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Lyn Buchanan — Career and Claims (Stargate Project Remote Viewer / Trainer)

• Type: named-figure source-of-record (military whistleblower / psi-tradition)
• Subject: Sergeant First Class Leonard “Lyn” Buchanan, U.S. Army (Retired)
• Credibility: ~35 / middle-low tier (bimodal — service record ~85, RV operational efficacy ~30, alien-base/UFO-piloting claims ~10). Documented service member of a real, declassified, congressionally-funded military program (Stargate Project / Sun Streak / Center Lane / Grill Flame, ~1972–1995); specific psi-and-NHI claims range from plausible-but-unverifiable to extraordinary. See Credibility assessment section below.
• Primary published memoir: The Seventh Sense: The Secrets of Remote Viewing as Told by a Psychic Spy for the U.S. Military (2003, Paraview Pocket Books)
• Current civilian role: Executive Director of P>S>I (Problems > Solutions > Innovations), Mechanicsville MD; runs Controlled Remote Viewing online training ($497–$1,197 per course)
• Operating website: https://www.crviewer.com — bio archived at crviewer-com-buchanan-official-bio

Verified service record (from declassified material + Buchanan’s own bio at crviewer.com, cross-checked against the Stargate Project literature)

Period	Role
Pre-1972	Military computer expert for Nike Ajax / Nike Hercules guided missile systems
1972–1974	12-year break in service. Earned BA Psychology, BA Linguistics, MA Linguistic Psychology. Taught foreign languages in East Texas.
1974 onward	Re-enlisted as military linguist (German, Russian, Spanish).
~1975–1979	Stationed in Japan four years. Gained proficiency in Japanese and Mongolian — the only Mongolian linguist in all branches of the U.S. military at that time.
~1979–1980	Returned to the Defense Language Institute for higher-level Russian; became one of only 12 Russian Scientific Research Linguists in the U.S. Army.
~1980–1984	Stationed at U.S. Intelligence Field Station Augsburg, West Germany. Mixed linguist + systems-designer + programmer role on U.S. and foreign mainframe/mini-computers.
1984	Triggering “psychokinetic event” in Augsburg (details still partially classified per his bio) brings him to the attention of General Albert Stubblebine, head of INSCOM. Transferred to Ft. Meade, Maryland.
1984–1992	Stargate Project unit at Ft. Meade. Roles: Controlled Remote Viewer, Trainer (taught Ingo Swann’s CRV method to incoming personnel), Database Manager, Property Book Officer.
1992	Retires from U.S. Army. Settles in Mechanicsville, MD. Founds P>S>I as a data-analysis consultancy.
December 1995	CIA declassifies the Stargate Project (the public-release branding for the umbrella that had been called Grill Flame → Center Lane → Sun Streak → Stargate). Buchanan’s prior involvement becomes public; P>S>I pivots to CRV training.
1995–present	Training civilians in CRV through P>S>I. Founded “The Assigned Witness Program” providing free RV services to police/public investigative agencies. Maintains an operational database of trained-viewer accuracy and error rates.

The verified-service-record portion (linguist credentials, Ft. Meade posting, INSCOM/Stubblebine transfer, role in the unit, retirement-rank, P>S>I founding) is corroborated against multiple independent sources: Buchanan’s published memoir, Paul H. Smith’s Reading the Enemy’s Mind (2005), Jim Schnabel’s Remote Viewers (1997), Edwin May’s edited The Star Gate Archives (4 volumes, 2018–2021), and the CIA STAR GATE FOIA collection (cia.gov/readingroom/collection/stargate).

The Stubblebine recruitment story (Buchanan’s verbatim, Jesse Michels interview, 2026-05-28)

The recruitment narrative Buchanan tells across multiple interviews — Michels (2026-05-28), Aubrey Marcus (2026-03-05), Third Eye Drops (2025-09-25) — is structurally consistent and worth capturing in his own words:

“It was about 50 million dollars worth of computers that just went bad. Fried. And for the next period of time that’s still classified, everybody at the field station was going to work, taking their crossword puzzle books, all this, making it look like to the Russian spy in the sky like business as usual. Come to find out later, the Russians were doing the same thing over in East Germany because it had fried their computers, too. And this is documented, by the way. So anyway, General Stubblebine, the head of the Intelligence and Security Command, had been looking for something like that. He got wind of it… He grabbed me by the arm and shoved me ahead of him… ‘I need to talk to Sergeant Buchanan. Get out.’… General Stubblebine wanted to put me as the beginning of a unit that would destroy enemy computers. And with the end goal of controlling the enemy computers so that we could make their missiles turn around and go back or drop into the sea or something like that. Or put false information into the enemy computers. Congress said, ‘No, that’s mind control,’ and wouldn’t fund it. So he took me out to Fort Meade and had that remote viewing unit. He took me out there and put me into that.”

