00:00 Project Stargate was a CIA project from the 70s to the 90s that explored the potential powers of the mind, although it is considered to be a made-up and benign endeavor.

05:00 Project Stargate was a secret project that ran from 1975 to 1995, in which the CIA explored the use of remote viewing or anomalous cognition to gather information about secret places and people.

10:14 In 1976, Dr. Russell Targ conducted a successful remote viewing session, which led to funding from the DIA and kicked off the study of remote viewing.

15:26 In 1978, the CIA stopped funding Project Star Gate and the Army took over, renaming it Project Grill Flame, which was based in Maryland at Fort Mead and involved testing remote viewers by having them view remote sites or people and provide information that was then analyzed by intelligence analysts.

20:28 The CIA stopped funding Project Star Gate in 1978 and the Army took over, renaming it Project Grill Flame, which involved testing remote viewers and analyzing their information.

25:44 The CIA stopped funding Project Star Gate in 1978 and the Army took over, renaming it Project Grill Flame, which involved testing remote viewers and analyzing their information.

31:15 Edwin May, the director of Project Star Gate, implemented a testing method called forced choice, which involved a sender choosing a photo for the remote viewer to tap into and gain information from, and a judge matching the remote viewer's impressions to one of several photos, ultimately finding that some remote viewers performed better than chance.

36:17 The Project Star Gate experiments had several flaws, including subjectivity and the use of the same set of images, making it difficult to determine the accuracy of the remote viewers' impressions. However, there were some notable successes, such as a remote viewer accurately describing a secret underground government site in West Virginia and a microwave generator with specific specifications.

41:29 There were some notable successes in the Project Star Gate experiments, such as a remote viewer accurately describing a Russian crane and a woman named Angela Ford remotely viewing the location of a fugitive who was later apprehended.

47:08 The purpose of Project Star Gate was to determine if remote viewing could be used as actionable evidence or intelligence, but ultimately it was deemed unreliable and ineffective.

52:11 Project Star Gate had a relatively small budget of $20 million over 20 years, but it was still funded because of the fear that the Soviets were also conducting remote viewing experiments.