PROJECT 5309 ADVANCED THREAT TECHNIQUE ASSESSMENT SRI

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Final Report (1977)
ADVANCED THREAT TECHNIQUE
ASSESSMENT (U)
By: HAROLD E, PUTHOFF RUSSELL TARG
RADIO PHYSICS LABORATORY
EDWIN C. MAY
CONSULTANT
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Final Report (1977)
Covering the Period 15 April 1976 to 15 April 1977
ADVANCED THREAT TECHNIQUE
ASSESSMENT (U)
By: HAROLD E. PUTHOFF RUSSELL TARG
RADIO PHYSICS LABORATORY
EDWIN C. MAY
CONSULTANT
SRI Project 5309
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DAVID A. JOHNSON, Director
Radio Physics Laboratory
RAY L. LEADABRAND, Executive Director
Electronics and Radio Sciences Division
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July 1977
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CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS (U)
LIST OF TABLES (U)
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OBJECTIVE (U)
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PROGRAM DESCRIPTION AND SUMMARY (U)
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INTRODUCTION (U)
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A. Background (U)
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B. SRI Program Content (U)
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LOCAL REMOTE-VIEWING EXPERIMENTS (U)
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A. General (U)
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B. Remote-Viewing Experiments with Sponsor
Participation (U)
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C. Content Analysis of a Local Remote-Viewing
Transcript (U)
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1. Psychologist's General Assessment (U)
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2. Sample Transcript Analysis (U)
a. Comparison of Quotes from Subject with
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Quotes from Outbound Experi-
menters (U)
b. Comparison of Sketches Made by the
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Subject and by the Outbound Experi-
menters During Remote Viewing (U)
c. Selected Comments for a Comparison of
the Time Sequence Reported at the Site
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with That Reported by the Subject (U) .
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D. Tracking Persons Unknown to Subject (Abstract
Targeting) (U)
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E. Alphabet Experiments (U)
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1. Twenty-Trial Tests with Two Subjects (U) . .
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2. Remote Viewing of Alphabet Letters (U)
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3. Machine-Generated Targets with Feedback (U)
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LONG-DISTANCE REMOTE-VIEWING EXPERIMENTS (U)
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A. General (U)
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B. Menlo Park to New York City (Grant's
Tomb) (U)
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C. Menlo Park to New York City (Washington
Square Fountain) (U)
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D. Quantitative Analysis of New York City Target
Transcripts (U)
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E. New York City to Ohio (Ohio Caves); Under
Sponsor Control (U)
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F. New Orleans to Palo Alto (Northern California
Bank Plaza) (U)
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G. Menlo Park to New Orleans (Louisiana Super-
dome) (U)
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H. Content Analysis of a Long-Distance Remote-
Viewing Transcript (Louisiana Superdome) (U) .
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VI REMOTE VIEWING BY COORDINATES (U)
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A. General (U)
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B. Experiments to Calibrate Remote-Viewing
Resolution Capability (U)
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1. Sylvania Laser Laboratory, Mt. View,
California (U)
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2, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Bevatron,
Berkeley, California (U)
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C. Real-Time Targeting (Minuteman and Poseidon
Missile Static Test Firings in the Western
United States) (U)
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D. Sponsor-Designated Targets in the USSR (S)
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1. Pilot Study (U)
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2. Soviet Site A (Ramenskoye Airfield) (S)t .
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3. Soviet Site B (S)
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4. Ten-Site Scan (U)
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a. Subject El Scan of Site 2 (U)
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b. Subject Il Scan of Site 2 (U)
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VII CONCLUSIONS (U)
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APPENDICES
A SUBJECT El SCAN OF SOVIET SITE 2 (S)
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B -PHYSICAL PRINCIPLES POTENTIALLY APPLICABLE TO
PSYCHOENERGETICS (U)
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REFERENCES (U)
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ILLUSTRATIONS
1 Golden Pavilion Restaurant. and Drawing by
Subject Il of Divided Roadway. Trees, Steps, and
Buildings (U) 13
2 Hyatt House Hotel in Palo Alto, and Sketch Produced
by Subject in Menlo Park (U) 15
3 Mountain View Swimming Pool Complex, and Drawings by
Subjects Il and H1 in Simultaneous, Separate
Experiments (U) 16
4 Stanford University Inner Quadrangle, and Sketches
Produced by Subject Inexperienced at Remote
Viewing -(U) 17
5 Vallombrosa Chapel in Menlo Park (U) 20
6 Subject Gl's Largest and Most Prominent Sketch
Compared with Debriefing Comments by Outbound
Experimenters (U) 24
7 Palo Alto Bowling Green. and Drawing by Subject
H1 (U) 28
8 Grant's Tomb, Used as Target in Coast-to-Coast Remote-
Viewing Experiment. 2 July 1976(U) 38
9 Computer File Printout from California-to-New York
Long-Distance Remote-Viewing Experiment--Target:
Grant's Tomb in New York City (U) 39
10 Washington Square in New York City, Used as Target in
Coast-to-Coast Remote-Viewing Experiment, 6 July
1976 (U) 40
11 Computer File Printout from California-to-New York
Long-Distance Remote-Viewing Experiment--Target:
Washington Square in New York City (U) 42
12 Ohio Caves. Used as Target in Long-Distance Remote-
Viewing Experiment (U) 49
13 Target Used in Remote-Viewing Experiment--New Orleans
to Palo Alto, 30 October 1976, and Sketches by
Subject Si (U) 52
14 Louisiana Superdome, Used as Target in Long-Distance
Remote-Viewing Experiment from SRI, Menlo Park, and
Drawings by Subject 01, 31 October 1976 (U) 54
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15 Two Buildings at Sylvania Target Site, and Clay Models
Made by Subject Il in Remote-Viewing Experiment,
Menlo Park to Mountain View, California (U) 61
16 Photograph of Air-Supported Building at the Sylvania
Target Site, and Subject Il's Drawing of "Aereator"
(sic) Building (U)
17 Subject Il's Second Drawing of Sylvania Air-Supported
Building (U)
18 Two Sylvania Buildings, and Drawings by Subject
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19 Front-View Photograph of Manufacturing Building, with
Drawing and Clay Model by Subject (U)
20 Subject Drawing of Inside of "Heat and Light Machine"
and an Indication of "Transformers" on the Right
21 Photograph of Sylvania Gas-Transport Laser (U)
22 Berkeley Bevatron, and Sketch by Subject H1 (U)
23 Clay Model Made by Subject in Response to Coordinates
of Berkeley Bevatron (U) 71
24 Interior of Bevatron Building, with Sketch by
Subject H1 (U) 72
25 Two Views of Bevatron Building (U) 74
26 Drawing by Subject Il of Dust Cloud Raised During
Rocket Engine Test (U) 76
27 Photograph of Dust Cloud at Rocket Test Site (U) 77
28 Drawing by H1, and Rocket Test Site Schematic Shown
for Comparison (U) 79
29 Photo of Test Bay Showing Test Firing of Rocket
Engine (U) 81
30 Remote Viewing by Geographical Coordinates of Dam Site
in the USSR (S) 85
31 Remote-Viewing Overview of Dam-Site Locale, Showing
Airport of Interest in the Lower Left (U) 86
32 Remote-Viewing Sketch of Detail on Runways and
Structures (Soviet Airport) (S) 87
33 Remote Viewing by Second Subject Attempting to Describe
Soviet Airport Target (S) 88
34 Airplane Viewed by Subject to be on Ground at Airport
Site (U) 89
35 Rural Soviet Site (S) 90
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36 Sketch Generated by Subject El (Site 2) (U) 92
37 Subject Il's Overview of Site 2 (U) 93
38 Sketches Generated by Subject Il (Site 2) (U) 94
39 Clay Model Generated by Subject Il (Site 2) (U) 95
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TABLES
1 Alphabet Series
2 Quantitative Analysis of the Grant's Tomb
Transcript
3 Quantitative Analysis of the Washington Square
Transcript
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I OBJECTIVE
The purpose of this program is to provide a basis for assessini-
psychoenergetic processes as an advanced threat technology that could be
developed by the USSR. This study is to determine the state of the art
and evaluate the application feasibility.
