Summary

Ingo Swann was an American psychic, artist, and author who became the central research subject in the U.S. government's classified remote viewing programs from 1972 through 1995. Working with physicists Hal Puthoff and Russell Targ at Stanford Research Institute, Swann developed the Coordinate Remote Viewing (CRV) protocol - the structured methodology used to train CIA and DIA operatives across two decades of classified programs including SCANATE, GRILL FLAME, and STAR GATE. His 1973 description of ring-like structures around Jupiter, documented six years before Voyager 1's confirmation, remains one of the most discussed data points in the remote viewing literature. His 1998 book 'Penetration' added an explicit UAP dimension, describing a secret clandestine government agency with no paper trail tasked with monitoring ET activity.

Roles

• -Primary Research Subject, CIA SCANATE / SRI International
• -Originator, Coordinate Remote Viewing (CRV) Protocol
• -Author - Penetration (1998)

Organizations

Education

• -American University, Washington D.C. - B.Sc. in Biology with a minor in Art

Early Career

• -Served as U.S. Army clerk in Korea and Japan in the 1950s
• -Worked at the United Nations Secretariat in New York for over a decade (late 1950s-1960s)
• -Established himself as a professional artist with work exhibited at New York galleries
• -Engaged in parapsychology research with the American Society for Psychical Research (ASPR) before CIA recruitment