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The Mars surface session (May 22, 1984)

Viewer: Joseph McMoneagle · Active: 1984

Declassified

Editorial summary

On May 22, 1984, an Army warrant officer named Joseph McMoneagle was handed a sealed envelope at a small facility on Fort Meade, Maryland. The envelope contained a piece of paper with a set of map coordinates on it. McMoneagle was not told what planet they referred to, what year they referred to, or what he was supposed to look for. He was told only to describe what he saw at those coordinates.

The transcript of the session, declassified in the 2017 Stargate document release, runs to nine pages. McMoneagle reported tall, thin people in long, form-fitting clothing. He reported large, pyramidal structures and obelisks. He reported what he understood to be the survivors of a catastrophe, sheltering in chambers underground, knowing they would not last. He believed he was looking at a time period he could only describe as "very, very, very old."

When the session ended the monitor showed him the rest of the contents of the envelope. The coordinates were on the surface of Mars. The date was approximately one million years before present.

The Mars session is the single most discussed transcript in the Stargate archive. It is the document people search for when they search for Stargate. It is also the one the program's later defenders are most hesitant to cite. The session was a deliberate provocation, conducted under a sealed-envelope protocol that ruled out cueing but also ruled out any way to evaluate accuracy. There is no Voyager flyby to compare against, no later document confirming or denying any element of the report. The session sits alone.

The CIA's American Institutes for Research review of the Stargate Project in 1995 did not cite the Mars session. The agency's official position is that the Stargate Project produced no actionable intelligence and was terminated. McMoneagle's own account, in interviews and in his 2002 book The Stargate Chronicles, treats the session as one he was instructed to perform and offers no claims about what it proved.

The transcript itself is preserved in the CIA reading room. It records a man, alone in a room at Fort Meade, calmly describing the last days of a Martian civilization.

Editorial summary by govweird, grounded in the declassified Stargate archive and the 1995 American Institutes for Research review.

Originating agency

Central Intelligence Agency

Program era

SUN STREAK (DIA, 1986 to 1991)

Viewer of record

Joseph McMoneagle

Target

Specific coordinates on the Martian surface, approximately one million years before present

Session date

1984-05-22

Activity period

1984

Public release

January 12, 2017 (bulk Stargate release)

CIA document id

CIA-RDP96-00788R001900760001-9

Topics

Source document

The canonical CIA reading room copy of this document is filed under MORI ID CIA-RDP96-00788R001900760001-9.

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Transcript (extracted)

