---
license: mit
task_categories:
- text-classification
- summarization
- feature-extraction
- text-generation
language:
- en
tags:
- multi-class-classification
- extractive-qa
- open-domain-qa
pretty_name: stargate
size_categories:
- 10K<n<100K
---
# 🧠 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.

---

## 📦 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

---

## 🧱 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

```json
{
  "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 ·