Approved For Release 2001103107 : CIA-RDP96-00789ROO3200160001-9 UNCLASSIFIED PROPOSED DOWNGRADING OF CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS FOR COGNITIVE SCIENCES LABORATORY - VOLUME 2 OF 2 (U) SRI An Application oriented Remote Viewing Experiment (U) 2 SRI An Application Orientated Remote Viewing Experinent (SRI-Project 8339) (U) 3 SRI Geophysical Effects Study (SRI Project 6600) Dec 84 M 4 SRI Geophysical Effects Study (SRI Project 6600) Jul 84) (U) 5 SRI Personnel Identification and Selection (SRI Project 6000) 6 SRI special orientation Techniques (SRI Project 6600) (PA 7 SRI Special Orientation Techniques S-IV (U) (SRI Project 5590 8 SRI Target Search Techniques (U) (SRI Project 6600) 9 SRI special Orientation Technigues S-V, S-VI (U) (SRI Project 6600) 10 SRI Coordinate Remote Viewing (CRV) Technology 11 SRI Computer-Assisted Search (U) (SRI-Project 1291) J 12 SRI Feedback and Precognition - Dependent Remote Viewing Experiments (U) (SRI Project 1291) 13 SRI A Remote Viewing Evaluation Proposal (U) J 14 SRI Free World Psychoenergetics Research Survey (U) 1j 15 SRI NIC Techniques (U) (SRI Project 7560) V 16 SRI Possible Photon Production during a Remote Viewing Task: A Replication Experiment-(Ul 17 SRI Special Orientation Techniques (U) (SRI Project 8465) 18 SRI A Remote Viewinq Evaluation Protocol (U) (SRI Prolect 4028 UNCLASSIFIED Approved For Release 2001103107 : CIA-RDP96-00789ROO3200160001-9 Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00789ROO3200160001-9 DOCUMENT 19 J 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 ORIGINATOR SRI SRI SRI SRI SRI SRI SRI SRI SRI SRI SRI SRI SRI SRI SRI UNCLASSIFIED TITLE An Automated RV Evaluation Procedure (u) (SRI Project 7408-12) A Prototype Analysis system for Special Remote Viewing Task (U) (SRI Project 1291) A Suggested Remote Viewing Training Procedure (U) (SRI Project 1291) Application of Fuzzy Sets to Remote Viewing Analysis (U) (SRI Prolect 1291) Bacterial Mutation Study (U) (SRI Project 7408-10) Enhanced Human Performance Investigation (U) (SRI Project 1291) Enhanced Human Performance Investigation (U) (SRI Prolect 1291) Enhanced Human Perfornance Investigation (U) (SRI Project 1291) Enhanced Human Performance Investigations (U) (SRI Project 7408) Feedback and Target Dependencies in Remote Viewing Experiments (U) (SRI Project 1291) Forced-Chance Remote Viewing (UL (SRI Project 1291) Location of Target Material in Space and Time (U) (SRI Project 1291) Neurophysiological Correlates to Remote Viewin (U) (SRI Project 1291) PSI Communications Experiments_LUA UNCLASSIFIED Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00789ROO3200160001-9 Approved For Release 2001103/07 : CIA-RDP96-00789ROO3200160001-9 Copy of Proposed Downgrading of Classified Documents for Cognitive Sciences Laboratory Volume 2 of 2 (U) un Presented to: Submitted by: Edwin C. May, Ph.D. Science Applications international Corporation Cognitive Sciences Laboratory P.O. Box 1412 Menlo Park, CA 94025 Approved For Release 2001/03/07: CIA-RDP96-00789ROO3200160001-9 J --I ApPrOVUel-For Release 2001/03 LO7 : CIA-RDR@6-00789RO03200160001-9 Final Report April 1989 AN APPLICATION ORIENTED REMOTE VIEWING EXPERIMENT(U) By: L\ \N (S"M d For Re!A@Aq,=jtQ3/,Q@-, QAaRDPSSMMR003@16@;co Internatio al 415 326-6200 e TWX: 910-373-2046 e Telex: 334-486 \ mmz@ I- &)&Joved For Release 2001103/07 Final Report : CIA-RDP96-00789ROO3200160001-9 April 1989 covering he Period , may 19,18 o April 1989 AN APPLICATION EXPERIMENT(U) By: SRI PROJECT 2740 n Internatio roved ORIENTED REMOTE VIEWING Copy 3 of 3 Copies This document consists of 56 pages 333 Ravenswood Ave. Menlo Park, CA 94025 2046 e Telex: 334-486 04 26-6200yo6ykjJ00-373- F Adibase 7: CIA-RDP96-00789ROO3200160001-9 Approved For Release 20063/07 : CIA-ik@P96-00789RO03200160001-9 LIST OF FIGURES (U) 1. viewer 372: Response To Enclosed microwave Generator .............. 11 2. Viewer 372: Response To Details Of The Generator .................... 12 3. Viewer 373: Plan View Of The Target Area I @ I ......................... 13 4. Viewer 372: Possible Response To The Solar Facility ................... 15 S. Viewer 372: Response Details To The Solar Faciliti ................... 16 6. Viewer 009: Possible Response To The Generator .................... 18 LIST OF TABLES (U) 1. Universe of Target And Response Elements (U) .............................. 8 2. Figure of Merit (FM) Summary-A ................ 10 Approved For Release 200 07 : CIA-@@96-00789ROO3200160001-9 1 @41 Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00789ROO3200160001-9 I OBJECTWE (M The objectives of this experiment were to: ]Demonstrate the potential of a novel ,collection technique, known as remote viewing, 0 Determine the degree to which the technique used to analyze remote viewing results is applicable. Approved For Release 2001103107 CIA-RDP96-00789ROO3200160001-9 L Approved For Release 2001103/07 : CIA-RDP96-00789ROO3200160001-9 H BACKGROUND (U) SRI was asked @to participate in an experiment 'conducted during the latter half of August, 1988, at L @in New Mexico. The primary objectives were (1) to demonstrate the remote viewing of I - energy and (2) to apply fuzzy set analysis to interpret the data. A. (U) Remote Viewing (U) Remote viewing (RV) is an apparent human ability to gain access, by mental means alone, to information that is secured by shielding, distance, or time. At least three elements are necessary to conauct an RV experiment: (1) An individual, called a viewer, with RV ability (2) Specific target material (not available to the viewer at the time of the experiment) (3) An analysis technique to determine the degree to which RV occurred In a typical laboratory protocol, a viewer and a monitor-an interviewer who is also unaware of the target material-are sequestered at time To. At To + 5 minutes, an absistant selects the intended target from a large pool of potential targets (e.g., a list of locations within a half-hour drive from the laboratory) using a random procedure. At To + 30 minutes, the assistant is at the selected site and, back at the laboratory, the viewing begins. 'At To + 45-minutes, the viewing ends and the assistant returns to the laboratory. To provide feedback, the viewer, monitor, and assistant return to the selected site and review the RV data. (U) To determine if RV occurred, similar experiments are conducted using a newly selected target for each trial. Usually, the trials are done with target replacement (i.e., each target is returned to Elie pool and may be selected again by the random process). (U) References may be found at the end of this report. 2 Approved For Release 200IL/07: CIA-I@P96-00789RO03200160001-9 Approved For Release@001/03/07 : C@-RDP96-00789ROO3200160001-9 B. (U) Fuzzy Set Analysis (U) Since 1972, SRI has developed many procedures to determine whether information has been obtained beyond chance expectation.6-8 In the current method,9 the targets and viewer's responses are described as fuzzy sets of descriptor elements (e.g., presence of water). The outcome of the RV experiment is measured by a figure of merit, which is related to the accuracy and reliability of the viewer's description of the target. P when RV is applied pthe analysis procedures differ considerably. In laboratory experiments, much is known about the target, but in I Wapplications, very little target information is known. Thus, the analysis technique must be modified in order to assess the "correct" RV response elements before confirming evidence can be obtained. I ). Long-standing difficulties in applying the RV phenomena to intelligence applications are at least twofold. In a lengthy response, those elements ;f genuine I' I significance must be identified a priori. Second, even excellent examples of remote viewing do not necessarily imply I usefulness. Therefore, RV-derived data should be used in conjunction with information'obtained through more conventional channels. 3 Approved For Release 2@01/03/07 : CL "-DP96-00789ROO3200160001-9 I Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00789ROO3200160001-9 III APPROACH (U) (U) SRI conducted a 26-hour RV experiment beginning at 1008 an August 24, 1988. The viewer provided data in four different work periods: at 1008 and 1500 on August 24, and at 0910, and 1120 on August 25. The details of the experiment are described below. A. (U) Remote Viewer SRI selected Viewer V372 to participate in this experiment because of his'* 10-year experience as a viewer, and because he produced good results in the first experiment in this series, conducted in May, 1987. B. (U) Target Material The target was a microwave generating device being tested Included in the target material was the functional aspect relationships among elementsi and the elements themselves. C. (U) Experiment Protocol k ____._The SRI team was given 'the, manie of the experiment, a time window during which the experiment would be active, and a photograph and Social Security number of an on-site individuwl. Other than this, all aspects and details of the experiment were withheld from V372 and SRI personnel. (U) To keep the identify of the viewer confidential, we refer to the viewer with the pronouns he and his regardless of the viewer's gender. 4 Approved For Release 2001/ 7: CIA-RD 00789ROO3200160001-9 0@!o AP9 - Approved For Release 200@0_3/07 : CIA- P96-00789ROO3200160001-9 Four sessions were conducted to provide information. The times and circumstances were as follows: (1) 1008 August 24 V372 was asked to describe the location and details of an event in progress. Details about pertinent personnel were also requested. (2) IZOO AugMst 24 V372 was asked to describe details and activity at. the site demarked by the presence of the sponsor's on-site representative. (3) 0910 August 25 V372 was asked to expand upon his descriptions from the previous day. (4) 1120 Auaust 25 V372 was asked consolidate the information from the previous scans and to provide his concluding remarks. During each session, V372's responses were tape-recorded. He was encouragtd to draw details whenever possible. Drawings are contained in Appendix 4, and Appendix B contains verbatim transcripts of all four sessions. (Because of technical difficulties, most of the taped record of the second session was lost. Since the remaining data are intact and since the drawings from the remaining viewings are complete, this gap is not significant.) After all raw data had been delivered to the sponsor, V372 and SRI personnel were allowed to visit the target site for feedback. D. (U) Analysis Technique As discussed in Section II, quantitative analysis in an intelligence setting poses problems. Any analysis of remote viewing data must be accomplished within the context of a mission statement. An analysis designed only to-demonstrate RV is inadequate to enable an 6 assessment, and vice versa. Under another program,Q SRI developed a generalized analysis technique that allows for an a priori mission statement. An overview of that technique follows. 5 Approved For Release 200 /07 : CIA, 96-00789ROO3200160091 -9 7- ---- ---- @T Approve .d For Release 2001/0 @/07: CIA-RDP -00789ROO3200160001-9 ,@6 1. (U) Definitions The most important aspect of RV data analysis is the definition of both the target and the Rv response. For this analysis, all target and response information is defined as the fuzzy sets T and R, respectively. Each is described below. I OThe target is defined as a fuzzy set of target elements T[ek,gk,wk] : 0 ek is an element of a target. For example, an element Of the microwave generator target might be the concept of antenna efficiency. 0 1 juk is the membership value of element ek. It represents the degree to which ek is present at the target. Antenna efficiency, for example, might have a membership value of 0.6, indicating that antenna efficiency is 60% of the target material. Determined subjectively, ;Lk is always a valpe from 0 to 1. 0 Wk is an arbitrary weightingfactor for element ek. This factor accounts for differing missions by assigning the importance of elements relative to each other. The '-energy aspect of the microwave generator is very @M_rtant, for example, and might be assigned a weight of 5 when compared with power supplies, which might have a weight of 0.5. -The RV response is similarly defined as a fuzzy set of response elements R[ek,Ak,Wk). The membership values for response elements, however, have a somewhat different meaning than those for target elements. membership values, Ak. represent an -analyst's @assessment as to the degree of presence of ekin the response. For declarative statements, Ak- 1 unless a viewer volunteers a specific or implied importance of ek to the overall target. A degree of interpretation is allowed for nondoclarative statements by letting Rk< 1. The response weights, Wk, are identical to the target weights. ;-,)We def ine accuracy as the percent of target material described correctly by a response. Likewise, we define reliability (of a viewer) as the percent of a response that is correct. The figure of merit is the product of the two; to obtain a high figure of merit, a viewer's description of a target must be largely correct and contain few extraneous images. In Approved For Release 2001/OC07: CIA-RDP79@6- 0789ROO3200160001-9- Approved For Release 20@1_103107 CIA-@P96-00789ROO3200160001-9 fuzzy set terminology, these quantities for the ith target/response pair are as follows: Fj wv. (Ri n T)1, Accuracy, = a, .1 Wk TJ, k k Reliability r J T, wl, (R, n T)k k and Z wk Rj.k k Figure of merit J mJ - a x r The sum over k is called the sigma count in fuzzy set terminology. The sigma count is defined as the sum of the membership values, g, for the elements of the response, target, and their intersect ion-that is, Rj, Tj, and (Rjn Tj), respectively. 2. (U) Target and Response Data The universe of target and response elements is drawn from the August, 1988, experiment. We define three element categories: functions, relationships, and objects. These categories are weighted 1.0, 0.75, and 0.50, respectively. (U) Table I shows the universe of target and response elements and the formal definition of T and R. All scans were considered together, rather than scan by scan. The various scaling weights are shown in parentheses adjacent to the appropriate factors. The relative weights are derived from SRI's best assessment of the operational utility of each element. The response membership values, R(g), were determined from the raw data (see Appendices A and B). The target membership values, T(g), were determined by SRI personnel during a site visit in September, 1988. AN elements, however, were determined by an SRI analyst post hoc in order to allow a more accurate assessment of reliability. Elements derived from the response were taken literally. Those elements having no corresponding element in the target (i.e., T(g) = 0) were assigned the average weight of elements present in the target. 7 Approved For Release @0:0, 6 -RDP96-00789ROO3200160001-9 1/03/07 I Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00789ROO3200160001-9 Table 1 (U) UNIVERSE OF TARGET AND RESPONSE ELEMENTS Element w T(g) R(A) Functions (1.0) High-power microwave production 5 1 0.8 EMI component testing 2 1 0.8 Destructive testing of electronics 2 1 1 Ground focal area 1.73 0 1 Testing a concept-debugging 1 0.3 1 Distributed for catching something evenly I 1 1 Defensive function 1 1 1 Collecting data for later analysis 0.1 1 1 Relationships (0.75) Source enclosed in a trailer 5 1 0.7 People away from test site 4 1 1 Targets I krn from source 3 1 0.5 Energy exit enclosure 3 1 1 Multiag@ncy participation 2 1 0 Permanent building connected to temporary one 1.9 0 1 Two spherical mirrors connected together 1.9 0 1 Fibers outside edge 1.9 0 1 Large, semicircular shape with block 1.9 0 1 Multiple support trailers 1 1 0.3 Power generator, 50 m north I 1 0 30-degree beam divergence I 1 1 Horn-shape at end of 4x6-cm pipe 1 1 0.8 Inner and outer wrapping 1 0.2 1 Device is of "human" dimensions 0.5 1 1 Airstrip away from mountains 0.25 1 1 8 Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00789ROO3200160001-9 Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00789ROO3200160001-9 Table 1, Continued (U) UNIVERSE OF TARGET AND RESPONSE ELEMENTS Element w T( g) R(IL) Objects (0.50) Microwave generator (tubular 3 m) 5 1 0.7 Pulsed operation 4 1 1 Peak power -200 MW 4 1 0.8 Extremely short duration 4 1 1 4X6-inch wave guides 3 1 0.8 Conic horn antenna 3 1 0.7 Frequency of I GHz 3 1 0 10-Angstrom wavelength 3 0.05 1 People optimizing device 3 1 1 Incoherent wave front 3 0.1 1 Lots of massive coils 3 1 1 Circuit boards as targets 3 1 1 Support.vacuum equipment 2 1 0.6 Diagnostic E&M hardware 2 1 0.6 People collecting data 2 1 1 Magnifichtion 2 1 1 Cavity 2 1 1 Double tower with antennae 1.74 0 1 Heating metal to vapor 1.74 0 1 Like spherical WWII mine 1.74 0 1 Buried sensors 1.74 0 1 Lots of ovals 1.74 0 1 Bunch of polished mirrors 1.74 0 1 Spokes from "clam" shape 1.74 0 1 Constant mirror tuning 1.74 0 1 Power supplies 1 1 0.6 Electrical/optical cables 1 1 1 Two-axle, white trailer for source 1 1 0.3 Optical digitizer 1 1 0 Tens of people 1 1 1 Changes of state 1 0.3 1 Molecular disintegration 1 0.2 1 Collector fibers 1 0.1 1 Three-step function in rapid succession 1 0.3 1 Uses large amount of energy 1 0.1 1 Capacitor storage I I I Tubes carrying fluid 1 1 1 Lifesaver-like objects 1 0.2 1 Plasma 1 0.1 1 Flat desert 0.5 1 1 Distant mountains 0.5 1 1 Hot 0.5 1 1 Dry 0.5 1 1 Starburst, lightening discharge 0.5 0.1 1 Death ray 0.5 0.1 1 Football-field-size area-open ended 0.5 0.6 1 Square block 0.5 0.1 1 Earthbound experiment 0.5 1 1 Approved For Release 2001/03/07 CIA-RDP96-00789ROO3200160001-9 Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00789ROO3200160001-9 IV RESLTLIS AND DISCUSSION (U) Table 2 shows the figure-of-merit analysis for the experiment using the fuzzy sets defined in Table 1. The target was the microwave generator, support equipment, and testing environment. The target-response intersection is shown as IT n RI , and the sigma counts of the target and response sets are shown as ITI and IRI, respectively. N is the number of elements that were identified for each category. All quar@ tities include the relative weights shown in Table 1. 'The weighted accuracy total of 0.80 (i.e., 80% of the identifiable; elements at the target site were correctly described by V372) agrees well with the qualitative correspondence shown in Figures 1 and 2.* Figure 3 shows V372's drawing of a plan view of the target area, which appears to match the experimental situation almost exactly. The figures of 7erit show that, since the first experiment in this series, V372's ability to sense functions and objects has increased modestly, and his ability to sense relationships has increased by a factor of four. The relatively low value of 0.57 for the combined (weighted by the category weighting factors) target elements is consistent with the elaborate nature of V372's response (see the original response in Appendices A and B). Table 2 FIGURE OF MERIT SUMMARY' Element Type N ITnRi ITI IRI Acc. Rel. M FUNCTIONS 8 10.00 11.40 12.43 0.88 0.80 0.70 RELATIONSHIPS 16 15.05 21.95 23.45 0.69 0.64 0.44 OBJECTS 48 46.20 56.70 72.92 0.82 0.63 0.52 TOTAL 72 0.80 1 0.65 W) All figures are to betaken as indicators of qualitative correspondence. Thedrawingsand photographs have been selected to illustrate the correspondence. I Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00789ROO3200160001-9 Approved For Releas 01,03/07 CIA-9D@96-00789RO03200160001-9 e 2L R Act abs Ato E-Wik awck@ elease /03/07: CIA-R Approved For R COO 1 _@D 96-00789ROO3200160001-9 FIGURE1 VIEWER372: RESPONSE TO ENCLOSED MICROWAVE GENERATOR Approved For Release 2001/ 7: CIA-RD -00789ROO3200160001-9 '16 70 3 Ap Ji qQ 6J 12 d For Release 2001/ 7 CIA,-F796-00789ROO3200160001'-9 70. cr_ 0 cr LLJ z ui LU LL 0 LU 0 0 LU En z 0 LU cr cn w LU > c14 LU cc LL Approved For Release 2OC01/03/07 CI)A-kDP96-00789ROO3200160001-9 .Ao- foor @ r- C,mm;f mL FIGURE 3 VIEWER 372: PLAN VIEW OF THE TARGET 13 Approved For Release 1/03/07 RDP96-00789ROO3200160001-9 Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00789ROO3200160001-9 k viewer 372 responded to the primary target with a single concept that was mostly correct, but with a significant number of incorrect elements. As can be seen in the response (Figures 1 through 3 and Appendix B), V372 recognized that the device is "some kind of gun" that emits a high-power, short-duration electromagnetic pulse. This description, however, is embedded in approximately 30% incorrect material (i.e., noise). A persistent problem in RV is the boundary of the intended target location. The experiment was 7-p6 At a, -Z AZ@ C- approximately 15 km south of the main runway at ')@nd 5 km west of an experimental solar energy collecti on facility. Also in the area were electromagnetic pulse evaluation stations with their associated large antennae. In the formal analysis of this experiment, all data were considered a response to the intended target. ....... certain elements of It is tempting, however, to I V3721 s data as responses to the solar collection facility. Such post hoc assessment is always risky, but in this case the qualitative correspondence is quite striking. For example, on page B-7 of the transcript, V372 recognizes 11 . a bunch of mirrors, some kind of polished metal mirrors . . . 11 but is unable to recognize two distinctly different high-technology areas. This two-fold theme is intermingled throughout -the response. Figures 4 and 5 show the correspondence of some of these response elements to the nearby solar collection facility. i The access road to the Prancer experiment passes directly adjacent to the solar facility. During the feedback phase of-the experiment, V372 and the experiment team were fascinated with this complex and stopped for a moment on the way to the 7experimental area. The degree to which distracting elements (unrelated to the target) affects the data is a current research topic. 14 Approved For Release 2001/02@@7 ~--CTA--RDP9~~789ROO3200160001-9 Approved For Release 2QR1_-/03/07 : C.1,A-RDP96-00789ROO3200160001-9 a kow D Fo cA,4- A k0A - FOAL of SP=-CtF1e-A,tAA 4A I D 00 M" s o 1jrT4 t"o FIGURE 4 VIEWER 372: POSSIBLE RESPONSE TO THE SOLAR FACILITY 15 Approved For Release @001/03/07 C@IA RDP96-00789ROO3200160001-9 Approved For Release 2001/@3/07 CIA-RD 96-00789ROO3200160001-9 Off, 0V BMW FIGURE5 VIEWER372: RESPONSE DETAILS TO THE SOLAR FACILITY 16 Approved For Release 2001/0r7 CIA-RDP9 -00789ROO3200160001-9 L Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : Cl"- DP96-00789ROO3200160001-9 'After SRI personnel had been debriefed about the target, a second long-term participant, V009, was asked to view the same event. He was told to provide whatever information he could about an event that had taken place approximately two weeks earlier. viewer V009 was told nothing else about the nature of the target or target event, and he worked without an RV monitor. .Since this was an ad hoc test, not intended to be part of the series, we have not conducted a formal analysis of V009's response. Qualitatively, however, V009 appeared to do as well as V372, given that he remained in session, unmonitored, for only 20 minutes. Figure 6 shows one part of his drawing response that captures V009's theme. Interestingly, V009 also appeared to be confused by the multitude of potential target material in the immediate area. He drew an airport and recognized that it was not the intended target. 17 Approved For Release @a_1/03/07 : C`l_RDP96-00789ROO3200160001-9 Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00789ROO3200160001-9 18 Approved For Release 2001/03/07 CIA-RDP96-00789ROO3200160001-9 ER 009: pOSSIBLE REsPONSE TO THE FIGURE 6 VIEW Approved For Release 2C@1/03/07 : Cl DP96-00789ROO3200160001-9 V CONCLUSIONS (U) Viewer V372 was asked to use RV to describe the activity of Project 'during August 24 and 25, 1988. He described approximately 80% of the identifiable target elements correctly, and 71% of his responses corresponded with the intended target. Although 29% noise remains, if this experiment'had been an actuali )activity, the noise probably would not have been a significant distracting factor. 