Ed Dames and the "Killshot" predictions

Edward A. Dames is a retired Army major who served in the Defense Intelligence Agency's remote-viewing unit from 1986 to 1991, during the program's SUN STREAK period. His Army assignment ended before the program's 1995 closeout. After leaving the military he founded a private company, Psi-Tech, that offered remote-viewing training and consulting to commercial and security clients.

Dames is the program's most public alumnus. He has appeared on radio and television regularly since the mid-1990s, most often on the late-night talk show Coast to Coast AM, where for more than two decades he has made specific predictions framed as remote-viewing results. The predictions cluster around a recurring scenario he calls "the Killshot," in which solar activity or an unidentified astronomical body causes catastrophic damage to Earth in the near future. Specific dates Dames has given for the Killshot have included 2009, 2011, 2013, 2017, and several windows in the 2020s. None of them have come to pass.

The Killshot material is not part of the declassified Stargate archive. It was not produced under government contract. Dames has been clear in interviews that the predictions reflect his own commercial work after leaving the program. Inside the released CIA file, Dames is named as a viewer of record on some SUN STREAK session reports during his active duty years; the materials he has produced under Psi-Tech do not appear there and were never agency-tasked.

The Killshot is included on this site as part of the program's afterlife, not as part of its operational record. The remote-viewing technique that Dames teaches commercially is, by his own description, derived from the SRI methodology developed under SCANATE. What he has done with it since 1991 sits outside the scope of any government program. It is included here because it is the kind of material readers searching for Stargate often surface, and it is honest to acknowledge that the line between the declassified program and the post-program commercial industry has not always been drawn clearly.