Lynn Buchanan is a former U.S. Army sergeant, Russian linguist, computer programmer, and elite military remote viewer who served in the classified psychic intelligence unit at Fort Meade under General Albert Stubblebine. He is the real-life inspiration for the character Cassidy in The Men Who Stared at Goats. Over decades, he has remote viewed world leaders, alien bases on Earth and the Moon, crashed UFOs, religious figures including Jesus and God, and even bilocated to Mars and Titan. He also claims a personal abduction experience in 1960s Texas, during which he was taken aboard a UFO, taught to operate its controls, and later saw a matching control panel from a crashed craft inside a military hangar. His story sits at the intersection of military psychic programs, non-human intelligence, and the hidden architecture of global power.
Origins: From Poltergeist Kid to Military Psychic
Buchanan grew up with psychokinetic (PK) ability — as an emotionally upset child, he could knock things off shelves, a phenomenon known as a “poltergeist kid.” His mother encouraged the ability rather than suppressing it.
As a young soldier in Augsburg, Germany, he was tasked with writing a program to network 12 different countries’ computer systems. During the live demonstration before generals from all 12 nations, the program failed — a rival sergeant had sabotaged it. Buchanan became so enraged that he psychically fried approximately $50 million worth of computers across the entire field station, an event documented in military records. The same pulse reportedly fried Russian computers in East Germany.
General Albert “Bert” Stubblebine, head of Army INSCOM, had been searching for someone with this kind of ability. He came to the field station, pulled Buchanan into an office, and asked, “Did you kill my computer with your mind?” When Buchanan admitted it, Stubblebine grinned and said, “Far out — I’ve got a job for you.”
Stubblebine wanted to build a unit to destroy or hijack enemy computers psychically, but Congress refused to fund it, calling it “mind control.” Instead, Buchanan was transferred to Fort Meade and placed into the existing remote viewing unit, where he was read into a program carrying a 10-year jail penalty for disclosure.
The Military Remote Viewing Program
The U.S. military remote viewing program began in the 1970s after intelligence confirmed the Soviets had an active psychic espionage program. It was developed by laser physicists Hal Puthoff and Russell Targ at SRI International, with Ingo Swann creating the methodology called Controlled Remote Viewing (CRV).
The unit at Fort Meade operated for 10 years before Buchanan arrived. Viewers sat at cubicles, received encrypted coordinate numbers (never told the target), and produced intelligence on world leaders’ plans, enemy facilities, and strategic targets.
Saddam Hussein was remote viewed almost daily. Buchanan described him as “totally crazy” — genuinely believing God wanted him to rule the world and that anyone opposing him was of the devil. Despite public claims about WMDs, Buchanan’s team found no weapons at his known facilities — but he did discover a hidden weapons bunker accessed through a hollow generator that tilted back to reveal stairs descending into a fully stocked arsenal.
The program operated under strict rules: never use it for personal reasons, never use it against U.S. citizens, and only use it for assigned tasks. Buchanan notes that the government was afraid of the remote viewers themselves, because the technology meant there were no more secrets.
Buchanan’s particular strength is mental access — accessing people’s minds, reading their personality, plans, and intentions. He built a database over 30 years cataloguing every viewer’s perceptual strengths (color, shape, sound, etc.), allowing him to assign specific sub-tasks to the viewer best suited for each, boosting team accuracy from 70% to 95%.
How Controlled Remote Viewing Works
CRV is described by Buchanan as a martial art, not mysticism. The subconscious mind knows things it cannot communicate to the conscious mind directly. CRV trains the viewer to read physical responses (sensations, automatic writing, gestural marks) as a communication channel between subconscious and conscious.
Training progresses through stages 1 through 6 (and beyond, up to stage 18 developed by Swann). Stage 1 involves basic land/water/man-made distinctions. By stage 6, viewers can reproduce circuit board-level detail. The public is only taught stages 1–6; Buchanan teaches 1–7 in his civilian course.
At the highest levels, a phenomenon called bilocation occurs — the viewer’s attention becomes so focused on the target that they cannot distinguish being there from being in the room. They feel temperature, wind, smell. Beyond bilocation is perfect sight integration, where the experience is indistinguishable from physical presence.
Remote Viewing Mars and Titan
During a practice session, Buchanan achieved perfect sight integration and found himself walking on Mars in the Sedona region. He felt sand under his bare feet, saw a dim sun, an orangish-red landscape, bitter cold, and a building sloping backward with erosion. Months later, he saw a sharp photograph on Hal Puthoff’s wall of the same region of Mars — with a small opening on a pyramid that matched exactly what he had drawn from above.
Inside the pyramid, he encountered worm-like beings with atrophied limbs, much larger than humans, apparently incapable of leaving. They pulled him out before he could learn more.
