Project Stargate & SRI remote viewing
🏛️ Official record
CIA / DIA / Army Intelligence · SRI International → SAIC · USA, Menlo Park CA · Fort Meade MD · 1972–1995
In 1972 the CIA funded SRI physicists Puthoff and Targ to test the ‘remote viewing’ of Ingo Swann and Pat Price; the Army then ran a military RV unit at Fort Meade (Gondola Wish, Grill Flame, Center Lane, Sun Streak, Star Gate). Viewers (e.g. #001 McMoneagle, awarded a Legion of Merit) described Soviet sites, hostage locations, etc. In 2017 the CIA released ~12,000 files at once.
VerdictIn 1995 the CIA terminated it after an AIR evaluation: statistician Utts found the effect significant, psychologist Hyman found method flaws couldn’t be ruled out; both agreed it was never useful for intelligence decisions.
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AIR ‘Evaluation of the Remote Viewing Program’
🏛️ Official record
American Institutes for Research (for the CIA) · USA · 1995
The official final review of 24 years of RV research and operations: it examined SAIC experiments and Fort Meade operational files, with two outside experts evaluating independently.
VerdictRecommended termination; the full report is declassified in the CIA reading room.
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Pat Price describes the Soviet Semipalatinsk test site
🏛️ Official record
SRI International · CIA · USA → Kazakhstan · 1974
From map coordinates alone, ex-policeman Price sketched a giant gantry crane and spherical vessels inside the secret facility; satellite photos later partly confirmed the crane.
VerdictSupporters call it the strongest case; evaluators note the same session also contained many mismatches.
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DIA ‘Controlled Offensive Behavior — USSR’
🏛️ Official record
US Defense Intelligence Agency (ST-CS-01-169-72) · USA · 1972
An official assessment of Soviet telepathy, telekinesis and ‘psychic weapon’ research, tracing back to a 1922 Petrograd Brain Institute commission, estimating 20+ centres, with the military and KGB as prime movers.
VerdictA key driver behind the US starting its own RV programme; now fully declassified.
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UK Ministry of Defence remote-viewing trial
🏛️ Official record
UK MoD (released under FOI in 2007) · UK · 2001–2002
Cost ~£18,000. Unable to recruit professional psychics, it used 18 novices to ‘remote view’ targets in envelopes; ~28% of descriptions were rated ‘close’.
VerdictThe MoD judged it of no practical value and did no follow-up.
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Soviet General Staff Unit 10003
🏛️ Official record
USSR / Russian MoD General Staff · Lt-Gen Alexei Savin · Russia · 1989–2003
Approved by Chief of General Staff Moiseyev, this ‘special abilities’ unit claimed to analyse NATO ‘psi-war’, train precognition/RV officers and shield leaders from ‘psychic attack’, and said it did recon in Chechnya.
VerdictThe Russian Academy of Sciences’ anti-pseudoscience commission challenged it publicly in 1999; disbanded in 2003.
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Croiset’s ‘chair test’ & Utrecht’s parapsychology chair
🎓 Academic research
Utrecht University (Prof. Tenhaeff, world’s first parapsychology chair) · Netherlands · 1953–1970s
Clairvoyant Croiset was asked to describe in advance the person who would sit in a given chair at a meeting days later; Tenhaeff reported high hit rates and police often asked him to help find people.
VerdictScholar Hoebens later found the records had been embellished and most ‘hits’ didn’t survive checking.
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Edgar Mitchell’s Apollo 14 space ESP test
📜 On record
Astronaut Mitchell (unauthorised by NASA) · Journal of Parapsychology 1971 · Earth–Moon transit · 1971-02
On the way to/from the Moon he privately ran 4 Zener-symbol sending tests; of 4 ground receivers, 2 scored 51/200 (chance = 40).
VerdictA launch delay caused a timing offset, so he recast it as a ‘precognition’ study in his paper; statistically unconvincing.
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