About
Remote viewing is the practice of describing a hidden target while knowing nothing about it except a meaningless reference number. The number is just an address. The idea is that some part of you can reach the target anyway.
The US government took this seriously for about 23 years. Starting in 1972, the CIA and later the Army and DIA funded research at Stanford Research Institute and ran a small unit of military viewers at Fort Meade. The programs went by many names: Grill Flame, Center Lane, Sun Streak, and finally Star Gate. Viewers were tasked against real intelligence targets. A few results became famous, like Pat Price sketching a giant crane at a Soviet site and Joe McMoneagle describing a huge new submarine months before satellites confirmed it. There were also plenty of misses.
In 1995 the CIA had the program reviewed and shut it down. The reviewers agreed the lab data looked odd but disagreed on why, and nobody could point to a case where remote viewing alone produced useful intelligence. The files were declassified later, including the SRI training papers this site borrows its method from.
How a session works here
- You get a random number tied to a hidden image.
- Sketch and write down whatever comes to mind, then submit.
- Other viewers rank your session blind against five candidate images. Nobody involved knows the answer.
- When enough rankings are in, the target is revealed and your trial is scored. Chance is a 20% top-1 hit.
The real method has six stages and takes years to train. This site keeps it to the basics.
The experiment
Every trial is part of one running double-blind experiment. Five candidates are fixed and committed to with a salted hash before your session starts, so selections cannot be changed afterward. Trials, rankings, and timestamps are written once and never edited.
Preselected trials lock the target before you begin. Postselected trials derive it only after every ranking is locked, from data committed before the session. Nobody, including us, knows which kind a trial is until it resolves. If remote viewing tracks the feedback rather than the selection, the two should differ.
Postselection is opt in, offered at the start of each session. Decline and your trial is preselected; accept and the two kinds are drawn at random. That makes the postselected group a group of volunteers rather than a random half, so every trial records the choice alongside the condition and the comparison is read that way.
You start with 3 free sessions. Ranking 3 sessions from other viewers earns you another one. Rankings are how trials get scored.
Mainstream science does not accept remote viewing. This site exists because the history is fascinating and the practice is fun. Treat it as a game.
Further reading: Stargate Project and Remote viewing on Wikipedia.
A practice tool based on the declassified Stargate program. Made for fun. Images from Wikimedia Commons.