Area 51 The Revealing Truth of Ufos, Secret Aircraft, Cover-Ups & Conspiracies
Remote viewing—psychically spying, in more simple terms—is a subject that has attracted the attention of numerous, worldwide intelligence agencies as well as the military of more than a few nations, including the United States, the United Kingdom, China, and Russia. Less well known is the fact that in the mid-1970s, a remote-viewing team operated out of Area 51.
The story came from a man named Raymond Wallis, who moved effortlessly through the domain of top-secret intelligence gathering from the 1950s until the early 1980s. Much of that time was spent at Area 51. Wallis claims that when, in the seventies, it became clear that the Soviets were increasing their research into the fields of psychic spying, ESP, out-of-body experiences, precognition, and more, it was deemed vital that America should do likewise. Before we get to the revelations of Wallis’s family, let’s take a look at the history of remote viewing and government interest.
In 1977, Dr. Kenneth A. Kress, an engineer with the CIA’s Office of Technical Services, prepared a document for the agency titled “Parapsychology in Intelligence.” It dealt with the CIA’s involvement in remote viewing—or what could arguably be termed “psychic spying” and ESP—and remained exempt from public disclosure for decades.
Among other highlights, the now declassified document demonstrates that the American government’s secret interest in ESP-type phenomena dated back to the Second World War. It also reveals that studies specifically undertaken by the CIA to research the intelligence-gathering value of ESP were initiated as far back as 1961, perhaps even earlier. Moreover, it clearly indicates that the agency had some very real and startling successes in this particularly controversial field.
The document begins by explaining the nature of the CIA’s investigations of parapsychology, the potentials and pitfalls that the agency found itself in when it immersed itself in the murky world of psychic phenomena, and much more. Most notably, the report states: “Tantalising but incomplete data have been generated by CIA-sponsored research. These data show, among other things, that on occasion unexplained results of genuine intelligence significance occur.” Kress wrote: “Anecdotal reports of extrasensory perception capabilities have reached U.S. national security agencies at least since World War II, when Hitler was said to rely on astrologers and seers. Suggestions for military applications of ESP continued to be received after World War II. For example, in 1952 the Department of Defense was lectured on the possible usefulness of extrasensory perception in psychological warfare. Over the years, reports continued to accumulate.
In 1961, the reports induced one of the earliest U.S. government parapsychology investigations when the chief of CIA’s Office of Technical Services became interested in the claims of ESP. “Technical project officers soon contacted Stephen I. Abrams, the director of the Parapsychological Laboratory, Oxford University, England. Under the auspices of Project ULTRA, Abrams prepared a review article which claimed ESP was demonstrated but not understood or controllable. The report was read with interest but produced no further action for another decade.” As Kress noted, it was two laser physicists, Dr. Russell Targ and Dr. Harold E. Puthoff, who reawakened CIA research in parapsychology. Targ, the report revealed, had been interested in parapsychology for most of his adult life. As an experimentalist, he was interested in scientific observations of parapsychology.
Puthoff became interested in the field in the early 1970s. He was a theoretician who was exploring new fields of research after extensive work in quantum electronics. In April 1972, Targ met with CIA personnel from the Office of Strategic Intelligence to specifically discuss the subject of paranormal phenomena and how it might be used as a tool of espionage. Targ revealed that he had contacts with people who purported to have both viewed and documented a number of secret Soviet investigations of psychokinesis, as Kress noted: “Films of Soviets moving inanimate objects by ‘mental powers’ were made available to analysts from OSI.
They, in turn, contacted personnel from the Office of Research and Development and OTS. An ORD Project Officer then visited Targ who had recently joined the Stanford Research Institute. Targ proposed that some psychokinetic verification investigations could be done at SRI in conjunction with Puthoff.” These proposals were quickly followed by a laboratory demonstration after an unnamed man was located by Targ and Puthoff who apparently had psychokinetic abilities. The man was taken on a surprise visit to a superconducting shielded magnetometer being used in high-energy particle experiments involving quarks by Dr. A. Hebbard of the Stanford University Physics Department. The quark experiment required that the magnetometer be as well shielded as technology would allow.
However, when the man focused his attention on the interior of the magnetometer, the output signal was visibly disturbed, indicating a distinct change in the internal magnetic field. Several other correlations of his mental efforts with signal variations were observed. The report points out that these variations were never seen before or after the visit. It was then that the CIA began to address the issues of ESP and parapsychology with renewed vigor, as Kress explained: “The Office of Technical Services took the first action.
With the approval of the same manager who supported the ESP studies a decade previously, an OTS project officer contracted for a demonstration with the previously mentioned man for a few days in August, 1972. During this demonstration, the subject was asked to describe objects hidden out of sight by the CIA personnel. The subject did well. The descriptions were so startlingly accurate that the OTS and ORD representatives suggested that the work be continued and expanded.”
During the summer of 1973, SRI continued working informally with an OSI officer on a remote-viewing experiment that eventually stimulated more CIA- sponsored investigations of parapsychology. The target was a vacation property in the eastern United States. The experiment began with the passing of nothing more than the geographic coordinates of the vacation property to the SRI physicists who, in turn, passed them to the two subjects, one of whom was a man named Pat Price.
No maps were permitted, and the subjects were asked to give an immediate response of what they remotely viewed at these coordinates. The subject came back with descriptions that were apparent misses. They both talked about a military-like facility. Nevertheless, a striking correlation of the two independent descriptions was noted. The correlation caused the OSI officer to drive to the site and investigate in more detail.
To the surprise of the OSI officer, Price had remotely viewed a sensitive government installation only a few miles from the vacation property that belonged to the National Security Agency. This discovery subsequently led to a request to have Price provide information concerning the interior workings of this particular site.
Kress expanded further: “Pat Price, who had no military or intelligence background, provided a list of project titles associated with current and past activities including one of extreme sensitivity. Also, the codename of the site was provided. Other information concerning the physical layout of the site was accurate. Some information, such as the names of the people at the site, proved incorrect. These experiments took several months to be analyzed and reviewed within the Agency.”