I hesitate to sound skeptical - but - really? "a thrice-decorated retired Major" (decorated with what - tinsel? a decoration could be the National Defense Service Medal but everybody who joins gets one of those.) tells us that the paranormal world is telling us the Apocalypse is nigh?
Fun, fun, fun.
Exactly.
This sounds like a badly-written Stephen King novel.....
A ‘viewer’ is not restricted by time and space. They are using their imagination to produce a ‘vision’ based on that which is intuitively known. They can become more accurate with interaction with the source of the information. I ‘viewed’ my in-laws single room school in Korea she attended as a child. Many more ‘hits’ than ‘misses’, once I got the context of Korea in the 50’s.
Oddly enough, ‘viewing’ my personal life for my next move rarely works out.