The CIA Remote Viewed the Ark of the Covenant and Mars a Million Years Ago
Inside Project Sun Streak's Wildest Psychic Missions
Resources:
The Remote Viewing Rabbit Hole
Project Stargate Part II: SunStreak
After weeks of researching the CIA’s Project Stargate, the Monroe Institute, the Gateway Process + hemi sync technology embedded in remote viewing, listening to remote viewer 001 Joseph McMoneagle’s 6 hour appearance on the Shawn Ryan Show and tying it all together in my 20 page dissertation, I genuinely believed Stargate was the most exotic CIA program to ever exist. Little did I know, it was just the tip of the iceberg.
Learning that humans genuinely have telepathic & clairvoyant abilities, that remote viewing is real and that the CIA has been training a psychic spy division since the cold war (initially adopted from the Soviets) definitely took me for a ride, but the Stargate rabbit hole has now turned into the Sun Streak rabbit hole. It was insane to learn about how the CIA has used remote viewing to locate kidnapped children and enemy submarines like the Hunt for Red October but the rabbit hole just got a whole lot funkier as I’ve now learned that the CIA has confirmed declassified docs on remote viewing religious relics like the Ark of the Covenant and intelligent life on Mars a million years ago as well as whistleblower testimony on remote viewing UFOs, ETs, Atlantis & Lost Civilizations.
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In the shadowy world of Cold War intelligence gathering, few programs push the boundaries of belief quite like the CIA's remote viewing experiments. While Project Stargate may be the more famous psychic spying program, it was Project Sun Streak—operating under the Defense Intelligence Agency from the mid-to-late 1980s—that produced some of the most mind-bending sessions ever declassified. Among their targets: the biblical Ark of the Covenant, ancient Martian civilizations, lost continents, and extraterrestrial bases. These weren't the fantasies of conspiracy theorists but actual, documented intelligence operations funded by American taxpayers.
Project Sun Streak represented the evolution of psychic research within the U.S. military-intelligence complex. Building on earlier programs like Grill Flame (1979-1983) and Center Lane (1983-1985), Sun Streak was managed by the DIA's Scientific and Technical Intelligence Directorate—a clear indication that remote viewing had graduated from experimental curiosity to operational intelligence tool. Military personnel, many recruited from Fort Meade, Maryland, were trained in remote viewing protocols and given coordinates or coded references to targets ranging from Soviet military installations to biblical artifacts.
The Ark of the Covenant: When the CIA Went Biblical
I’m not sure what’s crazier, the fact this shit is true, or the fact mainstream media has begun to pick it up. On December 5, 1988, in a nondescript government facility, a remote viewer designated only as "Viewer #32" sat down for what would become one of the most extraordinary intelligence sessions in American history.
Here's what makes this session absolutely mind-blowing: The CIA knew exactly what they were looking for. They had deliberately chosen to task their psychic spy with locating the biblical Ark of the Covenant—one of history's most sought-after religious artifacts. But Viewer #32 had no idea. This was a "blind" session, meaning the viewer was given only coordinates or a coded reference, nothing more. No briefing, no context, no hints about what they were supposed to find. The CIA wanted to see if their remote viewer could psychically locate an object that archaeologists, treasure hunters, and scholars had been searching for centuries.
Yet what emerged from that session reads like something straight from an Indiana Jones script—except this wasn't Hollywood. This was the Defense Intelligence Agency conducting actual intelligence operations with taxpayer money.
According to declassified document CIA-RDP96-00789R001300180002-7, Viewer #32 described:
A container within a container, made of wood, gold, and silver
Shaped like a coffin and decorated with seraphim (angels)
Hidden underground in a Middle Eastern location with "wet, dark conditions"
An area with mosque domes visible in the distance and Arabic-speaking people in white garments
Protected by "entities" that would destroy unauthorized individuals using an unknown power
The viewer's sketches, included in the declassified file, match biblical descriptions of the Ark with uncanny accuracy. Think about this: The CIA gave this person essentially a set of coordinates, and they came back with a perfect description of the Ark of the Covenant as described in Exodus 25:10-22—an acacia wood chest overlaid with gold, topped with golden cherubim (seraphim).
