Approved For Release 200UDRR TE ALERODI6-00788R001300100001-7 yr = 0.68 (see following graph). The numerical probability of this corre- lation this high or higher occurring by chance between “uncorrelated” data over the same range of values, is less than one in ten thousand “Fy (p=5%X10-), This important result shows that the rating technique used extensively by the client organization to evaluate transcripts and viewer performance is very well correlated with objective blind matching normally used in psychology to evaluate free response data. ACTUAL REGRESSION CURVE; CORRELATION r = 0.68 FOR 24 PAIRS JUDGES RANKING SUBJECTIVE ASSESSMENT UNCLASSIFIED COMPARISON OF BLIND JUDGING AND SUBJECTIVE ASSESSMENTS (U) 295 SECRET Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001300100001-7
Approved For Release 2000/08 OE eek DP96-00788R001300100001-7 The data are given bclow: Viewer No, 155 Normalized Blind Subjective Target Judging Rating Valombrosa 6 4 Logo 6 6 Museum 4 3 Plaza 1 1 Fire Circle 5 3 Overpass 4 3 Viewer No, 292 Normalized Blind Subjective Target Judging Rating Motel 6 6 Wallbangers 4 2 Court yard 3 3 Shielded Room 5 6 Airport 1 0 Theatre 2 1 Viewer No, 372 Normalized Blind Sub jective Targct Judging Rating Museum 2 2 Baylands 1 1 Cemetery 2 2 Jungle Gym 1 1 Salt Pile 1 3 Brickyard 1 3 26 SECRET Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001300100001-7
Approved For Release 2000/08 Bak DP 96-00788R001300100001-7 Viewer No. 690 ' Normalized Blind Subjective Target Judging Rating Arch 1 2 Shielded Room 1 1 Cemetery 1 4 Library 5 6 Auto Showroom 1 2 Church 1 2 D. Remote Viewing of 35mm Slides The purpose of this series of trials was to determine whether a remote viewer could describe the contents of a 35mm slide of a target site with the same accuracy as he describes an actual target site, The protocol was as follows. The remote viewer was located alone in the third floor laboratory of the Radio Physics Building, and asked to describe the contents of slides projected within an office trailer ina parking lot 300 ft away. The target slides for these trials were photo- graphs of the 60 San Francisco Bay Area sites used in our ordinary remote viewing trials, The use of this particular target pool allows us to compare the quality of the descriptions that are elicited in trials with the slides as compared with those involving the actual outdoor targets. A trial series consists of six slides, and the viewer is given feedback after each individual trial, before the start of the next. (This is done to avoid displacement, known to occur in parapsychological experiments where trial-by-trial-feedback is not provided, in which a viewer might tend to describe a target slide from clsewhere in the series, rather than the one just projected, ) 27 SECRET Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001300100001-7
Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001300100001-7 SECRE- The viewer is monitored via a onc-way open intercom connected to the room in the trailer in which the slide is being shown to the serics monitor.” The session is tape recorded at the latter end of the link. To begin, the monitor selected by random number generator, a slide after the viewer announces that he is ready. No feedback is provided to the viewer until the viewer has indicated that he is finished and the monitor has gone to the room in which the viewer has been working and collects his drawings. A session typically lasts about fifteen minutes, 1. Viewer No, 372 The first series of six trials was carried out by Viewer 372 during his second two-week period at SRI, The six target slides were of the following targets: (1) Alta Mesa Cemetery (2) Ultra-modern Dome Ilouse (3) Pedestrian Overpass (4) Mount Alverno Conference Center (5) Redwood City Cross (6) Stanford Shopping Center Pavillion. Our subjective post hoc impression was that four of the six descriptions were good matches to the target slides. The results were formally evaluated by a blind judge using the concept analysis techniques being applied to the outdoor target serics. As per standard procedure the transcript/drawing response packages and target material (slides) were turned over to the judge, cach in a separate random order different from the order of target usage, Again, the transcripts A second intercom to the subject can be activated by the monitor by a punch-to-talik switch in the trailer, 28 Approved For Release 20007 SRE RDP 96-00788R001300100001-7
