What do you get when you mix the Cold War, classified military budgets, and the belief that some people can see through walls? You get Project SUN STREAK—one of the U.S. government’s most secretive psychic spying programs.
Let’s break it down.
SUN STREAK wasn’t just pulled from thin air. It was the direct descendant of earlier black-budget projects like GRILL FLAME and CENTER LANE, all of which explored the use of remote viewing—a psychic ability that allegedly lets a person mentally "see" distant locations, objects, or even people without being physically present.
These programs sound like science fiction, but they were very real.
By the late 1980s, the CIA and the Department of Defense had spent millions training and testing so-called "psychic operatives." SUN STREAK, in particular, was run under the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and was tasked with using remote viewers to collect real intelligence on foreign targets.
Here’s what SUN STREAK involved:
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Using trained psychics (called "viewers") to locate military targets, hostage locations, and top-secret weapons.
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Attempting to peek inside foreign embassies and spy on Soviet and Middle Eastern activities.
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Continuing to refine remote viewing techniques after the earlier GRILL FLAME and CENTER LANE findings.
Yes—our government really tried to psychically spy on enemies.
Why? Because they believed other nations (especially the Soviet Union) were already doing it. And if psychic spying was even partially effective, they couldn’t afford to fall behind.
Eventually, SUN STREAK was merged into another project called STARGATE, which continued the same kind of psychic surveillance until it was supposedly shut down in the 1990s. But with so much secrecy, who’s to say it ever really ended?
So, if you're wondering if the government believed in psychic powers—the answer is yes. And they funded entire military operations around them.
And the question we should be asking is: Why did they keep it so quiet?
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