Dale Graff and Wright-Patterson remote viewing
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| Date | 1979 |
|---|---|
| Topics | Beings & bodies (topic), Government programs (topic), Remote viewing & psi (topic) |
| People | Dale Graff |
| Testimony | Shellenberger testimony, p. 87 |
| Year | 1979 in UFO history |
| Timeline | 1979 on the UAP Timeline |
| Sources | 11 |
Dale Graff, a physicist on the scientific staff of the Air Force's Foreign Technology Division at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, managed Air Force-sponsored remote-viewing research in the late 1970s before moving to the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), where he later directed the program that became known as Stargate.[1][2][3]
Wright-Patterson
A CIA memorandum of 20 April 1976 records discussions with Graff, who had cabled the agency for more information after learning of its parapsychology research at Stanford Research Institute (SRI). Graff became the Defense Department's contract manager for remote-viewing research at SRI, and the Air Force program he managed ran from about the mid-1970s until about 1980, when the Air Force ended it.[1][3]
DIA and Stargate
Graff moved to the DIA around 1980. He directed the government's remote-viewing effort from about 1990 to 1993, the period when it was renamed Stargate. Critics within the program later complained that the unit increasingly relied on self-described psychics rather than trained viewers. He has written about his experiences in Tracks in the Psychic Wilderness (1998).[3][4]
End of the program
The program was declassified and closed in 1995 after a review by the American Institutes for Research concluded that remote viewing had never produced actionable intelligence.[2][3]
Significance
Graff's career is of interest to UFO researchers because it shows that the intelligence units at Wright-Patterson, long associated in UFO lore with recovered material, were willing to sponsor unconventional research.[1][3]
People and topics
- Dale Graff — Physicist who managed remote viewing at Wright-Patterson and later the Stargate program.
- Wright-Patterson Air Force Base — The Ohio air base that housed Project Blue Book and is linked to the Hangar 18 legend.
- Defense Intelligence Agency — The Pentagon's military intelligence agency, which ran AAWSAP.
- U.S. Air Force — The U.S. military service that ran the official UFO projects from 1947 to 1969.
- Remote viewing — The claimed ability to describe distant places by mental means.
- Foreign Technology Division — The Air Force unit at Wright-Patterson that analysed foreign technology.
- SRI International — The research institute where the government's remote-viewing studies began.
- Stargate Project — The U.S. government's remote-viewing program, which ran from the 1970s until 1995.
- Central Intelligence Agency — The U.S. foreign intelligence agency, which has followed UFO reports since the 1940s.
- Unidentified anomalous phenomena — The U.S. government's current term for unidentified objects in the air, in space and underwater.
On the Timeline
- Vallée's 1979 conclusions on government involvement (1979) — Vallée says he is convinced the government still monitors UAP groups and stages false sightings.
- Sunnyvale hangar saucer claim (1979) — A Navy radar observer says he saw a large saucer in a hangar at Sunnyvale in 1950.
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References
- CIA memorandum, "Discussions with Mr. Dale Graff of the Foreign Technology Division" (Apr 1976), The Black Vault · documents.theblackvault.com · archived copy
- Stargate Project — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Stargate Project (U.S. Army unit) — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- "Dale E. Graff", SourceWatch · sourcewatch.org · archived copy
- Parapsychology research at SRI — Wikipedia · Www.Wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Ingo Swann — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Puthoff, 'CIA-initiated remote viewing at Stanford Research Institute' · newdualism.org · archived copy
- twitter.com · twitter.com · archived copy
- archive.org · archive.org · archived copy
- cdn.preterhuman.net · cdn.preterhuman.net · archived copy
- bibliotecapleyades.net · bibliotecapleyades.net · archived copy
Further reading
- Wright-Patterson Air Force Base — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Hangar 18 (the legend and 1980 film) — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Stargate collection — CIA Reading Room · cia.gov · archived copy
- Thomas R. Wilson — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
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