Published Mar 29, 2025, 09:00am EDT Updated Mar 31, 2025, 10:04am EDT
Project Sun Streak Seeks Ark Of The Covenant
No one has proven the Ark’s existence, much less found its location if it does exist. That didn’t stop the U.S. government from investigating it as part of a 1980s project meant to harness psychic powers. A Project Sun Streak session in 1988 involved a purported psychic describing the location and appearance of the Ark of the Covenant using the powers of the mind.
The CIA first published the declassified Project Sun Streak document concerning the Ark in 2000, so it’s not fresh news. It seems to have reemerged into the spotlight thanks to social media chatter.
The government’s psychic programs experimented with extrasensory perception, telepathy and remote viewing — the alleged ability to gather information about distant objects without actually seeing or interacting with them. Remote viewing was the technique employed in the search for the Ark. The supposed psychic subject was given coordinates and then asked to describe a target there.
A session typically consisted of a remote viewer and an interviewer or monitor who guided the process. The session summary for the Ark includes the subject’s description of the target as a container with another container inside. “The target is fashioned of wood, gold and silver,” the document said. The target was said to be located in the Middle East with mosque domes nearby. “The target is hidden — underground, dark and wet were all aspects of the location of the target,” it said.
The test subject said the object had the purpose of bringing people together and was connected to “ceremony, memory, homage, the resurrection” with an aspect of spirituality. The target was supposedly protected and could only be opened by those authorized to do so. “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 summary read. A crude illustration in the document shows a single winged figure, though it looks more like a bird than a cherub.