This wasn't a lucky guess. This was either an extraordinary demonstration of psychic ability, or evidence that our understanding of consciousness is fundamentally incomplete. The alternative—that a government remote viewer accidentally described one of history's most famous religious artifacts in perfect detail while having no idea what they were looking for—stretches credibility beyond the breaking point.
What makes this even more unsettling is the mention of protective entities. The viewer reported that unauthorized individuals would be destroyed by some unknown power. This wasn't theological speculation—this was an intelligence assessment from someone who believed they were psychically present at the location.
Mars: One Million Years in the Past
If remote viewing the Ark of the Covenant seems fantastical, consider what happened on May 22, 1984, when the CIA decided to point their psychic spies at Mars—specifically, Mars as it existed one million years ago.
In one of the most bizarre declassified documents ever released (CIA-RDP96-00788R001900760001-9), an unnamed remote viewer, likely Remote Viewer 001 Joseph McMoneagle based on his testimonies, was given coordinates on Mars and told to go back in time. What they reported defies conventional understanding:
Massive pyramid structures
"Very large, thin" humanoid beings in distress
A dying civilization facing environmental catastrophe
Underground shelters and hibernation chambers
Attempts to escape to another planet
The viewer described these Martians as "ancient people" who were "dying" and "looking for a way to survive." They reported seeing "pyramids... very large pyramids" and structures that served as shelters from savage storms. The beings were allegedly waiting for something—perhaps rescue, perhaps death.
This session raises profound questions: Was the viewer accessing some form of collective unconscious? Tapping into actual historical records encoded in spacetime? Or was this elaborate science fiction generated by the subconscious? The CIA spent taxpayer money to find out. The full Planet Maldek Theory and ‘Ancient Mars’ dissertation + spreadsheet will be published soon enough, but for now all I’ll say is that there is SERIOUS reason to believe there used to be life on Mars in the ancient past and it underwent a nuclear catastrophe.
Veering From Confirmed Declassified Territory into Whistleblower Territory: The Holy Grail, Noah’s Ark, Atlantis and UFOs
While the Ark of the Covenant session is well-documented in CIA archives, it was far from the only sacred object in the crosshairs of America's psychic spies. According to interviews and books by renowned remote viewers Joseph McMoneagle and Lyn Buchanan, the intelligence community was conducting what amounted to supernatural archaeology with taxpayer dollars—systematically targeting humanity's most sacred relics.
The Holy Grail: Joseph McMoneagle, known as "Remote Viewer #001," has consistently stated across multiple interviews that when blind-targeted on the Holy Grail, he described:
A simple, unadorned wooden cup—not the gilded chalice of medieval legend
Hidden in a remote, modest location far from traditional cathedrals or temples
Guarded, though not ceremonially—more as if forgotten by history
Multiple viewers independently described the same unremarkable vessel, suggesting they weren't accessing collective folklore but something real
Noah's Ark: Sessions targeting Noah's Ark allegedly produced remarkably consistent descriptions:
A massive wooden structure partly buried in mud and sediment
Located on a mountainside, with several viewers specifically indicating Mount Ararat in Turkey
A deteriorating vessel with clearly visible beam structures and interior compartments
Most unsettling: viewers reported sensing something still "alive" within the structure
The Shroud of Turin: Perhaps the most psychologically intense sessions involved the Shroud of Turin. Viewers didn't just examine the cloth—they attempted to psychically witness its creation:
Multiple remote viewers reported experiencing what they described as "crucifixion trauma"
Some sessions ended abruptly when viewers became overwhelmed by emotional and physical sensations from 2,000 years ago
Viewers described intense spiritual energy radiating from the object, with impressions of witnessing moments of profound trauma
The Scope of Sacred Targeting: But the CIA's spiritual archaeology didn't stop there. According to former remote viewers, they were tasked with locating everything from the Spear of Destiny to the original Ten Commandments tablets, allegedly hidden in cave systems beneath Jerusalem and protected by "divine guardians." Most extraordinarily, the CIA allegedly tasked remote viewers with locating the Garden of Eden itself, with multiple viewers independently describing a location in modern-day Iraq near ancient river confluences.
