Sight Unseen: Project STARGATE’s Psychic Spies

For over two decades, the U.S. military trained soldiers and civilians to see across space and time—with their minds.

This episode of Unsettled: The Hidden Record unpacks Project STARGATE, the CIA and U.S. Army’s classified psychic espionage program. Using techniques like remote viewing, trained “intuitives” were tasked with gathering intelligence about Soviet missile sites, hidden hostages, and unknown threats—all without ever leaving the room.

Declassified documents show startling moments of accuracy—and spectacular failures. Supporters claimed it worked. Skeptics called it a Cold War distraction. But the funding continued, long after it was supposed to stop.

Was STARGATE a fringe experiment? Or a secret weapon that came uncomfortably close to working?