Detecting the Invisible: The Future of Sensors Against Psionic Weaponry
In an era where AI, quantum computing, and emerging UAP technologies force us to redefine and reevaluate our sense of reality, the concept of “psionic weaponry” (tools that manipulate and act directly on the mind) demands serious observation and analysis. Lieutenant Colonel Dolan M. McKelvy’s 1988 Air War College report Psychic Warfare: Exploring The Mind Frontier warned that “vast untapped mental capabilities create an entirely new battlefield dimension which, if ignored, poses a threat to self and country more serious than nuclear weapons.” This assessment, later archived by the CIA, proved remarkably prophetic as consciousness studies, quantum sensing, and defense applications converge at the frontier of human potential.
Today’s push to build sensor suites for psionic weaponry sits at the leading edge of research and defense innovation, bolstered by newly declassified programs and breakthroughs in quantum sensing. At ELDÆON, we take the position that functional psionic weapons and effective detection systems are both achievable and on the near-term horizon. Our work is dedicated to turning that conviction into reality. This article explores how quantum sensing technology could be repurposed from detecting conventional electromagnetic threats to investigating anomalous cognitive-environmental interactions through a philosophical lens.
From a panpsychist perspective, consciousness is a fundamental feature of the universe as opposed to an emergent phenomenon of our carbon-based brains. This metaphysical foundation makes psionic influences theoretically plausible: if consciousness permeates reality at every scale, then direct manipulation of mental states across spacetime becomes possible rather than miraculous.
Drawing from phenomenological philosophy, particularly Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s work on embodied perception and altered states of consciousness, we can examine how external forces might disrupt the normal flow of conscious experience. Merleau-Ponty argued that perception is not passive reception but active engagement between consciousness and world, suggesting vulnerabilities where this engagement could be manipulated or distorted.
With that, Carl Jung’s study of autonomous complexes and spiritual intrusions showed how “unconscious emotional clusters” and “external-like spiritual forces” can influence thoughts, feelings, and actions beyond a person’s conscious control. Jung documented cases where individuals experienced thoughts, emotions, and behaviors that seemed to originate from sources beyond their personal psyche.
In Alan Turing’s 1950 Computing Machinery and Intelligence, he states:
“I assume that the reader is familiar with the idea of extra-sensory perception, and the meaning of the four items of it… telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition and psycho-kinesis. These disturbing phenomena seem to deny all our usual scientific ideas. How we should like to discredit them! Unfortunately the statistical evidence, at least for telepathy, is overwhelming… If telepathy is admitted it will be necessary to tighten our [Turing] test up. The situation could be regarded as analogous to that which would occur if the interrogator were talking to himself and one of the competitors was listening with his ear to the wall. To put the competitors into a ‘telepathy-proof room’ would satisfy all requirements [of the Turing test].”
This evidently demonstrates that one of the most prominent figures in artificial intelligence, Alan Turing, had a serious conviction in extrasensory perception and believed it to be a legitimate objection and methodological caveat to the Turing test. We now consider large language models and other generative artificial intelligence systems to be basic everyday technology, but let us not forget that for a long period of time up until even recent history, artificial intelligence has been considered science fiction. Given that, it would be premature and potentially shortsighted to write off extrasensory perception, psionics, and psionic weaponry as complete science fiction as well.
There have been extensive philosophical writings on extrasensory perception intersecting with philosophy of mind, epistemology, metaphysics, and philosophy of science. Although psionics has attracted less formal philosophical analysis, it follows naturally from longstanding inquiries into psychic phenomena and mind-matter interaction.
For clarity, extrasensory perception focuses on perceiving beyond the senses (e.g., telepathy), while psionics includes broader mind-based capabilities such as telekinesis, mind control, and energy manipulation. These topics are frequently explored in the context of parapsychology, skepticism, historical philosophical traditions, and forward-looking tech discourse.
