n Approved For Releass 2001/03/26 : CIA-RDP96-007828000200080009-5 OF THE AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY 1 DECEMBER 1976 INCLUDING THE PROGRAM OF THE 1976 WINTER MEETING AT STANFORD UNIVERSITY SESSION FC: THEORETICAL PHYSICS Wednesday morning, 22 December 1976 Physics Lecture Hall 101 at 9:00 A.M. Helen R, Quinn, presiding FC 9 Direct_Perception of Remate Geographical Locations. HE. PUTHOFF and R. TARG, Stanford Res, Inst.--Since 1972 we have been investigating facets of human perception that appear to fall outside the range of well-understood perceptual/processing capabilities. Of particular interest has been a human information-accessing capability that we call “remote viewing.” This phenomenon pertains to the ability of certain individuals to access and describe, by means of mental processes, informa- tion sources blocked from ordinary perception, and generally accepted as Secure against such access, In particular, the phenomenon we have investi- gated most extensively is the ability of a subject to view remote geographical locations up to several thousand km distant from his physical location given only a known person on whom to target. We have recently carried out coasi to coast experiments using a computer to interface with individuals whose remote perceptual abilities have been developed sufficiently to allow them to describe--often in great detail--geographical or technical material such as buildings, roads, and natural formations. Our accumulated data indicate that both specially selected and unselected persons can be assisted in developing remote perceptual abilities up to a level of uscful information transfer, FC 10 Some Physical Models Potentially Applicable to Observed Perception Data, E,A, Rauscher, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory -~The purpose of this investigation is to utilize the remote perception experimental data base” to deduce what physical principles govern the accessing of remote, sensorily shielded information, The data base appears to be stable enough to allow us to make some definitive statements about the correlation of thig data with principles and content of physics, We examine the constraints represented by this data in relationship to three major physics principles: Poincaré (Lorentz) in= variance, analyticity (causality) and unitarity, We examine in detail some specific Lorentz invariant models as well as some quantum mechanical models, such as Bell's inequality, in relationship to the spacial and temporal properties of this data, *Consultant to Stanford Research Institute 1, HE, Puthoff and R, Targ, IEEE, 64, 329 (1976), Approved For Release 2001/03/26 20-22 DECEMBER 1976 FC 11 EEG Correlates to Remote Stimuli Under Conditions of Sensory Shiciding. R. TARG, H.E, PUTHOFF and E.C. MAY, Stanford Res. Inst.--We report evidence for a correlatim between direct physlological measurement and a remote light stimulus blocked from ordinary perception. In pi- lot studies with a selected subject, a strobelight was placed 9m from a subject in a steel enclosure in a sec- ond room. EEG was recorded, and fast-Fourier-transforms (FFTs) were obtained. FFTs of the 168 intermixed peri- ods of flash and no-flash conditions showed that the oc- currence of the light flash correlated significantly (p <0.03) with a decrease in 9-11 Hz EEG production. Two formal studies were then carried out, each consist~ ing of 14 runs of 40 trials making use of a battery op- erated lamp to eliminate any possibility of electro- magnetic interference (EMI) associated with a conventiar al flash lamp. These studies again show significant correlations between EEG output and light flash stimulus. In the first study the 9-11 Hz EEG power again decreased during the stimulus condition (p <0.02); in the second study the EEG output increased during the stimulus con- dition (p <0.01). Although the subject was not able to guess the stimulus condition, the observed changes are consistent with a response on the part of the sub- ject, albeit at a noncognitive Level of awareness. : CIA-RDP96-00787R000200080009-5