SPECIAL ORIENTATION TECHNIQUES S-IV

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Final Report July 1984
SPECIAL ORIENTATION TECHNIQUES: S-IV (U)
By: HAROLD E. PUTHOFF
DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
USAINSCOM
FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, MARYLAND 20755
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Final Report
Covering the Period 1 February 1983 to 30 April 1984
SPECIAL: ORIENTATION TECHNIQUES: S-IV (U)
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DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
USAINSCOM
FORT GEORGE G. MEADS, MARYLAND 20755
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ROBERT S. LEONARD, Director
Radio Physics Laboratory
DAVID D. ELLIOTT, Vice President
Research and Analysis Division
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v
LIST OF TABLES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v
I OBJECTIVE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
I I INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
A. General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
B. Training by Stages--An Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1. Rationale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2. Stage I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3. Stage II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
4. Stage III . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
5. Stage IV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
III STAGE IV TECHNOLOGY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
A. Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
B. Trainee #059 Response to Stage IV Training. . . . . . . 12
IV EVALUATION AND RECOMMENDATIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
A. Completion Indicators . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
B. Trainee Evaluation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
C. Recommendations for Follow-On Actions . . . . . . . . . 21
Appendix--STAGE IV SITES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
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1 Schematic Representation of Remote Viewer Response to
CRV Situation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2 Idealized Performance-Over-Time Curve. . . . . . . . . . . . 7
3 Gateway Arch, St. Louis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
4 Iwo Jima Island . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
5 Stanford Radiotelescope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
6 Training Performance (RVer #059) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
7 St. Patrick's Cathedral, NYC (Trial 22). . . . . . . . . . . 18
8 FMC Chemical Plant, Newark, CA (Trial 24). . . . . . . . . . 19
9 Stanford Linear Accelerator, Stanford, CA (Trial 26) . . . . 20
1 Stages in Remote Viewing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2 Data-Bit Distribution, S-IV Training Series,
Trainee #059 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
3 Stage IV Completion Trials 22 through 26 . . . . . . . . . . 17
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I OBJECTIVE (U)
(S/CL-3/NOFORN) SRI International is tasked with developing remote
viewing (RV) enhancement techniques to meet DoD requirements. Of par-
ticular interest is the development of procedures that have potential
military intelligence application, and that can be transmitted to others
in a structured fashion (i.e., "training" procedures).
(S/CL-3/NOFORN) Under particular study in this effort is whether a
Coordinate Remote Viewing (CRV) technology, a technique that utilizes
coordinates to facilitate acquisition of a remote-viewing target, can be
successfully transferred to INSCOM personnel..
*(U) RV is the acquisition and description, by mental means, of infor-
mation blocked from ordinary perception by distance or shielding.
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(S/CL-4/NOFORN) At the beginning of FY 1981, SRI International made
a decision to develop and codify a promising RV enhancement procedure that
had emerged from earlier work--a multistage coordinate remote-viewing
training procedure developed in conjunction with an SRI consultant. The
procedure focuses on developing the reliability of remote viewing by con-
trolling those factors that tend to introduce noise into the RV product.
A broad overview of the procedure, which has been derived empirically on
the basis of a decade of"investigation into the RV process, is presented
in Chapter III. The basic components of this procedure consist of
? Repeated target-address (coordinate) presentation,
with quick-reaction response by the remote viewer
(to minimize imaginative overlays).
? The use of a specially-designed, acoustic-tiled,
featureless, homogeneously-colored viewing chamber
(to minimize environmental overlays).
? The adoption of a strictly-prescribed, limited
interviewer patter (to minimize interviewer overlay).
(U) At this stage of the development (Stage V is still in R&D; addi-
tional stages are projected), the RV training procedure is structured to
proceed through a series of stages of proficiency, hypothesized to cor-
respond to stages of increased contact with the target site. The stages
are outlined in Table 1. In a given remote viewing session, an experienced
remote viewer tends to recapitulate the stages in order.
r(U) Use of Stage V in the sequence is optional, depending on the level
of analytical detail required.
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(U) STAGES IN REMOTE VIEWING
Stage
Example
I
Major gestalt
Land surrounded by water,
an island
II
Sensory contact
Cold sensation, wind-swept
feeling
III
Dimension, motion, mobility
Rising up, panoramic view,
island
outline
IV
General qualitative analytical
Scientific research, live
organisms
aspects
V
Specific analytical aspects
Biological warfare (BW) pr
eparation
(by interrogating signal line)
site
VI
Three-dimensional contact,
Layouts, details, further
analytical
modeling
contact
B. (U) Training by Stages--An Overview
(S/CL-4/NOFORN) The particular effort covered in this report
concerns training of an INSCOM viewer to completion on Stage IV (S-IV).