Approved For Release 2 eR 28-00788R001300700001-7 were edited only to the point of deleting information which could provide artifactual cues to the judge, such as references to other targets or temporal order. (Only five of the target/transcript pairs were submitted for judging, since the judge had been exposed to one of the results [target 4] presented at a bricfing as an example of excellent slide viewing.) The judge was asked to blind rank order, on a scale 1 to 5, best to worst match, each of the transcripts againsg each of the targets, generating a 5 X 5 matrix of the five target/transcript pairings, three were directly matched, one was matched second place, one third. The direct-count-of-permutations analysis of the matrix yielded a result sig- nificant at p = 2/120 = 0,017. Three of the drawings and slide targets for this viewer are shown here as Figures 1 through 3. We conclude from these results that viewers can describe target slides, and from the content of the transcripts it appears that they are describing the slides as projected, not the overall target location, 2. Viewer No. 518 A similar serics of six trials was conducted with Viewer 518, His six target slides were: (1) Laundromat interior (2) Varsity Theatre arcade (3) White victorian house (4) Sylvania dome building (5) Glass Slipper Motel (6) A locomotive slide in a playground, The viewer made what we consider to be three excellent sets of drawings to correspond with the Victorian, the Motel, and the Theatre targets, 29 SPCRE- Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001300100001-7
Approved For Release aNICLA SCHEER ek" 300100001-7 UNCLASSIFIED FIGURE 1 STANFORD SHOPPING CENTER--TARGET, AND VIEWER 372 DRAWING (UV) 30 UNCLASSIFIED Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001300100001-7
Approved For Release apy CIA BRE -00788R001300100001-7 UNCLASSIFIED FIGURE 2. MOUNT ALVERNO CONFERENCE CENTER, AND VIEWER 372 DRAWING (U) 31 UNCLASSIFIED Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001300100001-7
Approved For nenease UNELA COTA EBD eR" 300100001-7 ei ae EO gait i “0 & AE - “pons oenIen) ey SP iouwn Sived: / —_ cance Croce es FIGURE . 3 ULTRA MODERN DOME HOUSE--TARGET, AND VIEWER 372 DRAWING ({U) UNCLASSIFIED 32 UNCLASSIFIED Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001300100001-7
Approved For Release 2000/06 REA RDP96-00788R001300100001-7 These three drawing/target pairs are shown here in Figures 4 through 6, The correspondences for the remaining three were of lesser quality, although still containing many correct elements, Our final evaluation will have to await formal judging. We note in passing that this vicwer produced more coherent transcripts and drawings in this series than he did for the outdoor targets. It appears from the data thus far that remote viewers can per- ceive the contents of projected slides, Furthermore, they appear to describe the slides themselves, rather than the geographical locations corresponding to the slides, Finally, it appears that because of the more limited focus of content presented by the slide, a viewer has an easicr time providing data that is associated with what is defined to be the target, E. Remote Viewing of Alphabet Letters The purpose of this study was to determine whether an isolated remote viewer could learn to discriminate between and identify alphabet letters. The percipient, Viewer 372, was located in the third floor laboratory of the Radio Physics Building at SRI, while the experimenters and the target materials were in an office trailer in a nearby parking lot (as in the slide series). The protocol in all twelve trials in this serics was for the viewer to identify a randomly chosen three-letter word exposed to view in the target room, The targets used in this serics were red block letters eight inches high, cemented to white cardboard, The three letters making up each word were placed on the chalk tray of the target room blackboard Twelve trials were carried out. A satisfactory protocol was developed only by the third trial, so the first two must be considered exploratory, In trial 1, the target word was randomly chosen from a group of ten 33 SECREF Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001300100001-7
Approved For Release 2PPRPE TASS REPEL 7 88R001300100001-7 UNCLASSIFIED FIGURE -4 VARSITY THEATRE ARCADE--TARGET, AND VIEWER 518 DRAWING (U) 34. UNCLASSIFIED Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001300100001-7
Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001300100001-7 UNCLASSIFIED UNCLASSIFIED FIGURE 5 VICTORIAN HOUSE--TARGET, AND VIEWER 518 DRAWING (U) 35 UNCLASSIFIED Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001300100001-7
Approved For Release 29g yaHOY aCurcrBA AG q078ER001300100001-7 2IYLFI apt e | ao HE UNCLASSIFIED FIGURE . 6 GLASS SLIPPER MOTEL--TARGET, AND VIEWER 518 DRAWING (U) 36 UNCLASSIFIED Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001300100001-7
Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001300100001-7 SECREF previously prepared words placed in opaque cnvelopes. In all other trials the target word was chosen by random entry into a 1700 page college dictionary (selecting the first three-letter word on the page) using a Texas Instruments SR-51 random number gencrator, In trials 1 and 2, the viewer was given feedback after each letter, In both of these trials he failed to name the first letter, but after being told the first letter G for GUN and V for VAT, he was able to confidently and correctly name the following two letters in quick succession, In trials 3 through 12 feedback was given only after all three lctters were named, to counter- measure analysis stratogics, The letters were displayed one at a time, and the viewer would give his impressions of cach in turn, After each description, that letter would be removed, and the viewer would be informed that the next letter was in place. Except for trial 5, the letters were always presented in their order of occurrence in the word. (In trial 5 it had been decided in advance to display the letters in random order, to discourage end-word guessing. This turned out to be unsatisfactory, however, apparently producing confusion for the viewer, who named all three letters correctly, but had them in the wrong order. He then couldn't think of a word, and changed two of the letters.) Of the nine 3-letter words presented in a consistent manner (3, 4, 6-12), the viewer was correct in 6 of his letter assignments (i.c., of the 27 letters presentcd, 6 were identified, a significant departure from chance expectation, F, Extended Remote Viewing (ERV) 1, Background One of the program remote viewers (518) stated that over the past few years he had on occasion experienced spontancous extended remote 37 SECRET Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001300100001-7
Approved For Release 2 ERS OO BEROOTSOOTONNON-T 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 investigating the phenomenon, with the goal of determining whether the content of such ERV experiences was verifiable and, further, of superior quality to that obtained in the ordinary RV protocol. 2. Pilot Effort An initial single-trial pilot effort in ERV was carricd out during Remote Viewer 518's first stay 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) 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 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, ERV (extended remote viewing) is here defined as an exercise in remote viewing for an extended period of time, gencrally lasting for more than an hour. Furthermore, an cffort 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. 38 SEEREF Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001300100001-7
Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001300100001-7 “SPeREet- For the first four trials the targets were chosen by the SSO of an SRI SI/SAO facility, and placed on display on a conference room table in that facility. (The SSO is not otherwise associated with the SRI psychoenergctics program.) For the first trial the remote viewer was asked to describe the facility as well as the target object; for the remaining three trials just the target object. 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, ae Trial One The target object for Trial One was a copper ewer (pitcher) placed on a dark brown wood-grained table (see Figure 7). The remote viewer sketched an object which evolved into a table-lamp base, finally topped by a lampshade, The description of the facility rendered by the remote viewer had many matching elements, especially if one considers that the remote viewer combined the two primary rooms into one; because of this, however, the description is ambigious and can't be taken as evidential. b. Trial Two The target object for Trial Two was a metal food mill with red handle shown in Figure 8. In response the remote viewer 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, 39 Approved For Release 2000/08 oe eR RDP96-00788R001300100001-7
Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001300100001-7 UNCLASSIFIED 40 UNCLASSIFIED Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001300100001-7 UNCLASSIFIED COPPER PITCHER AND VIEWER NO. 518 ERV RESPONSE (U) FIGURE 7
Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001300100001-7 UNCLASSIFIED (U) FOOD MILL TARGET AND VIEWER NO. 518 ERV RESPONSE FIGURE 8 UNCLASSIFIED 41 UNCLASSIFIED Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001300100001-7
