Joseph McMoneagle (Born January 10, 1946, Miami, Florida) is known for his involvement in the development of Remote Viewing by U.S. Army Intelligence and the Stanford Research Institute. He was one of the original Officers recruited for the top-secret army program now known as Project Star Gate. McMoneagle claims he had a remarkable memory of very early childhood events.

 Joseph grew up surrounded by alcoholism, abuse and poverty. As a child he had visions of small rabbit that would come to him at night, to comfort him when he was alone and scared, and first began to hone his psychic abilities in his teens for his own protection when he hitchhiked. He enlisted in the U.S. Army to get away. It is unknown whether he was recruited as an experimental remote viewer due to his claims of paranormal experiences in his life or his reputation of survival premonitions in Vietnam. 

Certainly his out-standing background in military intelligence and security was looked on with favor by his superiors and the C.I.A. According to McMoneagle, Hal Puthoff's "eyes immediately brightened" when he disclosed he had a NDE in 1970. McMoneagle claims remote viewing is possible and accurate outside the boundaries of time.  This was championed by Jessica Utts in her evaluation of remote viewing in the Stargate Project. She said she saw precognition.   McMoneagle believes he has remote viewed into the past, present, and future and has predicted future events. Charles Tart supports McMoneagle's claims.

Along with Ingo Swann he has become one of the most important figures connected to the development of Remote Viewing (RV) and the use of claimed paranormal abilities for military intelligencegathering. At his retirement McMoneagle earned his Legion of Merit for his last 10 years of service, including 5 years of work in SIGINT, SIGnals INTelligence, and 5 years in the RV program