Conspiracy // Project Stargate

Project Stargate

DIA-funded remote-viewing research programme conducted at SRI International from 1972 to 1995.

ALSO KNOWN AS: Stargate · SRI Remote Viewing

Declassified in 1995 with mixed conclusions. Operational reports include the 1979 location of a downed Soviet Tu-22 bomber by remote viewer Rosemary Smith.

Project Stargate is the name commonly given to the United States government’s investigation into remote viewing — the claimed ability to perceive distant or hidden information by mental means. Under that name and its predecessors, including SCANATE, Grill Flame and Sun Streak, the programme drew on research conducted at SRI International by Harold Puthoff and Russell Targ, and was funded and tasked over many years by the CIA and the Defense Intelligence Agency. Its declassification in 1995 placed the existence of the effort beyond doubt.

What the programme achieved is a separate question, and the official record is candid in its ambivalence. The reviews commissioned at closure reached mixed conclusions, finding no operationally reliable effect even as some individual sessions were judged striking. We report both the documented fact of the programme and the genuine uncertainty of its results, without resolving the latter on the reader’s behalf.

Stargate earns its place in the documented baseline not because remote viewing was proven, but because the state took the prospect seriously enough to fund it for decades. We hold every claim against the record, say where conventional explanation suffices, and say where the evidence simply remains open.

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