---
aliases:
- Bill Ray
category: Psychics & Remote Viewers
summary: Bill Ray was one of the five remote viewers from INSCOM who remained in the
  program when the DIA took over the psychoenergetics program.
tags:
- Person
- RemoteViewer
updated: 2026-09-22
---

Bill Ray was one of the five remote viewers from [INSCOM](/organizations/united-states-army-intelligence-and-security-command/) who remained in the program when the [DIA](/organizations/defense-intelligence-agency/) took over the [psychoenergetics](/concepts/psychoenergetics/) program. He was sent to New York City to be trained in the six stages of [CRV](/concepts/coordinate-remote-viewing/) with [Ingo Swann](/people/ingo-swann/)[^1].

### The Documents

"CPT William G. Ray, presently G-2, 11th Signal Bde, Ft Huachuca, AZ, and currently on orders for assignment to HQ INSCOM, Ft Meade, effective 1 January 1984," was listed for [Center Lane](/programs/center-lane/)'s personnel spaces on August 2, 1983. On May 17, 1984, the project office recorded that "William G. Ray of this office reported that Congressman [Rose](/people/charlie-rose/) had called Ingo Swann at SRI-I New York, 16 May 1984," and that Rose had told Swann that Dale Van Atta, "associate of [Jack Anderson](/people/jack-anderson/)," had said "that although they had recently been under the influence of McRae, that this is no longer the case," and that "there would be a series of articles" in "a favorable vain, i.e., 'Why hasn't more been done?'" By December 10, 1985, he signed a memorandum on a telephone conversation with [Hal Puthoff](/people/hal-puthoff/) as "MAJ, MI, Ch, SSPD."[^900]

[^1]: Jacobsen, Annie. *Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis*. Little, Brown and Company, 2017.
[^900]: "Center Lane Personnel Spaces," August 2, 1983, CIA-RDP96-00788R001700300001-1; "Recent Jack Anderson 'Grill Flame' Articles," May 17, 1984, CIA-RDP96-00788R001200030001-6; "Conversation via Telephone with Puthoff," December 10, 1985, CIA-RDP96-00788R001700030002-0. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection.