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aliases:
- United States Air Force
- U.S. Air Force
- USAF
- Air Force
created: 2025-07-22
updated: 2025-07-22
updated: 2026-10-05
title: U.S. Air Force
tags:
- organization
- military
- Organization
- Military
- USA
description: The U.S. Air Force is the aerial warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces.
- StargateProject
- ForeignTechnologyDivision
- AFOSI
- AFTAC
- VelaIncident
- DarkAllianceInvestigation
description: The U.S. Air Force, whose Foreign Technology Division funded SRI remote viewing work from 1976, whose Technical Applications Center read the 1979 Vela flash, and whose officers appear in the Contra, Dimona and AFOSI UFO records.
category: "U.S. Government"
summary: "The U.S. Air Force is the aerial warfare branch of the U.S. military and a primary customer for the STARGATE remote viewing program, tasking viewers with sensitive targeting and strategic intelligence missions."
summary: "Service whose Foreign Technology Division funded SRI remote viewing research from 1976 and whose Technical Applications Center read the Vela satellite's double flash of September 22, 1979."
start: 1947
location: "Arlington, Virginia"
relations:
- type: funded
with: "[[Stanford Research Institute]]"
start: 1976
end: 1979
role: "Foreign Technology Division funding of $300,000 for SRI remote viewing research"
fn: 2
- type: participant_in
with: "[[Stargate Project]]"
start: 1978
role: "Assistant Chief of Staff, Intelligence, concurred on September 29, 1978 in a Defense Department remote viewing working group and kept a focal point"
fn: 3
---
The [[U.S. Air Force]] is the aerial service of the [[Department of Defense]]. In this vault's records it appears in the remote viewing program, the detection of a 1979 flash over the South Indian Ocean, the recruitment of the Nicaraguan Contra commander, and the investigations office whose agent [[Richard Doty]] figures in the UFO record.
The [[U.S. Air Force]] is the aerial warfare service branch of the [[United States]]. In the context of the *Remote Viewers* narrative, the Air Force was a key customer for the [[Stargate Project|Grill Flame]] program, tasking remote viewers with sensitive intelligence problems.[^1]
### Foreign Technology Division and the psychoenergetics program
One notable instance involved the tasking of [[Mel Riley]] and [[Joe McMoneagle]] to remote-view a new Chinese nuclear device at Lop Nor. Air Force officials, anxious to supplement their conventional intelligence efforts, sought details about the device's design and whether it had been tested. The remote viewers' descriptions, particularly of an "hourglass-shaped device," were of significant interest to Air Force analysts. The Air Force also tasked remote viewers to locate a crashed U.S. Navy A-6 aircraft, which [[Ken Bell]] successfully did.[^1]
The [[Defense Intelligence Agency]]'s 1989 history of government psychoenergetics research lists the Air Force's [[Foreign Technology Division]] (FTD) as the largest service sponsor of the 1975 to 1980 SRI work: $300,000 for 1976 to 1979, against $74,000 from the Navy's NAVALEX in 1975 to 1976, $281,000 from the Army's Missile Intelligence Agency, $230,000 from the Army's [[Army Materiel Systems Analysis Activity]] and $75,000 from the Army's INSCOM. It states that FTD "was tasked by DIA to follow and report on foreign research in psychoenergetics," that it "funded research at SRI to provide the needed basis for assessing the psychoenergetic process as an advanced threat technology," and that the questions FTD put to SRI included whether remote viewing is possible, whether distance is a factor, whether map coordinates can target a viewer, whether real time events can be viewed and whether shielding blocks it; the history records that SRI investigators concluded remote viewing "is indeed a human perceptual ability."[^1][^2]
Additionally, the Air Force was involved in the public rollout of the B-2 Stealth bomber, which Mel Riley had accurately remote-viewed years prior during an opsec tasking, demonstrating the program's ability to penetrate highly secret projects.[^1]
