A side note here, this UID was mentioned in the TV show "Conspiracy Theory"
The UID is on page 3.
http://www.trutv.com/conspiracy/government-lies/plum-island/secret-disease-research.html
Page3
http://www.trutv.com/conspiracy/government-lies/plum-island/monsters-and-mutants.html
maybe there is some big conspiiracy about this unidentified "person" found near Plum Island. if I recall, the article that is no longer accessible talked about another case of somebody found dead near there with very unusual physical attributes. almost suggesting that someone at Plum Island was doing human experimentation.
Whether or not there's anything to that story, this man wasn't likely involved in it -- NamUs says he washed up onto the beach.
This map shows Plum Island, way off at the tip of Long Island.
Plum Island
The body washed up on the southwest corner, according to one of the early articles (upthread).*
The way the Gulf Stream and other currents run, that means he likely went into the water somewhere along the Atlantic coast, or from a boat. Poking a bit at that, I found a gentleman named Lorenzo NMN Harvey Jr. who went missing in Virginia Beach who is the right age, height, and race. Harvey is the second entry I can't find anything else about him and he's not listed in the Virginia state missing persons website.
More promising: on December 24, 2009, a scallop boat called the Alisha Marie went down off the coast of New Jersey. One crew member survived and two were lost. The body of one was found January 7 -- just a week before our UID washed onto the beach. As far as I can tell the other man, William Brown Jr., is still missing. I can't find a thing about him, except that he's said to be 30 years older than the young man whose body was recovered, so he has to be in the age range. Also, the survivor was wearing only shirt and shorts; apparently the boat went down at night.
Nothing about race, size, etc. though.
Here's an article about it: http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/top_three/article_2c2778f6-f15c-11de-82ee-001cc4c03286.html
I'm going to be gone for a few days, so if somebody else wants to pick this up and run with it, feel free.
Carbuff---good find! I'm very familiar with the rough seas near the area mentioned in the above link. It's the seas near an inlet between where they film the "Jersey Shore" show and Barnegat Light, NJ. It's a very difficult sea to navigate and the channel is a nightmare. Even far out into the Atlantic, it is rough and the boat mentioned was only 38 ft. Heck, I've been in that seas and felt my much larger boat was overpowered by mother nature.
Not sure if anyone has suggested this man as a match yet because I can only see a little bit of this thread b ut he disappeared about 10 days before the UID was found and his race, height and weight match, and he had a prior brain surgery however he was younger than the UID and has other surgical scars
All this talk about what may be happening at Plum Island is creeping me out! The facility is supposed to be moving to a new site about a mile from my house in kansas and renamed NBAF. Think I may need to move if it actually opens here!