Joseph McMoneagle is a retired U.S. Army chief warrant officer and intelligence veteran who became one of the best-known participants in the U.S. government’s remote-viewing program. Recruited in the late 1970s, he was designated Remote Viewer 001 and worked on attempts to describe distant locations, facilities, people, or events using anomalous cognition.

McMoneagle’s military career included intelligence assignments in Europe and Asia before his recruitment into a small program testing anomalous cognition for operational use. Designated Remote Viewer 001, he participated in sessions involving inaccessible locations, missing people, and foreign facilities. After retirement he continued controlled experiments, teaching, and writing, turning classified-era experience into a public account of method. His biography is unusual because the claimed ability, the military employment, and portions of the program record all exist in overlapping but not identical forms.

McMoneagle later wrote books and gave interviews about his methods, operational sessions, and experiences outside ordinary perception. Supporters point to selected sessions and official commendation as evidence that his work sometimes produced useful information. Critics emphasize problems with judging accuracy, incomplete records, cueing, and retrospective selection. Government reviews ultimately found the program insufficiently reliable for continued intelligence use, although participants dispute that conclusion.

McMoneagle is a foundational person in remote viewing and the Stargate Program. His biography is not primarily about UFOs, but remote viewing later became intertwined with consciousness and psi accounts across the UAP field. His documented government participation distinguishes him from purely self-described psychics, while the claimed mechanism and operational reliability remain debated.