In 1943, the United States Navy and several other government
financed groups began conducting many series of experiments that were
designed to be used as "secret weapons" during the Second World War.
One of these experiments has been attributed to the Department of Naval
Research and was primarily focused on the ability of achieving radar
invisiblity. The way in which these experiments proceeded were that, by
directly involving electromagnetics, and utilizing the so-called
"Unified Field Theory", scientists were able to manipulate
electromagnetic waves in order to achieve this desired goal.
The hopeful outcome was that by effectively manipulating
electromagnetic waveleangths, U.S. ships, and aircraft might become
"invisible" to enemy radar; these experiments were actually the
preperatory groundwork for today's stealth technology. They had been
running a series of small scale tests which seemed to prove the theory
workable, and the experiments finally reached a peak aboard a ship of
the Destroyer Class, the USS Elderidge. Huge electromagnetic generators
were installed in one of the forward turrets, and once enabled, they
created an electromagnetic bottle around the ship. What happened next
is the material of which legends are born.
When the Elderidge was launched into the Philadelphia Naval
Yard, and the generators were turned on, the electromagnetic bottle in
effect "sealed" around the ship and it did in fact become radar
invisible. There was one suprising side effect however, the ship also
became physically invisible before vanishing from the time-space
continuum. When the ship returned, the state of the crew was even more
shocking. Most of the men were drivin into insanity, presumably from
the electromagnetic effect of the displacement field. There were others
though, who were in even worse condition and those were the men who had
been moving about while the ship was in "Hyperspace" and had now been
fused with the solid structures of the ship. These experiments were
officially designated as the Rainbow Project, informally, it became
known as the Philadelphia Experiment.
This side effect was sufficient to have the Rainbow Projects
terminated, and the Manhattan Project, the construction of the Atomic
Bomb was born.
The stealth technology of the Rainbow Projects sat on the
shelf for a good many years before being picked up again in either the
late 40's, or early 50's. This was done by those who had enacted the
original experiments, but now there were going to be two areas of
research. One was going to be the technical aspect of manipulating the
electromagnetic bottle, the other was going to be the human element, in
which studies were conducted to examine why the bottle effect was
sufficient to induce insanity.
Studies continued for the next decade and the results that
came forth were that the human mind was electric, and could be
influenced through the effect of electromagnetics. Apparently, once the
electromagnetic bottle was sealed, the mental state of awareness was
suddenly isolated along with the ship. This isolation prevented the
mind from having anything "solid" to be able to focus upon and identify
with-in other words the "real world". Being in hyperspace became a
jarring experience for the mind and it was found that in such a state,
it was easily broken.
Further studies were done, and when the reports were nearly
complete, they were sent to Congress for the approval of continued
tests. Not suprisingly, Congress said No!, and ordered the project to
be abandoned. Now, considerable time, effort and money had already been
invested in these studies. Being brushed off by Congress was not what
this group wanted to hear, so an idea was hit upon to speak with the
top ranking brass of the military directly. The proposal that was sent
to the defense community was an idea for a weapon that would
effectively make the enemy surrender before a battle could even get
started- with the flick of a switch. Naturally, the military was very
interested in this idea; who wouldn't want a weapon such as that in
their arsenal?
This group explained that with the currently available
technology this could be achieved. They already had a start on the
project, but there were some legal technicalities that had to be
overcome in order for the project to proceed. Congress had already
given the order to close it, and in the places where these experiments
had been taking place, the Federal government kept a close eye on what
was being done. Supposedly this group was affiliated with M.I.T,
Brookhaven National Laboratories, RCA, and others that were under too
close scrutiny of governmental watchdogs. Secrecy, and isolation was
first and foremost in order for these experiments to be conducted
without interruption.
The military agreed on this matter; they were already quite
familiar with the need for secrecy, and they agreed that the project
could not continue at it's present locations. However, this group was
in luck, the military had just what they were looking for. There was an
old airforce radar station out on the eastern tip of Long Island that
housed the Sage Radar system that this group required. It was situated
just east of Montauk Point; about a quarter, to a half a mile from the
lighthouse. The airforce base was going to be decommissioned mainly
because the Sage equipment had been made osolete by satellite, and
O.T.H (Over-The-Horizon) radar. At that point Montauk was still a very
small, isolated, sleepy little town that was not yet the vacation spot
which it has since become, so there was very little to fear from
interference of either the government, or, local townspeople. This
group agreed, and began moving their preexisting equipment onto the
site, this was sometime in the late 1960's.
