How to Contact Non-Human Intelligence: Protocols from the Declassified Record

The phrase "contact non-human intelligence" carries a lot of freight. For most people, it conjures field expeditions, flashlights pointed at the sky, and communities organized around belief rather than evidence. That framing has made the subject easy to dismiss.

But the serious research literature tells a different story. Government-funded programs spent decades studying whether human consciousness could access information at a distance. The declassified record now includes documentation of directed consciousness experiments run alongside UAP research. And the term "non-human intelligence" has migrated from fringe forums into official U.S. government testimony on Capitol Hill.

This article surveys what that record actually says. It covers the documented protocols, what they are designed to do, and why the methodology matters. It does not claim that contact is easy, proven, or accessible without preparation. The evidence suggests the opposite.

What "Contact" Actually Means in This Context

The first thing to clarify is what "contact" does not mean. The protocols documented in the research literature are not about summoning physical craft. They are not about arranging meetings. The assumption underlying serious contact research is considerably more modest: that directed human consciousness might be capable of exchanging information with non-human intelligence, in the same way that controlled remote viewing appears capable of accessing information about distant physical locations.

The term Non-Human Intelligence (NHI) entered official U.S. government usage through classified and later declassified documents related to UAP. It is deliberately agnostic: it does not specify whether the intelligence in question is extraterrestrial, interdimensional, non-biological, or something else. It is a category, not an explanation. The research programs that studied NHI contact were similarly agnostic about the ultimate nature of what they were working with.

What these programs did assert, based on accumulated evidence, is that some UAP phenomena appear to be responsive to human consciousness. Not responsive in a crude mechanical sense, but in the way that a communication system responds: with apparent awareness, apparent intent, and apparent capacity for information exchange. That is the premise behind contact protocols. That premise remains contested. But it is no longer exclusively the domain of enthusiasts.

What the Declassified Record Actually Says

Three government research streams are directly relevant to directed consciousness and NHI contact.

Project STARGATE and Anomalous Targets

Project STARGATE ran from 1972 to 1995 under the joint sponsorship of the CIA and the Defense Intelligence Agency, with primary research conducted at Stanford Research Institute by physicists Hal Puthoff and Russell Targ. The program's core finding was that trained human viewers could access accurate information about distant physical locations using only coordinate data, with no conventional sensory channel.

What is less widely discussed is the subset of STARGATE sessions that targeted anomalous objects rather than conventional geographic locations. Ingo Swann, the program's primary methodological architect, conducted sessions in the mid-1970s in which he was tasked against what appeared to be structured non-human objects and locations. The transcripts of those sessions, some now declassified, describe details that Swann had no conventional means of accessing and that were consistent with later UAP documentation.

The STARGATE researchers were careful about what they claimed. Puthoff and Targ published in peer-reviewed journals and maintained rigorous protocols precisely because they understood that the implications of their work required airtight methodology. They did not interpret anomalous results as proof of extraterrestrial contact. They documented that the methodology worked on anomalous targets as well as conventional ones, and left interpretation to subsequent researchers.

The Monroe Institute Government Contracts

The Monroe Institute in Faber, Virginia, founded by Robert Monroe and best known for its research into out-of-body experience and altered states of consciousness, maintained a working relationship with U.S. government research programs throughout the 1970s and 1980s. Monroe's Gateway Process, a structured audio-guided consciousness training program using bilateral sound frequencies (Hemi-Sync), was the subject of a now-declassified 1983 CIA analysis titled "Analysis and Assessment of Gateway Process."

That document, written by Army Lt. Col. Jim Channon and later extensively analyzed by independent researchers, concluded that the Gateway Process produced measurable alterations in consciousness consistent with the mental states used in successful remote viewing sessions. It treated the Monroe methodology not as spiritual practice but as a cognitive training system with practical intelligence applications.

The Monroe Institute also contributed directly to STARGATE training. Several operational viewers in the program received training at the Institute, and the binaural audio protocols developed by Monroe informed the relaxation and attunement phases that CRV practitioners use before targeting sessions. The lineage between Monroe's biofeedback-adjacent consciousness research and the STARGATE methodology is direct and documented.

AAWSAP and the Consciousness-UAP Link

The Advanced Aerospace Weapons Systems Applications Program, funded by the Defense Intelligence Agency beginning in 2007 and operated through Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS), was the most comprehensive government investigation of UAP ever acknowledged. Unlike its predecessors, AAWSAP explicitly included research into the apparent relationship between human consciousness and UAP behavior.

