Here's an encapsulation of Alexandra Bruce's thoughts on the whole affair:
"The Montauk PsyOp
By Alexandra Bruce
There is evidence that the urban legends of the Philadelphia Experiment and its sequel, the Montauk Project are a long-term psyop. It is worthwhile to look at these historical memes in this light, especially in the face of the larger, ongoing psyop of which they are but a small part, that of the military industrial media.
The shopworn Philadelphia Experiment saga, involving the U.S.S. Eldridge was publicized and promoted by the Navy itself. Had the Navy not done so in 1955, then movies based on it would not have been released in 1984 and in 1993 - and Preston Nichols would not have spawned a series of nine books beginning in 1992, which continue to churn the waters of conspiracy culture to this day.
In 1955, the Office of Naval Research in Washington, D.C. took it upon itself to advertise the legend of the 1943 Philadelphia Experiment. Special Projects Officer, Captain Sidney Sherby and Commander George Hoover commissioned the Varo Manufacturing Company in Garland, Texas to publish 100 copies of the strangely annotated version of Morris K. Jessup's The Case for the UFO, which they claimed had been anonymously mailed to their office.
In the margins of this book were the traumatized scrawlings of a seeming madman, who claimed to have witnessed the legendary events, involving the Destroyer Escort, U.S.S. Eldridge, events now popularly known as the Philadelphia Experiment. These deranged doodles, eventually ascribed to one "Carlos Allende", supposedly impressed the Navy officers with their savvy of high tech, futuristic concepts and their bandying about of an "insider's" hyperdimensional jargon. What exactly was the Navy's intent, in spreading the Philadelphia Experiment rumor within the community of people who read UFO books in 1955?
In hindsight, ex-Navy enlistee "Allende", a.k.a. Carl Allen, appears to have been an early MK Ultra test subject. Similarly, the Montauk Project sequel was originally disseminated in 1992 by Preston Nichols and Al Bielek, two self-described ex-military informants, who claimed to have been brainwashed. It could be inferred that the Philadelphia Experiment and Montauk Project memes are part of a Cold War study in the propagation of a hyperdimensional paradigm. The potential uses of such an operation will be discussed in a moment.
These stories are not just mind viruses, engineered for kicks by the Office of Naval Intelligence. Like any good disinformation, these legends have some basis in truth. Earlier research by this author has found that a secret project with the same tragic results of the popularly known Philadelphia Experiment legend may, indeed have been conducted during that same time frame - but on another vessel, the U.S.S. Martha's Vineyard. Likewise, there is no shortage of proof that mind control experiments similar to those described in the Montauk Project book series have been conducted by the U.S. Government - though there is no solid proof that these ever actually occurred at Montauk.
High strangeness has long been a fact of life for the inhabitants of Long Island's East End, but this does not mean that the Montauk Project legend is not a psyop, cooked up to divert serious investigations into such unconscionable crimes as radiation experiments on unwitting populations there and elsewhere. Nor is it, as some wags have concluded, merely a pederastic scam to lure young boys in for a bit of hands-on, tantric "deprogramming."
It has long been observed by dedicated researchers of National Security subjects, that when sensitive military secrets are threatening to leak, a colorful cast of cranks will show up to contaminate the issue with their demented discourse. In the case of the Montauk Project, this production was a brilliant, pre-emptive masterpiece.
This is not in any way to disparage the people who have bravely come forward with their fascinating testimonies. When someone tells you that they have been brainwashed and that moreover they cannot disclose any secrets, which they have taken life-threatening oaths to keep, it is a clear way of telling the reader not to take what they are saying literally - period.
Getting hung up on the truth or falsity of certain experiencer claims is to miss the point of what is vital about this story, though the truths of MK Ultra, human radiation experiments and non-lethal weapons could go a long way to elucidating some of the erratic behaviors abounding in the show.
Despite its manifest dubiousness, the Montauk Project allegory remains compelling. It goes beyond satisfying the conspiracy junkie's craving for sheer outlandishness; it suggests the possibility of a "way out" of our dismal planetary morass.
Within this pack of lies known as the Montauk Project, we find the ultimate truth of manifold, nested frequencies of multidimensional and parallel reality fields co-existing within and around us, sub-spatially, hyper-spatially and in every infinite sidereal vector in between. We find the ultimate secret of vast, untapped human potentials being jealously guarded by the military.
Here is where we get to the potential uses of this meme in mass consciousness: it is not only a latent means of tracking the general population's ability to grasp such concepts. It is a way to get the readers' consciousnesses to resonate with potential parallel realities - where events like those described in the Montauk Project books are actually taking place - creating a peer-to-peer bridge between the readers in this universe and parallel versions of themselves existing in reality fields such as those described. It could be a form of mass consciousness entrainment, on a multiversal scale, targeted to the group of individuals who resonate with this information.
Remember the above the next time Fox News tries to feed you some line of crap. Your thoughtforms and beliefs may have important ramifications, not only on this world but on countless parallel worlds.
Funny, how when theories of parallel universes are applied to reality, conventional mentalities just can't handle it. If the above paragraphs sound like crackpot stuff to you, check out the in-depth article by Max Tegmark in the May 2003 issue of Scientific American, which discusses the concepts that make what I have written above a real possibility:
http://space.mit.edu/home/tegmark/PDF/multiverse_sciam.pdf
Despite any potential nefarious applications, the dodgy claims of Montauk Project proponents paradoxically contain an unexpected and uplifting subtext about the power of human consciousness, of the human being's integral, interactive relationship with the nonstop creation of the multiverse.
In this unlikely setting of a parable about bogus secret government experiments, we encounter the potential of planetary redemption: the immense, holographic multidimensionality of the human soul and clues about the road home to God.
Alexandra Bruce is the author of The Philadelphia Experiment Murder: Parallel Universes and the Physics of Insanity and an upcoming book about this subject, The Montauk PsyOp: Time Travel, Mind Control & Disinformation.
"The Montauk PsyOp" book never came out.
So these "crazy" people, with their "crazy" stories, may not be quite so crazy after all.
Gene, and Chris, you may want to have Alexandra on, IF she's willing to talk about it (she said she never would again. Her life supposedly got a little crazy, while researching all of this).
Cheers!