Old CIA files, declassified in 2000, have created ripples this week as they were shared by podcaster Josh Hooper, shedding light on the US government’s Project Sun Streak and the apparent discovery of the Ark of Covenant. According to this project, some psychics visualized the Ark of Covenant, somewhere in the Middle East where people were speaking in Arabic, in 1988.
Project Sun Streak was a classified US government program that operated primarily during the late 1980s under the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), with involvement from the CIA. It was an evolution of earlier initiatives like Project Stargate, which began in the 1970s to explore the potential of “remote viewing” —a technique where individuals purportedly use extrasensory perception to visualize distant or hidden objects, people, or events. The goal was to harness this unconventional method for intelligence gathering during the Cold War, targeting Soviet military sites, missing persons, or other strategic assets that conventional espionage couldn’t reach. Sun Streak specifically ran from around 1986 to 1990, though its exact scope remains murky due to limited declassification.
The program employed a small group of trained remote viewers, often civilians with alleged psychic abilities, who were given coordinates or abstract prompts to “see” targets without prior context. Sessions were documented in detailed reports, including sketches and descriptions, which were then analyzed for actionable intelligence. While some claims of success exist—like locating a downed Soviet plane—most assessments, including a 1995 CIA review, concluded the results were inconsistent and lacked scientific rigor, leading to the program’s termination by the mid-1990s.
Did the CIA find the Ark of the Covenant in 1988?
The content of the CIA files indicates that they came to know the location of the Ark of the Covenant that contains the Ten Commandments, in 1988. In the psychic session, Remote Viewer No. 032 was tasked with visualizing an unknown target based on coordinates provided by the program’s handlers. The viewer described a “container” of wood, gold, and silver, topped with six-winged angels, roughly coffin-shaped, and hidden in a subterranean, dark, wet location guarded by mysterious “entities.” This matched the biblical description of the Ark—a gold-covered wooden chest with cherubim (winged angelic figures) on its lid, built to hold the Ten Commandments, as recounted in Exodus. The viewer’s sketches included a domed structure (possibly a mosque) and references to Arabic-speaking figures, hinting at a Middle Eastern location.
It is, however, not known what happened to the project later on and whether any of the findings were pursued.
