Joe continues to put on demonstrations of remote viewing, in real time, on camera and in front of audiences worldwide. He has been "put to the test" 17 times in front of television cameras. Recently he was in Japan where he did two televised remote viewing demonstrations for NHK, a major television station in Tokyo. The show was called "Battle TV."

On the program with Joe was a highly respected and extremely skeptical professor of physics from the University of Tokyo. The professor boasted that he would describe the "trick" used to give the illusion of remote viewing, or else he would resign his position at the university.

The professor himself selected the first target.

Then, on camera in front of millions of viewers McMoneagle drew a descending ramp beside a large concrete support. The target was a circular ramp leading from a bridge.

In Joe’s words, "I pretty much nailed it."

The professor protested (even though he selected the target) that there are ramps like that all over Tokyo, and complained that Joe could have simply guessed the target. Joe politely countered that there are also temples and bowling alleys all over Tokyo but he didn’t "guess" any of those.

So they had him work another target, this time double-blind. This target was what is known in remote viewing as a "beacon target,"  meaning a person physically went to a location in real time, and Joe was to describe that location.

A woman was selected from the audience to act as the "beacon."  She was given a ticket on the bullet train and allowed three hours to go to any location. Joe went to the television station’s "green room" and took a 2 hour nap. (jet lag, or cooldown?) No one in the studio (including Joe) knew where the woman was going.

The target turned out to be an artificial pond used as an in-door hot bath. The studio audience judged McMoneagle’s remote viewing data to be 90 to 95% accurate.

As Joe left Japan the professor was busy going over the tapes of the program trying to discover the "trick" employed by Joe to so accurately describe both targets.

No word yet on whether the professor has indeed resigned from the university.

McMoneagle doesn’t do any formal teaching these days, although he does give seminars from time to time. For those who would like to learn from Joe, he says his book "Remote Viewing Secrets" is a good place to start. Joe tells us, "I provide all the materials and knowledge necessary to understand and set up one's own training scenario
within my book."

"Aside from knowing what's in that book and practice," says Joe,  "there really is no way to train someone to be a remote viewer. At least that is my belief at this time. This is also supported by science."

What about all the remote viewing courses being offered by other Ft. Meade alumni?

"You should remember,"  says Joe  "that even those remote viewers who were in the Stargate Project, and who say they can train people quickly, learned to do their own remote viewing by doing two or more remote viewings a day, five days a week, in excess of 12 months."

So his advice?  Joe says, "I guess the real name of the game is; practice, practice,practice, then when you are exhausted from it, go back and practice some more."

McMoneagle does just that. He tells us he currently does two or three targets a day. He works for private companies, corporations, and even individuals. And when he’s not doing work for a client Joe practices. "You have to use it or lose it," he says.

Many remote viewers believe that they have to produce complex work each time they remote view. They strive for the most specific, extremely detailed data on every target. You might be surprised to learn that Joe McMoneagle feels low level data is best. He says, "it is far better to be very good at describing an overall gestalt for a target, and being able to do so every time you remote view- this is called good replication- than it is to be able to do a perfect world-class remote viewing now and then. Dependability and replicability is far more desired than details."

McMoneagle is currently working on his fourth book, which is due to be delivered to his publisher by the end of February. Look for the book to be out in the fall of 2001. Joe is also floating several screen plays in Los Angeles, one of which is about remote viewing. And he would like to someday publish his novel "Pulling The Plug," written in 1991 about the Vietnam War.

Joe was scheduled to give a paper at a technical conventional called "Tech Fest" in Bombay, India in early February. But he had a prior commitment to a paying customer, so Joe won’t be going to India.  His colleague Dr. Edwin May will present the paper in Joe’s absence. There will be nearly 8 thousand engineers and scientists from Asia at the conference, and the paper done by McMoneagle and May will be the only one dealing with the "paranormal."

Meanwhile McMoneagle continues to do research into remote viewing. He is a full time research associate with the original lab that started it all back at SRI-International. They have some new research projects planned for 2001, which will take place
in a number of different countries.

The Hawaii Remote Viewers’ Guild hopes to host Joe McMoneagle in the islands sometime in the new year.