“I Saw a Mantis Alien At THIS American Military Base!” -Army Sergeant Lyn Buchanan

May 28, 2026

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In 1998, Army Sergeant Lyn Buchanan was tasked with remote viewing the future of the United States. He turned in a list of changes projected through the year 2050. He has since watched them come true, one after another. The forecast includes a 75% reduction in the world's population, the collapse of centralized government, and a return to an agrarian society where goods are made or grown locally, with social interaction mediated almost entirely through technology. Buchanan, a former member of the U.S. military's remote viewing unit at Fort Meade and the inspiration for the film The Men Who Stare at Goats, is not a psychic by trade. He is a trained remote viewer, and he describes the skill as a martial art for the mind.

Controlled Remote Viewing as a Martial Art

Buchanan distinguishes sharply between a psychic, who is born with natural ability, and a remote viewer, who is trained. The military did not want psychics; it wanted ordinary soldiers who could learn to see over the next hill. The core method, developed by Ingo Swann and called controlled remote viewing (CRV), is a structured, teachable process. It works by training the conscious mind to read physical responses from the subconscious, which knows things the conscious mind cannot directly access.

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1 (00:00) **Episode Introduction & Advertisements** - Curad Naturals ad; host Jesse Michels introduces Army Sergeant Lyn Buchanan, the inspiration for *The Men Who Stare at Goats*.
2 (03:16) **Origin Story: Poltergeist Kid to Computer Wrecker** - Buchanan describes his childhood PK (poltergeist) ability and the incident where he fried $50 million worth of computers in Germany after a rival sabotaged his demo.
3 (10:13) **Recruitment into the Remote Viewing Unit** - General Stubblebine transfers Buchanan to Fort Meade and places him in the remote viewing unit after Congress blocks a mind-control program.
4 (14:08) **Origins of the U.S. Remote Viewing Program** - Buchanan traces the lineage from WWII German experiments to the Russian psychic warfare program, leading to the U.S. contracting Hal Puthoff and Ingo Swann.
5 (17:43) **Daily Life as a Psychic Spy & Saddam Hussein** - Buchanan describes the routine of remote viewing world leaders, including daily sessions on Saddam Hussein.
6 (26:50) **The Goat Incident & Psychic Killing** - Buchanan clarifies he did not kill a goat, but another sergeant did, and the experience traumatized him so much he disappeared.
7 (30:58) **Geopolitical Leverage & the "Deep State"** - Buchanan claims remote viewers can change weather and that Russia has earthquake weapons, but mutual destruction prevents their use.

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Timestamps: 0:00 - Introduction 2:47 - Meeting Lynn Buchanan 4:44 - Poltergeist Kid Origins 5:34 - Frying $50 Million in Computers 8:16 - Recruited by General Stubblebine 13:39 - History of Psychic Warfare 17:20 - Remote Viewing Saddam Hussein 17:51 - Sponsors (CAPE) 26:21 - Men Who Stare at Goats 30:20 - Weather and Earthquake Weapons 33:28 - Deep State and One World Government 36:05 - Sponsors (ZBiotics) 43:08 - Alien Bases on the Moon and Earth 52:45 - Remote Viewing Gorbachev 58:53 - Sponsors (Shopify, Chubbies) 1:01:37 - The DNA Chart That Says Other 1:10:40 - Walking on Mars 1:15:50 - Worm-Like Beings on Mars 1:27:56 - The UFO Control Panel 1:31:20 - Rendlesham Forest Craft 1:49:07 - Buchanan's Own Abduction 2:15:10 - Remote Viewing Jesus and God 2:29:13 - Predictions Through 2050 2:39:12 - Predicting Chernobyl 2:55:26 - Outro (Join Our Substack!)

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