Coordinate Remote Viewing

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. This technique was proposed by Ingo Swann to Hal Puthoff and Russell Targ at SRI 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 accurately described a secret NSA facility despite being given coordinates for a different location.¹

CRV became a fundamental technique within the Stargate Project (also known as Grill Flame), 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