On September 29, 1978 Major General James L. Brown, Assistant Chief of Staff, Intelligence, at Air Force headquarters, wrote to [[Jack Vorona]] of the Defense Intelligence Agency that the Air Force concurred "with your proposal to establish an Advisory Committee and Working Group for a DOD remote viewing development program," that FTD would take part "since it is responsible for production of threat assessment concerning Warsaw Pact paranormal research," and that "Air Force intelligence, for the last two years, has supported $100K of contractual assistance for FTD to verify data on Warsaw Pact experiments in paranormal techniques," a level it could maintain but not raise "due to the austere level of funding within the General Defense Intelligence Program."[^3] A Grill Flame key-players list names [[Dale Graff]] of "USAF Foreign Technology Division" among the participants, and a request of the Army's 902d Military Intelligence Group for a June 6, 1978 briefing at [[Fort Meade]] on Soviet parapsychology mentions earlier discussion with Graff.[^4][^5] A Defense Intelligence Agency paper of the period states that FTD "now has the DoD charter to assess Warsaw Pact country activities in parapsychology" and that its most recent report was published October 1, 1979.[^6] A later Defense Intelligence Agency paper calls the Air Force's National Air Intelligence Center "formerly the Foreign Technology Division (FTD)."[^7]
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The Air Force also lent its name to the oversight of the research contractor: [[Science Applications International Corporation]]'s 1992 technical volume lists [[Garrison Rapmund]] on its Institutional Review Board as of the "Air Force Science Advisory Board," and the corporation's director [[Jasper Welch]] was an Air Force major general who retired in 1983 after 31 years.[^8][^9] The Defense Intelligence Agency's own address on the Star Gate contract schedule was Building 6000 at [[Bolling Air Force Base]].[^10]
[^1]: Schnabel, Jim. *Remote Viewers*. Dell, 1997.
### Taskings from Air Force intelligence
[[Jim Schnabel]] wrote that in late summer 1979 Air Force intelligence tasked the Fort Meade unit with a new Chinese nuclear device at [[Lop Nor]], that [[Mel Riley]], [[Joe McMoneagle]] and [[Ken Bell]] each described an hourglass-shaped object at its center, and that the Air Force officials who received Atwater's summary declined to say what it was because he lacked a Critical Nuclear Weapons Design Information clearance; Schnabel wrote that the shape "turned out" to be a design element the Chinese had not been thought capable of incorporating, and that a second session on a failed test matched what other sources later showed.[^11] The same book states that an Air Force security team gave Atwater a blurry photograph, that Riley described "a strange batlike flying-wing shape" with control "strings" that were "light," that the team "blanched" and told Atwater to stop, and that years later Atwater recognized the shape in the public rollout of the B-2 bomber, whose control lines were fiber optic.[^12] Schnabel also placed the search for a lost Navy A-6, which Bell located at Bald Knob in the Blue Ridge, as a tasking that came from the Pentagon through General [[Edmund Thompson]]'s aide, not from the Air Force.[^13]
A January 1982 message from the Defense Intelligence Agency reporting information from "several unevaluated psychic sources" on the location of Brigadier General [[James L. Dozier]] was copied to an [[Air Force Office of Special Investigations]] district at [[Aviano Air Base]], [[Italy]].[^14]
### Vela, September 22, 1979
Technicians of the Air Force Technical Applications Center at [[Patrick Air Force Base]], [[Florida]], which ran the atomic energy detection system, saw on the night of September 21, 1979 a double-humped signal from the Vela 6911 satellite, whose bhangmeters had matched a nuclear detonation in each of 41 earlier double flashes; the area in view included the South Atlantic, the Indian Ocean and the southern tip of Africa.[^15] [[Seymour Hersh]] wrote that "former Israeli government officials" told him the event was an Israeli low-yield test, with South African participation, and the third such test over the ocean; the presidential panel chaired by [[Jack Ruina]] concluded in May 1980 that the signal was more likely a meteoroid strike on the satellite, and reports from Los Alamos, SRI International, Sandia, the Defense Intelligence Agency and the Aerospace Corporation among those published in 2006 disagreed with it.[^15][^16] See [[Dimona]] and [[VELA Satellite]].
