DIA's Grill Flame Project Report
DIA's October 1983 closing report on the three-year joint DIA-Army remote-viewing project run with SRI International.
1983 CE · 37.46, -122.18 · status: official
The account
The report says Grill Flame aimed to judge the threat from foreign 'psychoenergetics' and to test remote viewing for US collection, with SRI as contractor and a DIA monitor on site; it cost $1,475.5K over FY1981-83 (p.4-5, p.37). It concludes that remote viewing is real, unaffected by distance or shielding, trainable and useful, and that Soviet and Chinese work is a potential threat (p.6). It claims SRI's key viewer improved from 22% to 66% good-to-excellent responses after training and that INSCOM viewers found the site in 50% of 89 projects, but says shape data were more reliable than function and that reliability still had to improve (p.10-15). It recommends continued applied research under DIA and new basic research on remote viewing and psychokinesis (p.19).
The sceptical view
The ratings were made by the programme's own analysts on a scale it designed, and many operational examples are withheld; the 1995 outside review did not find intelligence value.
Connections in the atlas
- The 1995 AIR evaluation (Utts vs Hyman)
- 1984 science panel review of SRI remote viewing
- DIA's Project Sun Streak briefings
- Grill Flame
- Center Lane
- SCANATE and the start of remote viewing at SRI