He was also tasked with finding life on Titan (a moon of Jupiter). He found two beings in a cave, conversing. This was the most alien experience of his life — he could detect they were thinking, could “hear” their thoughts, but there was absolutely no translation or comprehension possible. Totally incomprehensible.
Alien Bases on Earth and the Moon
Buchanan remote viewed the four major alien bases on Earth, originally discovered by Pat Price and Jim McMonagle in Project 8200:
Mount Hayes, Alaska: An intelligence-gathering facility where aliens and humans once worked side by side. By the time Buchanan viewed it, the equipment was automated and the facility was essentially empty of personnel. Located inside the mountain, perpetually snow-covered.
Mount Zeil, Australia: Functions as a port of entry to Earth — “the airport.” Friendly aliens arrive here and disperse globally. A two-level facility: an upper docking level where ships come in and passengers disembark, and a lower maintenance level. During his viewing, Buchanan saw something reportedly never observed before: a gray female with a gray baby. The beings let him know they knew he were watching and that it was okay.
Mount Inyangani, Zimbabwe: A UFO repair and maintenance facility. Hikers who get too close disappear — either killed or taken as workers. Buchanan believes those taken are given a choice: die or work. They do not come back.
Secret Mountain near Bradshaw Ranch, Sedona, Arizona: Another base where UFOs fly in and out. The land is technically reserved for environmental studies but is effectively off-limits, with nondescript personnel seen guarding it.
Buchanan believes these bases operate with the explicit permission of governments — more like reservations granted to the aliens than secret incursions. He thinks governments know about them and have made arrangements: “You stay away from us, we’ll stay away from you.”
He also confirmed alien bases on the dark side of the moon, consistent with Ingo Swann’s book Penetration. The moon bases appeared to be focused on mining minerals.
Humans and Aliens Working Together
At Mount Hayes, Price and McMonagle originally observed humans and aliens working side by side. Buchanan has also heard consistent reports from people he considers credible that humans work alongside aliens at various facilities.
Two men approached Buchanan in a parking lot in El Paso and claimed to be descendants of humans taken as slaves by ETs centuries ago. They said their ancestors had been taken to another planet, their DNA had changed over hundreds of generations, and now they were brought back to Earth to work at the bases. Some were escaping. They were afraid of a DNA test that would reveal their “other” classification in the human DNA chart.
During a military mission Buchanan cannot discuss in detail, he saw an insectoid being (praying mantis-like) sitting at a workstation in a row of humans operating equipment. He looked away immediately, not wanting to know more.
The Abduction Experience
In the mid-1960s, while serving as a Methodist minister in East Texas, Buchanan was cleaning out his parsonage before moving to a new church. Late at night, he heard something land in the backyard. He couldn’t move despite being wide awake (not sleep paralysis). He then found himself in a white room with rows of seats and frozen people.
A 7-foot-tall, extremely muscular, pale being entered. Buchanan asked to sit by a window; the being looked terrified and ran. Then a small gray entered, flanked by three large beings using the gray for protection. The gray communicated with Buchanan and eventually took him to the front of the ship.
The gray was the pilot. Buchanan watched him operate the controls and asked to try. The gray initially said human hands were too small, but upon comparing hands found they were nearly the same size. Buchanan learned to fly the UFO by placing his fingers over holes in a control panel — each hole controlled a different function.
The ship landed on a non-Earth planet with a black sky, dim sun, and black grass. The gray said they were a medical team: they catch diseases in space and have no immunity, so they use humans as “antibody factories” — implanting diseased tissue samples to trigger antibody production, then harvesting the antibodies later. The “implants” people find are just broken-off instrument tips from humans moving during the procedure.
Buchanan was made to forget the experience through a telepathic intervention by another being. He remembered nothing for 25 years, though he developed an obsessive compulsion to check whether he had forgotten something. The memory returned when his wife sarcastically asked, “Did you check the backyard?”
The next Monday, he gave the encrypted coordinates to fellow remote viewers as a practice target. They returned descriptions matching his memory. He still didn’t believe it — until a year later, on another mission, he was shown through a hangar containing wreckage from mid-air collisions and spotted a control panel from a UFO — the same one he had operated. When he said, “That’s out of a UFO,” it echoed through the metal building and he was immediately expelled with threats.
The Men in Black and the UFO Control Panel
After the fellow viewers confirmed his abduction memory, Buchanan was summoned to the Defense Intelligence Agency and interrogated by the “men in black” — not aliens, but professional interrogators. The interrogator kept asking about the control panel. Buchanan explained how it worked — finger placement over holes controlling the ship. A silent observer in the room slapped his leg and said, “So that’s it” — revealing they had a panel but didn’t know how to operate it.
