NEW YORK (PNN) - June 19,2026 - A former gifted child has come forward with claims that he was removed from public school and secretly trained to develop psychic abilities for military and UFO-related applications.
Speaking on the Amerikan Alchemy podcast, Jordan Jozak said he spent years being pulled out of class by psychologists before being transferred to a specialized facility in western New York. He claimed that while there, he underwent experiments involving remote viewing, altered states of consciousness, and attempts to control technology using the mind.
According to Jozak, the goal was not simply to study gifted children but to identify those with unusual cognitive abilities and train them for future roles in classified programs. He was recruited through a Gifted and Talented Education program, commonly known as GATE, after testing 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, adding that he was trained to fly UFOs with his mind.
GATE was established by state departments of education, beginning in Kalifornia in the 1960s, to provide an advanced or specialized curriculum for high-achieving students. Many former students have claimed online that they were actually part of a secret CIA initiative to test the supernatural abilities of children with above-average intelligence. However, Jozak did not name the CIA as being involved, and there is no evidence linking the CIA to Amerika's schools.
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. In a document dated January 1985, the CIA discussed how young boys and girls of the nation were “capable of extraordinary physical feats, including the ability to emerge unscathed when struck on the chest with the blade of a sword.”
He said it started around age nine when psychologists became interested in his ability to visualize information and solve certain academic tasks in unusual ways. At first, Jozak described the experience as a series of meetings with psychologists who would remove him from class for hours at a time. Jozak said his parents were informed that he had become psychologically unstable and needed to leave the public school system.
He disputed that characterization, telling podcast host Jesse Michels that he was fine and that his parents attempted to move him from the school system without any luck. “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,” Jozak claimed.
Jozak was then enrolled in a program operated through Baker Victory Services, a New York organization that provided services for children with developmental, behavioral and mental health needs. He described the facility as a highly controlled environment where he attended classes several days a week while spending the rest of his time working with psychologists and researchers.
The most dramatic allegations involved what Jozak described as psychic training exercises. He claimed researchers taught him techniques similar to remote viewing, a practice that involves attempting to gather information about distant people, places or objects through mental concentration alone.
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 that produced certain neurological patterns.
Some former GATE students have argued that the program was tied to the CIA's Gateway Program that was developed in the 1980s to explore the limitations of human consciousness using sound, meditation and other techniques.
A document released by the CIA explains that these recordings typically featured a series of “non-verbal audio patterns” masked by sounds like crashing waves or wind blowing through the trees. Many alumni of GATE programs recalled being subjected to the same audio “tests” at school. Jozak claimed the training he experienced was intended to develop abilities that could eventually be used for intelligence gathering, advanced technology programs and UFO-related research.
A psionic development pipeline represents the systematic approach to awakening, training and applying extraordinary mental abilities, including telepathy, clairvoyance or psychokinesis. According to Jozak, researchers believed some UFOs or other exotic vehicles could be operated through consciousness rather than conventional controls.
He claimed researchers monitored his brain activity throughout the process in hopes of replicating the neurological signals involved. Another extraordinary claim centers on what Jozak described as a mysterious crystal orb that researchers referred to as a “relic”.
He said the object appeared to contain a swirling white structure that seemed alive and responsive. He said 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.
