The CIA Seriously Studied Human Imagination and What They Found Was Unsettling
Let me tell you about one of the most unbelievable government programs you have probably never heard of.
And yes, it is completely real.
In official documents, the Defense Intelligence Agency openly admitted the following:
“The mechanism by which remote viewing works is not understood.”
That sentence alone should stop you in your tracks.
Despite not understanding how it worked, the U.S. government continued funding and running a classified program that repeatedly produced intelligence results they could not explain using traditional methods.
They called it Project Stargate.
What Was Project Stargate?
Project Stargate was a classified CIA and U.S. Army program that ran from 1972 to 1995. Its purpose was deceptively simple:
Can a human describe a place, object, or event without any physical information?
No satellites.
No photographs.
No maps.
No communications.
Nothing.
Participants were given only a set of random coordinates and asked to describe whatever came to mind.
This practice became known as remote viewing.
Importantly, subjects were not drugged, hypnotized, or sleep deprived. In fact, it was the opposite. They were placed in quiet rooms and guided into a calm, meditative state before being asked to speak freely about what they perceived.
The government was not trying to induce hallucinations. They were attempting to isolate whether the human mind could access information without sensory input.
The CIA’s Most Successful Remote Viewer
Among all participants, one stood far above the rest.
His name was Joseph W. McMoneagle, also known as Remote Viewer 001.
McMoneagle was a highly respected U.S. Army Chief Warrant Officer and later received the Legion of Merit, one of the highest non-combat military honors, specifically for his work in intelligence.
His involvement began in 1970 after a near-death experience. Afterward, he reported experiencing heightened intuition and spontaneous knowing. The CIA selected him not because of mysticism, but because evaluators found him unusually calm, disciplined, and emotionally detached from outcomes.
That detachment mattered.
Results That Could Not Be Ignored
McMoneagle repeatedly produced descriptions that were later verified as accurate.
He described a massive new Soviet submarine with two hulls before U.S. intelligence had any imagery of it.
He described a giant crane and long cylindrical object being assembled at a secret Soviet site, later confirmed through satellite reconnaissance.
When a Soviet bomber crashed in Africa and intelligence agencies could not locate it, McMoneagle described the wreckage location with enough accuracy that it was recovered.
In another case, a U.S. general was kidnapped in Italy. Intelligence agencies had no idea where he was being held. During a session, McMoneagle described the building and room in which the general was located. That information contributed to his recovery.
These were not isolated wins. They happened repeatedly.
Even the agencies running the program admitted they could not explain how it worked.
The Session That Changed Everything
Then came the session that still unsettles people decades later.
McMoneagle was handed a sealed envelope. He was not allowed to open it until the session ended.
Inside were the words:
Mars. One million years B.C.
McMoneagle did not know this.
He was only given coordinates.
During the session, he described seeing tall, thin humanoid beings. He spoke about a dying civilization, massive stone structures, pyramid-like forms, violent dust storms, underground shelters, and a planet undergoing catastrophic environmental collapse.
He described beings retreating underground as the surface became uninhabitable.
At the time, this session was recorded, archived, and classified. Not because the CIA believed it was true, but because McMoneagle’s past performance had earned serious attention.
Why This Still Raises Eyebrows
This session took place in 1979.
At that time, scientific knowledge about Mars was limited. Yet many of McMoneagle’s descriptions align uncannily with discoveries made decades later.
He described global dust storms. NASA did not document a planet-wide dust storm until 2001.
He described a thin, failing atmosphere. In 2014, NASA confirmed Mars lost most of its atmosphere due to solar wind over millions of years.
He described massive eroded structures and pyramid-like formations. NASA later confirmed the existence of pyramidal mesas and geometric landforms created through erosion.
He described underground shelters and caverns. NASA has since confirmed extensive lava tubes and subsurface voids large enough to support stable environments. These underground areas are now considered the most likely locations for past or future life.
He described water erosion and carved channels. In the early 2000s, NASA confirmed Mars once had rivers, lakes, and possibly oceans.
The only part not confirmed is the presence of intelligent life.
So What Does This Mean?
The CIA never claimed remote viewing was psychic. They never claimed it was supernatural. They admitted they did not understand it at all.
What they did admit is that it sometimes worked.
Joseph McMoneagle was not guessing blindly. He had a long record of accuracy using nothing but coordinates and mental imagery.
The unsettling part is not that the program existed. The unsettling part is that U.S. intelligence relied on human imagination as a tool and got results.
Was McMoneagle imagining Mars?
Was he tapping into something science still cannot explain?
Or was it coincidence amplified by later discoveries?
You decide.
Dig Into The Vault
If you want to fact check this or read it in full, you absolutely should. This program was not speculation, rumor, or secondhand storytelling. It was documented, funded, and studied by U.S. intelligence for over two decades.
Below are the original declassified records used to build Project Stargate and document the Mars remote viewing session involving Joseph W. McMoneagle.
Project Stargate
Declassified CIA and DIA research program that ran from 1972 to 1995, exploring whether human consciousness could be used to perceive distant locations, objects, or events without physical information. The program includes operational reports, internal evaluations, and training methodologies used by U.S. intelligence agencies.
🔗 Read the CIA archive
Mars Remote Viewing Session
Declassified CIA document detailing a 1979 remote viewing session in which a subject was tasked with describing a target later revealed to be Mars, one million years B.C. The report includes raw session transcripts, analyst notes, and tasking details.
🔗 Read the original PDF
