During the Cold War, the CIA and Defense Intelligence Agency funded a top-secret program to develop psychic espionage. The results were far more disturbing than anyone anticipated.
Project STAR GATE was the codename for a secret military unit established in 1978 at Fort Meade, Maryland, by the Defense Intelligence Agency and SRI International. The program employed remote viewers who claimed to perceive detailed information about distant or unseen targets using extrasensory perception. One of the most notable remote viewers, Joseph McMoneagle, described a Soviet submarine construction facility with remarkable accuracy, including details that were later confirmed by satellite imagery. Another viewer, Ingo Swann, developed the coordinate remote viewing protocol that became the standard methodology. The program produced over 80,000 pages of documents before being officially terminated in 1995 after the CIA commissioned an independent review by the American Institutes for Research. While the review concluded that remote viewing had not been proven to produce actionable intelligence, many former participants maintain that certain sessions yielded eerily accurate results that could not be explained by chance alone.