Unlike the Ark session, specific transcripts for these targets remain classified, destroyed, or were never formally archived. The firsthand testimony of trained military remote viewers, however, suggests these sacred objects were part of a broader CIA interest in non-local consciousness and spiritual phenomena. The question isn't whether remote viewing works—it's what the intelligence community planned to do with the Holy Grail if they found it.
Atlantis and UFOs
If remote viewing religious artifacts seems extraordinary, the CIA’s venture into lost civilizations and extraterrestrial phenomena pushes the boundaries of belief entirely. While no declassified documents explicitly confirm these missions—suggesting either deeper classification or deliberate destruction—multiple high-ranking military viewers have publicly described assignments that read like science fiction but were treated as serious intelligence operations.
Atlantis and Ancient Civilizations
Major Ed Dames, a former Stargate monitor and trainer, has described conducting remote viewing sessions targeting what he calls “deep historical targets,” including Atlantis. According to Dames and other viewers, these sessions consistently produced descriptions of:
Submerged structures beneath the Atlantic Ocean arranged in geometric patterns
Crystal-based energy systems amplifying natural forces beyond current scientific understanding
Advanced technology whose misuse triggered the civilization’s destruction
Survivors who fled to Egypt and Central America — possibly explaining architectural parallels across ancient cultures
Paul H. Smith, another veteran remote viewer, has discussed “buried civilizations” in interviews, although he remains more cautious with specifics than Dames. Yet across these accounts, a pattern emerges: the same architectural features, the same energy technologies, the same catastrophic endings — all seen independently by multiple trained psychics under blind conditions (i.e., without any prior knowledge of their target).
UFOs and Extraterrestrial Intelligence
Perhaps most controversial were the alleged sessions targeting extraterrestrial activity. Dr. David Morehouse, a former U.S. Army remote viewer, has spoken publicly about missions involving UFO crash sites and alien bases. He recounts being tasked with:
Locating crashed craft with occupants that were “clearly not human”
Describing underground or undersea bases with physics-defying technology
Identifying craft propulsion systems based on gravitational manipulation
Determining the intentions of non-human intelligences monitoring Earth
Ingo Swann, the pioneer of controlled remote viewing, claimed to have seen similar targets — including ET bases on the Moon and Earth, inhabited by beings that existed “partially in other dimensions” and piloted disc-shaped craft that phased in and out of visible reality.
What makes these accounts compelling isn’t any one testimony — it’s the astonishing consistency across multiple viewers operating independently across time and programs. Trained military remote viewers, in blind sessions, describing similar craft, propulsion systems, bases, and even beings… suggests they were accessing something beyond shared fantasy. The skeptical explanation — that multiple highly trained intelligence operatives were all independently hallucinating identical stories — becomes statistically unlikely in light of the data. So if these weren’t fantasies, what were they? And if they were real… where are the transcripts?
Unlike the Ark of the Covenant and 1 Million BC Mars (which are confirmed by the declassified CIA docs), no declassified CIA documents explicitly confirm these exotic targets. Yet veterans consistently describe them. This raises three uncomfortable possibilities:
The records exist, but are still classified at deeper levels
The missions were real, but the documents were destroyed
The sessions were too accurate — and therefore too sensitive — to release
If the CIA was willing to declassify sessions about the Ark of the Covenant and ancient Mars, what makes Atlantis or alien bases off-limits? The answer may lie not in what these missions discovered — but what those discoveries would mean for science, religion, and global power. Religious relics and ancient myths are curious. Operational ET activity and revolutionary technology are explosive.
