What The Hell Is Project Stargate?
July 28, 2017
Alright, I know I should take a moment to preface this story with a few points. I understand that this one sounds like some bat shit crazy rambling insanity you would expect out of a guy 4 days deep into burning man. I also understand that the nature of this one sounds like click bait, (I promise sources are cited throughout just stay with me.) What would you say if the CIA funded programs for scientists to study the capability of psychics to see other areas of the world? That the program was fully disclosed, and that the program ran for 21 years? The program changed titles various times, a claimed psychic from the study wrote 12 books about his experiences? That one of those books claims to have seen equipment on the moon. (I told you, this is going down the bat shit crazy rabbit hole.)
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The StarGate Project
was the code name for a secret U.S. Army unit established in 1978 at Fort Meade, Maryland, by the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and SRI International (a California contractor) to investigate the potential for psychic phenomena in military and domestic intelligence applications. The Project, and its precursors and sister projects, went by various code names — GONDOLA WISH, GRILL FLAME, CENTER LANE, SUN STREAK, SCANATE — until 1991 when they were consolidated and rechristened as "Stargate Project".
I told you we were going down the rabbit hole.
Those might be a lot easier to handle if they weren't directly from the CIA library eh?
Stargate Project work primarily involved remote viewing, the purported ability to psychically "see" events, sites, or information from a great distance. (Like the moon)
Maj. Gen.Albert Stubblebine, and later president of the Monroe Institute.
The unit was small-scale, comprising about 15 to 20 individuals, and was run out of "an old, leaky wooden barracks"
The Stargate Project was terminated and declassified in 1995 after a CIA report concluded that it was never useful in any intelligence operation. The official report detracts from the efficacy of the study in saying that the evidence was suspect to potential tampering. Although, this is where a few questions are raised if there was no significant evidence of the Stargate project working, why was the project continued for 21 years? Re-titled and moved continuously. There is obviously more than a good reason for skepticism in something like acquiring a magical sixth sense capable of seeing somewhere else on the planet.
1970s
In 1970, United States intelligence sources believed that the Soviet Union was spending 60 million rubles annually on "psychotronic" research. In response to claims that the Soviet program had produced results, the CIA initiated funding for a new program known as SCANATE ("scan by coordinate") in the same year.[ Remote viewing research began in 1972 at the StanfordResearch Institute(SRI) in Menlo Park, California.
Proponents of the research said that a minimum accuracy rate of 65% required by the clients was often exceeded in the later experiments.
Parapsychologists Russell Targ and Harold Puthoff began testing psychics for SRI in 1972, including one who would later become an international celebrity, Israeli Uri Geller. Their apparently successful results garnered interest within the Department of Defense.Ray Hyman, professor of psychology at the University of Oregon, was asked by Air Force psychologist Lt. Col. Austin W. Kibler (1930-2008) — then Director of Behavioral Research forARPA— to go to SRI and investigate. He was to specifically evaluate Geller. Hyman’s report to the government was that Geller was a “complete fraud” and as a consequence Targ and Puthoff lost their government contract to do further work with him. The result was a publicity tour for Geller, Targ and Puthoff, to seek private funding for further research work on Geller.
Strike one for remote viewing? Twenty-two more years of study to go.
In 1977, the Army Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence(ACSI) Systems Exploitation Detachment(SED) started the GONDOLA WISH program to "evaluate potential adversary applications of remote viewing." Army Intelligence then formalized this in mid-1978 as an operational program GRILL FLAME. If Uri Gellar can't make it happen can we weaponize the thing that doesn't work? Is it government inefficiency or potential discrepancies?