To place the S-IV training effort in perspective, we summarize briefly
how it develops out of the earlier stages.
(U) The key to the earlier stages is the recognition that the
major problem with naive attempts to remote view is that the attempt to
visualize a remote site tends to stimulate memory and imagination--usually
in visual-image forms. As the viewer becomes aware of the first few data
bits, there appears to be a largely spontaneous and undisciplined rational
effort to extrapolate and "fill in the blanks." This is presumably driven
by a need to resolve the ambiguity associated with the fragmentary nature
of the emerging perception. The result is a premature internal analysis
and interpretation on the part of the remote viewer. (For example, an
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impression of an island is immediately interpreted as Hawaii.) This we call
analytical overlay (AOL).
(U) Our investigation of these overlay patterns leads to a model
of RV functioning, shown schematically in Figure 1. With the application
of a "stimulus" (e.g., the reading of a coordinate), there appears to be
a momentary burst of "signal" that enters into awareness for a few seconds,
and then fades away. The overlays appear to be triggered at this point to
fill in the void. Success in handling this complex process requires that
a remote viewer learn to "grab" incoming data bits while simultaneously
attempting to control the overlays. Stage I and Stage II training is
designed specifically to deal with this requirement.
SIGNAL,
NOISE
STIMULUS
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FIGURE 1 (U) SCHEMATIC REPRESENTATION OF REMOTE VIEWER RESPONSE TO
CRV SITUATION
2. (U) Stage I
(U) In Stage I, the viewer is trained to provide a quick-reaction
response to the reading of the site coordinates by the monitor. The response
takes the form of an immediate, primitive "squiggle" on the paper (called
an ideogram), which captures an overall motion/feeling of the gestalt of
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the site (e.g., wavy/fluid for water). Note that this response is essen-
tially kinesthetic, rather than visual.
3. (U) Stage II
(U) In Stage II, the viewer is trained to become sensitive to
physical sensations associated with the site, i.e., sensations he might
experience if he were physically located at the site (heat, cold, wind,
sounds, smells, tactile sensations, and the like). Agair4, this response
is essentially nonvisual in nature (although color sensations may arise as
a legitimate Stage II response). Of course, in both training stages,
visual images may emerge spontaneously. In that case they are not
suppressed, but simply noted and labeled as AOLs.
(U) Provided Stages I and II have been brought under control by
the viewer, Stage III training is initiated. The phrase "under control"
means that the viewer has been observed to pass through a performance curve
of the type shown in Figure 2, which typically applies to skills learning.
Certain objective performance measures, such as number of session elements
or number of coordinate iterations required to reach closure on site
description, are tracked to determine progress along the; performance curve.
4. (U) Stage III
(S/CL-3/NOFORN) Whereas in Stage I and II viewing, data appear
to emerge (typically) as fragmented data bits, in Stage TII, we observe the
emergence of a broader concept of the site. With Stage I and II data
forming a foundation, contact with the site appears sufficiently strengthened
that the viewer begins to have an overall appreciation of: the site as a
whole (which we label "aesthetic impact"). Dimensional aspects such as
size, distance, and motion begin to come into play, resullsting in configu-
rational outlines and sketches. For training practice, sites are chosen
especially to require the Stage III aptitudes of dimensional perception,
e.g., sketching of an outline-tracking nature. Examples :generated by
viewer #059, the viewer of this study, include the Gateway Arch in St. Louis,
Iwo Jima Island, and the Stanford radiotelescope, shown in Figures 3 through 5.
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FIGURE 2 (U) IDEALIZED PERFORMANCE-OVER-TIME CURVE
5. (U) Stage IV
(S/CL-3/NOFORN) Because of the apparent increased contact with
the site that occurs on Stage III (a "widening of the aperture" as it were),
data of an analytical nature begin to emerge. This follow-on process con-
stitutes Stage IV in our nomenclature. Contained in Stage IV data are
elements that go beyond the strictly observational, such as ambience
(military, religious, technical), cultural factors (Soviet, Muslim, nomadic),
and function or purpose (radar, power generation, BW research, missile
storage). Stage IV viewing is therefore considered to be the crossover
point into operational functioning with potential intelligence value.
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