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SUMMARY
The remote-viewing experiment of URDF-3 by
Pat Price proved
to
be unsuc-
cessful.
This conclusion was reached only after
a
careful
review of
the
tape
recordings,
tape transcripts,
and sketches
that were generated during the four-
day experiment.
During
the first day's
session.
Price:
1)
accurately described the location and type of
target
(that information had been
given
to
him
by the experimenters)
but failed on the layout
and
types of buildings,
2)
saw a gantry crane for heavy lifting,
3)
tended
to spend too much
time
on
specifics only
to
say,
"I'll
come back
to
that,"
but seldom
did,
and
4)
successfully evaded drawing
a perimeter of the
area even though
he was asked
to
do
this
twice.
Therefore,
nothing
positive
to validate remote viewing resulted from the first
day' s session.
Price was contacted by phone that evening
by one of
the experimenters
and was
told
to concentrate on
the crane and
its
relationship
to
the dominant
three-story building
(Building
1)
that
he
had seen during that day's
session.
He was
also
told
that
they wanted
a drawing of
the perimeter fence.
On
the second day.
Price supplied the most positive evidence yet for
the remote-viewing experiment with
his
sketch of the rail-mounted gantry crane.
It seems
inconceivable
to
imagine how he could
have drawn
such
a likeness
to
the actual
crane at URDF-3 unless:
1)
he actually
saw
it through remote viewing,
or
2)
he was
informed of what
to
draw by someone
knowledgeable of URDF-3.
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The second possibility
is mentioned only because
the experiment was
not controlled
to discount the possibility
that Price could
talk
to other people.
Price commented
that
he was
seeing
a
lot of things
this
second day that
he hadn
t seen
the previous
day.
In
fact,
he mentioned seeing
several
landmark-
type objects
that simply did not exist at URDF-3.
One explanation of this dis-
crepancy could
be that
if he mentioned enough specific objects,
he would surely
hit on one object that
is actually present.
This could explain
the
inconsistency
between:
1)
his most positive evidence of the experiment
-
a
sketch of
a
rail -mounted gantry crane,
and
2)
the large number of objects
he sees
that,
in
reality,
are simply not present at URDF-3.
This discrepancy between what Price sees
and what
is really there certainly
would make
it difficult for the eventual
user of his remote-viewing data
since
he would
not know how
to differentiate
the fact from the fiction.
At this
stage of
the experiment,
the data
is
inconclusive
to validate Price's capability
of remote viewing.
Price was
shown
a sketch of
a
perspective of the Operations Area
at
URDF-3
on
the
third day and was
told
that this
was
a sketch of the actual
target.
Price said
he recognized
the area
but claimed that only one of the
four headframes
was present now.
That was wrong,
but
his most damaging
state-
ments
had
to
do with
his
interpretation
of Building
(the underground build-
ing)
at URDF-3.
With
the sketch
as
a reference,
he
“saw"
the four main
surface
protrusions of Building
as
four separate above-ground buildings sitting atop
a
concrete apron.
He
was, asked specifically whether these four buildings
he
saw might really be
the surface elements of an
underground
building.
He failed
either
to
pick up
the
lead or
to remotely view correctly because
he
said,
"No,
that's
a concrete apron,
and there's nothing
subterranean
right
in
that particular
.area."
This
statement was
his most negative evidence yet and tends
to discredit
his ability
to
remotely view URDF-3.
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Price’s comments
on
the fourth day were very specific regarding
his
concept of the overall
operation
at URDF-3,
however no new evidence
(that could
be checked)
was
disclosed toward establishing validity for his remote-viewing
capabil ity.
After careful
analysis of all
the data
presented,
I
have concluded that
Price's
remote-viewing experiment of URDF-3 was
unsuccessful.
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INTRODUCTION
I was asked to analyze and
then judge the validity of the remote-viewing
experiment performed
on URDF-3
by Pat Price.
The data
to
be analyzed included
two cassette tapes covering the first two days,
79 pages of transcribed
tapes
regarding the third and fourth
days,
and
30 sketches;
I
also reviewed the July
5,
1974
of URDF-3.
I
am quite familiar with
the chronology and
layout of URDF-3,
as well
as
the surrounding terrain and
technical
areas within 40 miles.
I
tried to
keep
an open mind while performing this analysis,
but
if
I
had any bias
at all,
it
was
that
I wanted
to believe remote viewing could help
us establish the true
purpose of URDF-3.
Throughout this analysis,
I
paid particular attention
to
all
information
about URDF-3 that was
supplied
to
Pat Price.
This was necessary
in order
to
evaluate
his originality
in remote viewing.
This
study was done
in four
seg-
ments corresponding
to the four days of the experiment.
Judgment of the
prog-
ress and validity of the experiment was evaluated
at the end of each day.
FIRST DAY
The experiment started at
a.m.
on July
9,
1974 at Stanford Research
Institute
(SRI).
The experimenters
(Russ Targ
and
Hal
Puthoff)
told
Pat Price
that
the
target was
a geographical
target selected from the Times of London
World Atlas.
The coordinates
of the target were given
as 50°9'59"N and 78°22’22"E;
Price wrote
these coordinates
down.
It was emphasized that this was
a
"real
target"
as opposed
to
a
sample
target.
Using
several
maps,
the experimenters
showed
Price
the target location at
60 miles WSW of Semipalatinsk.
The target
was described
as
a
scientific military research and test area.
To help orient
Price,
he was
told
that the target
was
25 to
30 miles
SW of "this
river,"
pre-
sumably labeled correctly on the maps
as
the
Irtysh River.
Price was
told
to
start with
a view of the general
area
as
seen from 50,000 ft.
and
get the layout
of any complexes
or buildings,
or whatever.
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