M'pfo4edFdr Rvel&A lbob/A/i) :*CIA-gDO96'-00*79~R600*400350004-2 UNCLASSIFIED SG1J SEQUE,,.V,E NR: CXP85013522 USER- ID: 47891-89JUN29/17.22.38/C92 TITLE: THE EFFECTS OF PSYCHOKINESIS ON THE HARDNESS OF PURE ALUMINIU PLATE AUTHOR: SASAKI, SHIGEMI; SASAKI, YASUO; MURATA, KAZUO; TAKAOKA, AKIHISA DOC REF: PSI RESEARCH JOURNAL OF JAPAN, 78, VOL 3, NR 1, 12 PP DOC NR: ATCH6010505885 DOC DATE: 850215 REF IN: -T 71"0775 0-5 8 8 5 , 8 5 , 2 FICHE NR: DST85CO07095 CLASSIF: UNCLASSIFIED RELEASE: NONE (XX) TEXT: EXTRACT. DOCUMENT CONTAINS 1 TARBLE, DIAGRAMS, AND GRAPHS. IN THIS REPORT WE WILL PRESENT A NEW SERIES OF EXPERIMENTS IN WHICH WE OBSERVED THE CHARACTERISTICS OF PARANORMAL PHENOMENON THAT WERE DETERMINED TO HAVE BEEN CAUSED BY PK OR REMAINING ON THE SPECIMEN AS RESULT OF PK. FOR THIS PURPOSE A COMPARISON WAS MADE BETWEEN THE CASES IN WHICH THERE WAS BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN PK ACTION AND THE m CASES BELIEVED NOT TO HAVE BEEN EFFECTED BY PSYCHOKINESIS AND LHEIR DIFFERENCES WERE CALCULATED AN ANNEALED ALUMINIU PLATE WAS USED AS A TEST SPECIMEN IN ORDER THAT THE VARIOUS TRANSFORMATION COULD BE MORE READILY SEEN. THE RESULTS OF THE HARDNESS MEASUREMENTS WERE HANDLED STATISTICALLY. IN OTHER WORDS, EVEN IF PSYCHOKINESIS HAD OCCURRED ONLY ONCE, A NUMBER OF MEASUREMENTS WOULD BE TAKEN AND WHETHER OR NOT PSYCHOKINESIS HAD OCCURRED OR NOT (AND ITS CHARACTERISTICS) WOULD BE DETERMINED STATISTICALLY. IN THIS REPORT ATTENTION WILL BE GIVEN TO EXAMINATION OF VARIATIONS IN THE HARDNESS OF THE ALUMINIU PLATE USING JUST PK WITHOUT RELIANCE ON ANY KNOWN DYNAMIC MEANS. IN OTHER WORDS, AN ATTEMPT WAS MADE TO CHANGE THE HARDNESS OF MATERIALS USING ONLY PK (TO EFFECT PK HARDNESS VARIATIONS). EXAMINATION OF THE CHARACTERISTICS OF PK HARDNESS VARIATIONS. CONCLUSION: SINCE THERE HAVE BEEN NO PRIOR STUDIES ON THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE HARDNESS OF ALUMINIU PLATE TEST SPECIMENS BY PSYCHOKINESIS, THERE STILL REMAIN A NUMBER OF PROBLEMS TO BE EXAMINED. AS A FIRST STEP IN THESE STUDIES, THIS REPORT DEALT ONLY ON THE METHODS INVOLVED AND THE RESULTS OBTAINED IN THESE EXPERIMENTS. THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE RESULTANT PK HARDENING SHOWFD NORMAL DISTRIBUTION. THE STANDARD DEVIATION WAS NOT CHANGED TO ANY EXTENT AS A RESULTANT OF PK, HOWEVER THE AVERAGE VALUES DID BECOME SLIGHTLY LARGER. THE DEGREE OF HARDENING BY PK WAS EXCEEDING SMALL AND THE MAXIMUM VALUE WAS, ON THE AVERAGE, AT A LEVEL OF 1.03 TO 1.04 ml@--MES. THE HARDNESS MFASUREMENT AT THE POINT MEASURED FOR HARDNESS SHOWED NO DEPENDFN@ @-'N] T1-1.E AREA i"j(jTCHF-,) -@R T'HE .oCA,7-()N' MEASURE2. NON TOUCHED z@NTI- P ALUMIN-I@j WERE HARf--1,-E'NED ONLY B:i Approved For Release 2000/08/11 CIA-RDP96-00792ROO0400350004-2 -WoV*ed*F8'r Ftele*as*e zbokkil : bUbP*96!069@R604063 500042 UNCLASSIFIED SG1J SEQUENCE NR: CXP85013522 USER ID: 47891-89JUN29/17.22.38,@C),' ROUGHLY SIMILAR VALUES. THE HARDNESS LEVEL WAS NOT DEPENDENT ON THt LENGTH OF TIME OF PK ACTION. PK WAS CONTINUOUSLY ACTIVE, HOWEVER HARDENING WAS NOT PROGRESSIVE. IN THE CASES IN WHICH PK SHOWED NOTICEABLE HARDNESS, SUCCESSIVE PK ACTIONS HAD A TENDENCY TO RESULT IN SOFTENING. IN RARE CASES SOFTENING COULD BE CAUSED. PURE ANNEALED ALUMINUM PLATE CAN BE ASSUMED TO BE ABLE TO BE HARDENELF) THROUGH ONLY THE ACTIONS OF PK WITHOUT BEING AIDED BY ANY DYNA-Mli- MEANS. Approved For Release 2000/08/11 CIA-RDP96-00792ROO0400350004-2