1980s
In early 1979 the research at SRI was integrated into GRILL FLAME, which was redesignated INSCOM CENTER LANE Project (ICLP) in 1983.[14]In 1984 the existence of the program was reported byJack Anderson, and in that year it was unfavorably received by the National Academy of SciencesNational Research Council.[14]In late 1985 the Army funding was terminated, but the program was redesignated SUN STREAK and funded by the DIA'sScientific and Technical Intelligence Directorate(office code DT-S).[14]
1990s
In 1991 most of the contracting for the program was transferred from SRI to science Applications International Corporation(SAIC), with Edwin May controlling 70% of the contractor funds and 85% of the data. Its security was altered from Special Access Program(SAP) to Limited Dissemination (LIMDIS), and it was given its final name, STAR GATE.[14] The Progam was ended and disclosed in 1995, which raises more questions than it answers. Even though it sounds a bit crazy, is there an extra sensory perception that the Government is aware of? I myself am skeptical, but I don't know that CIA documents for 20 years are enough evidence to be considered concrete My personal philosophy is to remain skeptical while exploring the "mystical" side of things. I like to fully embrace an idea as plausible albeit extremely improbable while testing hypotheses in the dynamic of my life.
So is there any other story of Project Stargate (Come to the woo side, Ingo Swann)
ALL HUMANS HAVE CLAIRVOYANT SENSING FACILITIES, AND THIS IS THE REASON THEY KEEP EMERGING IN SPITE OF ANY SOCIETAL RESISTANCE TO THEM.”
-An excerpt from the most infamous remote viewers website.
INGO SWANN (September 14, 1933 - January 31, 2013) was internationally known as an advocate and researcher of the exceptional powers of the human mind, and as a leading figure in governmental and scientific projects to investigate and identify the scope of subtle human perceptions.
Since 1970, his name and work have been incorporated into most contemporary books about PSI and the "paranormal." He was featured in four volumes of Time-Life's bestselling series entitled Mysteries of the Unknown. His contributive work has achieved broad media notice and been featured in every major American/British television documentary on the subject of PSI phenomena and Remote Viewing. Swann has been interviewed and/or profiled in dozens of magazines, including Time, Reader's Digest, Smithsonian and Newsweek.
Swann's early work in parapsychology, as a noted and highly successful "guinea pig," made him a psychic superstar in that field. His subsequent research on behalf of American intelligence interests, including that of the CIA, won him top PSI-spy status. His involvement in government research projects required the discovery of innovative approaches toward the actual realizing of subtle human energies. He viewed PSI powers as only parts of the larger spectrum of human sensing systems.
Swann was the author of over ten books. His publisher, Crossroad Press, is reissuing many titles as ebooks, audio books and paperback books, among them, Penetration: The Question of Extraterrestrial and Human Telepathy; Purple Fables; Psychic Sexuality; The Great Apparitions of Mary; The Wisdom Category; and Star Fire, with more to come.
Ingo Swann was also a visionary artist and his exquisite works can be found at The American Visionary Art Museum, The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Edgar Cayce's Association for Research and Enlightenment (A.R.E.), The Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, and ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives at the USC Libraries.
His extensive data base of writings on what he considered the Superpowers of the Human Biomind are available on this website in the Researcher section, while his collection of research, books and correspondences is housed within Special Collections, Ingram Library at the University of West Georgia.
If you would like to explore some of his books and first hand accounts of the project itself, he has 12 published books available on Amazon.
It is important to remember than when proving something contrary to modern understanding the weight of evidence weighs on the party making the claim. An important question in logical debates of this nature is the extent of which certain evidence pertains to definitive proof. Does the CIA studying parapsychology lend a bit of credibility to the stories of the people involved? If not what does it indicate, that our government believes in exploring some of the things we call "woo woo"? I personally believe that some of these ideas get lumped into a category of psuedo-science due to a misunderstanding of the laws of discovery. Naturally, there is a large portion that belongs on the side of irresponsible deductive reasoning.
What do you think? Did the CIA discovery extra sensory perception? Or did the CIA fund a 21 year long field trip with the equivalent of a good conspiracy theory?
(Caution, external download. It is the official CIA website though.)
