--- title: "Montauk Project Legend and Camp Hero Radar · Fly Brain Experiment" url: https://theflybrain.com/experiments/montauk/ description: "The fly watches the documented AN/FPS-35 radar at Montauk Air Force Station (Camp Hero, Long Island) turn at night, then follows a model of the 1992 Montauk…" language: en --- # Montauk Project Legend and Camp Hero Radar The fly watches the documented AN/FPS-35 radar at Montauk Air Force Station (Camp Hero, Long Island) turn at night, then follows a model of the 1992 Montauk Project legend underground to the "Montauk chair" and a time tunnel. Each stage is labeled as documented history or legend. **An eight-second loop from the workstation. Full recording pending publication.** [Follow along](#recordings) for the release. ## What the fly saw Frames rendered from the fly’s eye camera at four points in the timeline, each with the 32-column retinal input the connectome model receives at that moment. ![Eye-camera frame at 0:24](https://theflybrain.com/images/eye/montauk-0.jpg) ![32-column retinal input at 0:24](https://theflybrain.com/images/eye/montauk-0-retina.png) 0:24 The AN/FPS-35 sweep ![Eye-camera frame at 1:05](https://theflybrain.com/images/eye/montauk-1.jpg) ![32-column retinal input at 1:05](https://theflybrain.com/images/eye/montauk-1-retina.png) 1:05 Legend: the underground levels ![Eye-camera frame at 1:46](https://theflybrain.com/images/eye/montauk-2.jpg) ![32-column retinal input at 1:46](https://theflybrain.com/images/eye/montauk-2-retina.png) 1:46 Legend: the time tunnel (1943 ↔ 1983) ![Eye-camera frame at 2:27](https://theflybrain.com/images/eye/montauk-3.jpg) ![32-column retinal input at 2:27](https://theflybrain.com/images/eye/montauk-3-retina.png) 2:27 Legend: the shutdown ## Timeline 11 steps, with their times in the experiment 1. 0:00 **Montauk Air Force Station / night** DOCUMENTED. The fly stops at the perimeter fence. Above the bluffs stands the five-storey concrete AN/FPS-35 tower with its 126-foot reflector. 2. 0:16 **The AN/FPS-35 sweep** DOCUMENTED. The antenna turns once every 12 seconds (5 rpm), searching up to about 250 miles over the Atlantic for the SAGE air-defence network. 3. 0:34 **Abandoned in place / 1981** DOCUMENTED. The station closed on 31 January 1981. The antenna stops; motors and electronics are removed. 4. 0:44 **The legend begins** LEGEND. From here on the scene follows Nichols & Moon’s 1992 book. A hatch near the tower opens on a shaft. 5. 0:52 **Legend: the underground levels** LEGEND. A cage descends past level after level beneath Camp Hero. The book claims many more; none has been found. 6. 1:08 **Legend: the Montauk chair** LEGEND. The fly sits in a chair ringed by three pairs of coils; receivers record its “thought forms”. 7. 1:28 **Legend: thought forms to the radar** LEGEND. Signals climb a waveguide to the transmitter; the dish above turns again in the dark. 8. 1:42 **Legend: the time tunnel (1943 ↔ 1983)** LEGEND. A tunnel of light opens. The story ties it to the 1943 Philadelphia Experiment, forty years earlier. 9. 2:04 **Legend: something comes through** LEGEND. A huge shadow gathers inside the tunnel. Equipment sparks; the fly backs away. 10. 2:16 **Legend: the shutdown** LEGEND. A technician cuts the transmitter feed. The tunnel collapses and the levels fall into red emergency light. 11. 2:30 **Camp Hero State Park / today** DOCUMENTED. Dawn over a state park. The tower still stands, listed on the National Register in 2002. No underground facility has been documented. ## Setup - Eleven seekable stages over 164 seconds: stages 1–3 and 11 show the documented station (the station at night, the radar sweep, the 31 January 1981 closure and Camp Hero State Park at dawn); stages 4–10 follow the legend. - The AN/FPS-35 is modeled from published dimensions: a five-storey reinforced-concrete tower about 85 ft (25.9 m) tall and 60 ft (18.3 m) square, carrying a 126 × 38 ft (38.4 × 11.6 m) perforated reflector that turns once every 12 seconds (5 rpm) until the closure. - Around it are an operations block, a height-finder tower, World War II camouflage (a gymnasium disguised as a church and bunkers with painted windows), the Battery 113 mound, the perimeter fence and the turning beam of the Montauk Point Light. - The legend stages follow Preston Nichols and Peter Moon's book The Montauk Project: Experiments in Time (1992): a hatch and shaft, six underground levels each labeled "LEVEL n · LEGEND" (the book claims more), and the "Montauk chair", where the fly sits inside three orthogonal pairs of coils beside receivers and an oscilloscope. - Signals climb a waveguide and the stopped antenna turns again; a time tunnel linked to 1943 and 1983 opens with a destroyer-escort silhouette from the related Philadelphia Experiment legend and a soft-edged shadow at its mouth, until an engineer fly cuts the feed and the levels fall into red emergency light. - Seven cameras, including the perimeter fence, a close antenna orbit, an aerial view of the bluffs and lighthouse, an underground section, the chair and a time-tunnel cutaway; documented/legend title cards and an underground cutaway are viewport-only toggles. ## Measurement - Retinal-only live input: canonical eye images reach the fixed connectome model, measured spikes drive the neural display, and no direct stimulation is sent. - The fly's route, the antenna rotation, the gate guard and two technician flies, and every legend event follow a pre-programmed timeline; the oscilloscope trace and coil glow are programmed animations, not a display of measured activity. - Title cards and the underground cutaway apply only to viewport drawing, so the eye camera always receives the complete scene; a status line labels each stage DOCUMENTED or LEGEND. ## Limitations - The underground levels, chair, waveguide, time tunnel, shadow and shutdown model claims from a 1992 book; none is documented in the cited sources, and no underground facility at Camp Hero has been documented. - Skeptoid's review cites Long Island's glacial till and water table as evidence against an underground base. - Sources disagree on the reflector's rotating weight (about 40 versus about 70 tons), so no weight is shown. - Terrain, building positions, the height finder and the lighthouse distance (compressed) are approximations, not a survey. - Animated light intensities affect only the viewport; the canonical retina uses recorded intensities, while visibility changes reach both. ## Sources - [Montauk Air Force Station (Wikipedia)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montauk_Air_Force_Station) - [The Military Standard, AN/FPS-35 radar](https://www.themilitarystandard.com/radar/radar-equipment/an-fps-35/) - [Montauk Library, "Montauk Tower No Mirage"](https://montauklibrary.org/throwback-thursday-montauk-tower-no-mirage/) - [The Montauk Project: Experiments in Time (Wikipedia)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Montauk_Project:_Experiments_in_Time) - [Patrick Gross, summary of the Montauk Project claims (chair and shutdown)](https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/montauk1.htm) - [Skeptoid #757, The Montauk Project](https://skeptoid.com/episodes/757) ## About The fly watches the documented AN/FPS-35 radar at Montauk Air Force Station (Camp Hero, Long Island) turn at night, then follows a model of the 1992 Montauk Project legend underground to the "Montauk chair" and a time tunnel. Each stage is labeled as documented history or legend. 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