Stargate Project

The Stargate Project is a name for the U.S. military's remote-viewing program, which ended in 1995.

The name covers two stretches of time. Accounts of Albert Stubblebine's career and of Task Force Delta call it the Army's remote-viewing program at Fort Meade. Stubblebine sponsored it while commanding the Army's Intelligence and Security Command from 1981 to 1984. Other accounts use it for the final, consolidated program, about 1991 to 1995, by which time contract research had moved from SRI to SAIC. Project Grill Flame (1978 to 1982) is widely seen as a predecessor or early phase, but no source confirming a formal handoff or renaming has surfaced.

Kenneth Kress's 1977 article, the CIA's own account of how it came to fund research at SRI, is the most on-point declassified record of the program's origins.

On one account, Edwin May, lead researcher after Hal Puthoff, moved with the contract to SAIC, and Joseph McMoneagle, a military remote viewer who took part in several phases, received the Legion of Merit.

On the same account, the American Institutes for Research evaluated the program before it ended. The statistician Jessica Utts argued that the statistical evidence was robust; the skeptic Ray Hyman argued that the operational value was nil. The government, by that account, concluded that even if an effect existed it produced no actionable intelligence, and ended the program. That account calls the statistical debate unresolved.

Project SUNSTREAK is a remote-viewing effort.