Inyokern child remote viewing program
The Inyokern child remote viewing program was a purported classified psychoenergetic research program allegedly conducted near the China Lake Naval facility at Inyokern, California, during 1982, in which cloned children were reportedly subjected to trauma-based conditioning, pharmacological enhancement, and remote viewing protocols to allegedly test the outer limits of psychic and psychoenergetic capability. The program, as described by experiencer Tony Rodrigues, operated in a legal gap between the cancellation of Project Grill Flame (April 7, 1982) and the reclassification of that research into Project Center Lane (January 1983), during which classified contractors operated outside standard Army regulations.
Origin and scope of the program
Rodrigues dates the program's operational window to the nine months between April 1982 and January 1983, when Project Grill Flame funding was terminated and before its successor, Project Center Lane at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, imposed volunteer-only restrictions on all participants. During that window, a private contractor — believed to have CIA, NSA, FBI, and Army Intelligence connections — operated three portable structures on land classified as a "special district" adjacent to the Inyokern Airport (formerly a naval ordnance testing facility), an area chosen for its low electromagnetic field environment. Approximately twelve to fourteen children were held in the facility at any one time.
The program's stated justification, per letters to Congress uncovered by Rodrigues, was the development of psychoenergetic countermeasures against Soviet and Chinese remote viewing capabilities — the same rationale used by Stanford Research Institute (SRI) researchers who had already demonstrated remote viewers could penetrate NSA facilities. The distinction between the program's unrestricted black-program methods and the official SRI/Army Coordinate Remote Viewing (CRV) protocol was explicit: a 1983 document Rodrigues presents in his book Beyond the Veil specifies that in the CRV protocol "no drugs, hypnosis, special sensory, visual, auditory or olfactory...electrical or electromagnetic stimulus will be used," precisely because those methods were being tested in the classified parallel program. The research drew on technology from the Monroe Institute — including binaural beat audio — which the CIA had been tracking since 1972.
The conditioning sequence began with several months of subliminal film programming — reel-to-reel projections mixing Disney cartoons with graphic violence and Olympic kidnapping footage — combined with hallucinogens, followed by escalating sleep deprivation, ice-water immersion, electric shocks, and physical injury including deliberate arm dislocation. Rodrigues characterizes this as MKULTRA-pattern trauma-based programming. The end-state target was a condition of total compliance and open psychic receptivity: "they could shock us with an electric shock, and I would go into a catatonic state, and I would do exactly what I was told." Psychoenergetics — active interaction with a target (altering temperature, moving objects, disrupting perception of time) rather than passive viewing — was distinguished from standard remote viewing and formed a separate experimental track.
Rodrigues has separately characterized the effort as an offshoot of Project Grill Flame, stating that he located documents linking its funding to research institutes whose personnel had MKULTRA experience, particularly in sleep deprivation.
Field deployment and clone status
Tony Rodrigues places himself in the program beginning April 15, 1982 — the same week he was abducted by Grays and reptilians and his consciousness was transferred into a clone body, leaving his physical body in Michigan with no apparent gap to his family. Rodrigues describes being told by an indoctrinator that he was a clone and that the children's status as clones — outside normal human-rights and military jurisdictions — was what made the experiments legally permissible: "they had no fear of a reprieve of a parent...there was no culpability." He spent approximately one month at the Inyokern facility before being transferred to Peru for field operations — working as a child psychic operator aboard cocaine-transport flights, where near-death-experience states induced by an IV drug protocol were used to elicit reliable intelligence responses.
Rodrigues has stated that cloning was an integral component of the program's technology, and that he was explicitly introduced as a clone on multiple occasions during his time in New York and Seattle: "I was introduced as a clone on a couple occasions. Like he's a clone." He has argued that the rapid international banning of human cloning following the cloning of Dolly the sheep was itself evidence that classified cloning programs were being concealed: "they banned cloning so fast...I have to think that that's because they're hiding the important stuff." Rodrigues has also raised the ethical dimension of clone status, arguing that even if his recalled experiences occurred within a cloned body, those experiences constitute a full human life deserving of rights: "even if it was a clone of me, it was me because I cranked out two books of it. So that means that it deserves to be treated like a person, that it has rights."
In 2023, Rodrigues returned to Inyokern with filmmaker Tyler from the Journey to Truth podcast, locating the derelict portables where the program had been conducted and filming documentary footage. The visit triggered recovered memories and was presented publicly at the Galactic Spiritual Informers Connection conference in Orlando, where fellow secret space program claimant Melanie Chaw stated the layout was consistent with her own childhood memories of a similar facility. Rodrigues documented his research into the program's history and his own testimony in the book Beyond the Veil: The Hidden History of Remote Viewing and Psychoenergetic (2024), presented alongside Michael Salla at a conference in Valence, France.