The Terry Waite Case
In 1987, a British man named Terry Waite was captured by the Islamic Jihad during a hostage negotiation trip with the Church of England. He was kidnapped and kept in solitary confinement in Bairut, Lebanon. In 1988, Project Sunstreak set out to use remote viewing to figure out his location. The remote viewers described Waite’s mindset, which was very strong and proud, rather than scared and traumatized. They also descriptions of other additional non-English-speaking hostages that were also captured and tortured. They also described the number of guards that were standing by, and their daily routines, as if it may help with a rescue mission.
A psychic soldier known as “Viewer 079” described a temple three miles outside of Bairut where Terry Waite was being held. It turns out that this information was correct. They released one of the foreign hostages, a German named Rudolf Cordes. When he was free, he confirmed all of the information that the remote viewers had described about Terry Waite. Interestingly enough, not even Terry Waite himself knew that there were other people being kept hostage in the same building for four and a half years, because they had all be kept separate from one another.
One detail that truly was consistent with the truth that the remote viewer was able to see was his mental stage. Terry Waite left the situation feeling as though he survived without suffering any Post Traumatic Stress. He said that he was able to talk to a psychologist right away, which he credits as being part of the reason why he is still mentally healthy. He was able to keep hope alive by thinking about everything he would say when he was able to escape and write a book.
Unfortunately, identifying Terry Waite’s location was only half the battle, and the U.S. and British armies could not just storm into such a delicate situation. Hostage negotiations with the terrorist group and the Lebanese government went on for years, and he was not released until 1991. When he was released, he wrote a book about his experiences, and began a project for helping homeless people. A fictionalized version of his story was turned into a movie called Hostages, which was released in 1992.