19 Approved For Release 20 71, 3/07: CIA TP96-00789ROO3200160001-9 I Approved For Release 20( 1/03/r47'- CIA-RDP9 0789ROO3200160001-9 'T_ ! I REFERENCES (U) 1. Puthoff, H. E. and ar@, 'iPerceptual Augmentation Techniques (U)," Final Report, T "I t SRI Project 3183, S@ t.Rerna onal, Menlo Park, California (December 1975) 2. Puthoff, H. E. and arg, R., "A Perceptual Channel for Information Transfer Over Kilometer Distances: istorical Perspective and Recent Research," Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. 64, No. 3 (March 1976) IJNCLASSIFIED. 3. Puthoff, H. E., et al., Advanced Threat Technique Assessment (U)," Final Report, SRI Project 5309, SRI International, Menlo Park, California (October 1978) 4. Jahn, R. G., "The Persistent Paradox of Psychic Phenomena: An Engineering Perspective," Procee ' 8s of the IEEE, Vol. 70, No. 2, pp. 136-170 (1982). UNCLASSIFIED 5. Puthoff, @. E., "RV eliability, Enhancement, and Evaluation (U)," Final Report, SRI Project 4028-1- S I International, Menlo Park, California (January 1984) 6. May, E. C., "A Rem te Viewing Evaluation Protocol (U)," Final Report (revised), SRI Project 4028, SRI Int rnational, Menlo Park, California (July 1983) 7. May, E. C., Humph ey, B. S., and Puthoff, H. E., "An Automated RV Evaluation Procedure (U)," Fin I Report, SRI Project 7408, SRI International, Menlo Park, California (May 1985 8. May, E. C., Humph ey, B. S., and Mathews, C., "A Figure of Merit Analysis for Free-Response Mat rial," Proceedings of the 28th Annual Convention of the Parapsychological As ociation pp. 343-354, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts (August 1985) UNC ASSIFI@D. 9. Humphrey, B. S., T ask, V. V., May, E. C., and Thomson M. J., "Remote Viewing Evaluation Techniqu s (U)," Final Report-Objective A, Task-4, SRI Project 1291, SRI International, Menlo Park, California (December 1986) 20 Approved For Release 2001/03@: CIA-RDP@-00789ROO3200160001 &9 ved For Release 2001103/07 Final Repor, 0 AN APPLICATION EXPERIMENT (U) TInternati roved Z,2@ @20@01.60001,S 333 Ravenswood Ave. menlo Park, CA 94025 e§5 326-620@ & @7d@ffi-373-2046 a Telex: 334-486 0 Fo elease 00 7: CIA-RDP96-00789ROO C)@ I D @$L 3 CIA-RDP96-00789ROO3200160001-9 April 1986 ORIENTED REMOTE VIEWING or Release 2001103107 : CIA-RD(@6-00789ROO@00160001-9 Final Report covering the Period I May 1987 to April 1988 AN APPLICATION ORIENTED REMOTE VIEWING EXPERIMENT (U) SRI Project 8339 April 19Z copy .... of ... Copies. This document consists of 55 pages. FTh is oe Ved For Release 2001/03/07 CIA-RDP96-00789@03L, 60001-9 Approved For Release @0_i/03/07 Cl@RDP96-00789ROO3200160001-9 LIST OF FIGURES (U) 1. (U) Baylands Nature Interpretive Center, with RV Response ................. 5 2. (U) Part of the 0800 Response Compared with Photograph of the Altamont .... 14 Wind-Power Electric Generator Farm 3. (U) Part of the 0800 Response Compared With the West Gate of LLNL ....... 15 4. (U) Part of the 0800 Response Compared with a Map of the Livermore Area .. 16 LIST OF TABLES (U) 1. (U) Universe of Target/Response Elements ............................... 10 2. Figure of Merit (FM) Summary- ................ 13 iv Approved For ReleasC2001/03/07 -:Cl~-RDP96-00789ROO3200160001-9 I Approve .d For Release 2001/03/6 : CIA-RDP91-00789ROO3200160001-9 I OBJECrIVE (M -A The objectives of this experiment were to: Demonstrate the potential of a novel.@ I-collection technique, known as remote viewing, Determine the degree to which a specific analysis technique is applicable. Approved For Release 2001/03/@@ : CIA-RDPj9-OO789ROO3200160001-9. Approved For Release 2 t /03/07 : Cl@RDP96-00789RO03200160001-9 H BACKGROUND (U) (U) Since 1972, SRI International has been investigating remote viewing (RV)--an apparent human ability to gain access, by mental means alone, to information that is secured by shielding, distance, or time.'-r,* At least three elements are necessary to conduct an RV experiment: (1) An individual, called a viewer, with an RV ability, (2) Specific target material (not available to the viewer at the time of the experiment), and (3) An analysis technique to determine the degree to which RV occurred. In a typical protocor, a viewer and a monitor--an interviewer who is also unaware of the target material--are sequestered at time To. At To + 5 minutes, an assistant selects the intended target by accessing a large pool of potential targets (e.g., a list of locations within a half-hour drive from the laboratory) using a random procedure. At To + 30 minutes, the assistant is positioned at the selected site and, back at the laboratory, the viewing begins. At To + 45 minutes, the viewing ends and the assistant returns to the laboratory. To provide feedback, the viewer, monitor, and 'the assistant, return to the selected site and review the RV data. (U) To determine if RV occurred, a number of similar experiments are conducted using a newly selected target for each trial. Usually, the trials are done with target replacement (i.e., each target is returned to the pool and may be selected again by the random process). Since 1972, many procedures have been developed to determine whether information has been obtained beyond chance expectation.6-8 In the current method,9 the targets and responses are described as fuzzy sets of descriptor elements (e.g., water is present). An RV figure of merit is related to the normalized intersection of the target set and the response set. When RV is applied', the analysis procedures vary considerably. In laboratory experiments, much is known about the target, but in T applications very little target information is known. Thus, the analysis technique must be modified in (U) References may be found at the end of this report. 2 Approved For Release 1/03/07 .,@Af DP96-00789ROO3200160001-9 Approved For Release 2001103/07 CIA-RDP96-00789ROO3200160001-9 d order to assess the ,correct,, Rv response elements before confirming evidence can be obtained. i we were asked ,)to participate in an experiment conducted during May, 1987 E of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory -lusing the advanced test accelerator (ATA). The primary objectives were to demonstrate remote viewing and to apply fuzzy set technology in the analysis of the data. SRI's activity occurred over a 24-hour period beginning at 0860 on May 7, 1987. 3 Approved For Release 2001/03/07': CIA-RDP96-00789ROO3200160001-9 Approved For Release 20 L1/03/07 : OW4@)P96-00789RO03200160001-9 III M=OD OF APPROACH M (U) SRI conducted a 27-hour RV experiment beginning at 0800 on May 7, 1987. The viewer provided data in four different work periods spaced at 8-hour intervals. The details of the experiment are described below. A. (U) Selection of a Remote Viewer SRI selected Viewer V372 to participate in this experiment because of his/her 10-year experience as a viewer. In 1979, V372 was calibrated at SRI a's part of a "technology" transfer investigation and found to posselss an RV ab ility.10 Since then, V372 has participated in approximately Mo@ RVs. Since SRI does not have access to most of those data, we conducted a second calibration series, as part of another program, during FY 1986. In the 1986 calibration series, the target material was !sites within a half-hour drive from SRI. A protocol was used that was similar to the one described above, and a total of 12 RV sessions were conducted over two weeks. Remote viewing results of the series were found to be statistically significant and Figure 1 shows one of the three most successful sessions, It is beyond the scope of this report to describe this calibration series in detail, but the two@other-successful responses were of the same quality as shown in Figure 1. B. (U) Target Material The primary target was the ATA facility4l,_ In particular, the accelerator itself was targeted during operation with an external beam. 4 Approved For Release 24 tADP96-00789R003200160001-9 6/03/9-7 Approved For Release 2001/6/07: CIA-RDP96-00789ROO3200160001-9 i we have also identified targets of lesser interest in the environment. we have designated a wind-power electric generator farm at kA@-@-\ -@A-V'T 0A>-1-J Altamo)at Pass but adjacent tol -, hs a secondary target, and the m@ ain complex, which is farther away geographically but is functionally associated withc as a tertiary target. The intent of this RV experiment was to obtain as much inform ation as possible about the target environment in general and ATA external beam operation in particular. C. (U) Experiment Protocol Viewer 372 and a viewing monitor were aware that the target material was of@ significance and was located within the greater San Francisco Bay area. They were told that an individual t _.___....i1-#described by name and Social Security numbel was in the target area during the viewing sessions, and that two members of the SRI stafV(known to V372 and the monitor) would serve as a "beacon" and would be at the specific target of interest between 2200 hours on May 7 and 0800 hours on May 8, 1987. (The purpose of the "beacon" person is to define the target area. Our past experience has shown that viewers rarely describe the experiences of the "beacon.") Other than this, all .aspects and details of the experiment were withheld from V372 and the monitor. The San Francisco Bay Area is rich in target possibilities. For example, there are many aerospEkce companies, semiconductor manufacturing facilities, particle accelerators (e.g., Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory complex, Stanford Linear Accelerator), radar installations, military air fields, and Naval bases. Thus t was 0felt 7_"41 CiL that to have the viewer know that the target was of j, interest and was in the greater Bay Area would not compromise the experiment. --o Four sessions were conducted to provide information at approximately 8-hour intervals during May 7, 1987. The time and circumstances are as follows: (1) 0800 May 7--V372 was asked to describe the geographical area, and the gestalt of the area of interest. He/she was 6 Approved For Release 2001 /0 L/O7 CIA-RD_P@ @-O 789ROO3200160001-9 L _j Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00789ROO3200160001-9 also asked to provide as much detail as possible in real time (i.e., at 0835), and was targeted upon the sponsor's on-site representative. At this time, the representative was sleeping (approximately 2 miles from@, -- -, after having been awake the entire previous night. fl@@+6A @A tMD7@- @ 0-)% (2) 1010 May 7--V372 was asked to describe details and activity at the site designated by the sponsor-s on-site representative as of 0000 hours May 7 (the previous night). (3) 1600 May 7--V372 was asked to describe details and activity in real time at the site designated by the sponsor's on-site representative. At this time, this individual was eating dinner (approximately 2 miles from @---. (4) 2400 May 7--V372 was asked to describe details and activity at the site designated by two SRI personnel in real time. 1During each session, V372's responses were tape recorded and he/she was encouraged to draw details whenever possible. Drawings are contained in Xppendix A, and Appendix B contains verbatim transcripts of the last two sessions and portions of the first two. (Because of technical difficulties, most of the taped record of the first two viewings was lost. Since the remaining data are intact and since the drawings from the first two viewings are complete, this gap is not significant.) D. (U) Analysis Technique vAs discussed in Section II, quantitative analysis@ 14 poses problems. Any analysis of remote viewing data must be accomplished within the context of a mission statement.. A system that is designed to demonstrate remote viewing is inadequate to enable an assessment and vice versa. A generalized analysis system that allows for a defined apriori mission statement has been developed under another program,9 and a brief overview of it follows. 1. (U) Definitions @,The most important aspect of any RV data analysis is the definition of the target and the RV response. For this experiment, the target is defined as a fuzzy set of target elements T[ek,gk,Wk] . The kth element, ek, in the set is defined by its membership value, Rk,on the 7 Approved For Release 2@103107: Cm@_DP96-00789RO03200160001-9 Approved For Release 2001/03@,7 : CIA-RDIOIO~-'-00789ROO3200160001-9 closed-interval [0, 1] . The Ak always represents the degree to which ek is present at the target. For example, suppose that the target is the ATA facility, and the target element under consideration is the concept of "testing shielding effectiveness." Its membership value, which is detIrmined subjectively, is 0.2 indicating that only 20% of that concept app ies to this target. To allow for differing missions, Wkis an arbitrary weighting factor. A% simulation requires that certain elements be more important than others. For example, the -energy aspect is very important and is assigned a weight of 5 compared to a cooling tower with a weight of 0.5. The RV response is similarly defined as a fuzzy set of response elements R[ek,Ak,Wk] .The membership values for response elements, however, have a somewhat different meaning than those for target elements. Thd Akrepresent the analyst's assessment as to the degree of presence (on the closed interval [0,1]) of ekin the response. For declarative statements, Ak- 1 unless V372 volunteers a specific or implied importance to the overall target. A degree of interpretation is allowed for non-declarative statements by letting Ak< 1. The response Wk are identical to the target Wk. For the purpose of analysis, all target and response information is defined as the fuzzy sets T and R, respectively. 1@@ L We have defined Accuracy as the percent of the target material that was described correctly by a response. Likewise, we have defined ReliabilAty (of the viewer) as the percent of the response that was correct. The FM is the product of the two; to obtain a high FM, a viewer has to describe a large portion of the target material correctly in as parsimonious a way as possible. In fuzzy set terminology, these quantities for the ith target/response pair are as follows: 8 Approved For Release 2001/03@,7 ' CIA-RDP9 -00789ROO3200160001-9 Approved For Release @01103107 : C@@RDP96-00789ROO3200160001-9 Accuracyj = a J = Reliability = r = i J and Fa Wk (Rj n T)k k Fa Wk Tj,k k Wk (Rj n T)k k Z Wk Ri,k k Figure of Merit, - Mi = a J x r J The sum over k is called the sigma count in fuzzy set terminology, and is defined as the,sum of the membership values, g, for the elements of the response, target, or their intersect ion--i. e. , Rj, Tj, and (RjnTj) , respectively. 2. (U) Target and Response Data -,The universe of target/response elements are drawn from the May 7, 1987, ATA experiment. We have defined three element categories; functions, relationships, and objects. These categories are used to guide the weighting factors (i.e., the default weights are 1.0, 0.50, and 0.25, respectively), and are used as multipliers of the relative weights to form the Wk. (U) With such a complex response, a number of options are available for analysis. Rather than analyzing the data scan by scan, all scans were considered together to provide the response input to the universe of elements. (U) Table I shows the universe of target/response elements and the formal definition of T and R. The various scaling weights are shown in parentheses adjacent to the appropriate factors. The relative weights are derived from SRI's best assessment of the operational utility of each element. The response membership values, R(IL), were determined from the raw data (see Appendices A and B). The target membership values T(A), were determined by SRI personnel prior to the start of the experiment. A few elements, however, 9 Approved For Release @1001103107 ,,,r~-RDP96-00789ROO3200160001-9 Approved For Release 2001/03/ CIA-RDP96 00789ROO3200160001-9 (U) were determined by an SRI analyst on a post hoc basis in order to allow for a more accurate assess;inent of reliability. Table I (U) UNIVERSE OF TARGET/RESPONSE ELEMENTS Element w T( A) R(A) PRIMARY ELEMENTS (1.0) Functions (1.0) -f@ energy 5 1 0.9 11 Electron accelerator 3 1 1 OperatiQn in air 3 1 1 Test experiment 2 1 1 High intensity electron beam production 2 1 1 Problem§ -related to vacuum/air 2 1 1 Destructive beam that dissipates quickly in air I 1 1 Beam ionizes air 1 1 0.6 Two experiments: one local, one not I 1 1 Calibration exercises 1 1 0.4 Testing penetration power in air 0.5 0.8 1 Emulation for a much larger scale device 0.5 0.5 1 Ultimate aim is to destroy missile parts 0.5 0.5 1 Testing shielding effectiveness 0.5 0.2 1 Electronics survivability testing 1 0 1 Testing new form of laser 1 0 1 Operation in space 1 0 1 Satellite detection is difficult 1 0 1 Nuclear production of electrons to excite new laser 1 0 1 Output results from nuclear process 1 0 1 Controlled explosion 1 0 1 Laser output in microwave 1 0 1 Relationships (0.75) Power source above beam line 0.75 1 0 Linear array of buildings 0.75 1 0.1 Tunnel under buildings 0.75 1 0.5 One-story building@ 0.75 1 0.3 Curvilinear beam line 0.75 1 0.2 Electrons flow through beam line 0.75 1 0.7 Test equipment both sides of target building 0.75 0.5 1 E&M radiation < 10 Angstroms 0.75 0.1 1 Ignition at core of sphere 0.75 0 1 Energy radiates out and is reflected back into sphere 0.75 0 1 15-foot diameter sphere 0.75 0 1 Pipes into and out of sphere 1 0.75 f 0 1 1 1 10 Approved For Release 2001/03 LO@ CIA-RDPJ-00789ROO3200160001'-9 0 @10 Mr- MAMR Approved For Release 20 @P96-00789ROO3200160001-9 Table 1, Continued (U) UNIVERSE OF TARGET/RESPONSE ELEMENTS Element w T( g) R(g) PRIMARY ELEMENTS (1.0), continued Objects (0.5) External electron beam 2.5 1 0 Very dangerous to humans 2.5 1 1 Atmosphere "glows" when operating 2.5 1 1 Multiple teams of people 2 1 1 E&M radiation I I I High security area 1 1 1 Beam visible in air 1 1 1 Electron injector 1 1 0.5 Tunnel I I I Electric -power 0.5 1 1 Control room 0.5 1 0 Monitoring equipment 0.5 1 1 Piping 0.5 1 0.7 Vacuum 0.5 1 1 ATA facility (buildings) 0.5 1 0.4 Shielding 0.5 1 1 Power substation 0.5 1 0.2 Cooling towers 0.5 1 0 Massive door 0.5 1 0 External piping 0.5 1 0 Laser 0.5 1 1 Control computer 0.5 1 0.9 Electron beam 0.5 1 1 Timing is critical 0.5 1 1 Hard target 0.5 0.4 1 Loud noise 0.5 0.3 1 Wave guide 0.5 0.2 1 Free electron laser (not operating) 0.3 1 0.2 Coherent wave 0.3 0.3 1 Roads 0-.1 . I I Two events 0.1 0.5 1 Film presentation 0.1 0.1 0.5 Hollow polished (internal) sphere 0.5 0 1 Bundled metal rods 0.5 0 1 1 11 Approved For Release 2doi 3/Q7 &@-JRP96-00789ROO3200160001-9 Approved For Release 2001Z/07 : CIA-R.E@96-00789RO03200160001-9 Table 1, Continued (U) UNIVERSE OF TARGET/RESPONSE ELEMENTS Element w T(g) R(g) SECONDARY ELEMENTS (0-50) Functions (1-0) @Wind-power electricity generation 2.5 1 0.9 R elationships (0-75) Poles scattered in hills 0.75 @Poles connected in a grid 1.13 1 1 Objects (0.5) 1 Foothills 0.25 1 1 Electrical grid 0.25 1 1 Rotating blades 0.25 1 0.8 Multiple wind generators 0.25 1 1 TERTIARY, ELEMENTS (0.25) Functions 0.0) Multipurpose laboratory complex 1.3 1 0.8 Six-story administration building 1 1 1 R elationships (0.75) , T-shaped, six-story building 0.6 1 1 Round-topped building just east of tall building 0.2 1 0.4 Swimming pool north and east of tall building 0.2 1 0 Large parking lot just west of tall building 0.2 1 1 Linear array of trees adjacent to parking lot 0.2 1 1 Larage, segmented, one-story building complex 0.5 0.2 1 0.2 mile north of tall building Main roads bordering complex 0.2 1 1 City to west of complex 0.2 1 1 Main entrance at west of complex 0.2 1 0.7 Laboratory is two miles from city 0.2 1 1 City is north of laboratory 0.2 0.5 1 Air field is southeast of laboratory 0.2 1 0.6 Mountains surround laboratory 0.2 0.6 1 Freeway is north of laboratory 0.2 1 1 Objects (0.5) Tall building 0.3 1 1 Parking lot 0.1 1 1 Linear array of trees 0.1 1 1 Road 0.1 1 1 Many buildings 0.1 1 1 Main entrance 0.1 1 1 Building with cylindrical shaped roof 0.1 1 0.4 Air field 0.1 1 1 Flat valley 0.05 1 1 Mountains 0.05 1 1 Large mountain 0.1 0 1 12 Approved For Release 2001/0~O7~~~9~-OJ789ROO3200160001-9- Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : @@_RDP96-00789RO03200160001-9 IV RESULTS AND DISCUSSION (U) Table 2 shows the figure of merit analysis for the ATA experiment using the fuzzy sets defined in Table 1. The target/response intersection is shown as JTnRJ , and the sigma-count of the target and response sets are shown as ITI and JR1, respectively. All quantities include the full weights shown in Table 1. The primary target was the ATA external electron beam experiment. The secondary target was the adjacent wind-power generation farm, and the tertiary target was the'- laboratory complex and surrounding area. Viewed as separate targets, the - - & @c @ figures of merit of 0.94 and 0.81 for the wind-power farm and theL yo complex respectively are in good agreement with the qualitative correspondence'shown in Figures 2 and 3. Figure 4 shows ad :LticPal - d ta on the tertiary target viewing compared to a map of the. Jarea. ehese figures represent data obtained during the 0800 scan and are consistent with the tasking and location of the beacon person (see page 6). The relatively lower value of 0.56 for the primary target is also consistent for the "scattered" nature of the response (see the original transcript in Appendix B). The combined value of 0.61 reflects the weighting factor in favor of the primary target. Table 2 (S/NF) FIGURE OF MERIT (FM) SUMMARY.,o Target Type JTnRJ ITI JR1 Acc. Rel. FM PRIMARY Function Relation Object 20.50 1.80 16.86 22.00 4.95 23.00 29.50 5.85 19.21 0.93 0.36 0.73 0.69 0.31 0.88 0.65 0.11 0.64 Total 39.16 49.95 54.56 0.78 0.72 0.56 SECONDARY Total 5.08 5.08 5.38 0.94 1.00 0.94 TERTIARY Total 5.48 6.42 5.76 0.85 0.95 0.81 49.72 61.45 65.70 0.81 0.76 1 0.6 13 Approved For Release 2601/03/07 Cl -RDP96-00789ROO3200160001-9 Q.L: .4 Approved For Release 2001/03t. CIA-RDP9@00789ROO3200160001-9 CPYRGHT I.D. 372 A) A ow- 12-T 1-1 VyoftK. FoSt,4 OV GF110 w 1w "Al-0 PFJ 08A Nor VSI_Y .rO 7',,,S'8LE Eye. FIGURE 2 (U) PART OF THE 0800 RESPONSE COMPARED WITH PHOTOGRAPH OF THE ALTAMONT WIND-POWER ELECTRIC GENERATION FARM 14 Approved For Release 2001/03/ CIA-RDP9"789ROO3200160001-9 Approved For Release 2001/03/07 CIA-RDP96-00789ROO3200160001-9 1. D. 372 A. i"T O'bi. -Vk*ee .4 A*AY (Awl) Dows xk,,- FIGURE 3 (U) PART OF THE 0800 RESPONSE COMPARED TO THE WEST GATE OF 15 In'2 In"7' --f"' I A Approved For Release 2001. --RDP96-00789ROO3200160001-9 Approved For Rele 2 gre JV03/W CliffDPVfO7lVPO3Wl 6(w -9 CPYRGHT I.D. 372 N ul in 0 m CL 41 C, 41, @IRFIELD FIGURE 4 csjlfs@r J Approved For Release 20@1,/O_ 3/07 : Cl@A-DP96-00789ROO3200160001-9 Viewer 372 responded with a single concept to the primary target that was incorrect; it contained, however, many individual elements that were correct. One aspect of RV responses that has been a recurring theme is that a surprise element (to the viewer) frequently indicates correct information about the site. In this experiment, the following sentence is embedded in a lot of incorrect data (see page B-18 of the 2400 scan in the transcript, Appendix B): "What I keep wanting to do, is I keep wanting to put the whole thing into an apparatus that captures electrons and accelerates them." This sentence appears in a general discussion of a "Star Trek" phaser system initiated by controlled nuclear explosions, and represents a significant cognitive surprise. It is important to determine whether or not this ty@e of linguistic surprise might serve as a reliability indicator. Long-standing difficulties in applying the RV phenomena to applications are at least twofold. In a lengthy response, those elements of genuine isignificance must be identified a priori. Second, even excellent examples of remote viewing do not necessarily imply usefulness. As an example of the latter, consider the response to the Altamont pass wind-power generation farm. It is an excellent example of remote viewing, but it is not of value. b-In summary, V372's response to the ATA experiment has mixed results. Even though there are excellent examples of remote viewing, the value is mixed. It does not appear to be the case that V372 simply responded with everything he/she knows about technical material. This viewer has been involved with all kinds of technical activity in past careers. 