Declassified CIA documents reveal that the agency allegedly used psychics to locate the biblical Ark of the Covenant in the Middle East during the 1980s as part of a covert program called Project Sun Streak. The files detail experiments with “remote viewers”—individuals who claimed to project their consciousness to gather intelligence on distant objects.
The Ark of the Covenant, a gold-plated chest said to hold the Ten Commandments, gained pop culture fame through Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981). While religious tradition holds that the artifact dates back to Moses (13th–16th century BC), there has been no verified archaeological discovery.
The CIA’s remote viewing program has long been dismissed by scientists as pseudoscience, with no credible evidence supporting its validity. Still, the declassified files offer a bizarre glimpse into Cold War-era intelligence tactics.
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