Prudence Calabrese and TransDimensional Systems
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| Date | 1997 |
|---|---|
| Topics | Remote viewing & psi (topic) |
| People | Prudence Calabrese |
| Testimony | Shellenberger testimony, p. 127 |
| Year | 1997 in UFO history |
| Timeline | 1997 on the UAP Timeline |
| Sources | 6 |
Prudence Calabrese is an American remote viewer who in the 1990s founded TransDimensional Systems (TDS), a private company that trained civilian remote viewers and offered remote-viewing services. She became known for public claims, including about the comet Hale-Bopp in 1996, that were not borne out.[1][2]
Background
Remote viewing — the claimed ability to describe distant or hidden targets by mental means — was studied by U.S. intelligence agencies from the 1970s until the Stargate program was closed and made public in 1995. Its publicity spawned several private ventures run by former participants and their students, among them Courtney Brown's Farsight Institute and Calabrese's TDS, which set out to train civilians and apply remote viewing to practical problems.[1][3]
Hale-Bopp
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In late 1996 an amateur astronomer's photograph appeared to show a bright object near Comet Hale-Bopp, and on Art Bell's radio show Courtney Brown claimed remote viewers had found it to be an artificial object. Calabrese appeared with Brown and author Whitley Strieber on Bell's 28 November 1996 programme. According to a popular history of the period, she and Brown were asked to examine the photograph and described the object as an alien craft. Astronomers found no companion object. In March 1997 members of the Heaven's Gate group died in a mass suicide, believing a spacecraft was following the comet.[1][2][4]
Later
The same history says Calabrese was later shunned even within the remote-viewing community for damaging its reputation. In 2004 she published Intentions: The Intergalactic Bathroom Enlightenment Guide. After many years out of the public eye she reappeared in podcast interviews in the 2020s describing a new venture she called TransDimensional Mapping.[1][2][5]
Assessment
Remote viewing is not accepted by mainstream science, and a 1995 government review concluded it had never produced useful intelligence.[3]
People and topics
- Prudence Calabrese — Founder of TransDimensional Systems, a remote-viewing company.
- Remote viewing — The claimed ability to describe distant places by mental means.
- Coast to Coast AM — The late-night radio show known for paranormal topics.
On the Timeline
- Michael Smith's NORAD reporting account (30 August 1996) — An Air Force radar controller says UAP events were only to be reported to NORAD.
- Dan Sherman's Project Preserve Destiny recruitment (1 January 1997) — Sherman says the NSA recruited him into Project Preserve Destiny.
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References
- Prudence Calabrese, Art Bell archive · artbellarchive-org.pages.dev · archived copy
- "Project Stargate: 10 facts about the US government psychic experiments", History Collection · historycollection.com · archived copy
- Stargate Project — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Heaven's Gate (religious group) — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- "Remote viewing, transdimensional mapping and the grey dude with Prudence Calabrese", New Thinking Allowed · metacast.app · archived copy
- remoteviewed.com · remoteviewed.com · archived copy
Further reading
- Stargate Project — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- 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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