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could be drawn easily.
Second, they were selected to be as distinct as possible, so that the other
targets within that category could be used as decoys for judging.
Tables la-d show the target categories, the specific targets within a category, and a
brief description of each target.
Table la
MILITARY TARGET AND CATEGORY
Name
Source
/ Description
Aircraft carrier
Final
Countdown—Multiple
takeoffs
of
mostly
F-16s.
Characterized by triangular shapes and high drama.
Control room
Wareames—Control room seauence.
Characterized by rec-
tangular shapes and rotating lights.
Russians in space
Superman IV—EVAs and the
collision of two
satellites.
Characterized by tubular shapes and Russian singing.
Atomic bomb blasts
Atomic
Cafe—Continuous
series
of
atmospheric
atomic
blasts.
Characterized by fireballs, bright light, buildings be-
ing destroyed, and trees in violent motion.
Table lb
SCIENTIFIC/INDUSTRIAL TARGET CATEGORY
Name
Source
/ Description
Bottling factory
Take This Job and Shove Jl—Bottles on a conveyer belt.
Characterized by multiple cylindrical shapes*
Building construction
Steel—Girder construction by helicopter.
Characterized by
rectangular shapes “floating”
in air.
Tacoma Narrows bridge
Documentary on the
Bridee
Disaster—Wild
oscillation of
the bridge.
Characterized by linear shapes in torsional mo-
tion.
Launch of John Glen
The Right Stuff—Sinele rocket launch.
Characterized by
singular tubular shape and bright light.
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NATURAL/NON-TECHN1CAL TARGET CATEGORY
Name
Source / Description
Skiing
The Spv Who Loved Me—James Bond skiing fast.
Charac-
terized by snowy mountain scenes and dramatic skiing off a
cUff.
Ostriches
Animals are
Beautiful People—Ostriches in synchronized
dance.
Characterized by black and white fluffy birds.
Waterfall
Emerald Forest—Aerial view of a waterfall.
Characterized
by dramatic vertical
falls.
Greek temple
Jacques Cousteau—Heliconter view of the Posiedon temple
ruins.
Table Id
PROJECT TARGET CATEGORY
Name
Source
/ Description
Manhattan Project
Various
Still
Photographs—Oppenheimer,
Fat
Boy,
Los
Alamos, Oak Ridge, and an air blast.
Project Blue Book
Various
Still Photographs—Hynek, UFOs, and "landing”
imprints.
Project Deep Quest
In Search Of—Schwartz and others, underwater submers-
ible, and large rectangular block.
Project Ultra
Various
Still
Photographs—Turing,
code
machine,
and
bombed-out cathedral at Coventry.
A preliminary test of the target pool and experimental protocol was carried out using
two experienced viewers.
In this test, the viewers were not informed as to the nature of the target
pool or the target categories.
Using a standard double blind RV protocol, Viewer 009 produced
verbal and pictorial responses for 20 randomly selected targets from the target pool.
Viewer 372
produced eight such responses.
Of the 28 combined trials, 14 were ranked as first place matches
in a visual correspondence method of judging where a 0.25 probability of a
first place match
existed by chance. A total sum of ranks of 55 produced a p-value of 0.007 for the mean rank
suggesting that the targets were viewable, at least by experienced viewers.
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