Army Remote Viewer Links Bigfoot to Extraterrestrial Teleportation Device
Posted Wednesday, August 05, 2026
By Squatchable.com staff
If you haven't stumbled across this gem yet, you're in for a treat. A YouTube channel called The Bell Signal recently posted a clip from a 2006 Art Bell broadcast that has resurfaced and is making waves in the paranormal community, and honestly, it's one of the most mind-bending Bigfoot conversations ever aired.
The episode features Ed Dames, a retired U.S. Army Major who was an original member of the Army's remote viewing training program, the same one run by the CIA and DIA. Dames served as the training and operations officer for the Defense Intelligence Agency's psychic intelligence collection unit, and he's widely considered one of the foremost remote viewing teachers in the world. He's also the technical consultant who coached Sir Ben Kingsley for the role of an FBI remote viewing instructor in the film Suspect Zero. So when this guy talks about Bigfoot, people listen.
And what he had to say on this particular night was nothing short of extraordinary.
Dames revealed that when trained remote viewers focus on Bigfoot using strict protocols, they consistently sketch what he describes as a "long rectangular linear device" seemingly floating out in space. This isn't some vague imagery either, it's a recurring pattern that multiple professional viewers have picked up on independently. The device appears to be intimately connected to the Sasquatch phenomenon itself, which led Dames and his team to develop a theory about what exactly is going on.
Originally, they thought this device was some kind of projector or assembler, something that takes carbon from the environment and reforms it into the creature we recognize as Bigfoot. But Dames has since revised that hypothesis. After taking another look at some of the more recent photographs and re-examining older evidence, he came to a different conclusion.
The device isn't a projector in the traditional sense. It's a teleportation device, and Bigfoot is a real, living creature. Dames describes it as a genuine representative of gigantopithecus, that massive prehistoric ape that once roamed Asia and, some researchers believe, may have also inhabited North America. We're talking about a ten-foot-tall being that has every right to be called a real species, not a myth.
But here's where it gets really interesting. The device doesn't just beam these creatures in from somewhere else. According to Dames, it somehow "pos-scans" the essence of the creature and projects it into our reality. That's why Bigfoot often appears so disoriented when spotted on the ground, it's not entirely "here" in the conventional sense. The tracks, the sightings, the physical evidence, it all has mass and density, but there's clearly something paranormal about how this being operates. It disappears. It does things that no ordinary earthbound creature could do.
Now, who or what is behind this device? Dames refers to them as "the controllers," entities that his team literally cannot sketch because they exist on a world so hostile it barely resembles anything habitable. No atmosphere. Broken terrain that looks like a moon. And yet they possess technology far beyond anything humanity has developed. These controllers, according to Dames, are connected to the device and likely constructed it themselves.
So what's the motivation? Why project Bigfoot into our forests and wilderness areas? Dames believes it's all about forcing the development of higher consciousness tools. The phenomenon is essentially setting the stage, pushing humanity to develop the kind of focused awareness needed to see behind the "Wizard of Oz" facade. Remote viewing, in his view, is one of those tools. And once humanity develops that capacity, it opens the door to contact with a higher intelligence.
This brings us to Project Starman, the capstone project Dames has been working toward for over two decades. In June of that year, 2006, his team planned to conduct their first major field exercise at a designated contact area somewhere in the continental United States. The protocols weren't about building some elaborate device like in the movies. They simply involved going to a specific location and testing whether contact could be made. Dames was hopeful, even expecting what he called "intervention."
The whole conversation is fascinating because it treats Bigfoot with the seriousness the subject deserves. There's no dismissal, no eye-rolling, just two men discussing a phenomenon that has been reported across North America for centuries, from the earliest Indigenous accounts to modern-day encounters. Dames' military background and remote viewing credentials give his perspective a weight that's hard to ignore, even if you approach it with skepticism.
Gigantopithecus, by the way, was a real genus of ape that lived throughout Asia for millions of years before going extinct roughly 300,000 years ago. Some cryptozoological researchers have long suggested that a surviving population could have crossed into North America via the Bering land bridge, which would explain why Sasquatch shares characteristics with known great apes but appears far larger than any living primate. Dames' theory essentially takes this idea and adds a layer of extraterrestrial involvement, suggesting that whatever these creatures are, they're being deliberately placed in our world for reasons we don't fully understand.
Art Bell himself opens the show in a vulnerable state, discussing the grief of losing Ramona, his wife, and you can hear the emotion in his voice. But once the conversation shifts to Bigfoot and the deeper mysteries at play, the show takes on that classic Coast to Coast AM energy, the kind of late-night deep dive that made Bell a legend in paranormal broadcasting.
If this sounds like your kind of rabbit hole, do yourself a favor and check out the full clip on The Bell Signal's YouTube channel. It's the kind of conversation that sticks with you, and it raises far more questions than it answers, which is exactly what the best Bigfoot discussions always do.