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originally posted by: IsaacKoi
Section A : Introduction
Some interesting people in murky parts of the history of ufology are linked together (at least in part) by their participation in official government studies of remote viewing. I’ve therefore spent a significant amount of time considering remote viewing literature and associated government documents)...
To help anyone else going down the remote-viewing rabbit-hole as part of their UFO research (or, for that matter, just interested in remote viewing for its own sake), I thought I'd share a few tools I made in 2014 for my own research (with the kind assistance of remote viewing researcher Palyne "PJ" Gaenir and also from ArMaP here on ATS). These tools include a 92,010 page searchable PDF archive of the remote viewing material released by the CIA and (as importantly, at least in my experience…) a hyperlinked version of the CIA's index of that huge archive to help locate material.
The PDF archive and index are described (with some screen-shots) in ]Section C below, but for those of you impatient get on with browsing or downloading the archive/index then you can:
(1) Browse the hyperlinked index as a spreadsheet on Google Sheets (which can be used online or downloaded in various formats).
(2) Download a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet version of the hyperlinked index with links to the online documents which you can download HERE or (my preferred format, as some of you know…) a searchable PDF version of the same hyperlinked index, created with patient assistance from ArMaP.
(3) Download the entire 92,010 page PDF archive as a a single 3.2 GB file entitled “STARGATE_FULL.zip”), OR you can download individual CDs from the list HERE if you do not want the full collection.
(4) Download a a hyperlinked Excel spreadsheet which links to copies of the documents after you download them to your hard-drive HERE, which is MUCH faster to use (but of course you have to download the rather large PDF archive in order to get the full benefit of this version of the spreadsheet…).
originally posted by: IsaacKoi
As some of you know, the CIA released over 92,000 pages of material relating to “Star Gate” (and various other official remote viewing projects in the USA, such as "Gondola wish", "Grill flame", "Center Lane" and "Sun Streak") in around 2004 on a series of CDs. Most of the relevant files from the CIA’s CDs have been available online for some time as TIFF files (i.e. the format in which the files were supplied by the CIA) on various websites (including on John Greenwald's Blackvault website and on Palyne "PJ" Gaenir’s DojoPSI website). However, the collections of files on those websites (and various others) are incomplete, with some key files missing. Also, given the sheer mass of material, it is pretty difficult to find the files without either a hyperlinked index and/or searchable PDF versions of the files. ..
Palyne "PJ" Gaenir’s website does include a very useful index for the files, but the index is not hyperlinked to the relevant files (and is not complete) – but that index gave me some ideas for creating various versions of a hyperlinked index using the CIA’s own information. The “Mind-Matter Mapping Project” website also has indexes for various volumes of the Star Gate (with hyperlinks included, but unfortunately they do not work). Several other remote viewing researchers, particularly Tamra Temple, have also made some notable indexes and finding aids available – but (so far as I am aware) those have to be purchased rather than being freely available online. There is also (fairly limited) information on some of these documents on the CIA’s own FOIA website.
So, I put together a more complete collection (with very generous assistance from Palyne "PJ" Gaenir) and converted the CIA’s TIFF files into my preferred format, i.e. searchable PDF files. I also created several versions of a hyperlinked index. I am happy to freely share these resources with others, which will hopefully save some other people a bit of time and effort.
originally posted by: IsaacKoi
Incidentally, some of you will have noticed by now that I think basic tools like hyperlinked indexes and catalogues of relevant government governments may help improve the quality of UFO research and reduce the amount of time and energy wasted reinventing the wheel. With those objective in mind, I have previously:
(1) Uploaded a sortable/searchable spreadsheet I've created to list the Project Blue Book UFO files on the Fold3 website with an indication of the number of pages per file with links to each of those files (created as a precursor to some potential statistical projects, using the material shared by "Xtraeme" here on ATS):
docs.google.com...
(2) Uploaded a sortable/searchable spreadsheet listing the unredacted Blue Book microfilms that have been uploaded so far to the bluebookarchive.org website (using a hyperlinked and simplified version of an index kindly supplied to be by Rebecca Wise of bluebookarchive.org):
docs.google.com...
(3) I’ve uploaded redacted high index resolution PDF versions of the US Air Force’s list of Project Blue Book files to:
app.box.com...
(4) I’ve uploaded unredacted low resolution PDF versions ofof the US Air Force’s list of Project Blue Book files (i.e. without all the pesky black ink censoring the names of the relevant witnesses etc…) to:
app.box.com...
originally posted by: IsaacKoi
Section H5 : John Alexander (US Army, "Aviary", UFO Working Group, NIDS, PSI-TECH)
Much has already been written by various people about John Alexander - including by John Alexander himself. John Alexander’s various books (particularly “UFOs – Myths, Conspiracies and Realities”) discuss his attempts to investigate UFOs while working for the US Army and afterwards.
originally posted by: IsaacKoi
An article by colourful character Armen Victorian entitled “Non-Lethality : John B Alexander, the Pentagon’s Penguin” appeared in the UK magazine Lobster in June 1993. That article stated that the majority of members of the UFO Working Group were “senior members of the Aviary”, including Hal Puthoff (see Section H2 above), Kit Green (see Section H3 above), Ron Pandolfi (see Section H4 above) and Dr Jack Verona.
originally posted by: IsaacKoi
Section H11 : Robert Bigelow (NIDS)
Robert Bigelow is a hotel and aerospace entrepreneur. He owns the hotel chain Budget Suites of America and is the founder of Bigelow Aerospace. He is best known within ufology as the founder of “NIDS” (i.e. the “National Institute for Discovery Science”) in 1995, his ownership of the Skinwalker Ranch and for his controversial relationship with MUFON.
Robert Bigelow announced in 2004 that NIDS had been placed “in an inactive status” and its website has been defunct for several years, but the NIDS website can be recovered via the Wayback Machine.