Building on these philosophical foundations, historical efforts like the Stargate Project attempted to operationalize such phenomena. From 1977 to 1995, the U.S. Army and the Defense Intelligence Agency ran the Stargate Project, a classified program investigating remote viewing and other alleged psychic abilities for military intelligence. After nearly two decades and millions of dollars in funding, the CIA’s 1995 review concluded that “[i]n no case had the information provided ever been used to guide intelligence operations”, “[r]emote viewing failed to produce actionable intelligence” and that the results were too inconsistent to be operationally useful. This termination is often cited as definitive proof that psionic capabilities are either nonexistent or too unreliable to be weaponized or defended against, suggesting that defense resources should be allocated to threats with proven physics-based mechanisms. However, this conclusion warrants scrutiny given historical precedents of deliberate disinformation campaigns designed to discredit emerging technologies.
The CIA’s contracted evaluation through the American Institutes for Research mirrors the systematic debunking approach employed in Project Blue Book, where genuine anomalous phenomena were publicly dismissed while classified research continued in parallel programs. Just as Blue Book served to “shadow ban” UAP research from public discourse while military investigation proceeded through other channels, the Stargate Project’s public termination may have functioned to redirect attention away from ongoing classified efforts in consciousness-based intelligence gathering.
While the Stargate Project did not yield actionable military intelligence, its shortcomings largely reflect the technological and methodological limitations of its time, not the impossibility of psionic phenomena. Remote viewing was tested without the benefit of today’s advances in neuroimaging, quantum sensing, AI-assisted anomaly detection, and signal analysis, meaning that subtle cognitive-environmental effects could have gone undetected. Moreover, the intelligence community has historically classified anomalous phenomena research under extreme secrecy, making it difficult to assess the full scope or validity of the data.
This suspicion of strategic misdirection is reinforced by recent candid remarks from Hal Puthoff, former director of the Stargate Project:
Jesse Michels: “The Stargate program which you ran, which is a government sort of psychic spy program… you know a lot of people after that said that it wasn’t all that effective.”
Hal Puthoff: “See that’s part of the negative stigmatization."
Jesse Michels: “Well I was just reading Skinwalkers at the Pentagon, you know where it talks about AATIP, and I guess AATIP, yeah AAWSAP, these two programs and it looks like remote viewing is sort of again revived I guess”
Hal Puthoff: “I don’t think it ever really died.”
In modern defense R&D, fields once considered fringe (such as cyberwarfare, hypersonics, and directed energy weapons) are now mainstream. The failure of a 20th-century program should not foreclose the exploration of 21st century technologies capable of detecting and interpreting subtle, mind-linked interactions in ways Stargate researchers could only have hoped for through technological device means.
Even if the mainstream consensus probability of psionic weaponry is low, the potential consequences of covert cognitive disruption, mass psychological manipulation, or targeted mental incapacitation are strategically significant enough to warrant continued monitoring and detection research. National security planning routinely allocates resources to “low-likelihood, high-impact” scenarios, from asteroid impacts to bioterrorism, precisely because the cost of being unprepared could be catastrophic. History shows that adversaries sometimes weaponize technologies dismissed as implausible until they’re demonstrated in conflict.
Even with the CIA’s so-called failure of the Stargate Project to produce usable intelligence in the 20th century, it does not eliminate the strategic imperative to develop early-warning systems for emerging, unconventional threats, especially when modern sensing, biometric, and AI capabilities make it possible to investigate them more rigorously than ever before.
While “psionic” evokes science fiction, real-world directed energy weapons can disrupt neural functions invisibly. Around 2017, there were incidents known as “Havana Syndrome,” where U.S. diplomats suffered dizziness, ringing ears, and cognitive damage. This was suspected to have been caused by a directed energy “neuro-weapon”. Some investigations pointed to ultrasonic or pulsed radiofrequency exposures as likely culprits. Such neuroweapons aim to disrupt brain function rather than burn or blast, making them especially insidious. They produce invisible beams or pulses, often leaving no immediate trace beyond victims’ symptoms. Detecting these subtle attacks in real time is a great challenge, but it’s one that scientists and defense agencies are urgently tackling.
