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Declassified CIA documents claim that the mystical Ark of the Covenant was located by a psychic decades ago in the Middle East as part of one of the intelligence agency’s experimental, secret projects in the 1980s.

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The CIA conducted experiments as part of the secret Project Sun Streak with individuals known as “remote viewers”, a type of clairvoyant, who claimed they could project their consciousness to receive information about faraway objects.

There is no credible scientific evidence that remote viewing exists, and it is generally regarded as pseudoscience.

In a remote viewing session on 5 December, 1988, remote “viewer #32” was tasked with identifying the coveted Ark, according to CIA documents recently circulating on social media. The documents were first declassified in August 2000. They allegedly did not know the object they were being tasked to find.

The psychic described a location in the Middle East that they claimed housed the object and said it was being “protected by entities”, says the CIA document.

“Target is a container. This container has another container inside of it. The target is fashioned of wood, gold, and silver,” they said, allegedly not knowing they were trying to find the Ark. “Similar in shape to a coffin and is decorated with seraphim.”

The declassified document shows several pages of drawings depicting one of the four seraphim standing out on the corners of the Ark, along with a drawing of mummies lined up on a wall.

“Visuals of surrounding buildings indicated the presence of mosque domes,” they added.

They said the object was hidden underground in dark, wet conditions.

“There is an aspect of spirituality, information, lessons and the historical knowledge far beyond what we now know,” remote viewer #32 continued.

They described the Ark as being protected by entities that would destroy individuals who attempted to damage the object.

“The target is protected by entities and can only be opened by those who are authorised to do so – this container will not/cannot be opened until the time is deemed correct,” the remote viewer continued.

“Individuals opening the container by prying or striking are destroyed by the container’s protectors through the use of a power unknown to us.”

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Joe McMoneagle, a US Army chief warrant officer and the first person to do remote viewing for the CIA, told The New York Post that they allegedly do not know what was scrawled down and are guided through the process by another person.

However, Mr McMoneagle does not believe that this remote viewing case is worth the paper it is written on, claiming the session is “bogus”.

“If someone claims that remote viewing proves the existence of something, such as the Ark of the Covenant, they must produce the Ark to substantiate their claim,” he added.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

It’s all disinformation. We know that the Americans acquired the Ark when Professor Henry Jones Jnr retrieved it from the nazis in 1936. It’s in a massive warehouse somewhere in Area 51.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 days ago

TL:DR: CIA has a remote viewer who claimed to have found it, but no one went to see if it was really there. Unsubstantiated.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Sounds like Nazi occultism to me

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Even They abandoned it in the end

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago

Raiders of the Lost Ark came out in 1981. This Charlatan definitely knew of it. Utter bullshit and, as always with supposed psychics, suitably vague. It's why you never see the headline 'Psychic wins lottery'.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

This is the specific project sessions referred to in the article

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/search/site/Sun%20streak%20project

If you want, you can view more remote viewing records (often redacted/sanitized)

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/search/site/Viewer%20%2332

One downvote from Pete hegseth.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

This is really intriguing stuff. They seem to have had enough success with it - even distinguishing between skilled and unskilled practitioners - that they thought it was worth continuing work on the program. Not only remote viewing, but seeing into the past or future at remote sites too.

EDIT: hey - before you downvote, how's about you check out the CIA's pdf's first? Even if you don't believe in Remote Viewing as a concept - and let's be clear, I didn't either - you have to admit that they fact the CIA did seem to have some success with it IS intriguing, even if there are more rational explanations

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

The persistent issue with a lot of the exploration into supernatural claims is that the science was often middling quality and the people conducting the experiments were if not actually motivated to find positive results, not well equipped to spot positive deception.

You'd think spies would be, but any look into the history of espionage shows that they are plenty fallible.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

That reading room site is full of some really crazy stuff. I wonder if they intentionally use a horribly unreadable font to dissuade people from trying to find stuff.

Beyond just the remote viewing, there are really interesting topics.

Some on aeronautical topics can be very enlightening.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Sure, I'm sure they found it, it was in Neverneverland, right? But it was guarded by sasquatches and unicorns?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I thought Remote Viewing was what you did with Remote Desktop.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

ssh middle@east

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

So normally you could test this on something you both know exists and have the location of...

Does that mean the CIA actually do have the ark in a secret warehouse in the care of top men?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

I went down a remote viewing rabbithole in my teens, and daily practiced the Silva Ultramind method to learn to remote view.

It never worked, but it was so good for teaching me how to focus and giving me self-made positive affirmations. I used it for years during uni to get through my exam periods.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

I just watched a video about this a couple of days ago. The creator said the actual product appeared to be a wooden box without the decorations. I suppose after a lot of time, handling, and being passed around, things could have been lost, stolen, etc, but it doesn't seem likely this is authentic. Let's see photos or something.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It must be so great to be a remote viewing psychic. Imagine always knowing where your keys are.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

I can do this too, albeit limited. I can see my keys, but not any of its surroundings.