I had to read them.
Off the wall, insane, kind of hilarious. I don't know how they expect anyone to believe this crap. But now you know why it was so important that I read these.
November 12, 2013
This book is cataloged as non-fiction, hilariously enough. I got hooked because the disclaimer on the copyright page was too much to believe. I was amused by and fascinated with exploring how deep the crazy truly went for the first 70 pages or so and then I trudged through the rest of it just so it wouldn't be left unfinished. Would I recommend it to others? Not without also gifting a bottle of high quality scotch to make reading it more tolerable. This guy, as well as his psychic friend Duncan, both suffer from untreated paranoid schizophrenia accompanied by serious narcissistic disorders. Thus, they both overcome government brainwashing to learn that they were the key employees of a secret off-the-books government project to fundamentally alter the nature of time, spurred to into being by the World War 2 experiments with the USS Eldridge and the Philadelphia Project.
The more I write, the more concerned I am for myself that I actually read this entire book. On the other hand, I think it would make an excellent source-text for some absurdist performance art.
The more I write, the more concerned I am for myself that I actually read this entire book. On the other hand, I think it would make an excellent source-text for some absurdist performance art.
July 2, 2022
I'm doing a lot of "research" on the Montauk Project as inspiration for the story I'm writing, so I obviously had to read the groundbreaking "true" story that started it all. the whole thing is so shoddily written and preposterous that it actually boggles my mind that some people take this as fact. especially towards the end, with Edward Cameron from the original Philadelphia Experiment having his spirit transferred (??) to the body of Al Bielek so that he can be present in 1983 to return. Nichols takes believable concepts, such as the fact that the US military was experimenting with parapsychological phenomena (project Stargate), and throws in aliens and Nazis and Wilhelm Reich and so many things that it just becomes a joke. I'm sure some weird things were going on at Montauk, but Nichols either embellishes or straight up fabricates that into a confusing joke.
July 24, 2022
2.5. Weird but interesting. I’m always intrigued by stories like this. A part of me thinks there has to be secret government research going on in no mainstream topics like this so it’s interesting to read peoples thoughts on it… proven or not. That made it a 3 for me.
Editing and writing was a bit bad. “Their had to be xyz going on”. Their? Subject verb agreement issues. A whole chapter that seems completely unedited and rambling. Things like “I had some ideas and I met some people who validated them”. Um. Ok. Can we get a bit more detail here? It’s called supporting information. It’s a 150 page book so not like you were long on length. This happened a lot throughout the book and made it a 2 for me. Editing is not hard to get right.
Editing and writing was a bit bad. “Their had to be xyz going on”. Their? Subject verb agreement issues. A whole chapter that seems completely unedited and rambling. Things like “I had some ideas and I met some people who validated them”. Um. Ok. Can we get a bit more detail here? It’s called supporting information. It’s a 150 page book so not like you were long on length. This happened a lot throughout the book and made it a 2 for me. Editing is not hard to get right.
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September 26, 2014Supra dope book about the facts and some psychic insights that were tested in very unique ways to what went down with time traveling, stealth, and brain washing experiments during the 40s and 70s. A must read for anyone who has ever wondered about zero point, parallel universes, orgone energy (willhelm reich) and free energy using alternating current (tesla)
July 24, 2022
I want to believe! but womp womp. too technically detailed when it doesn’t need to be; glosses over or simplifies details where it shouldn’t; also probably 100% bullshit, but it’s one of those classics of conspiracy lit I hadn’t yet read, so I did. it’s a fine enough story, but it would have been better told by someone else.
August 28, 2016
Definitely interesting. I picked it up as I heard it was one of the inspirations for Stranger Things series on Netflix. A little heavy on technical jargon and maybe a bit jumbled but I will be getting the follow-up book.
September 11, 2021
Fucking stupid for the most part. 90% of this shit seems made up. Every time there’s a discrepancy the guy has a very dumb convenient explanation as to why it’s happened. Like with the picture of the beast before the beast even existed. Dumb book. Not really recommended.
April 29, 2023
Part of me admires the author for having the balls to pass this ridiculous story off as something that actually happened to him. Don't get me wrong, this book is utter crap. But the balls, though . . .
March 25, 2014
I just cannot stop thinking... what if this is true?, kind of scary... but as fiction book is such an amazing book!
January 29, 2015
Weird but interesting
Got off to a decent start but kinda Flaked towards the end and then fell apart completely. Not a bad read but still flakey.
Got off to a decent start but kinda Flaked towards the end and then fell apart completely. Not a bad read but still flakey.
