to Approved For Relegse 2001/03/26 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000200080019-4 fe os ee Cee a geen atti a aS Rta, ial SP ee pte oe : ee ea ‘ if > - ~ 1 ; ere pene aes ep Pinpoint Su rken \ ‘In 1,500 Square Miles of Ocean = . ve pe ee + E". “two psychics — working ‘independently of each other — Ey «exactly pinpointed the site of an unknown 1890s’ shipwreck off tthe coast of California and accurately described artifacts di- vers would find deep below the surface. © 2-60 % Ingo Swann and Hella Hammid astounded skeptical scientists wi heir amazingly accurate psychic predictions. ~~ rr © ; & amt ay we tnd the [gy CHARLES PaRMITER ] Brier Sled rae yy oe } 4ype of things thatan general S CHARLES PARMITER Quest” wee cond et by the ¥ 3:they predicted and in the}server who was aboard the] Mobfus Group, an international -- grea where the psychics said §3-million Taurus I research organization of scientists and they would be found,”de-|submarine when the aartl- Bye headed by clared Dr. Anne B, Kahle, an|facts were discovered. = --. ech ert at fe Tee and independent scientific ob-| The experi Coastal Studies of the Univer- scone eee Tree i sity of Southern California co- , operated in the test. Swann apd Hammid were each given a-chart covering 1,500 square miles of Pacific P Ocean off the California coast. © They were asked to use their - iat “Cen ephan A Beirvorts SUCCESSFUL SEERS Inge Swann ond Hello Hammid at Catolina Islond during the experiment. {drew were chains, a wheel with | tually found the ship’s wheel in epokes and a sirange rec- gz) feet of water just the way tangular block. Swann gave de- {Hella drew it.” . scriptions of a pipe, cables, Yet another astonishing find chain and various debris. was a huge rectangular stone E powers to pinpoint the undersea) “ Then divers aboard the Tau- way block «= which “a location Of ea a Sat rus I get out to the area —near Fg BR looked remark- g shipwreck, ae ere {eeornia’s Catalite island. = OF -* ably like what would be found rinding ‘was| , Actually, the muna had Wt @ Hammid_ had been in the area for five months #% ~ We drawn. “It just = selected the same site — a few hundred yes apart,” said gene Veek, associate direc- | witcombe, the chief pilot. pi. identity with a tor for facilities at fhe Marine) pyr with the psychics’ maps CA wreck.” claim- Institute, and former €0m-| “Sng them aboard —# was a SHIP'S PILOT ed Witcombe. pecaed ofa US. May sub-| aitferent story. _ —_ At Witcombe "Dr. Kahle, a . >| At 170 feet below the surface, 1  Yenowned gco- Among the sketches Hamm) gyann began directing the Tau- emazing.” physicist who s I. “He Jed us right to the worked on NASA satellite pro- reck and the artifacts," saidjgrams, agreed. “We really itcombe. found a lot of unexpected things > “Tt was amazing. He directed | that were similar to what were to one object after another. described by the psychics.” :. “The predictions were aston- Even a top government ma- ingly accurate. There were rine expert admitted that the }amazing accuracy of the two psychics is astonishing. “J don’t think anyone was trying to foo! the scientists,” sald Thomas S. the i Cooke of the U.S. Bureau oF U _ Land Management. Dr. Don Walsh, director of the Institute for Marine and Coastal Studies, evaluated Project Deep Quest, looking for any possible fraud. “J'm not necessarily a sup- porter, but I couldn’t find any- thing to cast doubt on the psy- cs’ claims,” he said. Could the find have been “saled” — the artifacts placed ere recently? ; "Tt would be extremely dif- cult to fake this,” said Dr. Walsh. - do th ’ “To put things down on (nc Bcean foor that have allegedly n there that Jong and make em look that way would tax best Hollywood special ef- ~ a wasn't the kind ¥ Sa of thing anyone a would expect to working with sonar, but had found nothing to indicate a shipwreck, according to Allan _ SUBMARINE used in the shipwreck search, The psychics .- god the vessel to sunken artifacts. are Pa a ° Approved For Release 2001/03/26 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000200080019-4