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The
Stargate Project was the
code name of one of several projects established by the U.S. Federal Government to investigate the reality, and potential military application, of
psychic phenomena, particularly "
remote viewing:" the purported ability to psychically "see" events, sites, or information from a great distance. These projects were active from the 1970s through 1995, and followed up
early psychic research done at
Stanford Research Institute (SRI).
The information on psychic research in foreign countries was sketchy and poorly detailed, based mostly on rumor or innuendo cooked from second-hand or tertiary reporting, attributed to both reliable and unreliable sources.
Despite the dubious origins of much data, the CIA and military intelligence decided they should know as much about it as could possibly be understood. Programs were approved on a year-to-year basis and re-funded accordingly. Reviews were made semiannually at the Senate and House
select committee level. Work results were reviewed, and remote viewing was demonstrated with the results being kept secret from the "viewer". It was thought that if the viewer was shown they were incorrect it would damage the viewer's confidence and skill. This was standard operating procedure throughout the years of military remote viewing programs. Feedback of any kind, to the viewer, was very rare. It was kept classified and secret.
Remote viewing attempts to sense unknown information about places or events. Normally it's performed to detect current events, but during military intelligence applications viewers claimed to surprisingly sense things in the future,
precognition. It is thought in these cases the material is being introduced
from the future back to the present.
The Stargate Project
The Stargate Project created a set of protocols designed to make
clairvoyance a more scientific process, and minimize as much as possible session noise and inaccuracy. The term "
remote viewing" emerged as a generalised short hand to describe this more structured approach to clairvoyance.
Stargate only received a mission after all other intelligence attempts, methods, or approaches had already been exhausted. The Stargate Project was to provide
any intelligence information when there was
nothing. In despair, it was believed
something was better than nothing. At its peak Stargate had about 22 remote viewers. When the project closed in 1995 this number had dwindled down to 3. One was using tarot cards. People leaving the project were not replaced. According to
Joseph McMoneagle, "The [US] Army
never had a truly open attitude toward psychic functioning". Hence, the use of the term "giggle factor" and the saying, "I wouldn't want to be found dead next to a psychic."
When gathering intelligence
believed misinformation can be very more dangerous than none. See: CIA informant
Rafid Ahmed Alwan. As is common with all intelligence information, intelligence gathered by remote viewing must be verified by other sources. Remote-viewing information couldn't stand alone.(According to
Ray Hyman in the AIR report, if Ed May's conclusions are correct remote viewers were right 20% of the time and wrong 80% of the time.)
In
1995 the project was transferred to the
CIA and a retrospective evaluation of the results was done. The CIA contracted the
American Institutes for Research for an evaluation. On 30 June, before the AIR revue was to begin the CIA closed the Stargate project. An analysis conducted by Professor
Jessica Utts showed a
statistically significant effect
, with gifted subjects scoring 5%-15% above chance, though subject reports included a large amount of irrelevant information, and when reports did seem on target they were vague and general in nature. Based upon
both of their collected findings, which recommended a higher level of critical research and tighter controls. The CIA terminated the 20 million dollar project.
Time magazine stated in 1995 three full-time psychics were still working on a $500,000-a-year budget out of Fort Meade, Maryland, which would soon close up shop.
Claims of Precognition
A few examples of confirmed future targets being sensed by Stargate remote viewers are the following given by
Joseph McMoneagle and Paul H. Smith.
The predicted launch date for a newly constructed submarine months before it actually rolled from its construction crib and into the harbor by Joseph McMoneagle. McMoneagle guessed the submarine would be launched about "
four months later", sometime in the month of January 1980. Satellite photos confirmed this in mid-January 1980 According to Paul H. Smith, McMoneagle predicted "
several months" in the future.
The predicted release of a hostage in the Middle East and a correct description of the medical problem precipitating his release. The information was provided three weeks before the hostage takers made their decisions.
This conclusion seems to be associated with the following text: "When one of the hostages was released early because of medical conditions and shown the information we [remote-viewers] had accumulated, he was enraged. In his mind, the only way we could possibly had such accurate information, would be to have someone inside the embassy with the hostages..."
The data given by
Keith Hararyat SRI, the Stargate Project, was: "He seems to be suffering from nausea. One side of his body seems damaged or hurt." He will be on an airplane in the next few days. The target turned out to be the hostage
Richard Queen, held by Iranian militants and now desperately ill with symptoms including muscle weakness, lack of coordination, difficulty in vision, spasticity, vertigo, facial numbness, tremor, and emotional lability,
multiple sclerosis, that affected his nerves on one side. In part due to his input, Harary says he was later informed by contacts at SRI, President Carter dispatched a plane to bring Queen home. There is no reference to a three week prediction. There is no mention of the
Iran hostage crisis (November 4, 1979 - January 20, 1981) or this incident in the 1984 book,
The Mind Race: Understanding and Using Psychic Abilities, by Russell Targ and Keith Harary, which centers around remote viewing experiments and SRI.