February 20, 2018
Great inspiration in here for writing sci-fantasy based on conspiracy theories, radio waves, and time loops. It's classified as nonfiction but I read it as sci-fi.
September 30, 2021
It had interesting parts, but it was mostly unconvincing. It felt more like a science fiction read.
June 23, 2021
În extremitatea estică a oraşului Long Island se află Montauk Point, care este cunoscut majorităţii new yorkezilor datorită farului şi a frumuseţii peisajelor sale. În zona de vest din imediata apropiere a farului există o bază militară misterioasă, părăsită, ce aparţine Forţelor Aeriene SUA, fiind construită pe terenul mai vechiului Fort Hero. Deşi a fost în mod oficial închisă şi abandonată de Forţele Aeriene SUA încă din 1969, baza a fost ulterior redeschisă, continuându-şi activitatea fără aprobarea Guvernului Statelor Unite.
Sursa finanţării bazei reprezintă, de asemenea, un mister. Nu s-au descoperit dovezi că guvernul sau armata ar fi furnizat fondurile necesare. Oficialii guvernului au căutat unele răspunsuri, însă fără succes.
Secretul operaţiunii a dinamizat imaginaţia oamenilor care au creat legende ce se puteau asculta la tot pasul prin Long Island. Este totuşi improbabil ca vreunul din localnicii de la Montauk sau cei care au lansat zvonurile să cunoască întreaga poveste a celor petrecute acolo.
Un grup de persoane care au fost implicate în aceste experimente consideră că „Proiectul Montauk” a fost, de fapt, o continuare, reprezentând un punct culminant al cercetărilor efectuate la bordul distrugătorului USS Eldridge, în 1943. Fenomenul, cunoscut sub numele de „Experimentul Philadelphia”, în care nava a dispărut literalmente din spectrul vizual, s-a produs în timp ce Marina americană realiza experimente în ceea ce priveşte obţinerea invizibilităţii navelor la detectarea lor prin intermediul radarului.
Sursa finanţării bazei reprezintă, de asemenea, un mister. Nu s-au descoperit dovezi că guvernul sau armata ar fi furnizat fondurile necesare. Oficialii guvernului au căutat unele răspunsuri, însă fără succes.
Secretul operaţiunii a dinamizat imaginaţia oamenilor care au creat legende ce se puteau asculta la tot pasul prin Long Island. Este totuşi improbabil ca vreunul din localnicii de la Montauk sau cei care au lansat zvonurile să cunoască întreaga poveste a celor petrecute acolo.
Un grup de persoane care au fost implicate în aceste experimente consideră că „Proiectul Montauk” a fost, de fapt, o continuare, reprezentând un punct culminant al cercetărilor efectuate la bordul distrugătorului USS Eldridge, în 1943. Fenomenul, cunoscut sub numele de „Experimentul Philadelphia”, în care nava a dispărut literalmente din spectrul vizual, s-a produs în timp ce Marina americană realiza experimente în ceea ce priveşte obţinerea invizibilităţii navelor la detectarea lor prin intermediul radarului.
December 20, 2024
Portals, teleportation, time travel, mind control, aliens, men trapped in hyperspace and deformed in freak accidents, a chance meeting with Nikola Tesla. All of this makes quite the interesting story about supposedly true experiments that occurred at Camp Hero in Montauk, at the edge of Long Island, New York throughout the '70s and '80s.
The writers state that they base their work on "soft facts" which can be interpreted as either true or science fiction, with these events setting off conspiracy theories about Montauk and, apparently, Stranger Things. They're ideas, alright, and honestly most of what I like about this book is just the fact that they exist somewhere in the first place (and, fine, maybe I also like them because they mention something interesting happening on Long Island). I just wish they could have been expressed with decent writing and description rather than the bland explanations the authors give. The ideas are seriously entertaining to imagine on their own, though, and it may be the greatest tragedy in sci fi that none of them were never adapted into their own short stories or novels.
The writers state that they base their work on "soft facts" which can be interpreted as either true or science fiction, with these events setting off conspiracy theories about Montauk and, apparently, Stranger Things. They're ideas, alright, and honestly most of what I like about this book is just the fact that they exist somewhere in the first place (and, fine, maybe I also like them because they mention something interesting happening on Long Island). I just wish they could have been expressed with decent writing and description rather than the bland explanations the authors give. The ideas are seriously entertaining to imagine on their own, though, and it may be the greatest tragedy in sci fi that none of them were never adapted into their own short stories or novels.
