From Gifted Classes to UFO Secrets: My Link to the Pentagon’s Covert Testing Programs

Former Gifted Students Question if School Program Tied to Pentagon’s UFO Projects

A woman who participated in her school’s Gifted and Talented Education (GATE) program in the early 2000s suspects the curriculum may have been linked to covert government projects, including the Pentagon’s UFO investigations. GATE, designed to challenge students with advanced academics, creativity exercises, and critical thinking, is now under scrutiny as alumni share eerie details about meditation sessions, Morse code lessons, and decoding tasks hinting at extraterrestrial themes.

Milli, a former GATE student, recently shared a 2004 worksheet titled “A Strange Message” on TikTok. The assignment described a fictional “mothership from Zorex” landing in Peru before traveling to Egypt and Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula—regions that reportedly experienced real UFO sightings that year. The text urged students to “close your eyes and breathe deeply” to locate the ship, described as a “fifth-dimensional model invisible to normal Earth eyes.”

[Image: A GATE worksheet referencing UFO sightings in Peru, Egypt, and Mexico.]

CIA Connections and “Gateway Program” Theories
Some alumni speculate GATE was tied to the CIA’s classified “Gateway Program,” a Cold War-era initiative exploring altered states of consciousness through meditation and sound. Former students recall listening to hypnotic audio tapes and learning languages like Russian. “They were facilitated by people who did not work at our school,” said TikTok user Rachel. Milli added, “What were you training us for?” after revisiting her Soviet-era codebreaking exercises.

2004 UFO Reports Match Worksheet’s Claims
The worksheet’s references to Peru, Egypt, and Yucatan align with unverified UFO reports from 2004:

• Peru: Witnesses in Lima described a glowing object tracked by multiple aircraft.
• Yucatan: Observers reported star-like objects darting at “incredible speeds” across the sky.
• Egypt: A bizarre Alexandria account claimed 50 “aura”-shrouded crafts landed, with a blue-furred, tailed entity allegedly painting a cat red-orange. Another sighting near the Great Pyramid of Giza involved disk-shaped UFOs captured in a photo.

[Image: TikTok user Milli displays her GATE workbook, including Russian language drills.]

While the link remains speculative, Milli noted the odd parallels: “Might be a coincidence, who knows.” The Pentagon has never confirmed such programs, and the quirky assignments—once dismissed as creative puzzles—now spark curiosity about their true purpose.

Conclusion
Decades later, GATE alumni are re-examining their unconventional education. Whether a CIA recruitment tool or mere imaginative coursework, the program’s blend of espionage-style tasks and UFO lore continues to intrigue—and unsettle.

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