Stargate Project

The Stargate Project was a secret project primarily managed by the United States Department of Defense in the 1970s and 1980s. The project goal was to develop a set of protocols, that would make clairvoyance a more scientific process, and minimize as much as possible session noise and inaccuracy.

Remote sensing of places or events is normally performed in the present, but sessions have also been undertaken in the past and future. The term "remote viewing" emerged as a generalised short hand to describe this more structured approach to clairvoyance.

The project was launched partly because some intelligence officers believed a 'psi-gap' had emerged between America and the Soviet Union. But it was also borne of the soul searching that took place in the American military post Vietnam, and a willingness that subsequently emerged to 'think outside the box.'

The project was eventually terminated, according to the official report at the time, because there was insufficient evidence of the utility of the intelligence data produced. However, in the generalized intelligence and defense budget cuts of the period, many projects lost funding.

Some of the members of the project have spoken in public about their work, for example books by Joe McMoneagle, Ingo Swann, Lyn Buchanan, and contributions by Hal Puthoff.