Abandoned radar station at Camp Hero (state park) at Montauk Point, New York, Photo by Eric.
I hung around Montauk for two whole weeks before I figured out I was on an old military installation. It makes sense — the whole thing was designed to guard New York City and the harbor that surrounds it.
The radar station you’re looking at was installed in 1942 — just before the United States got involved in WW II. This was in response to the Nazi threat (spies in U-Boats and fishing boats, for example). The place was complete with 16-inch gun batteries, a firing range and eventually a huge radar station that would rotate once per minute, interfering with record players and radios.
The whole thing was decommissioned in 1980 or 1981 (accounts vary) and re-opened as a state park in 1992. I love old industrial sites, but abandoned military installations always feel creepy. The potency and the intent to make war that went into them for so long — then they’re just dropped and left to disintegrate, as if nothing happened.
Pondering the astrology, this thing you see above feels like Neptune in Aquarius — the mix of technology, secrecy, the aquatic environment and the sense of isolation. It was built (and closed down) a long time before Neptune in Aquarius, but still, it has that feeling.
That doesn’t surprise me with this place, particularly given the Montauk Project conspiracy theories that have been going around for decades. I’m curious about that and looking into it — I’ll tell you what I learn.
