--- aliases: - David Morehouse - David A. Morehouse born: 1954-01-01 category: Military created: 2026-05-15 location: Virginia summary: David Morehouse was a U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel and Ranger officer who joined the Fort Meade remote viewing unit after surviving a head wound in Jordan in 1987, was trained in CRV, faced a court-martial for personal conduct, and after retirement published Psychic Warrior (1996), a memoir that was commercially successful but disputed by other unit members for accuracy. tags: - Person - RemoteViewer - Military - PSI - Stargate - CRV - 1980s - 1990s title: David Morehouse updated: 2026-05-17 --- David Morehouse was a [U.S. Army](/organizations/us-army/) Lieutenant Colonel and Ranger-qualified airborne officer who joined the classified remote viewing unit at [Fort Meade](/places/fort-meade/), Maryland, in the later phase of the program during the late 1980s. Unlike most of the unit's earlier members, who were intelligence specialists or photo-interpreters, Morehouse was a combat arms officer whose path to the program began with an unusual incident: in 1987, while participating in a combined training exercise in Jordan, he was struck in the helmet by a stray round fired by Jordanian soldiers. He survived without serious physical injury but subsequently reported vivid visions and altered states that led him to seek assignment to the remote viewing unit.[^1] ### Remote Viewing Training and Service Morehouse underwent [Coordinate Remote Viewing](/concepts/coordinate-remote-viewing/) (CRV) training and served in the unit during the [Sun Streak](/programs/stargate-project/) and STAR GATE phases. He was one of the viewers working with a more formal administrative structure than the unit's early years, when the program was operating under [Defense Intelligence Agency](/organizations/defense-intelligence-agency/) sponsorship through the Cognitive Sciences Laboratory direction of [Edwin May](/people/edwin-may/). His service in the unit was complicated by personal conduct issues. Fellow viewer [Lyn Buchanan](/people/lyn-buchanan/) and others in the unit noticed Morehouse operating a construction business on the side while on active duty and observed what they characterized as erratic behavior. A formal military investigation led to a court-martial proceeding. The case attracted some attention because of its connection to the remote viewing program; Angela Dellafiora served as a witness in the proceeding. Morehouse received a discharge that was later characterized as a general discharge under honorable conditions after plea arrangements.[^1] ### Psychic Warrior and Public Career In 1996, Morehouse published *Psychic Warrior: Inside the CIA's Stargate Program, the True Story of a Soldier's Espionage and Awakening* (St. Martin's Press), which became the first commercially successful account by a former Fort Meade program participant. The book combined Morehouse's account of his remote viewing training and operational sessions with a spiritual awakening narrative centered on his Jordan head wound experience and its aftereffects. The reception among former unit colleagues was largely negative. [Joe McMoneagle](/people/joe-mcmoneagle/), who had participated in the program from its earliest days, was particularly critical, arguing that Morehouse had embellished both his experiences and his role in the program and that the book's sensationalized framing undermined the program's legitimate history. The book was also criticized for exaggerating the CIA connection - the unit was primarily an Army program under DIA sponsorship, not a CIA operation. Despite these criticisms, *Psychic Warrior* introduced the Fort Meade program to a large popular audience and helped establish the commercial remote viewing training market that emerged after STAR GATE's 1995 declassification. Morehouse subsequently built a civilian career offering remote viewing training seminars.[^1] [^1]: Schnabel, Jim. *Remote Viewers: The Secret History of America's Psychic Spies.* Dell, 1997. Jacobsen, Annie. *Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis.* Little, Brown and Company, 2017. Morehouse, David. *Psychic Warrior: Inside the CIA's Stargate Program, the True Story of a Soldier's Espionage and Awakening.* St. Martin's Press, 1996.