The Montauk Project: Experiments in Time
by Preston B. Nichols, Peter Moon
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Author: Peter Moon, Preston B. NicholsEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1992-06
ISBN: 0963188909
Number of pages: 156
Publisher: Sky Books
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Book Reviews of The Montauk Project: Experiments in Time
Book Review: not very good even if it was just for fun
Summary: 5 Stars
I have done historical research on former USAF installations as a hobby for many years. A friend sent me this book a long time ago. I found it to be disjointed and poorly written with facts presented by Preston Nichols that are contrary to historical fact and common sense.
During the times that he claims that strange Philadelphia Experiment-type activities were being undertaken at Montauk Air Force Station, it was a functioning air defense radar site with more than 100 Air Force people and their families living at the base. Less than a mile away was the Montauk Lighthouse, attracting thousands of visitors every year, every one whom drove past the Air Force station to get to the lighthouse.
There is nothing remarkable about Montauk Air Force Station (AFS) today except that the radar sail is still there and that the State of New York is trying to preserve it. The site is a park and is open to the public, Camp Hero State Park. The AN/FPS-35 radar tower and antenna--the sail--were put on the National Register of Historic Places in June 2002.
Nichols claims that the base closed in the 1970s but secret, mysterious activity continued. In reality the scheduled 1978 closure was postponed until the early 1981 because of a delay in putting replacement radar in service at nearby Riverhead.
He writes about hearing a mysterious radio signal that led him to Montauk AFS. If he was hearing anything, it was a Coast Guard-operated radio navigation transmitter next to the base. Its transmissions used to overpower car radios in the immediate area.
Montauk AFS was located on the site of a World War II Coast Artillery post, Camp Hero. Camp Hero had two 16-inch guns that required a very large concrete infrastructure that was buried, except for the gun ports, as camouflage. These massive structures are still in place and according to Nichols they are merely the small surface part of a massive underground base at Montauk. He is wrong, again.
Here is a summary of how the base was utilized since 1948. These are simple facts. Compare them with what Preston B. Nichols writes about the same place at the same time.
Air Force cold war air defense radar operations began in the area in 1948.
The installation name remained Camp Hero until December 1953 when a portion of it became Montauk AFS. The base was operated by the 773rd Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron (AC&WS).
The remaining portion of Camp Hero was activated in 1951 as Army anti-aircraft artillery (AAA) training site. It closed in 1957 as part of "Operation Changeover" which saw the mission of AAA batteries in the New York area taken over by Nike surface-to-air missile sites. The last Army personnel left Camp Hero on December 5, 1957. Montauk AFS then absorbed the rest of Camp Hero.
As a ground-controlled intercept (GCI) site, the radar station worked with fighter-interceptors located at Suffolk County Air Force Base (AFB) in Westhampton Beach. The radar site--in those pre-satellite days--also was the location of the communications relay with a Texas Tower that was about 100 miles out to sea. The station's ground/air-transmit/receive (GATR) radio site near Montauk Airport provided the data link for BOMARC surface-to-air missiles that were based near Suffolk County AFB.
The 773rd AC&WS became the 773rd Radar Squadron (SAGE) and later, as the SAGE air defense control system was phased out, the 773rd Radar Squadron. With these changes it no longer had a GCI function. Instead it simply provided radar surveillance data to a SAGE direction center (DC) at the New York Air Defense Sector at McGuire AFB, near Trenton, N.J., and later to a DC at Hancock Field, near Syracuse.
Operations at Montauk AFS ended on January 31, 1981. After the base closed, its GATR continued in use for a short time until the replacement FAA/Joint Surveillance System radar at Riverhead was fully operational. This was coincident with the transfer of air defense control operations from Hancock Field to the new Northeast Air Defense Sector at Griffiss AFB, at Rome, N.Y.
The base is interesting but hardly mysterious, inexplicable or unique. There is a lot more about Montauk AFS at Radomes, the Online Radar Museum, easily found on the Internet.
If it was better written, The Montauk Project: Experiments in Time could be fun with a bit of mystery here and a bit of exaggeration there. But there is no fun in this book. It is just the first in a series of dreary paranoid rants against a fantasy world of government conspiracies, aliens and time travel to and from Montauk AFS that exists only in the author's mind.
Summary of The Montauk Project: Experiments in Time
Chronicles the most amazing and secretive research project in recorded history. Starting with the Philadelphia Experiment of 1943, invisibility experiments were conducted aboard the USS Eldridge that resulted in full-scale teleportation of the ship and crew. Forty years of massive research ensued, culminating in bizarre experiments at Montauk Point that actually manipulated time itself. The controversial lectures by Al Bielek on the Montauk Project and the Philadelphia Experiment are similar to the information in this book. The book includes diagrams and photos of the time-travel devices themselves, plus photocopies of documents and schematic diagrams.State & Local Books
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