Joe McMoneagle

Biography

Joseph McMoneagle (born 10 January 1946 in Miami, Florida) is a former soldier of the U.S. Army and, as Remote Viewer #001, the central founding figure of the military Star Gate program (1978–1984) — a classified intelligence project to research psychic abilities for espionage, initially run under SRI leadership and later at the military site of Fort Meade. After the program was declassified in 1995 he became the most important public representative of the American remote-viewing tradition and linked it to UAP topics. - Born 10 January 1946 in Miami, Florida - Former soldier of the U.S. Army - Recruited as Remote Viewer #001 into the Star Gate program after trials with Russell Targ and Hal Puthoff - Program at SRI and later at the military site of Fort Meade (1978–1984) - 1965 UFO sighting in the Bahamas; 1984 remote-viewing session on ancient Mars (circa 1 million BCE) describing pyramids, giants and catastrophe - Author of *Mind Trek* (1993) and *The Ultimate Time Machine* (1998); founder of Intuitive Intelligence Applications, Inc. - Cooperation with Robert Monroe's institute; media appearances and remote-viewing demonstrations after the 1995 declassification For the UAP timeline, McMoneagle is the hinge figure between military intelligence practice and parapsychological research — a connection that resurfaces in later programs such as AAWSAP and in Jake Barber's "psionics" claims. His case shows that psychic espionage in the United States was never purely academic but operationally practised — and that UAP sighting and remote viewing can coincide in one and the same person.