The Montauk Pulse

History

The Montauk Pulse was the standing newsletter of the Montauk Project tradition, edited by Peter Moon, the co-author with Preston Nichols of the four-volume Montauk book series (The Montauk Project: Experiments in Time, 1992; Montauk Revisited, 1994; Pyramids of Montauk, 1995; Encounter in the Pleiades, 1996). The archive holds the August 2003 issue. The Pulse functioned as the periodical companion to the Sky Books / Sky High Productions catalogue that Moon and Nichols ran out of their Long Island base, with the newsletter carrying contemporary commentary, book-catalogue advertisements, and updates from the wider Montauk-tradition network.

The Montauk Project tradition itself centres on a set of claims made by Preston Nichols and other named witnesses about Cold War experimental work allegedly conducted at the Montauk Air Force Station on the eastern tip of Long Island, with reported connections to the Philadelphia Experiment of 1943 and to time-and-consciousness research. The historical record of what actually happened at Montauk Air Force Station, which closed in 1981, is mainly the public Defense Logistics Agency property documentation; the Nichols-Moon claims have not been independently substantiated and are documentary record only of the literature the books produced. The Pulse newsletter is the working in-tradition periodical of that literature.