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easter renenmitiinensietee Approved For Release 2000/08/08 : CIA-RDP96-00789R002302010001-3 SESSION INFORMATION TARGET DATA: Task/Target No. Session No. PERSONNEL DATA: Source No. Monitor’s No. Beacon/Sender No. SESSION DATA: Date Task Received Session Date Start Time Stop Time Method used Aids/Distractions (PIs) Pre-session. hunches (AVs) Date Summary Returned EVALUATION DATA: Viewer’s Estimate Evaluator’s Estimate SESSTON SUMMARY: 92-20-L O1 025 3/4/92 01 10:00 11:00 ERV 3/4/92 There are some land and water elements to this site. There is also a structure which has length and is high or raised above with stairs going upward. Surrounds it in the background. The structure is in the center and something This structure has a forward action which is for the purpose of movement or travel. It can be driven and has power or pure energy. The target may be a boat. Approved For Release 2000/08/08 : CIA-RDP96-00789R002302010001-3
Approved For Release 2000/08/08 : CIA-RDP96-00789R002200080001-9 HARD-COPY RECORDS The parapsychological journals that have been abstracted are stored on bookshelves at the PSIC. Articles from journals not owned by the PSIC, separate reports, monographs, etc., are stored in file cabinets by the record number used in PsiLine. Thus, it is easy to locate the original of any record if a full copy should be desired. The unit we use for loading purposes is usually a full volume of a given journal. The printout at various stages of editing, as well as the handwritten abstracts and any relevant notes concerning that volume, are kept in a manila folder--one per volume—-marked with the load number for the data base. Thus, if anything goes wrong or something needs to be checked, the input data are always easy to find. We also maintain a listing of what was loaded into the data base each time, including the numbers of the records, the number of characters, the total number of records, and a notation identifying the floppy disks. We keep the information on two floppy disks per load: one is on the disk of the inputter, and the other is on another set of disks arranged by journal. For example, the file for the Journal of Parapsychology for 1971 is located on the 1.G. No. 7 disk (the 7th disk containing files keyboarded by Inga Goldhammmer) and the Journal of Parapsychology disk No. 4. -~12- Approved For Release 2000/08/08 : CIA-RDP96-00789R002200080001-9
Approved For Release 2000/08/08 : CIA-RDP96-00789R002200080001-9 RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FY 1987* ACCESS PROCEDURES It is recommended that the PSIC perform all search and display for PsiLine. A client would write, telephone, or contact the PSIC via modem to communicate a search request. The PSIC would conduct the search and send the results in whatever display the client preferred. FEES During FY 1987, the fee structure and distribution of revenue (if any) will be determined. For example, the fee structure for PsiLine may be similar to commercial rates, such as Dialog, Psychinfo, Medline, and Dissertation Abstracts International. PSIC proposes that the charge for searching PsiLine would be $30 per hour, or 50 cents per minute. This fee would be halved for members of the Parapsychological Association (PA). After the PSIC upgrades to a faster microprocessor, the charge would be higher because more work could be done per minute. For printouts, the charge would be 20 cents per item for the No. 1 display choice (bibliographic citation plus abstract) and 60 cents for the No. 3 display (full record). These same rates would apply for members of the PA. DEVELOPMENT OF STANDARDIZED VOCABULARY An essential feature of PsiLine will be a standardized vocabulary and thesaurus of terms. It is recommended that development of such a vocabulary be delayed until after the bulk of the bibliographic information and abstracts for the parapsychological literature have been entered. *Note: Above recommendations are from Subcontractor (PSCI) 10 SRI International. -~13- Approved For Release 2000/08/08 : CIA-RDP96-00789R002200080001-9
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Final
Report- -Objective B ,
Task
December
1986
A RESOURCE LIBRARY FOR PARAPSYCHOLOGICAL
LITERATURE AND RELATED DISCIPLINES
By:
G. SCOTT HUBBARD
SRI
International
RHEA A. WHITE
Parapsychology Sources of
Information Center
Prepared
for:
PETER
J. McNELIS, DSW
CONTRACTING OFFICER'S TECHNICAL REPRESENTATIVE
333
Ravenswood Avenue
Menlo
Park,
California
94025
U.S.A.
(415)
326-6200
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Final Report- -Objective
B,
Task
December
1986
Covering
the Period
October
1985
to 30 September
1986
A RESOURCE LIBRARY FOR PARAPSYCHOLOGICAL
LITERATURE AND RELATED DISCIPLINES
By:
G. SCOTT HUBBARD
SRI
International
RHEA A. WHITE
Parapsychology Sources
of
Information Center
Prepared
for:
PETER
J. McNELIS, DSW
CONTRACTING OFFICER'S TECHNICAL REPRESENTATIVE
i
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SRI
Project
1291
Approved by:
ROBERT S. LEONARD, Executive Director
Geoscience and Engineering Center
333
Ravenswood Avenue
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Menlo
Park,
California
94025
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U.S.A.