Multiple AAWSAP research reports documented cases in which UAP phenomena appeared to respond to directed observer attention. The program's scientific framework, developed in part by researcher Colm Kelleher and DIA program manager James Lacatski, treated consciousness as a potential communication variable rather than a confounding one. This was not the position of a fringe program. AAWSAP's senior personnel included physicists, former intelligence officials, and credentialed scientists with decades of relevant experience.

The PURSUE files, made partially available through official channels in 2026, extend this picture. They document at least two structured experimental series in which researchers applied directed consciousness protocols to UAP-related targets, using methodology derived from the STARGATE program. The results of those experiments are not fully public. But their existence is documented.

The CE-5 Methodology

CE-5 (Close Encounter of the Fifth Kind) refers to human-initiated contact attempts with non-human intelligence through directed consciousness. The category was formalized in the civilian UAP research community in the late 1980s and early 1990s, distinguishing intentional contact efforts from passive observation. The methodology involves structured consciousness practices designed to produce a coherent, directed mental state that some researchers believe functions as a communication signal.

The core elements of documented CE-5 approaches are:

• Coherence building: Group or individual meditation protocols designed to synchronize mental state and reduce cognitive noise. The premise is that a scattered, undirected mind produces no usable signal.
• Directed visualization: Sustained mental projection of specific information packets toward an intended recipient. In practice, this means holding a clear, consistent mental image or intention for an extended period without distraction.
• Location pre-targeting: Some practitioners use CRV-style protocols prior to field sessions to gather information about contact-relevant sites. This treats the contact site as a remote viewing target before physical arrival.
• Physical correlation: Coherent light signals, audio tones, or other physical phenomena synchronized with mental contact attempts. The function is partly documentation (anomalous responses become measurable) and partly the provision of a physical reference point for the directed consciousness.
• Structured observation and documentation: Systematic logging of any anomalous responses: light phenomena, electromagnetic readings, witness perceptions, physical traces.

The scientific status of CE-5 contact claims is uncertain. Controlled trials are difficult to design, replication across independent groups is limited, and the evidentiary standard that would establish contact has never been agreed upon. What can be said is that the underlying methodology is consistent with the consciousness research literature: coherence, directed attention, reduced analytical overlay, and systematic documentation are the same elements that distinguish successful from unsuccessful remote viewing sessions.

CRV as a Contact Preparation Protocol

Controlled Remote Viewing was developed by Ingo Swann under CIA contract at SRI as a structured, teachable methodology for anomalous cognition. Its design reflects a specific insight: the problem in remote viewing is not access but noise. The information appears to be available. The obstacle is the trained human tendency to impose analytical interpretation on raw perceptual data before that data has been recorded.

CRV training addresses this through structured stages. The viewer moves through a defined sequence of perceptual categories, recording raw impressions before moving to interpretation. The goal is to train the practitioner to recognize the difference between genuine perceptual signal and internally generated noise (which STARGATE researchers called "analytical overlay").

Applied to NHI contact, this matters for an obvious reason: if contact produces a perceptual signal rather than a physical one, the untrained receiver will not be able to distinguish that signal from imagination. The discipline that makes a remote viewer useful for intelligence work, the ability to accurately receive and record information without contaminating it with expectation, is the same discipline that would make a directed consciousness contact attempt legible rather than noise-filled.

This is why STARGATE viewers underwent extensive training before being assigned anomalous targets. The program's operational record made clear that accuracy on difficult targets required practiced viewers. Assigning a novice to a complex target produced unreliable data. The same logic applies to contact attempts: a practitioner without trained signal discrimination is more likely to experience their own projections than any externally originating signal.

Directed Biofeedback and Consciousness Research

A third methodological tradition relevant to NHI contact comes from biofeedback research: the use of real-time physiological monitoring to train individuals toward specific mental states. The Monroe Institute's Hemi-Sync technology is the best-documented version of this approach in the government research record, but it draws on a broader literature of controlled consciousness research.

The relevant finding from this tradition is that the mental states associated with successful remote viewing and with reported contact experiences have measurable physiological signatures. They involve specific patterns of neural oscillation, reduced default-mode network activity, and altered activity in attentional networks. These states can be reliably induced through training, and practitioners who have developed them can enter them more quickly and maintain them more stably than untrained individuals.

