The following program contains themes some listeners may find disturbing.

Listener caution is advised.

Across the UK, across continental North America,

and around the world on the internet by webcast and by podcast,

my name is Howard Hughes, and this is the unexplained.

Now what you're about to hear has turned out to be a very different edition of the show.

Not the kind of territory we've usually gone into.

What you're about to hear,

I think is disturbing in many, many ways.

So if you are disturbed by the disturbing,

then please think twice about listening to this.

But it is material that has aired on radio in the United States

and been intensively publicised.

So I'm not the first by any means to talk about this.

Some big organisations have told this story.

Whether any of it turns out to be true or not, well, I don't know.

And that goes for a lot of the material you hear on this show and on shows like it.

We're going to be talking about the Montauk project.

Now this in itself is deeply controversial, but I don't know.

Can I sum it up by saying that it's to do with a series of projects

where people were taken against their will in many cases to be used in experiments.

The nature of the experiments involved such things as contact with aliens and time travel

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