CHANI Project
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Contents 8
| Date | July 2011 |
|---|---|
| Topics | Beings & bodies (topic), Remote viewing & psi (topic) |
| People | Jacques Vallée |
| Testimony | Shellenberger testimony, p. 174 |
| Year | 2011 in UFO history |
| Timeline | 2011 on the UAP Timeline |
| Sources | 8 |
The CHANI Project — "Channelled Holographic Access Network Interface" — is an anonymous story, published in the Australian alternative magazine Nexus in 2011, about a secret research program that supposedly communicated with an entity from a parallel universe through a machine in the 1990s.[1][2]
The story
According to the article, the work was carried out by an unnamed group using the pseudonym "RAND and Associates" at an underground, CERN-like particle-collider facility in Africa whose location remained "still classified". The researchers had access to the facility from 1994 to 1999. They said they never used a human channeller; instead, a device captured and displayed words from an entity that claimed to come from a parallel universe, dimension or timeline. Over about five years they said they asked more than 20,000 questions and received answers to over 95 percent of them, covering science, history and the future.[1]
The end
The article says upgrades to make the facility's systems Year 2000-compliant affected the project, that contact with the entity was lost on 14 November 1999, and that the research ended in April 2000. Extracts of the supposed messages were later published and circulated widely online.[1]
Connections
The testimony places CHANI among claims circulating in UFO and fringe circles, near Jacques Vallée's journal accounts of the "Secret Onion" — a Washington group of government scientists and contractors in the mid-1980s that Vallée described as layered like an onion, with secrecy increasing towards the core. Nothing documents a connection between the two.[3]
Assessment
No documents, named researchers or facility support the CHANI story, and it is generally regarded as a hoax or fiction.[1][2]
People and topics
- Jacques Vallée — Computer scientist and astronomer, author of the Forbidden Science journals and a central figure in UFO research.
- Advanced Theoretical Physics group — Advanced Theoretical Physics group
- Unidentified flying object — An object in the sky that can't be identified; the older term for UAP.
On the Timeline
- Homeland Security and BAASS (2011) (June-July 2011) — Homeland Security officials explore setting up BAASS as a UAP program in the government.
- Lemoore triangle sightings (15 November 2011) — A Navy maintenance worker sees a glowing triangle above Lemoore Naval Air Station.
See every 2011 event on the UAP Timeline →
References
- "The CHANI Project" (reproduced from Nexus), Steemit · steemit.com · archived copy
- Nexus (magazine) — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- "Jacques Vallée and the Secret Onion", UFOs Scientific Research (Dec 2016) · ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com · archived copy
- Forbidden Science — journals of Jacques Vallée (Anomaly Archives) · anomalyarchives.org · archived copy
- Review of Forbidden Science 6 — SFCrowsnest · sfcrowsnest.info · archived copy
- Forbidden Science Dispatches — Tanner Boyle (journal summaries) · tannerfboyle.substack.com · archived copy
- twitter.com · twitter.com · archived copy
- avalonlibrary.net · avalonlibrary.net · archived copy
Further reading
- Jacques Vallée — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · 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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