Project 8200

Project 8200 is the name given to remote-viewing work aimed at alleged underground UFO bases and other non-human targets. It is associated with Skip Atwater of the Army's remote-viewing unit, and it starts from claims that Pat Price made in the early 1970s while working with Hal Puthoff at SRI.

The claims it set out to test

Price is said to have described four mountain sites, each supposedly hiding a non-human base: Mount Hayes in Alaska, Mount Nyangani in Zimbabwe, Monte Perdido in the Pyrenees, and Mount Ziel in Australia. The project is described as a later attempt to check those descriptions with other remote viewers; Joseph McMoneagle and MAJ Ed Dames are linked to it. These are retellings. No declassified record cited in this graph sets out the targets or the results, and none of the claimed bases has been confirmed.

What it was

Accounts differ. Some treat it as a separate CIA track that ran beside the Army's programs. Some treat it as a label for a kind of session inside them. Others see a name applied afterward to sessions that were filed under Project Grill Flame or Center Lane at the time. Atwater has described it as a training exercise that was never reported up the chain of command. Its dates are not firmly established.

The wider remote-viewing effort ended in 1995 (see Stargate Project).

Sources

[S1] Project 8200: UFO/UAP Bases and Activities | F. Holmes Atwater (book listing) URL: https://books.google.com/books/about/Project_8200.html?id=gzrq0AEACAAJ Claim: the project's targets, in Atwater's account

[S2] "STARGATE" collection | CIA Reading Room URL: https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/collection/stargate Claim: declassified records of the remote-viewing programs in general; none specific to Project 8200 is cited here