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GRILL FLAME PROGRESS REPORTS AND
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF STANFORD RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL PUBLICATIONS
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*(S)
(U) Results of
remote viewing,
well-understood
experiments are
Perceptual Augmentation Techniques, Part 1
Executive Summary, Jan 74 - Feb 75 H. Puthoff
SRI Project 3183 Russell Targ
a study of human information-accessing capability termed
the characteristics of which appear -to fall outside the range of
perceptual/information-processing abilities. Examples of four
presented.
(S) Perceptual Augmentation Techniques
Part Two: Research Report, Jan 74 -Feb 75 H. Puthoff
SRI Project 3183 R. Targ
(U) Details of study/experiments summarized in Part 1.
(SINFIWN) The Grill Flame Scientific Evaluation
Committee (SINF) Dec 79 Manfred Gale
(U) Results of an independent review of parapsychology activities. Presents
conclusions and recommendations for any subsequent activities sponsored by DoD and
related program procedures and management.
(S) Advanced Threat Technique Assessment (U)
Jul 77 (Interim Report)
*(SINF) Advanced Threat Technique Assessment (U)
Oct 78(Final Report)
(U) Reports present results of an investigation to view
locations, even at intercontinental distances.
H. Puthoff
Russell Targ
Edwin May
H. Puthoff
R. Targ
E. May
Ingo Swan
remote geographical
(SINF) Proposed Grill Flame Protocol (U)
Proposed:SRI International Applied Remote
Viewing Protocol (S) 23 Mar 79 SRI
(U) Defines a protocol (procedure) for sponsored remote viewing investigations by
SRI.
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(SINFIWN) Proposed
Proposed
Research
8 May 79
(SINF) Proposed
Proposed
Research
Grill Flame Protocol: Task
SRI International Protocol
on Remote Perturbation Tec'Aniques,
Grill Flame Protocol: Task
SRI International Protocol
on Remote Perturbation
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For
SRI
II (S)
For
Techniques (S) 15 Nov 79 SRI
(U) May document contains summary description of experiments in "remote
perturbation" (RP) , i.e., perturbation of an event outcome by mental processes
alone. November document describes a procedure and an experiment for RP.
(SINF) NIC Techniques (U) H. Puthoff
(SEE NOTE) Quarterly Progress Report, 10 Jan 80 1. Swann
G. Langford
(U) Investigation of remote viewing phenomena as an aid in assessing f oreign
research and applications.
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(S) 3-YR Joint Services Psychoenergetics Program, H. Puthoff
30 Jun 80 R. Targ
E. May
B. Humphrey
G. Langford
(U) SRI 3-yr proposed program devoted to developing psychoenergetic skills and
assessment techniques.
(SINF) Special orientation Techniques (U) Oct 79 Russell Targ
(Interim Report) H.Puthoff
Edwin May
(SINF) Special orientation Techniques (U) Jun 80 Russell Targ
(SEE NOTE) (Final Report) H. Puthoff
B. Humphrey
E. May
(U) Reports present the results of a one-year program for optimizing the "remote
viewing" capabilities of client-selected individuals.
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*(SINF) Electronic System Perturbation Techniques(U) Edwin May
30 Sept 80 B. Humphrey
G. S. Hubbard
(U) Report considers the possible remote production of physical ef f ects by
individuals e.g., perturbation of electronic equipment. Describes 214 separate
experiments, some of which show statistical evidence for an anomalous
perturbation.
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(SINF) A Data-Base Management System for operational
Remote Viewing (S)
(U) A proposed application of a DBMS to organize remote viewing
E. May
B. Humphrey
data.
SG1J
(SINFIWN) DoD Grill Flame Progress Report (S)
30 Apr 81
(SINFIWN) FY 81 DoD Grill Flame Progress Report (S)
Nov 81
(SINFIWN) FY 82 Mid-Year DoD Grill Flame Progress
Report (S) Apr 82
(SINFIWN) Project Grill Flame (U) Jan 83
(SINFIWN) FY 83 End-of-Year DoD Grill Flame Progress
Report (U) Oct 83 (Final Report)
(U) Series of progress reports and final report of a 3-year evaluation program (FY
181-183) to assess the potential of remote viewing for intelligence applications
to enhance its potential for U.S. applications and provide data useful in
assessing the threat potential of foreign applications.
SG1J
*(SINF) FY 84 End-of-Year DoD Grill Flame Progress
Report (S) Feb 85 Edwin May
(SINF) Continuation of intelligence related remote viewing (RV) training
activities initiated under 3-yr Grill Flame project with emphasis on
authentication and verification of RV phenomena.
(SINF) Countermeasures: A Survey and Evaluation (U) G. S. Hubbard
(SEE NOTE) Jan 82 Edwin May
(U) Results of a literature search to determine whether countermeasures exist
against psychoenergetic intrusions.
