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Approved For Releaggy2001/03/26 : CIA-RDP96-00787g000200080008-6 | DIRECT PERCEPTION OF REMOTE GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATIONS ; Harold E, Puthoff and Russell. Targ Stanford Research Institute, Menlo Park, California 94025 ABSTRACT For the past five years we have been in- wostigating aspects of human perception that appear to fall outside. the range of well-under~ 3tood perceptual/processing capabilities, Of particular interest is a human information~ accessing capability that we call "remote sens-~ ing.'' This phenomenon pertains to the ability of certain individuals to access and describe, by means of mental processes, information sources blocked from ordinary perception (for example by distance or shielding) and believed to be secure against such access, In particu-~ lar, the phenomenon we have investigated most extensively is the ability of a subject to view remote geographical locations up to several thousand km distant from his physical location, given only a known person on whom to target, We have recently carried out coast-to-coast ex- periments using a computer network to interface with individuals whose remote perceptual abili- ties have been developed. sufficiently to allow ‘them to describe--often in great detaill--geo- graphical or technical material such as build- ings, roads, and natural formations, Our accumulated data indicate that both specially selected and unselected persons can be assisted in developing remote perceptual abilities up to a level of useful information transfer, Further, the extent of physical dis- tance separating the subject from the target site up to transcontinental distances does not appear to significantly affect the accuracy of the perception, ; INTRODUCTION In over 70 laboratory experiments that now include work with more than a dozen subjects, we have investigated an often-reported human perceptual ability that has heretofore not been widely investigated in the laboratory. This ability, brought to our attention by a subject, Mr, Ingo Swann, we term "remote sensing,” It is an ability by which human subjects perceive, and describe by word and drawing, distant Scenes and activities blocked from ordinary perception, In these experiments, subjects have been able to describe with equal accuracy scenes at both local sites (that is, within a few miles) and those at transcontinental dis- tances. As observed in the laboratory, the basic Phenomenon appears to cover a range of subjec- tive experiences variously referred to in the literature as autoscopy (in the medical liter- ature); exteriorization or disassociation i (psychological literature); simple clairvoy- ance, traveling clairvoyance, or out-of-body experience (parapsychological literature); or astral projection (occult literature), We choose the term "remote sensing’ as a neutral descriptive term free from prior associations and bias as to mechanisms, The need for «: supportive setting to over- come prevatling societal prejudices against such remote sensing has been provided within the confines of the Electronics and Bioengi- neering Laboratory and the Radio Physics Lab- oratory at Stanford Research Institute (SRI), Here, throughout our research spanning a five- year period, we have worked with new and un- trained subjects so as to avoid reliance on the availability of a very limited number of spe- cial subjects, Remote perceptual abilities in several individuals have now been developed sufficiently to allow them to describe--often in considerable detail--geographical or tech- nical material such as buildings, roads, and real-time activities, Since the initial publication of our in- vestigations of this remarkable phenomenon, ’ four successful replication experiments have peen performed in other laboratories across the country,*~ In addition, we have learned through private communications of several un- published studies of other successful experi- ments in paranormal functioning of this type. In this paper we describe the experimental protocol used to carry out the research and the formal judging procedure used to quantify the results, In addition, we detail recent experi- ments in coast-to-coast remote viewing that have yielded results similar to those obtained in the initial experiments using relatively local target sites. Finally, as a step toward achieving our research aim of using the experi- mental data base to deduce relevant physical principles and laws governing paranormal or psi functioning, we examine some physical models potentially applicable to remote perception, EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH Description of the Protocol (Local 'Targets) The general protocol is to closet a sub- ject with an experimenter at SRI and at a pre- arranged time to obtain from the subject a de- scription of an undisclosed, remote site being visited by a target team. 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