Extracted text from the source document
- MARS EXPLORATION May 22, 1984 8 . Method of site acquisition: Sealed envelope coupled with geographic coordinates. The sealed envelope was given to the subject immediately prior to the interview. The envelope was not opened until after the interview. In the envelope was a 3 X 5 card with the following information: The planet Mars. Time of interest approximately 1 million years B.C. Selected geographic coordinates, provided by the parties requesting the information, were verbally given to the subject during the interview. JaTziel £07768 9 : TRANSCRIPT May 22, 1984 MON: (ROJ for 5/22 (May 22nd), time 10:09 AM.)* MON: (Plus 10 minutes, ready to start.)* All right now, using the information in the envelope I've provided, exclusively focusing your attention now, using the information in the envelope, focus on: 40.89 degrees north 9.55 degrees west SUB: eseseseselD want to say it looks like ah....I don't know, it sort of looks ....I kind of got an oblique view of a ah..pyramid or pyramid form. It's very high, it's kind of sitting in a... large depressed area. MON: All right. SUB: It's yellowish, ah...okra colored. MON: All right. Move in time to the time indicated in the envelope I've provided you and describe what's happening. SUB: I'm tracking severe, severe clouds, more like dust storm, ah..it's geologic problem. Seems to be like a ah...Just a minute, I've got to iron this out. It's really weird. MON: Just report your raw perceptions at this time, you're still early in the session. SUB: I'm looking at, at a..after effect of a major geologic problem. MON: Okay, go back to the time before the geologic problem. SUB: seeeeseeeUm, total difference, it's ah...before there's no ah....ah I don't know,.... oh hell, it's like mountains of dirt..appear and then disappear when you go before. See ah.... large flat surfaces, very ah...smooth....angles, walls, they're really large though, I mean they're megalithic, ah... MON: All right. At this period in time now before the geologic activity, look around, in and around this area and see if you can find any activity. : SUB: seeeeeI'm seeing ah....It's like a perception of a shadow of people, very tall...thin, it's only a shadow. It's as if they were there and they're not, not there anymore. MON; Go back to a period of time where they are there. SUB: weoeeeeeUM..e-e. (mumble) It's like I get a lot of static on a line and everything, it's breaking up all the time, very fragmentary pieces. MON: Just report the raw data, don't try to put things together, just report the raw data. SUB: I just keep seeing very large people. They appear thin and tall, but they're very large. Ah...wearing some kind of strange clothes. MON: All right, now holding in this time period, holding in this time period, I want to move from your physical location in space to another physical location, but in this time period. Move now to: 46.45 north 353.22 east Move in this time to: 46.45 north 353.22 east SUB: -»-.Deep inside of a cavern, not a cavern, more like canyon. Um, I'm looking up, up the sides of a steep wall that seem to go on forever. And there's like ah... a structure with a...it's like the wall of the canyon itself has been carved. Again I'm getting a very large structures, no.... ah....no intricacies, huge sections of smooth stone. MON: Do the structures have insides and outsides? SUB: weeeeee¥Yes, they're very, it's like a rabbit warren, corners of rooms, they're really huge, I don't, feel like I'm standing in one it's just really huge. Perception is that the ceiling is very high, walls very wide. MON: (Real time plus 22 minutes.)* Yes that would be correct. All right, I'd like to move now to another location nearby. All right, move from this point in this time to: 45.86 north 354.1 east 45.86 north 354.1 east SUB: They have a ah....appears to be the end of a very large road and there's a ...marker thing that's very large, keep getting Washington Monument overlay, it's like an...obelisk. MON: All right. From this point then, let us move to another point. Move now to: 35.26 north 213.24 east Move in this time to: 35.26 north 213.24 east SUB: seeeeeeeeIt'S like I'm in the middle of a ..huge circular basin ...of the range mountains by almost all the way around, ..very ragged, ragged mountains, very tall. Basin's very, very, very large. Scale seems to be off or something it's just really big, everything's big. MON: I understand the problem just continue. SUB: +e++.See just a right angle corner to something but that's all, I don't see anything else. MON: Okay. Then let's move into a little different place, very close. Move from the point you are now, in this time, to: 34.6 north 213.09 east Move now in this time to: 34.6 north 213.09 east SUB: The cluster of squares up and down. Um..... it's like you want to make them square anyway. They're almost flush with the ground and it's like they're connected....Something very white or reflects light. 3 . MON: What's your position of observation as you look at this thing that reflects light? SUB: I'm amid ah...oblique left angle, sun is ah... sun is weird. MON: Look back down at the ground now, and we're going to move just a little bit from this place, just a little bit from this place. 