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Final Report- -Objective
E,
Task
December
1987
Covering
the Period
October
1985
to 30 September
1987
POSSIBLE PHOTON PRODUCTION DURING
A REMOTE VIEWING TASK:
A REPLICATION EXPERIMENT
By:
G. SCOTT HUBBARD
EDWIN
C. MAY
THANE
J. FRIVOLD
Prepared
for:
PETER
J. McNELIS,
D'SW
CONTRACTING OFFICER’S TECHNICAL REPRESENTATIVE
SRI
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J. BARON, Director
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ABSTRACT
Attempting
to verify
a claim by
the Chinese
that
light
is
the vicinity
of correctly identified remote viewing
(RV)
target
material,
we repeated
an experiment
first published
in FY 1984
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that
earlier experiment,
a state-of-the-art,
ambient
temperature,
photon
counting system was used
to monitor
the target material
(35-mm slides
of
National Geographic Magazine photographs).
The statistical measure derived
from
the photon counting apparatus
in
that
study showed
a significant
positive correlation with the RV results
(p < 0.035).
That
is,
when
the
remote viewing was
good,
there was
an
increase
in the signal detected by
the photon counting system.
in addition,
we observed two anomalous pulses
having
a signal-to-noise ratio of about
20:1
to 40:1.
in
the present
experiment
(FY 1987),
we
improved all hardware aspects of
the previous
work,
substantially reducing
the background noise
level
and
improving
shielding against
artifact.
In addition,
analysis
of
the remote viewing
indicates
that
three
out
of
the
four viewers produced
independently
significant
results.
Our analysis
of the photomultiplier
tube
(PMT)
data
shows
no evidence of any anomalous high count rate pulses,
no evidence of
any effect
on
the PMT output during
the RV session,
and no evidence
of any
significant correlation between RV performance and PMT output.
We conclude
that
(1)
the effect proposed by
the Chinese
is artifactual
in nature.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
ABSTRACT
.
LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES
I
INTRODUCTION
II
METHOD OF APPROACH
A.
Hypotheses and Variables
B.
PMT Hardware
C.
Signal Processing
D.
Experimental Methodology
E.
Control Sessions
F.
PMT Data
III
RESULTS
A.
Remote Viewing Results
B.
PMT/RV Correlation Results
IV
DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS
A.
PMT Anomalies
B.
RV/PMT Output Correlations
V
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
REFERENCES
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LIST OF TABLES
1.
Remote Viewing Results
for Viewer 009
ID
2.
Remote Viewing Results for Viewer 105
3.
Remote Viewing Results
for Viewer 177
4.
Remote Viewing Results for Viewer 807
FIGURE
Schematic Diagram for the Photon Production Experiment
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IV
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I INTRODUCTION
We have conducted an experiment to determine whether there may be detectable
physical effects that can be correlated with remote viewing.*
A remote viewing (RV) experiment consists of four basic elements:
•
A target consisting of outdoor scenes, including natural and manmade features.
For
convenience,
experimental
targets
are
pictures
taken
from
National
Geographic Magazine.
•
An individual who intends to describe the target.
• A feedback procedure that displays the target.
•
An a priori
defined
analysis procedure
to determine
if
the
target has been
accurately described.
A
single
trial that encompasses these elements might proceed
as
follows.
Using
a
random number generator, one target
is chosen from a pool of 112, and the viewer
is asked to
describe
it without seeing it.
After the session, the target photograph is displayed to the viewer as
feedback.
The
description
is analyzed using a Figure of Merit (FM)
technique
to provide
a
statistically meaningful evaluation.
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The experiment described in this report
is a follow-on to an FY 1984 program that
investigated possible photon production during a remote viewing task. 3
In the FY 1984 program,
we conducted a conceptual replication of work published by the People’s Republic of China. The
Chinese
claimed
that
anomalous
high
rate
signals
from
a
photomultiplier
tube
(PMT)
are
observed
during
sessions
in
which
an
RV-like
ability known
as
“exceptional
vision”
was
successfully employed to identify Chinese language characters concealed in the PMT housing. 4
, 5
Specifically, we
experimentally examined the
possibility
that
light
is emitted
in the
vicinity of
correctly identified remote viewing target material.
During the 1984 study, four viewers were asked to contribute six viewings each.
The
targets were 35-mm slides of National Geographic pictures of outdoor scenes concealed within a
PMT housing.
Our experiments produced a significant positive correlation
(p < 0.035) between
This report constitutes the deliverable for FY 1986, Objective E, Task
1,
detailing an
experiment to determine fundamental parameters of feedback, shielding and limits of spatial
,
resolution for RV.
References are
listed at the end of this report.
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