Stephan A. Schwartz
American consciousness researcher (b. 1942) best known for using remote viewers to search for archaeological sites, notably in Alexandria.
1979 CE · 31.20, 29.92 · status: disputed
The account
After 'Project Deep Quest', a remote-viewing test from a research submersible with Ingo Swann and Hella Hammid, Schwartz assembled teams of psychics from 1978 to look for lost sites in Alexandria, Egypt. He reported finds at Marea and in the city's East Harbour, including ruins he linked to Mark Antony's and Cleopatra's palaces and the Pharos lighthouse. He discussed Deep Quest with Jeffrey Mishlove on New Thinking Allowed. A National Enquirer report on Project Deep Quest, filed in the CIA's Stargate collection, says the Mobius Group test used the research submarine Taurus I near Catalina Island and quotes Don Walsh of USC's marine institute as finding nothing to suggest fraud. The DIA's 1983 Grill Flame report also mentions SRI cooperating with the Mobius Group on a mass remote-viewing screening test run through a magazine (p.26-27).
The sceptical view
Academic journals declined his papers, and in the 1990s a French-Egyptian team claimed the harbour discoveries; it is unclear how much the psychics added to conventional survey methods.