1995 · CIA, Langley
Stargate is shut down
Part ofThe legacy program
When1995
WhereCIA, Langley
Backing4 independent
Witnesses2 named
Evidencedocuments, official records
After 23 years, Congress moved the remote viewing program to the CIA, which commissioned an outside review by the American Institutes for Research. Statistician Jessica Utts concluded the effect was real and statistically significant; psychologist Ray Hyman disagreed. The CIA declared it had never been useful in an actual intelligence operation and ended the program. Its existence was announced on ABC's Nightline in November 1995. Believers note that the official ending came just as the research was strongest, and many suspect the work simply moved somewhere less visible.
Evidence, in date order (4)
- 1995American Institutes for Researchdocument1995 evaluation of the program Jessica Utts: An Assessment of the Evidence for Psychic Functioning
- 1995Jessica Uttswitnessstatistician concluding psychic functioning was well established Jessica Utts: An Assessment of the Evidence for Psychic Functioning
- 2000CIAofficialdeclassification and 2000 document release Wikipedia: Stargate Project
- Joe McMoneaglewitnessRemote Viewer 001, firsthand program account How I became Remote Viewer 001: Joe McMoneagle
How plausible · High
The program's closure and review are documented.
- ●●Access Direct observation or instruments.
- ●●No gain sought Nothing to gain.
- ●●Character record Trained professionals.
- ●●Checkable details check out Released official records.
- ●●Fits the documented skeleton Fits the documented record.
- ●●Fits secrecy practice Fits documented secrecy.
Plausibility weighs how well an account fits where secrecy hides the documents by design, so missing records never count against it. Strength measures what is documented. Assessed 2026-10-23.
On the record
- The AIR evaluation (1995), including Utts's conclusion that 'psychic functioning has been well established'.
- Declassification of the program in 1995 and the CIA document release in 2000.
Claims
Remote viewing continued under a different name, and today's 'psionics' work is its descendant.Remote viewing beginsMars 1 million BCspeculationSourced, unconfirmedbelievers
The program was consolidated at SAIC in 1991-94, where the terms 'anomalous cognition' and 'anomalous perturbation' were coined; it reported anomalous cognition as verified and anomalous perturbation as not.UFO Legacy Programs - Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC)firsthandOn the recordSAIC program reports (cited by UAP Gerb)
Consciousness and psi are linked to the legacy program, possibly for interfacing with craft.The 'Off-World Technologies Division' under NSWC Crane (2012-15)secondhandSourced, unconfirmedDavid Grusch
ONR's 2012-13 'sixth sense' study of intuitive decision-making carries on SAIC's Stargate legacy, around the time of the Crane 'Off-World Technologies Division' claim.The 'Off-World Technologies Division' under NSWC Crane (2012-15)speculationLeadUAP Gerb (Sam)
As Stargate was ending he was recruited in the Army by Eugene Lessmann, one of its best remote viewers; Congress pulled the funding and he became an operations officer, but he was there long enough to know the program was real. An Army SOP handbook on remote viewing exists.Luis ElizondoLuis Elizondo on MILABs, the missing scientists and StargateRemote viewing beginsMars 1 million BCfirsthandSourced, unconfirmedLuis Elizondo
Stargate 'absolutely worked' by the Pentagon's data; members of Congress privately told Gen. Stubblebine it was 'demonic', and remote viewers found the coordinates of a crashed Russian supersonic test aircraft in Africa that satellites could not locate.Luis ElizondoLuis Elizondo on MILABs, the missing scientists and StargateMars 1 million BCsecondhandSourced, unconfirmedLuis Elizondo
In The picture
The pictureIt isn’t just hardware. AAWSAP at Skinwalker Ranch, Stargate’s remote viewers, Swann’s Moon sessions, Nolan’s study of injured witnesses and the medical cases BAASS followed with blood work and scans all tie the phenomenon to the mind and the body. Insiders seem to have treated consciousness as part of the technology.
Mind is part of the machineThe CIA paid for remote viewing at SRI, and its own review found the effect 'well established'. In 1973 Swann 'visited' Jupiter and described a ring that Voyager confirmed six years later.
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Sources
- Wikipedia: Stargate Project
- Jessica Utts: An Assessment of the Evidence for Psychic Functioning
- The CIA's secret psychic spies
- The CIA's psychic spy: Ingo Swann
- How I became Remote Viewer 001: Joe McMoneagle
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