Joseph McMoneagle was born on January 11, 1946. He served as a retired U.S. Army Chief Warrant Officer. He participated in remote viewing (RV) experiments conducted by U.S. Army Intelligence and the Stanford Research Institute. He was one of the first people recruited for a secret program called the Stargate Project, which operated from 1978 to 1995. Along with his colleague Ingo Swann, McMoneagle is well known for his work studying remote viewing and the use of unusual abilities for military intelligence. His other interests include near-death experiences, out-of-body travel, and unidentified flying objects.

Biography

McMoneagle grew up in an environment with alcoholism, abuse, and poverty. As a child, he saw visions during the night when he was frightened and believed his psychic abilities helped protect him when he traveled by hitchhiking. He joined the Army in 1964 when he was 18 to escape the problems at home.

McMoneagle's early career was as a noncommissioned officer, and he retired after 20 years as a chief warrant officer. He was seriously hurt in a helicopter accident during the Vietnam War. He worked in intelligence for 15 years. From 1978, he was known as "Remote Viewer No. 1" at Project Stargate—the U.S. Army's psychic intelligence unit at Fort Meade, Maryland.

At his retirement, McMoneagle received the Legion of Merit for his last ten years of service, which included five years working in signals intelligence (SIGINT) and five years in the remote viewing (RV) program. He retired from the Army in 1984 but continued working as a consultant for Stargate until 1993.

In 1995, funding for Project Stargate was stopped, and the unit was shut down after an official finding that "no discernible benefit had been established." McMoneagle became a speaker at the Monroe Institute, where he had previously been sent for his RV training. Later, he started an RV business called Intuitive Intelligence Applications, Inc., aimed at the corporate world. His services included helping someone looking for oil find a well or helping a quarry operator know where to mine.

Views and assertions

According to McMoneagle, remote viewing can occur accurately beyond the limits of time. He claims to have used remote viewing to observe the past, present, and future, and has made predictions about events. Paul H. Smith, who participated in the Star Gate Program, stated that McMoneagle predicted events several months ahead. McMoneagle’s own descriptions of his remote viewing accuracy vary, with claims ranging from 5 to 95 percent, or between 65 to 75 percent. He admits that remote viewing is not always correct but says it has helped locate hostages and crashed airplanes. He also states that most other psychics are not reliable. McMoneagle claims he predicted several events, including the passage of a teenager’s "Right to Work" Bill, the rise of a new religion without a focus on Christianity, a science of the soul, an AIDS vaccine, a movement to stop television, and a temporary tattoo trend replacing clothing. He said these events were expected to occur between 2002 and 2006.

McMoneagle explains that the military remote viewing program was stopped partly because of negative public opinion. He says people wanted to use the program but feared being associated with it due to ridicule. Supporters of his work include parapsychologists like Charles Tart.

McMoneagle collaborated with Dean Radin at the Consciousness Research Laboratory at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, to explore patentable ideas through remote viewing for a "future machine" Radin proposed. He also claims to have used remote viewing in missing person cases in Washington, San Francisco, New York, and Chicago. He says he has used remote viewing to observe events from the past, including the origin of the human species. According to McMoneagle, humans originated from creatures similar to sea otters, not primates, and were created in a laboratory by beings who "seeded" Earth and then left.

Media appearances

McMoneagle appeared on a National Geographic Channel show called "Naked Science" with parapsychologist Edwin C. May. May tested McMoneagle's ability to "remote view" six locations in the San Francisco Bay area. The results were not fully successful.

In 1994, McMoneagle was on an ABC television special called Put to the Test. Brian Dunning, a paranormal researcher, said, "The only thing I found impressive about McMoneagle's demonstration was the editing and narration that made it look like a major psychic event." The show took a 15-minute test and shortened it to 2 minutes, keeping only the parts the producers believed were most interesting. During the test, McMoneagle described things like a metallic sound, a pedestrian bridge, something tall that is not a building, a river or running water, something with a stripe on it, and perpendicular lines.

In 1995, McMoneagle talked about the Stargate program in an interview with the Washington Post.

McMoneagle co-wrote an episode of the science fiction show The Dead Zone. In the episode, remote viewing was used to search for Osama Bin Laden. USA Network, which aired The Dead Zone, canceled the episode's original broadcast because of concerns about the topic. The episode was later shown after the series returned from a break.

In 2002, McMoneagle began appearing regularly on Nippon Television's prime-time show Chounouryoku Sousakan (translated as "FBI: Psychic Investigator"). During the show, he performed remote viewings related to unsolved police cases.

In 2004, McMoneagle was interviewed in Jon Ronson's documentary Crazy Rulers of the World (Episode 3, "The Psychic Footsoldiers," Channel 4). He described his method for traveling "out of body" to Communist China to remotely view a trigger mechanism in a military nuclear weapons laboratory.

Books

• Mind Trek: Exploring the Mind, Time, and Space Using Remote Viewing. Hampton Roads Publishing Company. 1993. ISBN 1-878901-72-9. OCLC 29858629.
• The Ultimate Time Machine: A Remote Viewer's Perception of Time and Predictions for the New Millennium. Charlottesville, VA: Hampton Roads Publishing Company. 1998. ISBN 978-1-57174-102-8. OCLC 40308919.
• Remote Viewing Secrets: A Handbook. Charlottesville, VA: Hampton Roads Publishing Company. 2000. ISBN 1-57174-159-3. OCLC 44115863.
• The Stargate Chronicles: Memoirs of a Psychic Spy. Charlottesville, VA: Hampton Roads Publishing Company. 2002. ISBN 1-57174-225-5. OCLC 50679067.
• Memoirs of a Psychic Spy: The Remarkable Life of a U.S. Government Remote Viewer. Charlottesville, VA: Hampton Roads Publishing Company. 2006. ISBN 1-57174-482-7. OCLC 50679067.