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The Stargate Project〔Precursor projects included Sun Streak, Grill Flame, Center Lane by DIA and INSCOM, and SCANATE by CIA〕 was the code name for a U.S. Army unit established in 1978 at Fort Meade, Maryland, by the Defense Intelligence Agency and SRI International (a California contractor) to investigate the potential for psychic phenomena in military and domestic applications. This primarily involved remote viewing, the purported ability to psychically "see" events, sites, or information from a great distance.〔Marks, David. (2000). ''The Psychology of the Psychic'' (2nd Edition). Prometheus Books. pp. 71-96. ISBN 1-57392-798-8〕 The project was overseen until 1987 by Lt. Frederick Holmes "Skip" Atwater, an aide and "psychic headhunter" to Maj. Gen. Albert Stubblebine, and later president of the Monroe Institute.〔Atwater, F. Holmes (2001), ''Captain of My Ship, Master of My Soul: Living with Guidance''; Hampton Roads Publishing Company〕 The unit was small-scale, comprising about 15 to 20 individuals, and was run out of "an old, leaky wooden barracks".〔Weeks, Linton (1995), "Up Close & Personal with a Remote Viewer: Joe McMoneagle Defends the Secret Project", ''The Washington Post'', 4 December issue.〕 The Stargate Project was terminated in 1995 after a CIA report concluded that it was never useful in any intelligence operation. Information provided by the program was vague, included irrelevant and erroneous data, and there was reason to suspect that its project managers had changed the reports so they would fit background cues.〔(An Evaluation of Remote Viewing: Research and Applications ) by Mumford, Rose and Goslin "''remote viewings have never provided an adequate basis for ‘actionable’ intelligence operations-that is, information sufficiently valuable or compelling so that action was taken as a result (...) a large amount of irrelevant, erroneous information is provided and little agreement is observed among viewers' reports. (...) remote viewers and project managers reported that remote viewing reports were changed to make them consistent with know background cues (...) Also, it raises some doubts about some well-publicized cases of dramatic hits, which, if taken at face value, could not easily be attributed to background cues. In at least some of these cases, there is reason to suspect, based on both subsequent investigations and the viewers' statement that reports had been "changed" by previous program managers, that substantially more background information was available than one might at first assume.''"〕 The program was featured in the 2004 book and 2009 film entitled ''The Men Who Stare at Goats'',〔Heard, Alex (10 April 2010), ("Close your eyes and remote view this review" ), ''Union-Tribune San Diego'', Union-Tribune Publishing Co. (review of ''The Men Who Stare at Goats'' ): “This so-called "remote viewing" operation continued for years, and came to be known as Star Gate.”〕〔Clarke, David (2014), (''Britain's X-traordinary Files'' ), London: Bloomsbury Publishing, pg 112.: “The existence of the Star Gate project was not officially acknowledged until 1995… then became the subject of investigations by journalists Jon Ronson ()…Ronson’s 2004 book, ''The Men Who Stare at Goats'', was subsequently adapted into a 2009 movie…”〕〔Shermer, Michael (November 2009), (“Staring at Men Who Stare at Goats” ) @ Michaelshermer.com.:”...the U.S. Army had invested $20 million in a highly secret psychic spy program called Star Gate …. In ''The Men Who Stare at Goats'' Jon Ronson tells the story of this program, how it started, the bizarre twists and turns it took, and how its legacy carries on today.”〕〔Krippner, Stanley and Harris L. Friedman (2010), (''Debating Psychic Experience: Human Potential Or Human Illusion?'' ), Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger/Greenwood Publishing Group, pg 154: “The story of Stargate was recently featured in a film based on the book ''The Men Who Stare at Goats'', by British investigative journalist Jon Ronson (2004)”.〕 although neither mentions it by name. ==Background== Information in the United States on psychic research in some foreign countries was sketchy and poorly detailed, based mostly on rumor or innuendo from second-hand or tertiary reporting, attributed to both reliable and unreliable disinformation sources from the Soviet Union.〔''Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain: The astounding facts behind psychic research in official laboratories from Prague to Moscow'' by Sheila Ostrander and Lynn Schroeder, Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1970, A New Age Bestseller () and ()〕〔"Some of the intelligence people I've talked to know that remote viewing works, although they still block further research on it, since they claim it is not yet as good as satellite photography. But it seems to me that it would be a hell of a cheap radar system. And if the Russians have it and we don't, we are in serious trouble." ''Omni'', July 1979, Congressman Charles Rose, Chairman, House Sub-Committee on Intelligence Evaluation and Oversight.〕 The CIA and the Defense Intelligence Agency decided they should investigate and know as much about it as possible. Various programs were approved yearly and re-funded accordingly. Reviews were made semi-annually at the Senate and House select committee level. Work results were reviewed, and remote viewing was attempted with the results being kept secret from the "viewer". It was thought that if the viewer was shown they were incorrect it would damage the viewer's confidence and skill. This was standard operating procedure throughout the years of military and domestic remote viewing programs. Feedback to the remote viewer of any kind was rare; it was kept classified and secret.〔''Memoirs of a Psychic Spy: The Remarkable Life of U.S. Government Remote Viewer 001'' by Joseph McMoneagle, Hampton Roads Publishing Co., 2002, 2006.〕 Remote viewing attempts to sense unknown information about places or events. Normally it is performed to detect current events, but during military and domestic intelligence applications viewers claimed to sense things in the future, experiencing precognition.〔The Ultimate Time Machine: A Remote Viewer's Perception of Time, and the Predictions for the New Millennium by Joseph McMoneagle, Hampton Roads Publishing Co., Inc., 1998.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Stargate Project」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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