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II PROGRAM DESCRIPTION AND SUMMARY
This report is the final technical report summarizing the work
performed under SRI Project 5309, Advanced Threat Technique Assess-
ment (U). The objective of this program is to provide a basis for
assessing psychoenergetic processes as an advanced threat technology that
could be developed by the USSR. This study is to determine the state
of the art and to evaluate application feasibility.
To carry out this task, SRI concentrated on the evaluation of a
particular human perceptual capability, a perceptual process called
remote viewing. This phenomenon pertains to the ability of certain
individuals to access and describe, by means of mental processes, in-
formation blocked from ordinary perception by distance or shielding,
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, even
at intercontinental distances, given Only geographical coordinates or a
known person on whom to target. The remote-viewing abilities of several
subjects have now been developed sufficiently to allow the subjects to
describe--often in great detail--geographical or technical material such
as natural formations, buildings, roads, interior laboratory apparatus,
and the like.
In a series of experiments extending up to 5000 km, we have not
found any degradation in accuracy or resolution as a function of in-
creasing distance. Furthermore, real-time tracking of the activity of
individuals has been accomplished over these distances. Such experiments
have included the successful real-time remote viewing by two subjects of
a series of solid-propellant missile static test firings in the western
United States. These events were designated as targets by the sponsor's
technical contract monitor and kept blind to SRI program participants
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until the series was completed and the data were submitted to the spon-
sor for evaluation.
Finally, remote viewing through the use of geographical coordinates
as target designators has provided detailed descriptions of Soviet
military facilities designated as targets by the sponsor. Sponsor
evaluation of the data is contained in a separate report.
As is generally true with human perceptual sources, the information
may be imperfect, and is therefore best utilized in conjunction with
other resources. Nonetheless, the data generated by this process exceeded
any reasonable bounds of coincidental correlation, and therefore may
constitute a valuable information source.
With regard to a potential Soviet threat, it is known that workers
in the Soviet Union have pursued work in the psychoenergetics field for
the past forty years. We must therefore assume that they have achieved
a level of proficiency similar to that reported here.
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III INTRODUCTION
A. Background
Recent publications in both the open and classified literature
provide mounting evidence for the existence of so-called "parapsychologi-
cal,paraphysical, or Itpsychoenergetic!I processes. These processes
include:
(1) The acquisition and description, by mental means, of
information blocked from ordinary perception by distance
or shielding and thought to be secure against such access.
(2) The prodliction of physical effects such as the perturbation
of instrumentation or equipment that would appear to be
well shielded against such interactions.
The literature also provides evidence of the acceleration of research
in both the Western and Soviet Bloc countries in an effort to precipitate
a breakthrough. Attention was called to this area by the United States
Intelligence Board's (USIB) Scientific and Technical Intelligence
Committee (STIC) in a recent document entitled "Views on Emerging Areas
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of Science and Technology Potentially Important to National Security.
In the West, an exploratory research effort on psychoenergetic
channels has been carried out in our laboratory at Stanford Research
Institute (SRI). These results have been reported in two documents,
one classified ,2 and one unclassified.3 This work dealt primarily with
a capability that we call "remote viewing," the ability to view remote
geographical locations up to several thousand kilometers. In more than
100 experiments with roughly a dozen subjects, extending over almost
five years, results were obtained on the viewing of buildings, laboratory
apparatus, and the like. From this work we conclude that:
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(1) (U) The phenomenon is not a sensitive function of distance
over a range of several kilometers and is still operative
over a range of several thousand kilometers.
(2) (U) Faraday cage electrical shielding does not appear
to degrade the quality or accuracy of perception.
(3) (U) Most of the correct information pertains to shape,
form, color, and material rather than to function or
name.
(4) (U) The principal difference between experienced sub-
jects and inexperienced volunteers is not that the
latter do not exhibit the faculty but rather that their
results are simply less reliable, indicating that
remote viewing may be a latent and widely distributed,
though repressed, perceptual ability.
(5) (S) Subjects trained over a several-year period have
performed well under operational conditions.
Work in this area of research in the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia
is discussed in a DIA document.4
It is pointed out that beginning with
early work (1930s) in the laboratory of L. Vasiliev5 (Leningrad Institute
for Brain Research), Soviet efforts in the area of paranormal function-
ing have concentrated on behavior modification and control (e.g.,
putting people into a trance at a distance through hypnosis) in con-
trast to the Western orientation toward remote data acquisition. Also,
apparently in keeping with Soviet ideology, the work in the USSR is
strongly oriented toward the physical aspects of the channel. Indeed,
some of the best theoretical work has been done by Soviet researcher
I. Kogan in his investigation of the ELF (extremely lbw frequency)
electromagnetic hypothesis.6-9
The authors of the DIA document conclude
that the Soviet Bloc parapsychology research effort is now aimed at
achieving an understanding and control of the energy involved.
