Joseph W. McMoneagle is a retired U.S. Army Chief Warrant Officer and one of the world’s most respected pioneers in the field of remote viewing. Over his 20-year career in Army Intelligence, he held highly classified roles within the Army Security Agency and the 902nd Military Intelligence Group. From 1978 to 1984, he served as a Special Projects Intelligence Officer at Fort Meade, Maryland, where he was designated Remote Viewer #001 in the U.S. military’s top-secret Stargate Program. During this time, he conducted over 450 operational remote viewing missions to support military and intelligence efforts during the Cold War. For his service, he was awarded the Legion of Merit, one of the military’s highest honors.

McMoneagle’s professional journey into remote viewing was shaped by personal experiences, including a near-death experience, a UFO sighting, and numerous out-of-body and lucid dreaming episodes. In the late 1970s, he began collaborating with scientists at SRI International, including Dr. Hal Puthoff and Ingo Swann, to study remote viewing under rigorously controlled, double-blind conditions. He later continued his work with consciousness researcher Robert Monroe at the Monroe Institute, and with the Cognitive Sciences Laboratory, where he remains a research associate.

In addition to his classified work, McMoneagle is the only remote viewer known to have successfully demonstrated remote viewing over 45 times on national television in seven different countries. Over a four-year period on Channel 4 in the UK, he located 12 out of 24 missing persons while being filmed—each case conducted under strict double-blind conditions. As a professional remote viewer for over 48 years, he has assisted private companies, law enforcement, government agencies, and individuals worldwide. He has also been directly involved in scientific research on anomalous cognition for over 35 years, and has been a full member of the Parapsychological Association for more than 25 years.

McMoneagle is the author of several books, including Mind Trek, The Ultimate Time Machine, and Remote Viewing Secrets. Through his writing, lectures, and media appearances, he continues to challenge mainstream assumptions about human perception and to advocate for the serious study of consciousness and non-local awareness.