Most people have never heard the name Pat Price, yet his story sits at the crossroads of government secrecy, psychic espionage, and UFO lore. His RV sessions still ripple through discussions of UFOs to this day ever since his famous dossier describing four underground alien bases hidden in mountain ranges around the world was released in 1974.
So let us walk through who he was, what exactly he saw beneath those mountains and why his story matters.
Neither a scientist or a military officer, he was, in his early career (~1960s), a former Burbank, California police commissioner. He had a reputation for being sharp, disciplined, and pragmatic. But beneath that exterior, Price exhibited psychic abilities to a phenomenal degree. He said he could hold a sealed envelope and describe what was inside, or close his eyes and “see” hidden objects miles away.
In the early 1970s, Price’s quiet hobby of remote perception collided with a strange chapter in U.S. history: the government’s secret research into psychic spying.
The Government’s Psychic Spy Program
During the Cold War, the U.S. government worried about Soviet research into psychic phenomena. If the Soviets were training psychics to gather intelligence, America couldn’t risk being left behind. So in 1972, the CIA funded experiments at Stanford Research Institute (SRI) in California, led by physicists Hal Puthoff and Russell Targ. They wanted to test whether remote viewing – essentially psychic perception of distant or hidden targets – could be real.
Enter Pat Price
According to declassified CIA documents, Price stunned researchers by sketching details of a secret NSA facility in West Virginia he had never visited. Later, he described the massive URDF-3 Soviet weapons facility in such detail that analysts compared his notes with satellite photos. To many at SRI, he seemed like their “golden boy” of remote viewing.
But Price wasn’t satisfied with just spying on Earthly facilities.
The 1973 UFO Base Dossier
In the summer of 1973, Price handed Hal Puthoff a thick packet – over 40 pages long. It wasn’t part of any government assignment. This was something Price had pursued on his own time. Inside were coordinates, sketches, and detailed notes about four alien underground bases hidden beneath mountains across the globe.
According to Price, these weren’t metaphorical visions or science fiction musings. He wrote them as if he were giving reconnaissance notes to an intelligence officer. Each base, he claimed, had a specific role in monitoring or manipulating life on Earth.
Mount Hayes, Alaska (63°39′ N, 146°45′ W)
Function: Weather and geological control center.
Alleged features: Cavernous galleries, advanced equipment, and systems that could influence Earth’s climate or tectonics.
Price warned this site was heavily secured.
Mount Perdido, Spain (42°40′ N, 0°02′ E)
Function: Primary base of operations.
Alleged features: Retractable landing ports, conveyor systems to unload craft, and sophisticated detection systems.
Price described it as the central hub.
Mount Nyangani, Zimbabwe (18°18′ S, 32°54′ E)
Function: Technical and maintenance center.
Alleged features: Heavy repair bays, technical workshops, and a large crew presence.
Price’s sketches show mechanical layouts reminiscent of hangars.
Mount Zeil, Australia (23°30′ S, 132°24′ E)
Function: Personnel center and “Homo Sap intro point.”
Alleged features: Barracks-style quarters, orientation facilities, and detection systems specifically sensitive to human intrusion.
As if that wasn’t enough, Price went even further. His observations indicated that the bases were connected to a “home port” on Mars, that the beings involved were not fully human, and that they used crystal-based technologies to power their operations. His packet even included sketches of the beings, their craft, and details of their anatomy.
The Odd Details That Stick in the Mind
When you read Price’s packet (which has been fully released and is available online today – see packet link below), you can’t help but notice how extraordinary some of the remote viewing highlights are:
- He describes “thought induction” devices used to manipulate or control human perception.
- He warns of “theta detection systems” that could identify when humans approached or even when a person thought about the bases.
- He sketched what looked like control rooms, complete with panels, oscillators, and what he said were advanced crystal-based power sources.
- He referred to the Mount Zeil site as a “Homo Sap intro point” – as if humans were being brought into their system through this facility.
Project 8200: The Revisit
Price died in 1975, reportedly of a heart attack in Las Vegas. His sudden death – coming just after he’d been working on another intelligence tasking – has fueled speculation. Some say it was coincidence, others whisper about foul play. Either way, his UFO packet did not vanish with him.
In the early 1980s, DIA officer Skip Atwater, who ran the Army’s remote-viewing program, decided to revisit Price’s work. He gave the same mountain coordinates to a new generation of remote viewers – including well-known names like Joe McMoneagle – without telling them what Price had viewed.
The result became known as Project 8200. According to Atwater’s later summaries, the new viewers also described strange underground facilities at those same coordinates. Some said the sites were ancient, possibly thousands of years old, and that they were somehow connected to something in deep space.
Together, Price’s dossier and Project 8200 provide two layers of independent confirmation pointing to the same extraordinary conclusions.
The Government’s Verdict
By the mid-1990s, the psychic spy program was [supposedly] shut down. A CIA-commissioned review made the conclusion that remote viewing had produced no actionable intelligence and was unreliable for real-world operations.
Yet the story doesn’t end there. The release of Price’s 1973 packet many decades later has only sparked the imagination of many UFO researchers, alternative historians, and conspiracy theorists, citing a rare integration between government psychic research and claims of extraterrestrial presence on Earth.
Price’s RV sessions bridge the gap between government psychic programs and UFO/UAP real world phenomena and unlike vague “I saw a light in the sky” reports, Price’s material has coordinates, roles, sketches, and technical notes, revealing a hidden reality of a extraterrestrial infrastructure on Earth. His mysterious sudden passing also adds further to the questions of whether he was perhaps dwelling too much into a government forbidden subject.
Conclusion
Pat Price reported on what he saw – just as he did when successfully describing classified Soviet sites for the CIA. His underground base dossier represents one of the most detailed and credible intelligence gatherings of a extraterrestrial presence on Earth. His information later verified by Project 8200 offers compelling evidence that his remote viewing sessions were true representations of reality.
The world may not yet be ready to confront what Price has revealed, but the information still stands: beneath Alaska, Spain, Zimbabwe, and Australia lay certain hidden alien strongholds, that may be silently influencing humanity linking our planet to operations stretching as far away as deep space.