Montauk Interviews: Ed Cameron Part 1

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Part 1 of 3. “His Life, Part I” from The Philadelphia experiment and Montauk project The life of Ed Cameron The Philadelphia experiment and Montauk project (accessed 03 Oct 2012) Al describes his early life as Ed Cameron. He was born on August 4th 1916 in Bay Shore Long Island, New York to father Alexander Duncan Cameron and mother (maiden name) Arville from a common law marriage. His Aunt Arnold raised him and Duncan in a 26-room mansion in Long Island. Ed went to Princeton in 1932 and finished up his education with a PhD at Harvard in 1939. He met Dr. John Von Neumann first at Princeton – a meeting that would change the course of his life. After Ed left Harvard, both Ed and his brother Duncan were recruited to work with the Navy in September 1939 and sent through a 90-day training school and left with the rank of Lt. “JG”. Dr. Von Neumann recruited both of them to work in the Project Invisibility (Rainbow project). Before starting in the project, both of them have to relearn their physics. Dr. John Von Neumann taught the two brothers about gravity, time, and quantum physics – how it really works. Ed needed to learn the theory behind invisibility so he could accurately report to the Navy the progress of the experiment. While working in this project, Ed got to meet Tesla and Albert Einstein. Both were heavily involved in developing the mathematical theories behind the project. Al believes that Albert Einstein did complete his Unified Field Theory and was used to create the overall set of equations to produce invisibility. In September 1940, the first test of invisibility was performed on a small Navy tender in Brooklyn New York Navy Yard, and was a success. No sailors were on board and all the power was externally supplied. At that point, the Navy took over and classified the project as “Project Rainbow”. Roosevelt was excited about the success of the project and asked to perform the invisibility on a battleship. Remember, at that time the United States was loosing half of their merchant ships going to the UK, to the German U-Boats. While waiting for the battleship to be modified, Ed and Duncan were assigned to the USS Pennsylvania. They were scheduled to leave to Pearl Harbor on December 5th, 1941, and had their orders canceled because it was known that the Japanese would bomb Pear Harbor. Apparently, the brothers were deemed too valuable to put into harms way. After the test on the USS Eldridge, Ed married Mary Jane and bore one son – Jeff Cameron. Al claims he has memories of four other children, but with different mothers. Ed was transferred to Los Alamos National Laboratory in July 1944, to assist Dr. Teller and Von Neumann with the atomic bomb project. Ed Cameron had access to secret files at Los Alamos and learned that time travel was already accidentally discovered in 1936 near the Bermuda Triangle by a Navy Ship. Apparently the ship disappeared and reappeared two months later. His questions about this project were met with response – “Don’t ask!” While working on the Hydrogen Bomb Project, Ed and Dr. Teller strongly disagreed with the viability of weaponizing Fusion. Ed believed it to be unpredictable. Eventually, this disagreement got Ed forcibly separated from his family and a one-way ticket to Washington DC in 1947. Despite Ed’s plea with our government, they told him he could continue working, but had to leave his family. Today, Al still doesn’t recall why he had to leave his family. His next project was to be an observer of the Mach 1 project at Edwards Air Force Base. He worked closely with Jack Ridley and got to know Chuck Yeager. When the project concluded, Ed and Jack decided to go into business with each other. They formed a company in California called JRC Enterprises. Their company worked toward building the first ion propulsion engine. They received funding from the military and ultimately were successful in 1953. When the test was successful, Ed’s father Alexander got involve[...]

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