Lieutenant Colonel, US Army, ret.
Seaford, Virginia, USA

Lieutenant Colonel, US Army (ret.) Tom McNear was a member of the STAR GATE program from 1981–1985 as a military personnel.

Tom was personally trained in Coordinate Remote Viewing (CRV) by Ingo Swann and was the only viewer Ingo Swann trained up to level VI at the time. In those early days of the development of the CRV protocol, it acted as a “guinea pig to prove the principle”. Tom’s sessions later also began to develop to level VII (phonetics), naming many places by phonetics. Paul Smith wrote: “Tom’s results were not just impressive. Some could even be described as spectacular. ”

In 1985 Tom wrote the first CRV manual based on his training with Ingo Swann. This manual became the basis for the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) manual published a year later.

Tom was a member of Ingo Swann’s five-person team that on 15 June 1984 remote viewed the planet Mars. Swann included many details from this team effort in the posthumously published Penetration Special Edition Updated. McNear wrote the afterword for Penetration Special Edition Updated.

Together with Paul H. Smith and Jana Rogge, McNear recently published The Foundations of Controlled Remote Viewing, a compendium that collects fundamental CRV works. 

Tom has a Master’s Degree in Counseling Psychology from Saint Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas. After serving in the Army’s remote viewing program from 1981–1985, Tom continued a successful career in counterintelligence and counterespionage. He retired from uniformed service in 1997 and continued to serve as a civilian intelligence officer until 2019, culminating in 45 years of service. He now lives in Seaford with his wife.  

In 2011, after a 26 year hiatus, Tom had a successful CRV session with Ingo Swann as his monitor (see video below).

 

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