1984 · Fort Meade, Maryland
Remote viewing Mars, a million years ago
WhenMay 22, 1984
WhereFort Meade, Maryland
Backing1 independent
Evidenceofficial records
A declassified Army remote viewing transcript records a viewer being given only sealed coordinates and a target date of about one million years BC. The viewer described pyramids, huge structures, and tall, thin people sheltering from a planet-wide catastrophe. The target was then revealed to be Mars. The viewer is widely identified as Joseph McMoneagle, 'Remote Viewer No. 1'.
Evidence, in date order (1)
- 2000CIA (Stargate release)officialDeclassified transcript of the 22 May 1984 session Internet Archive: Mars, 1 Million BC (CIA document)
How plausible · Moderate
A CIA-released transcript records the remote-viewing session; nothing independent supports the Mars description.
- ●●No gain sought Government program.
- ●●Checkable details check out CIA transcript.
- ●●Fits the documented skeleton Stargate is documented.
- ●○Access A remote-viewing session.
- ●○Character record Viewer identified by others.
- ●○Fits secrecy practice Declassified.
Against
- −Lone source, no corroboration One viewer.
Plausibility weighs how well an account fits where secrecy hides the documents by design, so missing records never count against it. Strength measures what is documented. Assessed 2026-10-23.
On the record
- The session transcript, released by the CIA in 2000 as part of the Stargate files.Stargate closed
Claims
An ancient civilization on Mars that fled or perished.Face on MarsspeculationSourced, unconfirmedbelievers
In The picture
Something oldGraham Hancock argues that a lost civilization was wiped out by that catastrophe and passed its knowledge on. Radar researchers say shafts and chambers run 650 m under Khafre, a claim not yet peer-reviewed; their one published Giza paper, on Khufu, was retracted in 2026 for method errors that the journal has not deta…
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