Approved For Release 2003/04/18 : CIA-RDP96-00791R000200040003-0 series of targets from around the globe were supplied to thé experimenters by SRI personnel on a double-blind basis. In our estimation, Mr. Swann's ability to describe correctly details of buildings, roads, bridges, and the Like indicated that he could perceive remote locations, sometimes in great detail, given only their geographic latitude and longitude. Thus, we considered the descriptions were sufficiently accurate to warrant our setting up a research program in remote viewing. We present here the results of a remote viewing experiment, carried out with a second subject in the remote viewing program, Mr. Pat Price, a former California police commissioner and city councilman. This experi- ment consisted of a series of double-blind, demonstration-of-ability tests involving local targets in the San Francisco Bay area which could be documented by several independent judges. We planned the experiment considering that natural geographical places or man-made sites that have existed for a long time are more potent targets for paranormal perception experiments than are artificial targets prepared in the laboratory. This is based on the opinions of Mr. Swann and Mr. Price that the use of artificial targets involves a "trivialization of the ability" as compared with natural pre-existing targets. In each of nine experiments involving Mr. Price as remote-viewing subject and SRI experimenters as a target demarcation team, a remote location was chosen in a double-blind protocol. Mr. Price, who remained at SRI, was asked to describe this remote location, as well as whatever activities might be going on there, 14 Approved For Release 2003/04/18 : CIA-RDP96-00791R000200040003-0
Approved For Release 2003/04/18 : CIA-RDP96-00791R000200040003-0 Data from the nine experiments are presented in the following para- graphs. Final judging indicated that several descriptions yielded significantly correct data pertaining to and descriptive of the target location. REMOTE VIEWING. PROTOCOL In the nine double-blind remote-viewing experiments, the following procedures were used. An experimenter was closeted with Mr. Price at SRI to wait 30 minutes to begin the narrative description of the remote location. The SRI locations from which the subject viewed the remote locations consisted of an outdoor park (Experiments 1,2), the double-walled copper-screen Faraday cage discussed earlier (Experiments 3, 4, 6-9), and an office (Experiment 5). A second experimenter would then obtain a target location from an individual in SRI management, the director of the Information Science and Engineering Division, not otherwise associated with the experiment. This location was either in the form of traveling orders previously prepared, sealed, and randomized by the target selecter (Experiments 1, 2, 5, 6), or by his driving the target demarcation team to the target himself without any written indication (Experiments 3, 4, 7-9). The set of targets was chosen from a target-rich environment by asking the selector to use his judgment in providing a set of nine target locations which were clearly differentiated from each other and within thirty minutes driving time from SRI. In all cases, the target demarcation team proceeded directly to the target by automobile without communicating with the subject 15 Approved For Release 2003/04/18 : CIA-RDP96-00791R000200040003-0
Approved For Release 2003/04/18 : CIA-RDP96-00791R000200040003-0 or experimenters remaining behind. Since the experimenter remaining with the subject at SRI was in ignorance both as to the particular target and also as to the target pool, he was free to question Price to clarify his descriptions. The demarcation team then remained at the target site for an agreed~upon thirty minute period fo6llowing the thirty minutes allotted for travel. During the observation period, the remote-viewing subject would describe his impressions of the target site into a tape recorder. A comparison was then made when the demarcation team returned. To represent best the detail and style of these narratives, we have included the entire unedited text of one of the better narratives containing very few incorrect statements, Experiment 7, in an appendix. In general, the descriptions contained inaccuracies as well as correct statements. .To obtain a numerical evaluation of the accuracy of the remote viewing experiment, the nine original target locations were subjected to ‘independent judging on a blind basis by five SRI scientists who were not otherwise associated with the research. The judges were asked to match the nine locations, which they independently visited, against the typed manuscripts of the tape-recorded narratives of the remote viewer. The transcripts were unlabeled and presented in random order. The judges were asked to find a narrative which they would consider the best match for each of the places they visited. A given narrative could be assigned to more than one target location. The hypothesis is that the judges, when asked to match the actual targets with the transcripts, would place the actual target in the most favored category more often than they would be expected to by chance. Table 2 shows the distribution of the 16 Approved For Release 2003/04/18 : CIA-RDP96-00791R000200040003-0
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Approved For Release 2003/04/18 : CIA-RDP96-00791R000200040003-0 judges' choices. For purposes of display we present the table such that the main diagonal corresponds to the correct choices. The number of correct matches by judges A through E is 7, 6, 5, 3, and 3, respectively. The expected number of correct matches from the five judges was five; in the experiment twenty-four such matches were obtained. Among all possible analyses, none is more conservative than a permutation analysis of the majority vote of the judges’ selections assuming assignment without replacement. By majority vote, six of the nine descriptions and locations were correctly matched. Under the null hypothesis (no remote viewing and a random selection of descriptions without replacement), this outcome has an a priori probability of p = 5.6 x 107", since, among all possible permutations of the integers one through nine, the probability of six or more being in their natural position in the list has that value. Therefore, although Price's descrip- tions contain inaccuracies, the descriptions are sufficiently accurate to permit the judges to differentiate among the various targets to the degree indicated. EEG EXPERIMENTS An experiment was undertaken to determine whether a physiological measure such as EEG activity could be used as an indicator of information transmission between an isolated subject and a remote stimulus. We hypothesized that perception could be indicated by such a measure even 7,8 in the absence of verbal or other overt indicators. In other words, this experiment examines the hypothesis that perception may take place 18 Approved For Release 2003/04/18 : CIA-RDP96-00791R000200040003-0