Approved For Release 2000/08 Gare aR DROS -00788R001300100001-7 Cc. Trial Three The target for Trial Three was a straw hat with curled up brim and dimpled top (Figure 9). The remote viewer's response is shown in the same figure. d, Trial Four Target four was a photographic tripod (Figure 10). The remote viewer's response, shown in the same figure, consisted essentially of a silver teapot-like object sitting on a tripod. @. Trial Five Following the first four trials, the monitor and remote viewer agreed that the target location for the remaining two trials should be elsewhere than the now-familiar SI/SAO facility. Several alternative locations were discussed, with the final decision to be made by the monitor, The monitor chose the roof of the Radio Physics Laboratory. Due to an error in timing, the remote viewer began the fifth session without having met with the monitor to be informed as to which of the discussed alterna- tive locations was to be used, In the absence of this communication there was no overtly agreed-upon target location. Nonetheless, we observe post hoc that the remote viewer experienced an outside brightly-lit gravel- based areca, and provided a response which resembled the intended target area (see Figure 11). Because of the ambiguity of target location, however, this result was not included in the package of results to be blind judged. f, Trial Six The target chosen for the final trial was a world globe (Figure 12), In response the remote viewer drow a sphere mounted on a stand, but did not cognize the map aspect, 42 SECRET Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001300100001-7
Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001300100001-7 UNCLASSIFIED .& w Ad yor aut one ay Taw Pe ow wan ? tam get Aad ow fitter UNCLASSIFIED 43 UNCLASSIFIED Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001300100001-7 TRIPOD TARGET AND VIEWER NO. 518 ERV RESPONSE (U) FIGURE 9
Approved For Release 2000/08/07 _: CIA-RDP96-00788R001300100001-7 4, Discussion For an assessment as to the quality of remote viewing obtaincd in the ERV series, the results were submitted to two independent analysts for blind judging. The judging packct submitted to the analysts consisted of the remote viewer drawings, and target photographs, each in their own random order different from the order of target usage. The analysts were instructed to blind rank order, on a scale 1-5 (best to worst match), each of the five drawing packets against each of the five target photographs. One analyst obtained three direct matches, one second-place, and one fourth place match; the other: one direct match, three second- place, and one fourth place match, The difference between the two was a pair of responses that were essentially indistinguishable with regard to a particular pair of targets (food mill and hat). The matrices were analyzed using the direct-count-of-permutations method discussed earlier, One of the two judges results reached statistical significance at the p = 0,05 level, With regard to a comparison between ERV and the ordinary RV process, the data obtained is roughly of the same quality as that of ordinary RV.” There was therefore, no apparent advantage in committing the greater time period for the ERV process. By report of the RVer, however, the subjectively more intense ERV state was never fully achieved in this series, and therefore no definitive comparison between RV and ERV is possible at this point. We therefore recommend further effort along this line to ascertain the full potential of the ERV process, * See, e.g., the technology serics in H, Puthoff and R. Targ, "A Perceptual Channel for Information Transfer Over Kilometer Distances," Proc, IEEE 64, pp. 329-354 (March 1976), AT “SECREL Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001300100001-7
Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001300100001-7 G. Coordinate Remote Viewing (CRV) with Immediate Feedback Of special interest for operational applications is a particular form of RV known as coordinate remote viewing (CRV). CRV is a procedure whereby the RVer accesses the target location on the basis of an abstract locator such as geographical coordinates. As inexplicable as such a phenomenon might seem, we appeal simply to pragmatism in that it appears to work, It has been shown that good results can be obtained even with the use of special arbitrarily-constructed coordinate systems; the CRV phenomenon thus appears to provide yet another example of "goal orientation” in psychocnergetic phenomena, rather than being particularly related to coordinate systems per sc, An orientation program for CRV has been designed at SRI, and is being applied with success with RVers inexperienced in CRV. The details are as follows, A target pool of more than 100 geographical sites from around the globe has been prepared and is being continually expanded, The locations are chosen to embody some particular well-defined characteristic (e.g., mountains, oceans, deserts, lakes, cities, islands, rivers). The coordi- nates of these locations, obtained from standard reference atlases," are each written on one side of a 3" X 5" file card, on the other side of which is a descriptor (c.g., Mt, Hekla volcano, Iceland) along with an atlas reference. The cards are then placed in envelopes, coordinates facing the back, and randomized. * R. Targ, H. Puthoff, B. Humphrey, and C, Tart, "Investigations of Target Acquisition,'' Research in Parapsychology 1979, Scarecrow Press, Metuchen, N.J. (In press), t The Times Atlas of the World, Houghton Miflin Co., Boston, 1971, Peoplic's Republic of China Atlas, U.S. Gov't. Printing Office, 1971. 48 SEEREE— Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001300100001-7
