the USA has cultivated an aura of competency over decades that rapidly disintegrates in front of our eyes right now.
so the CIA tried to use a "remote viewer" to find the Ark of the Covenant.
... around 2000.
Gee, maybe there was something else they could have spent resources on going on around that time?
(bonus: the article calls the source: "right-wing British outlet the Daily Mail")
@kyonshi oh you gotta read the declassified papers where they tried to astral project onto mars in the 60s its so fucking funny
@zozo yeah but that was the 60s. this was 2000 when remote viewing experiments were one of those "oh did you know what stupid shit they got up to in the 60s/70s?" factoids
which means this is now the same, just for nowadays.
which conversely means... they likely are still having people check if remote viewing is a thing even in 2025
@kyonshi i wish they'd found it. They'd have all melted as per.