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category: Research Methodology
created: 2025-07-22
description: Coordinate Remote Viewing (CRV) is a specific methodology of remote viewing
  that uses geographical coordinates to direct a psychic's perception to a target.
location: Stanford Research Institute, Menlo Park, California
start: 1973
summary: Coordinate Remote Viewing (CRV) is a specific methodology of Remote Viewing
  that uses geographical coordinates (latitude and longitude) to direct a psychic's
  perception to a target.
tags:
- concept
- remoteviewing
- methodology
title: Coordinate Remote Viewing
updated: 2025-07-22
---

[Coordinate Remote Viewing](/concepts/coordinate-remote-viewing/) (CRV) is a specific methodology of [Remote Viewing](/concepts/remote-viewing/) that uses geographical coordinates (latitude and longitude) to direct a psychic's perception to a target. This technique was proposed by [Ingo Swann](/people/ingo-swann/) to [Hal Puthoff](/people/hal-puthoff/) and [Russell Targ](/people/russell-targ/) at [SRI](/organizations/stanford-research-institute/) in April 1973. Swann believed that using coordinates would allow psychics to be directed to a target precisely and economically, without actually being told what the target was, thus preventing conscious imagination from interfering with the psychic impressions.[^1]

Initially, Puthoff and Targ were skeptical of the idea, arguing that coordinate systems were arbitrary human creations and that a psychic's success might be attributed to eidetic memory or cryptomnesia. However, Swann persisted, and after informal tests showed promising results, the protocol was tightened, with coordinates being selected by a third party unknown to the researchers and the psychic. The accuracy of CRV was famously demonstrated in the Sugar Grove incident, where Swann and [Pat Price](/people/pat-price/) accurately described a secret [NSA](/organizations/nsa/) facility despite being given coordinates for a different location.[^1]

CRV became a fundamental technique within the [Stargate Project](/programs/stargate-project/) (also known as [Grill Flame](/programs/stargate-project/)), allowing for the operational application of remote viewing for intelligence gathering. It was distinguished from other methodologies like Outbound Remote Viewing and Extended Remote Viewing.[^1]

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[^1]: Schnabel, Jim. *Remote Viewers*. Dell, 1997.