CIA Project Sun Streak May Have Found the Lost Ark
In 1995, a report by the American Institutes for Research concluded that Remote Viewing - the psychic ability to describe distant locations by traveling in your mind - was not useful for U.S. intelligence efforts. It might seem surprising we'd need an official report to point this out. Relying on psychics to transcend space and time with their consciousness seems like a ridiculous way to collect intelligence. But the CIA was trying to do just that, for many decades.
The most recent incarnation of these efforts was code-named Project Sun Streak, and involved serious scientific testing during the 1980's. The program was led by the U.S. Department of Defense, with the Stanford Research Institute providing the scientific rigor making the results legitimate. Overseeing it all was the CIA, who wanted to determine how much of a threat Remote Viewing might be, and if it works, how the CIA might exploit it.
The experiments took place in Menlo Park, California. Scientists conducted over 100 sessions with "Viewers" who claimed to have this psychic ability. Researchers picked a wide variety of targets around the world, including military installations, secret foreign targets hiding technologies of interest, and other random locations. The Viewers were given no information, just the target coordinates - latitude and longitude - or in some cases, a general location like "Boston". Then the Viewers would be asked to describe the specific target and make sketches of what they "saw". The sessions were meticulously documented, and if we go by the '95 report from the A.I.R., the results were not convincing.
But the session summaries, previously classified, are now available for review. The names of the Viewers are not given, but each Viewer is given an ID number. And it turns out, Viewer 032 was remarkably successful.
In one "mission", he is given mystery coordinates and asked to describe what he "sees". He doesn't know this is the location of the nuclear electrical producing plant in Seabrook, New Hampshire. Viewer 032 relaxed and focused on a blank sheet of paper. Fragments of images come into his mind, shapes and sounds, even emotions. He sketched the location. As he drew, he described a "large structure", with a "metal framework, elevated walkways and people inside". He said there are "long metal cylinders that taper to a narrow point at one end compared to the other". He described chain link fences and parking lots and "a great deal of activity". His sketches and descriptions are staggeringly accurate. Put simply, without any knowledge of what he was asked to describe, Viewer 032 matched the target location enough that scientists deemed it dead on, beyond coincidence.
In another session, Viewer 032 was given coordinates for Target Location #66. The Viewer could have described any kind of building or field or anywhere on Earth, knowing nothing about the location. But this time, Viewer 032 described the location as "across, watery, wavy, fluid" and then just said "water". That was it. Just "water". Turns out, Researchers were trying to trip up the Viewer. The Target Location was the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Viewer 032 was not thrown off at all.
This brings us to the remarkable session on December 5, 1988. Viewer 032 was given new coordinates. The CIA's Session Summary offers a transcription of what the Viewer saw through his Remote Viewing: "Target is a container. This container has another container inside of it. Target is fashioned of wood, gold and silver. Target is similar in shape to a coffin, and is decorated with seraphim."
Viewer 032 went on to say the object was somewhere where individuals spoke Arabic, around buildings with "Mosque Domes". He says the target object was "hidden underground, dark and wet".
He said the purpose of the target is "to bring people together", that it has something to do with "ceremony, memory, homage" and then he said, "the resurrection". Building on this biblical turn, Viewer 032 said the target had "an aspect of spirituality, information, lessons, and historical knowledge far beyond what we now know".
Bible scholars will know exactly what Viewer 032 was describing. So would any fan of Indiana Jones. A gold ceremonial container decorated with Seraphim - winged beings described in the Book of Isaiah that surround the throne of God -- can only be one thing. The Ark of the Covenant.
According to the Bible, the Ark was last seen inside Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem. The Babylonians destroyed Jerusalem in 586 BCE, but the Ark was not listed among the things taken in the spoils. In fact, the Ark is never mentioned in the Bible again.
1,700 years later, Arab historian Abu Salih wrote about his visits to Churches and Monasteries in Africa. Among the hundreds of pages in Salih’s writings, there was a simple claim: “the Abyssinians possess the Ark of the Covenant in which are the two tables of stone, inscribed by the finger of God with the commandments”. Abyssinia is modern day Ethiopia. Legend has it, the Ark was moved there to save it from destruction. And to this day, the St. Mary of Zion Cathedral in Aksum claims to have it. No one has been allowed to see it, of course.
But the CIA might have found a way around that. The Cathedral in Aksum matches the description given by Viewer 032. Almost like he'd been there himself.
The American Institutes for Research may have concluded Remote Viewing was useless. But the CIA had a very different conclusion. They commissioned a panel of scientists from Los Alamos National Laboratories who called Remote Viewing, "a real phenomenon not degraded by distance" and "too impressive to dismiss as mere coincidence."
Of course, it's one thing to say Remove Viewing is possible.
If the Ark of the Covenant actually exists, containing two stone tablets with the Ten Commandments given to Moses by God, that's quite another thing for the world to consider.