Whether these sessions uncovered real contact with non-human intelligences, or tapped into humanity’s shared unconscious archetypes, one thing is clear: the U.S. government took them seriously enough to spend decades investigating them.
And here’s the question that still haunts this legacy: If they really found something, what’s so threatening about it that we still aren’t allowed to know?
The Undeniable Reality and Questions That Haunt Us
Here's what cannot be disputed: The United States government spent millions of dollars and employed dozens of people for over two decades to psychically spy on everything from Soviet submarines to biblical artifacts. These weren't rogue operations by true believers—this was official policy, funded through black budgets and conducted by military intelligence across multiple administrations.
The program produced results intriguing enough to survive the Cold War's end, budget cuts, and Congressional oversight. If it was complete nonsense, why did it persist through Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, and Clinton administrations? Why do documented sessions show uncanny accuracy when later verified through conventional intelligence?
Joe McMoneagle alone is credited with:
Locating a downed Soviet Tu-95 bomber in Africa
Describing a new class of Soviet submarine before satellite confirmation
Providing architectural details of foreign facilities later verified by photography
Identifying the location of General Dozier when he was kidnapped by Italian terrorists
If he could psychically locate Soviet military assets with actionable accuracy, why not the Ark of the Covenant?
The Questions That Should Terrify Us
Project Sun Streak and related programs force us to confront possibilities that challenge everything we think we know about reality:
If consciousness can transcend space and time, what does this mean for our understanding of human potential? Are we operating with a fundamentally incomplete model of what the mind can achieve?
If the Ark of the Covenant was accurately located, why hasn't it been recovered? What did the viewer mean by "protected by entities"? Did they encounter something that even the CIA considered too dangerous to pursue?
If ancient Mars harbored a dying civilization, what does this say about our solar system's history? Are we alone, or are we simply the latest iteration of intelligent life in our cosmic neighborhood?
Why were religious artifacts prioritized alongside military targets? What strategic value did the intelligence community see in locating humanity's most sacred objects? Were they seeking historical validation, or something more operational?
If autistic children are naturally demonstrating similar abilities, as suggested by "The Telepathy Tapes," are we witnessing the same consciousness phenomena that cost taxpayers millions to artificially cultivate? Are these abilities emerging naturally in the population?
Most disturbingly: What else did they find that remains classified? If they're willing to declassify sessions about the Ark of the Covenant and ancient Mars, what could be so sensitive that it's still buried decades later?
The existence of these programs isn't conspiracy theory—it's documented fact. The real question isn't whether remote viewing works, but what it reveals about the nature of consciousness, reality, and what our government has been quietly investigating while the public remains oblivious to humanity's most extraordinary capabilities.
The Legacy of Psychic Spying
Today, the official position is that remote viewing never produced actionable intelligence—yet the programs ran for 23 years. The CIA claims it was all a Cold War curiosity—yet they classified the results for decades. They say it doesn't work—yet they keep the most sensitive sessions sealed. The depth and breadth of whistleblower testimony – just look up all the names mentioned in this essay – confirms that remote viewing is real, effective and extraordinary.
But perhaps most intriguingly, the phenomena explored in these classified programs may not have ended—they may have simply evolved and migrated into civilian research. The recent emergence of "The Telepathy Tapes," a podcast series by filmmaker Ky Dickens exploring telepathic abilities in non-speaking autistic individuals, raises profound questions about whether we're witnessing the same consciousness phenomena that Project Sun Streak investigated, just in a different form.
From Spies to Savants: The Telepathy Connection
Dr. Diane Hennacy Powell, a Harvard-trained neuropsychiatrist featured in The Telepathy Tapes, has documented what appear to be statistically significant demonstrations of telepathy in autistic children—specifically involving number recognition, thought reading, and emotion mirroring. These abilities bear a striking resemblance to the remote viewing protocols used in government programs:
Non-local consciousness: Information accessed without traditional sensory input
Mind-to-mind communication: Direct thought transfer between individuals
Transcendence of space-time constraints: Accessing information that should be unknowable
As analyst Ian Carroll suggests in his examination of the phenomenon, what if this isn't just about autism, but evidence that consciousness has capabilities we've been told are impossible—capabilities that governments have known about and exploited for decades?
