Final Report
Covering
the Period
1 May
1987
to April 1988
April
1988
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AN APPLICATION ORIENTED
EXPERIMENT
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REMOTE VIEWING
SRI
Project 8339
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LIST OF FIGURES (U)
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Part of the 0800 Response Compared With the West Gate of LLNL
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Part of the 0800 Response Compared with a Map of the Livermore Area
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LIST OF TABLES (U)
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Universe of Target/Response Elements
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OBJECTIVE (U)
The objectives of
this experiment were
to:
Demonstrate
the potential
of a
novel..
technique,
known as remote
viewing.
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Determine
the degree
to which a specific analysis technique
is applicable.
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II BACKGROUND (U)
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Since
1972,
SRI
International
has been
investigating remote
viewing
(RV)—an
apparent human ability to gain access, by mental means alone, to information that is secured by
shielding,
distance,
or time. 1-5 *
At
least
three
elements
are necessary
to conduct an RV
experiment:
(1)
An individual,
called a viewer, with an RV ability,
(2)
Specific
target
material
(not
available
to
the
viewer
at
the
time
of
the
experiment), and
(3)
An analysis technique to determine the degree to which RV occurred.
In a typical protocol, a viewer and a monitor—an interviewer who
is also unaware of the target
material
are sequestered at time Tq.
At Tq + 5 minutes, an assistant selects the intended target
by accessing a large pool of potential targets
(e.g., a
list of locations within a half-hour drive from
the laboratory) using a random procedure.
At T0 + 30 minutes, the assistant
is positioned at the
selected
site and, back at the laboratory, the viewing begins.
At T0 + 45 minutes, the viewing
ends and the assistant returns to the laboratory. To provide feedback, the viewer, monitor, and
the assistant, return to the selected
site and review the RV data.
(U) To determine
if RV occurred, a number of similar experiments are conducted using a
newly selected target for each
trial.
Usually, the
trials are done with target replacement
(i.e.,
each target
is returned to the pool and may be selected again by the random process).
Since
1972, many procedures
have
been
developed
to
determine
whether
information
has been
obtained beyond chance expectation. 8 ' 8
In the current method, 9 the targets and responses are
described as fuzzy sets of descriptor elements
(e.g., water
is present).
An RV figure of merit
is
related to the normalized intersection of the target set and the response
set.
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l When RV
is applied \
^ the analysis
procedures vary considerably.
In laboratory experiments,
much
is known
about
the target,
but
in
£
applications very
little target
information
is
known.
Thus,
the analysis
technique must
be modified
in
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References may be found
at the end of this report.
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order
to assess
the
"correct" RV response elements before confirming
evidence can be obtained.
) We were asked [
conducted during May,
1987
\to participate
in an experiment
C
of Lawrence Livermore National
’
Laboratory
'using the advanced test accelerator
(ATA)
.
The primary
objectives were
to demonstrate
,
remote viewing
\
and
to apply fuzzy set technology
in the analysis
of
the
data.
SRI's activity occurred over a 24-hour period beginning at
0800 on May
7,
1987.
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