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The name of the person who is acting as a beacon at this point in time is XXXXXX. He is a Physicist. He is on the site and he has been there since 8:00 this morning and will be there for a period of time. This first session is a real time session. We are going to be doing 4 total sessions. we will be doing one at 4:00 this afternoon and one at midnight. Between now and 4:00 this afternoon there will be another one that will be a retrocognitive one to midnight of last night. (S/NF) Now, to start off, we are first of all interested in the geographical area, we are interested in the gestalt of the area, what is the area like. We are interested in the manmade sorts of things in the area. And then we are going to focus in on items of interest in as much detail as possible. What's the function of the place and what's happening. And, what is the difference between what's happening now and what's happening later. That will be kind of a summary thing we'll do at midnight tonight. But generally anything of specific interest at this particular point in time in terms of the activity V: This time? K lRight now. Yep. V:1 10K, what j So anytime you're ready to start, why... are there any other questions? V: No. What I'm gonna do is M: ]just prepare yourself, cause I know you had a rough night. V. So, what I'm gonna do is, I'm gonna probably sketch everything lightiyV in pencil. M: f OK. V: An then I will ink it in afterwords. B-2 Approved For Release 2001/02@ IA-RDP96-@89ROO3200160001m9 C Approved For Release@-001 /03/07 : Cl@A-DP96-00789ROO3200160001-9 M: OK. V: Because I do more accurate drawing in pencil than I do in ink. M: OK, let me get you a pencil then. V: I have one. M: Oh, OK. (They both speak at once here and it is garbled.) We gotta be precise in our detail here. So we can take as long as we want, there is no time limit on what we're doing. But we will try to bring some closure to each one of the four sessions. I V: ( 11 OK. Some kind of a general layout here, I guess. This is a very light pencil. I brought a Stephen King book if you get bored. we'll start with something real dynamic like a line that we'll call a road. Uh, that doesn't feel right. You got an eraser somewhere? (M get eraser.) Thanks. A road, parking area, building. There seems to be, uh, there seems to be, is that running? M: @m, hum. V: j Th@re seems to be, um, a whole lot more buildings than I'm drawing. But what I'm trying to do, is I'm trying to draw buildings that are meaningful. M: Um, hum. V: Versus buildings that are useless. By useless I mean that there is probably a million buildings here which have a desk and typical ... this office, that office type of arrangement. (Could not make out what he said after this.) M: @_ @ So, do you mean that what you're drawing here are buildings that are important to the function that we're after here? V: Exactly. M: OK. V: And, uh, in trying to do this, I'm trying to put it in... (tape cuts out - it's about 99 on the counter) B-1 Approved For Release /07: C P96-00789ROO3200160001-9 1/03 Approved For Release 2001#97 : CIA-RDP 00789ROO3200160001-9 SESSION 2, 10:10 a.m. (U) May, 1987 (U) M: OK, it's about 10 minutes after, 12 minutes after 10. V: Right. M: C- May 7. And what we're about to do now is the retrocog... retrocognition part of the outbound experiment that we're working on, and that involves going back to 12:00 last night, midnight, May 6 and giving a description of what was happening at this site at that time that is of special interest to us during this targetipg period. V: C -@@ QK. There's a really distinct different feeling, uh, in the initial session we were targeting the general layout onto the (tape cuts out here, in 30's on counter) B-4 Approved For Release 2001/@3@/07 CIA-RDP96-0 789ROO3200160001-9 Approved For Release 2tlIQ3/07 : CIA- DP96-00789ROO3200160001-9 SESSION 3, 4:00 p.m. (U) May 7, 1987 (U) M: So, disregard what you did this morning, in terms of trying to add to it V: OK. M: f And focus on the activity and what expands out from that. V: OK. M: Allright. V: ('Lots of silence) Hmmmmm. Getting an impression of, uh, really loud, loud noise like a like a bull-horn on a intercom-type of speaker syistem. Somebody's talking through it. There's an and that uh, there's an echo like its in a large day type of area. There is uh ... uh... I'm trying to think of a way of describing this perception. I'm looking at a very long box. Uh, square tube box, uh, it's uh, let me think about this a minute It's really an interesting thing - I can't, uh, I can't quite fasten it to anything. It's kind of like a. It doesn't start out straight - it starts out funny, ah, weird, it starts out - it's got a joint system and then it goes straight...it does something like this. But this, there's something wrong with this. I feel like I'm trying to describe in detail something that's very esoteric. It's, uh, it's, this thing's squared - it has squared corners and edges and what not. M: Um-hum. V: Uh, very much like a wave guide-type of thing. M: Um-hum. V: ? And, it has something flowing through it. M: see. V: 4 J-That-s something flowing through it that's, uh, not a very lengthy wave form. It's like a very short wave form. It's guided through this thing and it, and it, comes down at the end of this thing and washes across like a row of, like, uh, I want to say that there's a spiral at the end like. And there's like a row of, of things sticking out at the end of this spiral. They, they're densely packed. B-5 Approved For Release :@001 /03/07 : CIA- DP96-00789ROO3200160001-9 Approved For Release 2001/t@7 CIA-RDP9 - 0789ROO3200160001-9 L -7 And they're like thick wire real thick wire - only they're not wire. It's, it's some kind of like special alloy or special metal or special something. They're fixed but they're bunched. And they're all generally pointing in the same direction and, uh, this stuff comes down and washes around or over and through this. And when it hits the tips of these things, it, uh, it does the same thing that a laser does. It excites, it excites these, these metal rods. But they don't, uh, it's not like glass tubes in a laser - these are not like gas-filled tubes or have the big thing that blows stuff in and sucks things out, you know, the gas exchange where you're exciting a whole bunch of, uh, electrons or something like that... M: Yeah. V: But these are like electrons coming down this, this tube and @tSey they're washing across this little batch of wire. - - I - M: It's a particle beam in other words of some sort. V : _j Y@ah. But that's not correct - it's more I wouldn't call it a L particle beam - it's, it's, these rods are then emitting a really short wave-type of output. A really short wave thing. A we're talking a wave form that, that it is super, super short. M: I Um-hum. V: i Uh, it's a ray, OK, some kind of a ray. But it's a real short wave. Shorter wave than a microwave. A microwave is pretty short short wave. This is shorter. I don't even know what microwave is. Microwave is (couldn't get word here). I can't remember - this is even shorter, this is real short wave stuff. We're talking about, I don't know in angstroms, we're talking something less than 10 angstroms. Which is real short. That would be less than,.less than 10 angstroms probably. Anyway, it bunches together and what happens is you get this, this coherency coming out the end, this coherent wave front, if you will, and it actually, it actually, uh, I get the feeling like this is a inside of a tube. ;/_ 71 M: OK. V: This whole thing is compressed inside of a tube. And the tube is a vacuum or as near a vacuum as you can get. And it extends outward to, uh, to a target place. M: Do you have any feeling for scale on that? V: Large. M: Room size, or bigger? Approved For Release 2001tT: &h-RP70789ROO3200160001-9. Approved For R 00, /03/07 : C14- DP96-00789ROO3200160001-9 elease L V: No, but the tube is probably something on the order of, uh, uh, I'll say 3 feet in diameter. It's really interesting because I, I see the tube there but then sometimes I don't see the tube. I see it operating in an aeroplace space and then I sometimes see it operating in air which is real interesting. What happens when it operates in air is the air molecules actually burn up. It super heats the air molecules, they actually self-destruct or excite themselves out of the way or something. M: Um-hum. V: And, and I get the feeling that I, you can actually see it with your eyes. This ray, when this thing comes out in air molecules. It's like it doesn't shoot out of the end in a race along to the target it's like the whole thing past the ray slowly comes in the beam. it's like it appears, you know, this entire length of it here appears like its super heating the air molecules that it's going through to the point that they actually white-out in some way. M: Ilm-hum. V: And down on the other end is the target and, uh, I'm trying to determine what that target thing is. I'm gonna do a better picture on page two. M: OK. V: I see this in a vacuum sometimes, and I see it also going tnrough specialized gases like, like they're testing to see its penetration power through different gaseous mixtures ah different mixtures of oxygen or atmosphere or something. And, uh, I also get, I get the feeling like the target's hard - it, it's like of a hard target. And, and, by that I mean like metal - it's a metallic target, uh, varying degrees of thickness, shielding, and, uh, parts of the target being tested are covered with solid state electroni'cs, chip electronics, uh, it's like pointing it at your home computers to see if you could burn your home computer up and then putting your home computer at a varying or differing modalities of shielding to see what effect it has on its capacity to operate. Um, I, I get the feeling like this is really, this thing is really hazardous to human life. - 1@1 M: Um. V: I mean I wouldn't stand in front of this sucker. This is, t this is really I mean, it will really damage a hard target, but it ain't nothing like it will do to the human body, I mean, it will just cook, it will just vaporize the human body so to speak. Soft targets wouldn't be instant inferno in front of it. It actually boils the air molecules in front of it. Uh, but that's not exactly right, it's like they all boil simultaneously, all the way down the line. B-7 Approved For ReleasC2@01/03/0 .7 :Ct4DP96-00789ROO3200160001-9 Approved'For Release 2001/0*07 : CIA-RDE9 -00789ROO3200160001-9 M: Um-hum. V: @'It's like these, it's such, this 10 or less Angstroms of wave 4ront-a're so .- the wave and frequency is so small that, uh, the, uh, @air molecules get in the way simply because they are getting sighted by it. So it turns the air molecules into a frothing mass. And it .has to do with, uh, the real main function we're talking about here is ,these, these metallic - I keep wanting to say metallic - I guess maybe ;because they've got so much oxide in them. They're like, they're like meant to be destroyed by this thing. When electrons hit these, these thick wires. this mass of material, what happens is this mass of material, uh, lases out or puts out this coherent wave front, and, it ,only does it for just so long and then it, it burns up - it's no good @anymore - or it's, uh, it, it does something to it, um, its like a cluster of wires. This mass of oxide material all held together but they're, but they're drawn out and in straighter fibers like. I think that's to give direction to the wave, the coherent wave fronts or something - it's a huge mass of electrons that's forced across the, this - I wanta say electrons, anyway I don't what the hell is. And I go back up this line and I, I can't help but go back to that, you know, that circular sphere which is... M: Y-eah. V: ...in the other building. But, I'm getting a real interesting picture of this other sphere, uh, M: I know. This is, this is another building ... somehow.... V: Yeah, This is in, we're now in C building ... M: Oh, -that's in C building. V: This is in C building here. This, if I remember right ...somewhere between here and here is the wall of C building, right, I'm not sure if that's not in B building and the tube extends through that connector piece in the C building and-C building is predominantly the target building - where the target's contained or held. M: Uh-huh. V: But you know all the test equipment is set up on both sides of the target building. This is, I'm getting a real interesting perception of this now. It's one I didn't have earlier. M: "@OK. Let's do something that's changed, or, or... V: Essentially what it amounts to is I'm seeing a circle, you know, and inside the circle - I wish I could draw this, ha, uh, inside the circle the circle's split like, uh, into all these different B-8 Approved For Release 200110@W: CIA-RU@6-00789RO03200160001-9 Approved For Re DP96-00789ROO3200160001-9 lease 2"3/07 : C" V: Yes. M: 17 So this is kind of a Production phase and its routed through li-ere and here... V: Generates this ray, this, uh, yeah, yeah. M: I see, OK. V: And, uh, uh, this, it takes these megalithic lasers to light this. M: Um-hum. V: For this to cause this. M: Um-hum. V: And the output of this sucker right here is quite destructive in terms of its wave front, uh, but this thing rapidly loses, uh, strength over distance because of the air molecules and but for test purposes, uh, that's it, I just said a key thing. This is a testing apparatus;for the concept perhaps. M: Um-hum. V: In other words, somehow, uh, this is emulating the process that would be done in a, in a more large way. In a huge way, uh, this is like a little example of something, uh, I'm trying, I'm trying to figure out what the - as best I can figure on a hard target what they're trying to do is they're to effect, actually physically destroy this hard target. And what we're talking in hardened that it's heavily shielded, the solid state electronics of this target are heavily shielded, protected, uh, what's interesting there's, god, this is really neat because this unfolding - there's a twofold, there's a twofold thing about - I wanta write something else down before I forget it - this is uh, test vehicle for concept. In the hard target there's a twofold fall out from this, one is, you find out can a hard target be destroyed, or at least made dysfunctional, but b, you find out can you build a hard target that can't be dysfunctional, made dysfunctional. So it's like you get a twofold benefit out of this - testing this thing. M: Q Sounds like it could be a competitive process - one team working on trying to make it invincible and one working on attempting to penetrate it. T- V: t.;' 2 It-s like exactly right, you've got, you've got, well, you've got a whole number of different things here. You've got this machine which we'll call A machine, uh, producing larger amounts of power. Then you've got a B problem which is stripping off the power for use B-10 Approved For 1103107 @: CIAJ- DP96-00789ROO3200160001-9 ReleaL e@qo @ I - Approved For Release 2001/Q@/07 : CIA-RDP-b6-00789ROO3200160001-9 in a new way of lasing we'll call it. Then you've got this machine which is a whole new form of luminous laser. I'm not sure laser's right. There's a different word. Phaser, phaser. That's what they use on Star Trek. M: '\,Ha! Then it was something more advanced than a laser. V: Yeah, it's like next generation. It's a phaser beam. And it's very possible that it might be in a microwave region because microwave keeps popping in my mind, but I don't think so. M: Um-hum. V: Uh, I think we don't need all of this to do the kinds of oUtputs in the microwave region that we could do to create this effect. Uh, I think microwave is, uh, the problem with microwave is there is no way to generate a coherent microwave front but then I might be wrong about that. But I think this is a different kind of wave. Th@s is really a coherent wave. And the key here in part C of the problem is these little metallic rods or wires or whatever use this bundleof stuff is - that's the key to it. And, uh, I look at this and I,this concept down here and I get an impression of, I just want to put a big thing like this that says "Focus here." Which is real interesting like this is deliberately controlled nuclear explosion and you focus it all right here. That's a wave front I keep wanting to draw esoterically - I don't know how to draw it mechanically. .M: OK. V: I say to myself it's impossible to do that but then... M: Well, when you say esoterically what do you mean by that? V: Meaning that, uh, I think, I think'the concept's really down, think in terms of, of what's going on here in the event.' The concept's really ironed out. I think where there's a problem is - the ;timing. Let me write that down. M: )Yeah. Timing is, uh, is critical. And in the time that they're V: L4 'having a real problem with the timing because element A. well @subsequent to that - there is some other thing back here called lasers which we'll call I-A. The I-A ignites A. A is actually destroying C in some way - eating it up. This - outside this bottle or this ,control mechanism this mirrored sphere, uh, A couldn't happen. It couldn't happen and if it did it would be out of control. And in the ,event when it does happen inside this control sphere, it's, uh, B-11 -: CIA_ Approved For Release 2001LAq RDP -00789ROO3200160001-9 App .roved For Release 20@LO3107 : CIA-RIP96-00789ROO3200160001-9 providing sufficient excitation to see, to test the concept. But it isn't full blown. As much as, I mean, we're talking a really complex thing that Probably took Years and Years and years and years to build, but it's only a test vehicle for the reality of the concept. The real concept is ten fold removed in terms of complexity or difficulty from this. It all has to do with timing. Because in the real concept what's happening in A, this little bitty fire here, we're talking about increasing that on a magnitude of 10-12 which is really up there, which means that there isn't a container that's gonna hold it, and I don't know how they're gonna do that which is real interesting. But you can see the megalithic increase in the output ... M: Sure. V: ... up here through this, this, these key elements. If they were increased, if this is, we're talking billions and billions of lots of power going to this test vehicle, and you can imagine what a ten fold increase in power to the output of this thing would be, I mean, just...unbelievably destructive. That essentially what I'm getting, M: OK. V: what's interesting is I - I think all the elements of this are being tested, that's whatos going on right now. Theyore not firing it up, theyore testing all the elements. M: see. V: Everythingos being fine tuned and calibrated. The test is yet io come. It's all being fine tuned and calibrated. M: C @ It would be analogous to preparation for a launch or something like that where there's lots-of activity and... V: Yeah. M: ... and things being done to test the component parts of it - To make sure they're in working order. V: Uh, this, this would be amazing to watch - I mean talk about :reedbac 12@k. I mean, when they fire this sucker up the, the, the, uh, the atmosphere will glow around it. M: I see, so there is something, there really is something to see. V: Oh, sure. M: It's not Just uh ... watch the dials kind of thing... B-12 Approved For Releas @2 @ 0-1 /03/07 :_cl~-RDP96-00789ROO3200160001-9 Approved For Release 2001/0@07 : CIA-RDP@-00789ROO3200160001-9 V: I- _J Oh, no, mc- Z think there's an awful lot of dial watching @nvoived in it i= *zz=ms of the time and sequences and everything and trying to perfecz z--12e, the actual outcome, but in terms of, uh, watching the busi-@zs end of this sucker, uh, I'll bet ya it boils the, uh, it boils -z-be atmosphere around it. M: Hmm V: I'll bet actually see this, this, phaser type wave come out of there - i---;s just, or just appear between between that and the target - it actua--:-v looks like it's boiling and the atmosphere around 'it, which would c=%--jate a white haze or something, uh, I'll bet ya that's visible. ::-'-l bet ya there isn't very much of a hard target to stand against it. it wouldn't explode itself. It's molecules would just become so ex-zzted by it that it would literally implode or explode. M: Hmmm, I'd I--- curious as to whether something like that would be detected outside of this environment? V: Uh; I thir-k the problem, the problem is, and it has something Vo do with, the vac-.:--,m, using a vacuum tube ... M: Um, hum. V: ID ... or testJ.-@g it in molecular air, uh, the problem I think is ':Che wave format is so short that the distance is critical ... yeah. V: I mean it-S OK to test it on the surface of the earth like in -in atmosphere but in deep space, for instance, it would be really effective because there would be no air molecules to block it. But on the surface of the earth if you tested it the wave components, the components of the v.-ave are too short so they're sucked up by the air molecules. M: 70h, I see. V: '7 So, when you get such a cushioning effect from the surrounding atmosphere that if you were to back off say 30 miles from this it would be totally undetected, undetectable, it just wouldn't be putting anything out, uh, it wouldn't be giving anything out that you could detect. So, in terms of detecting at a distance, say if you were to, run a satellite over this area to try and detect what was going on it would be damn near impossible to do that. M: `7 Um, hmm. V: ...,,IYou can cartainly detect it in space, though. If you had your detector in space and this was operating in space that would be the last thing saw... that would be the last thing you would detect before it ate you, uh, it's really interesting. I also think one of the B-13 Approved For Release 2001/0 CIA-RDP9fdOO789ROO3200160001-9 L/OT "\ App.roved For Release 11103107 : Cl@_@P96-00789RO03200160001-9 other problems possibly with this, I get a feeling like, uh, the wave front on this is also highly effected by gravitational pull, things like that. Things that you don't normally have to worry about with light, photon-type activity. You know on a standard a laser outside the fact that the laser gets really weak over distance. Well, this will get weak over distance unless it's in a vacuum. If you're in a vacuum like in space or near vacuum, like space, then the distance on this is really great in terms of power. I was just seeing these hard targets being literally shaking inside out, it's like the molecules inside the hard targets were just vibrating instantly into, into, uh, such a hypervolic action that don't even stay glued together. They just vaporized - the hard target, uh, of course, the harder the target the less it's damaged, but there's still an awful lot of damage, uh, plus there's another thing. The, the real, it's all, the whole thing's got experimental problems, but the real problems, the real crux, the state-of-the-art stuff is right here in C which is these, these components right here. They get bathed by the output of the, the con%rol exposure chamber, but these little rods or wires or bundle of whatever they are, sticks, metallic oxide, sticks or whatever, these ar;odes... M: Um, hmm. V: I don't know if anodes is the proper word. I'm reminded of, his is really crazy - the association, but on the bottom of a boat, to keep the metal on your boat from being eaten away through corrosion and what not you put these little nodes so that, you know, the salt water, they're soft metals, the salt water attacks those first, you see, and eats those away, and so you use the rest of the metal on your boat - I'm not even explaining that right, but that's what I get a feeling about these, is that these actually attract the electron stream or whatever it is and, and, the collision of the electrons or whatever with the molecular components of these oxide tubes or whatever... M: Um, hmm. V: ... produces this really intense ten fold increase or ten thousand fold increase wave front output. They get real excited and they put these waves out. So it operates very much like a laser, but it ain't a laser. it's, it's more like a phaser, you know. I don't know how to explain that. It's a different kind of wave than coherent light waves. Yeah. M: T V: `7 It's in a different frequency spectrum altogether. M: it sounds almost like instead of, uh, _)@It sounds like, t-ransmitting light, you're transmitting energy. 