SUBJECT: REQUEST FOR FUNDING, FY 79, RE: PARAPSYCHOLOGY - FEASIBILITY FOR A HARD COPY 'REMOTE VIEWING' MACHINE

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• Publication Date: July 7, 1978
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SUBJECT: (S) Request for Funding, FY 79, Re: Parapsychology - Feasibility
for a Hard Copy "Remote Viewing Machine
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: E. H. Walker
OBJECTIVE: (S) To determine feasibility of developing automatic equip-
ment capable of producing remote viewing in hard copy form
BACKGROUND: (S) Evidence exists that individuals can, through para-
psychological means, acquire information in regard to remote targets.
Extensive studies have been carried out at SRI International to
establish the existence and utility of this "remote viewing" capability.
In remote viewing a subject forms a mental "image" of
the desired remote location. Hard Copy information is obtained by means
of verbal description and sketches produced by the subject. The quality
of this information would be greatly enhanced if an accurate replica
of the mental image could be provided, or better yet, if the original
image generated were formed in hard copy --as, for example, on a TV
monitor.
(U) Development of equipment having this capability might
have the same utility in any future conflict as that of the Ultra
machine used in WWII.
(C) Some experimental data in the field of parapsychology indicates
such equipment could be developed. The principal considerations that
have been established are:
theory
(1) The same principles of information/used to enhance the
signal to noise ratio in radio communications can be applied to para-
psychological phenomena.
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(2) PK effects on physical devices used in computers to
generate (true) random number sequences can be employed to produce
physical records of parapsychological events rather than using a subject
as one receiver. (The translation of PK effects on a random number
generator into a target image automatically if the proper formating of
information is used. This arises from the third principle of psi-
phenomena given below).
(3) Psi-phenomena are goal or target directed. This means
that the subject does not need any knowledge as to how the target informa-
tion or target image is produced, but.must only be able to recognize
the target state or image when it appears.
(C) While these principles assure that remote viewing images
can be formed in hard copy, sufficient information does not yet exist
to establish the time required to produce an image. Estimates are
computed in the attached report.
PROCEDURE: The above principles have been use to design a device that
if built is expected to have the hard copy capability sought. A separate
report (attached) gives details of this device. Feasibility can most
readily be determined using this equipment as it is flexible enough to
be operated in a variety of modes..
(U) Funds FY 79
Equipment: $150K
Personnel: $150K
Miscellaneous: $ 50K
$350K
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