The Stargate Project

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

~John Oldham

The Stargate Project was the code name for a top secret US military operation that used remote viewing to gather intelligence on its enemies.

It was launched during the height of the Cold War in the early 1970s, although the US Government had occasionally funded research into ESP since World War II.

Also known as Scanate, Flame Grill and Sun Streak, military research into ESP was eventually shut down in 1995 - after 23 years and $20 million of US Government funding. The project was declassified and the media pounced on it. Why was the US military pumping millions of dollars into researching paranormal psychic powers? Had they gone completely bonkers or was there some proof that remote viewing actually worked?

The Psychic Spy

Skip Atwater is one believer. He is the Research Director at The Monroe Institute, a leading force in remote viewing research. His military background is legendary: from 1977 to 1987 he was the Operations and Training Officer for the Army Intelligence Branch of the US Government Remote Viewing Programme. He was a psychic spy in the Stargate Project.

To this day, Skip and the team from Stargate remain convinced of its validity. Having learned how to remote view with expertise, they could see just about anywhere - not just behind Soviet lines.

They point to the time when one member, Ingo Swann, went remote viewing around Jupiter in 1973. Under strict experimental conditions (organized by scientists Targ and Puthoff), Swann described the physical features of Jupiter, like the surface, atmosphere and weather.

He also claimed it had crystal bands of planetary rings, like Saturn but not as far out. This observation was very controversial at the time. Six years later, in 1979, the Voyager probe got closer to Jupiter than ever before, and confirmed it had rings of charged dust particles, just like Swann described.

Remote Viewing into The Future

Here are a few examples of successful precognitive remote viewing during the Stargate Project:

• Joseph McMoneagle predicted the January 1980 launch date of a new submarine. Satellite photos confirmed this.

• Keith Harary saw the release of a hostage held by Iranian militants due to medical problems. He described the symptoms as nausea and damage down one side of the body. Three weeks later, the hostage was freed with muscle weakness, facial numbness, tremors and multiple sclerosis which affected his muscles on one side.

Source: Memoirs of a Psychic Spy: The Remarkable Life of US Government Remote Viewer 001 by Joseph McMoneagle.

• Paul H Smith retrospectively relayed his remote viewing session of the attack on the American warship, the USS Stark. He produced a highly detailed 30-page report detailing the location, method and reason behind the attack.

Source: Reading the Enemy's Mind: Inside Star Gate - America's Psychic Espionage Program by Paul H Smith.

Official Results

The US Government decided to collect as much evidence as they could. If remote viewing was real, they wanted to know about it.

Reports were made each year on the RV data collected, and ongoing funding was approved every six months by the Senate and House select committee. Success rates were never relayed to the psychic spy, so as not to damage confidence in their own ability.

Stargate was really a last resort for the military. It would only send a mission to a psychic spy when all other intelligence was exhausted.

At its peak, the project used around 22 remote viewers. But any information gathered had to be verified by another source. They couldn't act on the remote viewing data alone - it was never deemed foolproof.

In 1995 the project was transferred to the CIA. It asked the American Institutes of Research (AIR) to evaluate all the remote viewing data.

However, before AIR got to work, the CIA received two conflicting reports on the data. One said the average psychic spy scored 5-15% above chance on describing their remote viewing targets, and although the data was often vague, it was very promising. It concluded that ESP - and especially precognition - was proven to exist.

Another report said it was too early to tell, and nothing should be assumed. On the back of this, the CIA terminated the Stargate Project.

No longer restricted by the US Government top secret status, the psychic spies of the Stargate Project went on to become famous. They wrote books, made some wild claims (in one instance, remote murder) and created their own research programmes.

Skip Atwater says be careful who you listen to: some of them are just cashing in on the Stargate Project, trying to make money with sensationalist claims of psychic powers. The genuine ones tend reject labels like "psychic" or "clairvoyant" - they just want to explore the nature of consciousness and its interaction with the subatomic world.

Could you be a psychic spy? The Stargate Project may be over but you can still experiment with remote viewing. See How to Remote View.