Approved For Release 2000/08/07.. ClA,.RDP96-00788R001300100001-7 The CRV oricntation procedure is as follows, (1) RVer and facilitator seat themselves at opposite ends of a table in a quiet environment, the former with a supply of paper and a pen, the latter with target envelopes (contents unknown) and the reference atlases. (2) The CRVer\is instructed that the facilitator will begin the CRV process by selecting an envelope and reading aloud the target coordinates, The CRVer is to note down on paper any immediate impressions (which he may also express aloud) and then, rather than embellishing on his first impressions, to ask for the coordinatcs to be read aloud again so that the original process may be repeated, ctc., until a coherent picture of the site emerges. (3) Following these instructions, the facilitator sclects an envelope at random, opens it from the rear so as to be exposed to the coordinates only, and then begins the process described above, (4) After one or more repetitions of the coordinates (each followed by a CRV response) leads to a recognizablic target characteristic, the card is turned over by the facilitator, and the atlas consulted (if necessary) in order to give feedback, A line is drawn on the CRVer's data sheet to separate the data generated thus from further data, since up to this point the data were generated in a double~blind protocol and can be objectively evaluated later as a test of target acquisition. (5) Having terminated the target acquisition "test" phase, feedback can now be given and/or further data solicited, The feedback given at this point is nonnegative, ranging from "that's the target" through "near the target" to "you are at another target" (giving the CRVer the benefit of the doubt). The facilitator then has the option of terminating the viewing, asking for more detail ("there's something ten miles north that should be visible") or restarting the process when the viewer's original descrip- tion did not correspond to the target site, In the latter case the facilitator can, of course, guide or cuc the CRVcr into a correct response, but (a) this is acceptable in the nontest part of the sequence, (b) this can be checked for by asking for detail in the surrounding region, and 49 SECRL.. Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001300100001-7
Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001300100001-7 (c) provides an opportunity to investigate whether such cueing procedures can be useful in operationally- oriented applications (ce.g., guiding the CRVer onto the target site with cues "a," "b," ... “f£," and then as tt asking for "g"), RVer 518 was exposed to this protocol, a few targets per session, over a several-day period, resulting in a data pool of 26 CRV target viewings. They were: Salt Lake Desert, Utah; Lake Erie; Chicago; Mono Lake; Aruba Island; Lake Okeechobee; Yount's Peak, Wyoming; Pitcairn Island; Pike's Peak; Los Angeles; Atlantic Occan; Rio de Janeiro; Kansas plains, St. Peter and Paul Islands; Randall Dan, South Dakota; Lake Titicaca; Cape May; Niagra Falis; Munich; Amazon River; Midwestern plains; Venezuelan Peninsula; Sierra Blanca Mountain; Oregon Desert; Panama Canal; Puerto Rico, Following the first pilot session of five, in which essentially immediate feedback was given, the remaining twenty-one were carried out with delayed feedback and thus provided material which could be assessed objectively. Categorizing the targets into five groups (mountains, flats, water, cities, islands/peninsulas, the target/response matrix (before feedback) is as shown in Table 3, The probability of such an alignment occurring by chance alone can be calculated by the direct-count-of- permutations method discussed earlier and leads to p = 0.0083. The distribution of responses is therefore statistically significant, Further- more, beyond simple statistics, certain individual responses were exccp- tionally accurate during the acquisition “test' phase, e.g., a good drawing of an island (the target was Puerto Rico) and indication that coordinates given were at the southeast shoreline (correct). 50 SECRET Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001300100001-7
Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001300100001-7 SECRET Table 3 DISTRIBUTION OF TARGET/RESPONSE MATCHINGS Islands / Targets Mountains | Flats] Water] Cities] Peninsulas | 0 0 0 Mountains Flats Water Citics Islands/Peninsulas 51 Approved For Release 200d : SF p96-00788R001300100001-7