ebb dM, oiwatewun: . Approved For, Bs et een iiairier ae ie MERIT Bags ~ Sh ER RCA EN HH whe “ee oe Mw a wy eee eer BEE tively ciad thing 200 SE FIGURE 3 nad or, Release2001/03/26 : CIA-RDP96-00787R900200080008-6 Let cn, . SA-53 STANFORD UNIVERSITY, INNER QUADRANGLE -—— TARGET; SKETCHES PRODUCED BY SUBJECT INEXPERIENCED AT REMOTE VIEWING obtained with the last two visitors who agreed to act as subjects provide specific examples, The first was an electrical engineer who was interested in evaluating our work, We ex« plained to him that the only demonstration we were prepared to offer was the experience that he himself might have in being a remote viewing subject, His first target location (determined by the standard random protocol) turned out to be a lecale known as the Baylands Nature Preserve, Our visitor described and drew a long wooden walkway and indicated the presence of extensive gardens, an accurate depiction of the target site, However, he also described seeing a building, that is not at the target site, This Sort of superposition of erroneous imagery on otherwise accurate descriptions is a common occurrence and is the principal source of noise to be overcome if remote viewing is to become a useful tool, -6~ The next day we carried out a second ex~ periment with this visitor, This time the ran- domly~determined target was the inner quadrang: at Stanford University, Our subject described courtyard and made the two drawings shown in Figure 3, Almost every element ,of his drawing: corresponds to the actual arrangement at the location of the remote experimenters, These r sponses are among the most accurate and detail: that we have ever seen, This target had never been used before, and the visitor indicated th he had never been to the Stanford Campus befor nor had he ever seen a photograph of this location, A second result, typical of what we have come to expect from the remote viewing protoco was obtained with our most recent visitor/volu teer, a physics professor who was skeptical of our reported results, This man had been lectu ing on the West Coast and came to SRI to learn firsthand of our research, In addition to hea ing our description of the protocol, he was al invited to participate as. the subject in an ex periment so that he could personally evaluate Approved For Release 2001/03/26 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000200080008-6 it Ndi si a 8 inca ened er aia ep nnn anak cept eth ain ee NS So Se ea Ma accumu
Se ee te aA the experimental aspects of the remote viowing channel, The target chosen by random protocol. was White Plaza at Stanford University, the second time in four years that this particular site came up for cxperimental use, The subject gava an excellent description of the plaza and the. surrounding buildings and produced the drawing shown in Figure 4,- In addition, he also cor- rectly described the motion of the outbound ex- perimenter who circled the fountain in a clock- wise direction as shown in the subject's drawing, The results obtained with these two men are not isolated examples selected from Imany unsuc- cessful trials, Rather, they are simply the most recent examples of visitor first-time cases, and are typical of what we have come to expect from any serious attempt at remote viewing, LONG-DISTANCE EXPERIMENTS WITH TELECONFERENCING INE ENG ING After establishing a data base of over 50 experiments with local targets (sites within a few miles), we undertook an experimental series designed to determine whether an increase in subject-target separation to transcontinental distances would degrade the quality or accuracy of perception, As a secondary goal, we were interested in the real-time data rate; e.g., de- termining the extent to which a remote viewing subject can track the real-time activities and movements of a known individual in a distant city. The only communication between ‘the out- bound experimenter (e.g,, in New York City) and a subject in the SRI Laboratory (Menlo Park, California) was by means of the ARPA computer net. Access to the computer by the traveling experimenter was by means of a portable terminal carried from point to point, Following are the results obtained in this series, which consists of five experiments to date, New York-California Experiments Spee ments The protocol for this experiment allowed the subject at SRI in California and the experi-— menter in New York City to communicate via the conversational TALK mode available on the ARPA computer net, The subject and the experimenter at SRI agreed (via computer teleconferencing) to begin an experiment one-half hour later, The purpose of the computer in this experiment was to provide time- and date-stamped permanent records of all communications between the vari- ous parties involved in the experiment, These data can be read in real time by any authorized person entering the SRI-AI Tenex (MSG) system, Lab 3 “or Releasee2001/03/26 : CIA-RDP96-00 i aE Rha lade Ec ges Rea 7RQ90200080008-6 7 FIGURE 4 FIRST EXPERIMENT WITH VISITING PHYSICS PROFESSOR: “THERE ARE WIDE STEPS RUNNING THE ENTIRE WIDTH OF THE STRUCTURE.... | SEI AN OVAL POOL IN. FRONT OF THE STEPS AS | MOVE BACK... AND THERE COULD BE A SMALL STRUCTURE IN THE MIDDLE OF IT LIKE A CROSS-SHAPED OBJECT... ON THE GROUND | STILL SEE SOM ' KIND OF QUADRILATERAL.” After logging off the computer, the out- bound experimenter would use a random number generator to determine which of six locations in New York City. would constitute the target tc be visited in this experiment, - Neither the sux ject nor the experimenter at SRI knew the con- tents of the target list that was compiled jusi before the experiment, Having selected a targ: location by the random protocol, the experimen! er would proceed directly to the site and remai there for fifteen minutes, One-half hour after breaking computer links, the subject would begin to type impres- ls fo Approved For Release 2001/03/26 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000200080008-6
