Former gifted child claims secret military psychic training program.

A former gifted child has revealed disturbing claims about his removal from public school. He alleges he was secretly trained to develop psychic abilities for military and UFO applications.

Speaking on the American Alchemy podcast, Jordan Jozak detailed his harrowing experience. He stated he spent years being pulled out of class by psychologists before transfer. This move led him to a specialized facility in western New York.

There, Jozak claimed he underwent rigorous experiments. These tests involved remote viewing and altered states of consciousness. He also said he attempted to control technology using only his mind.

According to Jozak, the goal was not simply to study gifted children. Officials allegedly sought to identify those with unusual cognitive abilities. They intended to train them for future roles in classified programs.

Jozak alleged he was recruited through a Gifted and Talented Education program. This is commonly known as GATE. He tested exceptionally high in certain academic categories as a child.

'I was in the GATE classroom. I drank the pink drink. It's just that there was a progression of more,' he told podcast host Jesse Michels. He added he was trained to fly UFOs with his mind.

GATE was established by state departments of education beginning in California in the 1960s. The program provided an advanced curriculum for high-achieving students.

Many former students have claimed online they were part of a secret CIA initiative. These accounts suggest the government tested supernatural abilities in children with above-average intelligence. However, Jozak did not name the CIA as being involved. There is currently no evidence linking the CIA to American schools.

Jozak said the memories of the experiments remained buried for years. They resurfaced through severe flashbacks and nightmares in 2023. He recalled being in labs during this time.

The claims, which have not been independently verified, are among the most unusual to emerge from the growing world of UFO and consciousness-related whistleblower accounts. In 2025, dozens of people claiming to have had similar experiences took to social media.

One woman said she was part of the program in the 1990s. She shared a workbook she purportedly used during class. The document showed her cracking codes and learning Russian.

A document dated January 1985 discussed how young boys and girls were capable of extraordinary physical feats. This included the ability to emerge unscathed when struck on the chest with the blade of a sword.

A young boy mentioned in the report 'peered' inside the womb of a pregnant woman. He announced that the fetus had no head. The diagnosis turned out to be correct.

According to Jozak, his story began around 2004 and 2005. He was tested through his school's gifted education program in Springville, New York. He said it started around age nine when psychologists became interested in his ability to visualize information. They noted his unusual way of solving certain academic tasks.

'I could picture a word in my mind and then break apart the letters piece by piece,' Jozak said. 'One of the things that these psychologists were fascinated about was my ability to spell because I was spelling at like a college level.'

At first, Jozak described the experience as a series of meetings with psychologists. They would remove him from class for hours at a time.

'I was being told that I was a very special kid.

I had a very special brain, and no one else would understand," Jozak stated, noting that the circumstances surrounding his life began to intensify when he was approximately 12 years old. He recounted that authorities informed his parents he had become psychologically unstable and required removal from the public school system. Jozak strongly contested this assessment, telling podcast host Jesse Michels that he was mentally sound and that his parents had attempted to keep him in the public system without success. "I was refusing to go to school at one point, and people from the school district were actually showing up and removing me from the house. Like it was Stranger Things-level stuff," he claimed.

Following this removal, Jozak was placed in a program administered by Baker Victory Services, a New York-based organization dedicated to providing services for children with developmental, behavioral, and mental health needs. "Baker Victory Services still exists today. It's a much larger organization serving a lot of other purposes, which are good," he observed. He clarified that the organization itself was not the source of his distress, but rather the specific location and the environment he was placed in. He described the facility as a highly controlled setting where he attended classes for two to three days a week, while spending the remaining days working intensively with a team of psychologists, researchers, and psychiatrists. "I would attend school like a normal kid for like two to three days a week, and then for the other two to three days a week, depending on that, I was working heavily with a team of psychologists, researchers, psychiatrists," he said.

The most severe allegations concern what Jozak described as psychic training exercises. He asserted that researchers instructed him in techniques akin to remote viewing, a controversial practice involving the attempt to gather information about distant people, places, or objects solely through mental concentration. "I had the ability to get out of my body, see in the other room, see things from a distance. And kind of shift my awareness visually," he explained. According to Jozak, he would enter deep meditative states while listening to audio stimulation designed to alter brain activity. Researchers allegedly monitored his brain waves and encouraged him to repeat mental exercises intended to produce specific neurological patterns.

Some former students of the GATE program have argued that their education was connected to the CIA's Gateway Program, which was developed in the 1980s to investigate the limits of human consciousness using sound, meditation, and other methods. A document released by the CIA indicates that these recordings typically featured a series of "non-verbal audio patterns" masked by sounds such as crashing waves or wind blowing through trees. Many alumni of GATE programs have recalled undergoing similar audio "tests" during their schooling. Jozak claimed that the training he endured was intended to cultivate abilities potentially usable for intelligence gathering, advanced technology initiatives, and research into UFOs. "I was in a psionic development pipeline for legacy program development," he stated. He defined a psionic development pipeline as a systematic approach to awakening, training, and applying extraordinary mental abilities, including telepathy, clairvoyance, or psychokinesis. Furthermore, he alleged that researchers held the belief that certain UFOs or exotic vehicles could be operated through consciousness rather than conventional controls. "I would lie in a deep meditation.

I would have some type of sedative and shift my consciousness into a set object or some vehicle and become it," he said.

According to Jozak, he was then instructed to manipulate the object mentally.

"Pilot it up and down, move it left and right," he said, claiming that UFOs were not flown with joysticks, but with the mind.

He claimed researchers monitored his brain activity throughout the process in hopes of replicating the neurological signals involved.

"From what I understand, what they were trying to do is build a brain neural interface that would reproduce the brain wave signals that I was sending out," he said.

Another extraordinary claim centers on what Jozak described as a mysterious crystal orb that researchers referred to as a "relic."

The object, he said, appeared to contain a swirling white structure that seemed alive and responsive.

"As I locked eye contact with it, the inside structure, it adapts and it likes changes," Jozak said.

He claimed the object appeared to react to his presence and later became a central part of his training.

Jozak said he has provided names, locations and other details to members of the intelligence community and government officials.

To date, no public evidence has emerged to substantiate his allegations, and no documentation has been released showing that such a program existed.

However, Jozak insisted the experiences were real and said they explain the traumatic memories that resurfaced decades later.