(415) 326-6200
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ABSTRACT
The organization and maintenance of an extensive data-base
facility for
parapsychological literature
is described.
During the
first year of a multi-year effort, the
Parapsychology Sources of Information Center (PSIC) purchased the necessary hardware and
software, and then implemented the
first working version of the data base.
In addition, the
PSIC has entered approximately 16 years of abstracts for each of the major parapsychological
journals—ending with the current issue.
The overall goal
is to eventually include abstracts of
bibliographic information of the entire literature of parapsychology in the data base.
Although
the core of the data base will consist of English-language parapsychological journals,
it will
also include books, chapters, dissertations and theses, separate reports, and conference
proceedings.
In addition, the data-base will include abstracts
(in English) of parapsychological
literature not originally written in English,
as well as articles on parapsychology in the journals
of other disciplines
(e.g., psychology, psychiatry, physics,
etc.).
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Approved For Release 2000/08/08 : CIA-RDP96-00789R002200090001-8 ABSTRACT A detailed and systematic investigation to determine (1) the effects of distance between remote action (RA) subjects and random number generators (RNG), and (2) the subjects’ performance utilizing RNGs based on fundamentally different sources of random noise is described. A subcontract was let to Syracuse University for this joint venture with SRI International. Because of unforeseen delays in the contracting processes, no experimental data were recorded as of September 30, 1986. However, all of the specialized hardware and software necessary to generate random numbers from a noise diode, B-decay source and a pseudorandom algorithm have been developed and debugged. In addition, the telecommunications data-link software has been written, and test data have been successfully transmitted between SRI and Syracuse. il Approved For Release 2000/08/08 : CIA-RDP96-00789R002200090001-8 ee
Approved For Release 2000/08/08 : CIA-RDP96-00789R002200090001 -8 = é Final Report--Objective E, Task 5 December 1986 20| AN RNG EXPERIMENT TO TEST THE EFFECTS OF SOURCE AND DISTANCE By: G. SCOTT HUBBARD SRI international EDWARD STORM Syracuse University Prepared for: PETER J. McNELIS, DSW CONTRACTING OFFICER’S TECHNICAL REPRESENTATIVE 333 Ravenswood Avenue Menlo Park, California 94025 U.S.A. (415) 326-6200 Cable: SR! INTL MPK TWX: 910-373-2046 oved For Release 2000/08/08 : CIA-RDP96-00789R002200090001 -8
Came For Release 2000/08/08 : CIA-RDP96-00789R002200090001-8 Oia C] S|? il internat Final Report--Objective E, Task § December 1986 Covering the Period 1 October 1985 to 30 September 1986 AN RNG EXPERIMENT TO TEST THE EFFECTS OF SOURCE AND DISTANCE By: G, SCOTT HUBBARD SRI International EDWARD STORM Syracuse University Prepared for: PETER J. McNELIS, DSW CONTRACTING OFFICER’S TECHNICAL REPRESENTATIVE SRI Project 1291 Approved by: ROBERT S. LEONARD, Executive Director Geoscience and Engineering Center 333 Ravenswood Avenue « Menlo Park, California 94025 - U.S.A. TL Approved FoMRelatis? 2006/08/08"! CHALRESP96T007 88RGI2206090001 -8
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Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00789R002200100001-6 III RESULTS AND DISCUSSION A. Individual Results Researchers from JFK, under subcontract from SRI, provided five participants for a series of RA experiments conducted at SRI under SRI supervision. Each participant was asked to influence one of a pair of PZT strain gauges, operating in differential mode, to produce an event above a predetermined threshold. The threshold was defined as a system output of 25 mV, where 4 mV is the normal system noise. Altogether, the five participants took part in 20 sessions, each lasting approximately 90 minutes and consisting of three effort and rest periods. The last eight sessions were conducted under Condition III, in which the sensor enclosure was located in a locked room adjacent to the participant’s area. At that point, the participant was approximately 3 meters from the pair of sensors. Under those conditions, one of the participants produced a total of 11 events above threshold. Those events, the largest of which was 33 mV, were in three separate efforts over two sessions on different days. Overall results for the five participants are shown below in Table 1. Because any given sessions might have trials conducted under differing conditions, we have displayed the results by trial period. TABLE 1 Trials Trials Trials Candidate Subject ID Condition I Condition H Condition ITI Events* 0 7 2 1 14 15 1 2 3 0 6 3 1 3 2 For an event to be considered, it must be over the threshold in Condition III, and not correlated with an acoustic signal. 17 Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00789R002200100001-6
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E,
Task 5
December 1986
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AN RNG EXPERIMENT TO TEST THE EFFECTS
OF SOURCE AND DISTANCE
By:
G, SCOTT HUBBARD
SRI
International
EDWARD STORM
Syracuse University
Prepared
for:
PETER
J. McNELIS, DSW
CONTRACTING OFFICER'S TECHNICAL REPRESENTATIVE
333
Ravenswood Avenue
Menlo
Park,
California
94025
U.S.A.