Existing sensor technologies provide some foundational defenses against electromagnetic, acoustic, and neurological disruptions from invisible attacks. Military systems include laser warning receivers that detect incoming beams from weapons or rangefinders, alerting users preemptively. For microwaves, electronic warfare units deploy wideband radiofrequency sensors and spectrum analyzers to monitor hostile signals, though these are less common and require strong emissions for detection.
In the acoustic realm, microphones, vibration sensors, and differential pressure transducers capture ultrasonic and infrasonic waves beyond human hearing, enabling localization of sonic attacks from miles away. Neurologically, electroencephalography (EEG) and magnetoencephalography (MEG) measure brain electrical and magnetic activity in controlled environments, hinting that external disruptions could be monitored, but not yet in real-time military threat scenarios. These tools excel at detecting overt signals but fail with subtle, fleeting threats, making necessary next-generation advancements for comprehensive protection.
So where does this leave humanity moving forward? Well, maybe with cybernetics: “the transdisciplinary study of circular causal processes such as feedback and recursion, where the effects of a system’s actions (its outputs) return as inputs to that system, influencing subsequent action”. At The Macy Conferences of 1946-1953, pioneers like Norbert Wiener and Warren McCulloch forged cybernetics as the science of control and communication. Cybernetics explored how systems, from brains to machines, adapt to external stimuli through circular causality.
This is akin to ELDÆON’s current mission to detect unseen forces. ELDÆON is leveraging UAP detection technology to build hardware capable of detecting cognitive-environmental interactions, fusing multimodal sensors with biometrics such as EEGs and TRNGs (True Random Number Generators), to capture how anomalies alter human perception and the environment.
Drawing on McCulloch’s insight that neural feedback loops explain “cognitively distorted worldviews,” ELDÆON’s EEG headsets detect brain state shifts during anomalous events. This initiative synchronizes biometric data with environmental sensors to map observer-anomaly dynamics. Our system processes real-time data, creating a cybernetic archive of interactions that could reveal psionic-like threats, such as microwave-induced neural disruptions seen in Havana Syndrome.
The Macy Conferences’ exploration of observer effects, where “the observer and the information they perceived ceased to exist independently” (Donald MacKay), aligns with ELDÆON’s panpsychist theory of viewing the brain as an antenna that tunes into consciousness as opposed to viewing consciousness as an emergent property of the brain. Our dataset captures these entanglements – whether a UAP’s radiofrequency signature triggers EEG anomalies or a directed energy weapon’s electromagnetic pulse alters autonomic responses. Our multimodal systems will uncover the “invisible” signatures of psionic-like attacks, safeguarding cognition in an anomalous world.
ELDÆON represents the practical convergence of these theoretical frameworks into deployable technology. Our existing multimodal UAP detection system already captures anomalous aerial phenomena through synchronized environmental sensors and real-time data processing.
The logical next step is extending this platform to include specialized sensors designed for psionic weaponry detection by integrating EEG headsets, biometric field detectors, and quantum sensing modules capable of identifying the subtle cognitive-environmental signatures that traditional defense systems miss. By building upon our field-tested UAP detection infrastructure, ELDÆON is uniquely positioned to pioneer the first comprehensive psionic threat detection system, transforming speculative philosophy into operational security. This initiative will shape our understanding of consciousness, anomalous phenomena, and the invisible forces that may already be influencing human cognition. In an era where the boundaries between science fiction and reality continue to blur, ELDÆON’s mission is to ensure we’re prepared for whatever lies beyond our current perceptual limits.
“We must overcome our psychic inhibitions, stop denying the existence of paranormal events, and start trying instead to understand the nature of these phenomena.” — Lt. Col. Dolan M. McKelvy, Psychic Warfare: Exploring the Mind Frontier (Air War College, 1988)
