Farsight Institute Remote Viewing

When the CIA declassified and terminated the Stargate Project in 1995, it released the methodology into the public domain. The protocols developed over twenty-three years of classified research, the specific procedures for shielding a viewer from target information, recording sessions, and evaluating results, became available to anyone who wanted to use them. Several of the program's trained viewers left government service and continued working independently.

The Farsight Institute was founded the same year Stargate was terminated. Its founder, Courtney Brown, holds a doctorate in political science from Emory University. He is not a physicist or a parapsychologist. He describes himself as having learned the remote viewing protocols and then applied them systematically to targets of his choosing, with professional viewers trained in the same government-derived methods. The methodology is the same. The security classification is gone. The oversight is gone.

Scientific Remote Viewing, as Farsight uses the term, refers to the structured protocol developed at SRI and refined during the Stargate program. The protocol is designed to extract perceptual information from a viewer about a target while minimizing contamination from the viewer's imagination, expectations, or prior knowledge. It involves specific session structures, specific ways of recording impressions, and specific evaluation procedures.

The viewer is given a target reference, typically a random alphanumeric code, and nothing else. They do not know what the target is. They record impressions in a structured format across multiple stages, moving from general sensory impressions to more specific details. The session is evaluated by comparing the viewer's transcript against the actual target only after the session is complete.

The protocol was designed to be as standardized as possible so that results could be compared across viewers, across sessions, and across time. When the government used it, the standardization served intelligence collection purposes. When Farsight uses it, the standardization serves a different function, it makes the results comparable to the classified baseline established during the Stargate program.

Farsight has conducted remote viewing sessions on a wide range of targets. Historical events, the Tunguska explosion of 1908, the construction of the pyramids at Giza, the Roswell incident, using multiple independent viewers and comparing their results. Archaeological sites whose full histories are unknown. Alleged classified facilities. Future events, using the protocol's claimed capacity to access information outside normal temporal constraints.

The historical event sessions are the most directly evaluable. When multiple viewers independently produce descriptions of a target event that match known historical details — physical environment, personnel, emotional tone, sequence of events — it provides a baseline against which their accuracy on unknown targets can be assessed. Farsight publishes the full session transcripts alongside the target photographs, allowing independent evaluation.

Several sessions on historical targets have produced results that researchers have found difficult to explain through conventional means. Multiple viewers describing the same specific architectural features of a site they had never seen. Matching emotional characterizations of historical figures. Corroborating physical descriptions of environments that match known records the viewers could not have accessed without institutional research support they did not have.

The Stargate program operated under constraints that Farsight does not have. Government viewers were tasked with specific operational targets including real locations, real people, and real events with intelligence value. The results were evaluated against ground truth that the program had access to independently. When a viewer described a Soviet facility, the CIA could compare the description against satellite imagery and defector accounts. The accuracy rate could be measured against known facts.

Farsight's targets are chosen by the organization. The evaluation is conducted by the organization. There is no independent ground truth verification for targets involving historical unknowns or future events. This is a significant limitation. It means that Farsight's results cannot be evaluated with the same rigor that the Stargate program's operational results could be assessed. The methodology is the same. The verification structure is not.

This does not make Farsight's work worthless. It means that its results need to be evaluated differently, looking for internal consistency across independent viewers, looking for correspondence with known historical facts where those exist, and maintaining appropriate skepticism about claims that cannot be verified against any external record.

Farsight represents the continuation of a research program that the US government funded for twenty-three years, classified throughout, and terminated without answering the question it was designed to answer. The government's reason for termination was that the results were not reliable enough for operational intelligence use. The government's own statisticians found that the results were statistically significant above chance. The program was terminated anyway.

The protocols that produced those statistically significant results are now in public hands. Civilian researchers with no government funding, no institutional backing, and no classified access have been applying those protocols for thirty years. Whether their results match the classified baseline established by the Stargate program is not knowable from the public record, because the Stargate program's full results have not been declassified.

What is knowable is that the methodology exists, that it produced results the government classified and studied for decades, and that it continues to be applied by civilian researchers whose work anyone can examine. The question it was designed to answer, whether human perception can access information through means outside the known sensory system, remains open.

The CIA funded the methodology for twenty-three years. The DIA continued funding it. The government terminated the program without resolving the question it was studying. The protocols entered the public domain on the day of termination. Researchers have been applying them since. The government has not commented on whether the civilian results match what the classified program found. That specific silence is the part of the record worth noting.