Imagination hit the hard road of fiscal reality when the United States Government shut down the "Real-life X-Files" -- so why is the Intelligence Community still interested today?

For more than twenty-five years, real American spies and their civilian associates have been playing spy games concerning rumors of an otherworldly intelligence.

It sounds crazy but it's true: the United States government spent decades mired in the most extreme psychological intelligence gathering schemes imaginable. At the core of the story are tales of intelligence activities involving a non-human source. How the international Intelligence Community responded to this apparent craziness is even stranger, and establishes an historical precedent for current activities.

The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) has resulted in the release of officially declassified "Real-life X-files" documents.

Now available by request from the Central Intelligence Agency are previously secret files that provide independent researchers tantalizing glimpses into paranormal diamonds-in-the-rough. Lost among tens of thousands of pages of notes, classified reports, countless "Memorandums for the Record," letters and emails are the obscure clues needed to illuminate the government insanity.

Among the collected works are psychic reports conducted by the Department of Defense to monitor the activities of extraterrestrials and, warnings that New York City and Washington, D.C. would simultaneously be attacked by terrorists using aircraft as missiles to collapse buildings.