The parallels are undeniable. Project Sun Streak trained military personnel to psychically perceive distant locations. The autistic children in Powell's studies demonstrate the ability to perceive thoughts and emotions across space. The methodology differs, but the underlying phenomenon appears identical: consciousness operating beyond the boundaries of conventional physics.
The Evolution of Psychic Research
Consider the progression:
1970s-1995: Government psychic spies attempt to remote view Soviet bases, biblical artifacts and beyond
1995: Programs officially terminated, research declared ineffective
Present day: Similar phenomena spontaneously emerge in civilian populations, particularly among autistic individuals
This pattern suggests three possibilities:
The research never stopped—it simply went deeper underground, with findings occasionally surfacing through civilian channels
Natural telepathic abilities exist in certain populations, validating what the government spent decades trying to artificially cultivate
Consciousness research has been deliberately reframed—from military experiments to educational anomalies, from government labs to private homes
The fact that Project Sun Streak evolved from earlier programs (Grill Flame, Center Lane, Stargate) demonstrates the government's persistent interest despite official skepticism. Programs don't survive multiple iterations and decades of funding without producing results.
What We Know vs. What They're Hiding
What we know from declassified documents is already mind-bending: The CIA remote viewed the Ark of the Covenant and received descriptions matching biblical accounts. They sent psychic spies to ancient Mars and received detailed accounts of a lost civilization. They likely searched for Atlantis, the Holy Grail, and alien bases with the same seriousness they applied to Soviet missile sites.
The 1995 CIA-sponsored evaluation by the American Institutes for Research officially concluded that remote viewing had "little practical intelligence value"—yet this same evaluation acknowledged that some results were "statistically significant." The contradiction is telling: how can something be both statistically significant and worthless? The answer may lie not in the data, but in what the government was willing to publicly acknowledge. They kept the project alive for multiple decades, partnered with the Monroe Institute and there are now dozens of whistleblowers - and civilians who have successfully achieved OBEs - speaking to the validity of remote viewing and the Gateway Process.
The Unfinished Story
The emergence of telepathic phenomena in civilian populations—particularly among autistic individuals as documented in The Telepathy Tapes—suggests that the story of government psychic research may be far from over. If autistic children can naturally demonstrate the telepathic abilities that military programs spent decades trying to cultivate, what does this say about human potential? About the nature of consciousness itself?
As Ian Carroll provocatively suggests, we may be witnessing the same consciousness phenomena that Project Sun Streak investigated, simply repackaged for a new era. The players have changed—from military remote viewers to autistic savants—but the underlying mystery remains: consciousness appears to have capabilities that transcend our current understanding of physics and neuroscience.
The next time someone dismisses remote viewing as pseudoscience, remind them: The CIA spent 23 years and millions of dollars remote viewing everything from the Ark of the Covenant to ancient Mars. The Defense Intelligence Agency considered it important enough to run multiple iterations under different code names. Either the entire U.S. intelligence apparatus was fooled by parlor tricks for over two decades, or they discovered something about consciousness that challenges our fundamental assumptions about reality.
The truth is out there—literally, in the CIA's own declassified archives. But perhaps more importantly, it may also be emerging in the minds of autistic children, in research labs studying consciousness, and in the growing recognition that the human mind remains our greatest unexplored frontier. The CIA declassified sessions about psychically locating the Ark of the Covenant and ancient Martian civilizations—if that's what they're willing to reveal, the most unsettling possibility isn't just what they're still hiding, but that they discovered something so extraordinary about human consciousness that they're still not ready to tell us what we're truly capable of. Remote viewing is legit, the only question is just how far does this rabbit hole go?