30 years ago, one of the New York weekly, specializing in the coverage of mysterious incidents, came out with a sensational headline: "The Philadelphia Experiment, begun in 1943 with the destroyer Eldridge, continues at the abandoned Montauk Air Force Base."
Soon, several publications on this topic followed at once, and quite respectable publications. Even the "New York Times" published a note that the Department of Naval Research never stopped the secret project "Rainbow", and at the same time, the experiments took a completely new direction - electronic "brain irradiation" and programmed effects on the mind human.
Philadelphia experiment
On the northeastern coast of Long Island in New York, the Montauk area is known to most of the townspeople for its picturesque nature and coastal lighthouse. Once it was a small port town surrounded by fishing villages, but the metropolis has long reached it with its communications, turning it into a suburban resort area.
On the northwestern tip of the island, behind an inactive ferry crossing, are the remains of the bastions of an ancient fort from the times of the Revolutionary War. Further there are the barracks and hangars of the former air force base.
On a thunderstorm in July 1983, near the Montauk Air Force Base, a massive explosion occurred at a local power plant, de-energizing the entire district. A few days later, local residents read in the newspapers that the "secret physicists" conducting some experiments at the Montauk Helicopter Range managed to break through the "subspace transition" in 1943. Soon the resort town was filled with crowds of reporters eagerly awaiting the appearance of the destroyer Eldridge, "wandering in the tangled corridors of space and time," disappearing into the Philadelphia docks.
Subsequent publications with all sorts of guesses were the last straw for the leadership of the "top-secret project". One fine day, an open press conference was held on the territory of the former base, at which several civilians, but with military bearing "radio engineers", as they introduced themselves, spoke about their goals and objectives.
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From their confusing explanations, it followed that a certain fund had allocated a grant for joint research with the US naval forces of the upper atmosphere by sounding them with radio waves. And, of course, the management of the research center apologizes for the substation burned down by a lightning strike, although, generally speaking, this is just a consequence of the rampant elements …
Montauk Proving Ground
According to various sources, the implementation of the Phoenix project began in 1948 and continued until 1967. When the project was completed, the final report was sent to the US Congress. This lengthy document said that human consciousness is exposed to electromagnetic radiation and, in principle, this phenomenon can have a defensive value. This statement puzzled most of the congressmen, and after a short consultation with experts, it was decided to abandon further research.
Then, in search of funds, the project management turned to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DAPRA) of the US Department of Defense. This highly secretive engineering organization, as its name suggests, is responsible for developing new military technologies, ensuring the superiority of the US military. The calls of the Phoenix participants to continue working with the aim of staying ahead of other countries in the development of radio wave means of influencing the human brain were fully understood by the responsible DARPA employees who carried out the project expertise.
So "Phoenix" received a powerful material base, ostensibly to bridge the gap between fundamental neurophysiological research and their application in the military sphere.
This is how the Phoenix-2 project began, which in the press was most often called the Rainbow Phoenix or simply the Montauk project.
The mystery of Dr. Bilek
In the 1980s, the Rainbow Phoenix project was again on the verge of closure. The fact is that the DARPA grant has ended, and the US National Security Agency has stopped funding the project, having received quite good samples of portable microwave emitters. It is believed that the most famous "practical way out" of Montauk experiments was the development of miniaturized portable microwave generators. This new weapon for the “knights of the cloak and dagger” leaves no marks at all, causing severe malaise with loss of consciousness and heart attacks and even death. Further refinement of these famous "death cases" was carried out somewhere in the bowels of a super-critical organization.
At the Pentagon, a competing project HAARP (High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program) appeared - a program for the study of the ionosphere by high-frequency exposure. And then there were significant funds allocated for the development of "pulsed electronic munitions", successfully tested in Yugoslavia, Iraq and Afghanistan.
The last attempt to somehow interest potential sponsors and customers was an "accidental information leak" through a certain Al Bilek, one of the authors of the sensational book "The Philadelphia Experiment and Other UFO Secrets". Completely unknown in scientific circles, "Dr. Bilek" widely claimed to have participated in the development of the "Rainbow-Phoenix" project and many subsequent "subsidiary programs". But he could not give a reasonable explanation for the strange behavior of sea and land animals, sometimes undergoing very unusual mutations.
Brookhaven National Laboratory, U. S. Department of Energy
Here you can recall that in the vicinity of Long Island, there was already a massive death of wild and domestic animals. This happened in the first decade of the 20th century, when Nikola Tesla, an outstanding American inventor of Serbian origin, conducted a series of experiments on his ether resonator.
This mysterious apparatus, sometimes called "Tesla's beam weapon", was installed on the famous Wardenclyffe tower. Locals very quickly correlated the periods of operation of the tower, which was covered with garlands of static electricity, and the strange behavior of their pets. Cats, dogs, horses and cows were seized by attacks of a kind of rabies.
The animals lost their orientation, fell and rolled on the ground. Then the surrounding hospitals were overwhelmed with hypertensive patients and heart patients. All this to a large extent contributed, despite Tesla's stormy protests, to the termination of experiments and the dismantling of all equipment, including the tower of the etheric resonator in 1917.
It seems that something similar took place at Montauk. After all, all the data collected by the journalists suggests that the US military did not only conduct research there on the effects of microwave radiation on the human brain. In addition, like Tesla, they tried to perform fan irradiation of uninhabited areas and the ocean. At the same time, the reactions of representatives of the land and marine fauna were carefully monitored.
An inglorious demise
Reputable environmental organizations also played a significant role in the inglorious death of the Phoenix, which failed to be reborn. After three consecutive massive releases of cetaceans on the beaches and shoals, picketing by the "greens" of the Montauk test site began. This attracted the closest attention of the American media, which, with their publications, finally dispelled the aura of mystery over attempts to revive Tesla's "beam weapon".
Was this the most recent experiments on microwave exposure in humans and animals? Of course not! Everyone who has come into contact with the Phoenix project is absolutely sure of this. Undoubtedly, somewhere now new experiments are being carried out in order to find new radio wave ways to hit the enemy's manpower.
Suddenly, "humane" methods of dealing with demonstrators by irradiating them with small portable magnetrons also appeared here. This weapon, causing the strongest painful shock, even received the cynical name - "shout or run."
Oleg FAYG