12, B-14 , 'Oot/03/07 : CIA, @-DP96-00789ROO3200160001-9 Approved For Releas Approved For Release 200 7: CIA-R 96-00789ROO3200160001-9 17 7 V: Yeah, right, exactly, absolutely, that's exactly what we're talkifig about here is an energy laser instead of a light laser. But it takes, it takes, this huge complex system of light wave lasers to ignite this controlled explosion in this sphere of mirrors and then that is absolutely forced to fold down upon itself to produce even larger amounts of energy and then energy which is really seeking to expand outwards produces these orbits of electron matter or whatever that are stripped of them to bathe these rods to produce some other form of laser. (M speaks but can't understand.) Yeah, but this, this part can't get, I don't if it's because it's so short and looks real complex.... M: Um, hmm. V: ... or if it's because it's like a segmented tube. M: It's funny because that's where you started. V: Yeah, and it's a real complex segmented tube of some kind. M: UM, OK. V: 1@ But it necks down there, it becomes very focused. M: Oh, I see. V: 13 But I think it's strictly a vehicle to get these, these electrons out of here over to here. Some electron wave guide for lack of a better word. 1@1 --? M: C @Hmm Is it, but, it's a transportation medium, you would pay, it's not something that, that modifies the... V: 4,@r, 7No, it, doesn't, I don't think it modifies it in any way. As A matter of fact, there may be a huge electromagnetic field wrapped around it ... M: -70h, I see. V: j ....in order to get the electrons to travel down it, or stay Within it. You know, it compacts them maybe and transports them. As 4 matter of fact, it, the reason why it's segmented may be because it coils around this sphere. Actually, it comes out of this sphere in a coil and then dumps straight into that one. But I feel like they're separate places. They may, ah, shoot. Uh, I know when this stuff's fired there's nobody in the room. At least this kid wouldn't be around. No, I wouldn't mind being on the opposite end observing, you know, not on the end of it but to the side observing the impact area or the target area, that would be really interesting because I think it's very coherent, very directed. I don't think there's anybody down there at all. I think it's probably all watched with TV's, uh, I B-15 Approved For Release 2001/0@,,107 : CIA-RDP 6-00789ROO3200160001-9 CIA-FID Approved For Release 201/03/07 @96-00789ROO3200160001-9 C can't imagine like if element C loses it's coherent wave front it's no longer putting waves out in front of it and just starts putting it out sporadically in all different directions, it would kill everything within so many feet. I suspect that this element is packed in, uh, built inside a block house concrete-type of place, and that's why I think this wave guide is used to get the electrons over there. I keep wanting to say electrons but I don't think that's what they are - highly excited matter, let's put it that way. M: So now if you were to step back from this perspective a little 'bit,how is this all taking place or does it have any relationship to what we did this morning in any way or is this a process that's going on in totally different part of the compound or a totally different place, or where, where are we now if we expand out from this a little bit? V: 7-) OK, A would be in the B building. C is in C building. M: OX, so then,. V: Ot, or, maybe C is in a connector part and the target's in C buildi g. M: see. V: JTest equipment's on both sides of the hard target area, uh, I get the feeling that C building is basically a block house type, uh, type of place. But, but, then I also have to say and I go back to multiple teams which I should put down here, uh, multiple teams, uh, there's just a whole lot going on here, you know like A it's a whole different team of folks, and there goal has nothing to do with C, uh, A folks over here, their primary goal as a team is to fire up this controlled explosive device and maintain it put out ever larger increasing amounts of energy from it. Uh, then there's a whole different team thatos playing with this, this phaser thing down here. And within the phaser team there's a whole different team that's concerned with trying to find a more stable, stable bundle of wires. A more stabilized bundle. A more focused output device. Then there's 2 teams an A and B team at the hard target site. One is trying to destroy the hard target no matter how it's shielded and the other's trying to shield it no matter how hard they try to destroy it. And, so there's 2 sub-teams there. Uh, simply by changing, I keep saying these are the key, this bundle, this bundle of wires, this bundle of rods or whatever, by simply changing those, you change the entire output wave front, in other words whatever is in inserted here is what determines the wave, uh, how many angstroms it is, uh, how much energy output there is, its coherency, all these different things, uh, and I keep, uh, one of the other things I keep finding very interesting is the fact that uh, in terms of controlled explosion, the enormous B-16 Approved For Release 20ti 03/07 : ClAt-R)P96-00789ROO3200160001-9 I Approved For Release 2001/04-/07 : CIA-RDP@6-00789ROO3200160001-9 amount of power this puts out in relationship to how it excites this is nothing compared to what the real machine will do. I feel like this is all just a mock up. A test mock up. This is what we can do within bounds of, uh, within bounds of control, or within bounds of experimentation. If you were to build the real machine, uh, and put it in orbit or something it would be far less complicated on one hand and on the other hand it would be even more complicated, uh, but its power would be equivalent to this - it would be 10 times 10 more powerful output. You could literally put a wall up - a big glass wall that nothing could fly through it. An umbrella type of front. You can imagine a huge bundle of key rods or whatever each one putting out, each one putting out a very tiny beam that 2,000 miles away would be much wider and broader... M: I see. V: And, uh, very intense all side by side you know its putting up this front, like an are so many miles high and so many miles wide, and, uh, M: @k %shield type thing. V: Yeah, but it wouldn't last long. M: Oh, I see. V: YIt wouldn't be, you'd wait until the last second type thing, and it would present this wall and it would last maybe seconds. But anything in a depth of say 300 miles would be just vaporized, it would be like a curtain that would appear and disappear, uh, really, really Star Trek stuff, man, this is really exciting Star Trek stuff. I wish I could figure 2 things out in more detail. And maybe I well, maybe that will be something... M:; Yeah, maybe that will come tonight. V: It will come tonight, yeah. M: 7 Yeah. V: Dut, uh, that's basically it, I guess. M: OK. V: So, I'm gonna try to render something more maybe I'll leave @-fiis alone. I'm afraid to mess with this. M: OK. V: 77'11 just darken it in. B-17 Approved For Release 2001/03/07 CIA-RDP96-00789ROO3200160001-9. Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00789ROO3200160001-9 I- - M: OK, allright, we will stop the tape for this one, that's fine. Tonight we're gonna have XXXX and the SRI folks all there. V: All, watching this sucker go off. M: Seeing whatever is going on. V: Maybe they'll all be standing around with their thumbs in "Theirears saying well it should have. M: 7 That's true. V: @,.tj We'll wait and be surprised. I know want their electric bill t his place, I'll tell you that. M- Makes your electric bill look kind of piddly, does it? V: it sure does. M: By comparison. B-18 Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00789ROO3200160001-9 Approved For Release 2001/0 4/7 : CIA-RDP@9-00789ROO3200160001-9 SESSION 4, 12:00 p.m. (U) May 7, 1987 (U) M: So, here we are. it's a minute or so till 12. Take a minute or so get yourself situated. xxxxx is on site again as are the SRI staff members. They'll be acting as beacons in this, uh, during this pass and they'll be observing, watching the event that or an event that is taking place at this time and your job is to give a description of that, of what's happening there, what's of interest to them right now as they're at the site. V: Hmm. OK, let's see. Um. I'm trying to, it, uh, getting a i%al interesting imprints here. I, uh, I get sort of uh kind of interesiing, uh, I want to say that I'm, you know, that I'm envisioping this, this, uh phaser-type of thing, but that's, I'm, I'm seeing soinething a little different ... M: Um-bum. V: Um, um, uh, hum. I feel like I'm stuck between an overlay, an &nalytic overlay and an actual event.. M: Um-hum. V: 7 And, I don't know how to rectify that. M, @@Can't quite sort it out? V: 7 No. It's kind of like, an event but it's a, kind of like it's on film too. M: )@Hum. V: 1i 7 which is kind of interesting. M!: Um--hum. V: Uh, I'm kinda torn between whether I'm seeing like a remote, an event remote to that actual place being observed there or one that's on film, or one that's on film combined with an actual event going on there. I don't know how to explain that. Uh, sort of a package deal, itos kind of like, uh, uh, I keep getting, uh, like combination of two things one's local and one isn't. M: Hum. B-19 Approved For Release 2001/03/ CIA-RDP96- 789ROO3200160001-9. Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00789ROO3200160001-9 V: Uh, one's observing something going on there and the other's observing something going on somewhere else that's related. M: So it's like maybe two sides that are involved. V: Yeah, it's kind of like there's two sides involved. The, uh, @6xcep_t they both mean the same thing, uh, I can't tell if one's real time or not. M: Are they both participating in, in a common event, or... V: 7It's sort of a common event. M: i7Uh-huh. V: I'll think about it for a couple of minutes. You can, rather -than waste the tape - shut that off for a second. M: )],kll right. V: 77,0ive me about a minute and I'll tell you when to start up. M: OK. V: I'm getting two things. First off I'm getting a presentation a film showing a device being tested somewhere else and then that's followed up with demonstration of this, this capacity, this, uh, uh, phaser-type of radiation machine showing it's effect on a specific kind of target. So it's like a two-part thing. Only one part is done somewhere else. And, and, I keep getting an impression of a place even further in the desert, OK, and what's interesting about it is is surrounded with, uh, hundreds of like individual, uh, storage bunkers, like everywhere. I think, I think what we're talking about here is, uh, uh, let's see, I'm having trouble defining between demonstration of this device and, and a real, well t1fey're botli real,-but one was done beforehand, and one is being done now. And the one that was done beforehand was actually a device. it was really a, a, and I keep saying device, I'm talking what I'm talking about is a bomb. It was actually used in a demonstration type of effect and, uh, it was like two ended, it was double ended. It had one end was, was an actual bomb that produced, that produces or produced an output that initiated a second bomb. It produced an output that initiated this ray, if you will, but it was all done, uh, like in an underground test. And then they had films of this and they showed the outputs of this and they're going into a live demonstration using this laser to initiate very much the same kind of outputs only on a much smaller scale, so, uh, we're essentially talking about two kinds of devices doing the same thing, one on a large order of magnitude, one on a small order of magnitude. M: -J Um-hum. B-20 Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00789ROO3200160001-9 Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00789ROO3200160001-9 of -this device- thing that they use, uh, for like the canned demonstration, film demonstration. And it's, uh, it's uh, that's not r ht. Do we 'have an eraser? Let's do it this way, uh, um, ig something's no= right about that. It's more like, uh, it's like an underground th:L-ng that's, uh, demonstrated there's like a-uh, we'll call this an imitiation device. And what happens is this thing goes off and its fasiened to a little short piece of tubing that is very much like a wave guide and what it does is it focuses, um, this is, uh, focus for, focus for, it's the first thing I'm trying, what's the first thing that happens from like a thermonuclear device like a thermonuclear device, it's not even a thermonuclear it's a nuclear device. The first thing that happens is there's a huge output of neutrons and it goes into a second device and the second device is a, uh, thermo target. And then this ignites, OK. And that becomes like a thermonuclear type of device and that goes off and then fastened to the end of this is this cluster of these, those rods, whatever you want to call them. Little lasing type things. -),Um-hum. M: V: '@And they produce a massive output as they're enveloped. L ing r6ds produce like that. This output. And this goes down a, uh, this whole thing takes place in a chamber under ground and this goes down a tunnel and at the other end of this tunnel you're down let's say it's a, this is ground level. And you get down here in this chamber where they do this and it shoots down this tunnel a few thousand feet. Meanwhile, this thing's expanding over here - it's actually exploding, but it happens so fast, uh, this explodes but before this destroys this, it ignites it, with this massive focus of neutrons. When this ignites it lases these which produces the output of, uh, gamma rays or whatever they are. As that's being enveloped these rays are racing down this tunnel which has blocks in it. And right behind these rays going down the tunnel, these blocks are closing. And down here at the end is a chamber of targets so also there's sensing equipment down here so there's a seconaary tunnel down here. And, uh, sensing equipment we'll say sensing. This is the actual, uh, this is the actual detonation place. So this is all destroyed here. but it sends radiation down this tunnel and behind this radiation which is all very, I mean, everything's all instantaneous almost speed of light and this always happens, these shafts close down behind it to minimize damage to the target area. So the only thing arrives down at the target area are the rays from this thing which then shadow the target, and, and, this is, this is, uh, essentially we'll call this Demo One. That's, uh, done at a remote site, of the site, Air' I'Base, uh, lots of large bunkers. Some are out in the desert. That's Demo One. Then you get Demo Two. Demo One shows this is what it looks like-on a full scale. Demo Two shows a more controlled thing going on B-21 Approved For Release 2001/03/07 CIA-RDP96-00789ROO3200160001-9 V: j And, uh. I'm getting a picture of, I'm getting a mental image Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00789ROO3200160001-9 at the lab. And essentially what you got is, uh, this thing all hooked up to all these input, all these different things, lasers, are hooked into this sphere as I, as I drew before. M: C Um-hum. V: (SINF) And it in turn produces, uh, produces that giant electron output to, uh, to sort of cluster this thing which puts out this ray. This, this I don't even want to use this picture cause it's not very good. The problem I'm having with this is I'm, there's a big element that's missing and it's where it's missing is connecting this machine to this machine. There's something in here that I'm not getting and I can't... M: D) Is it the same one you were having trouble with this afternoon... V: Yeah, um-hum. M: same, same connection there? V: ">What I keep wanting to do. is I keep wanting to put the whole t ing into an apparatus that captures electrons and accelerates them. M: 12 Um-hum. V: But, then I don't know how to do, I don't know I'm gonna do that, it's, it's almost as if, it's almost as if there's a, like a, this thing wrapped around like this, uh, this being. I'm really having a problem with this - I keep wanting to wrap something around this sphere right here, M: Um-hum. V: And, and, the essential step is that it strips, as electrons are forced outwards in this sphere, they are collected in this trough that accelerates them in a circle and whbLt it essentially does it forces them around, uh, in a, in a magnetic, electromagnetic field. And the electromagnetic field, uh, because it, it kicks them into a tighter concentric circle, accelerates them. So when they exit the end, these electrons are not only, uh, at a very high energy anyway because of the amount of-that, they, they're really moving, uh, and then coming out of the end of this thing they strike these tubes in some way. It really fires these tubes up. They're like pumped across these tubes, uh, I'm having a lot of trouble drawing how that's done. M: Of Um-hum, um-hum. V: .--,')@Uh, and these, these tubes are bundled, but they're bundled in %and 63 a crazy way. They're bundled so that one assists the other B-22 Approved For Release 2001/03/07: CIA-RDP96-00789ROO3200160001-9 Ooi@3/07: CIA- Approved For Release 2 1 RE@96-00789ROO3200160001-9 and so that it,s a cascading effect, So that there's a, there's, instead of a. a sporadic output there's a very coherent cascaded built up, uh, driven kind of output coming from these tubes and, uh, it doesn't last long, it lasts for a few seconds. And I was thinking about the, uh, the wave front and I've pretty much come to the conclusion that, ub, that these things are absolutely in a very short wave area. They are either gamma rays or they're X-rays, like an X@ray laser or something like that. Really potent stuff. M: JUm-hum. V: Uh, operating in the, uh, in a real short wave front area. And, and when it strikes the target, the target's are, uh, missile qomponents,that's what I think the targets are, they're components of missiles, not so much warheads, but as they are the guidance systems for missiles. M: `1 @UM. V: @'You know, like the solid state electrons, the chip electrons, an&'the kuidance system for the missiles. Plus, I get another real interesting thing - side thing - here's, uh, here's a side effort going on with this that has to do with, uh, it takes a large computer to operate this, so what we're looking at also is we're looking at a condensed version of a very fast computer that operates this. Remember we talked about sequencing and that timing was everything... M: 7Um-hum. V: ... and, that one of the problems is that the thing that does _h --C . I L e irming, corrects the timing and everything is, uh, a real number cruncher... M: 'Um-hum. V: 7...monster of a computer... M: YUm-hum. V: 43 ... anti the problem is that this thing is not going to be effective unless it's in space. It's, um, to fit the thing in space, this thing won't be in space floating around up here, because (a.) that violates agreements, (b.) it's a sitting duck circling the earth in a fixed orbit or just sitting in a fixed orbit. So what we're essentially looking at is we're looking at a device that's launchable. In other words, when, when we determine that the Soviets have launched say a group of ICBM's, then we would fire this sucker into space it would seek out the ICBM wall and eliminate it. So we're looking, we're looking at a, a device that's really smart, that can handle big, B-23 Approved For Release 2001/(3/,0-7: CIA-RDJP9 -00789ROO3200160001-9 Approved For Release 2001/03/07: CIA-RDP96-00789ROO3200160001-9 big time timing sequential problems in a very short period. so we're looking at a whole new animal in terms of how smart it is. And I was thinking of that, and it's really interesting - I'm getting the impression of a bottle, a bright blue bottle that is literally a computer operated by light. Uh, I don't know how to explain that but I think that's the extra laser that I'm seeing. It's actually a computer that's light operated. In other words, it operates on photons instead of hard circuits, electromagnetic circuits, so it's literally impervious to the EMP or EPI or whatever they call it ... electromagnetic interference from atomic blasts. And, that's a very, uh, a really powerful computer but it's crunched down into a really tiny size... Um-hum. V: LO ... so this, and, and because of its size this thing. actually o@vs blue white when it operates. M: C 'Hum. V: .You know, it creates so much heat itself, the computer does, (@his is real interesting, we're right on, this device is so far out on the edge of stability that, uh, quite literally, I mean it's self-destructive. In order for it to work in its final state, it destroys itself. It generates such intense power... M: Um-hum. V: ... that it lasts for a microseconds, but the wall it puts up Yestroys everything in its way, in its path, uh, we're talking a really neat concept, and all the dynamics that are going into it are really complex and really state-of-the-art stuff. le- M: Um-hum. V: Uh, I, I essentially see what I -was seeing this afternoon only ee it operating and it's, it's, uh, this volatile beam coming out of this thing. I just wish I could - the key to this whole thing really, the key to the whole thing and the metal alloy or oxide alloy rods that are bundled - that's the key, and how they're bathed with the output from this, uh, laser initiated controlled explosion and, and the elements from that - the, uh, neutrons that are stripped from this are done in a very, are stripped in and a very special way. it's like, uh, it's something different from electromagnetics and I can't, damn, I can't put it together. M: /-,- @ It's not in our vocabulary. V: _7No, that's probably the problem is that I have nothing to e it with and I can see it, you know, I can, I can taste, I B-24 Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00789ROO3200160001-9 Approved For Release 2001/03/07 CIA-RDP96-00789ROO3200160001-9 can, I know it's, uh, uh, it I was gonna draw it, uh, I wanta do this really fancy scribble and, uh, and, and, what's interesting about this i@ and again we-re going back to the timing sequence and all that kind of-stuff, what we're really talking about is we're talking about an expected occurrence of the neutrons coming off this thing. In other words, the way they orbit and everything it's all predictable. It's all been predicted. So they strip off the maximum number of neutrons and accelerate them down to these lasing metallic alloy rods or whatever they are and there's, it's not a donut wrapped around this thing but it's a special shape. It's like, uh, it's designed to capture where the neutrons will be which is really interesting. It's, it's like there's, you would look at it and say "that's really weird the way they did that." But it's taken months of, you know, using the computer to map how that will be done without interfering with the process itself. M: Um -.hum. V: Xou know, it's like being in the right place at the right time' And, I don't know how to do that. It's like a M: Sodnds like it's hard to capture in a drawing, it's hard to capture in language. V: -13 'Yeah, and what I'm trying to do is I'm trying to capture the . ( ,-fight kind of words to describe it. It's not like a double helix, ;it's not like a donut, uh, it's like a, uh, it's a specially configured - it's not electromagnetic either, it's something - it like traps the higher orbits of a neutron that come off or electrons that create neutrons or whatever. I don't even know what the hell I'm talking about here. You know, I think physicists would have troubles sitting down and conversing on this. M: k@ Um-huh. V: jIt's beyond, it's beyond the come, it's, uh, they could @Cheorize it but, when it comes to actually doing it, it takes ,literally sitting down with a super computer for months to come up @with come conclusions, or arrive at some conclusions, so Demo One is a film of