Resurfaced Documents Claim the CIA Located the Ark of the Covenant Using 'Remote Viewing'

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In case you needed any more proof that we live in the strangest timeline in all of the multiverse, here it is. 

We've barely just begun getting information on the JFK assassination. We're still waiting on the files about MLK and RFK. As well as UFOs. And the promised release of the Jeffrey Epstein documents seems to just be less of a possibility with each passing day, though there's still a hope. And yet into this mix we get a report on, of all things, the Ark of the Covenant. 

Before we go another paragraph down this road, let's just get the obvious, unavoidable pop culture references out of the way. The backstory:

The payoff:

The punchline:

OK, I've done my sworn duty as a blogger. Now with that business out of the way, let's get into this.

NY Post - The CIA claimed to have confirmed the existence of the Ark of the Covenant by way of remote viewing — aka extra sensory perception or ESP — alleging the mysterious and sacred object is guarded by “entities” with an “unknown” power, a recently resurfaced declassified document claims.

In a remote viewing session on Dec. 5, 1988, remote viewer #32 was tasked with identifying a target that, unbeknownst to them, ended up being the storied Ark of the Covenant, according to document, which was declassified on Aug. 8, 2000, and has been circulating on social media. …

Remote viewer #32’s vision described a secret Middle Eastern location of the object. …

“Target is a container. This container has another container inside of it. The target is fashioned of wood, gold and silver… similar in shape to a coffin and is decorated with seraphim,” they relayed, per the file. 

“Visuals of surrounding buildings indicated the presence of Mosque domes,” they said, adding that Arabic-speaking men, dressed in all white, populated the area. …

“The target is protected by entities and can only be opened by those who are authorized to do so — this container will not/cannot be opened until the time is deemed correct. Once it is time to open the container — the mechanics of the lock system will be found to be fairly simple,” they said before adding a warning to potential plunderers.

“Individuals opening the container by prying or striking are destroyed by the container’s protectors through the use of a power unknown to us. …

“The purpose of the target is to bring people together. It has something to do with ceremony, memory, homage, the resurrection. There is an aspect of spirituality, information, lessons and historical knowledge far beyond what we now know,” they said.

Well there we have it. Confirmation of the existence of the greatest archaeological artifact in Earth's history. An object of infinite, divine power. Which, according to the Old Testament, makes any army that possesses it invincible. More over, to reference Raiders again, is nothing less than "a telephone to God." Not a bad revelation for a random Thursday in late March. 

Yeah. About that …

I don't doubt the existence of the Ark. For sure I believe in the almighty Lawgiver whose commandments are contained within. Your opinions may vary. I will add that controversial researcher Graham Hancock has said the Ark is kept at the oldest Christian church in Africa, located in Ethiopia, where it is perfectly well guarded:

Hancock's reporting would, in fact, be consistent with what this remote viewer #32 claimed. Ethiopia is located in the Horn of Africa, near the Red Sea. He say that people who've been in the presence of the object rarely live more than a couple of years, often go blind, and develop cancer, "strongly suggesting … and object of immense power," which dovetails rather nicely with #32's "protected by entities" warning. So a lot of this tracks. 

Where this report loses me is in a couple of places. First, with the phrase "declassified on Aug. 8, 2000, and has been circulating on social media." Any time something that was made public 25 years ago suddenly bubbles up to the surface of the internet and is all over the place, it's highly suspect. It makes it feel like a PsyOp. The sort of thing that's done to distract from some other thing powerful interests would rather we not talk about. Like, I don't know … this perhaps:

So yes, the timing of this is very sketchy. As is the whole "remote viewing" thing. I'm willing to accept the ability to project the human consciousness as at least possible. Both American and Soviet intelligence agencies certainly thought so, otherwise they wouldn't have spent so much time and resources doing ESP experiments. It's just that the operative who started this project isn't buying what #32 was selling. From the same article:

[R]etired US Army Chief Warrant Joe McMoneagle …  aka remote viewer #1, was the first to do the psychic phenomena experiments for the CIA — and he is not convinced by the exercise memorialized in the declassified document. …

McGoneagle does not believe that this remote viewing is worth the paper it’s written on.

“Using remote viewing against any target for which ground truth does not exist or is impossible to obtain, such as UFOs, UAPs, the surface of Mars, or the locations of historical relics, is a waste of time and resources,” McGoneagle told The Post.

Which brings us to the old Carl Sagan philosophy that says "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence." Personally, I'm willing to accept monks willingly dying of cancer to protect a sacred object in a heavily guarded house of worship as extraordinary evidence of the existence of the Ark. But someone sitting in a room saying they can close their eyes and see this thing halfway around the world while being discredited by the person in charge of the operation? Not so much. 

Regardless, nothing screams "disregard" louder than the fact this is all coming out now, a quarter of a century after it was made publicly available. Let's all move along, people.