Three load-bearing elements:

1. The Augsburg computer-frying incident — Buchanan attributes to himself a documented psychokinetic event in 1984. The “this is documented” assertion has not been independently corroborated; the documentation would be classified.
2. Stubblebine’s planned “fry enemy computers / control missiles” unit is consistent with Stubblebine’s well-documented INSCOM-era interest in operational psi capabilities (Ronson’s The Men Who Stare at Goats covers this period). “Congress said no, that’s mind control” is plausible as a funding-rejection but not independently verified.
3. The fallback to Sun Streak / remote viewing unit at Fort Meade in 1984 is verified — that unit’s roster from this period is in the declassified record.

Buchanan’s substantive claims, ordered by independent verifiability

1. Verified: He was a Stargate-unit Trainer and Database Manager (highest verifiability)

Buchanan’s role training incoming personnel in Ingo Swann’s CRV protocol is corroborated by Paul H. Smith (his peer, whose memoir is generally regarded as the most academically rigorous Stargate primary), and by the CIA STAR GATE FOIA record. He is named in the FOIA documents under his unit role.

2. Verified: He performed operational RV sessions including Saddam Hussein targeting (medium-high verifiability)

Buchanan’s claim that he remote-viewed Saddam Hussein “almost every day” during the first Gulf War period maps onto known unit tasking (locating high-value targets was standard Stargate work). His verbatim characterization: “He was totally crazy… he 100% believed that God wanted him to rule the world. And that anybody who would stop him from ruling the world was of the devil and had to be killed.” This is a psychological-profile claim, not a location-prediction claim; it’s compatible with the publicly known unit’s tasking and with Saddam’s behavior, but doesn’t independently support RV’s accuracy.

3. Lower-verifiability operational claims

• The unit had a database of viewer-specific strengths/weaknesses and error rates (Buchanan claims he built this; P>S>I site cites the database as still maintained)
• Specific success stories: located lost Marine reconnaissance team in Lebanon; tracked Scud launcher positions in Operation Desert Storm; located missing Lt. Col. Higgins
• Stylized methodology framing: CRV protocols designed to prevent contamination from imagination/emotion/desire/fear via structured ideogram→sketch→analytic-overlay sequence

4. Extraordinary claims — the four-alien-bases narrative

In the Jesse Michels interview (2026-05-28, opening ~3 minutes), Buchanan makes the most extraordinary claims of his public career:

“You remote viewed alien bases.” “The four major alien bases on the Earth. One in Mount Hayes, Alaska. Mount Zeal in Australia. Secret mountain near Bradshaw Ranch in Sedona, Arizona. Mount Inyangani is another alien base.”

Site	Location	Independently in UAP literature?
Mount Hayes	Alaska Range, ~13,832 ft	Yes — appears in Karl Mussler’s “Alaska Triangle” literature; also in remote-viewing-community lore
Mount Ziel	West MacDonnell Ranges, NT, Australia, 4,997 ft (Buchanan says “Mount Zeal”)	Yes — appears in Australian UFO lore and Aboriginal sky-being traditions
Bradshaw Ranch / Secret Mountain	Sedona/Verde Valley, Arizona	Yes — Linda Bradshaw + Tom Dongo’s Merging Dimensions (1995) is the seminal text; major contactee-tradition site
Mount Inyangani	Nyanga Mountains, Zimbabwe — highest peak in Zimbabwe at 8,504 ft	Yes — Ariel School (Ruwa) 1994 incident lore + local Shona spirit-being traditions

All four sites are previously named in the alien-base contactee-tradition literature. This is a credibility-framework-relevant observation: Buchanan is naming sites that already exist in the pre-existing folklore, not introducing four previously-unknown sites. The two-direction read:

• Skeptical: Buchanan absorbed the existing folklore over decades and is now retrofitting it as direct RV experience
• Supportive: RV sessions independently surfaced four sites that the broader experiencer-tradition had also surfaced through other modalities

Buchanan also claims to have seen humans and insectoid NHI working side-by-side at one of the sites operating equipment, and to have personally piloted a UFO (“an impression of a hand on it where you put your finger over the hole controls the ship. The alien was there. He took me up front. He was the pilot. So I tried it and I learned how to do it.“) The latter claim is qualitatively different from anything in his prior 30 years of public statements.