(415) 326-6200
Cable:
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INTL MPK
TWX:
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Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00789R002200100001-6 Appendix A STRAIN GAUGE REMOTE ACTION SCREENING DEVICE by Steven M. Ohriner 29 Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00789R002200100001-6
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RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
A.
Individual Results
Researchers from JFK, under subcontract from SRI, provided
five participants for a
series of RA experiments conducted at SRI under SRI supervision.
Each participant was
asked to influence one of a pair of PZT strain gauges, operating in differential mode, to
produce an event above
a predetermined threshold.
The threshold was defined as a system
output of 25 mV, where 4 mV
is the normal system noise.
Altogether, the
five participants
took part in 20 sessions, each lasting approximately 90 minutes and consisting of three
effort
and rest periods.
The last eight sessions were conducted under Condition
III,
in which the
sensor enclosure was located in a locked room adjacent to the participant’s area.
At that
point, the participant was approximately 3 meters from the pair of sensors.
Under those
conditions, one of the participants produced a total of 11 events above threshold.
Those
events, the largest of which was 33 mV, were in three separate efforts over two sessions on
different days.
Overall results for the
five participants are shown below in Table
1.
Because
any given sessions might have
trials conducted under differing conditions, we have displayed
the results by trial period.
TABLE
Subject ID
Trials
Condition
I
Trials
Condition
II
Trials
Condition
III
Candidate
Events*
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an event to be considered,
it must be over the threshold in Condition
III, and not correlated with an
acoustic signal.
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Approved For Release noone Gmnoresaneezz 80001-8 Table 4 (U) REMOTE VIEWING RESULTS FOR VIEWER 807 Overall p < 0.1895, n.s. (U) From the FM analysis performed for our FY 1984 experiment, we determined that by computing the p-value for each FM we could determine an average p for each viewer and for all sessions combined. The overall probability of obtaining that average p-value was then calculated, either by an exact method for small numbers of sessions’ or by using the central limit theorem for greater than 20 sessions.8 In the current analysis, an additional test of significance, the Fisher Chi-square technique,8 has been added to supplement the probability associated with average p-value for a given series. . Brhe overall p-values given for each viewer’ s series as shown in Tables 1 through 4 were calculated using the Fisher Chi-square technique. Averaging all p-values for all sessions yielded p(avg.) = 0.3437. Using the central-limit theorem, the probability associated with that average value is p < 0.004. Using the Fisher Chi-square method, a p-value of < 0.0036 was calculated for all 24 sessions, indicating good agreement between techniques. We observed that three out of the four viewers independently produced significant results. Such an outcome is an extremely rare event. If the probability of success is p <= 0.05, the binomial probability of obtaining three out of four successful results is p < 0.00048. These individual and overall remote viewing results are substantially better than were achieved in the FY 1984 study. 12 Approved For Release 2000/08/08 een
a a i Approved For Release 2000/08/08 : CIA-RDP96-00789R002200190001-7 VI ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The authors thank Dr. Jessica Utts for her assistance in conducting the statistical analysis and for reading the manuscript. 18 Approved For Release 2000/08/08 : CIA-RDP96-00789R002200190001-7
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1986
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AN EXPERIMENT TO EXAMINE THE POSSIBLE
EXISTENCE OF REMOTE ACTION EFFECTS IN
PIEZOELECTRIC STRAIN GAUGES
By:
G. SCOTT HUBBARD
SRI
International
JULIAN
D, ISAACS
John
F. Kennedy
University
Prepared
for:
PETER
J. McNELIS, DSW
CONTRACTING OFFICER'S TECHNICAL REPRESENTATIVE
333 Ravenswood Avenue
Menlo
Park,
California
94025
U.S.A.
(415)
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Final Report- -Objective
E,
Task 8
Covering the Period
October
1985
to 30 September
1986
December
1986
AN EXPERIMENT TO EXAMINE THE POSSIBLE
EXISTENCE OF REMOTE ACTION EFFECTS IN
PIEZOELECTRIC STRAIN GAUGES
By:
G. SCOTT HUBBARD
SRI
International
JULIAN
D. ISAACS
John
F. Kennedy
University
Prepared
for:
PETER
J. McNELIS, DSW
CONTRACTING OFFICER'S TECHNICAL REPRESENTATIVE
SRI
Project
1291
Approved by:
ROBERT
S. LEONARD, Executive Director
Geoscience and Engineering Center
333 Ravenswood Avenue
•
Menlo
Park,
California
94025
•
U.S.A.
