The 1970s were marked by a wave of fascination with the unknown.
The “Age of Aquarius” has brought an unprecedented interest in alternative spirituality and psychic phenomena. Interestingly, this trend has not gone unnoticed in the corridors of power.
US government agencies, including the CIA, have decided to explore the practical potential of abilities such as clairvoyance.
It was in this unusual context that Project Stargate emerged, a secret initiative that recruited civilians with supposed paranormal gifts for intelligence tasks.
Among those recruits was Ingo Swann, born in Colorado in 1933. Known for his skills in a technique called “remote viewing”—the ability to describe distant places and events using only one’s mind—Swann was drafted into a top-secret program. He was sworn to absolute silence about his missions, which involved intense psychic experiences and detailed reports to the government.
In February 1975, a phone call from Washington, D.C., changed his life. Swann answered the call and met with an agent identified only as “Mr. Axelrod.” The meeting was straightforward and involved procedures worthy of a spy movie: a bag was placed over his head and he was flown by helicopter to an underground base, its location unknown.
There, Swann was given a direct and extraordinary order: “We want you to go to the Moon for us and describe what you see.” Accepting the challenge, Swann entered a state of deep concentration, projecting his consciousness toward the far side of the Moon, the side permanently turned away from Earth, some 383,000 kilometers away.
What he claimed to have seen in his remote viewing was nothing short of shocking. He described a transformed lunar landscape, a far cry from the barren, desolate surface known from the Apollo missions. His mind captured images of complex structures: towering towers rising from the blackness of the vacuum of space, machinery whose purpose he could not decipher, and lights glowing in multiple colors, illuminating the perpetual night.
There were buildings of strange and unfamiliar shapes, as well as bridges that seemed to defy logic in an environment with no atmosphere or running water. Numerous domes of different sizes dotted the landscape.
But the most impressive thing was the inhabitants. Swann reported the presence of alien beings. They wore no clothes and, to his perception, all appeared to be male. These beings were busy, apparently engaged in mining activities in the lunar craters.
It was during this psychic observation that something disturbing occurred: two of these beings suddenly looked directly upwards, in the direction of Swann’s projected consciousness. He wrote: “Two of them pointed in my direction. How could they do this…unless…they also have some kind of advanced psychic perception?”
Back at the underground base on Earth, Swann shared his astonishing visions with Mr. Axelrod. Amazed and disturbed by what he had seen, Swann asked the agent a crucial question: Had the United States ever come into contact with this alien life force? Based on the feeling he had during the experience and the very secretive nature of using remote viewing to investigate the site, Swann ventured, “Somehow they told you to stay away. That’s why you’re resorting to psychic perceptions. They’re not friendly, are they?”
Axelrod’s response, as recorded by Swann in his book “Penetration: The Question of Extraterrestrial and Human Telepathy,” published in 1998 after his secrecy period ended, was enigmatic and terse. The agent reportedly said that Swann’s assumption was “approximately correct…but not completely.” Swann carried his secret for many years, dying in 2013, while the extraordinary claims of his psychic journey to the far side of the Moon continue to fuel debate and speculation about what might really lie beyond our direct view.
Despite Swann’s fascinating claims, it’s important to remember that there is no concrete scientific evidence to support the existence of alien structures on the Moon or the effectiveness of remote viewing. The scientific community considers remote viewing to be pseudoscience, and all lunar missions, including satellite imagery, have never revealed any signs of artificial civilizations or structures on the far side of the Moon. To this day, Swann’s account remains a historical curiosity, unproven beyond his own testimony.
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