August 11, 2025
I read this because the TV series and London play "Stranger Things" are based on this book. From that perspective, I really enjoyed it. It's fascinating to see where the writers found their inspiration for the series and play. Much of the information requires an open mind and challenges many ideas and understandings that would be considered "common knowledge". I thought the writing could have been better as for large portions there was a great deal of details lacking about events that required a detailed description. Then in other areas there were too many details about scientific and technical machinery that were beyond my scope. Maybe that is why the following books in the series were co-written with someone else.
I read the e-book version and the last 25% of the book had summaries of the large quantity of follow up literature related to the topic. Obviously in the hopes that I would continue my investigations.
For now, I'll leave it as a cool book that inspired a great series and play.
I read the e-book version and the last 25% of the book had summaries of the large quantity of follow up literature related to the topic. Obviously in the hopes that I would continue my investigations.
For now, I'll leave it as a cool book that inspired a great series and play.
September 30, 2023
While there is a lot of information in the book, I have some doubts about the veracity of some of the material presented here. Having worked in Meteorology with a government organization, I launched meteorological measuring instruments identified as radiosondes into the upper atmosphere for almost 40 years. I was also a Radar Technician during that time. The training for operating the equipment associated with these programs required learning the principles of how the equipment functioned. While I'm sure that I didn't have all the knowledge available about the equipment for the performance of my duties, some of the information in the book does not correspond with my knowledge in operating, including the maintenance, of the equipment that is presented in the book. Therefore, this leads me to doubt the information presented as anything other than theories of the author.
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January 27, 2025“Because the subject matter of this book is controversial, we would like to offer some guidelines. This book is an exercise in consciousness. It is an invitation to view time in a new manner and expand your awareness of the universe. Time rules our fate and ushers in our death. Although we are regulated by its laws, there is much that we do not know about time and how it relates to our consciousness. Hopefully, at the very least, this information will broaden your horizons.”
Party idea, take a shot each time something reminds you of stranger things (the duffer brothers are like, in love with this book. ST was originally gonna be an adaptation of this book, in a way).
Tbh I enjoyed this, some things were super confusing but I love when writers take the “science” part of science fiction seriously. Also it’s probably because I love stranger things and I love time travel.
Party idea, take a shot each time something reminds you of stranger things (the duffer brothers are like, in love with this book. ST was originally gonna be an adaptation of this book, in a way).
Tbh I enjoyed this, some things were super confusing but I love when writers take the “science” part of science fiction seriously. Also it’s probably because I love stranger things and I love time travel.
December 3, 2023
Holy Crap...I read this thinking it was all going to be TRUE accounts. I'm sorry, but most of it was laughable, when I could understand what the heck he was talking about.
Writer was all over the place, going into extreme details, when not needed, then just touching on a subject that really needed to be elaborated on.
I would have to say, half the stuff he writes about is total BS. I researched some of the "real" names he used & found nothing to collaborate his story.
I was going to read the series, but after this book, I'll go back to my fiction authors.
Writer was all over the place, going into extreme details, when not needed, then just touching on a subject that really needed to be elaborated on.
I would have to say, half the stuff he writes about is total BS. I researched some of the "real" names he used & found nothing to collaborate his story.
I was going to read the series, but after this book, I'll go back to my fiction authors.
July 8, 2022
This is loosely what Stranger Things is based on. It’s dense but somehow quick as I read it in one day. This man is a first hand witness to something the US government was experimenting with in the 40s-80s. Very dark, and of course filled with conspiracy so take it as you will. The places, images and science behind it are all credited and backed. Just wild to think this is something that was written about over 30 years ago…
August 9, 2022
Was the Montauk book I was looking for. Preston B. Nichols puts all the legends I heard and read about growing up of the agenda of enemy's design to control time from the position of the passenger seat while he reveals his journey of discovery of a slave-drone life he had been living completely unbeknownst to his conscious memory self.
Reveals the mentality of the world's globalist from WWII to 1983, and the lengths they have gone to control time itself.
Reveals the mentality of the world's globalist from WWII to 1983, and the lengths they have gone to control time itself.
January 15, 2025
Conspiracy Bingo
I saw another review where someone called this book conspiracy bingo. And it really is any conspiracy hot topic you can think of is in this book like nikola tesla, aliens and u f o's, time travel, government conspiracies etc. Although I do believe the government probably experiments on us people without our knowledge, this guy is just not believable, and I think he had nothing to do with the Montauk Project.
I saw another review where someone called this book conspiracy bingo. And it really is any conspiracy hot topic you can think of is in this book like nikola tesla, aliens and u f o's, time travel, government conspiracies etc. Although I do believe the government probably experiments on us people without our knowledge, this guy is just not believable, and I think he had nothing to do with the Montauk Project.
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