Declassified documents show that CIA agents involved in the PSI experiments conducted in the early 1970s were markedly impressed by Swann’s RVing and psychokinetic abilities.

In his book Penetration, Swann recounts his involvement in Remote Viewing the dark side of the moon in 1975, a top-secret assignment offered to him by an unnamed shadow agency of the US government.

In part II, we will explore more contentious claims made by Swann dealing with his top-secret mission to remote view the dark side of the moon.

The Far Side of the Moon

Before we go any further, it’s important to understand why we only ever see the near side of the moon. At the most basic level, the reason one side of the moon is never visible to viewers from earth has to do with the moon’s perfectly synchronized rotation with that of the Earth’s, also known as gravitationally locked.

This YouTube Video from the Minute Science channel does a good job explaining the phenomenon in just under a minute.

Minute Science YouTube Channel

Dark Side of the Moon Explained

A man using the codename ‘Axelrod’ eventually calls Swann and invites him to DC.
Axelrod is described as something akin to a male model and is accompanied by another agent who closely resembles Axelrod, Swann nicknames them ‘the twins’. Again, Swann is warned not to speak of any of this to anyone if he accepts the assignment. Swann admits that at first he was mostly intrigued by the $1000 per day compensation.

Not long after initially contact is made, Swann is quickly hooded and whisked away to an undisclosed underground location somewhere near the capitol. Knowing nothing of the the assignment, Swann assumes that he will be asked to use his skills to Remote View enemy targets such as the Soviets or the Chinese. The objective of the mission is never really revealed to Swann but he's told that he'll be tasked with Remote Viewing the Moon over the course of several days.

Remote Viewing Sessions of the Moon

For each session, Swann is given coordinates on the moon based on longitude and latitude and he projects himself to the desired locations on the moon’s surface. Agent Axelrod accompanies Swann during every session providing the coordinates, asking questions from time-to-time and monitoring Swann's progress of the viewings.

Session 1.1 / Lunar Location 1

• Tracks on the moon’s surface

• “What they actually look like are rows of largish tractor tread marks. But I don’t understand how this could be, so they must be something I don’t understand.”

• Near a Cliff of some kind, rising upward quite high and made of some kind of dark rock.

• “…it has some kind of shiny quality to it, something like obsidian…”

• Whitish, fluffy sand
• There are patterns in the sand, like dunes, as if wind had made some kind of pattern
• Away from the cliff there’s a broad expanse
• Believes he is mistaken and is remote viewing a location on Earth
• Can sense some sort of atmosphere

Session 1.2 / Lunar Location 2

• Swann stops session abruptly because again he believes he must be on Earth and not the moon.

• Takes Break from RV session

Session 1.3 / Lunar Location 2

• Located inside a crater
• Greenish haze, like a light of some kind
• Beyond the greenish haze all around is dark
• Sees actual rows of lights

• “…sort of like lights at football arenas, high up , banks of them… up on towers of some kind.”

• “Have the Russians built a Moonbase or something? IS that what I am suppose to be remote-viewing?”

Session 1.4 / Lunar Location 2 – Resumed

• Greenish light seems diffused, as if there’s a lot of fog – dust
• Dust floating in the air
• There’s a thumping noise
• Has better view of one of the light towers this time
• Tower appears to be built by some narrow struts of some kind like pencils
• Like pre-fab stuff
• Estimates towers are 100 feet tall
• Tractor tread marks everywhere
• Views a glimpse of the crater’s edge with a very large tower on it

• “Yes, Big, really, big.”

• About the size of the UN building in NY (39 floors)
• (Swann begins to wonder if this is more than a moon base)

• “But the stuff is big.” (equipment)

• (Comes to realization that what he’s viewing is not from Earth!).

“I was now completely certain that I was physically present in some kind of ultra-ultra-ultra secret place, and that the mission of this place was to sort out extraterrestrial matters.”

“I knew that NASA must have photographic evidence of activities on the Moon which already confirmed the presence of extraterrestrial activity there.”

As Swann slowly becomes aware of the implications of what he’s glimpsed in his viewings and the nature of his assignment, he begins to breakdown emotionally and needs time to takes it all in. He experiences something of an emotional roller coaster from shock and disbelief to elation, sadness and anger. He lashes out at his handlers as well as demanding to know why they need him at all, why they don't just send another manned mission to the Moon.

It's not long before Swann starts piecing together the situation in his mind.

“Unless they… I can’t believe this… unless they somehow have told you to stay away, and somehow shown you they mean it!”

“They are NOT friendly, are they? ARE THEY, Axel!”

“So, the only major way now to spy on those guys is to resort to psychic abilities, which the mainstream of our great nation makes a special effort to discredit. What a gas! What a complete gas!”

