They had trouble building this above ground because when they started to test above ground the fields from the transmitting equipment were so strong that they had to locate it low enough below ground that there would be a neutral point between the fields of the equipment. Also they wanted to make it big enough, I think it was 250 feet, this one was 10 foot. In an interview with the website Forbidden Knowledge, Nichols explained,
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According to Preston Nichols, a scientist who worked at Montauk, the portal had to be built underground because of construction issues - and they probably also didn't want people knowing what they were up to. If you're thinking that the government kept their super secret time travel portal underground because they didn't want people seeing what they were up to, you're totally wrong.
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Admittedly, the idea that ten-year-old boys are being sent to Mars is pretty far-fetched, but the government getting excited about mass hypnosis via radar tower? That seems like something that was definitely discussed at one point in time, and you could argue that they were successful, albeit in a less sci-fi way.Įven if you don’t believe in government cover-ups that involve time travel, teleportation, and the physical manifestation of monsters from inside our very own brains, the Montauk Project is a lot of fun to read about, and when you finally have a run in with a chrononaut from 1980, you’ll be happy that you boned up on your knowledge about this secret government program. More so than any other conspiracy theory, the Montauk Project feels very real. Theories about the Montauk Project’s US government time travel research program intersects with multiple alleged secret government programs, including the Philadelphia Experiment, where an entire battleship was said to have disappeared from the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard in 1943. The Montauk Experiment is basically the Area 51 of New England, and stories about the project’s time travel experiments, use of alien technology, and research into telekinesis have managed to both enthral and terrify conspiracy theorists since the government shut down the " Roswell of the North’s" experiments in the early '80s. As far as government cover-ups go, the Montauk Project may be one of the most well-guarded secret government projects that ever existed.