Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000700090008-0 Abacus Experiment Two trials were made using the abacus clock which had previously been an RV target. As shown in the SRI reports, the apparatus has 5 rows of 10 beads each, plus a clock face with two hands, a slide indicating the date, and cutouts for exposing day of the week and month. , Hal Puthoff wanted to try perception of a binary message generated by moving all the beads in each row to the right or left. I selected positions from a random number table, and focused on the resulting bead positions while He attempted to visualize them in the next room, He got 3 out of the five bits, essentially chance results. | preferred that he set up the entire apparatus, including movement of any number of beads in each row. I! guessed that | could get the outline of the beads pattern. The outline was the correct shape but in trying to come up with \ corresponding digits, the sequence generated was 66689. If these are positioned left or right based on the outline shape, then three of the digits were correct. The small hand of the clock was correct, and the approximate position of the date slide indicator was close, although an incorrect number was assigned to it. Results were not good enough to further consider at that time, but additional trials along with more familiarity with the apparatus are worth pursuing. Critique It is interesting that | predicted the type of Task | could do well. This was the only coding-type experiment we had time to perform, although we had discussions involving a good design for a redundant coding experiment. Both for training purposes and ease of analysis, more such short experiments should be emphasized. Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000700090008-0.
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Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000700090008-0 ESP Teaching Fachine In an attempt to demonstrate some degree of learning or improvement during my three days, | made three series of runs on the teaching machine which was designed by Russell Targ for NASA, and which is described in the SRI reports. Basically, itis a four-state machine, with the states generated randomly. Each run consists of 25 trials in which the subject selects one of 4 state buttons or the "pass" button. The machine can also be operated in two precognitive modes, during which the machine state is determined either 1/2 or 1 second after the operator selects his prediction of the state. | tried a variety of approaches: right hand only, left hand only, both hands, the preceeding three both with eyes open or shut. By shutting my eyes | was avoiding the visual feedback on my incorrect selections. Correct selections rang a bell. After 200 runs of each type, | appeared to do best by using both hands, eyes open, and proceeding very fast. I then performed 2000 such trials, and attained an average of about +/ 7, ff” Pt 10 . Generally, people get better as they practice more with the machine. On the following day, | repeated my run of 2000, and scored precisely at chance, although with possibly a significantly extra-chance variance. i've not yet received results of those calculations or computed them myself. Later that same afternoon while both Hal and Russ were called to the phone, | went in to again run the machine, this time in an angry mood over my earlier results. | cleared the machine, and then punched out very deliberately 15 hits out of the 25 trials. It sounded as it the bel were ringing constantly. I-ran for Russ and Hal te show them the result and then attempted to repeat it. After two trials below chance, !| abandoned the machine again. Although a run of 2000 trials took me less than two hours, | did not have a chance to make any further runs. mere ee We ee Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000700090008-0
SG1l ‘Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000700090008-0 Interpretation of rlella's RV Tape Before my trip to SRI, | had been reviewing Hella's performance on remote viewing of technical equipment. After hearing her description and seeing her drawings from the experiment with a CRT graphics terminal as target, | mentioned that 1 could MB ccc have guessed the actual equipment from her descriptions. suggested | try to do that with another tape she had made, which was thought to be less good than the CRT results. After two runs through the tape, my quess of a vertical boreing machine was close to the actual target of a drill press. That result was considered significant, since it indicated that more information might be present in the data than had been supposed. Two factors seemed important tome: One, I was very familiar with both CRT's and vertical milling machines, and was currently working with both. Two, | had been briefed on Hella's background and personality. In particular, | knew that she was basically untechnically oriented, that she was capable of detailed description of anything she had seen, that she was not prone to fabricate details, and that she was employed in photography. After having spent several hours with her at SRI, | expected that my familiarity with her RV performances had very much increased. My attempt to process another of her tapes, however, was not a success. In this case, the target was the ESP teaching machine, with which she was quite familfar. | had spent my first hour on it just before | left with her. tape for the evening. My guess of a view graph projector was based on arbitrary selections from seemingly ambiguous and contradictory sets of statements. For instance, | was not certain if light were shining into or out of the box. Some of her terminology, such as "burning in" had specific meaning for me based on my background. | had to decide, in those cases, whether another meaning fit her background, or whether she had picked up the terminology along with the target. Although it is probably helpful to have a calibration on the original subject (such as realizing that Hella's sizes are generally overestimated, and her » drawings are often better than her descriptions), it does seem that familiarity of the interpreter with the possible target set is the crucial aspect of such an interpretation attempt. This may be considered analogous to giving raw intelligence data to an analyst who is well grounded in the pertinent fields.
