Approved For Release 2000/08/00 JG GLP AG qf} Bi 70002-9 (U) We consider these two trials among the better examples of laboratory evidence for paranormal perception in this program, and it is | | interesting to note that they occurred in an FRV series. t 3. Viewer No. 155, RV and FRV of 35-mm Slides (U) (U) The protocol for this series of trials was the same as for the previous viewer. We carried out twelve trials, six trials each, of | intermixed future and real-time remote viewing of 35-mm slides, This viewer's results received totaled Accuracy Ratings of 17 for the FRV trials, and 16 for the real-time remote viewing trials, (U) The first three of the FRV trials yielded evidence of contact with the target, and were given Accuracy Ratings of 4, 5, and 4; the last three were given Accuracy Ratings of 2, 2, and 0. (U) The first successful target was a pedestrian underpass, . under a Southern Pacific Railroad station. The target slide shows a i long, dark tunnel of square cross section, with a bright light at the ‘ ; far end. The viewer drew a receding perspective, and said (among other things), "I almost felt like I was in a long hallway looking at a bunch of lockers along the hall." "Almost like you would see in school, lined with lockers."" Earlier, Viewer 468 had this target as one of two real- time control slides in the middle of his six FRV trials. He also described and drew the receding perspective, and announced rather critically in the session that, "this is the most underexposed slide I have ever seen" (correct), although at the time he was seeing it only remotely. (U) A second successful FRV target for Viewer 155 was a Methodist Church. The viewer correctly identified the target as a church, drew its courtyard in some detail, and also made a drawing of the facade of the church with many correct elements. This response was given an Accuracy Rating of 5, In the third successful FRV trial, Rinconada swimming 78 UNCLASSIFIED Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001300170002-9
Approved For Release NCLASS| FIED (U) pool, the viewer described a body of water enclosed in a rectangular frame, which he drew very accurately. He also described accurately the reflections seen in the water, This was the only water target in the series, and also the only session in which he mentioned water. This target received an Accuracy Rating of 4. The balance of the trials in the series yielded data containing some correct elements, but not sufficient to suggest results beyond chance expectation. 4, Viewer No. 155, FRV of Local Target Sites (U) (U) An additional series of FRV trials was carried out with Viewer No, 155 in an effort to determine whether any differences would be found between trials with target slides, and trials involving actual Local Bay Area target locations. (U) Six trials were conducted at a rate of two per day for three days, one each morning and afternoon, The viewer was asked to describe his mental pictures and feelings with respect to the target location that would be randomly selected at the conclusion of that trial, That is, the viewer would be asked to describe the site as he would see it one hour later when he would be there with the interviewer. Immediately after each trial, the viewer and the interviewer would leave the laboratory, access the target pool by random number generator, and then proceed to the chosen target site. A number of interesting factors surfaced during these trials, making this series of greater interest than might be indicated by the overall Accuracy Rating of 19 assigned in the combined ratings. (U) In Trial No. 1 in this series, the viewer began his narrative description with the words, "I am getting squares within squares within squares." He then made the drawing shown in Figure 5(b). As indicated in an earlier discussion (Section IV-C), these words describing the target were the same as those used six years earlier by another subject describing 79 UNCLASSIFIED Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001300170002-9
Appreved For Release 2000/08/01) i G@upsk So Seb Robks B11 70002-9 a target. Since in the present case the target was not yet chosen, it : was with much anticipation that interviewer and remote viewer left the session room at the end of the session, went to the project office, and randomly generated by RNG a target number to determine which of the sixty target locations would actually be visited. The number was generated and the target envelope drawn. It was found to be the pedestrian overpass, just as in the 1973 trial which elicited the same description. (At the time of the random generation of the target number, the interviewer did not know the number of the pedestrian overpass target.) The Accuracy Rating assigned to the viewer's response was 4. (In addition to his correct impressions, erroneous analysis and interpretation of his data come into play.) (U) Trial 2 was a Hyatt House Hotel. The viewer drew and described a receding double column of rectangular objects of differing heights, going off into the distance. He also drew, as his main percep- we _ tion of the target, a perspective showing a narrow sidewalk that one looks across