ADVANCED THREAT TECHNIQUE ASSESSMENT

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Interim Engineering Report 1
ADVANCED THREAT TECHNIQUE ASSESSMENT
By. HAROLD E. PUTHOFF RUSSELL TARG
RADIO PHYSICS LABORATORY
Classification Determination Pending
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STANFORD RESEARCH INSTITUTE'
Menlo Park, California 94025. ? U.S.A.
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CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS . , . . _ . . . . .
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LIST OF TABLES . . F
I OBJECTIVE . . .
II INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY . . . . . . . . . .
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III PROGRESS DURING THE REPORTING PERIOD . . . .
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A. Resolution Experiments . . . . . . . .
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B. Pilot Alphabet Experiments . . . . . .
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C. Automated Alphabet Experiments . . . .
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D. Improved Judging Techniques . . . . . .
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E. Long Distance Experiment with Teleconferencing . .
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F. New York-Dayton Long-Distance Experiment . . . . . .
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G. Arctic Experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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H. Long-Range Remote Viewing (Soviet Targets) . . . . .
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1. Pilot Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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I. Some Physical Models Potentially Applicable to
Remote Perception . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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IV CONCLUSIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Appendix COMPUTER FILE PRINTOUT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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1 Golden Pavilion Restaurant--Target and Drawings by
Subject I1 . .
Drawings by Subjects 11 and H3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Stanford University Inner Quadrangle, with Sketches by
an Inexperienced Subject . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Hyatt House Hotel in Palo Alto Used as Remote
Viewing Target . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Mountain View Swimming Pool Complex, with Independent
5 Remote Viewing of White Plaza, Stanford University,
by a Visiting Scientist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
6 Coast-to-Coast Remote Viewing Experiment with Grant's
Tomb in New York City as Target Site . . . . . . . . . . 20
7 Coast-to-Coast Remote Viewing Experiment, with
Washington Square Fountain as New York City Target . . . 22
8 Ohio Caves, Used as Target Site in Long Distance
(1000 km) Remote Viewing Experiment . . . . . . . . . . 25
Remote Viewing. by Geographical Coordinates of Dam-Site
in the USSR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
10 Remote Viewing Overview of Dam-Site Locale, Showing
Airport of Interest in the Lower Left . . . . . . 31
11 Remote Viewing Sketch of Detail on Runways and
Structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
12 Remote. Viewing by Second Subject Attempting to
Describe Airport Target . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
13 Airplane Viewed by Subject to be on the Ground at
Airport Site, . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
14 Detail of Airport Site . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
15 Rural Soviet Site . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
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UNCLASSIFIED'
For the past four years, we have had a program in the Electronics
and Bioengineering Laboratory of SRI to investigate those facets of
human perception that appear to fall outside the range of well--understood
perceptual/processing capabilities. Of particular interest i., a human
information-accessing capability that we call It remote viewing." This
phenomenon pertains to the ability of certain individuals to access arid,
describe, by means of mental processes, information sources blocked from
ordinary perception, and generally accepted as secure against such
access.
In particular, the phenomenon we have investigated most extensively
is the ability of a subject to view remote geographical locations up to
several thousand km distant from his physical location (given only a
known person on whom to target). We have carried out more than 50
experiments under. controlled laboratory conditions with several indi-
viduals whose remote perceptual abilities have been developed suffi-
ciently to allow them at times to describe correctly--often in great
detail--geographical or technical material such as buildings, roads,
laboratory apparatus., and the like.
The following is an outline of the areas of investigation carried
out in. the past quarter. Each item will be described in detail in the
body of the report.
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A detailed description of our work in this area was published in the
Proceedings of the IEEE, pp. 329-353, March 1976.
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A. Near-field Experiments: Experiments with experienced subjects
at less than 10 km distance, to examine biases and analytic interpreta-
tions by subjects, which may introduce noise into the perceptual channel?
B. Alphabet Experiments: Investigation of techniques to permit
increased resolution in remote viewing.
C. Improved Judging Techniques: Efforts to improve the reliabil-
ity in the evaluation of subjects' descriptions of remote targets.
D. Long Distance Teleconferencing Experiments: New York to
California and New York to Dayton remote viewing experiments using the
ARPA-net to provide time and date records of both subject and experi-
menter entries.
E. Arctic Experiments: Tracking of experimenter traveling in the
F. Application to Distant Targets: Remote viewing of coordinate-
designated targets in the USSR.
G. Theory: Investigation of extensions of present-day physical.
theory to provide testable models for the remote viewing phenomenon.
The results of this investigation can be summarized as follows:
0 Resolution and accuracy of description has not been
observed to degrade with increasing distance up to
at least 5000 km.
0 Real-time tracking of known individuals has been
accomplished, with regard to both location and
activities, including reports of the presence of
people at the site when people are present.
o Detailed descriptions of Soviet military facilities
have been provided, with sufficient accuracy to allow
ready verification.
A The identification of concealed alphabet letters has
been accomplished, as a prelude to learning to read.
inaccessible signs and words.
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It has been demonstrated that it is not necessary for
an experimenter to be knowledgeable of the desired
informations for the data to be collected by remote
viewing.
We continue to work with new and untrained subjects
and observe that they improve with practice, so that
we need not rely entirely on the availability of
special subjects,
? Redundancy improves the reliability(by having more than
one individual attempt to collect information on a given
site). This also allows us to identify and compensate
for the biases of individual subjects.
as Since it is known that workers in the Soviet Union have
pursued research of this type for the past forty years.
we may assume that they have achieved a level of profi-
ciency at least equal to our own, which could reasonably
be considered to constitute a threat.
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