Fools claim New York park formerly the site of many outrageous experiments
Aaron Sakulich
Issue date: 6/2/06 Section: Sci-Tech
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At the eastern end of Long Island's southern point, the government set up one of many gargantuan radar dishes to warn us of any incoming Soviet threats from the Atlantic. These dishes rapidly went obsolete as we developed better and better computer technology, and the site was closed in 1969. Though the building that houses the radar device itself is fenced off from the public, the land around it has since been donated to the state of New York for use as a public park.
That much everyone can agree on. However, this was just a warm-up for conspiracy theorists, a sort of stretching of the legs for the marathon of madness that is about the begin. They point out that when the federal government donated the land to the state of New York, they retained the rights to "everything beneath the surface" and the right to someday reoccupy the land, if made necessary by a matter of national security.
This, say the conspiracists, is because the government maintains a secret underground research facility at Montauk Point. The evidence is varied and almost entirely circumstantial: Conspiracy theorists claim that civilians visiting the park are routinely threatened by armed government agents ordering them not to venture into certain areas of the park, electrical workers are rumored to have installed a power station capable of using gigawatts of energy (enough to power a city), and every once in a while strange lights or shapes are seen in the skies nearby.
This evidence is entirely circumstantial. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that conspiracists will take stories of park rangers trying to keep tourists on the trails and turn them into government thugs trying to keep the nosy from discovering their top-secret experiments.
But let's back up before we get into what the experiments are. I hate to get into history, but the supposed story of the Montauk Project is much too awesome to skip. According to the conspiracy theory, in 1945 American troops had liberated France. Well, that part's not a conspiracy theory. That part is true. The conspiracy theory says that some of those troops discovered a train full of Nazi gold stopped in a tunnel. They notified the proper authorities, who promptly arrived on the scene, took the gold and killed every single soldier to ensure that no one… well, knew they had some gold, I guess.
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