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Lyn Buchanan is a former US Army remote viewer and a core operational figure in the classified Stargate and Grill Flame military remote viewing programs, profiled at Lyn Buchanan. After declassification in 1995 he moved into civilian instruction, applied research, and methodology development under the banner of Controlled Remote Viewing (CRV).

A note on coverage before proceeding: the sources retrieved for this question are primarily a multi-author panel discussion ^[1], a book-review journal section ^[2], and a collaborative future-targeting study ^[3]. They document Buchanan’s participation and stated positions but do not include standalone experimental papers authored by him. The retrieved excerpts therefore reflect his contributions as practitioner, co-investigator, and commentator rather than as a primary experimenter reporting original controlled trials.

Experiments

The clearest experimental context in the retrieved sources is Courtney Brown’s “Multiple Universes Project,” a remote-viewing study targeting future events ^[3]. Buchanan contributed as a trainer and tasker: he led the CRV-trained viewer group, and two of the study’s targets were assigned by him — the 2010 Olympic cauldron-lighting and the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade ^[3]. Brown explicitly credits Buchanan (alongside Glenn Wheaton of the Hawaii Remote Viewers’ Guild) with encouraging their trained viewers to participate as unpaid volunteers ^[3]. The study was designed and reported by Brown; Buchanan’s role was as a collaborator providing trained personnel and target-tasking, not as the study’s principal investigator.

Beyond that, the retrieved sources describe Buchanan’s work at Problems Solutions Innovations as focused on documenting and analyzing remote viewing applications in civilian, law enforcement, and investigative contexts, with an emphasis on real-world applied outcomes rather than laboratory experiments alone. The PSI database he developed is described as holding data on real-world remote viewing applications ^[1]. His contributions also include designing computer programs and training systems to guide student progress through structured CRV protocols, and contributing to multi-disciplinary dialog on nonlocal bio-communication in peer-reviewed forums ^[1]. The retrieved excerpts do not include a standalone controlled laboratory study with Buchanan as lead investigator.

Methodology

In the Brown (2012) future-targeting study ^[3], Buchanan’s methodological contribution was on the training and tasking side. Viewers trained under CRV methodology — which Buchanan developed and teaches — were used alongside HRVG-trained viewers. CRV is a structured, stage-based protocol for remote viewing that emphasizes organized, disciplined information gathering; the retrieved sources describe it as a distinct methodological lineage from the military program.

In the Journal of Nonlocality panel ^[1], Buchanan discusses methodological observations about displacement in remote viewing sessions — specifically, that viewers tend to “jump” to targets aligned with their individual interests, a systematic error he says he has tracked. He also addresses questions about multi-operator PK/healing effects and experimenter expectation in field-REG and GCP data, offering practitioner-level methodological perspective on what factors contribute to variance in psi phenomena ^[1].

The applied-research focus at Problems Solutions Innovations reflects a methodological stance: that field and operational data, not only laboratory trials, constitute a relevant evidence base for evaluating remote viewing ^[1].

Data

The retrieved excerpts do not contain a table of trial-level statistics from a study with Buchanan as lead author. For the Brown (2012) study ^[3], the paper reports a hit-rate comparison reference — Vorona’s report describes a hit rate of 13% to 18% of total sessions, described as a “weak correlation,” offered as an informal benchmark — but this figure belongs to a comparison dataset, not to Buchanan’s own output, and the surrounding text attributes it to Vorona, not to Buchanan’s viewer group specifically. Reporting it as Buchanan’s data would misattribute the figure.

The retrieved excerpts do not show trial counts, hit rates, effect sizes, z-scores, or p-values for any study where Buchanan is the reporting investigator. The sources document his participation as co-investigator and trainer in Brown (2012) ^[3] and his qualitative methodological observations in the panel discussion ^[1]. If Buchanan has published standalone quantitative experimental data, those papers are not represented in the excerpts retrieved for this question; the papers themselves may contain figures the excerpts do not show.

Skeptical critiques

The sources retrieved for this question do not include published criticism directed specifically at Buchanan’s experimental work or methodology. The sources do not carry a named critic, a methodological objection, a failed replication, or a reanalysis of work he led.

The Lyn Buchanan page on ESP-Nexus is the appropriate place to look for any critique and rebuttal coverage the site has developed for his work.