Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001300170002-9 * (U) and black striped pattern.” ... "It's like an inverted rectangle, wit square fastened to the back, or a rectangle laid down behind it." "L two buildings in one. One building." "I have the sense that there i dirt by the walls ...." He went on to talk about trees, flowers, and bicycles, all of which can be found directly in front of the target building. B, Task Summary (U) | (U) In the following we briefly summarize results of the variou perceptual tasks that were undertaken: « (U) Bay Area Target Site Remote Viewing. In the Phase One activities, six RV trials with local San Francisco Bay Area sites as targets were carried out with each of the six viewers. In these six series, four of the viewers each produced results that were independently significant (p < 0.05), making the series as a whole strongly significant (p = 4 X 1075; odds of one in 25,000). « (U) Remote Viewing of 35-mm Slides. These trials were carried out under varying conditions for five viewers in Phase Two. One viewer, who generated significant results in Phase One, was again independently significant in his description of distant slides. A second viewer, also producing significant results in Phase One, produced drawings in Phase Two that were formally judged to have significant correlations with the slide targets, although his verbal material did not, A third viewer was asked to describe slides before they were chosen, that would be shown to him at a later time. His results were suggestive of success (p = 0.1) but not statistically significant. Similar trials with two other viewers were also encouraging but nonsignificant. Remote Viewing in a Room A viewer who. was successful in the slide viewing trials also carried out a series using extended remote viewing, in which he spent more than an hour on each of six attempts to describe objects held in a room 6 - Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : ——— i oe
Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : “ONCCASSIFTED””” (U). . protocol, each of which is addressed below, consist of (1) basic procedural design; (2) remote viewer/interviewer roles; (3) target pool selection; ' (4) target storage and access; (5) remote viewer orientation; (6) inter- viewer behavior; (7) target person behavior; (8) post-experiment feedback; (9) evaluation procedure. 1, Basic Procedural Design (U) (U) As carried out at SRI, the general procedure is to closet the percipient, hereafter called the viewer, with an interviewer, and at a prearranged time to obtain from the viewer a description of an undis- closed, remote site being visited by a target team, one of whose members is known to the remote viewer and who thereby constitutes the target or “beacon” person.” The target team is assigned their target location by random entry into a list of targets located within a 30-minute driving time from SRI, The target pool consists of sixty target locations chosen from a target-rich environment, The target location selected is kept blind to both the viewer and interviewer closeted at SRI. The protocol is thus of the double-blind type. (U) In detail: At the beginning of a trial, a remote viewer is closeted with an interviewer in an isolated windowless room of the Radio Physics Laboratory in the SRI complex to await an agreed-upon start time. At the same time a target person is sent, without communication with the remote viewer or interviewer remaining at SRI, to a target locatiog somewhere in the San Francisco Bay Area (~500 square km), The target is * Ww) The target person is designated a "beacon" rather than a "sender" because the evidence to date points to the remote viewer exhibiting an independence of viewpoint and mobility at the target site which takes the phenomenon beyond simply mind-to-mind information transfer. 12 UNCLASSIFIED Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA- RDP96- 00788R001300170002-9
Approved For INCLASSIFIED 300170002-9 (U) determined by random-number access to a target pool of travelling orders previously prepared by an experimental team (not including interviewers) ‘and kept locked in a secure safe. The target pool consists of 60 target locations chosen from a target-rich environment. (U) During a predetermined viewing period of 15 minutes duration, the remote viewer is asked to render drawings and describe into a tape recorder his impressions of the target site being visited by the outbound target person, The interviewer with the remote viewer is kept ignorant of the target and is therefore free to question him to clarify his descriptions without fear of cueing: (overt or subliminal) as to the particular. target. (U) When the target person returns to SRI following the remote viewing period, the subject is then taken to the target site so that he may obtain direct feedback, Following a series of such trials over a several-day period, a formal blind judging procedure (described below) is used to evaluate the data and quantify the results. *w) There is, however, a