BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF ON-GOING AMSAA GRILL FLAME EFFORTS.

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• Document Release Date: June 18, 1998
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• Publication Date: February 14, 1980
• Content Type: MEMO

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DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
U. S. ARMY MATERIEL SYSTEMS ANALYSIS ACTIVITY
Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland 21005
14 FEB 1980
SUBJECT: (S-NF) Brief Description of On-Going AMSAA GRILL FLAME
Efforts
HQDA(DAMI-ISH (MAJ Stoner))
WASH, DC 20310
(S-NF) The Inclosure gives the short summaries of AMSAA's current
GRILL GLAME efforts which you requested during our recent meeting
at DIA.
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as Assistant Director Systems
- Effectiveness and Joint Services
Activities
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1. (S-NF) AMSAA was tasked by Dr. LaBerge to define and perform an
in-house set of experiments aimed at assessing the existence of some
form of psychic phenomenon.
(S-NF) Current efforts attempt the remote viewing of "simple"
objects. Each object is defined by four bivariate attributes, that
is each is either (1) black or white and (2) hollow or solid, and
(3) resilient or non-compressible, and (4) spherical or cubical.
There is a total of 16 objects in the target pool. The attributes of
the object being "viewed" are reported by the viewer (in the absense
of any knowledge concerning the particular object chosen for that
trial) and the correctness of the responses is determined. Statistical
tests on the responses for individual attributes can be used to assess
whether t',ie percentage of correct responses differs significantly from
that which would be expected by chance.
2. (S-NF) SRI, under contract with AMSAA, is attempting to perform
remote viewing of various types of military events or situations on-
going at the Combat Development Experimental Center, CDEC, Hunter-
Liggett Military Reservation, California. The objective of these
"operational tests" is to determine whether remote viewing is more
successful in certain situations than in others. The specific types
of events or situations being "viewed" are described below:
Type 1: (U) Describe a significant single tactical event which
occurs in a specific geographical space and within a 30 minute time
window. This type event is envisioned as one weapon or one small
tactical unit such as a section firing.
Type 2: (U) Describe one significant tactical event which occurs in
a specific geographical space within a 24 hour period. This type
event is envisioned as a maneuver unit such as a squadron or battalion
engaging an opposing unit.
Type 3: (U) Describe the surroundings and/or location of a specific
significant tactical target, such as a unique type of weapon system or
intelligence system, at a specific time.
Type 4: (U) Define the time when a specific type of event occurs
within a specific geographical space. This type of event is envisioned
as a unit changing its state such as an aircraft unit getting ready to
takeoff or an armored unit prepared to move out of bivouac or out of a
static combat position.
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Type 5: (U) Describe a significant event and its location or
surroundings given that the event is expected to occur within a 30
minute time window somewhere within an area of thousands of square
kilometers. This type of event is envisioned as an air or ground
maneuver unit engaging an opposing unit. (Task Type 5 is similar to
Task Type 2 except that in Task Type 2 a large time window and a
small geographic space are used to define the event space.)
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