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category: "Key Figures"
created: 2026-05-17
updated: 2026-05-17
title: Joe McMoneagle
aliases:
- Joe McMoneagle
- Joseph McMoneagle
- Viewer 518
tags:
- Person
- Stargate
- CIA
- Military
- RemoteViewer
summary: "Joe McMoneagle was a U.S."
- Stargate
- Military
- PSI
- 1970s
- 1980s
category: "Military"
summary: "Joe McMoneagle was a U.S. Army warrant officer who was one of the original six remote viewers recruited into the STARGATE program in 1977, produced the program's most operationally credited results including confirmed details of a Soviet Typhoon-class submarine, and received the Legion of Merit at retirement for his remote viewing work."
born: 1946-01-10
location: "Miami, Florida"
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Joe McMoneagle was a U.S. Army warrant officer and one of the original six remote viewers in the [[STARGATE PROJECT]]. He was recruited into the program, then codenamed [[STARGATE PROJECT|Gondola Wish]], in 1977 by [[Frederick Atwater|Skip Atwater]] and [[Murray Watt|Scotty Watt]].[^1]
Joseph McMoneagle (born January 10, 1946) was a U.S. Army Chief Warrant Officer and one of the original six remote viewers recruited into the [[STARGATE PROJECT]] when the Army established the program at [[Fort Meade]], Maryland, in 1977. Known within the program as "Viewer 518," he is widely considered the most operationally successful remote viewer in the program's history, with credited sessions including a substantially confirmed description of a Soviet Typhoon-class submarine under construction and the location of a Soviet surveillance device in a U.S. consulate. He received the Legion of Merit at his Army retirement in 1984, partly for his contributions to remote viewing operations, and continued as a civilian consultant to the program until its declassification in 1995.
McMoneagle had a background in signals intelligence and had served in Vietnam. He had a number of psychic experiences throughout his life, including a [[Near Death Experience]] that he believed enhanced his abilities. As a child, at age eleven in 1957, while camping in an orange grove in Florida, he experienced a vision of a ghostly woman who foretold his future, including his military service in a far-off war that he would survive. This experience, which he initially dismissed as a dream, later gained significance as his life unfolded.[^1]
### Early Life and Military Career
Eight years later, he enlisted in the Army and entered the Army Security Agency, training in special radio direction finding (RDF) techniques. One of his first posts was on Eleuthera island in the Bahamas, where his unit electronically spied on Soviet and Cuban ships and submarines. In October 1965, he witnessed a large, intensely bright disk-shaped UFO, which left him and a friend feeling sick with sunburned skin and flu-like symptoms for several days. He loved the Bahamas, but in 1966, he was sent to Vietnam.[^1]
McMoneagle was born January 10, 1946, in Miami, Florida, and was raised in modest circumstances. He enlisted in the Army and entered the Army Security Agency, training in radio direction-finding techniques and signals intelligence collection. His early postings included an electronic surveillance station on Eleuthera Island in the Bahamas monitoring Soviet and Cuban ships and submarines, followed by deployment to Vietnam.
In Vietnam, McMoneagle had a recurring nightmare of a white light signifying death. However, upon arriving at Bien Hoa air base, he had a vision of himself leaving the war alive and intact, specifically in a canary yellow plane. He spent much of the war in the Vietnamese central highlands, stationed at various "firebase" outposts. He developed a reputation for anticipating enemy attacks, often heading to his bunker just before mortar rounds would strike. His fellow soldiers began to mimic his actions, believing he had a sixth sense. Despite a helicopter accident that left him with chronic back problems, he survived the war, eventually leaving Vietnam on a canary yellow plane, just as he had foreseen.[^1]
In Vietnam, McMoneagle served at firebases in the central highlands and developed a reputation among fellow soldiers for anticipating enemy mortar attacks, often moving to cover moments before rounds struck. He attributed this to spontaneous precognitive awareness rather than conventional observation. He survived multiple close calls and the war itself, which he had foreseen doing in a precognitive vision upon arriving in-country.
In 1970, while stationed in southern Germany with an electronic-intercept detachment, McMoneagle suffered a cardiac arrest during lunch in an Austrian village. He experienced a classic near-death experience (NDE), finding himself in an out-of-body state, observing his physical body, and later moving through a tunnel towards a white light, which he identified as God. This light, which had appeared in his recurring nightmares, was not death but a source of unconditional love. God instructed him to return to his physical reality. This NDE profoundly changed his worldview, leading him towards mystical and spiritual beliefs, and he increasingly experienced a collision of reality and imagination, with spontaneous out-of-body experiences and vivid visions. He believed this experience significantly enhanced his psychic abilities, leading to more frequent and vivid psychic episodes.[^1]
### Near-Death Experience (1970)
As a remote viewer, McMoneagle was considered one of the best in the unit, often referred to as a "one-in-a-million psi savant" or "shaman in Army boots." He was particularly adept at perceiving technical details of targets, and his remote-viewing visions were noted for their realism and narrative consistency. He was instrumental in the successful remote viewing of a new Chinese nuclear device at Lop Nor, where he drew a detailed diagram of the device, including an hourglass-shaped object that Mel Riley had also described. He also contributed to the tracking of a Soviet T-72 tank purchased by the U.S., even telepathically interrogating the ship's captain during a staged hijacking. His ability to pick up and sketch technological details was exceptional, as demonstrated by his detailed engineer-style drawing of an experimental XM-1 tank, including its laser-targeting system and special high-tech armor, without prior knowledge of its design.[^1]
In 1970, while stationed with an electronic-intercept unit in southern Germany, McMoneagle suffered cardiac arrest during a meal at a restaurant in an Austrian village. He underwent a classic near-death experience: he reported leaving his body and observing resuscitation efforts from above, passing through a tunnel toward an intense light, and receiving an instruction to return to his physical reality. He subsequently reported significant changes in perceptual experience following recovery, including increased frequency of spontaneous out-of-body states, precognitive episodes, and what he described as a heightened sensitivity to emotional and environmental information. The near-death experience was the event that led, years later, to his identification as a candidate for the Army's remote viewing program.