5. Geopolitical-psi claims

• “The Russians look across the battlefield and kill their enemies by stopping their hearts.”
• “We can change the weather anywhere in the world.”
• “The Russians have earthquake [weapons]” (cut off in transcript)
• “Our government was afraid of us” (re: Stargate viewers)

These map onto the “PSI Wars” framework (Soviet psychotronic-research literature, the Knaack/Spelman/Vinokurov tradition, Ostrander & Schroeder’s Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain 1970). The Knaack-tradition claims are not independently verified but are well-attested as a strand of late-Cold-War U.S. military intelligence concern.

Where the Michels interview is structurally novel

Compared to Buchanan’s prior public output (his memoir, Mishlove’s New Thinking Allowed appearances, the Coast to Coast AM appearances, the 2003-era PBS coverage), the Jesse Michels interview is the furthest he has gone in his public claims:

Claim type	Prior public output	Jesse Michels 2026-05-28
Unit role	Trainer, Database Manager, viewer	Same, plus identifies as inspiration for Men Who Stare at Goats
RV operations	Operational tasking, Saddam, Scuds, Lebanon	Same
Soviet psi	General “they were doing it too”	Specific: Russians killed via heart-stopping across battlefield
Weather modification	Not previously claimed	”We can change the weather anywhere in the world”
UFO operation	Not previously claimed at this specificity	Personally piloted a UFO via finger-hole control panel; insectoids work alongside humans
Alien bases	Previously discussed in general terms	Specific named locations (Mt. Hayes, Mt. Ziel, Bradshaw/Secret Mountain, Mt. Inyangani)

The escalation pattern is the credibility-framework-relevant observation. Buchanan in 2026 is operating in a higher-claim register than Buchanan in 2003 or 2010. Whether this is (a) age 80-ish letting him say more because he’s near end-of-career, (b) the broader 2026 disclosure-cycle providing permission-structure for extraordinary claims, (c) Buchanan adapting to the post-Grusch incentive landscape, or (d) memory-drift / narrative-mutation analogous to the bob-lazar-credibility-analysis-podcast pattern, is interpretive. The most defensible read is that all four factors are operating simultaneously.

Comparison to other named Stargate veterans

Person	Career period	Claims register
Ingo Swann (d. 2013)	SRI 1972-1989	Inventor of CRV methodology; “Penetration” book on Moon-base RV; on-record claim about non-human presence on Moon
Pat Price (d. 1975)	Early SRI viewer	The “Mars” session (transcript declassified); the alleged Soviet underground-installation hit; died of heart attack at 53 under disputed circumstances
Joseph McMoneagle	Viewer #001	The most rigorously-studied Stargate viewer; Mind Trek and The Stargate Chronicles; relatively conservative claims register
Paul H. Smith	Viewer + trainer	Reading the Enemy’s Mind (2005, most academically respected memoir); conservative register
Mel Riley	Viewer	Quieter public profile; reportedly the unit’s most accurate viewer
David Morehouse	Viewer	Psychic Warrior (1996); controversial — Morehouse left under disputed circumstances
Lyn Buchanan	Trainer + viewer + database	Was previously closer to the McMoneagle/Smith conservative register; Michels 2026 interview marks a shift toward the Morehouse/extraordinary-claim register

Buchanan’s previous reputation in the RV community was as the technical/operational/database guy — the one who emphasized scientific protocol and avoided flashier mystical claims. The 2026 Michels interview signals a register-shift worth tracking.

How this connects to other repo material

• Daniel Sheehan (sheehan-podcast-yt-irNARPZW8cc): Sheehan name-drops Buchanan and Paul Smith as RV-program veterans he’s interviewed; Sheehan claims to have been briefed on the RV program in 1977 as a Jesuit-affiliated lawyer. The DEBRIEFED ep. 44 transcript (debriefed-ep44-area52-spielberg-soft-drip-theory-2025-07-14) recounts a Sheehan claim about a Pat Price helmet-experiment that “controlled an entire town in southern Ontario to file their taxes” — the Buchanan/Smith/Sheehan/Hubbard-network operates in the same RV-as-disclosure milieu.
• The Hal Puthoff / Eric Davis / AAWSAP lineage (aatip-program): Puthoff was the SRI psi-research originator who later became one of the AAWSAP DIRD authors and a Skinwalker Ranch participant. The Stargate Project is the institutional precursor of the AATIP/AAWSAP exotic-physics+consciousness research stream. The AAWSAP DIRDs cluster on consciousness-adjacent topics (warp drive, vacuum engineering, antigravity, quantum vacuum energy — see INDEX) reflects the same intellectual ecosystem Buchanan operated in.
• The community-credibility-assessment topic (community-credibility-assessment): Buchanan is a useful case for the framework because he has high verifiable-service-record credibility and increasingly extraordinary unverified claims — the canonical “credentialed-witness with NHI/abduction/Manhattan-Project-scale claims” profile.

