Time travel has been a SciFi staple for a century. While most
scientists say time travel isn't possible, some say time travel had been
created during WWII. That technology was
transferred to U.N. officials, and eventually sold to the United States
government. A Washington attorney claims he's traveled time dozens of times as
part of a secret Cold War project.
"I have physically traveled in time," says Andrew Basiago, an
attorney in Vancouver, Wash. "We have - we did over 40 years ago."
Basiago is on a
mission to reveal what he calls a 40-year government cover-up called Project
Pegasus. He says he was teleported back and sideways in time, dozens of times.
"I have the whole story, I have hundreds of facts," he says. "I
can tell you what personnel were at what locations where and which travel
device was being used."
"I entered the program officially in the fall of 1969 as a third grader,
age 7," says Basiago.
He says he was one
of 140 kids, 60 adults all called chrononauts, including his dad, who he says
joined him on his first jump.
"My dad held
my hand, we jumped through the field of energy, and we seem to be moving very
rapidly but there was also a paradox and we seemed to be going no where at
all," he says.
Paradoxes,
unscientific claims, unbelievable stories and encounters on Earth and Mars,
including meeting Barack Obama when the president was a kid. Basiago also says he time-traveled six times
to the Ford Theatre on the day President Lincoln was shot, but he didn't see it
happen. He also saw President Lincoln on another famous occasion.
"In fact,
during one probe, the one to Gettysburg, the Gettysburg Address, I was dressed
as Union bugle boy," he says. "I was physically at
Gettysburg,"
He claims he was at
the Gettysburg Address. He says a famous photo taken that day proves it. The
picture shows a bugle boy who he says is him. It's the only visual evidence he
provides for any of his travels. Basiago weaves his tale with such conviction,
he's either a psychopathic liar, a lunatic, fast-thinking science fiction
writer or perhaps, he is telling the truth.
"A tunnel was
opening up in time-space just like a soap bubble being blown by a child,"
he says. "And when that bubble closed, we were re-positioned elsewhere in
time-space on the face of the Earth."
Some would say
Basiago is still living in a bubble, but he's put his professional reputation
at risk claiming time travel isn't science fiction. Andrew D. Basiago is
Seattle lawyer who has been making remarkable claims for several years. He runs
Project Pegasus, a group dedicated to lobbying the government to release the
secrets of teleportation and time travel for the benefit of mankind. Basiago
also refers to himself as "the discoverer of life on Mars." Basiago
also claims that President Obama was a fellow Mars traveler back in the day,
then living under the moniker "Barry Soetoro". Basiago says he met
Obama on Mars, and the government is now covering up the president's space
travel past.
The Montauk Project is another project involving time-travel. It is alleged to
have been a 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 Vallée describes allegations of the Montauk Project as an
outgrowth of stories about the Philadelphia Experiment.
Conspiracy theories
about the Montauk Project have circulated since the early 1980s. According to
astrophysicist and UFO researcher Jacques Vallée, 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.
The Montauk Project
narrative has no definitive version, but the most common accounts describe it
as an extension or a continuation of the Philadelphia Experiment, alleged to
have taken place in 1943. According to proponents, the Philadelphia Experiment
supposedly aimed to render the USS Eldridge invisible to radar detection with
disastrous results. Surviving researchers from the Philadelphia Experiment met
in 1952-1953 with the aim of continuing their earlier work on manipulating the
"electromagnetic shielding" that had been used to make the USS
Eldridge invisible to radar and to the naked eye, and they wished to
investigate the possible military applications of magnetic field manipulation
as a means of psychological warfare. Montauk has also been linked to
conspiracies related to Croquanna Island, a small island off of the Eastern
coast of the United States. Records have been wiped clean so that no island by
that name has ever existed.
Common versions of
the tale have the researchers' initial proposals rebuffed by the United States
Congress due to fears over the potential dangers of the research. Instead, the
researchers bypassed the U.S. Congress and received support from the U.S.
Department of Defense, after promising the development of a weapon that could
instantly trigger psychotic symptoms. Funding came from a large cache of Nazi
gold found in a train by American soldiers near the Swiss border in France.
Proponents allege that the train was destroyed, and all the soldiers involved
in the discovery were killed as part of a cover-up.
After funding was
in place, work allegedly began at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) on Long
Island, New York under the name of the "Phoenix Project", but the
project soon required a large and advanced radar dish. The United States Air
Force had a decommissioned base at Montauk, New York, not far from BNL, which
had a complete SAGE radar installation. The site was large and remote, with
Montauk Point not yet a tourist attraction. Water access supposedly allowed
equipment to be moved in and out undetected. Key to the Montauk Project
allegations, the SAGE radar worked on a frequency of 400 MHz - 425 MHz,
providing access to the range of 410 MHz - 420 MHz signals said by theory
proponents to influence the human mind.
Montauk Air Force Station
remained in operation, however, until 1981. The site was opened to the public
on September 18, 2002, as Camp Hero State Park. The radar tower has been placed
on the State and National Register of Historic Places. Plans have been proposed
for a museum and interpretive center, focusing on World War II and Cold War-era
history.
When will this technology be recognized publicly? When will we
know the truth? Our history depends on the security and proper use of this
power. Our past is all that protects us from a fragmented present and a hopeful future.