Stubblebine's Mars lecture (1992)
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| Date | 22 May 1992 |
|---|---|
| Topics | Propulsion & physics (topic), Ocean & underwater (topic) |
| People | Albert Stubblebine, Ed Dames |
| Testimony | Shellenberger testimony, p. 116 |
| Year | 1992 in UFO history |
| Timeline | 1992 on the UAP Timeline |
| Sources | 6 |
In May 1992 retired Army Maj. Gen. Albert Stubblebine told a UFO conference in Denver that remote viewers had detected structures and machinery on and beneath the surface of Mars. The lecture is one of the best-known examples of a senior former intelligence officer endorsing psychic claims about extraterrestrial life.[1][2]
Stubblebine
Stubblebine (1930–2017) commanded the U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM) from 1981 to 1984. He was a strong sponsor of the Army's remote-viewing unit at Fort Meade and of other unconventional ideas: he hoped soldiers might learn to walk through walls, and he had commanders practise spoon bending. He took early retirement in 1984 amid controversy over these experiments, later worked for the defence contractor BDM, and inspired a character in the 2009 film The Men Who Stare at Goats. In later life he and his wife Rima Laibow promoted conspiracy theories about vaccines and the 11 September attacks.[1]
The lecture
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Stubblebine spoke at the International Symposium on UFO Research, sponsored by the International Association for New Science, in Denver from 22 to 25 May 1992; Steven Greer introduced him. He appeared as chairman of the board of PSI TECH, a private remote-viewing company. According to the transcript, he said there were structures on the Martian surface and beneath it that earlier spacecraft cameras had not revealed, that there was machinery there which was moving, and that remote viewing could show what it was, where it was and who had made it. He also described a PSI TECH project on the Soviet Phobos 2 probe, lost in 1989, whose results he called revealing but had not released, and claimed remote viewing could reach very high accuracy with the right method.[2]
The CIA Mars session
The CIA's declassified Stargate files include a transcript of a session on 22 May 1984 in which a remote viewer, later identified as Joseph McMoneagle, was asked to describe Mars around a million years ago and spoke of pyramids, a devastating geological disaster and tall, thin people. Writer Jason Colavito has argued that the session was probably not truly blind and that the descriptions echo popular ideas about Mars from the 1970s and 1980s.[3][4]
Assessment
A 1995 review of the government's remote-viewing program concluded that it had never produced information useful for intelligence operations, and NASA's many Mars missions have found no artificial structures. Stubblebine's remarks remain claims based on remote-viewing sessions.[3][5]
People and topics
- Albert Stubblebine — Army intelligence commander who championed psychic research.
- Remote viewing — The claimed ability to describe distant places by mental means.
- Ed Dames — Former Army remote viewer who founded Psi-Tech.
- Psi-Tech — Ed Dames's remote-viewing company.
- Central Intelligence Agency — The U.S. foreign intelligence agency, which has followed UFO reports since the 1940s.
- Stargate Project — The U.S. government's remote-viewing program, which ran from the 1970s until 1995.
- NASA — The U.S. civilian space agency, created in 1958.
On the Timeline
- British embassy report on triangles (1992) (22 December 1992) — The British embassy reports on the U.S. reaction to triangular UAP sightings.
- Rockefeller Initiative (15 April 1993) — White House science office papers show CIA interest in a UAP researcher's work.
See every 1992 event on the UAP Timeline →
References
- Albert Stubblebine — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Transcript of Albert Stubblebine's lecture, Denver, May 1992 (PSI TECH website copy) · stunned.org · archived copy
- Jason Colavito, "The CIA's psychic probe of ancient Martian civilization" (Mar 2017) · jasoncolavito.com · archived copy
- "An Army psychic told the CIA about ancient life on Mars", We Are The Mighty · wearethemighty.com · archived copy
- Stargate Project — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- abovetopsecret.com · abovetopsecret.com · archived copy
This page was last edited on 29 October 2026. Articles are written in our own words from the sources listed under References; disputed claims are attributed to the people who made them.
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