During the Cold War, the U.S. government didn’t just build bombs, satellites, or surveillance networks—they built something far stranger: a classified psychic espionage program known as Project Stargate.

For nearly two decades, military personnel and gifted civilians were trained in remote viewing—a controversial technique used to psychically describe distant locations, hidden targets, hostage situations, and foreign military installations.

In this episode, we investigate the real story behind America’s psychic spies.

You’ll learn about:
• The Cold War origins of the program
• The remote viewers who produced intelligence data that defied logic
• Missions that allegedly located aircraft, hostages, and secret facilities
• The internal battles between believers and skeptics
• The political forces that shut the program down
• The unanswered questions that remain today

Project Stargate is one of the strangest confirmed government operations in U.S. history—half science, half secret, and fully unsettling.

Did the program truly end in 1995?
Or did it simply move deeper underground?

The file is open.
But the truth is still classified.

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