Project Sun Streak

In late 1988, under Project Sun Streak (one of the remote-viewing efforts later grouped under the broader Stargate umbrella), a participant identified only as Viewer 032 was given a set of encrypted coordinates and asked to describe the target. Following standard controlled remote-viewing protocol, the viewer was not told what the object was. The session notes later identified that target as the Ark of the Covenant.

On 5 December 1988, the viewer described an underground, dark, and wet location somewhere in the Middle East, noting surrounding details like Arabic speakers, people dressed in white, and structures resembling mosque domes. Program evaluators judged the session to have achieved strong “site contact.” The full report, including sketches, was declassified in August 2000 and is held in the CIA’s Reading Room.

Viewer 032’s Description

From the session summary:

• The target is a container with another container inside it, made of wood, gold, and silver.
• It is similar in shape to a coffin and decorated with seraphim.
• It is hidden underground in a dark, wet location in the Middle East (Arabic-speaking people present, individuals in white clothing, visuals of mosque-like domes).
• Its purpose relates to bringing people together, ceremony, memory, homage, resurrection, spirituality, and historical/spiritual knowledge.
• It is protected by entities and can only be opened by authorized people when the time is right. Anyone trying to force it open would be destroyed by the protectors using a power “unknown to us.”

Identity of Viewer 032

Viewer 032 is most commonly associated with David Morehouse. Public compilations of Stargate/Sun Streak viewer numbers list David Morehouse (also spelled Moorhouse in some places) under 032. Note that viewer numbers were sometimes reused, so the association is not absolute for every document that carries the number.

Morehouse was a U.S. Army Special Operations officer who served in the remote-viewing unit (Sun Streak/Stargate) roughly from 1987 to 1991. He has written about his experiences in the book Psychic Warrior and has taught remote viewing publicly since leaving the military. He has stated he was assigned to the program after a near-fatal incident (a bullet wound to the head) that he credits with opening his abilities.

There is no official public confirmation that Morehouse was the specific individual who conducted the 5 December 1988 Ark of the Covenant training session. The declassified document only uses the identifier *032. Online speculation has also mentioned other names (including Paul H. Smith and Lyn Buchanan), but Morehouse is the name most consistently tied to that viewer number in available lists. In short: the strongest available link is to David Morehouse, but the exact identity of the person behind the 1988 Ark session remains unconfirmed in public sources.

Claims by Former Program Participants

Ed Dames, a Stargate-era remote viewer, has asserted that he remote-viewed the Ark and located it “within meters” inside the Cave of the Patriarchs (Cave of Machpelah) in Hebron, West Bank. He described a stone tunnel containing a boxy, heavy, dense object and said the experience felt intensely unsettling. He has also claimed he assigned the Ark as a training target during the program.

Lyn Buchanan, another former Army remote viewer associated with Controlled Remote Viewing, has stated publicly that the Ark exists, is real, and is safe. He has described it as underground in a cave-like, dead-end corridor. Along the approach, he reported statues and symbols representing demons from various world religions, placed as psychic and psychological deterrents. He has also mentioned human protectors assigned to guard it lethally. Buchanan has said his impressions align with those of Viewer 032 and that multiple viewers worked on related targets.

Other Fringe Angles

Some former viewers and commentators have suggested the “training target” label might not fully reflect the program’s interest in the subject, or that additional sessions occurred. Buchanan has indicated the work went beyond the single published document.

The description (mosque domes, Arabic speakers, underground location, protected by entities) is often linked by enthusiasts to longstanding theories about the Ark under the Temple Mount or near the Dome of the Rock, or to other Middle Eastern sites. Ethiopian claims centered on Axum, along with various other historical theories, continue to circulate independently.

Skeptics within the remote-viewing community, including Joseph McMoneagle (Viewer 001), have called sessions on unverifiable legendary targets like this unreliable or “bogus.” They note the lack of any ground-truth confirmation and the general failure of the programs to produce actionable intelligence before they were shut down in 1995.

These later claims by Dames, Buchanan, and others are personal assertions made years after the program ended. None have been independently verified, and they sit outside the official 1988 session notes. The core documented event remains the single declassified training exercise.