what happens in the desert. Demo Two is actually seeing this thing done in a lab scenario on a smaller scale using this massive laser device to initiate a controlled nuclear detonation which :produces huge outputs of neutrons which are stripped using this double ;helix donut device which is then pumped or pulsed across a very special alloy type of rod, and it's real short, I mean it's not a major thing. It's just a little bunch of rods that are set up in a certain way and neutrons are pumped across it. And its acts like a directional anode and it puts out huge-massive like 1012 Outputs Of X-rays in a coherent wave front. And these things come boiling out at B-25 Approved For Release 2001 96-00789ROO3200160001-9 Approved For Release 2001/03107 : CIA-RDP96-00789ROO3200160001-9 the end and literally heat the air molecules uh, that travel they travel through. Burn them up - just, they burn up the air molecules, create a vacuum around the and hit these targets which are parts of pieces of guidance systems to rockets and molecularly it shakes them to pieces - vaporizes, vaporizes them. And when I say the, the output of the output of, the demo device in the lab is like 1 1/10th and not even that, like 1/50th the power of the one that's, that's done with the detonation in the desert. M: Hum. V: The one in the desert is just unreal, it's literally powered with'@ thermonuclear device, I mean it's output is outrageous. On a, on a scale of 1 to 10 the lab demo is a 1 and the one in the desert's is 10 to the minus 10, 1 mean it's just got an outrageous output - it would melt anything. And, and in space the near vacuum of space it would put a small wall up of X-ray or gamma ray output that you couldn't fly a gnat through you know without cooking it. It would shake everything molecularly apart and, and it wouldn't last that long,;you know, seconds. And what's neat about it is the only side effect is the thermonuclear device going off in the atmosphere, you know, above the atmosphere in space, so you would have a probably a real severe EPI problem or EMP problem or whatever you call it that would last for a few minutes actually a little more than a few minutes, but the result is that everything manmade above the atmosphere would cease to function. It would literally be blown to pieces. Real overkill for eliminating just a few hundred ICBMs or whatever. Probably 15 of these would launch one right after the other for a 20-minute period would eliminate any ICBM's the Russians ever launch. M: Hum. V: That's essentially it. That'.s, that's.all I'm getting for this event stuff. Now I'm getting some other real interesting things on the side I'm getting specially designed computer stuff to operate these things, to aim, them, to handle whether or not they should go off, or how they go off, uh, super high speed very powerful miniaturized computers that run very hot. I see them literally glowing bottles of coolant. I also see, uh, a second remote site in the desert somewhere that's definitely an air base where the devices are put together and tested. I see, uh, uh, hum, got kind of a flash and input of guys running around with guns which is real interesting, uh, some kind of heavy security force, this is really over protected stuff, uh, I see variations of this, theoretic variations of this that operate not only in the gamma X-ray area but are - you see this is capable of generating a whole lot of different kinds of wave fronts. And you can generate microwave, you can generate gamma wave, you can generate X-ray, the key is the rods. It really has to do with the B-26 Approved For Release 2001/03/07: CIA-RDP'96-00789ROO3200160001-9 Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00789ROO3200160001-9 C lasing components and I think the problem what they've really ironed out is how to, how to time the thermonuclear device to capture its output in terms of neutrons and focusing. They've learned to do that and now they learned about the lasing rods and how to develop a coherent wave fronts. And its combining the two and putting that into a vehicle that's launchable - it's really interesting. Making it small enough but violent enough to do what it's gotta do, so we're looking at some really advanced state-of-the-art stuff. And I think one of the real surprises that they've got in just the past couple of years is the ability to theoretically test it by using both the high energy laser at this lab. They were unable to generate enough output power with this laser before it really use it to any extent in testing this. And now they've been able to do that, really, really produce the kind of output that's necessary and control the scenario to at least generate some minor tests they're major tests but I mean an a way that's_ M: C Um-hum. Sure. V: C _@_....observable in a lab situation, uh, which, again, I think the b-Feakthrough on that which is it's really interesting has to do with something as simple as polishing the inside of that sphere. M: C Hum. _ V: _ So that they're not only initiating the, the miniature sun to @ U but it's actually reflected back in on itself. It actually rn, collapses back in on it, so it's almost like building a miniature black hole, in a bottle which is really neat. And, and again that in comes the theory to this enormous amount of resource in terms of computer work and theoretics and stuff, and, and that's it. And the most fun out of the whole thing is that they really do initiate this thing using this high energy laser. You get to see the air molecules boil. Maybe via, I wouldn't watch it except via maybe a remote camera, uh, I get a feeling if this thing ever went haywire, you know, I mean there'd be X-rays everywhere, so it's probably a very, uh, heavily built shielded room that they use as a target. M1 Um-hum. W, That's it, that's it, that's go for broke stuff. M* Oy'. V; OK. I hope so. M@: Thank you, V@ -ht seems to be awfully fantastic stu ff. B-27 Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00789ROO3200160001-9 Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00789ROO3200160001-9 Final Report Covering the Period 15 November 1983 to 15 December 1984 GEOPHYSICAL EFFECTS STUDY (U) December 1984 SRI Project 6600 , 1: . .... .... Copy'4t This document consists of 58 p ved For Release 2001/03/07 CIA-RDP96-00789ROO3200160001-9 333 Ravenswood Avenue * Menlo Park, California 94025 , U.S.A. 0,1nn. (zPi INTI MPK. TWX: 910-373-2046 Approved For Release 20 1/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00 - nR003200160001-9 I OBJECTIVE M The objective of this effort is to investigate the possible effects of ambient geophysical/extremely low-frequency electro- magnetic factors on remote viewing (RV) performance M RV (remote viewing) is the acquisition and description, by mental means, of information blocked from ordinary perception by distance or shielding. I Approved For Release 2001/0 07 : CIA-RDP9'0789ROO3200160001-9 10T 0 i Approved For Release 001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-0 789ROO3200160001-9 II EXECUTIVE SUMMARY (U) A SRI International was taskedq kto investigate a potential correlation between remote viewing (RV) performance and ambient geophysical/extremely-low-fre~uency electromagnetic (ELF) activity. The possibility of such correlation is indicated, for example, by studies showing psychophysiological effects" and behavioral changes"' associated with ELF electromagnetic fields. The geophysical variables of interest include such factors as ELF intensity/fluctuations, ionospheric conditions, geomagnetic indices, sunspot number, and solar- flare charac@eristics. The questions addressed in this program are Do geophysical/performance correlations exist such that measurement of the ambient geophysical variables could be used as an indicator of expected performance? If so, can optimum performance windows be identified? (U) The structure of the program to investigate the above issues consists of A literature search Real-time ELF measurements SRI International (Menlo Park, California location) Time Research Institute (Los Altos, California field station). Real-time geophysical data acquisition via the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOW Westar IV satellite downlink. Computer correlation studies of RV performance versus variables of interest. (U) In this report, we present findings from our over-six-year analysis of scored RV sessions--as they relate to geophysical environmental (U) References are listed at the end of this report. 3 Approved For Release 2 0@1103107 : Cl@@D 96-00789ROO3200160001-9 Approved For Release 2 r /03/07: CIA-RI)Pt-@0789RO03200160001-9 (U) spectrum is unknown, it could provide a promising link between the solar- terrestrial environment and known electromagnetic effects on biological processes. With regard to ELF itself, preliminary evaluation of the ELF environment in half-hourly time intervals has shown a possible relation- ship to frequencies between 10 and 30 Hz, particularly as ELF intensities change from below average to above average values. 'k Considering the modest level-of-effort for the survey of geophysical/ELF factors, and their possible relationship to RV per- form4nce, a considerable amount of progress has been made in delineating potential correlations of value. What can be said at this point is that this pilot study provides evidence that the quality of RV functioning may be i0timately related to the geophysical environment. What remains to be done is (1).an in-depth statistical evaluation of those findings of this study that were strongly intercorroborated by the various data sets used, and (2) a structured attempt at blind RV performance forecasting. As a result, continued collection and analysis of such data will be pursued to determine whether the correlations found are stable over time, and will thus provide a solid continuing basis for RV performance prediction. From both scientific and practical viewpoints, knowledge of this kind makes it possible' to consider methods for@ enhancing the overall RV productt, J/F 39 Approved For Release 200 3/? 7 : CIA-RDP96-00 89ROO3200160001-9 For Release 2001/03/07 : 1@r-RDP96-00789R@3200160001-9 Interim Report Covering the Period 15 /Vovember 1983 to 15 July 1984 GEOPHYSICAL EFFECTS STUDY (U) SRI L July 1984 Project 6600 ESU 83-147 Copy No . .............. This document consists of 54 pages. nis FRI ved For Release 2001/03/07 @A-RDP96-00789R@03200160001-9 nterna iona 1 333 Ravenswood Avenue ' Menlo Park, California 94025 * U.S.A. I F7 @7t@@ 74 Cable: SRI INTL MPK - TWX: 910-373-2046 (415) 326-6200 Approved For Release 2GT1/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00789,RO03200160001-9 I OBJECTIVE (U) The objective of this effort is to investigate the possible effects of ambient geophysical/ low-f requency electromagnetic factors on remote viewing (RV)* performance (U) RV (remote viewing) is the acquisition and description, by mental means, of information blocked from ordinary perception by distance or shielding. Approved For Release 2001/03/07 CIA-RDP96-0 R003200160001 -9 Approved For Release 2001/03/07 CIA-RDP96-00789ROO3200160001-9 II INTRODUCTION (U) SRI International is tasked4 ,to investigate a potential correlation between remote viewing (RV) performance and ambient geophysical/extremely-low-frequency electro- magnetic (ELF) activity. The possibility of such correlation is indicated, for example, by studies showing psychophysiological effects 1'a* and behavioral changes 3P4 associated with ELF electro-magnetic fields. The geophysical variables of interest include such factors as ELF intensity/ fluctuations, ionospheric conditions, geornagnetic indices, sunspot number, and solar'emissions (e.g., X rays and solar flares). The questions to be answered in.this program are ~ Do geophysical/performance correlations exist such that measurement of the ambient geophysical variables could be used as an indicator of expected performance? ~ If so, can optimum performance windows be identified? (U) The structure of the program that will address the above issues consists of A literature search. Real-time ELF measurements - SRI (Menlo Park, California location) - Time Research Institute (Los Altos, California field station). Real-time geophysical data acquisition via NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) Westar IV satellite downlink. Computer correlation studies of RV performance versus variables of interest. (U) References are listed at the end of this report. 3 Approved For Releq@e 2001103/07 : CIA-RDP96-00789ROO3200160001-9 r Release 2001/03/07 : CIA- P96-00789RO03 160001-9 Final Report December 1 Covering the Period 15 November 1983 to 15 December 1984 PERSONNEL IDENTIFICATION AND SELECTION (U) SRI Project 6 Hi Copy No. 1@ FThis docuri This document consists of 54 pa d For Release 2001/03/07 C IA-,@@1)96-00789 ROO :@@ 01 -9 D@ 3 1600 fn @er 333 Ravenswood Avenue * Menlo i * U.S.A. (415) 326-6200 - Cable: SRI INV 1-373-2046 Approved For Rel ase 2001/03/07 A-RD 96-00789ROO3200160001-9 Cl @se TABLES(U) 1 (U) PAS Reference Groups of Precalibrated viewers . . . . . . . 14 2 (u) Cluster Analysis of 14 Precalibrated viewers . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 3 (U) Results of SRI RV Trainees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 4 lResults of the RV Trainees . . . . . . . . . 21 V Approved For Releare2CO01/03/07: CIA-R)DP -00789ROO3200160001-9 Approved For Release 200 L/O3/07: CIA-RDP96-00789 003200160001-9 IV METHOD OF APPROACH (U) A. (U) Overview (U) To accomplish the object of this effort, we used a group of 19 "calibrated" remote viewers as "baseline" indications of personality types for individuals who are likely to be good remote viewers. All 19 viewers were scored on a self-report inventory and on a performance measure. (Details of both are described below.) Item analysis was conducted to determine if there were any above-chance groupings of individuals in accordance with their RV abilities. By comparing the results of the performance measures with those of the selt-report inventories, we considered the possibility of correlations between the two techniques, The next stage was to administer the same tests to all SRI, and Mobius Society personnel currently involved in RV. On the basis of the test results, predictions were made as to the individuals' RV abilities. (U) As a test of correlations between self-report inventories and RV abilities in the general" population, we conducted item analysis upon 3081 responses collected by the Mobius Society. (U) To determine if Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP) could assist in the search for personality correlates to RV, we asked Dr. Nevin Lantz to provide us with a detailed analysis with particular focus upon applications for psychoenergetic researc h. 7 Approved For Release 2001/ 3/07 :OCIA-RDP96-007@89R 03200160001-9 Approved For Release 2 /03/07: CIA-RDP 00789ROO3200160001-9 I INTRODUCTION (U) A. (U) Overview 1k It.has been claimed by the parapsychological community that certain people c .an search for and locate water, oil, minerals, objects, individuals, sites of archaeological significance, and so forth. This purported ability is most often referred to as "dowsing" in the Western literature,l k In this report,t we shall reier to such techniques simply as "search." If "search" can be demonstrated to be a genuine ability, and if it can be applied 1V then we may have a Potential contribution (U) This ability can be contrasted to the related remote viewing ability in the following manner. In remote viewing, the viewer is given location information (e.g., coordinates, a beacon agent, or a picture), then asked to provide data on target content. In "search," the viewer is given information on target content, then asked to provide location data (e.g., position on a map). The two functions thus complement each other. (U) For a comprehensive survey of the claims for dowsing, see Christopher Bird, The Divining Hand, E. P. Dutton, New York, New York (1979). I(U) This report constitutes the deliverable for Objective D, Task I and Objective G, Task 1. 1 Approved For Release 200 /07: CIA-RDP 00789ROO3200160001-9 Approved For Release 200 DP96 0789ROO3200160001-9 1/t: CIA-R (U) To see whether or not this purported "search" ability could be brought under laboratory control, a computer-assisted search (CAS) routine was developed. This routine consists of the following elements: (1) A finite matrix of possible target locations (e.g., a 20 x 20 graphics matrix grid) from which one cell is randomly selected by the computer as the target. (2) An individual whose task is to "scan" the graphics display area with a computer mouse, and indicate, by pressing the button on the mouse, his/her choice as to the target location. A feedback mechanism that displays the response and actual target location. (4) An a priori defined analysis procedure to compare the targets with the responses. B. (U) Background (U) Using this general procedure, an experiment was conducted during FY 1984 in which two conditions were tested simultaneously:'* ~ The target remains fixed in space for the duration of the trial (space condition). ~ The target is rapidly moving to various locations, so that the subject must push the button at exactly the right time (time condition). @Seven subjects, who were blind to the space/time condition, were each asked to contribute 50 trials (25 space, 25 time). Five of them produced independently significant results: three in time only and two in space only. No participant was successful at both space and time conditions. (0) A larger pool of subjects was used to try to replicate this finding in FY 1986. Participants were chosen on the basis of interest and availability, and included both experienced and novice subjects. As in the FY 1984 experiment, each subject contributed 25 trials under each of the two conditions, space and time, and were blind to the condition in force for each trial. Most subjects were unaware that there were two conditions. f, - Thirty-six subjects participated in the FY 1986 experiment. A _1 Results were analyzed by separating the trials collected under the two conditions, as before. Six subjects attained significant results .(p < 0.05) in the time condition, and two in the space condition. The smallest (U) References are listed at the end of this report. 2 Approved For Release 20 07: CIA-R 6-00789ROO3200160001--9 0& 77 Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00789ROO3200160001-9 C attained p-value was 0.0001. The probability of obtaining such an extreme result, with 72 separate tests (36 in each condition), is 0.007, (The appropriate formula for this is [1 - (I - 0.0001)721, where in general the smallest p-value in an experiment with n separate tests is used instead of 0.0001, and n is used in place of 72.)2 --)In both years of testing, no participant scored significant hits in both the time and space conditions. (There were two subjects in FY 1986 who scored significantly in the direction of missing the target under both conditions.) This observation led to the question of whether or not talented subjects bifurcated into two groups: those who could search over a spatial area, and those who could push the button at just the right time. A follow-up experiment was proposed in FY 1986 to test this. ,Eleven subjects who had done well in the original FY 1986 experiment were asked to participate in a "single condition" experiment in which they would search under only the condition for which they had scored well. Thus, those who scored better in time were told of this fact, and were told that the target was constantly moving. Similarly, those who had done well with a fixed target were tested only under this condition, and were explicitly told that the target was stationary. Eight subjects completed this experiment. Results from this single condition experiment proved to be nonsignificant for all subjects. C. (U) Experiments for FY 1987 (U) Since the FY 1984 and the original FY 1986 experiments had shown evidence of search" ability, and since the only change in the follow-up FY 1986 experiment had been to remove the random assignment of the space and time condition, it was decided that an experiment should be conducted in FY 1987 in which the random space and time conditions were again used. This will be further discussed in this report, under the title of "Computer-Assisted Search Experiment." (U) As another test of "search" ability, an experiment was conducted during FY 1987 with a group of five self-proclaimed dowsers. The purpose of this experiment was to see if any of these individuals could come closer than expected by chance to locating a shipwreck, by 3 Approved For Relea Ce@001/03/07 : C "P96-00789ROO32001-60001-9 F7 Approved For Release 200 /03/07: CIA-RD)P9 -00789ROO3200160001-9 (U) in our experiment, a bounded area representing the perimeter of a 20 x 20 cell matrix was shown to the, participant, with the additional option of having the 400 individual squares of the grid displayed. Figure 1 shows the display with the grid option. The participant was told that the target could be anywhere within the square, and that he/she should move the cursor around, and push the button on the mouse when the moment "seemed right." The computer was programmed to give immediate feedback to the participant following each trial by automatically displaying the target cell as a filled square and the participant's choice as a shaded square, with a line connecting the two (see Figure 1). After several seconds of the feedback display, the computer recycled to the next trial. Coordinates of the target and response were stored for future analysis. UNCLASSIFIED FIGURE 1 (U) SEARCH MATRIX COMPUTER DISPLAY WITH FEEDBACK B. (U) The Atocha Experiment 4" tTo take the search task out of the laboratory, five self-proclaimed dowsers were asked to participate in an experiment to see if any of them could find an object by searching a map. (One of them, Viewer 198, has been part of the SRI Psychoenergetics Project since 1984. At times he/she has performed excellently in -- real-world laboratory search tasks. However, his/her overall performance Approved For Release 200 CIA-RDP 1/03@7. ' @1- 0789ROO3200160001-9 Approved For Release 2 1/03/07: CIA-RI)P96-00789ROO3200160001-9 has been mixed.) The object used for the experiment was the wreck of a Spanish galleon, Nuestra Senora de Atocha, which sank during a hurricane in 1622. The wreckage was found off the coast of Key West, Florida, on 20 July, 1985. It was selected as the target for this experiment because, although its location was already known, the considerable wealth it contained and its fascinating historical background,made it something that would have been worth searching for. The purpose of this task was to simulate a situation in which the searchers would be excited about finding the target because of its value. Of course the experiment was designed in such a way that knowing the actual location of the wreckage would not help the searchers succeed in the experiment. 1. (U) P@eliminary Activities (U) T6 create a high level of interest in the experiment, SRI personnel visited Florida and conducted two preliminary activities. First, they accompanied Viewer 198 to the Atocha museum and discussed the experiment and the Atocha history in detail with him/her. Later, before beginning the experimental trials, Viewer 198 showed a National Geographic videotape of the search for the Atocha to the other four participants. (U) The second preliminary activity was to conduct a few real-world search trials with Viewer 198, for a less important, but known, Spanish galleon wreck, the San Pedro. For these trials the location of the San Pedro wreck was marked on a map. Three white paper disks, scaled to correspond to 5,000 yards in diameter (6.34 square miles), were randomly keyed to the map and marked with a secret orientation code so that the experimenter could later rematch them to the map. The actual map location of the San Pedro was constrained to be somewhere on each of the three disks. (U) To add to the excitement of the task, the data were collected while Viewer 198 and the SRI personnel were in a vessel anchored directly above the wreck. Viewer 198 was given the three disks and asked to mark on each of them the spot where he/she felt the wreck and thus his/her current location were. We had hoped that "searching" for yourself as a beacon would contribute to the success of the trial. (U) Each disk was rematched to the map and the center of gravity (CG) for the three responses was calculated. Viewer 198's CG corresponded to a spot 500 yards from the wreck. If 7 Approved For Release 200 r'.1/07 : CIA-RD 0789ROO3200160001.9 Approved For Release 2001 3/07: CIA-R91 0789ROO3200160001-9 (U) a "real search" had been initiated at Viewer 198'S spot, a 96% reduction in search area would have been realized over starting at a random location. (U) Encouraged by this demonstration trial, we proceeded with the search for the Atocha. 