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SG1l | Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000700090008-0 Interpretation of Hella's RV Tape Before my trip to SRI, | had been reviewing Hella's performance on remote viewing of technical equipment. After. hearing her description and seeing her drawings from the experiment with a CRT graphics terminal as target, | mentioned that 1 could possibly have guessed the actual equipment from her descriptions. [RY suggested | try to clo that with another tape she had made, which was thought to be less good than the CRT results. After two runs through the tape, my quess of a vertical boreing machine was close to the actual target of a drill press. That result was considered significant, since it indicated that more information might be present in the data than had been supposed. Two factors seemed important to me: One, | was very familiar with both CRT's and vertical milling machines, and was currently working with both. Two, |} had been briefed on Hella's background and personality. In particular, | knew that she was basically untechnically oriented, that she was capable of detailed description of anything she had seen, that she was not prone to fabricate details, and that she was employed in photography. After having spent several hours with her at SRI, | expected that my familiarity with her RV performances had very much increased. My attempt to process another of her tapes, however, was not a success. In this case, the target was the ESP teaching machine, with which she was quite familiar. | had spent my first hour on it just before | left with her tape for the evening. My guess of a view graph projector was based on arbitrary selections from seemingly ambiguous and contradictory sets of statements. Fer instance, | was not certain if light were shining into or out of the box. Same of her terminology, such as "burning in" had specific meaning for me based on my background. | had to decide, in those cases, whether another meaning fit her background, or whether she had picked up the terminology along with the target. Although it is probably helpful to have a calibration on the original subject (such as realizing that Hella's sizes are generally overestimated, and her drawings are often better than her descriptions) , it does seem that familiarity of the interpreter with the possible target set is the crucial aspect of such an interpretation attempt. This may be considered analogous to giving raw intelligence data to an analyst who is well grounded in the pertinent fields. Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000700090008-0
Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000700090008-0 Both from the standpoint of reliability assessment and information production, the analyst must know his field as well as hiis source. Unfortunately, there was no chance to work along with Hella as she performed a technical RV experiment, due to time constriants. Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000700090008-0
. Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000700090008-0 RV_ #3 ~ Mood This experiment was not the first event of the day, as the other two RV's had been. In this case, | had just completed the interpretation run on Hella's RV of the teaching machine. | had been disappointed in my per- formance. However, my interest was peaked for this RV #3, since there were several protecol modifications | wished to try. In addition, this could be my last RV of the trip, sol wanted it to go well. Protocol Based on my observations during Hella's performances and during my own, | made a number of changes to the standard protocol. In each case, | believe the change resulted in stronger evidence for occurrence of para- normal phenomena, as well as demonstration that the phenomena are not fragile or protocol-dependent. From the suggestions contained in each section of this paper, the following changes were made for this run: Both Russ and Hal went to the site, which was a standard target obtained from the safe. No one remained with me; there was no interrogator. All movements, intentions, and descriptions of the site were recorded by Russ and Hal from the time they left the building, In addition, although | had not mentioned it beforehand; | moved around inside the room, moved outside of the inner room , | taped all of my responses, but did not mention my move- ments on the tape. Data Transcript of my tape was not completed before | left and so is not contained here. Photographs of the target site are also still in preparation. The following data is from my notes and from memory. [ drew no pictures at that time. Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000700090008-0
APPrQVE Far RELA RR F001 OBO L AIP RS 6-001 87 BI O07 A922 908-0 feature was white arches, on a circular base. 1 felt I could distinguish the presence of both Hal arid Russ. | tried con- centrating on Russ, to check whether my results were dependent on Hal; and | got a clear impression of Russ sitting very low to the ground such that his knees were up by his ears, And at one point his head rested on his arms, which were folded across his knees. 1 did not like the place, and had an uneasy feeling about it. [| mentioned the word "cupola" which came to mind, and stated that I didn't know what it meant. I had a-particular sensation of looking down and attending to one point purposely, although the site could have been used as a vantage point. Subjective Assessment The few images I did receive were very strong. However, the peripheral information just seemed blurred out. In particular, the body sensations of sitting, fixating on an area, ancl being uncomfortable were very strong. | was not particular pleased with my results, although | had ascertained that all my moving about during the experiment did not affect my perceptions. Analysis of Results When Hal and Russ returned, my first statement was that | didn't like the place. I also mentioned my strange use of the word "cupola", and my image of Russ sitting down. At Hal's suggestion, | tried to draw my overall image, which was of white arches. He then directed me to draw the cupola, and also an overhead view. He was delighted with the results, and asked his secretary to guess what it was on our way out to the site. She did not know, but responded to his whispered answer by saying "oh, that's right!", which really pleased him. . We drove to the site, which was a park play ground, and Russ and Hal recreated their motions, which involved sitting on and spinning a merry go round composed of a disk with large white loops for holding on. Many screaming children were around, as is obvious from the tapes. I agreed that my images had been pretty good, but noticed that a maintenance building adjoining the merry go round area had a cupola on the roof (! had looked the word up in an illustrated dictionary just before leaving the office), and that it had a black lightening rod on top, and divisions just as my top view drawing showed. Hal and Russ both expressed dismay that the structure was there and that they had not noticed it. However, my feeling was that | hacl originally seen only the arches, and when directed by Russ to go back and draw the cupola, | hac done just that by finding a cupola at the site. I'm certain | must have known Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000700090008-0 Beeb, te
Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000700090008-0 the word in the past sometime. My TOP VIEW drawing could be a good sketch of that cupola, while the other two are composite of the two features - arches and cupola. At the site, Hal and Russ recreated their motions, which | later verified by listening to their tape. The sensations of focusing on a spot, looking down, and feeling uneasy were strongly verified by Russ, who had gotten quite: dizzy during the experiment and had been eager for it to end. We were all surprised that no strong perceptions of lots of people, lots of noise, or rapid movement ever came through. Critique During debriefing, wording of the questions or instructions is critical. Assessment of debriefing results must be done in the context of the interrogator's involvement. Lack of an inquisitor during the experiment was no handicap, although | would generally produce less data when alone. | was able to receive impressions of Russell, as well as of Hal. Using two outbounders seemed to increase the strength of a few primary impressions, while washing out the rest. Part of that washout, however, may have been due to the saturation effects of so much noise and such rapid movement. As in the previous experiments, my sensations of bodily movements or feelings were correct; although in this case there were several strong sensory inputs of that type which I failed to receive. Taping by the outbounders was desirable in this case, since it verified my impressions, as well as indicating that the cupola was not an intentional part of their target activities. From my movements about and outside of the experiment room, | conclude that no subliminal suggestion techniques were being used on me. ay Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000700090008-0