What the biofeedback literature adds to the contact methodology picture is a verification mechanism: if specific physiological states correlate with successful anomalous cognition, then training toward those states is not speculative preparation. It is evidence-based preparation. The researcher is not working on faith. They are developing a documented capacity.

What We Do Not Know

Epistemic honesty requires stating clearly what the current evidence does not establish.

No contact protocol has been validated in a controlled experimental setting with independently replicated results. The case for consciousness-UAP interaction rests on correlated observations, declassified program documentation, and the testimony of credentialed researchers -- not on the kind of randomized controlled trial that would satisfy a conservative scientific standard. The PURSUE files document that experiments were conducted. They do not publish results that have been externally reviewed.

It is also unknown whether NHI contact through directed consciousness, if achievable, produces two-way information exchange or one-way signal. The accounts in the research literature describe experiences interpreted as responsive. Whether that responsiveness reflects genuine reception of a directed signal, or whether it reflects something else entirely, is not established.

Finally, the nature of NHI itself remains genuinely unknown. The government's use of the term is deliberately non-committal. Researchers who have worked closest to the data -- Puthoff, Green, Kelleher, Lacatski -- have consistently declined to make definitive claims about what the phenomenon is. That caution is appropriate and should be maintained by anyone working in this area.

Why Training Comes First

The STARGATE program's operational history offers a practical lesson that applies directly to contact work: the quality of the data depends almost entirely on the quality of the viewer. The program's best-documented successes came from its most experienced practitioners. Its most embarrassing failures came from undertrained operators working on high-stakes targets without adequate preparation.

Hal Puthoff, in multiple published accounts of the program's evolution, emphasized that the shift from informal experiments to operational intelligence work required developing a systematic training curriculum. The CRV protocol that Ingo Swann formalized in the early 1980s was built specifically to address the skill gap between a person who shows anomalous cognitive ability and a person who can reliably deploy it under pressure on a difficult target.

The same gap exists in contact work. A practitioner who has not developed the ability to distinguish signal from noise, who cannot sustain directed attention for extended periods, and who has not trained the recognition of genuine perceptual data versus internally generated content is not a useful instrument for contact attempts. They are a source of noise. The preparation is not ceremonial. It is functional.

This does not mean years of monastic practice are required before any contact work is possible. What it means is that structured training of the specific skills documented in the STARGATE literature -- directional perception, analytical overlay suppression, structured session management, signal verification -- significantly improves the likelihood that a practitioner can produce useful data rather than projections. The preparation precedes the protocol because the protocol only works if the instrument is calibrated.

Working with the PURSUE Files: The Veil Protocol

The PURSUE files, released in 2026, contained documentation that extends the known intersection of government research and directed consciousness work. Within those records are references to structured experimental series that applied anomalous cognition targeting methodology to NHI-adjacent phenomena, using protocols that were derivatives of the STARGATE CRV curriculum.

This is the territory that Veil, the third instructor on Psionic Training, works in specifically. Where the platform's other instructors cover foundational CRV technique and perceptual calibration, Veil's curriculum addresses the application of trained anomalous cognition to anomalous targets: contact protocols, PURSUE file methodology, and the specific mental disciplines that the declassified record associates with successful NHI-adjacent sessions.

Access to Veil's sessions is gated. The platform requires 21 completed training sessions, a sustained accuracy above 50%, and five completed calibration sessions before Veil becomes available. That is not an arbitrary threshold. It reflects the same logic that governed STARGATE's operational assignments: complex targets require prepared practitioners. Contact protocol work is not where training starts. It is where it goes after the foundations are established.

Further Reading

• Puthoff, H.E. & Targ, R. (1976). "A Perceptual Channel for Information Transfer over Kilometer Distances." Proceedings of the IEEE, 64(3), 329-354.
• Targ, R. & Puthoff, H.E. (1977). Mind-Reach: Scientists Look at Psychic Ability. Delacorte Press.
• McMoneagle, J. (1993). Mind Trek: Exploring Consciousness, Time, and Space Through Remote Viewing. Hampton Roads.
• Jahn, R.G. & Dunne, B.J. (1987). Margins of Reality: The Role of Consciousness in the Physical World. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
• Lacatski, J., Kelleher, C., & Knapp, G. (2021). Skinwalkers at the Pentagon. RTMA LLC.
• Monroe, R. (1971). Journeys Out of the Body. Doubleday.
• CIA Analysis and Assessment of Gateway Process. (1983/2003). Declassified document, CIA FOIA Reading Room.