:Skip Atwater

Completion of the formalized training was not the end of remote viewing training for members of the unit. As with any other military training program, it was necessary to hone their skills and to stretch their capabilities. The viewers needed practice with complex targets rather than the lakes, islands, mountains, or bridges typical of “basic” training. They needed to be tasked with the responsibility of collecting specific information. So what if they could remote view a football field? From and intelligence perspective, we needed specific information. Like, was there a terrorist bomb in the stadium?

The Natural History Museum in San Francisco is an example of a challenge target I used for such training. If viewers were skilled enough to acquire and describe the building and further classify the building as being open to the public or as a tourist attraction, they were then asked to explore the building further. Within the building, the challenge began.

The inside of the building was arranged as a spiral walking tour through historical panoramas. As viewers began to objectify their findings, many would become disoriented and begin to lose confidence in their contact with the site. With practice and in conjunction with careful interviewing techniques, remote viewers eventually learned to control their focus of attention to specific tasking and not become mired in the complexity of the overall site.

Some remote viewers became so skilled that when viewing the Natural History Museum challenge target I could task them to describe a specific display by cueing something like, “Describe #A-125,” as though the display’s designation was a coordinate within the museum. Such training paralleled operational tasks, as when remote viewers were directed to describe specific rooms within a foreign embassy or a designated area within a weapons factory.

Occasionally, during challenge-target training, I used targets that had to do with extraterrestrials or unidentified flying objects (UFOs). Since, by protocol, the remote viewers never knew when I would use one of these targets, they were blind as to what they were remote viewing. None of these controversial challenge targets was ever directed or approved by higher military authority. I was the Operations and Training Officer and the sole authority on the use of these as training targets. The information resulting from these training sessions was never officially reported and, presumably, has been destroyed in the years since the project was closed.

The controversy surrounding the use of remote viewing for exploring these topics is worth mentioning. From some scientist’s perspective, such targets are a detriment to acceptance of remote viewing. Their view seems to be that comparing a viewer’s description with an observable object or location will eventually lead to an understanding of the phenomena and its acceptance as a valid human perceptual ability. With UFO targets there is hardly ever anything to compare with a remote viewer’s description. Additionally, any association with the UFO phenomena may be seen by some as pejorative and, therefore, best avoided.

Alternatively, more adventuresome folks who feel that since remote-viewing surveillance is unbound by the constraints of time and space (as we understand them) believe it is the ideal technique for exploring the extraterrestrial and UFO realm. However, several of these people have become overzealous and have forgotten that the information stream objectified by a remote viewer can be erroneous or valid or a mixture of both. Remote viewers themselves are of little help in determining which. Therefore, without some sort of protocol to determine if the remote viewer acquired the target and, if so, how well he or she described information of interest about the target, such remote-viewing sessions may amount to nothing but folly.

My feeling is that the use of remote-viewing surveillance as a corroborative information source concerning UFO reports is appropriate. If a thousand people in Phoenix, Arizona report seeing a UFO on a certain date (as has happened) it seems logical to find out if local radar detected anything or if there is any photographic evidence of such a sighting (which there was). It also seems logical to me that remote-viewing surveillance of that particular space-time coordinate, carefully tasked with appropriate “blinding” protocols, would provide further information of interest. Enough said.

June 1980 (only actual operational mission involving UFO?) – Targeting cue: KH-11 photograph in sealed envelope in separate building. Remote viewer, Joe McMoneagle, described the following:

Hard metallic object with observation ports evident across the top as well as the underside; outer edges rotating at high speed and the object was in the process of making a ninety-degree turn; object traveling about forty-five hundred miles per hour and about fourteen thousand feet altitude; mode of power was a form of electromagnetically controlled fluid plasma.

October 1983 (training target) — Targeting cue: geographic coordinates of Clearwater Lake, Missouri and the date March 27, 1973. Remote viewer, Joe McMoneagle, described the following:

Just see a white streak of light across my northwest. See some others, three or four. Seems to go to the ground and stop. Slits blinking, looks like an explosion, some kind of violent explosion, but it’s a strange from. It folds in instead of out. Getting like a strange … a, wait a minute … like an abnormal energy source of some kind. It folds in instead of out, like dematerializing.

See another streak going away to the mountain, turning sharp right, heading south, southwest. See two others, now they’re just lights, like cones hovering. Ah, wait a minute, I’m having trouble … I keep trying to get close and I can’t; it’s something strange about time, different time formats. I don’t understand. Wait a minute. The light is hollow, like reflection. See multiple figure eights tied together. I’m getting really confused. A place is right date but lights are wrong date. It’s like one’s not, not a real participant in reality.

I’m turning a light into a large disk or oblong … it’s changing shape.

Joe went on to describe a powerful encounter with a being and became somewhat disoriented.

October 1983 (training target) — Targeting cue: geographic coordinates of the Gulf of San Matias, Argentina and the instruction event of interest, 1981. Remote viewers Joe McMoneagle and Tom Nance, using two different remote-viewing techniques, both described their impressions as follows:

Joe described an extraordinary event involving an abandon military ship … Some very high energies there that just caused terror, complete panic, they didn’t even know what the hell happened. They just went into a panic. This is stupid. The ship is surrounded by blue and gray fog. The energy is not even electronic; it’s not even and electrical. It just robbed the people of their senses, isolating their ship and the people in it. The people lost control of themselves. The blue gray fog is intentionally limited to the ship in an area
surrounding the ship. I really don’t want to pursue this anymore.