The control panel Buchanan saw in the hangar was metallic with an impression of a hand on it and multiple holes for finger placement. It was sitting unattended in a pile of wreckage from mid-air collisions.
Remote Viewing Religious Figures
Buchanan was tasked with a personality profile that turned out to be Jesus. During the session, he achieved perfect sight integration and found himself standing before a short Jewish-looking man in a modern business suit. He felt dirty and guilty, but the figure communicated unconditional love: “Whatever evil you think this guy did, he didn’t do it. He’s a good guy.” The experience was life-changing. Buchanan interprets the modern suit as a sign that Jesus is not a figure of the past but present today.
He was also tasked with a target that turned out to be God. He found himself in darkness, standing in light from an unseen source, hearing a voice say: “From now on, everything I give you, I give through you, not to you.” He felt total confusion rather than awe — his mind was on writing the report.
Psychic Warfare and Geopolitical Implications
Buchanan confirms that a single remote viewer can kill — by stopping a heart, for example. It’s “so easy to do.” The reason world leaders don’t drop like flies is that intelligence services want to keep known leaders in place — killing one creates an unknown replacement and forces intelligence to start over.
The Russians had a woman named Nina Kulagina who could stop the hearts of rats and rabbits. The Russian program aimed to develop soldiers who could kill across the battlefield psychically.
Buchanan’s team could change weather anywhere in the world. The Russians possess earthquake weapons capable of triggering a Yellowstone eruption or causing a landslide on La Palma Island that would generate a tsunami reaching 26 miles inland on the U.S. East Coast.
He believes war is now primarily a money-making enterprise for weapons manufacturers, and that the real leverage is psychic, not nuclear.
The Deep State and One World Government
Through his remote viewing, Buchanan became convinced of a true deep state — not bureaucrats, but a vital group with deliberate intentions that actually controls governments. He doesn’t know who they are but believes they are more advanced psychically.
He has explored the concept of OWOG (One World One Government). Many beings already in space don’t want humans out there in our current state. To become spacefaring, humanity will need unified governance. The powers behind governments apparently want this too.
The deep state doesn’t need psychic abilities themselves — they’re already in control and can simply recruit people who have them.
Predictions Through 2050
In 1998, Buchanan was tasked with viewing the future of the U.S. through 2050. He produced a long list of changes that have been coming true one by one. The outlook is grim:
75% of the world population will be killed through man-made disasters including engineered earthquakes.
By around 2040, there will be almost no centralized government. Society will be agrarian.
Goods not self-made will be delivered; social interaction will occur almost exclusively through technology.
People will make their own tools using machines (he saw this in 1998, before 3D printers existed).
Space travel as a civilization won’t happen until around 2080 or later.
Chernobyl and Scientific Espionage
Buchanan predicted the Chernobyl meltdown three days before it happened during a task to describe Sunday’s headlines. He described the event accurately, including its cause, but received a zero on the task because the news broke on Tuesday and didn’t make the Sunday paper.
He claims six tons of fissionable material from the plant went missing and remain unaccounted for, and he believes the event was intentional, not an accident.
He was also tasked with remote viewing inside a Russian particle beam weapon at Semipalatinsk. He bilocated into the beam and discovered that the particles swirl rather than travel straight — information scientists wanted, since no physical instrument could survive inside the beam. He described the experience as the most beautiful thing he had ever seen.
Pat Price’s Mysterious Death
Pat Price, one of the most skilled remote viewers and the original discoverer of the four alien bases, died under suspicious circumstances. Buchanan heard from people present that the published story is false. An unmarked ambulance took his body, which was never seen again. A department of security head later said, “Pat Price died and we haven’t heard from him since” — which Buchanan interprets as a coded message. Price was reportedly seen in a Washington, D.C. department store a couple of years after his supposed death.
UFO Disclosure and the Future
Buchanan believes disclosure is coming within several years and that ETs are already revealing themselves more openly. However, humanity won’t join the broader space community for a very long time.
He sees no conflict between his religious faith and the existence of ETs — with 400 quintillion planets, it would be idiotic to believe Earth is the only one with life, and it would limit God to do so.
He believes the public has a right to know some things but supports classification of genuinely dangerous knowledge — particularly the ability to psychically harm or kill, which he hopes never becomes public.
Advice and Resources
Buchanan teaches the full military CRV course (stages 1–7) at crviewer.com on the Kajabi platform, with permanent access and webinars. He says some of his civilian students are achieving accuracy levels equal to or better than the military unit.
He produces short educational content on TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube under the handle @insideremoteviewing (all one word).
His book, The Seventh Sense, is available on Amazon. The sixth sense is ambience (feeling what’s in the room); the seventh sense is feeling what’s happening anywhere in the world — like inside the Kremlin.
