Case file · Remote viewing & psi research

Grill Flame

Started by the Army in 1978 and first tasked operationally in September 1979, Grill Flame worked from two old buildings at Fort Meade.

1978 CE · 39.11, -76.74 · status: official

The account

Soldiers such as Joseph McMoneagle were trained as viewers and tasked against intelligence targets, while SRI's research was joined to it under a three-year DIA–Army programme from March 1981 (DIA briefing, CIA-RDP96-00789R002100240001-2). In 1980, during the Iran hostage crisis, viewers were reportedly asked to locate hostages. DIA's briefing dates the first operational session to 4 September 1979, when a viewer reportedly placed a missing Navy aircraft within 15 miles of its crash site, and says the unit was committed to operations by December 1979 (p.18-20). DIA's own closing report covers a joint DIA-Army SRI contract for FY1981-83 costing $1,475.5K; it claims training raised the key SRI viewer's good-to-excellent rate from 22% to 66% and that INSCOM viewers found the site in 50% of 89 projects, but says reliability still had to improve before routine use (p.10, p.13, p.15, p.37).

The sceptical view

No operational success has been documented to the standard needed to rule out guessing or prior knowledge.

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