### Nicaragua
[[Gary Webb]] wrote that after the collapse of [[Anastasio Somoza]]'s regime Major General Charles E. Boyd, "a top U.S. Air Force official," called the unemployed Colonel [[Enrique Bermudez]], invited him to the Pentagon, "sounded out" the idea of running a rebel force and told him he had a friend at the CIA; Somoza himself had flown on July 17, 1979 to Homestead Air Force Base in Florida.[^17] Webb quoted retired Air Force general [[Richard Secord]], whom he described as closely involved in the Contra operation, telling Leslie Cockburn in 1987 of allegations about UDN-FARN commanders: "most of them were true. I didn't pick them. The Agency picked them."[^18] Webb also described videotaped depositions taken by the staff of Senator [[John Kerry]], in which pilots admitted flying weapons down and cocaine and marijuana back, landing "in at least one instance at Homestead Air Force Base in Florida."[^19]
### Air Force Office of Special Investigations
A 1992 monograph by Robert G. Durant on the parapsychologist and ufologist [[C.B. Scott Jones]], held in the Star Gate files, states: "There is overwhelming evidence that personnel from the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI), a counter intelligence organization, have for years been involved in disinformation activities in the UFO field," and names Sergeant Richard Doty of [[Kirtland Air Force Base]], [[William L. Moore]], [[Linda Moulton Howe]] and Captain Robert Collins, citing a 1989 paper by Hastings and [[Jacques Vallee]]'s *Revelations* (1991).[^20] Doty's own account is on his page.
### Contracts
The Air Force accounted for 12 percent of SAIC's consolidated revenue in fiscal 1993 and 1994, 11 percent in 1995, 9 percent in 1996 and 8 percent in 1997; a SAIC executive vice president, R. A. Rosenberg, had served as an Air Force officer from 1957 to 1987.[^21]
### Footnotes
[^1]: Defense Intelligence Agency, *Government-Sponsored Research in Psychoenergetics,* February 1989, section 2 ("The Service Years"), CIA-RDP96-00789R002200440001-9. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection.
[^2]: Same, section on the Air Force Foreign Technology Division.
[^3]: Headquarters United States Air Force, Assistant Chief of Staff, Intelligence, letter to Dr. Jack Vorona, DIA/DT, "DOD Program on Remote Viewing," September 29, 1978, signed James L. Brown, Major General, USAF, CIA-RDP96-00788R001200410026-7.
[^4]: "Key Players Grill Flame," list, CIA-RDP96-00788R001200270002-9.
[^5]: 902d Military Intelligence Group, request to DIA/DT for a briefing at the INSCOM SSO conference room, Fort Meade, June 6, 1978, CIA-RDP96-00788R002000160006-8.
[^6]: Defense Intelligence Agency paper on parapsychology charters, CIA-RDP96-00788R002000160011-2.
[^7]: Defense Intelligence Agency paper on the service programs that preceded Star Gate, CIA-RDP96-00789R002900010001-9, discussion of Army, Navy and Air Force programs.
[^8]: May, Edwin C., and Wanda L. W. Luke, *Phenomenological Research and Analysis: Technical Volume,* May 8, 1992, section 6.5.1, CIA-RDP96-00789R003100170001-9.
[^9]: Science Applications International Corporation, proxy statement of May 30, 2001, biography of J. A. Welch. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/353394/000091205701518019/0000912057-01-518019.txt
[^10]: Delivery schedule, contract MDA908-93-C-0004, CIA-RDP96-00789R003000460007-2.
[^11]: Schnabel, Jim. *Remote Viewers: The Secret History of America's Psychic Spies.* Dell, 1997, chapter on the Lop Nor tasking. https://archive.org/details/jim-schnabel-remote-viewers-the-secret-history-of-americas-psychic-spies_2
[^12]: Schnabel, *Remote Viewers,* chapter on the opsec tasking and the B-2.
[^13]: Schnabel, *Remote Viewers,* chapter on searches and taskings.
[^14]: Defense Intelligence Agency message, "Psychic Report: BG Dozier Kidnapping," January 1982, CIA-RDP96-00788R000700140007-4.
[^15]: Richelson, Jeffrey T., ed., "The Vela Incident: Nuclear Test or Meteoroid?" National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 190, May 5, 2006. https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB190/index.htm
[^16]: Hersh, Seymour M. *The Samson Option.* Random House, 1991, chapter 20, "An Israeli Test."
[^17]: Webb, Gary. *Dark Alliance.* Seven Stories Press, 1998, chapter 1 (Somoza's flight) and chapter 2 (Boyd and Bermudez).
[^18]: Webb, *Dark Alliance,* passage on UDN-FARN.
[^19]: Webb, *Dark Alliance,* prologue (depositions taken by Senator Kerry's staff).
[^20]: Durant, Robert G., "Will the Real Scott Jones Please Stand Up?," February 20, 1992, CIA-RDP96-00792R000400300004-7.
[^21]: Science Applications International Corporation, Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 31, 1995, https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/353394/0000912057-95-002498.txt ; Form 10-K for fiscal 1996 and 1997 (customer tables).