confounding factor that needs to be taken into account. Since general knowledge of the San Francisco Bay Area target region on the part of the remote viewer and interviewer must be taken as a given, and since particular knowledge of the contents of the target pool is revealed as a series progresses, in evaluating the results one must take into account the possibility that any particular description may be artifactually sharpened. (Such sharpening can in principle in- crease the apparent quality of the result only if there is functional RV to begin with; it cannot in the absence of RV produce an inflated result.) This sharpening possibility in the presence of an already functioning RV capability is handled in the statistical evaluation of the results by conservatively assuming the worst at the outset, and treating the series as belonging to that class of studies in which the elements of the target pool are known a priori. to both remote viewer and interviewer, as in studies involving numbers or cards as targets. 13 UNCLASSIFIED | Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001300170002-9
Approved For Release 2000/08/07: C 2. Remote Viewer/Interviewer Roles (U) ee et erviewer holes (U) An important methodological aspect of the SRI RV protocols is based on the fact that the remote viewer/interviewer team constitutes a single information gathering unit in which the remote viewer's role is designed to be that of perceiver/information source, and the interviewer's role is designed to be that of analytical control, = This division of labor is designed to mirror the two primary modes of cerebral functioning; namely, the nonanalytic cognitive style (related to brain function) that predominates in spatial pattern recognition and other holistic processing (and is hypothesized to pre- dominate in psi functioning), and the analytical cognitive style that ; * predominates in verbal and other analytical functioning, (Only very experienced remote viewers appear to have the ability to handle both cognitive styles Simultaneously.) The interviewer role, removing as it does the burden of analytical functioning during exercise of the RV faculty, = —E appears to be a key element in generating the level of success required in operational programs, and we attribute the success of the SRI RV protocols in large part to this innovativ® design which appears to provide an appropriate match to the required functioning. 3. Target Pool Selection (U) abe eee we fection (U) Target locations in the San Francisco Bay Area are selected ROE EV Bi RM oh pt a by a team of two Radio Physics Laboratory personnel who are not involved * (vu) See, e.g., J. Ehrenwald, "Cerebral Localization and the Psi Syndrome ," _ J. of Nervous and Mental Disease, Vol. 161, No. 6, pp. 393-398: R., Ornstein, The Nature of Human Consciousness, San Francisco, CA: Freeman, 1973, Ch. 7 and 8; and R. W. Sperry, "Cerebral Organization and Behavior ," Science, Vol. 133, pp. 1749-1757 (1961). An ith RRL” ere, 14, Approved For Release 2000/08/07( iagammmammmamgsrpo300170002-9
Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001300170002-9 ~ UNCLASSIFIED (U) as interviewers in the experiments (to prevent direct knowledge of the target pool by the interviewers). The locations are chosen to satisfy the following criteria: (1) Target sites must be within a half-hour drive of the SRI Menlo Park complex so that a uniform target access time exists for all experiments. (2) The target pool is constructed to contain several targets of various types--that is, several fountains, several churches, several boathouses, and so forth--specifically to circumvent analysis strategies of the type "there was a fountain yesterday, so it is unlikely that there is a fountain today." Furthermore, targets of different types are not chosen to be particularly distinct from each other, so that overlapping features exist. In this manner the content of a given target, determined by random entry into the target pool, is essentially independent of the contents of other targets ("'open-deck" design). (3) The definition of what constitutes each target is established in advance of the entire RV series by written descriptions on a set of 3" X 5" target cards. (Ex: Four Seasons Restaurant, on El Camino Real, just north of San Antonio Road. Stand under the entry arch and feel the bricks.) These cards constitute the outbound team's instructions at the beginning of the trial, and the judge's target list during the evaluation phase, 4, Target Storage and Access (U) (U) The target cards are numbered and placed in individual envelopes, similarly numbered, by the target selection team, and then stored in a GSA~approved secure container not available to project remote viewers. (U) At. the start of an RV session the interviewer, remote viewer, and target person rendezvous in the laboratory and establish the trial start time (30 minutes hence). The target person then leaves the “15 UNCLASSIFIED Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001300170002-9 ie 8) «ap