Joseph McMoneagle

Joe McMoneagle

P.O. Box 100, Nellysford, Virginia 22958
Office: (804) 361-9215 Fax: (804) 361-9056
mceagle@comet.net

Military remote viewer with the INSCOM/DIA program at Fort Meade from 1978-84.


"Joseph W. McMoneagle was born January 10, 1946, in Miami, Florida. He voluntarily joined the U.S. Army and was recruited by the Army Security Agency for classified assignments."

In 1978 "he was assigned to the Headquarters of U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM) in Arlington, Virginia, where he culminated his career acting as a Special Projects Intelligence Officer with the 902nd Military Intelligence Group for the remainder of his service."

He retired in 1984. "Many unusual experiences have formed the foundation of his present company, Intuitive Intelligence Applications. A near-death experience (NDE), a UFO sighting, and numerous spontaneous out-of-body (OBE) episodes have caused him to spend the larger portion of his life seeking more effective answers to questions concerning reality. He became interested in remote viewing after participating in experiments at SRI International in California."

"Joe is currently working on his next project, 'Expectations From the Year 3000'"
("Who is Joseph McMoneagle?", from the Controlled Remote Viewing Home Page)


"I, Joseph W. McMoneagle, hold the distinction of being the only Remote Viewer associated with the 'Project' from its formalization under INSCOM as GRILLFLAME (mid-1978) throughout and until its termination as Project STARGATE (in 1995)"
Viewer number #001/372.

McMoneagle refutes many of claims made by Ed Dames, concerning his position and length of service in the remote-viewing program.

(McMoneagle, Joe, A Response to Ed Dame's Statement on CRV")


"I employed Joe in a number of operations, ca. 1980-82, while serving as an intelligence targeting officer at levels of DoD much higher than McMoneagle (or Buchanan) ever dreamed of having access to. However, since he is not trained, Joe has difficulty in recognizing when imagination begins to start slipping into his perceptions."

(Dames, Ed, "Will the Real Lyn Buchanan Please Sit Down")


Currently a research associate at Cognitive Sciences Laboratory.

McMoneagle worked as a consultant to SRI and SAIC. In 1984, he received the Legion of Merit award for excellence in intelligence service. According to his citation, quoted by Ed May, "He served most recently as a Special Project Intelligence Officer for SSPD, SSD, and 902d MI group ... While with SSPD, he used his talents and expertise in the execution of more than 200 missions, addressing over 150 essential elements of information."
(May, Edwin, "The American Institutes of Research Review of the Department of Defense's Star Gate Program: A Commentary", Journal of Parapsychology, Vol 60, Mar/96)


"I can tell you that I participated in over 350 separate cases like the [Iran] hostage situation and was accurate at least 86 percent of the time."

Question: "Joe, are you still doing any work involving remote viewing of future technologies... and can you share any of that with us?"
Joe McMoneagle: "Yes, I'm still working with the lab at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas... All I can say is that we are still building the machine, but don't quite know what it will do yet." He is working at this project with Dean Radin.
(Compuserve On Line Conversation w/ Joe McMoneagle, 1/4/96)


In McMoneagle's book, Mind Trek (Hampton Roads, 1993), he offers one of the better descriptions of how remote viewing is supposed to work. The historical details are a bit trickier, as it was published two years before the CIA admitted to having supported the program.

In July, 1970, McMoneagle had a near death experience while stationed in Germany. Afraid of ridicule, he did not mention the experience for several years.

There are several problems trying to form a timeline for the period when McMoneagle joined the remote viewing program. According to his book, this chain of events started in 1979 when he read Robert Monroe's book Journeys Out of the Body (pg 40). When a neighbor saw him reading the book, he offered him a copy of one of Puthoff's papers on remote viewing.

"My job in Washington, D.C., had much to do with sub-contract management for major ongoing projects in military research and development." (pg 41) As a part of his duties, he often travelled to the West Coast, and in October, 1978 (pg 43), he took a leave of absence to spend in Menlo Park. During this time, he met Dr. Hal Puthoff and his colleagues at SRI in July, 1979 (pg 26), and became involved with their experiments in remote viewing, the first of which is dated June 4th, 1978 (pg 46).

I don't know what to make of these glaring inconsistencies in the timeline. It is probably a combination of poor editing by the publisher and a difficulty in keeping his cover story straight. As McMoneagle was assigned with INSCOM in 1978, the same year INSCOM began its operational remote viewing unit codenamed GRILL FLAME, I have difficulty accepting that McMoneagle heard of the SRI experiments from a neighbor, and started his work with SRI on his own initiative and in an unoffical capacity. I don't know if and how he has revised his story as to how he became involved in the program, other than to say that he was involved in the official program.

Elsewhere, in a frequently asked questions section of his book, McMoneagle openly denies that the Army was involved in remote viewing. "I spent my entire career, twenty years, in Army Intelligence and Security. Most of my assignments were overseas and most of the jobs were classified. My interest in remote viewing was something that I had to pursue on my own and my early retirement from the service was a direct result of that interest."

He elaborates in a follow-up question: "You mean you didn't do remote viewing in the Army?"
"That would imply the United States Army has an open attitude regarding psychic functioning, which it doesn't. There is very little in the Army which is conducive to remote viewing or its function." (pg 221)

While he doesn't exactly say "no" in his answer, I consider it misleading enough to be a denial. Also, his denial is given voluntarily, and was not coerced in the context of something like an interview. While it would have been illegal for him to reveal classified information, I think it would have been just as easy for him to have ommitted the topic rather than providing disinformation.

In October, 1965, McMoneagle witnessed a UFO while stationed in the Bahamas (pg 219). Later, in the 1980s, he remote viewed the face on Mars, and claims to have contacted Martians who were trying to survive an environmental cataclysm of their planet. His claims mirror those of Ed Dames and Courtney Brown. (Chapter 16)

McMoneagle has done experiments in remote viewing and out of body experiences with Robert Monroe at the Monroe Institute.


In an interview with Magical Blend, McMoneagle repeats the story about going to SRI under his own initiative, and again gives a misleading answer regarding the military's involvement:
"[Question:] You were with Military Intelligence in the Army. Did you ever use your psychic abilities in your military career?

Joseph McMoneagle: I think that I've used these abilities all my life, but in such a natural way that it would be very difficult to specify when and where."

(Remote Viewing: Joseph McMoneagle interviewed by Jerry Snider, Magical Blend, Issue #52)


After retiring from the Army in September, 1984, McMoneagle worked as a consultant for SRI and the Monroe Institute.
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