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(SINF) RV Reliability, Enhancement, and
(SEE NOTE) Evaluation (U) Feb 82 H. Puthoff
(SINF) RV Reliability, Enhancement, and
(SEE NOTE) Evaluation (U) Dec 82 H. Puthoff
(SINF) RV Reliability, Enhancement, And Evaluation (U)
Jan 84 Harold Puthoff
(U) Reports of 3 -yr ef fort focused on the development of techniques to enhance the
accuracy and reliability of RV, its application to operational tasks and its
integration into the overall intelligence mix.
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*(C) Database Management Feasibility (U) Jan 82 Edwin May
(U) SRI proposal to implement a computer DBMS f or RV data, RV training and
psychoenergetic information.
(SINF) RV Detection Techniques Applied to ASW (U) H. Puthoff
Mar 82 E. May
(U) Document addresses the potential to use remote viewing as a location aid.
(SINF) Audiolinguistic Correlations With the Edwin May
(SEE NOTE) Quality of Remote viewing sessions (U) Michael Hecker
Apr 82
(U) Investigation of feasibility of developing audio analysis techniques that can
separate correct form incorrect statements during RV experiments.
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(SIN) Targeting Requirements Task (U) May 82 Harold Puthoff
(SEE NOTE) Russell Targ
Beverly Humphrey
Keith Harary
(U) Study to determine the relative effectiveness of various procedures to assist
the remote viewer in "targeting" the site of interest and, if differences exist,
to determine their dependency.
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(SINF) A Remote Viewing Evaluation Protocol (U) Edwin May
(SEE NOTE) Dec 82 (Revised Jul 83) Final Report
(U) Development of an evaluation procedure to assess the relative quality of a set
of remote viewing responses.
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(SINF) Co-ordinate Remote Viewing (CRV) Technology H. Puthoff
(SEE NOTE) 1981-1983, Draft Report, 30 Aug 83
(U) Summary report of a three year training program concerning the potentials in
CRV.
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(SINF) Target Search Techniques(U) H. Puthoff
Part One - Technical Proposal, 29 Sept 83 E. May
(U) Response to solicitation regrading remote viewing target search techniques.
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(SINF) Free World Psychoenergetics Research
(SEE NOTE) Survey (U) Nov 83 B. Humphrey
(U) An overview of 2 3 3 articles on psychoenergetics research ef f orts in those Free
World countries that have published in the open literature. E NY
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(SIN) Personnel Identification and Selection(U) D. Saunders
(SEE NOTE) Dec 84 Edwin May
(U) Ef fort to determine if a personality testing technique could be developed that
would delineate specific personality types that have a high degree of talent for
remote viewing.
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(SINF) Geophysical Effects Study (U) Jul 84
(SEE NOTE) (Interim Report)
(SINF) Geophysical Effects Study (U) Dec 84
(SEE NOTE) (Final Report)
(U) Investigation of the possible effects of ambient
electromagnetic factors on remote viewing performance.
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(SINF) Special Orientation Techniques:
(SEE NOTE) S-IV (U) Jul 84
(SINF) Special orientation Techniques:
(SEE NOTE) S-111 (U) Dec 84
(SINF) Special Orientation Techniques:
(SEE NOTE) S-VI (U) Dec 84
(U) Development of remote viewing procedures
applications, in particular whether Coordinate
uses coordinates to facilitate acquisition of
to specific personnel.
Marsha Adams
H. Puthoff
geophys ica 11 low- frequency
Harold Puthoff
S-1, S-11, Harold Puthoff
S-V, H. Puthoff
that have potential for military
Remote Viewing, a technique that
the RV target, can be transferred
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(SINF) Data Base Management Facility (U) Jul 84 Edwin May
B. Humphrey
(U)Implementation of a data base management facility for the storage and
management of data from the psychoenergetic program at SRI.
*(SINF) QRT Tasking (U) Nov 84 H. Puthoff
(U) Preparation of special briefings/ reports on a Quick Reaction Basis in support
of psychoenergetics program and performance of RV application tasks of interest
to the intelligence community.
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(SINF) Track I Training R&D (U) Dec 84 H. Puthoff
Martha Thomson
(U) Evaluation and authentication of an RV training procedure that involves
targeting the desired site by using geographical coordinates.
(SINF) Data Base Management (U) Dec 1984 Edwin May
(U) Upgrade of the hardware and software of a DBMS uses by SRI to support their
psychoenergetic projects.
(SINF) Target Search Techniques (U) Dec 84 Harold Puthoff
(SEE NOTE)
(U) Investigation of a psychoenergetic search technique termed Target search
designed to determine the location of objects, individuals and facilities of
targets of interest. This technique, also called "dowsing" in Western literature,
is of particular interest for military and intelligence targets.
