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The USS Nautilus (SSN-571) was the world's first operational nuclear-powered submarine. It became the subject of a fabricated story about telepathy experiments that influenced Soviet psi research. | Esoteric & Historical Concept | The USS Nautilus (SSN-571) was the world's first operational nuclear-powered submarine, launched in 1954, whose name was attached to a fabricated 1960 French magazine story about telepathy experiments that inadvertently accelerated Soviet psi research funding. | 1954 | United States |
The USS Nautilus (SSN-571) was the world's first operational nuclear-powered submarine, launched by the United States in 1954. It gained notoriety in the context of psychic research due to a fabricated story published in 1960.1
In February 1960, the French magazine Science et Vie published an article titled "The Secret of the Nautilus," written by Gerard Messadie and allegedly sourced by Jacques Bergier. The article falsely claimed that the U.S. government had successfully used telepathy to communicate with the Nautilus crew while the submarine was submerged beneath the Arctic ice cap.1
Despite official American denials, the Soviet Union reportedly believed the story, which served as a significant stimulus for the expansion of their own parapsychology research programs. The Soviets even claimed to have replicated the entire Nautilus experiment successfully with one of their own submarines.1
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Schnabel, Jim. Remote Viewers. Dell, 1997. ↩︎