By the very early 70's, this group had already began a series
of in depth experiments on the human factor using the Sage equipment,
and several Psychically Sensitive subjects in order to see just how far
they could take this technology. What evolved from these tests was soon
realized as experiments that were nothing less than mind control. In
effect, they would sit a subject in a chair in a specified location,
and then would focus the huge radar dish in that direction and begin
blasting gigawatts of power at that person. By manipulating the
amperage of the power used and the frequency of the waves, they were
able to make people do the things that they wanted them to do. This
stage was of course not reached until nearly 5-10 years of
experimentation. The Psychically Sensitive subjects were supposedly
trained to be able to focus their minds to a state of awareness far
surpassing that of ordinary people, in fact, they were extensively
trained to such a degree, that some of them were able to focus their
awareness on ideas, or objects and be able to fully realize them in
their physical existence. One of these subjects; who is also believed
to be deeply involved with the project was a man by the name of Duncan
Cameron.
Duncan, was one of the psychics whose mental ability exceeded
that of his collegues. He was supposedly able to visualize an object,
or place to it's complete entirety, that if you were to have the object
in your hand, or, be at that place, there would be absolutely no
discernible difference.
During these experiments in which Duncan would focus on a
place, person, or object, the subject of his focus would actually
physically appear somewhere on the base. There was something that was
even more interesting in this though. During the time that Duncan was
in the chair, and focusing on something, that object, person, or place
would in fact appear, but it would appear at a time after he had
already focused on it. It was soon realized, that the equipment that
was being used for mind manipulation was also able to manipulate Time.
Time itself was just as subject to being bent as were the minds that
were the primary focus of these experiments.
Supposedly, the scientists involved became very excited at
this discovery, and a new group of people were brought in to specialize
in the study of Time. With the aid of the Time Techs, a workable
porthole was constructed using the electrical power of the radar
system, and the mental ability of the subjects, wherein a subject would
focus on a particular point in time and with the power of the radar
equipment, a wormhole would manifest somewhere on the base. It has been
reported that after these initial experiments got underway, a huge
underground facility was set up that spanned from the base itself, into
the downtown district of Montauk. This underground is supposed to have
had many levels, each becomming more vast and intricate than the
previous one.
Once the time tunnel became a stabilized, predictable unit,
various people were sent both backward, and forward through time. It
has also been said that there was extensive extraterrestrial
involvement in the Montauk Project which stemmed from a ship being
sucked into the time tunnel, and appearing out at Montauk, presumably
in the underground. Apparently, there had been some exchanges in
technology between the aliens, and the group out at Montauk, thereby
enabling them to continually upgrade the system.
There was also another aspect of the Montauk Project which
was directly tied into the initial mind control project, and that was
the reconditioning of the minds of young boys. These boys were usually
abducted and brought out to the base where they underwent excrutiating
periods of both physical, and mental torture in order to break their
minds. Once the mind had been broken, the group involved with this area
set about the task of restructuring it to suit their needs. Many of
these boys then became sucked into the project by becomming active
willing participants themselves. Supposedly, when these boys were
abducted, they were taken into the eastern bunker where they were
beaten to a point of near death. Some of them had their minds broken by
the use of various awareness altering drugs-much like the BZ
experiments used on U.S. soldiers in Vietnam, and, it has been
theorized that those experiments were in some way related to these.
Apparently, according to the story, the entire project
reached it's pinnacle when on August 12 , 1983, the time travel project
at Montauk interlocked in hyperspace with the original Rainbow Project.
The two projects had then suddenly become interdependant on one another
wherein, it was no longer possible to terminate the project from either
Camp Hero, or the USS Elderidge.
It was during this point that a splinter group of the people
responsible had formed an alliance intended to deliberatly crash the
project. A subliminal commmand was introduced into the psychic subject;
Duncan, and when enacted, he would visualize a bigfoot creature from
his subconscious. While the two projects had become entangled, the
technicians involved realized that in order to seperate them, the
original Rainbow Project had to be terminated from it's source on the
Elderidge. Once that was done the project could then be shut down from
the Montauk end.
While they were busy simultaniously trying to terminate the
project from both ends, the subliminal command was enacted, and
Duncan's bigfoot came to life. It apparently appeared somewhere on the
base and began a rampage of destruction. However it only existed as
long as the project was still running. Once both projects were shut
down, the Elderidge returned to the Philadelphia Naval Yard, the
bigfoot creature vanished, and the time tunnel collapsed.
After this fiasco, the management of Montauk decided that the
project had simply become too unstable to continue, so most of the
personel were debriefed, mainly by brainwashing, others by oaths of
silence, the base was closed, and the project was abandoned.