Pat Price's alien base reports
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| Date | July 1982 |
|---|---|
| Topics | Secrecy & cover-up (topic), Government programs (topic), Remote viewing & psi (topic) |
| People | Pat Price, Harold Puthoff, Russell Targ, Skip Atwater |
| Testimony | Shellenberger testimony, p. 94 |
| Year | 1982 in UFO history |
| Timeline | 1982 on the UAP Timeline |
| Sources | 10 |
In 1973 the remote viewer Pat Price, a former Burbank, California, police officer working with the Stanford Research Institute (SRI), produced reports claiming that four mountains around the world concealed underground bases run by non-human beings. About a decade later the reports became the basis of an Army remote-viewing effort known as Project 8200.[1][2][3]
Pat Price
Price was one of the star subjects of the CIA-funded remote-viewing research at SRI run by physicists Hal Puthoff and Russell Targ. He became known for sketches of cranes and gantries at a Soviet facility that appeared to match intelligence photographs, and he died in 1975.[3][4]
The four bases
According to accounts of the documents, Price told Puthoff in 1973 that, working on his own time rather than on SRI assignments, he had located alien bases under Mount Hayes in Alaska, Mount Perdido in the Pyrenees, Mount Inyangani (now Nyangani) in Zimbabwe and Mount Zeil in Australia. In Jim Schnabel's history Remote Viewers (1997), Price is described as believing that Mount Hayes held one of the largest bases, that its occupants looked almost human, and that they could influence people's thoughts and had caused malfunctions in U.S. and Soviet spacecraft.[1][4]
Project 8200
The testimony says the Army's remote-viewing unit came across Price's 1973 reports in July 1982. F. Holmes "Skip" Atwater, the unit's operations officer, later described a project in which he and six military remote viewers tried to gather more information about the four sites between 1982 and 1986, and published the transcripts in a book titled Project 8200. One of the viewers, Paul H. Smith, has said that in 1985 he did a session on Mount Hayes knowing little of Price's claims, and that when he saw the original documents in 2010 he was struck by how closely they matched. Another former military viewer, Lyn Buchanan, has also described sessions on the sites.[2][5]
Assessment
The Project 8200 material comes almost entirely from participants' own accounts, and nothing in it has been independently confirmed; there is no physical or official evidence of bases at any of the four mountains. The government review that ended the Stargate program in 1995 concluded that remote viewing was too inconsistent to be useful for intelligence.[2][4]
People and topics
- Unidentified anomalous phenomena — The U.S. government's current term for unidentified objects in the air, in space and underwater.
- SRI International — The research institute where the government's remote-viewing studies began.
- Remote viewing — The claimed ability to describe distant places by mental means.
- Pat Price — Remote viewer at SRI who described four alleged alien bases in 1973.
- Harold Puthoff — Physicist who co-founded the SRI remote-viewing research and later worked on AAWSAP and To The Stars Academy.
- Russell Targ — Physicist who co-led the SRI remote-viewing research with Hal Puthoff.
- Central Intelligence Agency — The U.S. foreign intelligence agency, which has followed UFO reports since the 1940s.
- Skip Atwater — Head of the Army's remote-viewing unit in the early 1980s.
- Stargate Project — The U.S. government's remote-viewing program, which ran from the 1970s until 1995.
On the Timeline
- Richard Haines's conviction about a secret project (1982) (6 April 1982) — NASA scientist Richard Haines tells Vallée he is sure a secret government UAP project exists.
- Sandia uncle crashed saucer story (1982) (29 September 1982) — Puthoff relays a story of a scientist who studied a crashed saucer and copied an antigravity device.
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References
- Nick Redfern, "A mountain of alien secrets" (Mar 2013) · goodreads.com · archived copy
- "Ex-CIA 'psychic spy' unmasks hidden alien bases and UFO workshops inside 4 mountains", IBTimes UK (Jun 2026) · ibtimes.co.uk · archived copy
- Parapsychology research at SRI — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Stargate Project — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- "Remote viewing, UFO bases, and Project 8200 — Paul H. Smith", Wendy's Coffeehouse Curious (Sep 2024) · audioboom.com · 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
- archive.org · archive.org · archived copy
- projectavalon.net · projectavalon.net · archived copy
Further reading
- Stargate collection — CIA Reading Room · cia.gov · archived copy
This page was last edited on 29 October 2026. Articles are written in our own words from the sources listed under References; disputed claims are attributed to the people who made them.
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