PLANNED IN-HOUSE GRILL FLAME EFFORTS, FY79

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• Document Creation Date: November 4, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 5, 2003
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• Publication Date: April 26, 1979
• Content Type: MFR

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MEMORANDUM FOR RECORD
26 April 1979
SUBJECT: Planned In-House GRILL FLAME Efforts, FY79
1. (S-ORCON) Our in-house efforts in FY79 in Project GRILL FLAME
are in the area of remote viewing 9RV) which is an intellectual process
by which individuals perceive characteristics of a location remote from
that of themselves. All further RV efforts in FY79 will be performed
within the AMSAA Remote Viewing Protocol of 26 March 1979*.
2. (S-ORCON) Our initial efforts prior to January 1979 resulted in 32
sessions with individuals serving as beacons at targets in and around
the Aberdeen area; 20 of those sessions were performed by two remote
viewers and the resulting target descriptions were evaluated by the writer
as showing that learning occurred. Also the proponent contractor's
evaluation of the last five sessions**, using their new principal concept
evaluation technique, resulted in 5 out of 5 matches (with a 0.008
probability that such matching could have occurred by chance). These
sessions are being documented in AMSAA Special Activities Office Interim
Note No. 15 "Project GRILL FLAME AMSAA Phase I Efforts." The descriptions
from these sessions, while being meaningful to the participants, did not
prove to be instantly obvious proof of remote viewing to the casual
observer. It is believed that this is due, in a large part, to the
similarity of the targets to each other (caused by the general similarity
of architectural structures in the Aberdeen area). The general similarity
of these targets, however, may prove to be helpful in devising RV
techniques for detecting and locating tactical targets which generally
tend to stay away from unique terrain features.
3. (S-ORCON) The writer's lessons learned from Phase I of AMSAA GRILL
FLAME efforts (mentioned above) are as follows:
a. Utilization of an individual as the target beacon is relatively
cumbersome and is manpower intensive compared with coordinate RV.
* This protocol was approved for AMSAA's use on 26 March 1979 after its
review by The Surgeon General's Ad Hoc Human Use Review Board.
** Three sessions by one viewer and two by another (three were run but
one was discarded due to the beacon individual arriving at the target
site after the start of the RV session).
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SUBJECT: Planned In-House GRILL FLAME Efforts, FY79
b. The general nature of targets in the Aberdeen area do not lend
themselves to being good targets for incontroversial RV demonstration.
4. (S-ORCON) Taking into account the above and a desire by many to
be able to incontroversially demonstrate RV, Phase II was undertaken with
the intent of challenging/validating the SRI documented coordinate RV
techniques and of exploring potential techniques and applications of
coordinate multiple RV (MRV); the following management guidelines were
specified for this phase.
a. Strive to attempt coordinate RV using only map coordinates expressed
in degrees, minutes and seconds to describe the target location.
b. Explore utilization of compartementalized secure overhead
photography of sites with moderate to low national interest for:
(1) Selection of target coordinates.
(2) Production of target photographs for use in evaluating
coordinate RV descriptions.
c. Consider employing a larger pool of targets than RV descriptions
for evaluating the RV descriptions in order to reduce the degree of
forced matching of targets and target descriptions.
d. Attempt to develop coordinate RV descriptions produced by more
than one viewer per target.
e. Operate within the 26 March 1979 AMSAA RV Protocol.
The attached paper titled "Proposed Phase II of In-House FY79 GRILL FLAME
Project" addressed this effort in more detail.
1 Inci W. KRAMAR
as Assistant Director for
Systems Effectiveness and
Joint Service Activities
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