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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 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]

## Contents

* 1 Origin
* 2 In media
* 3 See also
* 4 References
* 5 External links

## 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 which 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, describing much of the content as "soft facts" in a Guide For Readers and publishing a newsletter with updates to the story.

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]

## See also

* List of conspiracy theories
* Project MKUltra

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Vallée, Jacques F. (1994). "Anatomy of a hoax: The Philadelphia Experiment fifty years later". Journal of Scientific Exploration 8 (1): 47–71. http://www.scientificexploration.org/journal/jse_08_1_vallee.pdf. 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. https://books.google.com/books?id=hoU3m8T0IukC&pg=PA76. Retrieved May 27, 2011.
3. ↑ "Preston Nichols". bibliotecapleyades.net. http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/montauk/esp_montauk_1.htm.
4. ↑ The Montauk Project: Experiments in Time, Chapter 1
5. ↑ Nichols, Preston B.. "Montauk Revisited: Adventures in Synchronicity". FictionDB. http://www.fictiondb.com/author/preston-b-nichols~montauk-revisited-adventures-in-synchronicity~314888~b.htm. 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!". http://www.scifibloggers.com/the-2015-philip-k-dick-science-fiction-film-festival-winners.
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". http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/24/montauk-chronicles-time-travel-aliens_n_1543063.html.
9. ↑ Guerrasio, Jason (September 20, 2016). "This Is The Crazy Government Conspiracy Theory That Inspired 'Stranger Things'". http://www.sciencealert.com/there-s-a-crazy-government-conspiracy-theory-that-inspired-stranger-things.
10. ↑ Schladebeck, Jessica (September 1, 2016). "A look at ‘Stranger Things’ and the secret government experiments that inspired it". New York Daily News. http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/stranger-inspired-secret-government-experiments-article-1.2774525.
11. ↑ Anderton, Ethan (September 6, 2016). "'Stranger Things' Was Inspired By a Creepy, Supposedly Real Experiment Called The Montauk Project". http://www.slashfilm.com/stranger-things-inspired-by-the-montauk-project/.
12. ↑ Stranger Things Cast Answer the Web's Most Searched Questions, Wired, 2017-11-21, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EvMYEfF_hQ, retrieved 2017-11-25

## External links

* "The Montauk Project: Stranger Times". https://www.de173.com/the-montauk-project/.
* "The Montauk Project: Questioning There 'Story'". https://www.de173.com/montauk-project-questioning-character/.
* "Alfred Bielek debunked". http://www.bielek-debunked.com/.
* "Alfred Bielek: The Philadelphia Experiment and Montauk Survivor Accounts". http://www.bielek.com/.
* "The Montauk Project". Disinfo.com. http://disinfo.com/2012/07/the-montauk-project/.
* "Stewart Swerdlow". Montauk Boy - Expansions.com. http://www.expansions.com/.

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Time travel

General terms and concepts|

* Chronology protection conjecture
* Closed timelike curve
* Novikov self-consistency principle
* Self-fulfilling prophecy
* Quantum mechanics of time travel

Time travel in fiction|

* Timelines in fiction
* in science fiction
* in games
* television series that include time travel

Temporal paradoxes|

* Grandfather paradox
* Causal loop

Parallel timelines|

* Alternative future
* Alternate history
* Many-worlds interpretation
* Multiverse
* Parallel universes in fiction

Philosophy of space and time|

* Butterfly effect
* Determinism
* Eternalism
* Fatalism
* Free will
* Predestination

Spacetimes in general relativity that
can contain closed timelike curves|

* Alcubierre metric
* BTZ black hole
* Gödel metric
* Kerr metric
* Krasnikov tube
* Misner space
* Tipler cylinder
* van Stockum dust
* Traversable wormholes

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