2. (U) Experimental Details (U) The five participants in the Atocha experiment conducted their searches in group meetirigs at one participant's home. During each weekly meeting, each subject attempted five guesses. These were recorded by filling in a square on a piece of paper containing a 20 x 20 grid similar to that shown in Figure 1. These responses were then mailed to SRI International for evaluation. Previous to the time of the meeting, an experimenter at SRI had generated a target square for each participant, for each of the trials. This was done using a computer randomization scherrie to select one of the 400 squares in the grid. To simulate real conditions as much as possible, the grid was placed on a map of the Key West area with the target square centered on the spot where the Mocha had been found. Thus, each week there were five;such grids, ordered numerically by trial number, for each participant. If the participant filled in the correct square on a given response grid, then when the grid used for that trial was placed on the map, the response would be directly over the spot where the Alocha was found. (U) The experiment was initially scheduled to run for five weeks, with each participant contributing a total of 25 trials. However, at the end of that period the participants submitted and were granted a request to repeat the experiment, so the entire experiment consists of two sets of 25 trials for each subject. C. (U) Analysis (U) In both the CAS and the Mocha experiments, the basic unit of data for analysis consisted of sets of 25 target/response pairs. Within each pair, the data recorded were the coordinates of the target and the response from their locations on the 20 x 20 grid. In the CAS experiment, each of the eight subjects contributed one such set in the time condition and one in the space condition. For the Alocha experiment, each of the five subjects contributed two sets, one during each of the two five-week periods in the experiment. the question of intorest is Nether or not the information provided by the participant Approved For Release 2001/0 ciA-RDP97 789ROO3200160001.9 Approved For Rele7001/03/07 -RDP96-00789ROO3200160001-9 (S-NF) Table 6 (concluded) Major Keyword Subtopic Keyword Miscellaneous--Encompasses all No subtopics as yet implemented publications that were determined to possess little or no immediate interest (e.g., "hauntings," detection of the human aura, and so forth) 1 Approved For Release 2001K)3/07 : CIA-RDP96-00789ROO3200160001-9 Approved For Release 2001/0 CIA-RD 17 -00789ROO3200160001-9 would help reduce the time needed to find the target. This is equivalent to reducing the area over which it is necessary to search before the target is located. (U) Assume that in the absence of any information, a search would proceed by randomly selecting a square on the grid and searching that square. If the target is not found, then the squares closest to the original one are searched, in random order. This continues, by progressively moving away from the original square, until the target is found. At each stage, the set of squares equidistant from the original one, which have not yet been searched, are selected in random order and searched. (U) To analyze the success of these experiments, the average time required to find the target using this pFocedure with the subject's guess as the starting point should be compared to the average time required using a random starting point. (U) The number of squares that must be searched could range anywhere from one (if the target is in the original starting square), to the total number of squares, which is 400 for our experiments. In the absence of any information, and assuming that the target is equally likely to be anywhere in the grid, the probability that exactly s squares must be searched is 1/400, for any integer value of s from one to 400. In other words, s follows what is called a "discrete uniform distribution." It is as likely that all 400 squares will have to be searched as it is that the target will be found in the first square. This result is independent of the starting square. (U) The item of interest from each trial is the number of squares that would have to be searched to find the target. To compute this, we first find the straight line distance from the response to the target using the formula: d = V (y , _ y, )2 + (XI - X2 )2, where (X 1 , Y., ) and (X2 1 Y2 ) are the coordinates of the target and the response, respectively. (U) Next, we count the number of squares that are closer to the response than is the actual target, since all of those would have to be searched before the target would be found. Finally, we add to the count half of the number of squares that are exactly d units from the response, since on the average half of the squares at that distance would have to be searched Approved For Release 2001/03/07: CIA-RDP9 789ROO3200160001-9, Approved For Release 3/07: CIA P96-00789ROO3200160001-9 7 @7 @ III RESULTS (U) A. (U) The Computer-Assisted Search Experiment Table 1 shows the average proportion of squares that would have to be searched to find the target, and the corresponding p-values for each participant in each condition. One individual achieved a significant p-value in the space condition, and none did in the time condition. The subject who achieved significant results (Subject 837) had done so in the space condition in the FY 1986 experiment also (with p = 0.04), but did not participate in the FY 1984 experiment. Subject 164, who showed a p-value of 0.066 'in the space condition in this experiment, had a significant result (p = 0.031) in the space condition in FY 1984, and significantly missed the target (p = 0.98) in the FY 1986 space condition. Neither of these subjects scored anything other than chance in the time condition in any of the experiments. The third-ranked subject (Subject 150, p = 0.109) was a novice. Table I (U) RESULTS FOR COMPUTER -ASSISTED SEARCH EXPERIMENT SPACE CONDI TION TIME CONDITION Average proportion Average proportion Subject I.D. of squares searched p-value of squares searched p-value 837 0.3353 0.002 0.5008 0.497 164 0.4143 0.066 0.4396 0.143 150 0.4302 0.109 0.4715 0.303 463 t 0.4771 0.338 0.5837 0.923 235 * 0.4801 0.357 0.5224 0.643 3001 0.5023 0.507 0.4337 0.121 428 t 0.5454 0.778 0.5740 0.896 432 0.5649 0.865 0.5089 0.552 Previously significant in space. t Previously significant in time. Novice J_ ; Based on the minimum p-value of 0.002, the overall level of significai-;e for the experiment with the space condition is 0.016. For I I Approved For Release ! col @03/07: CIA- 96-00789ROO3200160001-9 Approved For Release 20011 7 : CIA-R 7-00789ROO3200160001-9 the lime condition, it is 0.644 (minimum P = 0.121). For the entire I experiment, the minimum p-value is Still 0.002, but it is based on 16 replications, so the overall significance level is 0.032. A more interesting result with regard to potential applications is an estimate of the reduction in the area that would have to be searched if the responses given by these subjects were used instead of randomly choosing a starting point. This can be computed by comparing the average proportions given in Table I with the chance average of 0.50125. For Subject 837, under the space condition, the average reduction would be 33%. For example, if a search was undertaken for a kidnap victim,.and this subject achieved the personal average level of functioning demohstrated in this experiment, 33% less area would have to be searched before the victim was found than if a random starting point was used. Even though only one subject had a significant result, combining all subjects' guesses in the space condition would still give an average reduction of 6.5% in the area searched. Depending upon the application, this reduction could still represent a substantial savings in expenditure of resources. In the time condition however, the results indicate that there would be no change in search time over chance. In addition to looking at the average reduction in search area,,it is of interest for applications to know what percent of the trials would have resulted in a smaller search area than expected by chance. For Subject 837 in the space condition, 18 out of 25, or 72% of all trials resulted in a savings. This means that if this subject were used repeatedly to suggest a starting point for searches, approximately 72% of all targets would be found in less time than average, and 28% would require more than the average. In contrast, a random starting place should@result in about 50% above and 50% below average search times. For all subjects combined in the space condition, 104 out of 200, or 52% of all trials resulted in a savings in search area. For the time condition only, 102, or 51% resulted in a smaller search area than would be expected by chance. Approved For Release 2001/03/07 i2CIA-RDP96-00789ROO3200160001-9 -7 Approved For Release 2001/03/07 CIA-RDP96-00789ROO3200160001-9 E J IV DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS (U) The experiments discussed in this report were designed to replicate and extend earlier findings which indicated that selected participants could use psychic means to help search for a hidden target. The computer-assisted search experiment, which served as a direct replication of the experiments conducted in FY 1984 and FY 1986, once again showed promising results. As in the earlier experiments, no subject was able to produce significant results independently in both the time and the space conditions. Further, the two subjects who produced the best results did so-in the space condition, which replicated their performance in the earlier experiments. The best subject in the time condition had scored significantly in the time condition in FY 1986, but not in space. In general, those who did well in this experiment (excluding one novice) did so in the same condition for which they had previously scored significantly. Even though n is small, we were able to speculate that subjects bifurcate into those who can search for fixed targets (space) and those who can identify when to register a guess (time). It would appear that each subject would do best in an experiment which-contained only the preferred condition. A study done this year to test that notion produced completely chance results. Thus, it appears that even if this bifurcation does exist, it is best to present subjects with randomly scrambled conditions. Perhaps the knowledge of exactly what the task requires adds an analytical component which is hard to overcome. This has been observed in other psychic functioning, such as forced choice guessing of targets in remote viewing. I This is the third year in which a computer-assisted search experiment has provided evidence that psychic functioning may be of some use in, searching for hidden or lost targets. Although such functioning is not completely predictable, it appears to be robust enough, when selected subjects are used, to Approved For Release 2001/03/0714 CIA-RDP96-00789ROO3200160001-9 I Approved For Release 2001/03/ lA-RDP_ 0789ROO3200160001-9 @:C significantly reduce the average search time from what it would be if randomly located starting points were used. (U)' The Atocha experiment, which was designed to see if self-proclaimed "dowsers" would be able to locate a lost object using a grid overlaid on a map, did not produce a significant finding, although a preliminary experiment showed very promising results. It is difficult to base conclusions on one experiment with a small sample size. However, it appears that whatever produced the functioning with selected subjects in the computer-assisted search in the laboratory did not carry over to the conditions of the Mocha experiment. 15 Approved For Release 200 1/03/07(@A-RDP96 89ROO3200160001-9- 90 .1 ......... I Approved For Release 2001/03/0 : CIA-RDP 789ROO3200160001-9 F(__@ December 1987 Final Report- -objective F, Tasks la and lb " tember 1987 0 Covering the Period I October 1986 to 30 SeP FEEDBACK AND PRECOGNITION DEPENDENT REMOTE VIEWING EXPERIMENTS (U) FC@ SRI Project 1291 A edLf Rel ,,@@pprov 333 Ravenswood Avenue Menlo pwjc-,Galitorffr9- Qpi INITI MPK * nVX' 910-373-2046 Approved For Release 2001/03 CIA-RD -00789ROO3200160001-9 77 ABSTRACT (U) Two different Precognition experiments were conducted during FY 1987. The first of these involved a well-calibrated viewer (Subject 372)@and used natural Bay Area sites as targets. Ten real-time and ten precognitive trials (counterbalanced) yielded no statistical evidence for remote viewing. in the second experiment, four viewers contributed approximately 30 trials each in a similar counterbalanced real-time vs. precognition protocol. In this experiment, however, the target material were@photographs from a national magazine. No statistical evidence for remote viewing was observed in this experiment. In a third experiment desi gned to eAplore the role of feedback upon remote viewing quality, two of four viewers produced independently significant evidence for remote viewing. A number of speculations are offered as to possible mechanisms including real-time data acquisition and global precognition with noise reduction. Approved For Release 2001103107: CIAL-RDP96-00789ROO3200160001-9 Approved For Release 20 /0 /07 : CIA796-00789ROO3200160001-9 7@O 3 I INTRODUCTION (U) since 1973, remote viewing (RV) has been observed under a wide variety of different conditions. A few of many Possible examples are coordinate RV* (targeting by geographical coordinatesw beacon RV (known person at the remote si.te) 2 abstract targeting (targeting by the word "target" or by a random number or binary number) 3 and targeting by remote tasking, in which the task is sealed in an envelope which is geographically isolated from the viewer. To first order, all of these (and more) have been demonstrated successfully in laboratory, conditions. .The main difficulty in trying to understand the various successes of RV from a fundamental point of view is that RV appears to require a large number of basic theories to explain the variety of observables. How is it possible to describe access to remote information with a single unifying concept when the target has been specified by a complex series of random events, separated in time and space, and these events are completely unknown to the viewer? This problem has been one of the main sources of criticism about the existence of RV, in that nothing else in nature appears to have such properties. (It is beyond the scope of this report to argue this point. It suffices to say that most of the great advances in science contributed to the organization and understanding of seemingly unrelated data. The ultraviolet catastrophe and early atomic spectra are but two examples of the confusion prior to the understanding provided by early quantum theory.) (U) SRI has been developing a heuristic model of psychoenergetic functioning4 that has the potential of providing some understanding of the RV confusion described above. It is based upon a concept called precognition. Since the 1930s, the parapsychology literature has been reporting experiments that claim to demonstrate the existence of precognition--remote viewing of target material that had not been specified at the time of the viewing. As yet, there is not a meta-analysis of this literature, but there is a review of the experimental support for (U) References may be found at the end of this report. I DP96-00789ROO3200160001-9 Approved For Release 2 03/07 : C 0 r, Approved For Release 2001/0 CIA-RD 0789ROO3200160001-9 II METHOD OF APPROACH (U) A. (U) Real-Time vs. Precognition Experiment (U) During FY 1987, SRI conducted two experiments to examine the effects of target generation time in RV'data acquisition. The first of these was with a selected viewer using natural locations within 30 minutes driving time from SRI as target material. In the other experiment, four experienced viewers used photographs from the National Geographic Magazine as target material. In both experiments the time of target generation (before or after the RV session) was unknown to either viewers or monitors. 1. (U) The Beacon RV Series (U) To examine the role of target generation upon out-bound RV experiments, SRI asked an experienced viewer (Viewer 372) to participate in a 20-trial series. Viewer 372 has been calibrated in this particular task in that he/she has demonstrated significant RV performance in all (2) of the beacon experiments conducted at SRI.". 12 Furthermore, Viewer 372 has expressed strong preference for this type of experiment rather than those that use photographs as targets. The target material consisted of 66 natural outdoor locations within a half-hour's drive of SRI. The sites were selected on the basis of the past performance of Viewer 372. Thus, the target selection criteria allowed sites that would be more difficult for novice viewers. The intent was to produce a target pool with a variety of different material. For Viewer 372, the variety could be architectural (and other details) as well as general gestalt features. a. (U) Protocol (U) The viewer and the monitor were blind to both the target pool and the individual target selections. At the beginning of each trial, the viewer and monitor were sequestered in the RV laboratory. The assistant then selected the target generation time and, if appropriate, the target site. The target selection time for each trial was determined according to 4 Approved For Release 2001/03@7: CIA-RDP 789ROO3200160001-9 Approved For Release 2@1103/07 : CIA-R P96-00789ROO3200160001-9 7@1 III RESULTS AND DISCUSSION (U) A. (U) Real-Time vs. Precognition Experiments 1. (U) The Beacon RV Series (U) Table 1 shows the results of the 20-session beacon RV series. Table 1 (U) RESULTS FOR VIEWER 372 Condition Trace p-value Real-time 45.5 0.154 Precognition 51.5 0.638 Overall, no condition met the criteria for statistical significance. For Viewer 372, this represents the first time at SRI that a series has not met statistical significance out of four attempts (counting each condition as a separate attempt). Given Viewer 372's track record, we allow for some speculation as to possible reasons for the results of this series. Viewer 372 first participated in a six-trial RV experiment in FY 1980. That study produced four first place matches and two second place matches for a combined p-value of 0.003.11 His/her second participation was in FY 1986. when twelve beacon RV trials were conducted with an overall p-value of 0.007.12 Combined with the two efforts in FY 1987 (see Table 1) the average p-value is 0.201. Using an exact calculation,16 the probability of observing an average p-value of 0.201 in 4 experiments is 0.017. This is consistent with a minimum p-value (0.003) technique17 which yields 0.012. --aft .There are at least two possible hypotheses for this experiment not reaching significance. The first (and most likely one) is given by Utts.18 If one is willing to estimate a "hit" rate given that RV 10 Approved For Release 2 03/07: CIA- 96-00789ROO3200160001-9 7r, 7 Approved For Release 2001/03/ CIA-RDP 89ROO3200160001-9 7 is real, then it is possible to calculate the probability of observing a significant study. While it is difficult to ascertain the actual "hit" rate for RV, Utts provides an estimate for a similar process--Ganzfeld. For a 10-trial study the probability of observing a significant result is only 15%. (MCE is 5%, of course.) i___88!Secondly, a new variable was introduced by the nature of the protocol. The time between the remote viewing and the feedback was greater than two hours. This represents an order of magnitude increase over our other experiments. The influence of this increase is currently unknown. 2. The Target Photograph Series Table 2 shows the results of the four-viewer real-time vs. precognition experiment. Based on the sum of ranks and their associated p-values, there was no significant evidence of RV in this series. Table 2 (U) REAL-TIME VS. PRECOGNITION RESULTS Cond. vi@ewer Real-time Precognition All Trials rt/pc_ 009 57 (0.375) 62 (0.625) 119 (0.482) 15/15 105 61 (0.905) 51 (0.473) 112 (0.797) 13/13 177 32 (0.283) 46 (0.415) 78 (0.275) 9/12 454 70 (0.912) 68 (0.862) 138 (0.954) 15/15 Totals 220 (0.203) 227 (0.472) 447 (0.179) 52/55 (U) Sum-of-ranks (p-value) Based on the past performance (in real-time RV) of these particular viewers, the results are disappointing. Yet, because of their record, we speculate upon possible reasons why this experiment did not reach significance. Approved For Release 2001/03/07-,i CIA-RDP 789ROO3200160001-9 Approved For Releas, 2,001/03/07 : CIA- DP96-00789ROO3200160001-9 CPO @@CIA- -"As described above, an estimate (provided by Utts1s) of the 0@ probability of a significant 10-15 trail RV series is approximately 15%. Yet it remains surprising that no significant series was observed in eight attempts. A IA possible problem is that this particular experiment was conducted after the successful tachistoscope experiment (described below). That experiment required 40 trials from each viewer. Since this experiment required 30 trails from each viewer, a given viewer had to produce 70 remote viewings in approximately 80 days. 'In summary, then, we were unable to demonstrate a significant RV phenomenon in the real-time vs. precognition experiments. Considering the vast amount of data in the literature that claim the existence ofprecognition, we recommend that the study should be continued at a later date. B. (U) The Tachistoscope Experiment (U) Table 3 shows the sum of ranks and associated p-values for the tachistoscope feedback experiment. Table 3 (U) TACHISTOSCOPE FEEDBACK EXPERIMENT Viewer Result 009 131 (0.012)- 105 182 (0.962) 137 159 (0.484) 177 L:LL 104 - (3. x10 -6 (U) Sum-of-ranks (p-value) Viewers 009 and 177 produced independently significant results. There are a number of ways in which we could combine these data, but the most conservative is a binomial calculation assuming an event probability of 0.05. Two successes in four trials corresponds to an exact 12 Approved For Release /03/07@: 9A- DP96-00789ROO3200160001-9 C! I - Approved For Release 2001/03/ IA-RDP96-0@789ROO3200160001-9 p-Value of 0.014. A more realistic estimate is provided by a minimum P-Value (3.5 x 10-6) technique which yields 1.4 X 10-4.16 The important point, however, is that this experiment produced strong evidence for an informational anomaly. i Figures 3 and 4 show RV quality (I is low, 7 is high) plotted against intensity of the feedback for Viewers 009 and 177, respectively. Shown also is the regression line for each viewer. These figures are to be compared to Figure 2, the idealized expectations. The result that is easiest to understand in Figure 2 is the positive correlation showing increased RV performance with increased feedback intensity. We did not observe any such correlation with either of the significant viewers. In fact, the linear correlation coefficients were not significant. The lack of positive correlation in the light of significant evidence of RV .'complicates the interpretation considerably. The most obvious conclusion is that the viewers obtained their data in real time and not from the later feedback. But, if the argument posited in Section I is correct (that precognition is unfalsifiable), then the experiment was doomed to failure from the start. Another equally likely hypothesis is that the underlying assumption that cognitive awareness constitutes feedback information is incorrect. If this were true, we would expect to see no correlation with intensity even if the precognition model were correct. J_'____@viewer 177's average sum of ranks was significantly (p < 0.02) greater than his/her sum of ranks in the real-time vs. precognition experiment. Viewer 009 produced a strong and similar trend that obtained a probability against chance of 0.08. Assuming these differences are meaningful, we can speculate that something in the tachistoscope experiment resulted in a significant noise reduction. Possibly, short exposures to feedback material allow the viewer to focus only upon the major items and thus reduce the noise--the precognition model is assumed here. In any event, continuing this experiment would shed light on the difficult feedback interpretation problem. 