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Remote viewer found the Ark of the Covenant, CIA files claim

By T.K. Randall
March 26, 2025
Ark of the Covenant
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Declassified CIA documents seem to suggest that the enigmatic artifact was discovered in the 1980s.
The golden chest believed to have held the stone tablets on which the Ten Commandments were inscribed, the Ark remains one of the most sought-after and mystifying religious artifacts in history.

Now, though, CIA files concerning a secretive remote viewing project known as 'Sun Streak' have seemingly indicated that a psychic may have located the missing Ark back in the 1980s.

At the time, the CIA had experimented heavily with using people with apparent psychic abilities to spy on enemy countries using a technique known as remote viewing which effectively involves using the powers of the mind to see what lies at distant locations.

Not all of these experiments involved spying, however, as there are declassified government records of remote viewing sessions in which participants claimed to have discovered all sort of things ranging from archeological finds to pyramids on Mars (you can read more about that one - here).

In this particular example, the remote viewer allegedly found what was thought to be the Ark of the Covenant itself at a location in the Middle-East in 1988.

"The target is a container," the file reads.
"This container has another container inside of it. The target is fashioned of wood, gold and silver.... and it is decorated with [a six-winged angel]."

Interestingly, the remote viewer was not told that they were actually looking for the Ark.

They claimed that the target (i.e. the Ark) was situated underground, had something to do with 'ceremony and resurrection' and that it was guarded by 'entities'.

It could only be opened by those 'authorized to do so', the report continues, and only 'when the time is correct'. There was also a reference to it possessing 'a power unknown to us'.

Unfortunately, the location given was extremely vague - with the remote viewer offering only that it was 'somewhere in the Middle-East', which doesn't tell us much.

Whether or not they really did find the Ark - and whether it is still there now - remains a mystery.

Source: Mail Online




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