(415) 326-6200
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Approved For Release 2000/08/08 : CIA-RDP96-00789R002200190001-7 REFERENCES 1. Humphrey, B..-S., May, E. C., Trask, V. V., and Thomson, M. J., “Remote Viewing Evaluation Techniques, ” Final Report, SRI Project 1291 SRI International, Menlo Park, California (October, 1986) 2. May, E. C., Humphrey, B. S., Mathews, C., and Puthoff, H. E., “Figure of Merit Analysis for Free Response Data,” Proceedings of the 28th Annual Convention of the Parapsychological Association, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, pp. 343-354, (August 12-16, 1985) 3. Hubbard, G. S., May, E. C. and Puthoff, H. E., “Possible Production of Photons During a Remote Viewing Task: Preliminary Results,” Proceedings of the 28th Annual Convention of the Parapsychological Association, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, pp. 355-372, (August 12-16, 1985) 4. Chinese Academy of Sciences, High Energy Institute, Special Physics Research Team, “Exceptional Human Body Radiation,” PSJ Research (June 16, 1982) 5. Yonjie, Zhao, and Hongzhang, Xu, “EHBF Radiation: Special Features of the Time Response,” Institute of High Energy Physics, Beijing, People’s Republic of China, PS/ Research (December 20, 1982) 6. Knoll, G. F., Radiation Detection and Measurement, John Wiley & Sons, New York (1979) 7 Mood, Graybill, and Boes, Introduction to Theory of Statistics, McGraw-Hill, New York (1973) 8. Rosenthal, R., Meta-Analytic Procedures for Social Research, Sage Publications, Beverly Hills, California (1984) 19 Approved For Release 2000/08/08 : CIA-RDP96-00789R002200190001-7
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the quality of the remote viewing and the output of the PMT and two apparent anomalies (high
count rate pulses) during RV periods.
In our discussion of the FY 1984 results, we pointed out
that
a
follow-on
experiment was
required,
which would remove
possible
sources
of
artifact,
reduce the PMT noise, and be conducted with more experienced viewers.
We addressed
all of
these areas in the present experiment.
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Approved For Release 2000/08/08 : CIA-RDP96-00789R002200130001-3 ABSTRACT In experimental studies of remote perception the analysis of the resulting data for accuracy and information content has utilized techniques based on rankings by judges and encodings of targets and responses with sets of descriptors. Geographical locations have frequently been used for targets, but there have been few studies which investigate what attributes of such material are preferentially conveyed or how such perceptions are represented. Elucidation of these questions might permit the construction of improved methods of judging remote perception experiments. The analogous problems in normal perception have been investigated by studying the structure of similarity measurements and is the method here applied to the remote perception case. In this pilot study subjects estimated the global similarity between pairs of photographs of geographic locations. The resulting matrix of similarity values was analyzed by multidimensional scaling to give and two and three dimensional representations of the psychological data. A method of estimating the deviation from chance expectation for such data is . developed. The results for the remote perception pilot study are compared with structures derived by ¢ , multidimensional scaling from a comparison study using the same targets normally perceived, The ° remote perception study shows no deviation from chance by the criterion developed here but the resulting two dimensional semantic structure shows parallels with that from the comparison study and gives weak " evidence for the existence of the underlying semantic dimensions of predominately man-made scenes versus predominately natural scenes and the presence versus the absence of land-water interfaces in the scenes. Approved For Release 2000/08/08 : CIA-RDP96-00789R002200130001-3
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-00789R002200310001-3 The sum of ranks for Viewer No. 372 is 50, with an associated p-value of 0.67, For Viewer No. 137, the sum is 56, with a p-value of 0.93. Since neither of these p-values is significant, it appears that there has been no information transfer in this experiment. Comparisons with previous work by these viewer’s would be superfluous, since there is no significant evidence of RV. - Approved For Release 2000/ P96-00789R002200310001-3
Approved For Release 2000/08/08 : CIA-RDP96-00789R002200130001-3 16. Ward, L.M. and Russell, J.A., "The Psychological Representation of Molar Physical Environments," The Journal of Experimental Psychology: General," Vol. 110, No. 2, pp. 121 - 152 (1981). 17. Ward, L.M., "Multidimensional Scaling of the Molar Physical Environment," Multivariate Behavioural Research, Vol. 12, pp. 23 - 42 (1977). 18. Wilkinson, Leland., SYSTAT: The System for Statistics., Evanston, IL: SYSTAT Inc. (1986). 19. ‘Young, F.W., "Nonmetric Multidimensional Scaling: Recovery of Metric Information," Psychometrika, Vol. 35, No. 4, pp. 455 - 473 (1970). 24 Approved For Release 2000/08/08 : CIA-RDP96-00789R002200130001-3