Garrett Airesearch, an aerospace firm in southern California, has
performed a review of Soviet literature on psychoenergetic research
that led to conclusions similar to those of the DIA document.1011
The
body of the report treats Soviet application of statistical theories,
research done on electrostatics, the development of remote sensors,
hypothesized carrier mechanisms, human sensitivity to magnetic fields,
and performance training to improve accuracy. Their conclusions
include (U):
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(1) Soviet researchers have done significant work on signal-
extraction, statistical, and information-theory approaches
to psychoenergetic processes.
(2) Soviet researchers have done creditable work on the
electrostatics of telekinesis and have probably now
turned their attention to the psychophysiological aspects
of the phenomenon.
(3) Soviet researchers have an interest in remote physiological
monitors, have developed one or two new instruments, and
are probably performing R&D in this area.
(4) Soviet researchers had, and probably still have, an interest
in the physics of psychoenergetic transmission mechanisms
and are probably doing research in this area.
(5) There is a developing interest in the Soviet Bloc to
apply psychophysiological training methods (similar to
biofeedback) to develop control over psychoenergetic
mechanisms.
(6) Soviet researchers are investigating the psychophysiology
of multimodal, programmed stimulation as a method to
entrain physiological rhythms and produce changes in
states of consciousness.
(7) A systematic, interdisciplinary approach to psychoenergetic
research by the USSR would require only a modest commit-
ment of resources. A small number of key personnel with
an adequate supporting staff of engineers and technicians
could make substantial headway in this area. At this
stage, in Garrett's opinion; no unique technological
breakthrough is required--only careful investigation. In
addition, no unique features such as physical plant
facilities, services, or equipment would specifically
identify a psychoenergetics laboratory from other types
of R&D laboratories.
(8) Finally, Garrett notes that open publication of some of
the most advanced work in this area has inexplicably
stopped. The implausibility of the work itself being
stopped has led Garrett to conclude that the work is
continuing secretly.
Further support for the idea that work in this area is continuing
in the USSR can be inferred from a 1974 interview with Kogan, which
appeared in the newspaper Leninskoye Znamya (Lenin's Banner), an
official organ of the Moscow region Communist Party.12
In that inter-
view Kogan discusses a number of recent developments in the field, in-
cluding his own experiments, and gives an estimate as to the number of
well-developed psychics in the general population 1 in
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Thus, the DIA and Garrett reports, and supporting data point to the
increasing importance of the psychoenergetics area in Soviet research.
The validity of this conclusion received further support when the Soviet
Psychological Association recently issued an unprecedented position
paper calling on the Soviet Academy of Sciences to step up efforts in
this area.13
The Association recommended that the newly formed Psycho-
logical Institute of the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences review the area
and consider the creation of a new laboratory within one of the institutes
to study persons with unusual abilities. They also recommended a com-
prehensive evaluation of experiments and theory by the Academy of Sciences
Institute of Biophysics and Institute for the Problems of Information
Transmission.
It was in this climate that SRI was tasked to provide a basis for
assessing the probability of an advanced psychoenergetics threat tech-
nique that could be in development in the USSR. The study was to provide
indicators that suggested particular advanced threat related applications,
and was to include feasibility evaluation using US capabilities in a
modeled or simulated threat role.
B. SRI Program Content
Following is an outline of the areas of investigation carried out
in this program. Each item is described in detail in the remaining
sections of the report.
? Section IV: Local Remote-Viewing Experiments
- Local (less than 10 km distance) remote-viewing experi-
ments under sponsor observation, using experienced
subjects, to examine subject biases that introduce noise
into the perceptual channel.
- Content analysis of remote viewing transcripts to obtain
a quantitative measure of accuracy.
- Pilot experiments in the tracking of persons unknown to
the subject.
- Alphabet target experiments to investigate techniques to
permit increased resolution in remote viewing.
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? Section V: Long-Distance Remote-Viewing Experiments
- Use of the DARPA teleconferencing computer network to
provide date and time records of experiments in progress.
- Long distance remote-viewing experiments (New York to
California; New York to Dayton; New Orleans to California).
? Section VI: Remote Viewing by Coordinates
- The use of geographical coordinates to designate a
remote-viewing target.
- Application of coordinate procedure
to the description
of local (San Francisco Bay Area) high-technology targets
(Sylvania Laser Laboratory, Mountain View, California;
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Bevatron, Berkeley,
California).
- Application of coordinate procedure to real-time remote
viewing of solid-propellant missile firings in the western
Un4ted States.
- Application of coordinate procedure to sponsor-designated
targets in the USSR.
? Section VII: Conclusions
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A. General
To demonstrate our procedures to the technical representative of
the sponsor organization a series of five experiments involving local
targets were carried out during the initial month of this program. The
sponsor's representative either remained in the laboratory with the
subject or participated in the selection of the target and proceeded
there with the outbound experimenter. He therefore had an opportunity
to assess the. functioningand accuracy of the remote-viewing channel on
a first-hand basis.
To begin the experiment, the subject was closeted with an experi-
menter at SRI and instructed to wait 30 minutes before beginning a
narrative description of the remote location. An outbound experimenter
then either chose (by use of a Texas Instruments SR-51 random number
generator) a target location from a pool of more than 100 targets within
a 30-minute driving time from SRI, or, in the case of the first two of
the five experiments, the sponsor representative selected sites of his
own choosing. The outbound experimenters then left SRI by automobile
and proceeded directly to the target without any communication with the
subject or experimenter remaining behind, so that the target location
selected was kept blind to subject and experimenters in the laboratory.
The experimenter remaining with the subject at SRI was kept ignorant of
both the particular target and the target pool so as to eliminate the
possibility of cueing (overt or subliminal) and to allow him freedom in
questioning the subject for clarification of his descriptions. The
outbound experimenters remained at the target site for an agreed-on 15-
minute observation period following the 30 minutes allotted for travel.
During the observation period, the remote-viewing subject at SRI was
asked to describe his impressions of the target site into a tape recorder
and to make any drawings he thought appropriate. A tentative evaluation
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was made of the subject's output when the demarcation team returned.
Also, following the experiment the subject was taken to the site to
provide feedback.
In addition to providing a demonstration of remote viewing, an
important purpose of these initial experiments was to obtain information
about the resolution capability of the remote-viewing channel. To this
end we worked with two of our most experienced subjects, designated
here as Il and Hl. Results from these subjects can be compared with
those of two less experienced subjects who also took part in the experi-
ments.
The results of these five experiments are summarized below, and
transcripts of the subjects' narratives can be provided upon request.
These were all the experiments carried out during this orientation pro-
cedure; no data have been suppressed.
