Extrasensory perception

The Time When the U.S. Conducted Telepathic Experiments at Fort Meade

Conspiracy theories about secret government investigations into seemingly-science fictional phenomena are a dime a dozen. What’s rarer is actual, documented proof of governmental tinkerings with these forces.

But for nearly 20 years beginning in the 1970s, a secret army unit, working in conjunction with the Defense Intelligence Agency, conducted research and experiments in which they attempted to test the existence and application of so-called “psychoenergetics” for use in military operations. And it’s all a matter ofpublic record.

With the $20 million Stargate Project—a collective name for a series of programs with codenames like GRILL FLAME and SUN STREAK—the U.S. government was training an army of telepaths. Or, at least, they were trying to.