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Remote 'perceptions sometimes include sounds as well as sights.
For example,
one subject described a squeaky triangular black swing in a
playground as a "black iron triangle bigger than a man, " and reported hearing
a "squeak,
squeak about once a second. "
The ability of subjects
to accurately describe remote scenes appeared
to be independent of distance and electrical shielding.
Distances between
subject and scene varied from a few meters up to 4000 kilometers (about 2480
miles).
Subjects were tested while sitting both inside and outside of a i araday
ca ge - -an electrically screened room that blocks the passage of radio waves
over most of the spectrum.
The article states that subjects commonly reported per ceivin g the object
or scene
as
if they were close to
it.
It also notes that they could
shift their
point of view so as to perceive elements that would not be visible to an observer
standing at ground level.
For example,
one subject described and drew a belt drive on top of a
drill press and out of sight of someone operating the machine.
Another subject described items hidden by shrubbery from onlookers
at the
site.
The researchers carried out an original successful series
of experiments
followed up with five additional verification series using different subjects.
The total number of experiments
added up to
51.
A member
of SRI management not otherwise connected with the experi-
ments supervised the selection of target locations for each series
of experiments,
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keeping each target in an individually sealed envelope
in his
office sale.
When an experiment was
to be performed,
one of the sealed envelopes
was selected by a random procedure and handed,
still sealed,
to the experi-
menter who was
to visit the
site.
The latter then proceeded directly to the
site accompanied by a team of observers.
Meanwhile,
the other experimenter, who remained ignorant of the
site,
was closeted with the subject
in the laboratory for the entire experimental
period,
beginning before the outbound experimenter received his travel orders
and ending after the travel, team had returned to the Institute.
While the team was
at the
site,
the subject focused on the outbound
experimenter and his location, .describing elements
of the scene and making
any drawings he wished while the experimenter who was closeted with him tape
recorded his comments.
When all the experiments
in a given series had been completed,
the
typed but unedited transcripts
of the subjects' tape recordings,
together with
associated drawings
if any> were handed,
uhlabelcd and
in random order,
to
independent judges.
The judges --all members
of the SRI professional staff not otherwise
connecter! with the experiments - -were asked to match the
t ranscripts
to
the
sites.
Even under a very conservative statistical procedure,
the results of
five of the six studies were significantly better than would be expected by chance
alone.
Three of the studies differed from chance expectations by odds of
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1000 to
1 or better,
one by odds of half a million to one.
In one study involving only visiting government scientists,
the odds
were 60 to
1.
Even the single study that was not statistically
significant contained
individual descriptions and drawings that bore a striking resemblance to objects
at the
site.
The researchers point out that while the information channel that
couples events remote from the viewer
is not yet understood,
its existence
is not inconsistent with modern scientific thought.
In fact,
they note, modern
physics and neurophysiology provide powerful techniques that can be used to
study the nature of this channel.
"We therefore consider
it important, " they state
in the article,
"to
continue data collection and to encourage others
to do likewise.
Investigations
such as those reported here need replication and extension under as wide a
variety of rigorously controlled conditions as possible. "
SRI is an independent,
nonprofit organization that performs contract
research for worldwide clients
in business,
industry and government.
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