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By Staff Writer *
A former CIA remote viewer has come forward with startling claims that he observed evidence of past life on Mars through psychic means. Joe McMoneagle, who worked as a ‘remote viewer’ for the CIA, alleges that his experiences provide proof of intelligent beings once inhabiting the Red Planet.
McMoneagle, known as the CIA’s Remote Viewer No. 1, was part of a top-secret program launched by the agency in the 1970s in collaboration with the Stanford Research Institute (now SRI International). The initiative sought to explore ‘remote viewing’—a purported psychic ability allowing individuals to mentally perceive distant or hidden locations, objects, and events.
🚨 The legendary Joe McMoneagle, the CIA’s Remote Viewer No. 1, played a pivotal role in the highly classified Stargate program, where he used remote viewing to penetrate the world’s deepest intelligence secrets. His sessions pinpointed undetectable nuclear submarines, exposed… pic.twitter.com/4T8OHqee3e
— Jesse Michels (@AlchemyAmerican) March 1, 2025
Speaking on the American Alchemy podcast, McMoneagle recounted a particularly unusual mission where he was handed a set of coordinates to observe using his mind. The target, unknown to him at the time, turned out to be Mars—one million years BC.
Glimpses of an Ancient Martian Civilization
Describing what he saw, McMoneagle detailed enormous pyramid-like structures with ‘monster rooms’ inside. He also recalled seeing towering beings, twice the size of humans, struggling to survive in a deteriorating atmosphere. He speculated that the pyramids were shelters built by the Martian inhabitants as a refuge from an environmental catastrophe.
“I started getting an image of human beings that were trapped in a place where the atmosphere was turning bad,” he explained. “It [was] obvious these people were dying for some reason, but they were humans […] They were twice our size.”
McMoneagle admitted that he was frustrated upon learning he had been remotely viewing Mars rather than Earth, as it meant he could not validate his findings through conventional means.
A Catastrophic Event and a Lost Civilization
The CIA publishes the craziest stuff on their website.
"Oh yeah we had professional remote viewers, yeah, we asked them to go visit Mars one million years ago. What did they see? Pyramids, obelisks, a dying elder race looking for a new home. Anyway its declassified now." pic.twitter.com/Jpts5bbpsu
— Andrew Côté (@Andercot) November 17, 2024
Based on his observations, McMoneagle theorized that Mars’ atmosphere was stripped away by a massive celestial event—possibly a planetary body passing through the solar system. He suggested that the catastrophe led to the demise of the planet’s inhabitants.
He later sought out satellite images of the locations he had psychically observed and claimed that he found supporting evidence: a pyramid-like structure located near the edge of a giant impact crater. According to McMoneagle, such a structure could not have survived the cataclysmic event if it had existed before the impact, implying it was constructed afterward.
“If it was there [before], it would have been blown away,” he asserted, hinting that the structure must have been artificially created.
Skepticism and the Unresolved Mystery
Despite his extraordinary claims, McMoneagle acknowledges the limitations of remote viewing. “I hate doing a target where I cannot prove ground truth because then I don’t know if it’s real or I’m inventing it,” he admitted. “I can’t sit there and say this is exactly 100 percent correct.”
While many remain skeptical of remote viewing and the notion of an ancient Martian civilization, McMoneagle’s testimony continues to intrigue researchers interested in psychic phenomena and extraterrestrial possibilities. His claims, if validated, could offer an entirely new perspective on the history of Mars and its potential for once harboring life.
*References:
- American Alchemy Podcast Interview with Joe McMoneagle
- Stanford Research Institute Reports on Remote Viewing
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CIA Declassified Documents on Remote Viewing Programs
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