DIA's Project Sun Streak briefings
Two DIA briefing packs that give the programme's own history, from SRI in the 1970s to Sun Streak at Fort Meade, and its claimed successes.
1986 CE · 39.11, -76.74 · status: official
The account
The scripted overview dates Gondola Wish to 1977 and Grill Flame to 1978, and its first operational mission to 4 September 1979, when a viewer reportedly placed a missing Navy aircraft within 15 miles of its crash (p.12-19). It records the 1979 Gale Committee, the 1980 Perry memo ending R&D funds, the 1982 Senate budget cut, Center Lane from the end of 1982, the 1984 move to DIA, and funding restored for FY1986 (p.21-33). A slide deck claims 'startling corroboration' on hostages in Lebanon and credits the unit with help in a maritime drug seizure of about 6 tons of marijuana in a 1988 test case (p.25-30). Both present remote viewing as passive, cheap and with 'no known defense'.
The sceptical view
These are internal sales briefings; the claimed hits are not documented in the released pages, many of which are withheld, and the 1995 outside review found no actionable intelligence.
Connections in the atlas
- Gondola Wish
- Pat Price and the Semipalatinsk crane
- Sun Streak
- DIA's Grill Flame Project Report
- Grill Flame
- Center Lane