B. Remote-Viewing Experiments with Sponsor Participation
Golden Pavilion Restaurant. Subject Il's drawing of a cluster of
buildings located at a sweeping ?turn-off from a divided roadway has
many of the characteristics of the target, located on El Camino Real in
Palo Alto, as shown in Figure 1. Dr. Puthoff and the contract monitor
were at the target.
Hyatt House Hotel. In this case Subject Il made a number of
drawings that did not come together into a coherent representation,
although some elements of his output were suggestive of the location
(e.g., he made a drawing of an arched structure with a small block
labeled "house" on the top of the arch). During this experiment a
response was obtained from a second subject (R1) remote viewing the
target from a second laboratory location. The subjects worked simul-
taneously in separate rooms, and did not communicate. The sketch
The key to numerical designations for subjects is available from the
sponsoring agency's contract monitor.
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made by R1 is shown together with a photograph of the target in Fig-
ure 2.
Pool Complex. In this experiment, Subjects Il and H1 attempted to
describe or draw aspects of the target (shown in Figure 3) visited by
the remote team. Subject Hl's description was of a pool or pond in a
shady glen, which was essentially a direct hit. Subject Il drew a little
hill of grass surrounded by a plaza with squares and a curved path
leading to water, again a result in close correspondence with the target
area. His second drawing continues this watery theme with some added
shrubs.
Baylands Nature Preserve. The subject in this case was a visiting
scientist, D1, who had read of our research. He described and drew a
long wooden walkway, and described some extensive gardens. Both of these
elements are strongly present at the target location. He also described
a building he had visited on the previous day, which was not at the place
visited. This sort of superposition of erroneous imagery on an other-
wise accurate description is often observed and is a principal obstacle
to be overcome if remote viewing is to become a useful tool.
Stanford University Inner Quad. In a second experiment using D1,
the subject described a courtyard and made the two drawings shown in
Figure 4. Almost every element of his drawings corresponds to the
actual arrangement at the location of the remote experimenters. Although
the subject was inexperienced in remote viewing, this set-of responses
is among the most accurate and detailed we have obtained.
From experiments conducted to date it appears likely that the
ability to do remote viewing is distributed throughout the population
and that high-quality results can be obtained even from inexperienced
subjects. As in our previously published work,2/3 we find that even in
this introductory series the evidence accumulates that improved reli-
ability can be obtained by having more than one subject work independently
to describe target sites. The use of multiple subjects thus appears to
provide an opportunity to correct for individual subject biases.
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C. Content Analysis of a Local Remote-Viewing Transcript
1. Psychologist's General Assessment
In consultation with Dr. Ralph Kiernan of Stanford University
Medical Center, we have been analyzing past transcripts from remote-
viewing experiments, to help us learn what parts of the transcripts are
the most reliable.
In Dr. Kiernan's opinion the adjectival portions constitute the
primary carrier of correct information as compared with the nouns, and
especially as compared with proper nouns. For example, if a subject
reports that there is "a shiny, red fire hydrant," one would be safe
only in assuming that there was a red cylinder at the remote site. But
a search for a fire hydrant would in general be unwarranted. We see that
descriptors like wide, flat, underground, and dark are all likely to be
reliable. Whereas references to nuclear, secret, Mercedes or factory
are less likely to be correct.
Dr. Kiernan was willing to make a prediction based on our past
work. He observes that since almost everyone we have tested shows
ability to do remote viewing to some extent, and since it appears to be
mediated primarily by the right cerebral hemisphere of the brain, it is
likely that a right-brain-damaged patient would not be successful at
remote viewing. We consider it important to carry out this experiment
at some future date as a test of this particular hypothesis, so as to
verify whether the general handling of data on the basis of right-hemi-
sphere biasing assumptions is correct.
2. Sample Transcript Analysis
Following the sponsor orientation series, we conducted an
experiment with an SRI systems analyst and research engineer. A detailed
analysis of all phases of this subject's output was carried out. This
analysis included the following:
(1) Comparison of the subject's largest and most prominent
sketch, with the outbound experimenter's descriptive
comments.
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(2) Comparison of the sequence of events recorded at the
site, with that reported by the subject.
(3) Comparison of quotes from the subject with quotes
by the outbound experimenters concerning the site.
(4) Comparison of subject's drawings with drawings of
outbound experimenters.
(5) Underlining of relevant portions of unedited subject
transcript.
(6) Listing of reactions of the subject to being taken to
the target site.
(7) Phrases used by the subject during the experiment as
compared with the phrases used by the outbound
experimenters to describe the same objects.
(8) Notes made by the outbound experimenters while at the
site.
(9)- Subject's guesses and analytical comments in the time
seqUence in which they were made.
The experiment analyzed in greatest detail was that of July 14,
1976. The site was the Vallombrosa Chapel in Menlo Park, California.
The team who selected the target pool for this experiment wrote of this
target:
"Vallombrosa chapel had all the features for which we were
looking. It had an unusual spire which dominates the building.
It is a church retreat for women, a function entirely different
from the other 5 sites in our target pool. It had a calm,
quiet, peaceful atmosphere, and an integrated feeling that
we believed would make it a good target for a subject and for
judging."
The photographs taken at the time of target selection are presented in
Figure 5, showing the church building and its prominent yellow glass
tower.
The outbound team performed a number of qualitative analyses
of the Vallombrosa transcript, of which three are included here. They
are (1) the comparison of quotes from subject and outbound experimenters,
(2) the comparison of drawings and descriptions, and (3) the time-sequence
of selected comments from all participants.
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a. Comparison of Quotes from Subject with Quotes from
Outbound Experimenters
The following consists of quotes from the subject's tape
recorded comments during the experiment compared with the taped de-
briefing comments made by the outbound experimenters at the site. -(Each
outbounder made a separate tape out of hearing range of the other.) The
purpose of this analysis is to detect possible similarities.
G1: Obi (Observer 1) looking up to the blue sky. [Later] It was
like a steeple, something that was painted..."
0b2: Tall steeple on the chapel that reached out to the blue sky.
G1: She's (Obi) looking down.... I'm seeing the ground...she's -
squatting down looking at something, or kneeling down. 0b2
is also kneeling, looking at something.
0b2: The lawn felt cool. I felt it with my hand.
Gl: Like it's a. ..something swirled with...like a snail, almost,
like something swirled with straight tenacles extending from it.
Obi: We saw two sprinklers going in the first part of the experiment,
one twirling around...the other was spraying out a cone-shaped
spray of water.
G1: I don't think it's something she could touch...but it's something
that she could look into.
0b2: Put my hand in the water sprinkler.... Felt like rain on my
arm.
Gl: Objects whirling around, something whirling around, ,,lots of it.
