The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) once resorted to extreme measures to gather intelligence from other countries.
One of America’s longstanding adversaries is Russia, with tensions tracing back to the Cold War, which began in 1947.
During this period, the Soviet Union and the United States clashed over various issues, including ideologies, politics, and the space race.
Amidst the heightened tension between these two superpowers, the CIA devised an unconventional plan to uncover other countries’ intentions.
This initiative, known as Project Stargate, involved the CIA exploring the use of paranormal phenomena in military operations.
Essentially, they aimed to train individuals in ‘remote viewing’ as a means of gathering intelligence.
Popular Mechanics describes remote viewing as a form of extrasensory perception that involves using the mind to observe or influence distant objects, people, events, or information that are not visible to the physical eye.
In the 1980s, the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) took over a project known as Stargate, during which an unusual experiment involving Mars was conducted.
According to a report titled ‘Mars Exploration May 22, 1984,’ the DIA used a method called astral projection to ‘transport’ an individual to Mars. Astral projection is the belief that a person’s spirit can travel through the astral plane.
During this experiment, the individual was reportedly sent back in time to one million years B.C. and was given various geographical coordinates on Mars. The declassified report from 2017 documents the verbal accounts of the individual’s experiences on Mars, while their physical body remained on Earth.
The transcript reveals that the individual described seeing a “pyramid or pyramid form,” “severe clouds,” and “a perception of a shadow of people.”
The subject also stated: “I just keep seeing very large people. They appear thin and tall, but they’re very large. Ah… wearing some kind of strange clothes.”
Does this suggest that we discovered life on Mars 40 years ago? It’s uncertain.
Project Stargate continued until 1995, when it was ultimately concluded that “remote viewing” wasn’t particularly effective or successful for gathering information.
Both the DIA and CIA began declassifying documents related to the project as it approached its termination, allowing for external review of the program’s scientific credibility.
Although the findings were considered “compelling,” reviewer Ray Hyman remained unconvinced about the reality of remote viewing.
Hyman may have had his doubts, but he acknowledged that “the contemporary findings, along with the results of the [Stargate] program, suggest that something more significant than mere statistical anomalies is occurring.”