Upon reading of the May 17, 1987 attack on the frigate, the
USS Stark, in the
Washington Post,
Paul H. Smith became convinced his three days earlier remote viewing, of an attack on an American Warship: the location, the method, and the reason for the attack, was precognition. The American Warship "viewing" session was
around 30 pages long, including writing and sketching of ships, parts of ships, map-like diagrams, etc.
Key project personnel
A key sponsor of the research internally at
Fort Meade, he was convinced of the reality of a wide variety of psychic phenomena, leading him to even attempt to walk through walls. In the early 1980s he was responsible for
Army Intelligence, during which time the remote viewing project in the army began. Some commentators have confused
Project Jedi supposedly run by
Special Forces primarily out of
Fort Bragg with Stargate. Stubblebine was made to retire and the new
INSCOM commander became Major General
Harry Soyster, who had a reputation for being anti-anything-paranormal.
A former Burbank, CA Police Officer who participated in a number of Cold War era
Remote viewing experiments, including the US government sponsored project
SCANATE and the Star Project. Working with maps and photographs provided to him by the CIA, Price claimed to have been able to retrieve information from facilities behind Soviet Lines. He is probably best known for his sketches of cranes and gantries which appeared to conform to CIA intelligence photographs. At the Time, his claims were taken seriously by the CIA.
In addition to his participation in remote viewing experiments, Price believed that aliens had established four underground bases on Earth. He offered reports on these locations to
Harold E. Puthoff, formerly of
SRI International, the principal scientific investigator for Project SCANATE.
Buchanan was a sergeant brought in by General Stubblebine for two main reasons: firstly extraordinary telekinetic abilities, and secondly computer software expertise. These made him exceptionally well-qualified to be the
database manager for the Stargate project. In this role, Buchanan had the opportunity to work with all the key members of the unit, and in possession of statistical analysis of the session data, was able to properly assess the accuracy of the session data obtained. After leaving the forces, Buchanan founded "Problems, Innovations, Solutions", contracted Mel Riley to work for his company, and continues to undertake private tuition.
Riley is an army Sergeant who retired in 1991. Riley was noted for being able to describe what lay under objects in aerial photography. In 1984, the CRV unit had only several trained remote viewers, and Riley was requested transferred to the unit. Riley was featured in the documentary released in 1995 by the BBC titled "The Real X-Files." He has recounted
past life experiences as a
Native American, and continues to be involved in native American culture.
Smith is a retired U.S. Army Major and intelligence officer. Smith was one of the five people trained as a prototype test subject in Ingo Swann's psychic development of the CRV protocols in 1983. Smith was later assigned to work part time in the Defense Intelligence Agency’s remote viewing unit. He was the main author of what is known today as the “CRV Manual”. Its purpose was simply to serve as a guide and a reference for the terminology and it served to show inquisitive lawmakers what the millions of dollars were being spent on. Swann wrote to Smith giving Smith's manual his approval. Smith has published articles on remote viewing in UFO Magazine, and about dowsing and remote viewing in The American Dowser, the quarterly journal of the American Society of Dowsers. His book Reading the Enemy's Mind was the book bonus feature for the March 2006 Reader's Digest. In his informative book Smith tells the reader there are those who can bend spoons with their minds, claims he's remote viewed into the future and biolocated, has some doubts about the memories of his fellow remote viewers, shows he believes in Ingo Swann's teachings, honesty and versions of events, and supports the military potential of remote viewing. Smith blames bureaucrats afraid to take a risk, selective data and close-minded skeptics for the closing of Star Gate.
Because it was known to others around the Fort Meade area that
Ed Dames was obsessed with UFOs and extraterrestrials, he was
not one of the first five remote viewers trained by Ingo Swann. Instead, Dames was trained as how to "run" remote viewers (a monitor) as an aid to Fred Atwater. He quickly established a reputation for pushing CRV to extremes, with target sessions on
Atlantis,
Mars,
UFOs, and aliens. Mel Riley arranged a fake session in which a description was given of
Santa Claus coming over the
North Pole in his sleigh (Schnabel). Dames said the object over the north pole was a nuclear attack, and was set to call the highest levels of the military, before he was informed of the prank. Internally, his reputation never recovered.
David Morehouse entered into the
DIA's Remote Viewing unit in 1987. Despite being designated by his superiors as “Destined to wear stars,” he resigned his commission in 1995 after his decision to write Psychic Warrior—his resignation ended eighteen years of exemplary and honorable military service. He is the director of David Morehouse productions, and his company has trained 15,000 civilians in Remote Viewing Techniques.
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