STANFORD RESEARCH INSTITUTE
Menlo Park, California 94025
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U.S.A.
Final
Report
Covering
the Period January
1974 through February 1975
PERCEPTUAL AUGMENTATION TECHNIQUES
Part
One— Executive Summary
By:
Harold
E.
Puthoff
and Russell Targ
Electronics
and
Bioengineering Laboratory
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Director
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and Bioengineering Laboratory
Bonnar
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Executive Director
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OBJECTIVE
The
goal
of
this program was
to determine
the
extent
to which certain
individuals
obtain accurate information about
their environment under con-
ditions
thought
to
be secure against
such access
and without
the use
of
known human perceptual modalities.
The program was divided
into
two categories
of approximately equal
effort— applied research and basic research.
The applied research effort
explored
the operational utility of the above perceptual abilities.
The
basic research effort was directed
toward identification of
the charac-
teristics
of
individuals possessing such abilities
and
the determination
of neurophysiological
correlates
and basic mechanisms
involved
in
such
functioning.
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SUMMARY
As
a result
of
exploratory research on human perception carried out
in
SRI’s Electronics
and Bioengineering Laboratory,
we observed
the emergence
of
a perceptual
channel whereby certain individuals access
and describe,
by
means
of mental
imagery,
randomly-chosen remote sites located several
miles
or more away.
In
this
final
report, we document
the study at
SRI
of
this human information-accessing capability which we call "remote
viewing,"
the characteristics
of which appear
to
fall outside
the range
of well-understood perceptual/information-processing abilities.
This
phenomenon pertains
to
the ability
of certain individuals
to access
and
describe,
by means
of
internal mental processes,
information sources
blocked
from ordinary perception and generally accepted as
secure against
such access.
These
individuals
include
not only
SRI subjects,
but visiting
staff members
of
the
sponsoring organization who participated as subjects
in order
to
critique
the protocol.
Experiments carried out under controlled
laboratory conditions
included the reproduction
of
line drawings shielded
against ordinary perception,
the determination of
the electronic state
of
a four-state random number
generator,
and
the viewing
of remote
geographical
locations,
all
at
levels
of
statistical significance
p
<
Our
initial work
in
this area has been reported
in
the open literature
under
the
title "Information Transmission Under Conditions
of
Sensory
Shielding," Nature
252 ,
October
1974,
and reprinted
in
the IEEE
Communications
13 ,
January
1975,
A copy of
this publication
is
included
as Appendix A
of
this
report.
Since our
initial work the phenomenon we have investigated most
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