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SG1J
(SINFIWN) Psychoenergetics Research (U) 7 August 1984
(U) Brief summary of SRI's psychoenergetic program during FY 1980-1984 and a
proposal for specific application to intelligence needs.
(SINF) An Automated RV Evaluation Procedure (U) E. May
(SEE NOTE) May 1985 B. Humphrey
H. Puthoff
(U) Modification of a computer-automated procedure for remote viewing analysis,
first developed at Princeton University, to be more responsive to intelligence
needs. Development of an RV "Figure of Merit"
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(SINF) Photon Production (Chinese Replication) (U)
(SEE NOTE) May 85 Edwin May
(U) Investigation of claims regarding psychokinetic effects during remote viewing
and its application to intrusion detection.
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(SINF) Location of Target Material in Space and Edwin May
(SEE NOTE) Time, Dec 86 Nevin Lantz
(U) Experiments extending the work reported in December 1994 to locate targets of
interest using the "Target Search" RV technique.
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(SINF) A Suggested Remote Viewing Training G. Scott Hubbard
(SEE NOTE) Procedure (U) Dec 86 Gary Langford
(U) Development of two new concepts for a testable RV training method.
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(SINF) Remote Viewing Evaluation Techniques(U) Beverly Humphrey
(SEE NOTE) Dec 86 Virginia Trask
Martha Thomson
Edwin May
(U) Describes a proposed simplified procedure for the analysis of free-response
material and defines a figure of merit based upon accuracy and reliability.
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(SINF) Computer-Assisted Search (U) Dec 87
(SEE NOTE)
(U) Results of computer-assisted "search" experiments
Fiscal Years to determine the ability to locate lost or
using a psychoenergetic skill called "dowsing".
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Jessica Utts
Edwin May
Nevin Lantz
Beverly Humphrey
Marsha Adams
conducted over several
hidden item of interest
(SINF) Enhanced Human Performance Investigation (U)
(SEE NOTE) Dec 87 E. May
(U) FY 1987 Final Report of 5-year program (FY 1986-1990) to provide research and
development in psychoenergetics as a means to enhancing human performance for
military applications. Program objectives: 1) document that psychoenergetic
phenomena are real and reproducible; 2) determine the mechanisms underlying these
phenomena and 3) bring the field of psychoenergetics into the mainstream of human
performance research.
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(SINF) Feedback and Precognition Dependent
(SEE NOTE) Remote Viewing Experiments (U) Dec 87
(U) Results of two experiments to examine precognition.
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E. May
Nevin Lance
(SINF) Forced-Choice Remote Viewing (U) Dec 88 Edwin May
(SEE NOTE) Virginia V. Trask
(U) Summary of experiments conducted during FY 1986-1988 on the paradigm termed
"forced-choice" wherein the target is one of a variety of possibilities known to
the viewer.
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(SINFIWN) Applications of Fuzzy Sets to Remote Viewing E. May
(SEE NOTE) Analysis (U) Dec 88 Jessica Utts
B. Humphrey
Thane Frivold
(U) An analysis to determine the appropriate parameters for applying fuzzy set
mathematics to remote viewing analysis based upon implementations developed in FY
1986 and 1987.
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(SINFIWN) Neurological Correlates To Remote
(SEE NOTE) Viewing (U) Dec 88
(U) Results of experiments exploring the possible correlations
nervous system activity and remote stimuli.
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E. May
Wanda Luke
Thane Frivold
between central
(SINF) Enhanced Human Performance Investigations (U)
(SEE NOTE) (covering period 11/83-10/85), Dec 88
(SINF) Enhanced Human Performance Investigations (U)
(SEE NOTE) (covering period 10/87-9/88), Dec 88
(U) An overview of the current state of psychoenergetics
recommendations for future investigations.
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Edwin May
Edwin May
research and
(SINF) Feedback and Target Dependencies in
(SEE NOTE) Remote Viewing Experiments (U) Dec 88 Jessica Utts
(U) Experiments to measure the quality of remote viewing based upon an amalgam of
target type and feedback complexity..
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(SINF) Review of the Psychoenergetic Research E. May
(SEE NOTE) Conducted at SRI International (1973-1988) Jessica Utts
Mar 89 Virginia Trask
Wanda Luke
Thane Frivold
Beverly Humphrey
(U) Review and analysis of psychoenergetic research at SRI from October 1973 to
September 1988. The database comprises 117 documents and a total of over 25,000
trials under a variety of protocols.
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*(SINFIWN) Psychoenergetics Research in Hungary Beverly Humphrey
(1983-1988) (U), April 89 Edwin May
(U) Summary of research in psychoenergetics reported in available Hungary reports.
