An expert on UFOs has lifted the lid on an unusual ‘psychic spying’ technique used by the Ministry of Defence in the wake of 9/11.
Remote viewers claim to be able to view distant objects, people or events they have never seen before using the powers of their mind – and the technique was used by US Army Intelligence for decades.
Joe McMoneagle, known as ‘Remote Viewer Number 1’ by the CIA, took part in remote viewing between 1978 and 1995 – and he recently appeared on a podcast where he said he had seen evidence of an ancient civilisation living on Mars.
Speaking to the American Alchemy podcast he said he saw ‘very tall, thin’ people wearing ‘strange clothing’, hiding in chambers in a huge pyramid structure from a storm raging on the planet’s surface.
He theorised a ‘big object passed through our solar system’ that stripped the atmosphere from Mars, which caused alien life on the planet to go extinct.
The CIA’s remote viewing project was cancelled and declassified in 1995 after a report concluded it had ‘failed to produce actionable intelligence’.
But despite this, the British military has also tried to use remote viewing – likely with Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda as the intended targets.
Nick Pope, who investigated UFOs for the Ministry of Defence (MoD), told Metro that Joe McMoneagle’s claims would be ‘interesting if true’.
And he discussed the use of remote viewing, described as a ‘low probability high consequence situation’, in modern times.
‘While some scientists believe there was – and may still be – microbial life on Mars, it’s much less likely that there was ever a civilization there,’ Nick told Metro.
‘But I can’t rule it out, and I’d love it to be true. It would be the greatest discovery of all time, and would fundamentally change our view of the universe.’
Giving some insight into the US military’s use of remote viewing, he explained: ‘It’s a proven fact that some parts of the US military and the intelligence community ran so-called remote viewing programmes.
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‘The technique is sometimes known as psychic spying, and the thinking was that it was a classic low probability high consequence situation, in that even if people were skeptical, the impact of any successes would be huge.
‘It would also be very cheap, and risk-free, unlike more traditional intelligence-gathering techniques such as reconnaissance satellites or human agents.
‘The technique was used on conventional intelligence targets, such as the locations of ballistic missile submarines and missile silos, but I don’t rule out the possibility that it was used on more unconventional targets, like Mars.’
But how does it work – and how was it used in the UK?
The MoD undertook a study into remote viewing in 2001-2 – its redacted findings were published in the National Archives in 2012.
Joe McMoneagle said he was handed a white card with coordinates and ‘Mars 1,000,000 BC’ written on it, which led to his visions of an ancient civilisation on the red planet.
During the UK trials the targets were a bit more down to earth – remote viewers were shown a picture of Mother Theresa and what appeared to be a petrol station and asked to locate and identify them, but we don’t know most of the targets because the report is so heavily redacted.
‘This is almost certainly because this work was undertaken in the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 terror attacks, with bin Laden and al-Qaeda being the intended targets,’ Nick commented.
‘There were some methodological problems with the way in which the study was undertaken, but despite this, the study yielded some results which seemed to exceed what might have been achieved by chance alone.’
The technique of remote viewing is seen as a pseudoscience, and research into the phenomena first started in the mid-1800s when early scientists tried experimental testing on so-called clairvoyants and psychics.
The CIA started looking into remote viewing in the 1970s after allegedly receiving reports that the Soviet Union were researching parapsychology and the occult.
It reportedly saw success in 1976 when a lost Soviet spy plane was found by Rosemary Smith, an admin assistant.
But according to the American Institutes for Research, the technique ‘was of dubious value and lacked the concreteness and reliability necessary for it to be used as a basis for making decisions or taking action’.
Their report added: ‘The information provided was inconsistent, inaccurate with regard to specifics, and required substantial subjective interpretation.
Nick said it’s ‘unknown’ whether the US or UK are running any remote viewing programmes at the moment.
‘This would be highly classified, and neither government is likely to comment on this, in line with the standard policy of not commenting on intelligence matters,’ he said.
Metro has contacted the Ministry of Defence for comment
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