Angela Ford

Angela Ford is a former Defense Intelligence Agency civilian analyst and remote viewer who served in the U.S. Army's Stargate psychic spy program at Fort Meade, Maryland from 1986 to 1995. She was one of the few women in the program and one of very few operatives who brought a pre-existing, independently developed psychic ability rather than the trained coordinate remote viewing (CRV) methodology. Fellow Stargate veteran Joseph McMoneagle stated that Ford — a GS-level intelligence analyst in one of the highest Pentagon positions — was "called a witch and shoved into a side room" during her time in the DIA-era program because she was both female and different in methodology, and that after leaving she performed "unbelievable stuff" under controlled laboratory conditions. She later retired from federal service in 2010 and has since taught remote viewing at the Monroe Institute.

Background and early psychic abilities

Ford grew up in Indiana County, Pennsylvania, from a large Italian family. She reports having experienced out-of-body experiences from early childhood, as young as three or four years of age. Both sides of her family had psychic traditions: her maternal grandfather used tarot cards and a trained bird to give readings.

Before entering the intelligence community, Ford had worked for the Federal Bureau of Investigation and subsequently for Army Intelligence.

Recruitment into the Stargate program

Ford learned through her sister's astrologer that Army Intelligence had a unit of remote viewers and psychics and sought out General Stubblebine — then commanding the unit — to explore a transfer. When Jack Vorona of the Defense Intelligence Agency transferred the program from the Army to the DIA in January 1986, Ford was formally transferred after a six-month clearance transition — reportedly with Stubblebine's personal recommendation.

Methods

Ford employed three modalities during her time in the unit: coordinate remote viewing (CRV), extended remote viewing (ERV), and her own primary method of automatic writing, which supervisor Dave Verona designated "Written Remote Viewing." Her supervisors initially regarded automatic writing as "a bad habit" and insisted she adopt CRV; a change in management later allowed her to return to her own method. To reach the brainwave state her method requires, Ford has described using a personal focus point drawn from her own birthday and a numerology reading: "I did some basic numerology and just — it just opens up the door, and then I can go from that."

Operational cases

Ford's operational work during Project STARGATE included tracking American hostages held by Hezbollah in Lebanon, identifying a supply vessel for Gaddafi's chemical facility, and locating a fugitive U.S. Customs Service agent in Wyoming. After the program ended, she assisted a DIA colleague in a counterintelligence case that led to a sting operation against an Australian–Canadian dual citizen attempting to sell U.S. secrets; the case was later documented by intelligence officer Scott Carmichael in Unconventional Method.

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Project Stargate

Post-military career

After the program's closure in 1995, Ford returned to DIA headquarters at Bolling Air Force Base and worked as a Russian and Chinese analyst until her retirement from federal service in 2010. She was interviewed by Annie Jacobsen for Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis (2017) and is given special acknowledgment in former Secretary of Defense William Cohen's book Murder in the Senate. Ford teaches remote viewing twice yearly at the Monroe Institute and participates in occasional research projects with Edwin May at his Laboratories of Fundamental Research (LFR). In a 2025 interview, Lue Elizondo acknowledged a connection to Project Stargate, and host Shawn Ryan listed Ford alongside Skip Atwater, Joseph McMoneagle, and Edwin May as Stargate veterans he had interviewed — situating Ford within the broader public record of the program.

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