🧠 STARGATE: CIA Remote Viewing Archive (Raw PDFs + Metadata)

STARGATE is the most comprehensive open-access archive of declassified CIA documents related to psychic research, remote viewing (RV), and anomalous cognition. This dataset consolidates over 12,000 scanned PDF files, drawn from decades of classified government programs designed to investigate and operationalize extrasensory perception (ESP) in intelligence-gathering contexts.

These include, but are not limited to:

• Grill Flame (US Army + DIA)
• Center Lane (NSA/Army Intelligence)
• Sun Streak (precursor to Stargate)
• STARGATE Program (DIA, 1991–1995)

This release features the original scanned documents in PDF format, along with per-file metadata for page count, processing timestamps, and preparation for OCR and further analysis.

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📦 Dataset Summary

• 🔍 12,000+ CIA documents (PDFs), scanned and declassified
• 🗂️ Each entry includes document-specific metadata
• 🕵️‍♂️ Topics include: remote viewing trials, operational psychic use, experimental methods, scientific disputes, and internal memos
• 🧾 Format: binary PDFs with structured metadata in JSON

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🧱 Metadata Schema

Each dataset row contains:

Field	Type	Description
filename	string	Official CIA filename (e.g., CIA-RDP96-00788R000700020002-2.pdf)
document_id	string	Optional normalized ID (same as filename without extension)
page_count	int	Number of pages in the document
image_count	int	Number of page images generated (usually equal to page count)
processed_at	string	Timestamp (ISO 8601) when file was processed into this dataset
ocr_status	string	"pending", "success", "error" — tracks OCR processing state
text_extracted	bool	Indicates whether OCR text was successfully generated
source	string	Source label, e.g., "CIA Stargate Archive"
tags	list	Optional list of tags or topic keywords
pdf	binary	The original scanned PDF file (can be downloaded)

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🔍 Example Record

{
  "filename": "CIA-RDP79-00999A000200010002-3.pdf",
  "document_id": "CIA-RDP79-00999A000200010002-3",
  "page_count": 10,
  "image_count": 10,
  "processed_at": "2025-03-22T22:04:19.172208",
  "ocr_status": "pending",
  "text_extracted": false,
  "source": "CIA Stargate Archive",
  "tags": [],
  "pdf": "<binary>"
}

🔬 Research Context
This archive reflects the U.S. government’s decades-long scientific and operational interest in:

Remote viewing (describing a hidden location or object without physical access)

Precognition (perceiving future events)

Psychokinesis (mind influencing matter)

ESP training and evaluation protocols

Intelligence-gathering attempts using anomalous cognition

Internal reports on experimental validation, critique, and ethics

The dataset includes actual remote viewing transcripts, target descriptions, scientific methodology reports, and responses to academic criticism — particularly rebuttals to well-known skeptics such as Dr. Ray Hyman.

📚 Use Cases
This dataset supports a wide range of applications:

Domain	Applications
🧠 NLP & AI	OCR benchmarking, QA over scanned archives, embedding generation
🧾 Digital Humanities	Historical research, truth-seeking, Cold War context analysis
🛰️ Defense Studies	Study of cognitive science integration into military strategy
🕵️ OSINT & Intelligence	Pattern detection in government research methods
🤯 Fringe Exploration	Cross-comparison with spiritual, metaphysical, or psi phenomena

License
All documents are sourced from the CIA Electronic Reading Room or other FOIA-approved releases. This dataset is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.

You may use, share, and modify this dataset freely — even for commercial purposes — with attribution.

🔗 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

📌 Citation
If you use this dataset, please cite:

@dataset{gotthatdata_stargate_2024,
  title  = {STARGATE: CIA Remote Viewing Archive},
  author = {GotThatData},
  year   = {2024},
  url    = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/GotThatData/STARGATE}
}

Also cite the CIA Electronic Reading Room and FOIA sources where appropriate.

🙏 Acknowledgements
This archive exists thanks to the persistent efforts of researchers, archivists, and activists who demanded transparency and pressed for FOIA releases. Special thanks to pioneers in psi research and the analysts who challenged convention in search of greater understanding.

🔗 Curated by GotThatData ·