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DONALD Trump begun his presidency by announcing his new AI project “Stargate” – but its not the first time the US government have used that name for an out of this world scheme.
Some 50 years ago the “Stargate Project” was a top secret operation run by the CIA and US military – with the goal to use self-proclaimed psychics as spies and to offer a window into the unknown.
CIA experiments claimed to have found ancient pyramids on Mars[/caption] 
CIA sketches from ‘Project Stargate’[/caption]
Declassified CIA documents showed how one ‘psychic’ was able to partly replicate pictures drawn in another room[/caption]
Mind-readers and mystical time travellers used their apparent powers at the request of top US spies in a series of strange experiments from the 1970s to the 1990s.
Run out of a barracks in Fort Meade, Maryland, the CIA and US Army enlisted the help of apparently extraordinary people with seemingly supernatural powers.
The main target of their research was the Soviet Union – as the Cold War and threat of nuclear annhilation hung over the globe.
It’s spycraft purpose was to develop “remote viewing” – where psychic spies could snoop on the Russians from thousands of miles away.
But they also got their test subjects to attempt a number of other odd experiments – such as making psychic contact with aliens.
The CIA flooded money into this weird experiment as they believed their enemy was investing heavily into similar research.
And thus begun a psychic arms race.
But the world got a glimpse into this strange world when the CIA finally declassified hundreds of pages of documents about the project.
It concluded that while the odd scheme ultimately did not have an value to the intelligence services – despite millions being spent over two decades.
The documents however do reveal some of the eerie findings – accompanied with drawings and writeen accounts in great detail.
Files revealed this top-secret project’s primary focus was to look into “anomalous phenomena” including telepathy and remote viewing.
Major General Albert Stubblebine – a Vietnam War veteran – was one of the driving forces behind the project over the years.
He was convinced of the value of psychic powers and deeply interested in UFOs.
One of the shock experiments, titled “Mars Exploration” saw the agency attempt to use psychics to describe the planet.
The already bizarre project – from May 22, 1984 – became even weirder as an unnamed psychic described the red planet at around “approximately 1 million years B.C.”.
This apparent seer was given an envelope with the planet, the time period of interest, and geographical coordinates.
Scientists chose this odd time period as they believed life could have existed on Mars a million years ago.
This alleged psychic claimed they saw pyramids which were “very high” and “sitting in a large depressed area,” according to a transcript from the 1984 experiment.
The apparent time traveller also described seeing alien beings.
They said: “I just keep seeing very large people.
“They appear thin and tall, but they’re very large. Ah… wearing some kind of strange clothes.”
The alleged psychic also painted a picture of a hostile planet suffering from harsh weather and strong winds, which pyramids were supposedly used as protection against.
They said: “They’re like shelters from storms.
The alleged time traveller went “inside” and added: “Different chambers… but they’re almost stripped of any kind of…furnishings or anything, it’s like ah… strictly functional place for sleeping or that’s not a good word, hibernations, some form.”
SUPERNORMAL BEING
These documents revealed one man, Uri Geller, succeeded in convincing the CIA that he was a psychic.
Geller, a celebrity psychic and famed spoon bender from Israel, sat in a sealed and monitored room where he was asked to draw words and objects using his psychic powers.
One of these tests included randomly selecting a word from a dictionary.
The first word selected was “fuse” and a firecracker was then drawn by someone outside the locked room.
Geller was told via intercom the drawing was finished after the picture had been taped to the wall outside.
Uri Geller was supposedly able to use his psychic powers to draw a similar object to someone else outside of his room[/caption]
Pictures released by the CIA from their interview with Uri Geller[/caption]
The CIA tested ‘remote viewing’[/caption]
Uri Geller convinced the CIA that he was a psychic during the Stargate project[/caption]
The CIA documents said: “His almost immediate response was that he saw a ‘cylinder with noise coming out of it’.
“His drawing to correspond with it was a drum, along with a number of cylindrical-looking objects.”
The documents also said: “He then talked about ‘purple circles’.
“Finally, he said that he was quite sure that he had the picture. His drawing was indeed a bunch of grapes.”
The CIA’s extraordinary conclusion was that Uri “demonstrated his paranormal perceptual ability in a convincing and unambiguous manner”.
The CIA said it ended the programme in 1977 and handed it over to the Defense intelligence Agency (DIA) where it was eventually renamed with the codename GRILL FLAME.
REVIVAL PLANS
Trump announced that he would champion his own program dubbed Stargate but his version would have nothing to do with the CIA’s Cold War secret plan.
The US President has sought to bring together Americas biggest names in tech to use AI in new ways.
This could include projects to discover a cure for cancer.
The groundbreaking idea was launched with AI industry leaders OpenAI, SoftBank, and Oracle to “ensure the future of American technology“.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman believed AI can help “cure the diseases at a rapid, rapid rate”.
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison agreed that the daring new project could cure cancer.
He said: “Little fragments of those [cancer] tumors float around in your blood. So you can do early cancer detection.
“If you can do it using AI, you can do early cancer detection with a blood test and using AI to look at the blood test.
“Once we gene sequence that cancer tumor, you can then vaccinate the person —design a vaccine for every individual person that vaccinates them against that cancer.
“That mRNA vaccine, you can make that robotically, again using AI, in about 48 hours.”
Funding for these plans could reach as much as $500billion and Trump claimed it could create 100,000 new jobs.
This comes as the US teeters on a superintelligence race with China, after it released the cheap AI app DeepSeek that rocked the tech world.
It completely shook America’s previously undisputed crown as AI leaders, but this moment could mirror the US’s old Cold War tech race.
This surprise was branded “AI’s Sputnik moment” by Donald Trump‘s adviser Marc Andreessen.
President Donald Trump announced he would create his own Stargate project which uses AI[/caption]
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said he believes AI could help find the cure to cancer[/caption]
Trump pictured with Oracle boss Larry Ellison, SoftBank Corp CEO Junichi Miyakawa and, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on January 21, 2025[/caption]
