The Real Origin of CIA Psychic Spying & The Missing UFO Tapes | Greg Mallozzi

Summary

Filmmaker Greg Mallozzi argues that parapsychologist Andrija Puharich, not SRI, laid the groundwork for CIA psychic spying, using channeling sessions with an entity group called the Nine as a possible cover for early remote viewing. He also discusses his documentary The Aether Ship, about musician Willard Van de Bogart, who built a synthesizer 'spaceship' to contact UFOs after childhood and adult encounters. The story centers on Valerie Ransone, a mysterious Washington insider who commissioned a secret 1978 sound recording attended by Jacques Vallée and then vanished from the lives of everyone involved.

Key takeaways

• 1The Nine first came through Indian professor Dr. Vinod, a writer for a Theosophy journal, at Puharich's Round Table Foundation lab in Maine in 1952.
• 2Puharich ran remote viewing style experiments in 1952-53, years before SRI, Hal Puthoff, Russell Targ and Ingo Swann. Targ was friends with Puharich in the 1960s.
• 3Mallozzi says Russell Targ seemingly 'implanted' an image in his mind during a lunch experiment, then told him he had put it there.
• 4Puharich's book 'Uri' describes Uri Geller channeling the Nine. Geller now claims the Nine was an already-existing AI entity.
• 5In 1978 Valerie Ransone's 'Information Network' paid the band The Aether Ship to record a performance with specific frequencies. Jacques Vallée attended, and she then disappeared.
• 6Astronaut Gordon Cooper's book 'Leap of Faith' devotes a chapter to Ransone, including a telepathic warning that allegedly prevented a launch disaster.
• 7Meade Layne's 'Memorandum of Importance', held in FBI files, describes UFOs as etheric beings from the 'lokas and talas'.
• 8Carl Schleicher's Mankind Research Unlimited in Washington DC is alleged to have been tied to the CIA.
• 9Willard Van de Bogart was influenced by Trevor James Constable's 'The Cosmic Pulse of Life', and the hosts suggest he may have inspired the Close Encounters tones.

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Transcript excerpt

You say, oh, this is like Close Encounters of the Third Kind, but happening in real life. They're driving a deserted road, dark, and, you know, big light. He sees, he gets out of the car, it's there, it disappears. He gets this downloaded. But he's sort of told, I guess, to build this big machine, I guess he would call it, which is essentially a number of different synthesizers and keyboard instruments built into this big half-sphere. Willard was contacted by this very mysterious woman. She's aware that they're both interested in the UFO topic and doing this sort of performative art that is supposed to be communicating with UFOs, non-human intelligence. And so she basically sets up a performance. I truly feel like she's the missing link to so many of these stories that have happened. She's either literally the most important figure in all of ufology, where she's like just, I don't think she's crazy. And this is where Jacques Vallée comes into the story. Basically, she gives very specific sort of rules about this recording. Certain, you know, frequency ranges that should be included. Other very weird secretive things. The tape has to be essentially given to her immediately. It can't be shared with anyone. And after the tape was given to her, she basically disappeared from their lives. So the idea is it is not supposed to exist, but they made a secret recording. You've heard the recording. Yeah, and it's in the film. You did actually end up talking to her, right? Yes. And last time we talked at length about this Puharich documentary you have coming out, which many people are frustrated in my comments that it's not out and they can't watch it. ...

Excerpt from Third Eye Drops, Oct 11, 2026. Rights remain with the original creators. Hear the full episode at the source.