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activity demonstration
Date of Publication
15 January
1991
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
I.
PURPOSE
II.
SCOPE
III.
ACTIVITY DETAILS
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ACTIVITY DEMONSTRATION
I.
(U)
PURPOSE;
(U)
This
report,
is intended to provide an informal account
of
one aspect of DT-S project activity.
II.
(U)
SCOPE :
(S/NF/LIMDIS)
This demonstration was limited to a jingle
remote viewing session based on Beacon Person Targeting
(BPT)
,
and involved DT-S staff.
It served as
a demonstration for
a
newcomer to DT-S and also provided DT-S staff with a useful
practice activity.
III.
(U)
ACTIVITY DETAILS:
(S/NF/LIMDIS)
Recently
I decided to schedule
a
...
viewing experiment involving Beacon Person Targeting
(BPT)
with
the DT-S staff.
This gave them a brief reprieve from their
current report writing activity and helped
with the phenomenological aspects of our area of interest . .
*
also provided an opportunity to give a newcomer,
staff member
370,
a remote viewing demonstration.
(C)
In BPT,
a designated person
(i.e.,
a
’’beacon”)
visits a
randomly selected site where he/she concentrates on the key
target area features.
At the same time a "viewer
,
who
is of
course blind to the target selected,
attempts to describe the key
features of this site.
After the session,
and after all data and
data summaries are recorded,
the beaconj
person returns and takes
the viewer back to the site for feedback.
In this way,
the
viewer receives rapid and total feedback and can readily verify
Tas cL o?he^s>
what was correct or incorrect
in his/her session
data
The actual target site
is unknown to any of the project
personnel
unti 1 after the feedback session with the beacon person
occurs.
The target
is not known by the beacon person until
he/she opens the sealed target package with driving
.
this does not occur until after the beacon person
is out of sight
of the home base facility.
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(S/NF/LIMDIS)
In this session,
the viewer
was staff member
018,
the beacon persons were staff members 002 and 025,
an
e
monitor was staff member
052.
The observer,
370 ,
was
located
in
the viewing room.
Staff member 049 and
I controlled target
selection and insured that proper protocol
was followed.
We
Jj
ls
observed the entire BPT session on the video monitor and be
all dialogue over the
intercom.
The entire experimental
P
took about one hour.
This
included travel
to and from the target
area for feedback after the
formal
session.
The only information
known
to those directly involved was that the target couid be
anywhere within
a 20 minute drive.
Even though 002 had
previously prepared the
local area target pool
from which this
particular Site was drawn,
she had no knowledge of the specific
target selected until
she was
in the car,
well away from home
base.
(S/NF/LIMDIS)
The results of this session were encouraging
and suggested that valid
"beacon person contact” had
in fact
occurred.
The viewer's first impressions included
"...water,
Burba Lake".
Many,
but not all,
of his responses
had relevance
to the target site.
Some
of the responses were too
general
for clear assessment.
It turned °«t
^
• ^could"^
in fact the Burba Lake Park area on
Ft Meade,
though
it could
have been
a site anywhere within a 20 minute drive.
(S/NF/LIMDIS)
As
a result of the positive response to this
BPT activity,
I plan to schedule additional
BPT experiments
in
the future.
They will
be low-key and will not interfere with
other activities.
I have asked 002
(who
is a good beacon person
and who has a good target eye)
to develop a comprehensive area
target pool
so that we can refine our BPT activities.
We still
need to improve out protocol
and develop a consistent evaluation
procedure.
(We are working on a quantification method)
Improvements
in our BPT activity should be helpful
later
on when
we begin to fold our activities
into research-oriented projects
in support of the Congressional
interests.
BPT sessions such as
this also help us to find the bugs
in our overall procedures and
help the interviewers
improve their technique.
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