13 Approved For Release 2001/ CIA-RD 0789ROO3200160001-9- 01 W1_ 7 CIA-RD 96-00789ROO3200160001-9 Approved For Release 2 01/03/07 r 0. 102 d 1000 2000 3000 4000 Intensity FIGURE 4 (U) RV QUALITY VS. FEEDBACK INTENSITY: VIEWER 177 15 Approved For Release 2 t@!103/07 : CIA-k-196-00789ROO3200160001-9 For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00789ROO3200160001-9 December 1982 Final Report REVISED JULY 1983 A REMOTE VIEWING EVALUATION PROTOCOL (U) FC@ nis document consists of 48 pages. For Release 2001/03/07 CIA-RDP96-okn$W32001600,M@. 333 Ravenswood Ave. - Menlo Park. CA94025 (Intpr -!15 359-6200. TWX 910-373-2046. -,Piex- 334-486 1 1 Approved For Release 2@110.3107 . @C 96-00789ROO3200160001-9 (U) the transcripts in order of the best to least match for each of the n targets. A simple numerical counting procedure is then used to estimate the likelihood that the judge's transcript/targetmatches are by chance alone.2 This early technique contained little systematic structure for determining the final order of matches. I The first step toward systematizing the rank order judging procedure was to preprocess the raw data in the transcript by "concep- tualizing" both the verbal and the pictorial responses. Conceptualizing a transcript requires an analyst to paraphrase the transcript into a list of coherent statements. This concept list is then compared and scored concept-by@!concept to each of the targets in the experiment. The resulting scores are;averaged for each response, and all responses are rank-ordered on the basis of these scores.3 This improved analysis procedure was applied to a number of experiments within the Technology Transfer TaskAN-1. (U) The problem with the above technique is that there are no guide- lines as to how the analyst should paraphrase the transcript; furthermore, the method in which the concepts are to be assessed against the targets remains undefined. The purpose of the Evaluation Task in FY 1982 was to identify a procedure that corrected these deficiencies. Approved For Release 200 07: CIA-R 00789ROO3200160001-9 ff! 1 61- Approved For Release 2001/03t. CIA-RDP96-00 89ROO3200160001-9 IV CONCLUSIONS (U) r r ri r A protocol has been developed to address the relative evaluation portion of the overall RV transcript assessment problem. As a demonstra- iion of the technique, we provide in Appendix A an analysis of a series of four remote viewings that were performed as calibrations In this series the remote viewing products were of relatively high quality, but nonetheless require a sensitive technique to differentiate because of the similarity of the targets and, hence, of the descriptions. (The series was chosen primarily for that r4ason.) Application of the assessment technique resulted in the correctblind matching (highest scoring in matches versus cross matches) of three of the four. (U) Appendix B is a one page, step-by-step procedure for the application of this evaluation technique. (U) The material in this document thus constitutes an instruction manual or protocol for application of a step-by-step procedure for quan- titative assessment of the relative target/transcript correlations of a series of transcripts matched into a series of targets. r Approved For Release 200110310 A-RDP9-6-0 _6@R003200160001-9. Approved For Release 2001/0 rr: CIA-RDP 0789ROO3200160001-9 on 14 December 1981, four coordinate remote viewings were con- ducted as calibrations during ail @,remote viewing session tar- geted Oites of interest.' These four calibrations were chosen as a test bed for the evaluation procedure for the following reasons, (1) they were conducted in an approp-Me- setting, and (2) the targets had many similar features, and would thus provide a sensitive test of the protocol. Figures A-1 through A-4 are the transcripts that were presented to the analyst. They are exactly as they were when collected, ex cept that the coordinates have been removed. Figures A-5 through A-8 are the National Geographic magazine targets that were used during the calibration sessions. Finally, the task coordinator provided Tables A-1 through A-4 as target element relevance scales for the four targets in Figures A-5 through A-8. This completes the information that was given to the analyst, and thus the analysis was carried out blind as to the matching target/ transcript pairs. (U) Table A-5 is a compilation of the completed work sheets that were used by the analyst in this evaluation. They are shown in groups by session number, and alphabetized on the four targets. (The task coordinator first randomized the transcript order then assigned the session number used above.) For each of the transcripts, the analyst simply included all phrases and all drawings as concepts. For example, seven concepts were found during Session 2. (U) All concepts were then analyzed as described in the text. The matching target element, its relevance rating, and the computed score are shown for all possible combinations of transcript/target pairs in Table A-5. The score distributions and their resulting weighted averages are also shown in Table A-5. Approved For Release 2001/03/ CIA-FkbP96-0 789ROO3200160001-9 Orl" Approved For Release 20@0:3/07 : CIA-RID 6-00789ROO3200160001-9 % _ @9 IV CONCLUSIONS (U) A protocol has been developed to address the relative evaluation portion of the overall RV transcript assessment problem. As a demonstra- tion of the technique, we provide in the following Appendix an analysis of a series of four remote viewings that were performed as calibrations In this series the remote viewing products were of relatively high quality, but nonetheless require a sensitive technique to differentiate because of the similarity of the targets and, hence, of the descriptions. (The series was chosen primarily for that reason.) Application of the assessment technique resulted in the correct blind matching (highest scoring in matches versus cross matches) of three of the four. (U) The material in this document thus constitutes an instruction manual or protocol for application of a step-by-step procedure for quan- titative assessment of the relative target/transcript correlations of a series of transcripts matched in.to a series of targets. Approved For Release 200ff@107 : CIA-RD@91-00789ROO3200160001-9 Approved For Release 2001@ @O7 - CIA-RDPV%j 00789ROO3200160001-9 @96 @On 14 December 1981, four coordinate remote viewings were con- ducted as calibration These four calibrations were chosen as a test bed for the evaluation procedure for the following appIi'C.4_-h'oYi reasons, (1) they were conducted in ant, and (2) the targets had many similar features, and would thus provide a sensitive test of the protocol. Figures A-1 through A-4 are the transcripts that were presented to the analyst. They are exactly as they were when collected, except that the coordi nates have been removed. Figures A-5 through A-8 are the National Ge6graphic magazine targets that were used during the calibration sessions. Finally, the task coordinator provided Tables A-1 through A-4 as target element relevance scales for the four targets in Figures A-5 through A-8. This completes the information that was given to the analyst, and thus the analysis was carried out blind as to the matching target/ transcript pairs. (U) Table A-5 is a compilation of the completed work sheets that were used by the analyst in this evaluation. They are shown in groups by session number, and alphabetized on the four targets. (The task coordinator first randomized the transcript order then assigned the session number used above.) For each of the transcripts, the analyst simply included all phrases and all drawings as concepts. For example, seven concepts were found during Session 2. (U) All concepts were then analyzed as described in the text. The matching target element, its relevance rating, and the computed score are shown for all possible combinations of transcript/target pairs in Table A-5. The score distributions and their resulting weighted averages are also shown in Table A-5. 13 Approved For Release 200C@,,,,3/07 : CIA-kDI6-00789ROO3200160001-9 Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : ClA-liDP96-00789R003200160001-9 Final Report covering the Period October 1982 to September 1983 FREE WORLD PSYCHOENERGETICS RESEARCH SURVEY (U) November 1@1 SRI Project 4028-2 @isdocum,, -etw @o ..... 777is document consists of 212 P -5ff b%lfl-- ,4 r Relea§k2A9eVsUIQ7A~9JA-PAR69L7-99RG~32~6'48 -f-9 ' (415) 326-6200 * cable: SRI INTL MPK ' TWX: 910-373-2046 Approved For Release 200 7: CIA-R -00789ROO3200160001-9 P99 I INTRODUCTION (U) This study is an overview of psychoenergetics research ef- forts in those Free-World countries that have published articles in the open literature. The data are restricted to foreign work and are derived from a comprehensive survey of eight major parapsychological journals, spanning a period from 1972 until the present. Two hundred and thirty- three articles were evaluated and computerized in a Data Base Management System (DBMS) according to six major topics or keywords and 16 subtopics that were chosen specifically to reflect those areas considered to be of principal interesr The six principal topic hehd-ings may be understood in general terms according to the fol- lowing set of definitions: 0 Remote Sensing: The acquisition and description, by mental means, of information blocked from ordinary perception by dis- tance or shielding, and generally believed to be secure against such access.* 0 Remote Action: The production of physical effects, such as the perturbation of instrumentation or equipment that appears to be well shielded against, or otherwise inaccessible to, human influence.* 0 Reliability/Screenin'g: Spans a wide range of prescriptive, methodological experiments or experimental prorocols; also in- cludes studies-involved in the identification of correlates (e.g., physiological, psychological, and so forth) that may en- hance psychoenergetic functioning and/or facilitate the selection of talented subjects. 0 Theoretical Models: Various paradigms and plausibility arguments, which have been advanced within physics and other disciplines that endeavor to explain observed phenomena. 0 Healing: The ability of an agent to cure illness or to influence positively the physical state of a biological system. (U) H. E. Puthoff, R. Targ, and E. C. May, "Psychoenergetic Research: Suggested Approaches," SRI White Paper, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA (1 May 1978), SRI Proprietary. Approved For Release 2001/0 CIA-RD 0789ROO3200160001-9 P7 Approved For Release 2001/031 t. @-C IA-RDP96-00 9ROO3200160001-9 9 Miscellaneous: Encompasses all topics that were determined to possess little or no immediatei -_ interest (e.g., "hauntings," detection of the human aura, and so forth). (U) Table 1 provides a summary listing of the Free-World countries (and their respective research facilities) that have published articles in the open literature for a given topic. This table should be examined with the attendant caveats that (1) no evaluation of the quality of any published research was undertaken for the purposes of this study and (Z) a given article may have been counted more than once if it had been determined that its principal research objectives encompassed more than one major topic. (U) By way of summation, the following observations may be derived from a general analysis of Table 1, and by further utilizing the sub- keyword capabilities of the DBMS: 0 England and The Netherlands published equivalent numbers of articles on the topic of "remote sensing," followed by West Germany. The following represents a distribution of articles according to remote sensing subtopics (Table 2). 0 The Netherlands, West Germany, and Scotland, respectively, are indicated as performing the majority of the research in "remote action." The distribution of interest with regard to the sub- topics within this major category is as follows (Table 3). 0 The Netherlands, England, and Scotland, respectively, represent the primary investigators of techniques both for enhancing the ergetic functioning and/or for identifying reliability of psychoen talented subjects. Within the major category of reliability and screening, the published articles for these three countries may be further subdivided into the following distribution of specific subtopics (Table 4). * West Germany and England, followed by The Netherlands and Scotland, respectively, have advanced the greatest number of published theories and models. These may be further delineated according to the following subtopics (Table 5). 0 Very little work has been published an "healing" in this par- ticular selection of journals; this is not to conclude that this kind of research categorically is not occurring, but that it may be published elsewhere in a different genre of periodical. 2 Approved For Release 2001/03/07CCIA-RDP9&5~89ROO3200160001-9 WE Approved For Release 2001/03107 RDP96-00@@MO03200160001-9 (U) Second, the article had to have indicated the foreign facility at which the published research was performed, in order for the article to have been counted as "foreign." The reason for this criterion, of course, is that American parapsychologists publish in foreign journals, and foreign parapsychologists publish in American journals; an accurate assessment of foreign work, therefore, cannot be obtained by simply sur- veying the foreign journals. The advantage of this procedure is that, for this study, U.S. publications could be reliably excluded from the data base. The disadvantage was that valid foreign research was also rejected from the data base--,if the facility at which the research was performed was not listed in the article. B. (U) Keyword System Development The computerized article keywording system was developed specifically to address those topics deemed to be of primary interest' The keywords, themselves, were chosen to reflect the principal areasl %in psychoenergetics, as determined from previous 4' ptudies. By applying this set of keywords, then, to the Free-World data base, a primary overview of Free-World facilities involved in similar or commensurate researcht As has been mentioned pre- viously, it was not within the scope of this document to evaluate the efficacy of all of the research eff6rts in tl@e Free-'World countries but merely to highlight the principal Free-Worid tacilities that are 'researching those areas in psychoenergetics that are of primary interest Approved For Release 2001/03/OC CIA-iiDP961789ROO3200160001-9 WOW" Approved For Re @7 e 2001/03107 CIA-RDP9 00789ROO3200160001-9 7 C. (U) Keyword System Application (U) For the purposes of this study, the articles were sorted ac- cording to (1) the six major keyword headings, only, for the presenta- tion of data pertaining to all countries (cf, section 3, "Data" below); and (2) further subtopic classifications for a chosen subset of the Free-World countries (cf, Section I, "Introduction" above). Table 6 provides the operative definitions for the major keywords and their respective subtopics. 4 In addition to query capability on subtopics within a given major topic, combinations of major and subtopic keywords may be utilized across topics to satisfy relatively specific query requirements. For example, a keyword combination of "Remote Action," "Micro," "Reliability/ Screening," and "Physiological Correlates" would typically select out articles from the data base that dealt with experiments in random-number generator psychokinesis, during which aspects of the subject's physio- logical state (e.g., galvanic skin response) were monitored. (U) In conclusion, there are three principal advantages to the current Oesign of the keywording system in particular, and the DBMS in general, in that they allow (1) continual expansion of data and modes of data classification,- (2) "horizontal" surveying capability across, for example, many countries or topics; and (3) "vertical" in-depth surveying capability through increasingly finer topic discriminatorsi@ Approved For Rel 2001/03/0719 CIA-RDP96 nn789ROO3200160001-9 14 Approved For Release 2001/03/07 RIDP96-!0!0@8)9003200160001-9 Table 6 (U) OPERATIVE DEFINITIONS OF MAJOR KEYWORDS Major Keyword Subtopic Keyword Remote Sensing--The acquisition Precognition: acquisition of and description, by mental means, information about an event prior of information blocked from to the occurrence of the event ordinary perception by distance Altered States: psi modalities in or shielding, and generally the Ganzfeld, lucid dreams, believed to be secure against hypnosis, and so forth such access Dowsing or biophysical effort (BPE) Remote viewing (RV) Remote Action--The production of Micro: interactive effects produced physical effects, such as the at the molecular or atomic levels perturbation of instrumentation Macro: effects or perturbations or equipment that appears to be typically observable without the well shielded against, or aid of instrumentation otherwise inaccessible to, human influence Biological: production of measurable changes of state in biological systems Reliability/Screening--Spans a Methodology wide range of prescriptive, Physiological Correlates methodological experiments or experimental protocols; also Psychological Correlates includes studies involved in the ' Perceptual Correlates identification of correlates that may enhance psychoenergetic Physical Correlates functioning and/or facilitate the selection of talented subjects Theoretical Models--Various Mathematical/Physical paradigms and plausibility Psychological arguments advanced within physics and other disciplines that Philosophical endeavor to explain observed Physiological phenomena Healing--The ability of an agent No subtopics as yet implemented to cure illness or to positively influence the physical state of a biological system 20 Approved For Release 2001/03/07 :ftA-RDP96-189ROO3200160001-9 For Release 2001/ CIA-R@P@9 -00789ROO3200160001-9 r_, I,- lo january 1980 QuarterlY Progress Report cember 1979 Covering the Period 1 October to 31 De SRI International Project 7560 NIC TECHNIQUES (U) SR 299 This document consists :@f of 29 pages. G 0 p y 30 0014alv A 0 P,J*RM99 or Release 2001/03107: CIA-RDP96-0078 333 Ravenw.,ood Ave. - Menlo Park. California 94 OBA r 96-6200 - Cable: SRI INTL MPK - TWX: 910-373-1246 Approved For Release 20 1/03/07 : CIA-RDP@9-00789ROO3200160001-9 @3/0 raw data, all of them equally likely under the null hypothesis that the viewer's remote viewing attempts produce nothing but vague and general descriptions and/or occasional chance correspondences with various target sites. Each matrix has its associated sum on the matrix diagonal corre- sponding to a possible alignment of targets. The significance level for the experiment is then determined by counting the number of possible matrices that would yield a result (diagonal sum) equal to or better than that obtained for the matrix corresponding to the key, and dividing by n! This ratio gives the probability of obtaining by chance a result equal to or better than that obtained in the actual judging process. For the results shown in Table 2 in the body of the report, for example, we find, by direct computer count of the 5: matrices obtained by interchanging columns, that the probability of obtaining equal or better matching by chance is p = 1/5! = 0.0083. 28 Approved For Release 3/07: CIA-R (@O -'110 _@P)6-00789ROO3200160001-9 - I- - ____ For Release 2001/03/07: CIA-R 6-00789R 00160001-9 17 77 Final Report- -objective E, Task 1 covering the Period I October 7985 to 30 September 1987 POSSIBLE PHOTON PRODUCTION DURING: A REMOTE VIEWING TASK: A REPLICATION EXPERIMENT (U) CBY: Prepared for: SRI Project 1291 December 1987 Approved by: AQ_y @-- document consists of 19 page T -5 d( 6JAE@n ,e-,PVLI 1EX d For R ase 2001103107 CIA-RDPJ-OOU789ROO1@32O 0001-9 N( L _.@c I - (S$R I @ 333 Ravenswood Avenue * Menlo , alifornia 25 - U.S.A. intern-atiorni / _- 1-1 -- @ QP1 INITI Approved For Release 20(@ \@/03/07 : Cl@f)P 6-00789ROO3200160001-9 ABSTRACT (U) @Attempting to verify a claim by the Chinese that light is emitted in the vicinity of correctly identified remote viewing (RV) target material, we repeated an experiment first published in FY 1984. In that earlier experiment, a state-of-the-art, ambient temperature, photon counting system was used to monitor the target material (35-mm slides of National Geographic Magazine photographs) .The statistical measure derived from the photon counting apparatus in that study showed a significant positive correlation with the RV results (p :!!@ 0,035). That is, when the remote viewing was good, there was an increase in the signal detected by the photon.counting system. In addition, we observed two anomalous pulses having a signal-to-noise ratio of about 20:1 to 40:1. In the present experiment (FY 1987), we improved all hardware aspects of the previous work, substantially reducing the background noise level and improving shielding against artifact. In addition, analysis of the remote viewing indicates that three out of the four viewers produced independently significant results. Our analysis of the photomultiplier tube (PMT) data shows no evidence of any anomalous high count rate pulses, no evidence of any effect on the PMT output during the RV session, and no evidence of any significant correlation between RV performance and PMT output. We conclude that (1) the effect proposed by the Chinese is artifactual in nature. Approved For Release 20" 107: CIA-R -00789ROO3200160001-9 Approved For Release 2001/03/1!!LCIA-RDP96 89ROO3200160001-9 - !!iojo III RESULTS (U) A. (U) Remote Viewing Results (U) Each RV session was judged using an FM analysis. The FM is defined as the product of two measures: accuracy and reliability. The accuracy of an RV response is the fraction of the target material that is described correctly. Reliability is the fraction of the response that is correct. Tables I through 4 show the RV results for each trial. The session number (9001.cr, for example) incorporates a code for each viewer as well as the chronological sequence of viewings. Table 1 (U) REMOTE VIEWING RESULTS FOR VIEWER 009 Session Figure of Merit p-value 9001.lg 0.5714 0.0238 9002.lg 0.3810 0.1961 9003.lg 0.4444 0.0497 9004.lg 0.3333 0.3650 9005.lg 0.0667 0.9233 9006.lg 0.3556 - 0.-2697 Overall p < 0.0450 10 Approved For Release 2001/03 CIA-RDP&6-hf'789ROO3200160001-9. r -T Approved For Release 2 3/07: CIA 96-00789ROO3200160001-9 07 7 Table 2 (U) REMOTE VIEWING RESULTS FOR VIEWER 105 Session Figure of Merit p-value 9001.rs 0.4571 0.0412 9002.rs 0.1667 0.3486 9003.rs 0.1600 0.3618 9004.rs 0.3333 0.1039 9005.rs 0.0000 1.0000 9006.rs 0.3810 0.0475 Overall p < 0.0488 Table 3 (U) REMOTE VIEWING RESULTS FOR VIEWER 177 Session Figure of Merit P-value 9001.hs 0.4444 0.2430 9002.hs 0.1143 0.9579 9003.hs 0.3810 0.2978 9004.hs 0.5000 0.2392 9005.hs 0.5952 0.0677 9006.hs 0.6429 0.0136 Overall p < 0.0385 Approved For Release 20 1/03/07 : CIA-4P96-00789R003200160001-9 1 .1 Approved For Release 2001/03/ CIA-RDP9 - 789ROO3200160001-9 Table 4 (U) REMOTE VIEWING RESULTS FOR VIEWER 807 Session Figure of merit p-value 9001.cr 0.0000 1.0000 9002.cr 0.3333 0.2267 9003.cr 0.5208 0.0240 9004.cr 0.0833 0.7494 9005.cr 0.3750 0.1321 9006.cr 0.1333 0.5911 Overall p ::!