It’s coming, it’s coming from-beaming from an outside source; overhead. There’s an attack by something on that damned vessel. There’s an unexplainable loss of crew. There is a wandering of the vessel, unmanned with some remnants of crew on board with no sign of life. There is an energy source from outside that caused this. It comes from, for the lack of a better term, a vessel. The vessel was able to hover in an area and caused this to happen.

Tom was trained by Ingo Swann in the CRV technique and was an excellent remote viewer. He reported a strange billowy energy cloud that evoked a fear response. He wanted to stay away from it.

April 1985 (training target) — Targeting cue: geographic coordinates of the Gulf of San Matias, Argentina and the instruction event of interest, 1981. Remote viewers Paul Smith and Bill Ray were both trained by Ingo Swann and described the target as follows:

Ray’s explicit summary … On an ocean a short distance from a coast in 1981 there is a ship. This ship has a military feeling. It is smaller than a destroyer. There are only men aboard. They are wearing clean white uniforms — maybe white shorts. The men are young for the most part, and are athletic. They are on a routine mission.

There is a second group of people involved. They are in a large, shiny, metallic, silver craft. The second group of people are unemotional, programmed, ordered, disciplined, interlinked, interconnected, interrelated, and intertwined. They are cold and unpleasant. They are lean, sterile and white (not further identified). They are returning and gathering (not further explained). I get no impression of any sex differences among these people. The afternoon is sunny and bright. The ocean is calm. The men on the military boat go to a state of alert, like battle stations. There is a routine feeling here. This is preplanned and has been rehearsed. There is a feeling of confidence. Everyone knows their jobs and the man in charge knows what he is doing. Time passes.

Around sunset or early evening I think, an unexpected event occurs. A shadow falls across the boat. The water is tossing and rising in the vicinity of the boat. It looks almost like the sea is boiling. There is mist, vapor and steam around the boat. The mist is damp and is of several colors. I do not recall what these colors are and I feel that it is not important. There is complete panic and confusion on the boat. Men are scrambling and hollering and many are running anxiously. Others are terrified and screaming but remain where they are at their stations. The ship smells of insanity and fear. No one knows what to do. No one can take charge. There is a feeling, not a color, of red and black like a photograph negative. I cannot explain that any better. There is a tremendous feeling of gravity here; skin is pulled tight across the cheekbones. Arms are incredibly heavy and I have a difficult time moving my feet off the deck.

I believe all this turmoil is being caused by the cold unemotional group of people in the strange shaped craft, which is hovering over the ship. After a time the strange shaped craft rises up and goes west over the land and all becomes calm and quiet. In the morning it is brisk. There is a salty, clean wind blowing from the north I believe. The ship is floating in the water quiet and empty, with no living person on board. There is a feeling of entering the craft. This entering is forced and temporary. The Attributes (a Stage V remote-viewing term) of this entering are several and previous, up and light, is resistant and is not resistant. The Subject (a Stage V remote-viewing term) of this entering is experiment and learning. The Topics (a Stage V remote-viewing term) are ongoing, biological, developing, encompassing, scientific, social, material, research, categorizing, and cataloging.

There is something important underwater near the site, something to do with bubbles and spheres. This underwater thing is oblong, metallic, hidden, sensitive, secretive, selective colony. Its Subject is life and ecology. Its Topics are deep, dark, sustaining, nourishing, acrobetic [sic], elongated, and saline.

Smith had a short session and had to quit after being overwhelmed by an AOL Drive (it turned out to be AOL/Signal) of a UFO incident involving a cloud and a ship.

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Remote Viewing Underground UFO Bases

Under a program first called Project SCANATE (scanning by coordinate), researchers at SRI International, Menlo Park, California, studied the remote-viewing talents of Ingo Swann and Pat Price, among others. Ingo went on to develop a successful, now highly respected remote-viewing training program for the Department of Defense. Pat Price died in 1975, but left a legacy as yet unequaled by any other publicly known remote viewer.

In support of Project SCANATE, Pat was able to use his remote viewing talent to recover highly classified codeword information from an operational U.S. military facility. So good was Pat’s remote viewing that he was recruited by and worked directly for the CIA until his reported death on July 14, 1975.

On August 13, 1977, the Chicago Tribune reported:

CIA Director Stansfield Turner has disclosed that the agency found a man who could “see” what was going on anywhere in the world through his psychic powers. Scientists and officials would show the man a picture of a place and he would then describe any activity going on there at that time. The tight-lipped CIA chief wouldn’t reveal how accurate the man was, but said the agency dropped the project in 1975. “He died,” Turner said, “and we haven’t heard from him since.”

In addition to his dedicated and successful service to U.S. Government intelligence services, Pat Price believed that extraterrestrial beings had established bases under the surface of the earth at four different geographical locations.

