Recently, I was browsing the internet and stumbled upon a familiar word: Stargate. What could Stargate be? For me, it’s one of my favorite TV shows from my youth! The iconic spinning gate through which the phenomenal SG-1 team travelled to other worlds! A bit of mythology, a bit of action, a bit of sci-fi and even a touch of philosophy — all of it made the series truly legendary.

But what I found had nothing to do with the show. It was an article about a real, secret CIA experiment that carried the same name: Stargate. And no — this wasn’t fake news!

The American agency really did run a program under that codename between 1977 and 1995. The Stargate Project was an attempt to use paranormal phenomena — specifically remote viewing — for intelligence purposes. That’s right! The CIA actually spent money on people who claimed they could see distant locations with the power of their minds! What’s more — not only were their abilities tested, but allegedly they were used to finding hidden bases, stashed documents, and even potential locations of extraterrestrial beings.

Here, reality begins to sound more like science fiction than many episodes of the TV series.

According to declassified records, during their work, the viewers identified three main alien bases: two on Earth — in Alaska and South America — and one on Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. Even more intriguing, participants in the experiments described three different alien species: humanoid beings with large round heads, pale creatures with sharp noses, and perhaps most unsettling, life forms that looked exactly like humans. According to these accounts, extraterrestrials have been here for a very long time.

It’s the kind of material that begs to be turned into a TV show — or, more disturbingly, into the question of whether it’s all true.

Of course, these accounts are not hard data, but rather the visions of people in deep meditation or trance. From a scientific standpoint, they are not reliable sources. But from the standpoint of imagination — they’re fascinating! At its peak, Project Stargate involved 14 laboratories, but it did not produce results that could be used in real intelligence operations. Still — once you read these documents, the world never looks the same again!

Can we simply dismiss descriptions that so perfectly fit into UFO lore? Are the similarities in independent accounts of alien presence just coincidences — or maybe, as I’d like to believe — glimpses of something we don’t yet understand?

That’s what science fiction teaches us: not to be afraid of asking questions. Maybe these remote viewers were only pioneers — clumsy and blind for now — but still trying to make use of their consciousness? A consciousness that is just one of many channels, but one we haven’t yet learned to tune in properly? It’s not about blindly believing every declassified page. It’s about listening to what they say — not as historical documents, but as stories. And every story carries a grain of truth.

So, in the end, let’s not forget that all of this was recorded in CIA documents, signed and archived. Which leaves us with one question: are aliens already here with us?