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1975 · Remote viewing session

Swann sees the far side of the Moon

On the record
Strength C · 5/10 · 3 independent
Evidence 1/4 · Witnesses 2/3 · Backing 2/3

Rests on Swann's own firsthand account with no document or second witness for the sessions, though some details have outside echoes.

Plausibility Low
Score 4 · 5 factors for, 2 against

Swann's account of remote-viewing structures on the Moon for a secretive "Mr. Axelrod" rests on him alone, told 20 years later in a book; the SRI program he worked in is documented.

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Unresolved
When1975-77 (told in 1998)
WhereRemote viewing session
Backing3 independent
Evidencedocuments, sensor data, official records

In their own words

“about as high as the Secretariat building at the United Nations”
Ingo Swann, remote viewer, on a lunar tower in Penetration (1998)

In Penetration, Swann wrote that a secretive man he called 'Mr. Axelrod' brought him blindfolded to an underground facility and gave him coordinates on the Moon. He described tread marks, green lights on towers over a hundred feet tall, a huge tower on a crater rim, and in later sessions domes, mining and humanlike beings. Axelrod's group, he said, already knew they were there. He was warned never to talk about it and only did in 1998. His towers are the same order of size as the shadows Max points to in Plaskett U, though Swann gave no coordinates to tie them to one place.

Evidence, in date order (3)

  1. 1976George Leonarddocument
    1976 book sketches of lunar structures resembling what Swann described George Leonard, 'Somebody Else Is On the Moon' (1976)
  2. Surveyor 7, Apollo 17 (Cernan) and LADEEsensor data
    observations of lofted lunar dust, matching Swann's floating dust
  3. Department of Warofficial
    opened a case on an Apollo 17 lunar photograph (VM006) war.gov: Apollo 17 photograph DoW opened a case on (VM006)

How plausible · Low

Swann's account of remote-viewing structures on the Moon for a secretive "Mr. Axelrod" rests on him alone, told 20 years later in a book; the SRI program he worked in is documented.

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    Fits secrecy practice A covert group, by his account.
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    Access He describes his own sessions.
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    Cost of speaking Named.
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    Character record A documented SRI remote viewer.
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    Fits the documented skeleton The CIA-funded SRI program is documented.
Against
  • −
    Lone source, no corroboration No second witness to the sessions.
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    Commercial motive Told in a book.

Plausibility weighs how well an account fits where secrecy hides the documents by design, so missing records never count against it. Strength measures what is documented. Assessed 2026-10-23.

On the record

  • Swann's own published account (Penetration: The Question of Extraterrestrial and Human Telepathy, 1998).
  • Swann was at SRI in a CIA-funded program from late 1972 (Puthoff, Journal of Scientific Exploration, 1996; CIA declassification, 1995).Swann on Jupiter

Claims

Remote-viewing the Moon, he saw rows of 'tractor tread marks', green lights 'like lights at football arenas' on towers of thin struts 'over a hundred feet' tall, dust floating in the air and a thumping noise.firsthandSourced, unconfirmedIngo Swann
A very large tower stood on a crater rim, 'about as high as the Secretariat building at the United Nations'.firsthandSourced, unconfirmedIngo Swann
Later sessions showed domes, bridges, platforms, mining or earth-moving, and naked humanoids.firsthandSourced, unconfirmedIngo Swann
Axelrod's group already knew of non-human activity on the Moon and wanted to know whether the occupants could detect psychic spying.secondhandSourced, unconfirmedIngo Swann
Axelrod broke his pencil when Swann reported the lights.Swann on JupiterHitchhiker effectfirsthandSourced, unconfirmedIngo Swann
George Leonard's sketches in Somebody Else Is On the Moon (1976) resemble what Swann saw.George Leonard, 'Somebody Else Is On the Moon' (1976)Swann on JupiteranalysisSourced, unconfirmedIngo Swann

In The picture

The pictureSomeone was here first. Apollo 11’s crew saw the glow at Aristarchus while observers on Earth reported it, astronauts on three missions saw flashes on the Moon that NASA’s Artemis II report confirms, and Cernan watched a distant ‘flasher’. China’s Chang’e-6 brought back far-side soil holding single-walled carbon nano…
The pictureIt isn’t just hardware. AAWSAP at Skinwalker Ranch, Stargate’s remote viewers, Swann’s Moon sessions, Nolan’s study of injured witnesses and the medical cases BAASS followed with blood work and scans all tie the phenomenon to the mind and the body. Insiders seem to have treated consciousness as part of the technology.

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People and organizations

Central Intelligence Agency orgSRI International orgIngo Swann person'Mr. Axelrod' personGeorge Leonard, 'Somebody Else Is On the Moon' (1976) documentIngo Swann, 'Penetration: The Question of Extraterrestrial and Human Telepathy' (1998) document

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