The CHANI Project
Nation Involved: United States of America
Time Period: 1994
The Soviets were not the only people over the years to study ESP and psychics with the idea of introducing them into warfare somehow. Yet the CHANI Project is likely one of the weirdest government experiments ever devised. CHANI was an acronym, standing for Channeled Holographic Access Network Interface. It was supposedly going to bring together science theory and spiritual awareness. The design of the project was to bring psychics into the digital age, through various computer programs.
A digital “channeler” supposedly makes contact with spirits or energies from another realm, which they referred to as “The Entity.” This is likely due to the fact that they could not know what omnipresent deity they’d be channeling. When studied, they claimed this Entity was in contact with them on behalf of “The Elders.” Apparently, they created and now oversee the universe today. Several projects like this have taken place, with the CIA doing several different things in an attempt to get a leg up on other countries. From MK Ultra to this, it is clear they were grasping at straws as this entire thing was crap.