But it's not like a noise...all these things standing upright
that are circular in shape.... But there's movement. Something
about them that's natural...hazy, swirling thing.... But I get
the feeling it's man-made.... They seem to be placed. That's
the man-made aspect of it.... They seem to be placed in certain
spots, but they're natural.... It's almost like a semi-circle....
But yet they (Obi_ and 0b2) could turn around and walk out of this
thing, or out of this area.
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Gl: I get the feeling it's...outdoors, but they're protected in some
way from sunlight...it's just a shade.
0b2: The trees were large...trees--giant trees everywhere.
Obi: Many trees around...a very large deciduous tree.
Gl: There's a grassy knoll on a hillside.... But that's quite a
ways away.... I can't guess the distance.... This hill is
off...fuzzy things...it moved. It didn't stay still.... If
you took a photograph, it would be fuzzy. If you took a photo-
graph sometime later, it would be gone and moved.
0b2: We walked...0b1 and I, over to the pond...she caught several
pollywogs...saw them wiggle...two...dragon flies, flying together
back and forth.
Obi: Then we walked over, a brief short distance...to a rather large
lilly pad (pond) that was essentially oval in shape. There are
three major clumps of lilly pads on it...noticed dragon flies
flying.... I concentrated on the ripples on the water.... I
picked up three pollywogs...watched them squirm.
Gl: Something roundish.
0b2: I put my hands in the water, I swished them back and forth...
water lilly leaves were round and very circular.... The pond is
oval in shape. ..looking down on the surface of the water...I
noticed that there were little circles ever widening outward
caused by the movement of the fish.... Circles, circles, circles
going outward.
Obi: I threw a mud clod...watched the circles go out.... As I threw
a few more pebbles in the water, I noticed the circles they made
and how they went out.
Gl: There's something on a pole that's associated with this thing,
this place. Maybe it identifies it...not your average pole....
There was something at the top.
Obi: Cylinder...with jagged top and above that is a metal cross.
Photographs of the pond show that it is on a raised area, built up above
the surrounding ground level.
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Gl: It looks like that pole was metal, like an extruded pipe. It has
lines that are marked...has an aluminum finish.
Obi: Put my arms around one of the cement pillars and hugged it...had
been wrapped with some kind of thing in which the concrete was
poured into it...round cement light concrete pillars.
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b. Comparison of Sketches Made by the Subject and by
the Outbound Experimenters During Remote Viewing
The brief sketches made by the outbound experimenters at
the target site to capture the essence of what they were seeing are
simple and rather primitive in nature, much like those made by the sub-
ject who was perceiving the scene remotely. Thus, although subject
sketches may seem simple and incomplete, those who were physically there
at the site unintentionally sketched in a similar manner, sketching to
capture the gestalt of the place with little thought for the drawing
itself. A comparison shows that both sets of drawings are characterized
by simplicity and directness. The sketches below were made by the out-
bound experimenters at the site during the experiment and are to be
compared with the subject's sketch shown in Figure 6.
Perhaps drawings by subjects could be compared more often
in future experiments, with those made at the site by the outbound
experimenters. When the subject and outbound experimenters are "into"
the experience of perceiving a site, similarities may show up in sketches
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"THE MAIN INTENSE FEATURE THAT ONE SEES IS A
CYLINDER THAT'S CONICAL TYPE STRUCTURE."
DESCRIPTIVE WORDS USED TO DESCRIBE THIS
STRUCTURE
"CYLINDER"
"CONICAL"
"CYLINDER"
"CIRCULAR CONE"
"CONICAL STRUCTURE"
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"THERE WERE TWO REALLY STRIKING FEATURES.
THERE WAS THE TALL STEEPLE ... AND THE
CHAPEL BENEATH."
DESCRIPTIVE WORDS USED TO DESCRIBE THE
STEEPLE
"TALL STEEPLE"
"CYLINDER"
"CYLINDER SHAPES"
"CIRCULAR SHAPES"
"CYLINDRICAL TOWER"
NOTE: The descriptive words appear in the order in which
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The overall impression of the steeple is yellow, and
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that would give another means of comparison (in addition to verbal
reports and later photographic records).
c. Selected Comments for a Comparison of the Time Sequence
Reported at the Site with That Reported by the Subject
As mentioned above, the protocol called for outbound
experimenters to make notes during the experiment and to use them to
debrief into a tape recorder just after the experiment. This resulted
in a record of the sequence in which events at the site took place, and
allows that sequence to be compared with the comments put on tape by the
subject during the experiment. This comparison is given in the following:
? Subject
The following is the time sequence taken from the tape recordings
made by Subject G1 during the experiment and during the post-
experiment debriefing:
G1 :
"...looking up to the blue sky. Looks like she (Obi)
was looking up at something that caught her eye."
"Looking down... I'm seeing the ground.. .she's squatting
down looking at something, or kneeling down."
"Like its a something swirled with.. .almost like some-
thing swirled with straight tenacles extending from
it...swirling thing..."
"I get the feeling it's outdoors, but they're protected
in someway from sunlight...it's just a shade."
"A hillside.... This hill is off...
"Fuzzy things.. .it moved, it didn't stay still. If you
took a photograph sometime later, it would be gone and
moved. There's some movement."
"Something roundish, like they were moving like that."
"Not your average pole...it looks like that pole was
metal, like an extruded pipe. It has lines that are
marked..."
? Outbound Experimenters
The following is the actual time sequence at the site taken
from tape recordings made during the post-experiment debriefing
period by 0b2 and Obi_
Obi: "The first thing we did was to walk across...lawn...
stand by the chapel tower, look at the...glass in it...
the tall steeple on the chapel that reached out to the
blue sky."
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The lawn felt cool.... I felt it with my hand."
"Put my hand in the water sprinkler that was on the
lawn...felt very much like rain on my arm."
"Giant trees everywhere."
"Approximately halfway through our time period, we
walked...over to a pond. I saw two beautiful.. .dragon
flies, flying together back and forth across the lilly
pond. The pond is oval in shape."
"I noticed that there were little circles ever widening
outward caused by the movement of the fish. Circles,
circles, circles going outward."
"We went back by the chapel, Obi went over and hugged
one of the giant columns that holds the roof up. Looked
like cement."
Obi: "The main intense feature that one sees is a cylinder
that's conical type structure above the church."
"We saw two sprinklers going in the first part of the
experiment, one twirling around, the other was spraying
out a cone shaped spray."
"We walked over to a..rather large lilly pad (pond) that
was essentially oval in shape. 0b2 noticed two red dragon
flies flying over...and I saw..."
