> Go ahead, next time you're on bar with your friends (In a few months I think the bar are going to be open - hope) tell them this exactly headline and see how they react to it.

I don't think many Americans would doubt our military has funded all sorts of crazy stuff. There are confirmed paid studies for mind control and attempting to kill goats using telekinesis by the CIA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Men_Who_Stare_at_Goats

It's even been made into a Hollywood movie, so this stuff isn't that fringe. And the fringe stuff is really weird.