Case file · Declassified record
Ingo Swann briefs the Army's Grill Flame testers
An October 1978 Army memo records a day in which Ingo Swann shared his remote-viewing method with Grill Flame participants at the Army Materiel Systems Analysis Activity.
1978 CE · 39.47, -76.13 · status: official
The account
Swann visited AMSAA at Aberdeen Proving Ground on 17 October 1978, on the condition that he would not be tested (p.1). He stressed exact session timing ('rise time'), rapport between interviewer and viewer, avoiding words that cue the viewer, and separating raw impressions from 'overlay'. The memo records the group's own experience that viewers tend to get form and shape right but function and detail wrong (p.2). The AMSAA testers disagreed with Swann and SRI on the role of the outbound experimenter (p.3).