Pat Price and the Semipalatinsk crane
Former Burbank police officer Pat Price produced sketches of a giant gantry crane at a secret Soviet site, the programme's most famous 'hit'.
1974 CE · 50.07, 78.43 · status: disputed
The account
Working from coordinates and photographs supplied by the CIA, Price described facilities behind Soviet lines. His drawing of a large crane at the Semipalatinsk nuclear test area (codenamed URDF-3 in the documents) was later said to match satellite imagery. He died in 1975. A later DIA briefing names Price and Swann as the CIA-sponsored SRI subjects who gave 'detailed information' about a Soviet R&D facility at Semipalatinsk, which it says human and technical sources confirmed (Sun Streak overview, p.5-6). Another DIA slide deck quotes a viewer describing something like a 'riding gantry', but the target and the matching pages are withheld (p.15-18).
The sceptical view
Much of what he described was wrong, and critics argue that the hits were selected after the fact from vague material.
Connections in the atlas
- Air War College paper 'Psychic Warfare: Exploring the Mind Frontier'
- DIA's Project Sun Streak briefings
- Russell Targ
- Ingo Swann
- SCANATE and the start of remote viewing at SRI