So off we were to the main part of the base, the area surrounding the SAGE radar. We did travel along the bluffs for a while, thats where I took the photograph of the circle of flagstones I mentioned on the previous page. All in all though there is really nothng new to report on there, except perhaps the extensive erosion that has occurred since our last visit. Several feet worth of the dunes have collapsed to the beach below. We were however very interested in getting to the radar. While we have been in the vicinity before, we have never really had a chance to do a complete and thorough investigation. We also had high hopes that we would be allowed on to the radar building itself, as a news reporter who recently contacted me told me he had been given a guided tour to the top of the building itself! Unfortunately this was not to be our fate, for the infamous locked gates remain tightly sealed right where they were last time we came to look around.
Which really brings me to the crux of my thinking, that there may be activity still on going at the base. To sum it up, there is an extremely large structure beneath the radar. That this fact should be obvious even without seeing the place should be evident. While I am not a mechanical enginner, I would hazzard a guess that the mast that the radar rests and once pivoted on has to go down into the ground a good distance. The radar is huge, I would estimate we were at least two miles from the structure when I took the photo above. Even so, we have documented that there is at least one tunnel leading surreptitiously into the base of the hill that the radar and housing rest upon. There are several buildings in the "off limits" area, and we did verify at least one area where the fence has been cut open to allow access to the locale.
Which brings me to another odd thing that we noticed. I have a feeling that someone is living on the base itself, or perhaps just spending alot of time there. We noticed several very odd signs of people, not the least of which was some writing at the top of the now sealed entrance to the beast bunker. The writing is rather foul, so I will not repeat the message, however, I have no idea how a person could have gotten up there, unless they either had a ladder, or had several people to make a human pyramid to clamber up. I will include a photo on the next page, not of the writing but rather of the bunker itself, along with another rather subtle yet nonetheless startling realization. Another fact that the there may be people living on the base are the attempts at pounding holes into the doors that close off the two main bunkers (112 and 113). The sealed off entrances look, in all seriousness, like they are designed to witstand a nearby nuclear blast. They are between 6 to 12 inches of solid concrete.
Yet even so, someone has been very busy, spending what must be an extraordinary amount of time chipping away at the entrances with, it appears, boulders. The holes through which we obtained pictures of the inside of the bunkers previously have now been sealed off. And there was no indication that anyone has tried to regain access through the sealed holes. However there are doors that have not been breached that someone is chipping away at. I wont speculate any further than that, however the realization did bring with it quite a bit of anxiety. Could we be looking at a new twist in the Montauk mythos? The wildman of Montauk? Junior, the so called bunker beast on the loose? Or a homeless person or people living on the abandoned air force station?? Given the remote location of the site, the last possibility seems as unlikely as the first two almost. These thoughts do not help when you are out there, for all intents and purposes by yourself, when you hear large animals moving through the underbrush, that until that moment we assumed unconditionally were the result of the deer and rabbits that live there.
