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According to the official record, Swann was in almost every way perfectly normal. He certainly wasn't delusional, as the tests confirmed.

[SRI data on medical and psych tests]

MR. AXELROD

Swann's departure from psychic experiments funded by the CIA, into the mysterious black unknown, began with his recruitment by a man who called himself "Mr. Axelrod."

A CIA memorandum for the record dated 21 January, 1975, documents the status of the SRI program just prior to Axelrod's appearance:

"In 1972 reports of paranormal activities being documented at SRI by Dr. H. Puthoff and Mr. R. Targ reached the Agency. The original contracts were [redacted] OTS/APB and [redacted] ORD/TC. A small work order type contract (approximately $10,000) was initiated by [redacted] with the permission of Dr. S. Gottlieb, D/OTS. This contract arranged for SRI to administer controlled laboratory testing of Mr. Ingo Swann, a New York City artist, with claimed paranormal abilities. Mr. Swann was tested and produced significant data under controlled conditions."

We will only mention that Dr. Sidney Gottlieb, D/OTS was heavily involved in the notorious CIA experimentation on human subjects using LSD, under a project called MKULTRA.

In late February, 1975, Swann's affair with the mysterious operation interested in extraterrestrial activity was initiated by a phone call from a well placed acquaintance, who alerted Swann to a forthcoming contact with a real-life man in the black.

Weeks later the call came in at 3AM, requesting Swann's presence in Washington, D.C.

The mysterious contact from Mr. Axelrod directed Swann through a series of covert meetings at various locations. In the first meeting Swann was instructed to wait at the Museum of Natural History at the Smithsonian, until he was contacted by Axelrod's operatives. In a scene worthy of a Hollywood movie, Swann was subjected to a full body search while en-route to the clandestine meeting. To prevent Swann from knowing the location of Axelrod's secret underground lair, a black hood was placed over his head.

Needless to say, by this point Swann's mind was spinning, wondering what on Earth he had gotten himself into.

The strange twists and turns of Swann's recruitment into black ops psychic spying would eventually culminate in a close physical encounter with what appeared to be an alien machine.

Who was this Mr. Axelrod? One legendary group of alleged deep black government insiders, brought into the limelight by a series of 'leaked' papers (unlike the STAR GATE files, which were officially released by the CIA) is known as MAJESTIC. Our anonymous source questioned the likelihood of Swann's mysterious Mr. Axelrod being involved with the so-called MJ-12 MAJESTIC group, which the FBI has declared as originating from bogus UFO documents. Although the FBI has stated that the various MAJESTIC documents are fakes, one of our other intelligence sources recently suggested that the
bogus documents may have been used to pass real intelligence to the Russians.

[See "Trickster Tales" by Caryn Anscomb]

Mr. Axelrod's mission statement to recruit Swann was purely verbal: there was to be no paper trail; no secrecy statement; lending some evidence that Axelrod's people might have been working under non-official-cover (NOC) -- they would be denied by those in charge if their activities were ever revealed.

Swann soon learned Axelrod's primary interests were less than Earthly. In addition to the potential of remote viewing the lunar surface, Axelrod also had a fascination with the concept of telepathy, the sharing of thoughts in a conscious interface.

Confirmation that the human race had fallen under the finger of higher intelligence with advanced technology was also a strong indication of the correctness of the simulation argument: Any interaction between a 'natural' reality and a much more developed intelligence automatically meant that simulation had entered the picture. The interface of human-mind with alien-mind as a complex simulation scenario had not yet been fully evaluated in the available CIA-sponsored research literature of the time.

The personal mental environment is largely an assembled experience or simulation based upon millions of years of development. The idea of  'telepathy' or the mind-to-mind interface is an artifice introduced to bridge many individual simulations, each with their unique point of view of the same natural environment: The world 'out there' in a telepathic network merges the individual with an undivided whole.

Perhaps there was a general subconscious discomfort level and fear induced by the knowledge that a higher intelligence appeared to have developed a means of interacting directly with the human brain and higher conscious mind functions as a form of communication, or worse, as mind-control. Once a form of direct to brain communication was accepted, a network of minds linked in a cosmic internet was the next logical assumption.

Recent research using functional MRI technology to read the state of a human brain and correlate that state with behavior is an example of a primitive means of interfacing mind and machine. The idea floating around in government circles today is to use the fMRI to spot terrorists intending to cause mayhem and destruction, by detecting their thoughts. In a related story, the American Civil Liberties Union has raised concerns that such devices are an invasion of privacy and may have been used to interrogate
suspected terrorists.

Given a few million or more years to advance their technology, one might ask what kind of device might be evolved into the brain-mind of an alien civilization?

Axelrod debriefed Swann about his work at SRI, in particular the psychic method that later came to be known as coordinate remote viewing. How did it work? At first Axelrod limited discussions to the power of the group mind, and discussion of 'memory' addressing. Were remote viewers accessing the universal mind-computer?  Thirty years prior to recent serious discussions that humanity might exist in a simulation of reality, Axelrod was probing Swann about a stored memory of all possible worlds and outcomes, and a means of accessing this potential database underlying reality. Dinner conversation also included discussion of telepathy: mind-to-mind communication, something that the DIA would become very interested in later, as shown by the STAR GATE files.

Soon the discussion turned to Swann's experimental remote viewing of the planet Jupiter which had yielded apparent hits, like the existence of rings around the planet. Axelrod was interested in Swann's 'trip' to Jupiter, an attempt to see if he could psychically discover unknown details about the gas giant that might later be confirmed by the NASA Pioneer spacecraft.

And then he asked, "Ingo, what do you know about the moon?"