Approved For Release 2002/05/17 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000500020001-6 photograph of the associated bicycle shed target are shown in Figure 5. (Subjects are encouraged to make drawings of anything they visualize and associate with the remote location because drawings they make are in gen- eral more accurate than their verbal description.) As in the original series with Price, the results of the nine- experiment series were submitted for independent judging on a blind basis by an SRI research analyst not otherwise associated with the research, While at each target location, visited in turn, the judge was required to blind rank order the nine unedited typed manuscripts of the tape-recorded narratives, along with any associated drawings generated by the remote viewer, on a scale 1 to 9 (best to worst match). The sum of ranks as- signed to the target-associated transcripts in this case was 13, a result significant at p = 1.8 x 107° by exact calculation (see Table 1 and dis- cussion), and included five direct hits and four second ranks (Table 3). Again, as a backup judging procedure, a panel of five additional judges not otherwise associated with the research were asked simply to blind match the unedited typed transcripts and associated drawings generated by the remote viewer, against the nine target locations which they independently visited in turn. A correct match consisted of a tran- script of a given date being matched to the target of that date. Instead of the expected number of 1 match each per judge, the number of correct matches obtained by the five judges was 5, 3, 3, 2, and 2, respectively. Thus, rather than the expected total number of 5 correct matches from the judges, 15 such matches were obtained. 37 Approved For Release 2002/05/17 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000500020001-6
Approved For Release 2002/05/17 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000500020001-6 ft 171 TTT Tee BICYCLE SHED TARGET SA-3183-19 FIGURE 5. SUBJECT HAMMID (S4) RESPONSE TO BICYCLE SHED TARGET DESCRIBED AS AN OPEN “BARN-LIKE BUILDING” WITH “SLATS ON THE SIDES” AND A “PITCHED ROOF” 38 Approved For Release 2002/05/17 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000500020001-6
Approved For Release 2002/05/17 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000500020001-6 TABLE 3 Distribution of Rankings Assigned to Transcripts Associated with Each Target Location for Learner Subject Hammid (S4) Rank of Distance Associated Target Location Transcript Methodist Church, Palo Alto Ness Auditorium, Menlo Park Merry-go-round, Palo Alto Parking garage, Mountain View SRI International Courtyard, Menlo Park Bicycle shed, Menlo Park Railroad trestle bridge, Palo Alto Pumpkin patch, Menlo Park Pedestrian overpass, Palo Alto Total sum of ranks (p=1.8x10-° ) 39 Approved For Release 2002/05/17 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000500020001-6
Approved For Release 2002/05/17 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000500020001-6 Cc. Subjects S2 and S3: Experienced Having completed a series of 18 remote-viewing experiments, 9 each with experienced subject S1 (Price) and learner $4 (Hammid), additional replica- tion experiments, four with each subject, were carried out with experienced subjects S2 (Elgin) and S3 (Swann) and learners $5 and $6. To place the judging on a basis comparable to that used with $1 and S4, the four tran- scripts each of experienced subjects S2 and S3 were combined into a group of eight for rank order judging to be compared with the similarly combined results of the learners $5 and S6. The series with $2 (Elgin, an SRI research analyst) provided a further example of the dichotomy between verbal and drawing responses. (As with medical literature, case histories often are more illuminating than the summary of results.) The experiment described here was the third conducted with this subject. It was a demonstration experiment for a government visitor who had heard of our work and wanted to evaluate our experimental protocol, In the laboratory, the subject, holding a bearing compass at arm's length, began the experiment by indicating the direction of the target demarcation team correctly to within five degrees. (In all four experi- ments with this subject, he has always been within ten degrees of the 40 Approved For Release 2002/05/17 : CIA-RDP96-00787R000500020001-6