McMoneagle had unique psychic signatures, such as perceiving a green haze around radioactive or fissionable material and an orange flame around radio frequency radiation. He was known for his ability to enter a deep, dreamlike state during remote viewing sessions, often snoring during his cool-down period and reporting impressions in sleepy murmurs. He was also able to perceive alphanumeric data, such as words and numbers, which was a rare ability among remote viewers.[^1]
### Recruitment into STARGATE (1977)
He was involved in several high-profile operations, including predicting the crash zone of Skylab in the South Pacific, near Australia and Indonesia, which proved accurate. He also played a key role in identifying a Soviet surveillance bug in a U.S. consulate in the Mediterranean and locating the Soviet listening post across the street. In another instance, he helped the FBI break a case by remote-viewing a KGB officer using a fishing pole to retrieve a dead-drop package from a military installation wall. His most sensational series of sessions, for the National Security Council, involved the remote viewing of a new Soviet Typhoon-class submarine under construction at the port of Severodvinsk. He accurately described its massive size, double hull, canted missile tubes, and the unique welding techniques used in its construction, even predicting the Soviets would dynamite a channel to launch it. This information was later confirmed by satellite imagery, sparking debate within the NSC about the value of remote viewing.[^1]
Frederick "Skip" Atwater, the Army intelligence officer who proposed and organized the Fort Meade remote viewing unit, identified McMoneagle as a candidate on the basis of anomalous perceptual experiences documented in his military records. McMoneagle was recruited into the program - then designated Gondola Wish - in 1977 by Atwater and commanding officer Major Murray Watt. He was one of six initial soldier-subjects, the others being [[Mel Riley]], Ken Bell, Nancy Stern, Fernand Gauvin, and Hartleigh Trent.
McMoneagle, along with [[Mel Riley]] and [[Ken Bell]], became one of the three full-time remote viewers when the unit was officially designated the Special Action Branch and the program was codenamed [[STARGATE PROJECT|Grill Flame]]. He was known as "Viewer 518" to the National Security Council. He was allowed to remain with the unit beyond his typical tour of duty, nearing twenty years of service, due to his invaluable contributions.[^1]
The program received training and protocol guidance from [[Hal Puthoff]] and [[Stanford Research Institute|SRI]], where [[Russell Targ]] and SRI researchers had developed the remote viewing experimental protocol under CIA contract since 1972.
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### Operational Remote Viewing
[^1]: Schnabel, Jim. *Remote Viewers*. Dell, 1997.
McMoneagle became the program's most operationally credited viewer. Among his notable sessions:
The Soviet Typhoon-class submarine: Tasked by the National Security Council in 1979, McMoneagle was provided geographic coordinates corresponding to the Soviet shipyard at Severodvinsk and asked to describe activity there. He produced a description of a massive submarine under construction with an unusual double-hull design, canted missile tubes, and specific welding techniques. He predicted the Soviets would dynamite a channel in the riverbank to launch the vessel. Satellite imagery subsequently confirmed the presence of the first Typhoon-class submarine at Severodvinsk, including dimensional and structural details that McMoneagle had described. The result generated internal NSC debate about the intelligence value of the program.
The Chinese nuclear device (1979): McMoneagle and Mel Riley separately remote-viewed what they described as a new nuclear device at the Chinese test facility at Lop Nor, both drawing an unusual "hourglass on its side" shape. U.S. Air Force officials who reviewed the drawings reportedly confirmed that the shape corresponded to a then-current Chinese nuclear design.
The NSA surveillance device: Tasked by the NSA, McMoneagle accurately identified the location of a Soviet surveillance device in a U.S. embassy, identified the location of the Soviet monitoring station across the street, and perceived that a U.S. counterintelligence team had detected the operation and was conducting counter-surveillance.
Skylab reentry (1979): McMoneagle provided coordinates for the crash zone of Skylab, which reentered Earth's atmosphere over eastern Australia, consistent with the actual debris field.
### Retirement and Later Work
McMoneagle retired from the Army in 1984 with the rank of Chief Warrant Officer. His Legion of Merit citation referenced his contributions to intelligence collection through unconventional means. After retirement, he continued as a civilian consultant to the STAR GATE program - operating under DIA oversight through the Sun Streak and STAR GATE code names - until its declassification in 1995.
He married Nancy Lea Honeychurch, the sister of Robert Monroe, the founder of the [[Monroe Institute]] in Faber, Virginia. The Monroe Institute had developed methods for inducing altered states of consciousness using binaural audio technology and had trained some STARGATE viewers in out-of-body techniques. McMoneagle became associated with the institute after his retirement.
He published two books describing his work and his theoretical framework: *Mind Trek: Exploring Consciousness, Time, and Space Through Remote Viewing* (Hampton Roads, 1993) and *Remote Viewing Secrets: A Handbook* (Hampton Roads, 2000). He has continued to participate in publicly available remote viewing demonstrations and research.
### Footnotes
[^1]: Jacobsen, Annie. *Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis.* Little, Brown and Company, 2017, pp. 155-202. Schnabel, Jim. *Remote Viewers: The Secret History of America's Psychic Spies.* Dell, 1997, pp. 170-256.
[^2]: McMoneagle, Joseph. *Mind Trek: Exploring Consciousness, Time, and Space Through Remote Viewing.* Hampton Roads, 1993.