In support of this notion, Pat (unofficially) remote viewed these locations and reported his findings to Harold E. Puthoff, Ph.D., formerly of SRI International and the principle scientific investigator for Project SCANATE.

Nearly a decade later these same locations were (unofficially) remote viewed by trained intelligence professionals from the secret U.S. Army Intelligence remote-viewing program, codename STAR GATE. The corroborative findings of the later effort by a cadre of highly trained remote viewers (intelligence professionals) has broad implications in

the understanding UFO phenomena and other events surrounding the question of extraterrestrial life forms.

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Remote Viewing Mars:

Working under a classified contract from the secret U.S. Army Intelligence remote-viewing surveillance program, Bob Monroe trained Joe McMoneagle, one of the best remote viewers in the government’s STAR GATE program, in the use of the Monroe audio support technology. During these training sessions, Monroe worked one-on-one with Joe, experimenting with him and teaching him how to access different levels of arousal. The recipe for this training involved several identifiable processes.

Once these were solidified, Monroe coached Joe to focus his attention on his internal world or, stated another way, become aware of his own mental realm without the “noise” of the physical senses. The final ingredient in this training recipe was the addition of an audio technology capable of altering one’s state of consciousness or first-person experience by altering the brain’s cortical level of arousal. Properly applied, this recipe would enable Joe to orally report and/or journal his perceptions.

Each training week Skip Atwater conducted an audit remote-viewing session to try to determine any improvement in Joe’s remote-viewing performance. During these sessions Skip and Bob were able to monitor physiological changes from electrodes placed on Joe’s fingers. During one of audit sessions, Skip decided to use geographic coordinates of some unusual formations, possibly artificial structures, on the planet Mars. Dr. Puthoff from SRI in Menlo Park had provided him with these coordinates some years earlier and he had been waiting for an opportunity to use them.

Joe reclined with headphones in a soundproofed, darkened room in the lab at The Monroe Institute and Bob Monroe and Skip Atwater sat in the adjacent control room.

In preparation for this exercise Skip had written, “The planet Mars, one million years BC” on a standard 3 X 5 index card, sealed it in a small, opaque envelope, and asked Bob to put the envelope in his breast pocket. Bob (and, of course, Joe) did not know what Skip had written on the index card. Skip kept the list of specific coordinates (unseen by either Bob or Joe) provided by Dr. Puthoff with him. When Joe finished his cool-down period, Skip directed Joe to focus by saying, “Using the information in the envelope …” and then read him the first Martian coordinate. Bob adjusted Joe’s audio patterns.

Joe seemed very deep (slowed respiration; slurred speech; incomplete sentences) — a good sign. He usually did well when he really got into the process. When he began to describe an arid climate in some distant place, Skip knew he was probably on target.

Skip reviewed the list of Martian coordinates provided by Dr. Puthoff and directed Joe to “move” in time to the period designated in the sealed envelope, then from his present locale (so to speak) to the next set of coordinates on the list.

Of course, if he had started off by describing an aircraft carrier, a factory, a person having coffee, or some other irrelevant location, Skip would have figured that the session was a bust and would not have continued with the Martian coordinates.

Perceiving the time period one million years BC Joe reported the “aftereffect of a major geologic problem.” When asked to move to a time before the geologic problem (perhaps thousands or tens or hundreds of thousands of years) he reported a “total difference” in the terrain. He also found a “shadow” of “very large” people. Joe went on to explain that by “shadow” he meant that they weren’t there anymore. Once again I asked Joe to move, to remote view, back in time-to the period when the people were still there (again, perhaps thousands or tens or hundreds of thousands of years). Joe described “very large people” who were “wearing very strange clothes” and much more about what happened to them.

As it turned out Joe described eight different coordinate-designated locations on Mars. When Joe began to describe the unusual structures on Mars, Bob Monroe did not know if Joe was on target because he didn’t know the contents of the sealed envelope. As he continued to adjust the sound patterns, he asked repeatedly about Joe’s descriptions.

Skip gestured, “Wait,” several times until he finally turned to Bob and winked while saying simply, “Joe is on Mars.”

Bob listened carefully to Joe’s intriguing descriptions of an ancient race of “very large people” and a cataclysmic disaster that caused them to abandon their home. At one point Joe was in telepathic contact with one of the Martians. During this deep-contact period Joe’s skin-potential voltage (measured from finger electrodes) reversed polarity-crossing the zero or null point-indicating a discrete shift in perception.

After the session Bob and Skip debriefed Joe before revealing the contents of the sealed envelope. Joe reiterated his feeling of having been “a long way off” and that this session was very different than his previous remote-viewing experiences. Joe did a great job during this audit session.

The importance of this remote viewing for Joe McMoneagle (and the rest of us) extends far beyond the implications it may have for the exploration of the planet Mars in the 21st Century. Joe was able to extend his consciousness across millions of miles and millions of years (in terms of space/time reality). This must have had a tremendous impact on Joe’s concept of self. He not only experienced his consciousness extending beyond the confines of his physical body, but also reaching across our solar system, spanning millennia, and bonding (telepathically?) with another being. If this is an example of what we as human beings are capable of, then just who are we?