Spoon-bender Uri Geller has issued a warning to Donald Trump, sensationally claiming that “teleportation is real” after a CIA investigator found him 36 miles away from where he started. The world-famous psychic, 79, has jumped to the defence of a high-ranking US official who reckons he was beamed across Georgia against his will, only to end up in a Waffle House.
The drama kicked off when Gregg Phillips, a top boss at FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency), claimed he’d been teleported on multiple occasions.
In a bizarre podcast appearance, Phillips, who is tasked with handling America’s biggest disasters, described the terrifying moment his car was “lifted up” and dumped in a ditch 40 miles away.
But it was his second tale that really cooked up a storm as Phillips told stunned listeners: “I was with my boys…I end up at a Waffle House like 50 miles away. They said, ‘That’s not possible, you just left here a moment ago.’ But it was possible. It was real.”
While the White House reportedly panicked and tried to sideline Phillips, Trump was left scratching his head. Speaking to CNN, the US President asked: “What does teleport mean? Was he kidding?”
He added: “I don’t know anything about teleporting…It just sounds a little strange, but I know nothing about teleporting or him, but I’ll find out about it right now.”
Geller has now weighed in, telling the President that the Waffle House incident is no laughing matter.
Taking to X (formerly Twitter), Geller revealed he suffered an “almost identical” experience in the 1970s while being studied by American spooks.
Geller says he was walking the streets of Manhattan when an “invisible force” grabbed him and yanked him into the sky.
He wrote: “The very next second I felt myself hurtling through a mesh screen!” He claims he then found himself in the home of Dr. Andrija Puharich, a scientist hired by the CIA to investigate Geller’s powers.
According to the psychic, he had been instantly transported 36 miles from New York City to Ossining. Geller says the scientist was “totally flabbergasted” to find the spoon-bender lying disorientated on his floor.
He is now urging Trump to take the claims seriously, insisting that teleportation could explain the “true nature of our universe” and even the mystery of UFOs.
Geller said: “President Trump – listen carefully to what he is saying. Do not dismiss him. Investigate this.”
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