to see a narrow roadway, and then another narrow walkway. Behind this are divided buildings or a divided wall (all his terminology). When we arrived at the site we found little correspondence to the viewer's description of the place, although there is a long row of statues running from the street to the hotel, which are suggestive of his first drawing, (U) Since we arrived a few minutes early, we went into the lobby of the hotel, although the "target" was the outside of the building. After we looked around the lobby the monitor noted that the agreed-upon target time was almost upon them, when the viewer was to be outside at the target. Therefore, we left the hotel lobby at the exact target time, and noticed that we were facing a scene greatly resembling the drawing generated during the session. As we stood on the steps of the hotel 80 UNCLASSIFIED Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001300170002-9
Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA- ‘FIED. (U) looking out, we were standing on a narrow sidewalk, looking across a narrow driveway, to another narrow walkway to the four wide supporting columns that hold up the large overhang covering the driveway and the entry to the hotel, The Accuracy Rating was 4, (U) Trial 3 was a Menlo Park brickyard. The viewer saw "Lots of corners and angles ... two and three dimensional shapes.'' Then he w described a "wall with columns sticking out of it, and later drew a curvy road going off to the right. All these elements can be found within the rich material of the brickyard. In particular, if one stands facing the wall with the columns sticking out of it, there is in fact a curvy road on the right. The Accuracy Rating was again 4, (U) Target 4 was a local tennis:-court., The viewer's descriptions was primarily of a windmill and a metal bell-shaped object, both of which bear no obvious resemblance to elements of the target site. He did, however, describe and draw a latticework arrangement that was suggestive ‘of a tennis net, and he described the area as recreational or a playground. Accuracy Rating was 2, (U) Target 5 was a large bubble-shaped air-inflated building, The description consisted mainly of arches and pillars as in a colonnade, overlaid with images of San Francisco, which are not particularly apropos. His drawings of receding curves and arches reflect somewhat the main elements of the target site, but altogether an Accuracy Rating of 2 characterizes the result as not being beyond chance expectation, (U) The sixth and final target was a large commercial salt pile in Redwood City. The target is a salt storage yard of Leslie Salt Company, on the edge of San Francisco Bay. The salt pile is a hundred feet long and perhaps fifty feet high, and it shines brilliantly in the sun. The viewer did not see or describe anything at all resembling the 81 UNCLASSIFIED Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001300170002-9
aoe - a _— | Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : UNCENSSIFIE (U) target. Instead, he described a wooden cylinder sticking out of the water, so that its bottom could not be seen. He described and drew on top of the cylinder a conical metal cap or cover, He also said that the main item in the vicinity was a redwood building with exposed timbers and a large, peaked overhang. (U) The difficulty with judging this trial, and, in fact, the series as a whole, derives from the following: While standing at the salt pile for the feedback portion of the trial, the viewer can look a hundred yards or so across the estuary that separates the salt refinery from the Redwood City Marina, and observe that his description matches the latter perfectly. For across this narrow body of water was a large restaurant made of dark redwood just as described in the transcript, and along the dockside was a row of posts sticking up out of the water, each with a blue conical sheet-metal cap to serve as an anti-seagull device. An accuracy rater at the restaurant would certainly give the transcript an Accuracy Rating of 5 for its correspondences, but, since that did not happen to be the intended target, the transcript receives an Accuracy Rating of 3. (U) Because of the above difficulties inherent in FRV site definition we did not think it worthwhile to subject this otherwise quite | interesting series to blind judging. It is our impression, however, that this series and the other FRV slide series carried out as part of this program does offer some evidence for the existence of FRV functioning, with individual trials often at an accuracy comparable to real-time remote viewing. 82 UNCLASSIFIED Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001300170002-9
Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001300170002-9 UNCLASSIFIED om Extended Remote Viewing (ERV), Viewer No. 518 (U) 1. Background (U) (U) One of the program remote viewers (No, 518) stated that over the past few years he had on occasion experienced spontaneous ex- tended remote viewing (ERV), usually associated with rest or sleep periods. Subjectively, these ERV experiences appeared to be of unusual intensity and clarity; however, the situation and/or content of these experiences did not lend themselves to independent objective verification. Therefore, Remote Viewer 518 requested that some time be devoted to in- vestigating the phenomenon, with the goal of determining whether the con- tent of such ERV experiences was verifiable and, further, of superior quality to that obtained in the ordinary RV protocol. 2. Pilot Effort (U) (U) An initial single-trial pilot effort in ERV was carried out during Remote Viewer 518's first day at SRI. In this trial there was some evidence that information obtained in the ERV state was veridical, Therefore, it was decided that upon his return a formal series of trials would be undertaken, 3. Formal Series (Six Trials) (U) (U) The formal series of trials consisted of six targeting periods of approximately three hours each, During each of these trials the remote viewer was closeted in a third-floor laboratory of the Radio Physics Laboratory in the SRI complex and asked to render drawings and * wu) ERV (extended remote viewing) is here defined as an exercise in re- mote viewing for an extended period of time, generally lasting for more than an hour, Furthermore, an effort is made to maximize the subjective sense of awareness of the target site while minimizing the subjective sense of awareness of the remote viewer's physical surroundings. 83 UNCLASSIFIED Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001300170002-9
Appreved For Release 2000/08/07 :CIA-RDP96-00788R001300170002-9 (U) describe into a tape recorder his impressions of a target object. Each session was terminated either by the monitor who indicated that the (approximate) three-hour period was up, or by the remote viewer himself at a somewhat earlier time. The remote viewer was then taken to the target location for feedback. . eo the first four trials the targets { mn «<< Placed on display on a conference room table in that faci lity. ; iD part of the first trial the remote viewer was asked to describe the facility as well as the target object; for the remaining three trials he was asked to describe the target object only. (U) Before the fifth trial, it was decided by the remote viewer and monitor that the target location for the remaining two trials should be changed so as to avoid analytical overlay problems associated with target~-site familiarity. The site chosen by the monitor was the roof of the Radio Physics Laboratory building, directly above the ceiling of the room in which the remote viewer was located. (U) Trial 1. The target object for Trial 1 was a copper ewer (pitcher) placed on a dark brown wood-grained table (see Figure 17), The remote viewer sketched an object that evolved into a table-lamp base g finally topped by a lampshade. r | The description of the facility rendered by the remote viewer had many matching elements, although it appears that the remote viewer combined the two primary rooms into one; because of this, however, the description is ambiguous and cannot be taken as evidential. (U) Trial 2. The target object for Trial 2 was a metal food mill with red handle shown ‘in Figure 18.. In response the remote viewer ' Approved For Release 2000/96 alliage 99728001 300170002-5 AM A “ABL Ade
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Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001300170002-9 | [ (U) . | sketched a silver-grey object with a handle on it that looked first like a fireplace scoop (most correct), and then evolved into a bellows. (U) Trial 3. The target for Trial 3 was a straw hat with curled up brim and dimpled top (Figure 19). The remote viewer's response is shown in the same figure. 4 (U) trial 4. Target 4 was a photographic tripod (Figure 20). The remote viewer's response, shown in the same figure, consisted essen- tially of a silver teapot-like object sitting on a tripod. Gia 5. Following the first four trials, the monitor and remote viewer agreed that the target location for tye remaining two trials ‘ ative locations were discussed, with the final decision to be made by the monitor, The monitor chose the roof of the Radio Physics Laboratory and intended to place a target there. Due to an error in timing, the remote viewer began the fifth session without having met with the monitor to learn which of the discussed alternative locations was to be used. In the absence of this communication there was no overtly agreed-upon target location and no special target was set up. Nonetheless, we observe post hoc that the remote viewer described an outside, brightly lit gravel-based area, and provided a response that resembled the intended roof target area (see Figure 21). Because of the ambiguity of target location and absence of a specific intended target, however, this trial is set aside and not included in the package of results to be blind judged. (U) Trial 6. The target chosen for the final trial was a world globe (Figure 22). In response the remote viewer drew a sphere mounted on a stand, but did not cognize the map aspect. He also shows the roof line, but this cannot be taken as evidential since it was known that the target was to be on the roof Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : STA-RDP96-00788R001300170002-9