Annie Jacobsen: A War of Psionics

Somewhere in the Skies

Ryan Sprague

Unexplained, Paranormal, Ufos, Government, Ufo, Social Sciences, History, Bigfoot, Aliens, Extraterrestrial, Documentary, Unsolved, Alien, Mystery, Uap, Science, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 24 March 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

On episode 401, we are joined by New York Times Best-Selling author, Annie Jacobsen. With the term "psionics" circling the UFO world as of late, we look back at a book written by Jacobsen called, Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception. While independent groups are now studying and attempting to use psychic abilities to "summon" UFOs, how did rival nations, during the end of World War 2 and through the Cold War, use similar abilities through various military and intelligence agencies? Why did they invest millions of dollars into classified programs to study mental telepathy, precognition, and extrasensory perception? Was it all for intelligence gathering and defense purposes? Or could there have been more otherworldly reasons as well?

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0:26.2	It's business, but it's personal.
0:32.7	You are now somewhere in the skies with your host, Ryan Spray. For a number of years, CIA had been tracking Soviet work in the so-called ESP area.
1:04.4	And they're really concerned because the Soviets, including the KGB,
1:08.6	were spending millions of dollars every year on this kind of
1:12.0	phenomena.
1:12.5	They're very concerned about what could be being done to us.
1:16.4	They were specifically interested in whether individuals could extract information or get
1:22.3	information from remote sites or from hidden material.
1:26.2	And so it was critical to them to find out, you know,
1:29.4	just what abilities do people have. A batch of declassified CIA documents that revealed the
1:35.5	agency's dealing with the paranormal is now official. According to the secret files,
1:40.0	the Central Intelligence Agency used a team of military-trained telepathic individuals during the Iran embassy siege nearly 40 years ago.
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