"I threw a mud clod into the water, watched the circles go
out...more pebbles in the water, I noticed the circles
that they made and how they went out. 0b2 was doing the
same thing."
"...the last minute...back to the church...put my arms
around one of the cement pillars and hugged it.. .had
been wrapped with some kind of thing in Which the concrete
was poured..."
"About 11 minutes into the experiment, I was noticing...
many trees around...."
These selected quotes indicate that the subject's time
sequence was very similar to that occurring at the site. This type of
time-sequence comparison has possibilities for studying psi functioning.
D. Tracking Persons Unknown to Subject (Abstract Targeting)
As part of the local remote viewing experiments (distances less
than 10 km), we performed two experiments using a new technique that we
refer to as abstract targeting. Instead of sending a person, known to
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the subject, to the remote site to be viewed via the remote viewing
channel, we provided the subject only with the driver's license of a
person unknown to the subject.
Admittedly, such an experiment seems without basis in logic (at
least with regard to the present scientific paradigm). However, it has
some basis in the anecdotal literature of spontaneous psychoenergetic
functioning when, for example, a kidnap victim is found on the basis of
the victim's belongings being used to assist targeting. With regard to
research in psychoenergetics in general, the possibility of success in
such an experiment also is in accord with the observed goal-oriented
nature of the "laws" that appear to govern such functioning.
In the :two experiments carried out under this abstract targeting
protocol, excellefit results were obtained, comparable to those obtained
under the standard protocol in which a person known to the subject is
used as a target. In the first experiment, the subject correctly de-
scribed the outbound experimenter as sitting quietly in an enclosed
shell-like structure, and the results of the second experiment are shown
in Figure 7.
Thus, the two-experiment pilot effort in this form of abstract
targeting, carried out under controlled laboratory conditions, tends to
substantiate the results observed in field investigations associated
with forensic work. Rather than follow through with more experimentation
in this vein, the emphasis with regard to abstract targeting work was
shifted to geographical coordinates, a potentially more useful targeting
procedure, described later in Section VI.
E. Alphabet Experiments
When targets are chosen from a limited pool that is known to the
subject, he will tend to guess at the target, rather than use his
The possibility that such goal orientation may find support in modern
physical theory has been argued by information-theorist 0. Costa de
Beauregard of the Poincare Institute in France.14
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task was to locate unknown target person, given only his driver's license.
Subject correctly described fenced-in area with road leading to ornamental iron
gate, building at right, and depressed area at left (however, it is covered with
grass, not water; ed). A railroad-tie barrier, not shown in photograph, is located
where subject has indicated a wooden wall. (U)
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remote-viewing capability. Thus it is well known in psychoenergetics
research that "guessing a number from one to ten" is a more difficult
task than, for example, describing a remote scene chosen from an
infinitude of possible locations. This latter task, termed a free-
response task, prevents the subject from attempting to match his pre?
conception of possible targets, with his actual, though perhaps vague,
perception. The problem in the forced-choice matching experiments, as
opposed to the free-response task, is that the subject's stored mental
images are available to him from his memory, and constitute an important
source of "noise" in the remote-viewing channel.
1. Twenty-Trial Tests with Two Subjects
In an eff,ort to determine whether the forced-choice noise
problem could be overcome with experienced subjects, we carried out a
series of twenty "letter guessing" experiments as the first part of a
pilot study. Subjects H1 and Il were located in their respective homes
in Los Angeles and New York City, while the targets were posted daily,
one per day, in a laboratory at SRI in Menlo Park, California.
Both subjects submitted their. lists of twenty letters. The
results were not found to depart from chance expectation.
2. Remote Viewing of Alphabet Letters
A second pilot study alphabet experiment was then carried out
with an inexperienced subject, Si, who had been especially chosen for
this task because the subject reported frequently "reading things"
during dreams, a relatively infrequent occurrence that we hypothesized
may be an indicator of a natural talent for remote viewing.
In these experiments the subject was told to consider alphabet
reading to be the same as remote viewing; that is, rather than try to
guess what the letter was, Subject Si was asked to ignore the fact that
the target was a letter and to describe it as though it was a more
general remote-viewing target. Si was asked to make a drawing and to
describe it in a non-analytic fashion. Someone else would then look at
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the drawings and description and make the final assessment as to what
the target letter was. Si was specifically instructed not to guess the
letter. The experiments were carried out between nonadjacent labs at
SRI to provide sufficient sensory isolation between subject and target
to eliminate spurious information channels. The target letters were
determined by use of a Texas Instruments SR-51 random number generator.
In the first experiment the subject submitted a number of
drawings, including what looked like a series of J's, forward and back-
ward, with heavy markings at the bottom. The subject's final words on
the associated tape recording made during the session were that "...it
could be a 'U' but I don't think so." Nonetheless, experimenter Puthoff,
who was given the subject-generated data on a blind basis, correctly
identified the target letter as a "U" on the basis of all the data taken
together.
The following day a second experiment was done. Subject Si
described a letter "with an acute angle...as though there is a trench...
like a whole stack of V's." The subject drew a pile of overlapping V's.
Again, on a blind basis, experimenter Puthoff correctly identified the
target letter as a V.
In a series of three experiments with subject H1, one of three
target letters was similarly identified. Thus, in this pilot experiment
utilizing a free-response as opposed to a forced-choice protocol, three
letters out of a total of five trials were identified. The- probability
of such an occurrence by chance is less than one in 1500 (p = 5.37 X
10-4)? This suggests that the way to increase the analytical capability
to include written material is to arrange to separate the perception
from the analysis, to encourage the subject to describe only his or her
perceptions, and to follow up by having a different person do the final
analysis on a blind basis.
3. Machine-Generated Targets with Feedback
Based on the results of the two-part pilot study, a third
type of alphabet experiment was pursued utilizing a totally automated
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experimental setup. The subject was asked to approach the task as a
remote-viewing experiment with emphasis on form and shape, with analysis
to play a role only when finally a letter choice had to be made.
Each of the 26 letters of the alphabet was made into a 35-mm
slide so that when back-illuminated by a white light it becomes a target
consisting of a black letter against a white background. These slides
are used in conjunction with a random-number-generator-triggered light
panel that can hold four slides, of which one at a time is backlit in a
random fashion. This panel is located in a laboratory remote from the
subject. An identical panel with pushbuttons for subject choice is
mounted in the subject room. On the subject panel the correct target
slide is not lit until the subject makes his choice, at which time he
is given feedback. (The random-number generator machine has four-stable
internal states, corresponding to each of the four letters. A 1.0-MHz
square-wave oscillator sends pulses to an electronic "scale-of-four"
counter that passes through each of its four states 250,000 times per
second. The state of the counter is determined by the length of time
the oscillator has run--that is, the time between subject choices.) As
soon as the subject indicates his choice, the target slide on his panel
is illuminated to provide visual and Auditory (bell if correct) feedback
as to the correctness or incorrectness of his choice. Until that time,
both subject (and experimenter in the subject location) remain ignorant
of the machine's choice, so the experiment is of the double-blind type.