34.57 north 212.22 east Very close by. Now, move over now to: 34.57 north 212.22 east SUB: It's like I can just perceive ah...ah...like a radiating pattern of some kind. It's like some really...ah...strange intersecting kind of roads that are dug into valleys, you know, where a road is just a little below the edge. MON: Tell me about the shapes of these things. SUB: seeeeeThey're like real neat channels cut, they're very deep, it's like the road went down. ......0- MON: Okay. Now I have, I notice electrically you're nulled out a little bit and I want you to stay deep and recapture your focus here. SUB: It's really tough, it's seems like it's just always very sporadic. MON: I realize that, it's very important that you maintain your focus. I have a movement exercise again for you and this is some considerable distance away, so holding the focus in time, remember the focus in time that you had before and moving now to: 15 degrees north 198 degrees east Take some time and get back deep. SUB: See the.......um, intersecting ah....whatever these are, are aqueduct type things.... these.... rounded bottom carved channels, like road beds. See ah..... 4 see pointed tops of something on the horizon. Even the horizon looks funny and weird, it's like ah.... different....misty, like it's really far away.... very vague. MON: Okay. Another movement now to: 80 degrees south, 80 degrees south 64 degrees east, 64 degrees east Move now in this time to: 80 degrees south 64 degrees east. SUB: See pyramids....Can't tell if it's overlay or not ‘cause they're different. MON: Okay. Do these pyramids have insides and outsides? SUB: eeeeeeeUm-hum, got both, and they're huge.....It's really, ah...it's an interesting perception I'm getting. MON: (I think that he's losing his ability to move accurately, but he is attracted to things that are interesting, so we're going to go with his own, we're going to let him go ahead and explore what seems to be interesting to him rather than move on the targets indicated here.)* SUB: It's filtered from storms or something. MON: Say that again, SUB. SUB: They're like shelters from storms. MON: These structures you're seeing? SUB: Yes. They're designed for that. MON: All right. Go inside one of these and find some . activity to tell me about. (Plus 37 minutes real time.) * SUB: Different chambers,...but they're almost stripped of any kind of...furnishings or anything, it's like ah...strictly functional place for sleeping or that's not a good word, hibernations, some form, I can't, I get real raw inputs, storms, savage storm, and sleeping through storms. 5 MON: Tell me about the ones who sleep through the storms. SUB: seeeeeeeeAh...very...tall again, very large... people, but they're thin, they look thin because of their height and they dress like in, oh hell, it's like a real light silk, but it's not flowing type of clothing, it's like cut to fit. MON: Move close to one of them and ask them to tell you about themselves. SUB: They're ancient people. They're ah..they're dying, it's past their time or age. MON: Tell me about this. SUB: They're very philosophic about it. They're looking for ah.... a way to survive and they just can't. MON: (Plus 40 minutes, definite voltage reversal.)* SUB: Can't seem to get their way out, they can't seem to find their way out,....so they're hanging on while they look or wait for something to return or something coming with the answer......... MON: What is it they're waiting for? SUB: see...They're ah.....evidently was a .....a group or a party of them that went to find ah...new place to live. It's like I'm getting all kinds of overwhelming input of the....corruption of their environment. It's failing very rapidly and this group went somewhere, like a long way to find another Place to live. MON: What was the cause of the atmospheric disturbance or the environment disturbance? SUB: seecececcceeees I see a picture of a, picture of like a, oh hell, it's almost a warp in a, oh god, this is difficult. It's like going, let's see--- MON: The raw data? SUB: Oh, I get a globe .....ah...it's like a globe that goes through a comet's tail or .... it's through a river of something, but it's all very cosmic. It's like space pictures. MON: All right, now before you leave this individual, ask him if there is any way that you, ask him if he knows . who you are and is there any way you can help him in his present predicament? SUB: ee cceceeeeeeeeeAll I get is that they must just wait. Doesn't know who I am. Think he perceives I'm a hallucination or something. MON: Okay, when the others left, these people are waiting, when the others left, how did they go? SUB: eee eeeeeceeeeee Get an impression of ah....... Don't know what the hell it is. It looks like the inside of a larger boat. Very rounded walls and shiny metal. MON: Go along with them on their journey and find out where it is they go. SUB: seeeeeeessImpression of a really crazy place with volcanos and gas pockets and strange plants, very volatile place, it's very much like going from the frying pan into the fire. Difference is there seems to be a lot of vegetation where the other place did not have it. And different kind of storm. MON: All right it's time to come back now to the sound of my voice into present time to right now the 22nd of May 1984, the sound of my voice. Move now back to the room, back to the sound of my voice, back further now to the sound of my voice on the 22nd of May 1984. END OF INTERVIEW NOTE: ()* Indicates monitor comment recorded but not heard by the subject.

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