'Like Us': Secret CIA Program Claims Discovery of Civilization on the Far Side of the Moon

As the US prepares to send astronauts to the moon again, a CIA file has surfaced claiming life was discovered there more than 25 years ago. In the 1970s and 80s, the CIA conducted experiments on people who claimed to be able to perceive information about distant objects, events or people - a process known as "remote viewing". The experience of remote viewer Ingo Swann was first revealed in 1998, when he described how his psychic episode took him to the dark side of the moon, an area that always faces away from the Earth and is not accessible to human sight.

It was there that the remote observer made a shocking discovery: towers, buildings and humanoid aliens working in a secret complex on the surface of the Moon, writes the Daily Mail.

Swann claimed that government officials knew that aliens had a base there, and that these humanoids could actually sense his presence when he mentally observed them from 238,000 miles away. A participant in secret experiments claimed that a race of aliens who "looked just like us" had built several giant towers on the moon. One of them was as big as the United Nations building in New York.

Ingo Swann, who died in 2013, made the shocking claims in his 1998 book Penetration: The Question of Extraterrestrial and Human Telepathy. But as the Daily Mail points out, despite Swann's detailed claims, lunar missions led by the US, Russia, China, Japan and India have never found any tangible evidence of alien bases or life on the moon.

A prominent participant in Project Stargate, the CIA's remote viewing operation created in the 1970s, claimed the astonishing incident was not part of his routine work with the top secret program.

Swann wrote how in February 1975 he received a call from intelligence in Washington, D.C., asking him to help with another secret project. A meeting was arranged between Swann and a mysterious government agent known as Mr. Axelrod. Swann was hooded and ordered not to talk or ask any questions as he was flown by helicopter to an underground base. There, the said Mr. Axelrod gave the remote viewer a very simple assignment: "We want you to go to the moon for us and describe what you see."

However, Swann was also told that he would not be able to talk about what he saw in the vision "for at least 10 years."

When a CIA operative turned writer was finally able to share his psychic vision, the description he gave was astonishing, the Daily Mail reports.

"I found towers, machinery, colored lights, strange-looking buildings," Swann claimed. "I found bridges whose purpose I couldn't figure out. There were many domes of different sizes," he continued.

Swann noted that the aliens all appeared to be male and wore no clothing. They were digging holes in lunar craters in some kind of mining or excavation work. The only thing he did not expect to see was that two of the aliens noticed his consciousness observing a secret lunar base.

"Two of them pointed in my direction," Swann explained. "How could they do that unless they have some kind of advanced ESP, too?"

It was at this point that Mr. Axelrod ended the remote viewing session he had invited Swann to.

But Swann said the news of aliens taking over the moon didn't impress Axelrod or other intelligence officials. The remote viewer then asked his recruiters why NASA or the U.S. military hadn't returned to the moon since 1972. His questions hit an uncomfortable truth: "They somehow told you to stay away. That's why you're using ESP. They're not friendly, are they?" Swann asked Axelrod.

The operative reportedly told him he was "approximately right, but not quite right."

Swann's remote viewing revelations, the Daily Mail notes, now pose a serious question for the Trump administration, which is once again focused on sending astronauts into space instead of robots: what will we find on the moon?

Meanwhile, on May 1, the Trump administration slashed $6 billion in spending on research, operations at the International Space Station, and future missions, including the Mars Sample Return (MSR). At the same time, the cuts will allow NASA to spend more than $1 billion on human spaceflight, ensuring that “America’s human space exploration efforts remain unprecedented, innovative, and impactful.”