CIA psychic laughed out of the room after 'seeing' Russian sub... then satellites confirmed the truth

It was the height of the Cold War, tensions were running high, and rumors were swirling that the Soviets were constructing the world's largest nuclear submarine.

With limited intelligence operations, the CIA recruited a 'psychic' spy to locate the top secret vessel, and he apparently did so using only his mind.

The agency had been carrying out experiments in the 1970s and 80s with individuals who claimed to have extrasensory powers and were able to perceive information about distant objects, people or events.

There are claims that this group of test subjects, known as 'remoter viewers', successfully tracked down hostages and drug lords for the covert program that lasted more than a decade.

One of the best remote viewers, a man named Joe McMoneagle, claimed to have used his ability to see inside a Soviet Union hangar and uncover a top-secret submarine being built.

McMoneagle said he was able to remote view a large warehouse 100 yards from the White Sea in 1979 and describe a never-before-seen type of submarine with slanted missile tubes and a unique double-hull structure.

He reported his 'vision' to the US Navy, but his claims were dismissed as fantasy.

But then came a shock: satellite imagery and other intelligence sourcing later confirmed the Soviet Union was indeed building a new class of submarine, called Typhoon, which was kept hidden until a launch in September 1980.

That incredible Cold War tale was just one example of remote viewing Jacques Vallée, a renowned computer scientist, gave during a recent interview on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast.

Vallée is a French-born computer scientist, astronomer, and ufologist who was a key figure in the development of the ARPANET, a precursor to today's internet.

He also co-developed the first ever computerized map of Mars for NASA in 1963.

Vallée was working at Stanford Research Institute where he was recruited by a group who learned how to use mental superpowers in order to 'see' things happening far away.

The scientist said that he had also trained to use this psychic tool, which was initially funded by the CIA so the government could gather intelligence without physical access to distant targets. 

The experiments were part of the  Stargate Project that was officially terminated in 1995 after the CIA concluded it could not produce reliable intelligence - based on a report from the American Institutes for Research (AIR).

There is currently no definitive evidence that the US government has used psychic spies again after Stargate was shut down.

During his March 12 interview with Rogan, Vallée went into detail about America's development of psychic agents who could essentially send their mind's eye to another room, state, or even country and see what was happening there in real time.

In McMoneagle's remote incident with the Soviet submarine, the US spy was able to collect detailed information about the ship without stepping foot inside the secret hangar.

'He described the length. And, you know, he actually measured it psychically,' Vallée explained.

'And that turned out to be right. And then when the submarine was built, they brought some bulldozers and they dug, you know, a channel to the sea and off it went.' 

It turned out that what McMoneagle had seen the largest nuclear sub in history.

The Typhoon measures 574 feet in length and has a weight of 48,000 tons while fully submerged. 

Although intelligence officials took McMoneagle's report about the Typhoon to the US National Security Council, officials did not believe his vision and the ship eventually launched without incident.

Typhoon officially entered the Cold War in 1981, but the submarine never launched a missile in combat. 

Typically, remote viewers sit at a table with paper and something to sketch with. They're then given something simple, like a set of numbers, to focus their attention on. 

For psychic spies during the Cold War, these would have most often been coordinates - a set of numbers marking off a spot in the world where the US government wanted to investigate.

From there, the remote viewer just sits there and relaxes, kind of like meditating. They clear their heads and let their minds wander toward whatever those numbers point to.

Vallée said these psychically gifted spies aren't just making guesses, they're receiving impressions - random images, shapes, or feelings from the location.

They might be seeing water, or metal, or something big and dark in their minds. Remote viewers don't overthink it; they just go with it and start to sketch their visions.

Vallée himself practiced this technique at SRI in the 1970s.

While training with American psychic Ingo Swann, Vallée recalled how his mind was once transported to a freezing mountain thousands of miles away.

'[Swann] gives me a set of coordinates, longitude and latitude somewhere. And I get very cold right away, and I get dizzy,' Vallée said.

'I said, 'Ingo, I don't know where you're sending me, but I'm cold, I'm trembling, I'm afraid, I'm afraid of falling, and, you know, I really don't feel well.' And he said, you're on top of a peak in the Andes,' the scientist revealed.

As for McMoneagle, a retired US Army veteran, he was one of the original remote viewers recruited for the SRI program in the 1970s.

The program would later be referred to as the Stargate Project.

In his own book about the psychic program, McMoneagle revealed that he was referred to as 'Remote Viewer No. 1' and worked out of Fort Meade in Maryland.

McMoneagle's participation in the Army's psychic intelligence unit was eventually confirmed in declassified documents and interviews, where he discussed using remote viewing to spy on military targets for the US.