Nichols explains that his role involved modifying a former SAGE radar transmitter to broadcast frequency-hopping pulse signals between 420 and 460 megahertz, creating what he calls a mind amplifier. He describes a system where a trained psychic's holographic thought patterns were picked up by sensors, processed through computers, and transmitted at roughly 100 million watts of power. Nichols claims the technology could inject thoughts into a person's mind at distances of thousands of miles and even precipitate physical objects from concentrated mental imagery. He reveals that he and colleagues deliberately sabotaged the project by creating a destructive thought-form after concluding the work had turned dangerous. Nichols reports that transmissions in the same frequency range continue emanating from the supposedly decommissioned base.
A detailed and controversial account from an engineer who claims firsthand involvement in one of the most persistent legends of secret government experimentation.
Key Moments
Montauk traces back to Philadelphia Experiment: Nichols says the Montauk Project began around 1947 to figure out what went wrong with the Philadelphia Experiment, with the engineering side splitting to Los Alamos (becoming stealth technology) and the human-factors side moving to Brookhaven National Laboratory and joining the larger Phoenix Project research into the human mind.
Mind control by radio at thousands of miles: Nichols states the project's mission was a literal mind-control weapon: equipment that could read out a target's thoughts and inject thoughts into the target's mind that the target would believe were his own, transmitted by pulsed RF at distances of thousands of miles.
The mind amplifier and creating objects from ether: Nichols describes Montauk as a 'mind amplifier' - sensors picked up an operator's holographic thought pattern, processed it through a large computer system, and fed a modified radar transmitter at roughly 100 megawatts continuous; if the operator could visualize an object in virtual reality, the equipment had the ability to make it physically real.
Camp Hero today - megawatts going underground: Nichols claims the decommissioned Montauk Air Force Station is now nominally the closed Camp Hero State Park with two power lines feeding multi-megawatts into one cop's house and a State Parks maintenance garage, machinery audible through cement walls on Radar Hill, plus active 420-460 MHz pulsed transmissions and a complex 173 MHz data link in the Channel 7 guard band that the FCC would never tolerate from a civilian.
Montauk as the other end of the 1943-1983 time loop: Nichols says Montauk was the far end of a fixed time loop linking 1943, 1963, and 1983 that anchored open-ended loops the operator (Duncan Cameron) could mentally aim - the Eldridge sailors who jumped off the ship in 1943 came through to Montauk, the time-travel claim that connects the two legends.