1984 science panel review of SRI remote viewing
Three outside scientists reviewed Hal Puthoff's SRI programme and judged remote viewing either real or the product of experimental interference.
1984 CE · 37.46, -122.18 · status: official
The account
Donald Kerr of Los Alamos, Fred Zachariasen of Caltech and W. Ross Adey of the Loma Linda VA hospital signed the report on 1 March 1984. They said the evidence was too impressive to dismiss as coincidence and that similarities with Princeton's results were compelling, but saw no physical model and only a brief exposure to the work (p.2-3). They criticised the team's refusal to explain why map coordinates should work, and recommended cautious continued funding with open, unclassified research replicated by others over five to ten years (p.3-5). DIA later cited the panel to support its programme.
The sceptical view
The panel itself noted it could not rule out inadvertent cueing, and its main condition, independent open replication, was never met within the programme.
Connections in the atlas
- Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR)
- DIA's Grill Flame Project Report
- Sun Streak
- Hal Puthoff
- Ingo Swann