REMOTE VIEWING OF UFOS

For some years, I’ve been in correspondence with a veteran of the intelligence community who served as a “fact checker” during Project Star Gate. His purview was remote viewing, most of whose records remained classified until the mid-1990s. The CIA had (supposedly) bequeathed the program to its rival arm in the Pentagon, the DIA or Defense Intelligence Agency originally formed by President Kennedy.

For those unfamiliar with the term, remote viewing in the field of espionage is the practice of using the mind to seek impressions of a distant or unseen object and bring back the information. This was used during the Cold War by a number of trained individuals to penetrate walls of secrecy in the Soviet Union and elsewhere. Sometimes, it turns out, remote viewing was also utilized to probe the phenomenon we call UFOs or UAPs.

I write about this at some length in my forthcoming investigative book about the 80-year coverup around the subject. And my source, now retired and setting down some of what he knows for the historical record, recently sent me a detailed summary based on declassified files of such sessions, ‘usually labeled as training or exploratory targets, buried inside the 43 boxes of material the CIA [has] released.”

These records describe training sessions where viewers were asked to describe “unusual aerial objects.” Some RV targets involved “technical apparatus” and “novel biophysical information transfer.” Sessions also focused on “non-Earth locations (used as psychological stress tests)” and viewer’s handwritten sketches resembled “disc-shaped craft or non-human figures.”

Yet there are no documents indicating the viewers were formally assigned to analyze actual recovered UFOs, or had access to classified extraterrestrial materials. No session is described as part of an official UFO exploitation program. And a CIA review commissioned in 1995, when Star Gate was allegedly terminated, concluded that the effort produced only “vague, irrelevant, and erroneous data” and wasn’t useful for intelligence operations.

According to my source, “as a non-viewer fact checker I had personal exposure to some of our viewers post 1995, and they were angry their sessions had been dismissed, or damned by faint praise in claiming they were just doing training sessions.” They weren’t interviewed nor were their operational records reviewed or their tasking officers consulted. “Training” was used as a cover designation for classified projects.
and the viewers’ corroborated “hits” weren’t included in the review. “So the reviewers concluded the program was useless because they were literally not allowed to see the parts where it had been useful. This is why viewers felt betrayed.”

“CIA and DIA were constantly fighting over funding, prestige, control of ‘exotic’ programs and who got credit for breakthroughs. RV became a pawn in this fight,” my source said.

Inside the program, probably the most trusted viewer was a man named Lyn Buchanan, who never claimed 100% accuracy, alien contact, or metaphysical certainty. He treated RV not as a mystical gift but a human perceptual skill. And he was damned good at it.

There’s a story he once told my source: It’s about “the men who could talk and the man who couldn’t.” It was protocol to use someone from a government agency to stand in as official link and access to someone who is so highly classified he cannot be identified even to his real identity or job. “Lyn was met at lunch time near the NCO club by such a duo. They only wanted Lyn to evaluate an object they had in a paper bag. It was the size of a modern laptop, black in color, and had a recessed imprint of a human hand in it. Lyn considered, said it was a communications device off a UFO. The man who couldn’t talk blurted out ‘He’s right.’ and the incident was over.” That’s indeed what the object was.

Sneak preview from my book, scheduled for publication in mid-January: in addition to taking a long look at the interactions between non-human intelligence and the renowned psychic Uri Gelller (part of the initial CIA RV program in the early Seventies), a chapter is devoted to Pat Price. He died under suspicious circumstances in 1975 after apparently RV’ing four UFO bases in different sectors of the world. Price’s viewings received verification in further government experiments in the 1980s. To be continued….