Part 5: Where Children Teleported to Mars (and Probably Didn’t Even Get a Sticker)

Project Pegasus

So, imagine it’s 1968.
Your parents just dropped you off for summer camp. You’re expecting popsicles and dodgeball.
Instead, a man in a DARPA lab coat leans down and says:

“Okay, Timmy. Step into this light tunnel and don’t think too hard about where you land.”

Congratulations. You’re now part of Project Pegasus.

Project Pegasus is the name of an alleged black-budget, time-travel-slash-teleportation program run by DARPA in the late 1960s and early ‘70s.

It allegedly involved:

• Teleportation across vast distances

• Interdimensional travel

• Children as experimental travelers

• And casual “Bring Your Kid to Mars Day” energy

Because apparently the U.S. government looked at kindergarteners and said:

“They’ll handle the space-time continuum just fine.”