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.
CASE FILES
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CS-26008 // Off the coast of Havana, Cuba (Palladium Cuba test); program operated from CIA/NSA ground, naval and submarine platforms
Project Palladium
Project Palladium was a Cold War CIA electronic-warfare programme, founded around 1960 by engineer S. Eugene "Gene" Poteat, that intercepted an enemy radar's own signal, passed it through a variable delay line, and re-transmitted it to inject fully controllable "ghost aircraft" into Soviet and Soviet-client air-defence radars. Its existence rests on Poteat's own published firsthand accounts and a declassified CIA Studies in Intelligence article; the popular claim that Palladium "manufactured UFOs" is a secondary interpretation Poteat's accounts do not make.
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CS-26006 // Fort George G. Meade, Maryland, United States
The 1983 "Energy Balloon" Consciousness-Projection Document
The widely-shared "1983 CIA energy balloon document" is two records, not one. The build instructions for the "Resonant Energy Balloon" appear in a 1977 Monroe Institute training workbook; the 1983 item is a US Army INSCOM assessment of the Gateway Process by LTC Wayne M. McDonnell, which describes the same technique as a protective measure for anyone attempting an out-of-body state. Both were declassified in the CIA's 2003 release of the STARGATE archive.
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UF-26009 // Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio, United States // tagged
Project Sign
Project Sign was the United States Air Force's first formal study of unidentified flying objects, run by the Technical Intelligence Division of Air Materiel Command at Wright-Patterson AFB. It evaluated 243 reported sightings and concluded in its February 1949 final report that no definite and conclusive evidence was yet available that would prove or disprove the objects as real aircraft of unknown configuration. The report is declassified and publicly available; the far more famous "Estimate of the Situation" said to have preceded it is not, and its existence rests on testimony rather than on any retrievable document.
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CS-26005 // Central Intelligence Agency, Washington, D.C., United States // tagged
The MK-Ultra Program
MK-Ultra was a CIA umbrella programme of covert human research into drugs and behavioural modification, formally approved by Director Allen Dulles on the thirteenth of April 1953 and running its main experimental phase through 1964 across 149 subprojects at some 80 institutions. Most records were destroyed on the order of CIA Director Richard Helms in 1973; the programme became public through the 1975 Rockefeller Commission and Church Committee, and roughly 20,000 surviving financial pages were released after a 1977 FOIA discovery. It is a closed, declassified historical programme — no successor of the same name operates.
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UF-26007 // Department of Transport, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada // tagged
The Wilbert Smith Memo (1950)
On the twenty-first of November 1950, Wilbert B. Smith, a senior radio engineer at Canada's Department of Transport, wrote a memorandum titled "Geo-Magnetics" recommending a classified study of flying saucers. Reporting discreet inquiries made through the Canadian Embassy in Washington, Smith wrote that saucers were real and were "the most highly classified subject in the United States Government." The memo led directly to Project Magnet, approved on the second of December 1950.
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AL-26001 // House Oversight Subcommittee hearing, Washington, D.C., United States // tagged
The Alleged UAP "Legacy" Crash-Retrieval Program
In sworn testimony to a US House Oversight subcommittee on the twenty-sixth of July 2023, former intelligence officer David Grusch stated he had been informed of a multi-decade UAP crash-retrieval and reverse-engineering programme, and that "non-human" craft and "biologics" had been recovered — but he gave no specifics in open session and said his knowledge came from interviewing others, not personal observation. The US government's own All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) reported in March 2024 that it found no empirical evidence any such programme ever recovered or reverse-engineered off-world technology. As of June 2026 no primary document confirming recovered craft or bodies has been publicly released.
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CS-26003 // Stanford Research Institute, Menlo Park, California, United States
U.S. Military 'Psychic Warfare' and Psychotronics Programs
From 1972 to 1995 the U.S. intelligence community funded a documented effort to test whether "remote viewing" could collect intelligence, a programme that ended its life as the Defense Intelligence Agency's STAR GATE. The CIA-commissioned 1995 evaluation by the American Institutes for Research found laboratory effects statistically significant but operationally useless and recommended termination. In parallel, U.S. Army officers publicly theorised about offensive "psychotronic" mind-influence weapons.
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