From: John Velez <johnvelez.aic@verizon.net>
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 13:10:23 -0300
Fwd Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 14:15:14 -0400
Subject: Re: [SO] Bielek's Faked Philadelphia Experiment


 >From: Bill Hamilton <skywatcher22@hotmail.com>
 >To: ufoupdates@virtuallystrange.net
 >Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 06:25:19 -0700
 >Subject: [SO] Bielek's Faked Philadelphia Experiment Story

 >Skyopen List

 >Al Bielek's Philadelphia Experiment Story Faked

 >Having known Al Bielek since the 70s, this comes as no surprise
 >to me. The only difference was that he was weaving other tall
 >tales before he rented a video of the Scifi thriller "The
 >Philadelphia Experiment" and then decided that his memories were
 >triggered. He knew he had a winner and has been wowing audiences
 >ever since for more than 10 years and more like 20.

 >BH

Howdy Bill,

There are many interesting connections between the characters
that you mention in your post and a couple that you don't
mention. See below.

 >This Duncan is a friend of Bielek and used to claim that he was
 >the half brother who jumped overboard with Ed Cameron and
 >traveled through time. He claimed that his spirit was placed in
 >his current body when his previous one began to breakdown due to
 >adverse effects from his time travel experiences. Both he and
 >Bielek would later join Preston Nichols as part of the secret
 >government's Montauk Project program at the abandoned Air Force
 >Base at Montauk, Long Island and eventually be brain washed to
 >forget after the project was shut down. Of course since the one
 >man that Bielek claims was Edward Cameron wasn't, that means
 >there was no Ed Cameron, thus causing a chain of deletions that
 >cancel out not only Bielek's version of the Philadelphia
 >Experiment but blow a king size hole in Nichols' claims of the
 >Montauk Project as well, since Nichols is on record saying that
 >Bielek's tale connecting the two projects together is true. A
 >cottage publishing industry has been based on these stories for
 >Sky Books, a small press house run by one Vincent Barbarick who
 >uses the name of Peter Moon to publish under. There is no
 >telling whether these revelations will help or hurt future book
 >sales.

Preston Nichols, who also markets an electronic UFO detector,
was partner/co-founder of the now defunct 'Long Island UFO
Network' with John Ford. Some of you may recall John Ford as the
guy who was convicted (by a jury of his peers) for putting a
radioactive substance into the toothpaste of a local Long Island
politician - with the intention of causing bodily harm.

After John was convicted, the Long Island UFO Network along with
its 'premier' case, the *Moriches Bay incident, completely
disappeared from public view.

(*Moriches Bay... a case where 'allegedly' a large, triangular
shaped UFO was retrieved by government agents/military and then
taken by truck to the Brookings Institute, located on Long
Island, for study.)

The last anyone heard of Preston Nichols he was peddling his
"UFO Detector" and some other 'inventions' of his. Nobody that I
know here in New York has ever taken Preston Nichols, John Ford,
Al Bielek or 'Ed Cameron' seriously. Their names would come up
in conversation from time to time and they were all universally
dismissed by people within the UFO community as genuine kooks.
According to testimony from a couple of women who John
approached, it turns out that the reason Ford created the Long
Island UFO Network in the first place was so he could interview
female witnesses - and hopefully, eventually date them! It was
his own private dating service. BTW, Ford who was a active
promoter of Bielek and his Philadelphia experiment time travel
story was a prominent _garbage collector_ on Long Island before
he began his illustrious career as a UFO investigator. Prior
work experience which prepared him well for his chosen
ufological career.

The 'fringe' of the fringe. ;)

 >"I think poor Al has smoked one too many," commented Aex IV
 >about Bielek's story. The son of the man who Bielek claimed to
 >be said that he wasn't going to sue Bielek because the "story
 >isn't true" and "it's just too crazy to believe", but he did
 >give Barnes and his investigators the right to use the taped
 >conversation and photos of his father to set the record
 >straight.

Thanks for passing this one along, Bill. But I'm not one bit
surprised. Most folks already knew that Al's elevator didn't
quite make it to the top floor. This whole investigation wasn't
really needed. I'll bet you could count the number of people who
actually bought into Bielek's story on one hand.


Warmest regards to you and Mrs. H,

John Velez