@ 0.1895, n.s. (U) From the FM analysis performed for our FY 1984 experiment, we determined that by computing the p-value for each FM we could determine an average p for each viewer and for all s,essions combined. The overall probability of obtaining that average p-value Was then calculated, either by an exact method for small numbers of sessionS7 or by using the central limit theorem for greater than 20 sessions.8 In the current analysis, an additional test of significance, the Fisher Chi-square technique,8 has been added to supplement the probability associated with average p-value for a given series. ! &The overall p-values given for each viewer's series as shown in Tables I through 4 were calculated using the Fisher Chi-square technique. Averaging all p-values for all sessions yielded p(avg.) = 0.3437, Using the central-limit theorem, the probability associated with that average value is p :5 0.004. Using the Fisher Chi-square method, a p-value of < 0.0036 was calculated for all 24 sessions, indicating good agreement between techniques. We observed that three out of the four viewers independently produced significant results. Such an outcome is an extremely rare event. If the probability of success is p :!@@ 0.05, the binomial probability of obtaining three out of four successful results is p < 0.00048. These individual and overall remote viewing results are substantially better than were achieved in the FY 1984 study. 12 Approved For Release 2001/03/0 IA-RDP96 89ROO3200160001-9, -7 03/07 CIA-RDP96-0078 00320 160001-9 INOVed For Release 2001L IL. on REVISED 5/27/80 K@ Final Report Covering the Period from I May 1979 to 31 March 1980 L M SPECIAL ORIENTATION TECHNIQUES (U) SRI Project 8465 DRAFT WVA 'N A@ 00@7 roved For Releas 2CO01/03/07: CIA-RDP96-0 -0 3200160001-9 Intermma , 112-1 A- - 1,1-1@ Dffir* I'AlIfArni, Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00789ROO3200160001-9 I OBJECTIVE (U) The objectives of this program are the optimization of ren. viewing (RV) protocols, the orientation of selected individuals to reacl. enhanced levels of ability, and the establishment of screening procedures to enlarge the population from which individuals are selected. Approved For Release 2001/03/07 P@iA-RDP96-00@8 R003200160001-9 Approved For Release 2"107 : C"P96-00789ROO3200160001-9 II INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY (U) A. Basic Program Structure (U) , In this report we present results and assessments of a one-year program for the optimization of remote viewing with@ --""%selected individuals. The objective of this program was to familiarize these individuals with the SRI remote viewing protocols, to produce enhanced levels of ability, and to establish screening tests and procedures for enlarging the population from which such individuals are selected. (U) For ihe past seven years SRI International has been investigating a human perceptual/processing ability called remote viewing (RV). This is the subject matter of the current study, and it pertains to the acquisition and description, by mental means, of information blocked from ordinary perception by distance or shielding and generally considered to be secure from such access. At the start of this program, six individuals were chose4 C to participate in an RV technology transfer. With the exception of one of the six who had participated in an ESP study several years earlier, these participants when selected were inexperienced with regard to paranormal perception in general, and RV in particular. A variety of different training protocols were examined with the goal of helping the participants familiarize themselves with the SRI RV techniques. Formal assessment and transfer series were carried out with each of the six participants, in which they were asked to use mental imagery processes to describe distant geographic locations (bridges, roads, buildings, etc.), hidden 35-mm slides of similar sites, and objects placed in a controlled- access location. Several other information series were carried out. These are all described in later sections of this report. 2 01/0 D Approved For Release 2 3/07: CIA-R P96 0789ROO3200160001-9 Approved For Release 20011@3/07 : CIA-RDP96 00789ROO3200160001-9 j (U) Four of the six participants each produced results that de- parted significantly from chance expectation in assessment series that were formally judged by very strict criteria. The other two produced results in the assessment series that were also suggestive of paranormal perception. Over-all, this result constitutes highly significant per- -5 formance (p = 4 X 10 , or odds of one in 25,000 of such a result occurring by chance). We are including in this introduction one illustrative example Of An RV trial for a real-time San Francisco Bay Area outdoor target. TheNiewer, No. 372, who contributed this data, produced a mixture of responses, some excellent and some noncorresponding, in his two series at PRI. Sev6ral of his descriptions were among the best obtained in the progiram, and 'his overall consistency in performance resulted in both of his individual series reaching statistical significance. (U) Current and proposed programs are directed at training partici- pants to bring their RV ability under more conscious control, and to learn to recognize and overcome the factors that limit RV reliability. These limiting factors center around the generation of erroneous data by the viewer from h s memory and imagination. An example of the successful resolution of such noise is the following. (U) The viewer was closeted with an interviewer in the laboratory at SIRI to await the target team's arrival at their destination. The target was 'the Stanford Art Museum on the Stanford campus. The viewer made several tentative outline sketches of different shapes that he said were it associated with the face of a building." Finally, he made a careful pers pective drawing of the building he was visualizing. A photograph of the target is shown in Figure I(a), and the viewer's drawing is shown for comparison in Figure I(b). The viewer's narrative described the face of the building as follows: "There is a white and black pattern, a white 3 Approved For Release 2001/0 /07: CIA-RDP96- 0789ROO3200160001-9. Approved For Release 2 L01@3107 - CiA--RD -00789ROO3200160001-9 (U) and black striped pattern." ... "it,s like an inverted rectangle, with a square fastened to the back, or a rectangle laid down behind it." "Like two buildings in one. One building." "I have the sense that there is dirt by the walls He went on to talk about trees, flowers, and bicycles, all of which can be found directly in front of the target building. B. Task Summary (U) (U) In the following we briefly summarize results of the various perceptual tasks that were undertaken: (U) -Bay Area Target Site Remote Viewing. In the Phase One activIties, six RV trials with local San Francisco Bay Area sites as targets were carried out with each of the six viewers. In these six series, four of the viewers each produced results that were independently significant (p < 0.05), making the series as a whole strongly significant (p = 4 X 10-5; odds of one in 25,000). (U) Remote Viewing of 35-mm Slides. These trials were carried out under varying conditions for five viewers in Phase Two. One viewer, who generated significant results in Phase One, was again independently significant in his description of distant slides. A second viewer, also producing significant results in- Phase One, produced drawings In Phase Two that were formally judged to have significant correlations with the slide targets, although his verbal material did not. A third viewer was asked to describe slides before they were chosen, that would be shown to him at a later time. His results were suggestive of success (p = 0.1) but not statistically significant. Similar trials with two other viewers were also encouraging-but-nlos g@nlficant. Remote Viewing into a lArea. A viewer who was successful in the slide viewing trials also carried out a series using extended remote viewing, in which he spent more than an hour on each of six attempts to describe objects held in a@ -11ocationo A CZ41 rol"Ll 5 Approved For ReleaseEO01/03/07: CIA-R P96-00789ROO3200160001-9 Approved For Release 2001/03/07 :(CIA-RDP96-0 789ROO3200160001-9 0. Report Organization (U) (U) In Section III we describe the SRI RV protocols, including results from the past, and our expectations for the present program. We also discuss the screening procedures used to select viewers and the judging procedures used to evaluate the results of the investigations carried out in the current program. (U) In Section IV we describe the first phase of the study, in which we systematically carried out RV trials with the participants to obtain baseline data from each under similar experimental conditions. -11n Section V we present the exploratory work carried out in Phase Two in an effort to extend the repertoire of RV tools available (U) Our conclusions and recommendations are presented in Section VI. 7 Approved For Release 2001/03/ C7: CIA-RDP96-007119ROO3200160001-9 Approved For Release 2001/C6LO7 : CIA-RD -00789ROO3200160001-9 VI CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS (U) k--dam In this report we have presented the results and assessments of a one-year program for the optimization of remote viewing with selected individuals. To meet the objectives of the program we have familiarized these individuals with the SRI RV protocol; pursued the development of enhanced levels of RV ability through exposure to several different orientation/training strategies, and established screening tests and.procedures for enlarging the population from which such in- dividuals:are selected. lour principal observation in working with the six volunteers is that we have found considerable evidence for remote viewing functioning among them. In the basic local-site RV-familiarization task (Phase-One study), four of the six participants produces results that were individually statistically significant (p < 0.05), rendering the series strongly significant as a whole (p = 4 X 10-5, or odds of one in 25,000). (An entire summary of program data is shown In Table 5.) second observation from that study is that in general, there is more variability from trial to trial for a given viewer than there is between the viewers themselves. There are no viewers in the group who have not shown some evidence for remote viewing, even though some of their individual series may not have reached the p < 0.05 level of departure from chance expectation. (U) In fact, each of these four series exceeded this requirement by more than an order of magnitude, reaching significance at the p = 0.003 level or better. 97 Approved For Release 2001 CO3/07 : CIA-ROP@-00789RO03200160001-9 0 (D 0 (D W (D M CD CD 'P CDD@ 4 0 > 'm @u 00 0 a :6_j 4 00 W X CD CD W CD CD CD CD Q 731 W Table 5 PROGRAM SUMMARY - (U) - Remote Viewer Local Bay Area Sites Real Time Slides Future RV Slides Extended RV (Objects) Alphabet Coordinate RV 155 NS NS NS 292 NS NS NS 372 <0.003t 0.017 CS* 468 <0.003 NS (P 0.1) 518 <0.003 0.04 (pictorial) p 0.05 (one judge) 0.008- 0.075 (verbal & NS (2nd judge) pictorial) 690 I <0.002 I I Nonsignificant result. t Probability of obtaining result by chance. p 0.05 is accepted standard threshold for labeling a result significant, that is, non-chance.. Clearly significant, but difficult to obtain precise probability value. @-RDP Approved For Release 20 C1/03,/07 : CIA-RDP 6-00789ROO3200160001-9 With regard to screening: (1) The individuals chosen to participate in the program were pre-screene& @from a population of 250 potential candidates, using broad personality profile guidelines recommended by SRI, with final selection determined on the basis of interview by the SRI project leaders (R. T. and H. P.). The fact that the overall study was successful lends support to the effectiveness of this Initial screening-by-profile procedure. (2) The details of the results of the program indicate that a half dozen local-site RV trials may constitute a meaningful screening-by-performance procedure to separate the more reliable from the less reliable viewers. In order for screening-by-performance to be successful, it is necessary that the performance of a viewer be relatively consistent. We find that those individuals who were the most successful in the Phase- One trials, were also the most successful in Phase-Two, even though different remote viewing tasks were pursued. Of the four successful viewers in Phase-One, two produced significant results and one near-significant (the fourth was not available for the Phase-Two study). The two viewers from Phase-One that were least successful there (not reaching significance) again did not reach signifi- cance in Phase-Two. Although the sample is too small to be definitive, it appears that the Phase-One local- site RV series itself offers evidence of constituting a useful screening-by-performance procedure.- The data indicating that a viewer can describe an individual slide as it is shown on a screen shows that targeting on high-resolution transient targets (charts, maps, etc.) is not out of the question. This, coupled with our findings that a viewer may be able to describe and identify alphabet letters is a most encouraging development, and one deserving of further work. Extension of the RV process to include high-resolution material, especially with a reading ability, would constitute a significant breakthrough! 9a Approved For Release @-R P96-00789ROO3200160001-9 Approyed For Release 2001/03/ CIA-RDP96@-009ROO3200160001-9 @Certain of the individual responses in the FRV (future remote viewing) series, both with slides and with local sites as targets, appeared to give striking evidence of contact with the target. However, the trial-to-trial reliability was low and no series reached statistical significance. 7herefore, although individual results were encouraging, no definitive statement can be made on the basis of this short study. Given its obvious applications potential, should its existence be capable of unambiguous verification, we consider it a high-priori ty item for further exploration. In the extended remote viewing (ERV) trials a viewer was able in each trial of the series to identify.significant elements of an object placed in various locationsf In these experiments the remote viewer worked.alone over extended periods of time (up to three hours). At a minimum, the good results indicate that the RV process is not so fragile that it must be carried out under rigidly-specified conditions, since in this case an alternative style was in use and the results continued to be reliable. Ft;rther work would be required, however, before a definitive comparison of RV and ERV could be made. iFinally, the encouraging results obtained in the CRV (coordinate remote viewing) trials indicates that comparable accuracy and reliability can be expected from experienced viewers targeting either on the basis of a beacon person at the target, or on the basis of geographical latitude and longitude alone. As a by-product of the CRV study, which involved the use of special procedures being developed in another program for reliability enhancement, the high-quality output provided additional confirmation as to the effectiveness of certain new approaches being taken with regard to monitor/viewer interaction and control of the RV environment. 100 Approved Por Release 2001/0 CIA-RDP46 @tNR003200160001-9 1/0 T Approved For Release 20t=7 : CIA-RDP9 -00789ROO3200160001-9 @--;To take advantage of the most recent developments in remote viewing, and to achieve the goal of continuing to develop remote viewing we strongly recommend further development of capabilities in the following areas: Applications of Remote Viewing. A training procedure has been developed that appeares to greatly increase both the accuracy and reliability of remote viewing by coordinates. This technique should continue to be examined, and applied to targets- Effects of-Feedback. An extensive examination should be made of the necessity for providing feedback in remote viewing trials. A systematic variation in the presence or absence of,feedback should,be used to determine the importance of this factor. ~ Target Demarcation. Coordinate remote viewing experiments should be carried out in which the target is demarcated by means of various types of coordinatesi X This should be done in order to d ove-r-TNe--p-a-rr-VTMe8 by the target coordinate in determining remote viewing accuracy. ~ Audio Analysis. In an effort to separate correct from incorrect data available from taped subject descriptions of remote viewing target sites, the use of speech and audio analysis techniques should be investigated as a tool to provide selective editing. This should include semantic analysis, in which analysis of written transcripts'are carried out to look for variations in grammar, style, or vocabulary to help separate correct from incorrect statements in the RV transcript. Tracking. Further effort should be pursued to perfect the RV process whereby, instead of demarcating a location to obtain a target description, one provides a target description and asks for location' D SRI has under development certain strategies involving FRV feedback, computer averaging of multiple trials, and so forth, which appear from pilot efforts to hold promise. Spatial Resolution. A study should be carried out to determine the extent to which it is possible to aid 101 Approved For Release 2 ff!03/07 :-C-W- 7@ 96-00789ROO3200160001-9 Approved For Release 2001/03/ 7 : CIA-RDP96-0@789ROO3200160001-9 IV CONCLUSIONS (U) i A protocol has been developed to address the relative evaluation portion of the overall RV transcript assessment problem. As a demonstra- tion of the technique, we provide in the following Appendix an analysis of a series of four remote viewings that were performed as calibrations In this series the -remote viewing products were of relatively high quality, but nonetheless require a sensitive technique to differentiate because of the similarity of the targets and, hence, of the descriptions. (The series was chosen primarily for that reason.) Application of the assessment technique resulted in the correct blind matching (highest scoring in matches versus cross matches) of three of the four. (U) The material in this document thus constitutes an instruction manual or protocol for application of a step-by-step procedure for quan- titative assessment of the relative target/transcript correlations of a series of transcripts matched into a series of targets. Approved For Release 2001/03/ IA-RDP96- 9ROO3200160001-9 OrIc 11 0@1 Approved For Release 2001/03 CIA-RD 00789ROO3200160001-9 viewers in learning to read hidden and distant printed material that is blocked from ordinary perception. ~ Temporal Resolution-. An ERV effort should be pursued to determine the accuracy of remote viewing as a function of time for future targets. ~ ELF Experiments. Since one of the prevalent hypotheses for paranormal perception requires the use of an ELF electromagnetic carrier, we suggest carrying out definitive experiments to examine this hypothesis (e.g., by using ELF generators as beacons), and to provide analyses correlating data from our past data base with the daily record of geophysical parameters known to affect ELF propagation.. Theoretical Studies, Modern physics offers several mathematical descriptions of reality that may also .prove to be testable descriptions of paranormal perception in general, and remote viewing in particular. We recommend work with leading physicists who have agreed to consult for SRI on these theoretical problems, in an effort to develop a physical understanding of the phenomena we observe in the laboratory and in the field, and to apply this knowledge to improve remote viewing functioning. Technical Meetings. SRI proposes to host private quarterly conferences to bring together selected U.S. scientists and government representatives who are concerned.with the technical issues in psychoenergetic research. Successful pursuit of the above priority items could be expected to result in an increased reliability and breadth of utility of the RV function 202 Approved For Release 2001@3/07 CIA-RD@P6-00789RO03200160001_9 Final Report covering the Period October 1981 to October 1982 December 1982 A REMOTE VIEWING EVALUATION PROTOCOL (U) SRI project 4028 by: I For Release 2001/03/07: CIA--RPP96-00789RO 00160001- !? AO2 -9 Approved -0 0. ...... 0, This document consists of 54 pag4- t For Release@001&3jg,,- LQ IA78PP@(, Owawwoa@ 1 smi -9 333 Zvensw n 910-373-2046 (@Int@em@afinal (4151 326-6200 - Cable: SRI INTL MPK . TWX: Approved For Release 2001/03 IA-RDP96- 789ROO3200160001-9 in the time condition, but the level of significance for the one subject rendered the entire experiment significant. I -,This is the third laboratory replication of this experiment. In each experiment, there were significant results which could have been useful& 1. The best subject in the FY 1987 experiment showed a reduction in the area that would need to be searched in 72% of the trials in the space condition, with an average reduction in area of 33%. Previous experiments showed even greater reductions. In real-world applications, this could represent a substantial savings in resources. However, the skill has not been shown to be completely robust, and more experimentation should be done before attempting these applications. I (U) A second "search" experiment was conducted in FY 1987 to see if self-proclaimed dowsers could "find" a lost ship by searching a grid which had previously been keyed to a mail. The object of the search was a sunken Spanish galleon called the Atocha, which was actually found in 1985. The experiment was carried out with two sets of 25 trials for each of five participants, but failed to produce a single significant result. Approved For Release 2001/03/(7rClA-RDP96:-;~789ROO3200160001-9 Approved For Releaser001/03/07:_ Cl-RDP96-00789ROO3200160001-9 ABSTRACT (U) (u) one reported psychoenergetic skill, known to the general public as "dowsing," is the ability to locate lost or hidden items of interest. In an effort to brin g this putative ability that we call "search" into the laboratory, a computer-assisted search (CAS) experiment was conducted in FY 1984 and again in FY 1986. Participants scanned a computer graphics display and attempted to locate a hidden computer-generated target. In each experiment, two conditions were randomly interchanged in a balanced protocol: (1) the target was fixed in space (space condition), and (2) the location of the target was randomly shifted several times each second (time condition). Both the subJects and the experimenter were blind to the condition on each trial. In FY 1984, five of seven participants demonstrated an above chance ability to find targets in one of the two conditions: three in the time condition and two in the space condition. Of the 36 participants in the FY 198P experiment, two showed above chance results in the space condition and six in the time condition. No participant in either experiment was able to produce results in both conditions independently. A follow-up experiment was done in FY 1986 to see if subjects would produce better results if they were only presented with the single condition for which they had done well in the original experiment. None of the eight subjects who completed this "single condition" experiment scored significantly. In FY 1987, an experiment was conducted which successfully replicated the original FY 1986 finding. of eight participants (six experienced and two novices), the two who scored best in the space condition had previously been successful in that condition, and the one who scored best in the time condition had previously been successful in that condition. Ais suggests that participants are likely to consistently do well in one condition or the other, but not both. Only one of the eight participants scored significantly in the space condition, and none Approved For Release 2 03107 : C P96-00789ROO3200160001-9 `A7 A - d For Release 2001/03107: CIA- 00789RO03 00160001-9 ID @7_ ---. Final Report- -objective D, Task i, and objective G, Task 1 30 September 1987 Covering the Period I October 1985 to COMPUTER-ASSISTED SEARCH (U) SRI Project 1291 December 1982 u63 LThis Copz@ -?9 Capp C This document consists of 16 pag doc 9@a i For Re ase 2001/03/07: CIA-RDP 9 D;@ ,@,9ROO; \Ilnternationp@l,/ 333 Ravenswood Avenue . 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