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Graff's interest in psi phenomena stemmed from a personal experience in 1968, where he had a profound out-of-body experience while caught in a rip current. | 1934-12-13 | Lynn Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania |
Dale Graff is a U.S. Air Force civilian scientist who played a significant role in the STARGATE PROJECT. He worked in the Foreign Technology Division at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, where he was responsible for keeping the Air Force and Department of Defense planners aware of cutting-edge military research in the Soviet Union and China.1
Graff's interest in Psi phenomena stemmed from a personal experience in 1968, where he had a profound Out-of-Body Experience while caught in a rip current. This led him to research anomalous mental phenomena, and he later sought to integrate psychic abilities into military applications.1
He authored the 1977 report "Paraphysics R&D - Warsaw Pact," which highlighted Soviet research in electromagnetic fields, quantum physics, and Psychokinesis. This report, along with his advocacy, contributed to the DoD's decision to officially fund a psychic research program.1
Graff was instrumental in the establishment and management of the Grill Flame program. He collaborated with Hal Puthoff and Russell Targ of Stanford Research Institute and oversaw the remote viewing unit at Fort Meade. He was involved in numerous operational taskings, including the successful remote viewing of a new Chinese nuclear device and the location of a lost Soviet bomber in Zaire.1
Graff later became the overall manager of the Stargate Project under the Defense Intelligence Agency, where he sought to develop a general theory for psychic phenomena. He also played a role in the program's involvement in the Iran hostage crisis and the search for General Dozier.1
Graff attended the first meeting of the Defense Department's Grill Flame committee on November 28, 1978, and the committee's minutes of 1979 list him at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, the Air Force Foreign Technology Division, reporting to the group in July 1979 "that the Japanese student who effects photographic film is to visit the US."2
On Nightline in November 1995, identified as the physicist who had directed the DIA's project for five years, Graff said of the Dozier kidnapping, "we had one viewer come up with the name of the city, Padua. We had another one come up with the name of the building he was in," and of the Jordan search, "we like to count it as a success."3
Footnotes
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Jacobsen, Annie. Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis. Little, Brown and Company, 2017. ↩︎
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Defense Intelligence Agency, minutes of the DoD Grill Flame Committee, November 28, 1978 (enclosed in Progress Report #1), July 12, 1979 (CIA-RDP96-00788R002000130008-9), November 27, 1979 (CIA-RDP96-00788R002000130015-1), and January 10, 1980 (CIA-RDP96-00788R002000100009-1). Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. ↩︎
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"Psychic Spies: Cold War Whimsy or Secret Weapon?," ABC News Nightline, November 28, 1995, Radio TV Reports transcript for the CIA Public Affairs Staff, CIA-RDP99-01448R000402140001-7, read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room. ↩︎