The Peculiar Case of Ingo Swann: Remote Viewing the Moon

In 1998, psychic Ingo Swann published Penetration, a book detailing his alleged employment by the CIA to use “remote viewing” – the ability to perceive distant or unseen targets – to investigate an alien presence on the far side of the Moon. While this claim initially sounded like science fiction, the declassification of documents related to the CIA’s Project Stargate in 2006 confirmed Swann’s participation in the program, lending a surprising layer of credibility to his extraordinary assertions. Swann not only claimed extraterrestrials were already present on the Moon but that they were engaged in construction, and critically, that these…