---
aliases:
- Lyn Buchanan
- Leonard "Lyn" Buchanan
born: 1939-07-28
category: Military
created: 2026-05-15
location: Waco, Texas
summary: Lyn Buchanan was a U.S. Army sergeant assigned to the Fort Meade remote viewing
  unit under the Center Lane and Sun Streak programs beginning in the early 1980s,
  trained by Ingo Swann in Coordinate Remote Viewing, and after retirement founded
  Problems Solutions Innovations (PSI) and wrote The Seventh Sense (2003).
tags:
- Person
- RemoteViewer
- Military
- PSI
- Stargate
- CRV
- 1980s
- 1990s
title: Lyn Buchanan
updated: 2026-05-17
---

Lyn Buchanan was a [U.S. Army](/organizations/us-army/) sergeant who served as a remote viewer in the classified Army program at [Fort Meade](/places/fort-meade/) that operated under the successive designations [Center Lane](/programs/stargate-project/), Sun Streak, and STAR GATE during the 1980s and early 1990s. He was trained in [Coordinate Remote Viewing](/concepts/coordinate-remote-viewing/) (CRV) by [Ingo Swann](/people/ingo-swann/) after Swann returned to the program to train Army viewers beginning in 1984, and became one of the unit's more consistently producing operational viewers.[^1]

### Military Remote Viewing Career

Buchanan joined the Fort Meade remote viewing unit after the initial group of six viewers recruited by [Frederick Atwater](/people/frederick-atwater/) in 1977. He received formal CRV training in Swann's six-stage protocol, which was designed to provide a structured methodology for acquiring and reporting remote viewing impressions in a way that minimized contamination from imagination or prior knowledge.

Within the unit, Buchanan served in both operational tasking and as a trainer for newer viewers as the program expanded. He also served as the unit's data manager, responsible for maintaining the operational records of remote viewing sessions. He had a reputation for methodological discipline and was among the viewers who completed full training through all stages of Swann's CRV protocol.

Buchanan remained with the program through multiple command transitions and participated in the program during the period when the [Defense Intelligence Agency](/organizations/defense-intelligence-agency/) was the primary government sponsor. He witnessed the various organizational pressures that affected the unit in its final years, including the controversy surrounding [David Morehouse](/people/david-morehouse/), a later viewer whose claims of operational misconduct and visionary experiences eventually led to a court-martial proceeding that damaged the unit's internal cohesion and congressional support.[^1]

### Post-Military Career

After retiring from the Army, Buchanan founded Problems - Solutions - Innovations (PSI), a civilian remote viewing consultancy and training organization. Unlike some former viewers who focused primarily on teaching the experiential aspects of remote viewing, Buchanan emphasized the structured CRV methodology and the data management protocols he had developed at Fort Meade.

In 2003, Buchanan published *The Seventh Sense: The Secrets of Remote Viewing as Told by a "Psychic Spy" for the U.S. Military* (Hampton Roads Publishing), an account of his Army remote viewing experience and his understanding of the CRV process. The book drew on his experience as both viewer and unit data manager and provided one of the more technically detailed accounts of operational military remote viewing from the Fort Meade period.[^1]

[^1]: Jacobsen, Annie. *Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis.* Little, Brown and Company, 2017. Schnabel, Jim. *Remote Viewers: The Secret History of America's Psychic Spies.* Dell, 1997.