Stargate Project

Stargate is the best-known name for a U.S. government programme studying "remote viewing", the claimed ability to perceive distant or hidden targets with the mind. It began in 1972 at SRI International, where the physicists Russell Targ and Harold Puthoff tested subjects such as Ingo Swann and Pat Price, and continued under Army and DIA sponsorship as Gondola Wish, Grill Flame, Center Lane and Sun Streak before being consolidated as Stargate in 1991, with funding from the CIA and DIA.

In 1995 a CIA-commissioned review by the American Institutes for Research divided its two experts: the statistician Jessica Utts argued the data showed a real effect, while the psychologist Ray Hyman found the output "vague, general, and way off target". The programme was terminated that year, the review finding remote-viewing information too vague and ambiguous to be useful, and the CIA has since declassified its records.

Sources: CIA Reading Room · Wikipedia