Wade Gordon's story
began with an
explosive flash of
light that triggered
buried memories.

I only know a little about this book, but I'm posting it here anyway, since the author mentions some things only a few of us remember. Although New York isn't a place I'll visit again, I do have some interesting memories of the area (a sample at The Academy), and possibly I share some of them with Mr. Gordon. We did recover ours in much the same way. The flash of light and the explosion is familiar to me, having happened not once but several times.

If you don't know about the Montauk Project and the other modern legends about what happened at Ft. Hero and a few other places on Long Island, The Brookhaven Connection by Wade Gordon and the other books about that subject written by Peter Moon and Preston Nichols will seem fanciful and pointless. It's a story that goes nowhere. That happens to be accurate, because it's a project that failed. If you believe the accounts, things were going great guns for a few decades and then just stopped. The base at Ft. Hero was nearly abandoned, although there's some evidence that a power grid still functions there. Rumors of some massive underground disaster still float around, almost literally since the main part of the facility is believed to be flooded. A large sinkhole partly filled with water is part of the evidence for that, or so I've read. How much of that is true is impossible to know, since only a few memories come forward out of that mess, and we can't trust any of them completely. On my one recent visit to the area I had such a negative reaction to the place that I just got back in the car and left. So much for rational investigation, I guess I'll leave that to other people.

The odd memories I share with other people are the most intriguing to me. In his prelude to the book Mr. Gordon mentions an underground cavern where a UFO was displayed. The UFO was deep black in color, and I'm guessing from my own experience that it was completely non-reflective, absorbent of both light and radar waves. That's a clue to the nature of what the facility dealt with, since only military craft need that level of camouflage. The last mental view of that cavern I have shows it in ruins, partly collapsed and half filled with debris.

Mr. Gordon apparently stops his story in mid-telling at the end of the book, which I find completely understandable. You find out that there are things you shouldn't talk about, and decide you've said too much already. Should be a good read, and I hope to have a chance to do that soon. I'm not sure other people will find it very interesting although it does get a few good reviews from the uninvolved.