End of Stargate (1995)
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| Date | 30 June 1995 |
|---|---|
| Topics | Government programs (topic), Remote viewing & psi (topic) |
| People | Jessica Utts, Ray Hyman, Ed Dames |
| Testimony | Shellenberger testimony, p. 123 |
| Year | 1995 in UFO history |
| Timeline | 1995 on the UAP Timeline |
| Sources | 10 |
In 1995 the U.S. government closed its long-running remote-viewing program, known in its final years as Star Gate, after a CIA-commissioned review concluded that it had never produced intelligence useful in operations.[1][2]
The program
Government-funded research into remote viewing — the claimed ability to describe distant places with the mind — began at the Stanford Research Institute in 1972 under Harold Puthoff and Russell Targ. Over more than two decades the program operated under names including Gondola Wish, Grill Flame, Center Lane, Sun Streak and finally Star Gate, run latterly by the Defense Intelligence Agency, at a total cost of about $20 million. In 1995 it was transferred to the CIA.[1][3]
The review
The CIA commissioned the American Institutes for Research (AIR) to evaluate the program. Statistician Jessica Utts concluded that the laboratory experiments showed statistically significant effects that supported the existence of psychic functioning and deserved further study. Psychologist Ray Hyman agreed the effects were significant but argued that they could be due to methodological flaws and had not been independently replicated. The final AIR report concluded that remote viewing had never produced actionable intelligence.[1][2][4]
Closure
The program was closed on 30 June 1995 and declassified that November. Its records, released in the CIA's online Stargate collection, include sessions on UFOs and Mars. Several former participants, including Ed Dames and Joseph McMoneagle, went on to teach or sell remote viewing commercially.[3][5]
People and topics
- Central Intelligence Agency — The U.S. foreign intelligence agency, which has followed UFO reports since the 1940s.
- Stargate Project — The U.S. government's remote-viewing program, which ran from the 1970s until 1995.
- Remote viewing — The claimed ability to describe distant places by mental means.
- Defense Intelligence Agency — The Pentagon's military intelligence agency, which ran AAWSAP.
- Jessica Utts — Statistician who reviewed the Stargate program in 1995.
- Ray Hyman — Psychologist who reviewed the Stargate program in 1995.
- Unidentified flying object — An object in the sky that can't be identified; the older term for UAP.
- Ed Dames — Former Army remote viewer who founded Psi-Tech.
On the Timeline
- America West Flight 564 sighting (25 May 1995) — An airliner crew and an F-117 both see a huge cigar-shaped object over the Southwest.
- Dan Sherman and abduction messages (Mid 1995) — Sherman says his messages seemed to involve alien abductions.
See every 1995 event on the UAP Timeline →
References
- Remote viewing — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Michael Mumford, Andrew Rose and David Goslin, "An Evaluation of Remote Viewing: Research and Applications", American Institutes for Research (1995) · web.archive.org · archived copy
- Stargate Project — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Ray Hyman, "Evaluation of Program on Anomalous Mental Phenomena" (1995) · web.archive.org · archived copy
- Stargate collection, CIA Reading Room · cia.gov · 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
- AIR evaluation of remote viewing (1995) — CIA Reading Room · cia.gov · archived copy
- remoteviewed.com · remoteviewed.com · archived copy
Further reading
- Stargate collection — CIA Reading Room · cia.gov · archived copy
- UFO documents — CIA Reading Room · cia.gov · archived copy
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