Five encouraging phrases at the top of the machine face are illuminated
one at a time with increasing correct choices (6, 8, 10, ...) to provide
additional reinforcement. After trial number 25, the machine must be
reset manually by depressing a RESET button.
A methodological feature of the machine is that the choice of
a target is not forced. That is, a subject may press a PASS button
when he wishes not to guess, in which case the machine indicates what
its choice was. The machine thus scores neither a hit nor a trial and
then goes on to make its next selection. Thus, the subject does not
have to guess at targets when he feels that he has no idea as to which
to choose.
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In a study to determine whether this approach was likely to
be useful, a series of four four-letter experiments were carried out
with Subject Il. The results, shown in Table 1, provide evidence for
alphabet reading at a statistically significant level. The overall
probability of obtaining the number of correct guesses by chance exhibited
in this series is less than one in 105 (i.e., p < 10-5).* Therefore,
this technique could be pursued more extensively as a training routine
for alphabet reading.
Table 1
ALPHABET SERIES
(p = 1/4 Random Selection)
Experiment
Target
Letters
Number of
Trials, n
Number of
Hits, H, as
Compared
with Expect-
ad Number,
P,
Statistic,
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Probability,
P
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2
3
4
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200
100
100
100
64 (u = 50)
44 (p = 25)
31 (p = 25)
28 (p = 25)
2.20
4.27
1.27
0.58
0.014
1.07 x 10-5
0.102
0.28
Total
500
167 (p = 125)
4.29
< 10-5
Under the null hypothesis of random binomial choices with probability
1/4 and no learning, the probability of observing k successes in n
trials is obtained by table lookup of the probability of a normal dis-
tribution value
t (k _ n 1
4 /(3n/16)1/2
It is therefore possible to examine a run of alphabet trials and
determine whether the letters are correctly identified significantly
more often than expected by chance.
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The observation that alphabet reading is a more difficult task
than site description is compatible with the hypothesis that psycho-
energetic functioning may involve specialization that is characteristic
of the brain's right hemisphere, which predominates in spatial and other
holistic processing, in contrast to the left hemisphere which predominates
in verbal and other analytical functioning.15-17
Nonetheless the results
obtained in the remote-viewing and machine approaches to reading remote
alphabet characters do indicate a potential for developing acceptable
levels of reliability in reading text for operational purposes. Further
study is required to determine whether this reliability can be achieved
with a reasonable effort.
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V LONG-DISTANCE REMOTE-VIEWING EXPERIMENTS
A. General
Previous SRI work had established a data base of over 50 remote-
viewing experiments with local targets (sites within a few kilometers).23
As part of the program described herein we undertook a series of five
experiments designed to determine whether an increase in subject-target
separation to transcontinental distances would degrade the quality or
accuracy of perception. A major motivation for this effort was the
desire to begin to accumulate data to examine the Soviet hypothesis that
remote viewing is mediated by extremely low-frequency (ELF) electromag-
netic waves. Under this hypothesis, one would expect a degradation in
accuracy as the subject-target distance is increased to several thousand
kilometers; it is claimed that the Soviet data indicate this degradation.6-9
As a secondary goal, we were interested in the real-time data rate--
e.g., determining the extent to which a remote-viewing subject can track
the real-time activities and movements of a known individual in a distant
city. Therefore, the subjects were encouraged to describe real-time
activity during the viewing period.
The methodology with regard to target selection was identical to
that described in Section IV-B. That is, targets were determined either
by random-number generator entry into a previously prepared target list
unknown to subject and experimenters with the subject, or on the basis
of site selection by a sponsor representative.
An interesting additional technique that was employed successfully
in the first two of the five experiments was the use of the DARPA com-
puter teleconferencing network for post-experiment feedback. Access to
the computer by the traveling experimenter was by means of a portable
terminal. The use of the teleconferencing service allows a subject in
one state (e.g., California) to communicate with an experimenter in
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another state?say, New York. The conversational TALK mode available
on the DARPA net was used for this purpose in the following manner.
The subject at SRI and the experimenter on the east coast agreed
(via computer teleconferencing) to begin an experiment in one-half
hour. The purpose of the computer in this experiment was to provide
time- and date-stamped permanent records of all communications between
the various parties involved in the experiment. These data can be read
in real time by any authorized person entering the SRI-AI Tenex (MSG)
system--for example, the sponsor's technical representative.
After logging off the computer, the outbound experimenter would use
a random-number generator to determine which of six locations in the
target area would constitute the target to be visited in this experiment.
Neither the subject nor the experimenter at SRI knew the contents of
the target list, compiled after logging off. Having selected a target
location by the random protocol, the outbound experimenter would proceed
directly to the site and remain there for 15 minutes.
At the previously agreed-upon start time (one-half hour after
breaking computer links) the subject would begin to type impressions
into a special computer file established for this purpose.
When the outbound experimenter returned from the target site to his
hotel, he would make use of a limited-access file to enter his descrip-
tion of the place he actually visited. He would then: return to the
executive level of the computer, and await the appearance of the SRI
experimenters and subject who could then (and only then) link the
New York and Menlo Park terminals. At that time both files would be
printed out on both terminals (and at a third location if desired--for
example, at the sponsor facility), and the subject and the outbound
experimenter would each learn what the other had written.
B. _Menlo Park to New York City (Grant's Tomb)
Two subjects, Si and Gl, both in California, participated simul-
taneously in this experiment at Grant's Tomb, which was the first of
two New York City targets. Both subjects independently provided
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computer-stored records of their impressions, and one made the sketch
shown in Figure 8. (The five possible targets in addition to Grant's
Tomb were a railroad bridge, the 20-story New York University law
library, the fountain in Washington Square Park, the Columbia University
subway station, and the 72nd Street boat basin. The targets were chosen
to be dissimilar, and thus differentiable, by potential judges.)
Subject G1, an SRI systems analyst, said in his opening paragraph:
"Outdoors, large open area, standing on and then off asphalt (rough
material), dark for a path. A white building, like a ticket booth.
Wooden structure, is white in color, and has an arched look about it.
There is a large shade tree close to Russ (outbound experimenter)."