Credibility assessment — synthesizing the high-quality sources

What raises Buchanan’s credibility

1. Verified service record stronger than ~90% of the disclosure discourse. The linguist credentials (only Mongolian linguist in the U.S. military; 1 of 12 Russian Scientific Research Linguists), the INSCOM/Stubblebine transfer, the Ft. Meade unit role (Trainer, Database Manager, Property Book Officer, Viewer), and the P>S>I founding are all corroborated against the CIA STAR GATE FOIA record, Paul H. Smith’s memoir, Schnabel, and Edwin May’s Star Gate Archives. He is a documented member of a real, declassified, congressionally-funded program.
2. Decades operating in the conservative register. From 1995 to ~2020 his public profile was the technical/database/protocol figure — the one who emphasized scientific method, maintained accuracy/error-rate databases, and avoided the flashier mystical claims that Morehouse and Dames made. This is a long track record of relative restraint.
3. Institutional-process orientation. The Assigned Witness Program (free RV to police), the error-rate databasing, and the methodological framing (CRV-as-contamination-control) are the behaviors of someone treating the topic as a discipline rather than a revelation.
4. Named, on-record, legally-exposed-via-memoir. He published The Seventh Sense under his own name with specific falsifiable career claims, none of which have been shown false.

What lowers Buchanan’s credibility

1. The 2026 register-shift into uncorroborable first-person extraordinary claims. The Jesse Michels interview (2026-05-28) is the furthest he has ever gone: personally piloting a UFO via a finger-hole control panel with an alien pilot beside him, four named alien bases, insectoids working alongside humans operating equipment. These are first-person experiential claims, not relayed hearsay — and they have zero independent corroboration.
2. The four alien bases are all pre-existing folklore sites. Mount Hayes (Alaska Triangle lit), Mount Ziel (Australian UFO lore), Bradshaw Ranch/Secret Mountain (Tom Dongo’s 1995 Merging Dimensions), Mount Inyangani (Ariel School regional complex). Naming sites that already circulate in the contactee canon is the classic absorbed-the-folklore-then-retrofitted-it-as-direct-experience pattern.
3. The underlying program’s operational efficacy is officially assessed as unproven. The 1995 AIR Report (the congressionally-commissioned independent evaluation) concluded Stargate never produced actionable intelligence. Buchanan’s operational-success narratives (Saddam tasking, located-the-Marines, Scud positions) run against the program’s own official assessment.
4. Geopolitical-psi claims in the unverifiable PSI-Wars register. Russians killing via battlefield heart-stopping, “we can change the weather anywhere in the world,” Russian earthquake weapons — these are the Ostrander-Schroeder Psychic Discoveries tradition, not independently substantiated.
5. Commercial incentive. P>S>I sells CRV courses ($497–$1,197). His public claims about RV’s power are not incentive-neutral — they are the marketing substrate for a training business.
6. Subjective-by-construction core methodology. RV’s outputs are, by the method’s own design, internally-generated mental content. Even granting full good faith, an RV “session on an alien base” is not evidence of an alien base; it is evidence of what Buchanan’s subconscious produced when given that target cue. This is a categorical ceiling on the evidentiary weight of all his NHI claims regardless of sincerity.

Net assessment

Numerical rating: ~35 (middle-low tier). Buchanan sits slightly above Davis (~30) on strength of verified service-record and a longer conservative-register track record, but the 2026 escalation into uncorroborable first-person UFO-piloting and alien-base claims caps him well below the Tier-1 credentialed-insiders-making-narrow-claims band.

The rating is bimodal and claim-dependent, which is the key analytical point:

• On “was he a real Stargate trainer/viewer” (~85): essentially settled. High confidence.
• On “did RV produce actionable intelligence” (~30): runs against the AIR Report; his operational narratives are unverifiable and the program’s official assessment is negative.
• On “are there four alien bases he remote-viewed / did he pilot a UFO” (~10): uncorroborable first-person extraordinary claims that recapitulate pre-existing folklore, in a paid-training-business incentive context.

