The Montauk Project is an alleged series of secret United States government

projects conducted at Camp Hero or Montauk Air Force Station on Montauk, Long
Island, for the purpose of developing psychological warfare techniques and exotic
research including time travel. Jacques Valle describes allegations of the Montauk
Project as an outgrowth of stories about the Philadelphia Experiment.[1] The history of
the Montauk Project story is closely associated with and often believed to originate
in the Montauk Project series of books by Preston Nichols.[2]

Stories about the Montauk Project have circulated since the early 1980s.
According to UFO researcher Jacques Valle, the Montauk Experiment stories seem to
have originated with the account of Preston Nichols, who claimed to have recovered
repressed memories of his own involvement.[1] Nichols, born May 24, 1946 in Long
Island, New York, claims to have degrees in parapsychology, psychology, and electrical
engineering,[3] and he has authored a series of books, known as the Montauk Project
series, along with Peter Moon, the primary topic of which is alleged activities at
Montauk. These center on topics including United States government/military
experiments in fields such as time travel, teleportation, mind control, contact with alien
life and staging faked Apollo Moon landings, framed as developments which followed a
successful 1943 Philadelphia Experiment. These culminate in "a hole ripped in space-
time" in 1983.

The authors have encouraged speculation about the contents; for example, they
wrote, "Whether you read this as science fiction or non-fiction you are in for an
amazing story" in their first chapter,[4] describing much of the content as "soft facts" in a
Guide For Readers and publishing a newsletter with updates to the story.

Some sources report that Nichols claims to have worked on the Montauk Project
and recalls it only through recovery of repressed memories. Others hold that he believes
he is periodically abducted to continue his participation against his will.[5] Most treat
Nichols' work as fiction.[6]

In 2015, Montauk Chronicles, a film adaptation of the conspiracy featuring

Preston Nichols, Al Bielik, and Stewart Swerdlow was released online and on DVD and
Blu-ray. The film won the best documentary award at the Philip K. Dick Film Festival
in New York City[7] and has been featured on Coast to Coast AM[8] and The Huffington
Post.[9]

The Netflix Web TV series Stranger Things was allegedly inspired by the
Montauk Project, and at one time Montauk was used as its working title.[10][11][12]

In the television series Lost Daniel Faraday did such experiments on Desmond,
Miles and a laboratory rat.

The Montauk story also features prominently in Thomas Pynchon's 2013 novel
Bleeding Edge.