Perhaps the Air Force, after reading Davis’s document, agreed: “The views expressed in the report are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy of the Air Force, the Department of Defense or the U.S. Government,” was the statement made by the Air Force’s Research Laboratory when questioned by USA Today. Asked why the laboratory had secretly sponsored the study, AFRL spokesman Ranney Adams said, “If we don’t turn over stones, we don’t know if we have missed something.” Significantly, the AFRL added, “There are no plans by the AFRL Propulsion Directorate for additional funding on this contract.”[62] Not surprisingly, this latter statement was perceived by some Montauk researchers as evidence that the military was trying to publicly distance itself from teleportation research, while privately continuing to dig deeper into it.
Holographic Imagery
As for Bigfoot, and the notion that the Montauk team learned how to project imagery of such beasts from the dark depths of the human mind into quasi-physical form in the real world, isn’t that just too outlandish to warrant even a solitary comment? Not everyone thinks so. One of those who offered commentary on these matters is a man who features significantly in another chapter of this book: Gabe Valdez, a key player in the story of the alleged underground alien base at Dulce, New Mexico.
Valdez has uncovered information that leads him to believe that many New Mexico Bigfoot sightings are actually the work of a covert arm of the U.S. government possessing the ability to create holographic imagery of the hairy man-beasts. The purpose? To deter people from getting too close to some of its secret underground installations. It is fascinating to hear such a theory coming out of the mouth of a respected police officer who was consulted by the FBI on cattle-mutilation cases at Dulce in the 1970s. Even more fascinating, Valdez’s position on Bigfoot eerily parallels the stories surfacing from the Montauk research community.
Time Travel
There is one other major area of controversy in relation to Montauk we’ve yet to cover: time travel. Although the idea that government agencies may be utilizing secret bases to research the possibility of surfing the centuries back and forth sounds, to most people, like nothing more than an adventure-packed movie, some have suggested that fact is far stranger than anything that could ever be conjured up by even the most imaginative Hollywood scriptwriters.
Dr. David Lewis Anderson — of the New Mexico — based Anderson Institute, a division of Anderson Multinational LLC, whose primary goal is “the development of time-warped field theory, its application, and ensuring the ongoing development of time reactor system design concepts and capabilities”[63] — has stated that, decades ago, he spent time working on a secret project at the U.S. Air Force’s Flight Test Center at Edwards Air Force Base in California. The goal of the project was definitive time travel. We may never know the extent to which success has been achieved in this particularly strange area, but we do have this on-the-record source revealing that it has at least been investigated.
Closed for Business?
Today, the Montauk installation is no longer in use. In 2002 it was renamed the Camp Hero State Park, and is now widely open to the general public. Its role in classified activity is over — unless, that is, as many Montauk enthusiasts fully accept, far below the old base, dark and strange experimentation still continues at a steady pace, far away from both prying eyes and congressional oversight.
Given that we now know that official agencies of the U.S. government and the military have undertaken research into invisibility, time travel, teleportation, and even the mystery of Bigfoot, perhaps we might be wise to muse upon an interesting scenario: the Montauk program was not all fiction. Just maybe, Montauk is not as dead as the powers that be would have us believe. Perhaps, in some secret domain underneath Long Island, the sensational truth still exists, guarded with extreme prejudice by those tasked with ensuring the public never learns the incredible truths behind the mysteries of Montauk.
C-15
Weathering the Storm
MIDWAY THROUGH 1996, THE UNITED STATES Air Force announced the publication of what was termed the USAF 2025 report. Prepared by the 2025 Support Office at the Air University, Air Education and Training Command, and developed by the Air University Press, Educational Services Directorate, College of Aerospace Doctrine, Research, and Education, at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama, the report was, to quote the military, “a study designed to comply with a directive from the chief of staff of the Air Force to examine the concepts, capabilities, and technologies the United States will require to remain the dominant air and space force in the future.”[64]
One particularly intriguing subsection of the report had the notable title of “Weather as a Force Multiplier: Owning the Weather in 2025.” That’s correct: the U.S. military has been hard at work trying to determine if the manipulation and even creation of harsh weather conditions — such as hurricanes, earthquakes, volcanoes, and other forms of devastation that are normally ascribed to nature — might be considered a viable tool of warfare in the very near future.
In the astounding words of the Air Force’s most learned forward-thinkers of the mid-1990s: “In 2025, U.S. aerospace forces can ‘own the weather’ by capitalizing on emerging technologies and focusing development of those technologies to war-fighting applications. While some segments of society will always be reluctant to examine controversial issues such as weather-modification, the tremendous military capabilities that could result from this field are ignored at our own peril. Weather-modification offers the war fighter a wide-range of possible options to defeat or coerce an adversary.”[65]
The Air Force also noted, “The desirability to modify storms to support military objectives is the most aggressive and controversial type of weather-modification. While offensive weather-modification efforts would certainly be undertaken by U.S. forces with great caution and trepidation, it is clear that we cannot afford to allow an adversary to obtain an exclusive weather-modification capability.”[66]
The Air Force was not the only area of officialdom expressing interest in and concerns about weather-modification technologies for specific use in warfare. On April 28, 1997, the U.S. Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen delivered the keynote speech at the University of Georgia — based Conference on Terrorism, Weapons of Mass Destruction, and U.S. Strategy, and intriguingly warned the audience that there were powerful, shadowy forces out there who were “engaging in an eco-type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of Electro-Magnetic waves. So there are plenty of ingenious minds out there that are at work finding ways in which they can wreak terror upon other nations. It’s real.”[67]
HAARP
The big questions are: to what extent have such technologies gone beyond the theoretical and been successfully (clandestinely) developed? Is such technology already being secretly utilized on a planet-wide scale, in order to instill fear in, and exert control over, the world’s population, and also exert military control and influence over areas of strategic interest? Many conspiracy theorists say yes. The target of their accusations is a sensitive, Department of Defense installation in Alaska that is home to a project shrouded in deep controversy: HAARP, or the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program. In the words of scientists at the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, who coordinate the work of HAARP along with the U.S. Navy’s Office of Naval Research and Naval Research Laboratory as well as the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the project is designed to “analyze the ionosphere and investigate the potential for developing ionospheric enhancement technology for radio communications and surveillance purposes.”[68]