Project 8200

US Army remote viewing evaluation project assessing Pat Price's claims of UFO base locations

Project 8200 was a dedicated US Army remote viewing project conducted from 1982 to 1983 at the INSCOM Stargate Project unit at Fort Meade, Maryland. The project represented a rare documented case in which the military's remote viewing apparatus turned its own techniques inward to evaluate a colleague's paranormal claims as an internal verification exercise, rather than simply accepting or ignoring them.

Background

In 1973, Pat Price, a former Burbank police officer and private contractor at SRI International, made an unprompted claim to physicist Hal Puthoff that he had remote-viewed four underground UFO and alleged alien bases. This claim was made outside any formal tasking protocol, and Price provided transcripts detailing his findings to SRI personnel, who were surprised by the self-initiated nature of the work.

Price identified four locations as underground UFO or alien bases:

Mount Nyani in Africa
Mount Hayes in Alaska
Mount Perdido on the Spain/France border
An unspecified site in Australia

The locations were described with specific geographical and structural details in Price's remote viewing transcripts.

Project Execution

Nearly a decade later, when internal discussion of Price's claims had quieted, the INSCOM Stargate unit initiated Project 8200 as a challenge target training program designed to evaluate whether Price's 1973 claims could be corroborated through the remote viewing of new independent viewers.

Skip Atwater, the Stargate unit's Operations and Training Officer, used Price's original transcripts and supporting information provided by Hal Puthoff to construct targeting folders for the training challenge. These folders served as the basis for tasking experienced remote viewers to independently attempt to describe the same locations Price had identified, without knowledge of his original descriptions.

Project 8200 was explicitly framed as an effort to evaluate the operational capabilities and limitations of remote viewing, to identify and develop individual remote viewing skills, and to test and evaluate the accuracy of remote viewing on unique targets.

Results and Classification

The results of Project 8200 training sessions conducted in 1982 and 1983 were never reported up the military chain of command. No official findings documenting whether the independent viewers' descriptions corroborated or contradicted Price's 1973 claims were formally released or declassified as part of public Stargate disclosures.

Decades later, Frederick H. Atwater published the original remote viewing transcripts from Project 8200 as Project 8200: UFO/UAP Bases and Activities: The original Remote Viewing Transcripts, making the data publicly available for analysis.

Significance

Project 8200 is historically significant as a documented instance in which the remote viewing program's own infrastructure was mobilized to systematically evaluate an extraordinary paranormal claim made by one of its own operatives. This internal verification exercise is rare in declassified government remote viewing records; most such programs focused on external intelligence tasking rather than peer review of colleagues' unsolicited claims.

The project illustrates both the operational approach to remote viewing within military intelligence (using target folders, independent sessions, and comparison methodology) and the ambiguities surrounding whether such techniques could reliably verify or refute specific geographical claims, particularly historical or alleged extraterrestrial locations where ground truth verification was impossible.

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