He also suspects the mission is partly driven by a fear that the Soviets might be using their own psychics to gather ‘psychic Moon-information’ ahead of the US.

His mind reeling Swann takes another break as the experience proves to be more than he could have imagined. Intending to take a short power-nap, Swann passes out for 6 hours before they attempt another RV session.

Humanoids

Session 2 / Multiple Lunar Locations

• At a number of locations, nothing much to see except Moonscapes

• Other locations proved confusing with Swann drawing multiple sketches of things he could not wrap his head around.

I found towers, machinery, lights of different colors, strange-looking “buildings”.

I found bridges whose function I couldn’t figure out. One of them just arched out – and never landed anywhere. There were a lot of domes of various sizes, round things, things like small saucers with windows. These were stored next to crater sides, sometimes in caves, sometimes in what looked like airfield hangars.

I had problems estimating sizes. But some of the “things” were very large.

I found long tube-like things, machinery-tractor-like things going up and down hills, straight roads extending some miles, obelisks which had no apparent function.

There were large platforms on domes, large cross-like structures.

Holes being dug into crater walls and floors obviously having to do with some kind of mining or earth-moving operations.

There were “nets” over craters, “houses” in which someone obviously lived, except that I couldn’t see who – save in one case.

In THAT case, I saw some kind of people busy at work on something I could not figure out. The place was dark. The “air” was filled with a fine dust, and there was some kind of illumination – like a dark lime-green fog or mist.

The thing about them was that they were human or looked exactly like us – but they were all males, as I could well see since they were all butt-ass naked. I had absolutely no idea why. They seemed to be digging into a hillside or a cliff.

As I described, “They must have some way of creating a good environment, warm and with air in it. But why would they be going around naked?” No answer was forthcoming to this self-question.

What Swann describes next is something that he found deeply disturbing. While viewing the humanoid activity he claims that they became aware of his psychic penetration, they turned and looked at him as though they could feel some sort of dimensional disruption taking place.

But being there in my psychic state, as I felt I was, some of those guys started talking excitedly and gesticulating. Two of them pointed in my direction.

Immediately I felt like “running away” and hiding, which I guess I psychically did, since I “lost” sight of this particular imaging.

”I think they’ve spotted me, Axel. They were pointing at me I think. How could they do that…unless…they have some kind of high psychic perceptions, too?”

Axel said, in a calm low voice, so low I hardly heard it at first. “Please quickly come away from that place.”

My eyes were wide as understanding drained in. “You already know they are psychic, don’t you?” Axel raised his eyebrows and gave a deep sigh.

Swann felt that he was in danger and vocally raised concerns about whether or not the alien beings would come after him and want to kill him for his psychic intrusions.

At this point, agent Axelrod admits that the humanoids Swann observed had certain ‘things can capabilities’ that they were trying to get a better understanding of. But he assured Swann that there was nothing to suggest he would become a target of these beings.

Swann repeatedly asks Axelrod to elaborate and explain what’s known about these beings and the operation but he’s tight-lipped and evasive.
He would neither confirm nor deny.

They spoke a little more about the nature of PSI, mostly Swann trying to comprehend what he had felt when the humanoids had spotted him, rather, felt his presence.

The session was over, the assignment was too. Swann would be hooded once again, taken away in a chopper and driven by his Twin escorts back into the heart of the US capital and that was it.

After returning to his home in New York, Ingo Swann spent several days recovering from his experience, battling against paranoia and try to come to terms with what he had witnessed.

There are no doubt elements of Swann’s claims that sound ridiculous to some.
Unlike Swann’s RVing of Jupiter, these claims are not part of CIA/US gov. research into PSI and cannot be verified in any CIA document disclosures.

Psychic/Telepathic humanoid males, completely naked working inside of an artificial environment busily working on some unknown project.

The apparent mining activities by an alien species, that has been covered up for almost 4 decades, is also difficult for most people to fathom or to take seriously.

Yet, is there any evidence that corroborates these 'far out' claims of psychic origins?

The short answer is no, at least nothing conclusive.

However, similar claims have been made of structures on the Moon's surface, and not only on the far side of the Moon but on the near side as well. Some of the evidence comes from NASA's own photographic library collection of the Apollo missions, former NASA scientists and independent observations not connected to government agencies.

I hope you come along for the ride in Part 3, cheers!

Sources

PDF Warning! Always take necessary precautions before opening, downloading or connecting to PDFs

Penetration by Ingo Swann, 1998 Archive PDF link

For anyone interested in learning more about the methods and techniques involved in conducting a remote viewing you may be interested in this 98 page document.

Controlled Remote Viewing Manual PDF