{"id":1441,"date":"2012-02-06T15:51:46","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T15:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/2012\/?p=1441"},"modified":"2012-02-06T15:55:21","modified_gmt":"2012-02-06T15:55:21","slug":"el-radar-at-the-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/2012\/weekly-diary\/el-radar-at-the-end.html","title":{"rendered":"El Radar, at the End"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Abandoned radar station at Camp Hero (state park) at Montauk Point, New York, Photo by Eric.<\/p><\/div>\n

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. <\/p>\n

The radar station you’re looking at was installed in 1942<\/a> — 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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

That doesn’t surprise me with this place, particularly given the Montauk Project<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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