The single ~35 composite collapses this spread; the bimodal breakdown is the more honest representation and matches how the framework treats split-track-record figures (cf. Friedman’s “serious on Roswell, credulous on MJ-12” in the Discredited / split-track-record category at community-credibility-assessment).

Position relative to other UAP figures:

• Above Davis on verified-service-record strength and conservative-register longevity, but comparable-to-below Davis on the extraordinary-claims axis (Davis relays others’ hearsay; Buchanan now makes first-person experiential NHI claims, which is a stronger negative on those specific claims)
• Below McMoneagle and Paul H. Smith — his fellow Stargate veterans who stayed in the conservative register; Buchanan’s 2026 shift moved him out of their band
• Comparable to David Morehouse — the other Stargate veteran who moved into the extraordinary-claim register (Psychic Warrior); Buchanan is now in Morehouse-adjacent territory
• Above Greer-tier floor — real credentials, real program, no documented fabrication-tier offense
• Below the first-hand-event-witness band (Fravor/Graves/Dietrich) — their claims are about discrete observed events; Buchanan’s extraordinary claims are RV-mediated and self-generated

In the community-credibility-assessment tier framework:

• Direct operators / credentialed insiders making narrow claims: partial — his service-record claims fit, but his substantive UAP claims are the opposite of narrow
• Analysts: fits his 1995–2020 database/protocol mode
• Discredited / split-track-record: the Friedman pattern applies — solid on the verifiable program-membership, credulous-to-uncorroborable on the NHI/alien-base claims

Trajectory: moving downward in the framework as of the 2026 Michels interview. If the register-shift continues in future appearances, the (b) end-of-career-disinhibition and (c) post-Grusch-incentive-landscape readings strengthen relative to a stable-witness reading.

The honest bottom line

Buchanan is a real Stargate Project veteran with real cryptologic-linguistic credentials and a real operational role in a real Cold War-era congressionally-funded military psi program. His base-of-operations bona fides are stronger than ~90% of the named figures in the contemporary UAP-disclosure discourse. The skeptic-mainstream reading of Stargate (the AIR Report 1995, the CIA’s own assessment that operational accuracy never reached actionable-intelligence thresholds) is the load-bearing counter to Buchanan’s operational-success narrative.

The Michels 2026-05-28 interview is the most analytically interesting Buchanan artifact in his public career to date because it documents the register-shift from technical-database-trainer to four-alien-bases-and-I-piloted-a-UFO. Whether the shift reflects (a) opportunity to finally speak, (b) end-of-career disinhibition, (c) market response to the post-Grusch disclosure-cycle incentive structure, or (d) gradual narrative-mutation, the artifact is in the public record and is now archived in repo for future analysis.

Related

• aatip-program — institutional successor to Stargate via the Puthoff/Davis lineage
• bob-lazar-credibility-analysis-podcast — comparable case of register-shift across decades
• michels-buchanan-i-operated-a-ufo-1sxmSMzqnmA — the 3-hour primary interview
• aubrey-marcus-buchanan-disclosure-army-remote-viewer-2026-03-05 — March 2026 prior interview
• third-eye-drops-buchanan-secret-ufo-bases-2025-09-25 — Sept 2025 prior interview (closest in time before Michels)
• crviewer-com-buchanan-official-bio — his own official bio
• wikipedia-stargate-project — project background
• wikipedia-remote-viewing — methodology background
• community-credibility-assessment — framework for evaluating this type of source

Followup items

• Pull the Seventh Sense memoir (2003 Paraview Pocket Books, ISBN 0-7434-7253-8). Likely available via library.nu mirrors or direct purchase — currently no full text in repo.
• Pull the CIA STAR GATE FOIA collection (https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/collection/stargate) — ~12,000 declassified documents. The most efficient path is bulk-downloading the index PDF + selecting Buchanan-named documents.
• Pull Paul H. Smith’s Reading the Enemy’s Mind (2005) for cross-reference on Buchanan’s role.
• Pull the AIR Report 1995 (American Institutes for Research independent assessment of Stargate). This is the canonical skeptical primary.
• Verify the “Mt. Inyangani” base claim against the Ariel School (Ruwa) Zimbabwe 1994 contactee event — these are 50+ km apart but in the same regional NHI-folklore complex.
• Track Buchanan’s age and any future appearances — if the register-shift continues, the trajectory will inform the (b) end-of-career-disinhibition reading.