*(SINF) Cognitive Sciences Program (U) May 89 SRI
Menlo Park
(U) Vugraph presentation charts of the cognitive sciences program at SRI (Note:
some vugraphs are classified at the SINF level)
SG1J
(S) Government-Sponsored Research
in Psychoenergetics (S) Feb 89
(U) Summary of government sponsored research in psychoenergetics from 1972 through
1988.
(SINF) A Prototype Analysis System For Special
(SEE NOTE) Remote Viewing Tasks (U) Oct 89 Wanda Luke
E. May
Thane Frivold
Virginia Trask
(U) Report of a prototype analysis system developed for remote viewing which might
be conducted against targets of potential intelligence interest.
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(SINF) An Application orientation Remote Viewing
(SEE NOTE) Experiment (U) Apr 88 Edwin May
(SINF) An Application Orientation Remote Viewing
(SEE NOTE) Experiment (U) Apr 89 Edwin May
(U) Results of an remote viewing experiment to demonstrate the potential of this
novel collection technique on a directed energy weapon development.
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(U)(SRI Prop) Psychoenergetic Research: Suggested
Approaches, 1 May 78 H. Puthoff
R. Targ
E. May
(U) Document identifies and discusses key areas of psychoenergetic research and
indicates those areas f or experimentation and analysis most likely to provide
answers to critical questions.
(U) Standard Remote-Viewing Protocol H. Puthoff
(Local Targets), Nov 78 R. Targ
(U) Description of a protocol developed by SRI and reported in IEEE Proceedings.
(U) Experimental PSI Research: Implications
For Physics, Jul 79
(U) Results of continuing experiments at SRI on "remote viewing"
H. Puthoff
Russell Targ
Edwin May
(U) Phase I: Hardware Construction and System E. May
Evaluation G. Hubbard
(U) Development of a reliable, computer-based random number generator with graphic
display capabilities.
(U) Fuzzy Set Applications in Remote Viewing
Analysis, Dec 87 Beverly Humphrey
Edwin May
Jessica Utts
Thane Frivold
Wanda Luke
Virginia Trask
(U) Application of fuzzy set mathematical techniques to the problem of remote
viewing analysis using two analytical methods developed for that purpose
(U) Meta-Analysis of Forced-Choice Precognition
Experiments, Dec 88 Edwin May
(U) Results of a meta-analysis of forced choice experiments published in English -
language parapsychology journals between 1935 and 1987.
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(U) An Effort To Improve Remote Viewing Quality
Using Hypnosis, Oct 89 Nevin Lantz
(U) Report details a 3-year effort to improve remote viewing quality utilizing a
hypnotic trance to increase the amount of target-related data produced by the
viewer.
(U) Screening For Remote Viewing Talent, Dec 89 Virginia Trask
Nevin D. Lantz
Wanda Luke
E. May
(U) Results of a multi-level screening effort of 256 candidates to identify
potential high-quality remote viewers.
(U) Observation of Neuromagnetic Fields in
Response to Remote Stimuli, Dec 89
(U) Replication of an earlier SRI study of the response of a
central nervous system to a remote and isolated flashing light.
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Edwin May
Wanda Lake
Virginia Trask
Thane Frivold
single subject's
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(U) Special Orientation Techniques - DRAFT (U)
Apr 80
(U) Optimization of remote viewing techniques and the establishment of screening
procedure to select individuals.
(U) Feasibility Study on the Use of RV Detection
Techniques to Determine Location of Targets (U)
5 Aug 80 (Revised 2 Apr 81)
(U) Outline of a program to asses the feasibility of using RV techniques to aid
in the location of targets.
(U) Bacterial Mutation Study (U)
May 85
(U) Experiment was a conceptual replication of reported work claiming evidence of
psychoenergetic interactions with biological systems.
(U) PSI Communications Experiments (U)
Nov 85 (White Paper) (U)
(U) Proposal to examine the effects of increasingly delayed feedback on
performance.
(U) An Experiment to Explore Possible Anomalistic
Behavior of a Photon Detection System During a
Remote Viewing Test (U), Dec 86
(U) Results of experiments as noted in the title.
(U) Screening and Selection of Personnel: the Personality
Assessment System (PAS), Dec 86
(U) Assessment of the overall efficacy of the PAS.
(U) Enhanced Human Performance Investigation (U)
Dec 86
(U)Progress report of related work done at SRI during FY 1986.
(U) Possible Photon Production During a Remote Viewing
Task: A Replication Experiment (U), Dec 87
(U) Attempt to verify a Chinese claim that light is emitted near a correctly
identified remote viewing target.
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(U) The Effects of Hypnosis on Remote Viewing Quality (U)
Dec 88
(U) Results of an experiment to determine whether remote viewing quality would be
enhanced by a hypnotic trance.
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