Does anyone believe that the Montauk Project actually happened?

Question

The Montauk Project was supposedly a secret experiment in time travel held at the Montauk AFB inthe 70's and 80's. Rumors are that it has moved underground.

Answer 1

Is there/was there some classified military project around Montauk? Yes, probably - there is seldom any smoke without fire.

Does it or did it ever involve time travel, invisibility, targeted psy-warfare or whatever other exotic pseudo-technologies have ever been ascribed to it? No.

Why? Because while a classified project may extend or accelerate the development of particular applications of scientific research already being worked on for decades before the initiation of any project, it is downright impossible for any such project to discover the necessity to fundamentally re-write the basic laws of physics and chemistry - and most of the 'exotic' technology described requires a hell of a lot of such re-writing.

Not entirely impossible, I suppose, but it flies completely in the face of historical precedent - fundamental changes in scientific perspective are exceedingly rare, and when they happen they are the result of much concerted effort by a very large variety of people - the very antithesis to some hidden skunkworks.

Answer 2

The Montauk Project is believed to be an extension or continuation of the Philadelphia Experiment, which supposedly took place in 1943, also known as Project Rainbow.

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 USS Eldridge invisible, and the reasons and possible military applications of the psychological effects of the magnetic field.

A report was supposedly prepared and presented to Congress, and was soundly rejected as far too dangerous. So a proposal was made directly to the 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 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.

Work was begun 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 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.

Answer 3

A short lived news show on BBC called "Disinformation" did a very revealing segment on the Montauk Project. The DVD of the entire series is available everywhere, highly recommended.

Answer 4

i'd look ahead and attempt to fathom what the toll will be by potential of the height of tribulation and armageddon. If armies will be marching in from the east and into the holy land, im positive it's going to be worse than some thing ever finished. for sure, before that, the biggest tragedy must be international warfare 2 as an entire. It blanketed the holocaust, the dropping of two atomic bombs, best civilian demise toll in any warfare at about 37 million. sixty 2 million everyday deaths.

Answer 5

Theory has teeth but probability is it never was made a complete reality. I could see some tests being done but it was probably shut down after a short run. Definitely nothing like the rumors though. I would bet. Just my opinion.
The idea was to cascade an electronic magnetic feild around an object, (in this case a ship) to cause it to be distorted to the point of being invisable. I would assume it could distort it to a blur or haze. But at a dangerous cost to people, machines, wepons, etc. Think about it though a massive peice of electronics on a metal ship in salt water. Would you think it would work?

Answer 6

yea i heard about that too, considering i live on long island. It's also known that plum island, off the coast of montauk is mainly used for animal disease control and for testing by the military of biological warfare.

Answer 7

wasnt that supposed to try and make things/people invisible?

Answer 8

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