In March 2007, the British MoD claimed a 2001 study in remote viewing had shown it was of no to little value. But recently released documents from the American Stargate project make it clear that the MoD was less than totally honest. It also uncovers an intriguing overlap to UFO research.

In March 2007, the British Ministry of Defence had to reveal through the FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) that it had conducted secret tests into remote viewing in 2001 (see The Psychic Hunt for WMDs?). The MOD study noted that they used complete novices with a defunct project structure and hence a 28% accuracy rate, noting that "remote viewing" was of little value.
But it now seems that this doesn't actually seem to be the first time the British MOD investigated remote viewing, and it seems that certain branches of the MOD actually already had a closer relationship with remote viewing.

Hidden amongst the confusion of the 89,901 CIA/DIA Stargate FOIA documents was a standard run of the mill report of the monthly activities of the current Stargate project manager in June 1994. In this document, he details an upcoming meeting with a secret arm of the UK MOD - DI-55. Why is this interesting? Firstly because it seems the MOD interest in remote viewing actually started well before the 2002 study and secondly, DI-55 is the branch of the MOD that deals with UFOs. So yet again we have two intelligence services across the pond from each other and another UFO connection to American remote viewing projects.

When the story of DI-55 broke in 2006, the conclusion of it was that the Ministry of Defence had gone to extraordinary lengths to cover up its true involvement in investigating UFOs. In particular, the ministry wanted to cover up the operation of a secret unit dedicated to UFO investigations within the Defence Intelligence Staff.
A note from DI-55 to the public UFO desk on July 5, 1995 said: "I see no reason for continuing to deny that the [Defence Intelligence Service] has an interest in UFOs. However, if the association is formally made public, then the MoD will no doubt be pressured to state what the intelligence role/interest is."