Black Budgets and Altered States
Since the 1950s, intelligence agencies have quietly invested billions in consciousness research. MKUltra explored mind control through drugs and trauma. Stargate developed psychic spying. The CIA Gateway Report analyzed out-of-body technology. These programs existed - the documents are declassified. But what about the programs that remain classified?
Beyond the documented history lies a shadow world of alleged projects - Looking Glass devices that view probable futures, Yellow Cubes of extraterrestrial origin, timeline manipulation at Montauk. These claims come from whistleblowers and researchers whose credibility ranges from solid to speculative. Separating signal from noise is the reader’s task.
The fact that governments have taken consciousness research seriously enough to fund it for decades tells us something. What it tells us depends on which programs you believe existed.
Documented Programs
MKUltra
MKUltra was the CIA’s covert mind control program from 1953-1973 - one of the most disturbing chapters in American intelligence history.
Over 149 subprojects explored hypnosis, drugs (especially LSD), sensory deprivation, isolation, verbal abuse, and other forms of psychological manipulation. Conducted at universities, hospitals, prisons, and CIA facilities. Budget estimated at $10-25 million over two decades.
Subjects included unknowing citizens drugged in Operation Midnight Climax, prisoners offered reduced sentences, mental patients, and military personnel. Some were given LSD without consent. Some were subjected to prolonged isolation and electroshock. Deaths occurred.
In 1973, CIA Director Richard Helms ordered MKUltra documents destroyed. Only financial records in other offices survived. Senate hearings in 1975-77 revealed partial scope. Full truth remains unknown - destroyed documents took secrets with them.
MKUltra proves that intelligence agencies will pursue extreme consciousness research and lie about it. It provides historical precedent for believing current claims about consciousness programs.
Stargate Program
Project Stargate was the US government’s remote viewing program - fully documented and declassified.
Beginning at SRI in 1972 under various code names (Scanate, Grill Flame, Center Lane, Sun Streak, Stargate), the program ran continuously for over 20 years. Funding came from CIA, DIA, Army Intelligence, and other agencies. Total investment estimated at $20+ million.
Documented hits include: description of Soviet Typhoon submarine before public knowledge, location of hostages, details of foreign weapons programs. Statistician Jessica Utts concluded the effect was real with odds against chance of 10^20 to 1.
The 1995 AIR review acknowledged anomalous cognition but questioned operational utility. The program was cancelled publicly. Private training and application continues. Many government programs have likely picked up where Stargate left off - just not publicly.
Stargate proves that remote viewing works well enough for intelligence agencies to fund it for two decades. It validates the basic premise that consciousness can access information non-locally.
CIA Gateway Report
The CIA Gateway Report is a 1983 classified analysis of the Monroe Institute’s consciousness technology by Army Lieutenant Colonel Wayne McDonnell.
Titled “Analysis and Assessment of Gateway Process,” the report attempts to explain how Monroe’s techniques work using physics concepts. It describes reality as holographic, consciousness as non-local, and Gateway as legitimate technology for accessing altered states.
The report synthesizes quantum physics, holographic universe theory, and consciousness research. It describes the “absolute” (non-physical reality), the “torus” model of consciousness, and how binaural beats synchronize brain hemispheres to enable expanded perception.
When declassified, page 25 was missing - spawning theories about what it contained. When finally released years later, it contained nothing especially shocking, but the absence had fueled speculation.
The Gateway Report shows military intelligence taking consciousness expansion seriously and describing reality in terms that align with simulation theory. It’s an official document suggesting that consensus reality is not all there is.
Alleged Programs
Project Looking Glass
Project Looking Glass is an alleged technology for viewing probable futures and alternate timelines.
Multiple whistleblowers describe technology using rotating electromagnetic fields or cylinder arrays that create “windows” into probable futures. Viewers can see potential outcomes but not fixed destiny - the future remains probabilistic.
Sources include Dan Burisch (claimed Area 51 microbiologist), Bill Uhouse (claimed Groom Lake engineer), and others. Their accounts contain both similarities and discrepancies.
Some sources claim Looking Glass became unreliable after 2012 - all timelines converging into one, or increased timeline instability. This coincides with various prophecy traditions pointing to that period.
Looking Glass is unverified. No documents, no physical evidence. But multiple independent sources describe similar technology, and if remote viewing works, time viewing becomes plausible.
The Montauk Project
The Montauk Project is alleged to have been a secret program at Montauk Air Force Station involving time travel, mind control, and dimensional portals.
According to Preston Nichols and collaborators, experiments at Montauk created time tunnels, enabled telepathic amplification through the “Montauk Chair,” and connected to the Philadelphia Experiment of 1943. Young men were allegedly used as “psychics” to power the equipment.
The mythology links to the alleged 1943 experiment that made the USS Eldridge invisible - and reportedly teleported it. Sailors allegedly became fused with the ship. Montauk supposedly continued this research decades later.
Montauk is considered fringe even among alternative researchers. Evidence is thin - mostly memories recovered under hypnosis or drug states. The stories have influenced popular culture (Stranger Things draws heavily from Montauk mythology) but remain unverifiable.
Something was at Montauk - it was a SAGE radar installation during the Cold War. What actually happened there versus what’s been mythologized is impossible to determine.
Yellow Cube / Orion Cube
The Yellow Cube or Orion Cube is an alleged extraterrestrial device for viewing probable timelines.
According to Dan Burisch and others, the device is of alien origin - provided to or recovered by government programs. It allows viewing of probable futures but shows probabilities, not certainties.
Looking Glass is supposedly human-developed technology; the Yellow Cube is allegedly ET in origin. Both view timelines. Some accounts suggest they work together or that Looking Glass reverse-engineered the Cube’s principles.
Sources claim that timeline viewing shows multiple possible futures converging around 2012-2030. What this convergence means varies by source - catastrophe, transformation, intervention, or simulation reset.
Completely unverified. No physical evidence, no documents. The sources are the same people who claim other extraordinary things.
The Implications
The documented programs prove several things: governments believe consciousness is real and powerful. They invested serious money in psychic research, mind control, and out-of-body exploration. The CIA Gateway Report explicitly describes reality as a holographic projection of consciousness.
If the alleged programs exist, the implications deepen: timeline viewing, future probability, dimensional manipulation. These would confirm that the simulation theory isn’t just philosophy - it’s engineering. Those in power may have access to reality’s source code.
Even skeptics must reckon with the question: why were these programs classified? Not because they failed - failed programs don’t generate decades of funding. They’re classified because they worked, and what they revealed changes everything about our understanding of reality.
The projects, documented and alleged, suggest that some people know a lot more about the nature of reality than they’re telling the rest of us.
Research Approach
When investigating these programs, start with declassified documents - FOIA releases, National Security Archive collections, CIA Reading Room. These establish what definitely existed before evaluating what might have existed.
Assess whistleblowers and researchers carefully. What’s their background? What evidence do they provide? Who corroborates them? What are their potential motives? Apply the same skepticism you would to government denials.
Look for convergence across independent sources. When different researchers describe similar phenomena without apparent coordination, the signal may be stronger. But beware: communities can create shared narratives.
Hold conclusions loosely. The documented programs prove governments take this seriously. The alleged programs may or may not exist. The right stance is informed uncertainty, not premature belief or rejection.