Pat Price's alien base reports
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Pat Price's alien base reports
| Original reports | 1973, by remote viewer Pat Price (SRI) |
|---|---|
| Sites | Mount Hayes (Alaska), Mount Zeil (Australia), Mount Nyangani (Zimbabwe), Monte Perdido (Pyrenees) |
| Rediscovered | July 1982, by F. Holmes "Skip" Atwater of the Army remote-viewing unit |
| Follow-up | "Project 8200", an unofficial effort, 1982–1986 |
| Viewers named | Joseph McMoneagle, Paul H. Smith, Lyn Buchanan |
| Status | No physical or official evidence for any base |
| Testimony | Shellenberger testimony, pp. 94–95 |
| Date | July 1982 |
| Topics | Secrecy & cover-up (topic), Government programs (topic), Remote viewing & psi (topic) |
| People | Pat Price, Harold Puthoff, Russell Targ, Skip Atwater |
| Year | 1982 in UFO history |
| Timeline | 1982 on the UAP Timeline |
| Sources | 11 |
In 1973 the remote viewer Pat Price, a former Burbank, California, police officer working with the Stanford Research Institute (SRI), produced reports claiming that underground bases linked to UFOs lay beneath four mountains around the world. About a decade later the reports became the basis of an unofficial follow-up by the U.S. Army's remote-viewing unit, known as Project 8200.[11][4] The anonymous UAP timeline in Michael Shellenberger's 2024 congressional testimony dates the rediscovery of Price's material to July 1982.[11] No physical or official evidence has been produced for any of the bases.[2]
Pat Price
- Price was a former Burbank police officer and former Scientologist. He joined the SRI programme after a chance meeting near SRI with Harold Puthoff and Ingo Swann, who were also Scientologists at the time.[4] SRI's parapsychology research ran from 1972 to 1991 with sponsorship that included the CIA.[3]
- According to Puthoff, Price's very first two remote viewings, in mid-1973, were on a "West Virginia Site" given as coordinates by the CIA's Office of Scientific Intelligence, and on a Communist-bloc counterpart in the Urals. Puthoff said the sponsor judged both descriptions "substantially correct".[8]
- In July 1974 the CIA asked for data on a Soviet site of operational significance, Semipalatinsk. Price drew a multistorey gantry crane there.[8] He is best known for such sketches of cranes and gantries, which seemed to match CIA intelligence photographs, and the CIA took his claims seriously at the time.[4]
- The earlier version of this article said Price died in 1975. The date is not covered in the sources read here, though the physicist Russell Targ has spoken of Price's death as mysterious.[10]
The four bases
- According to the Shellenberger timeline, Price believed UAP emanated from "underground" bases. Project 8200 later targeted four of them: Mount Hayes in Alaska, Mount Zeil in Australia (spelled "Ziel" in the timeline), Mount Nyangani in Zimbabwe and Monte Perdido in Spain.[11][5] The project claimed these sites, and possibly others, worked together to communicate with "space based platforms" associated with UAP.[11]
- The earlier version of this article said that Price told Puthoff about the bases in 1973, working on his own time, and that in Jim Schnabel's book Remote Viewers (1997) Price believed Mount Hayes held one of the largest bases, run by almost human-looking beings who could influence thoughts and had caused malfunctions in U.S. and Soviet spacecraft. Those details come from a blog post by Nick Redfern that could not be read for this rewrite, so they are not covered in the sources read here.[1]
Project 8200
- According to the timeline, Skip Atwater, head of the Army's remote-viewing programme, came across Price's 1973 intelligence material from SRI in July 1982. He tried to corroborate it using Army viewers outside government working hours, so the project was unofficial.[11] Atwater oversaw the unit until 1987. It was small, about 15 to 20 people, and was housed in "an old, leaky wooden barracks".[4]
- A video summary of the files says they cover 1982 to 1986, that most were never reported to higher-ups in the intelligence community, and that Atwater released them at an International Remote Viewing Association conference in 2009.[10] It says the viewer Joseph McMoneagle and Atwater discussed the sites relaying information to an ancient "deep space" platform.[10] A recording titled "RV Project 8200 (1982-07-28)" is on the Internet Archive.[9] The earlier version of this article said Atwater published the transcripts in a book titled Project 8200, with six military viewers. That is not covered in the sources read here.
- Paul H. Smith. The former military viewer Paul H. Smith has discussed Project 8200 and Monte Perdido in a 2024 podcast, which quoted a former CIA official calling Price "extraordinarily accurate, unbelievably accurate".[5] The earlier version of this article said Smith did a Mount Hayes session in 1985 knowing little of Price's claims, and was struck by the match when he saw the original documents in 2010. Those details are not covered in the sources read here.
- Lyn Buchanan. In a May 2026 podcast, the former Army viewer Lyn Buchanan said he had been given the four targets blind and only later learned they were thought to be alien sites.[2]
- He described Mount Hayes as the most significant, a surveillance complex once staffed by humans and extraterrestrials and now automated, "just collecting data and signals".
- Mount Zeil was "sort of a port of entry to the Earth" for friendly visitors, with levels for docking craft and a mechanics' workshop. He said he saw "a grey female with a baby grey" there.
- Mount Nyangani was a repair shop "for ETs. For UFOs". He said of people who get too close: "You see too much. You disappear."
- He said he never did a session on the Pyrenees site.[2]
- IBTimes UK reported Buchanan as saying authorities asked viewers to target Price's coordinates "in the 1970s". The timeline dates the effort from 1982.[2][11]
Assessment
- The Project 8200 material comes almost entirely from participants' own accounts and has not been independently confirmed. IBTimes UK noted there are no satellite images, leaked documents or recovered technology for any of the sites.[2] Buchanan's main argument is that several viewers working blind described similar things at the same coordinates.[2]
- The Stargate programme was ended and declassified in 1995. A CIA-commissioned review by the American Institutes for Research found that remote viewing had not been shown to work by a psychic mechanism and had never been useful operationally. The information it produced was vague and included irrelevant and erroneous data.[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.
See every 1982 event on the UAP Timeline →
Further reading
- Stargate collection — CIA Reading Room · cia.gov · archived copy
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
- Michael Shellenberger, written testimony to the House Oversight Committee (13 November 2024), pp. 94–95 · oversight.house.gov
Facts in this article are drawn in part from the Wikipedia articles “Parapsychology research at SRI”, “Stargate Project”, “Ingo Swann”, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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