Fort Meade
The Maryland Army post where the military's in-house remote-viewing unit worked from 1978 under code names like GRILL FLAME.
- Location
- Anne Arundel County, Maryland
- Modern country
- United States
- Founded
- 1917, as Camp Meade
- Tenants
- US Army; National Security Agency headquarters
- Remote viewing
- Army unit under GRILL FLAME from 1978
What is Fort Meade known for?
Fort George G. Meade is a US Army installation between Baltimore and Washington, D.C., founded in 1917 as Camp Meade. It is best known today as the headquarters of the National Security Agency and other intelligence and cyber commands.
From 1978 a small Army intelligence unit at Fort Meade trained soldiers in 'remote viewing', the claimed ability to describe distant targets by mental means. It began under the code name GRILL FLAME, building on CIA-funded experiments at SRI International, and continued under later names, CENTER LANE and SUN STREAK, before the program passed to the Defense Intelligence Agency and became STAR GATE.
A 1995 evaluation for the CIA by the American Institutes for Research found some results better than chance but judged the phenomenon too unreliable to be useful for intelligence, and the program was ended that year. Its records were later declassified.
Fort Meade housed the Army remote-viewing unit in the Stargate program's GRILL FLAME phase.
Mentioned on these pages
Sources
- Federation of American Scientists, 'STAR GATE [Controlled Remote Viewing]'Reference
- Wikipedia, 'Fort George G. Meade'Reference
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