Approved For Release/2001/03/26: ‘CIA-RDP96- -00787G900200080008- -6 ti aa i in See, i alia Ra ah i aa a an lhe ivi 4 a stena into a special computer file established tor this purpose, When the New York City experimenter re- turned to his hotel from his target Bite, he would make use of a Limited-accoss file to enter. his description of the place he actually visit- ed, He would then return to the exccutive level of the computer, and await the appearance of the SRI experimenters who could then (and only then) link terminals, At that time both files would be printed out on both terminals and the subject and the experimenter would each learn what the other had written, Two subjects, both in California, partici- pated simultaneously in this experiment with the first of two New York City targets, The first of the two New York City targets was Grant's Tomb, Both subjects independently pro- vided computer-stored records of their impres- sions, and one made the sketch shown in Fig- ure 5, (The five possible targets in addition to Grant's Tomb were a railroad bridge, the 20- story New York University law library, the fountain in Washington Square Park, the Colum~- bia University subway station, and. the 72nd Street boat basin, The targets were chosen to be dissimilar, and thus differentiable, by po- tential judges, ) The first subject, an SRI systems analyst, said in his opening paragraph: "Outdoors, large open area, standing on and then off asphalt (rough material), dark for a path, A white building, like a ticket booth, Wooden struc- ture, is white in color, and has an arched look about it, There is a large shade tree close to Kuss (outbound experimenter) ," The second subject, a medical student closeted in a separate SRI location, began with: "YT thought of a high place with a view, I saw a tree on your left, <A brick plaza seemed to be in front of a building you were entering, I could not clearly identify the activity, A Yestaurant? A museum? A bookstore? You had coins in the palm of your hand, maybe giving Some to Nicky (son of outbound’ experimenter) ," The coins were in fact used to purchase the postcard from which Figure 5 was made, and they were given to the experimenter's son who made the purchase, Both subjects then went on for an additional paragraph to describe details of the activities they imagined to be going on in- Side the building they saw, details that were Partly correct, partly incorrect, In the second experiment, the target, again Zhosen by random protocol, was the fountain in Washington Square Park, One subject partici- Hated, She produced an exceptionally accurate transcript, The photos and the subject's draw- ing of the fountain are shown in Figure 6, The <isias sii en isc cig te, Se ea ae Grant's Tomb Target in New York City Front Vie, oe ee . FIGURE 5 COAST-TO-COAST REMOTE VIEWING EXPERIMENT. SUBJECT DESCRIBED “OUTDOORS, LARGE OPEN AREA.... SHADE TREES... WHITE BUILDING WITH ARCHES.” subject began her printout with the following: "The first image I got at about the first minut was of a cement depression--as if a dry fountai with a cement post in the center or inside, There seemed to be pigeons off to the right, flying around the surface out of the depres— Sion, . . At one point I thought you were open ing a cellophane bag..." (The experimenter had in fact bought ice cream during the experi- mental period,) "There was also a rectangular wooden frame, a window frame, but I wasn't sure if it was on a building, or a Similar structure with a different purpose." (A possible corre~ lation from a functional viewpoint to the Wash- ington Square Arch through which the outbound experimenters viewed the fountain toward the en of the experimental period,) "All in all I thought you were at Riverside Park , . ."  (In- correct analysis.) An SRI scientist, familiar Approved For Release 2001/03/26 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000200080008-6 Ete annie OL anil se akin ARSC Reni tac ce ie Fe ibd Papi iigise i. wile a Ss aaitesparh esi de agisd aioe’ Fak Bias a soa ey net cy
- Approved For Release 2001/03/26 ies Be tab tee RPA ca Sp ARERR ARN BE Be id oi oe og eae : CIA-RDP96-0078#R000200080008-6 FIGURE 6 COAST-TO-COAST REMOTE VIEWING SQUARE IN NEW YORK CITY with the New York City area but blind to the target, did, however, identify the target cor- rectly on reading the twenty lines of printout as 1t emerged from the computer terminal, As an example of the style of narrative generated by a subject during a computer tele- conferencing experiment, we include the entire unedited computer-logged text of the Washington Square experiment below (Figure 7), These teleconferencing experiments provide an elegant demonstration of the utility of the teleconferencing process aS a secure data re- cording system useful in real-time monitoring of long-distance remote viewing experiments, In a more detailed tape recording she made after the experiment, but before any feedback, she described "cement steps going into the de- pression, like a stadium, and the rounded edge of the top of the depression as you go up to ground level." These descriptions not only are correct but also show remarkable detail, Subject’s Perception was of a “Cement Depression — as if a Dry Fountain — with a Cement Post in the Center or Inside.” EXPERIMENT WITH TARGET AT WASHINGTON New York-Ohio A third long-distance remote viewing expec ment was carried out under the control of an independent, skeptical scientist. In this cas both SRI experimenters visiting in Ohio agreed to take part in a remote viewing experiment in which our host would select the target, Under the observation of our challenger, ° telephoned one of our subjects, Hella Hammid, New. York City and obtained her agreement to participate in a long-distance remote viewing experiment, She was told only that we were located somewhere between New York City and ou California laboratory and that shortly we woul. be taken to a target that we would like her to describe. The time for the experiment was set for 2:00 PM EDT, We also agreed to call her again at 3:00 PM EDT to obtain her impressions and to give her our feedback as to the actual target, The scientist took us directly to Spring- field, Ohio, to the Ohio Caverns that he had chosen as the target location (see Figure &). ~9~ Approved For Release 2001/03/26 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000200080008-6 tah i dh Rn A RP! BAERS SSS. ea AB AOR a, at INARI ese. ele dy A Gta vom