Subject Si, closeted in a separate SRI location, began with: "I
thought of a high place with a view." The subject continued with "I
saw a tree on your left in a brick plaza--it seemed to be in front of a
building you were entering." Later, "I could not clearly identify the
activity. A restaurant? A museum? A bookstore?" And, "You were
looking at coins in the palm of your hand, maybe giving some to Nicky
(son of outbound experimenter)." (For the complete transcript, see
Figure 9.)
The coins were in fact used to purchase the postcard from which
Figure 8 was made, and they were given to the experimenter's son who
made the purchase. Both subjects then went on for an additional para-
graph to describe details of the activities they imagined to be going
on inside the building they saw, details that were partly correct,
partly incorrect.
C. Menlo Park to New York City (Washington Square Fountain)
In the second experiment, the target, again chosen by random pro-
tocol, was the fountain in Washington Square Park. One subject, Si,
participated. The subject produced an exceptionally accurate transcript.
The photos and the subject's drawing of the fountain are shown in Fig-
ure 10. The subject began his printout with the following: "The first
image I got at about the first minute was of a cement depression--as if
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SUBJECT DESCRIBED: "OUTDOORS, LARGE OPEN AREA.... SHADE TREES....
WHITE BUILDING WITH ARCHES."
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EXPERIMENT, 2 JULY 1976. Subject described: "Outdoors, large open area ...
shade trees ... white building with arches." (U)
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MSG -- VERSION OF 1 APRIL 1976
TYPE 1 FOR HELP, ? # FOR NEWS
LAST READ: 2?JUL-76 12:09:34; 7 MSGS, 2 DISK PAGES.
4? TYPE 6:7
(MSG. # 6, 1678 CHARS)
DATE: 2 JUL,1976 1126?PDT
FROM: TARU
SUBJECT: S1'S.REPORT
TO: TARG
RUSSEL ? I THOUGHT OF A HIGH PLACE WITH A VIEW ? DETAILS INCLUDED 3 MI
**VIEWING I SAW A TREE ON YOUR
LEFT IN A BRICK 'PLAZA ? IT SEEMED TO BE IN FRONT OF A
WRONG BUTTON BUILIDING YOU WERE ENTERING ? YOU WAITED AS IF
FOR AN ELEVATOR AND READ SOMETHING ON THE WALL
YOU CAME OUT (OFF THE ELEVATOR) AND THERE WAS A ROOM ON YOUR
LEFT WITH A VIEW ? I COULD NOT CLEARLY IDENTIFY THE ACTIVITY
? A RESTAURANT ? A MUSEUM? ABOOKSTORE? YOU LOOKED AT ASOMETHING
A"CARVING OR MENU OR DIRECTIONS ON A POST BEFORE ENTERING ?
FROM THE ROOM I THOUGHT THERE WAS A VIEW OF A HARBOR OR WATER
ABOUT 1/3 OF THE FRANME ? AT ONE TIME I HAD THE FEELING THAT
YOU WERE LOOKING AT COINS IN THE PALM OF YOUR HAND ? MAYBE GIVING
SOME TO NICKY ? WHICH WERE THEN PUT IN A SLUT ? JUKEBOX? PINBALL??
ALSO THE SUFACE WITH SOMETHING VERTICAL ABOVE SOMETHING REFLECTING
METAL PIPEX OF AN ORGAN (THE ONE I DIDN'T VIEW LAT TIME )
OR OF ROTTLRES AGAINST A MIRROR ? SOMETHING REFLECTING ? THEN
DAVID SNAPPED HIS FINGERS ? I SAW A BASKETBALL' .VERY CLEAR
TACTILE SENSATION FRON A SOMEWHAT TEXTURED GLOBE ? ALSO, ON
ANOTHER SNAP ? THE COLOR RED NOT SHARPLY DEFINED LIQUID OR
FLOWING MATERIAL OR NICKY RACING AROUND IN A RED SHOIRT
ANOTHER SNAP AND D ASKED FOR THE NAME OF THE PLAVCE ?
I.WAS THINKING "BAR" BUT I THREW THAT OUT AS OLD AND 'SAW THE
LETTERS "CH" WHICH I COMPLETED AS "CHILE" OR "CHILI" -- ALSO
ANOTHER SNAP AND THE NAME OF THE THIRRD PERSON ? JOE JOHN OR
GERRY ? IS IT GARY? ? ARUSSELL I S THAT YOU?HI, THAT WAS Si , AND WE
**THE "MSG" STILL, I THINK THAT IT MAY
ABORT!
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DISTANCE REMOTE?VIEWING EXPERIMENT ? TARGET: GRANT's TOMB
IN NEW YORK CITY (U)
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COAST TO COAST REMOTE VIEWING EXPERIMENT
WITH TARGET AT WASHINGTON SQUARE IN NEW
YORK CITY. SUBJECT'S FIRST PERCEPTION WAS
OF A "CEMENT DEPRESSION - AS IF A DRY
FOUNTAIN - WITH A CEMENT POST IN THE
CENTER OR INSIDE".
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a dry fountain with a cement post in the center or inside. There seemed
to be pigeons off to the right, flying around the surface out of the
depression.... At one point I thought you were opening a cellophane
bag...." (The experimenter had in fact bought ice cream during the
experimental period.) "There was also a rectangular wooden framer-a
window frame, but I wasn't sure if it was on a building, or a similar
structure with a different purpose. (A possible correlation from a
functional viewpoint to the Washington Square Arch through which the
outbound experimenters viewed the fountain toward the end of the experi-
mental period.) "All in all I thought you were in Riverside Park...."
(Incorrect analysis.) An SRI scientist, familiar with the New York City
area but blind to the target, did, however, identify the target correctly
on reading the twenty lines of printout as it emerged from the computer
terminal.
As an example of the style of narrative generated by a subject
during a computer teleconferencing experiment, we include the entire
unedited computer-logged text of the Washington Square experiment in
Figure 11.
These experiments provide an elqgant demonstration of the utility
of the teleconferencing process as a secure data recording system to
provide real-time monitoring of long-distance remote-viewing experiments.
In a more detailed tape recording made after the experiment, but
before any feedback, the subject described "cement steps going into the
depression, like a stadium, and the rounded edge of the top of the
depression as you go up to ground level." These descriptions are not
only correct, but also show remarkable detail.
D. Quantitative Analysis of New York City Target Transcripts
In attempting to derive a quantitative estimate of the amount of
valid data in a transcript, we have made a detailed analysis of the
previous two transcripts generated by a single subject during the long-
distance experiments between Menlo Park, California, and New York City.
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