Case file · Remote viewing & psi research
Russell Targ
American physicist (b. 1934) who, with Hal Puthoff, coined the term 'remote viewing' at SRI and worked on the Stargate programme.
1972 CE · 37.46, -122.18 · status: disputed
The account
Targ joined the Stanford Research Institute in 1972 and ran experiments in which subjects tried to describe distant or hidden targets, work that drew government intelligence funding. He has written many books on remote viewing and the nature of mind. Targ's signed report on the August 1973 Geller sessions survives in the CIA's Stargate files, with the target and response drawings.
The sceptical view
His remote-viewing work has been characterised as pseudoscience and criticised for lack of rigour, notably for sensory leakage in early trials.
Connections in the atlas
- Russell Targ
- Hella Hammid
- Stephan A. Schwartz
- Charles Tart
- Pat Price and the Semipalatinsk crane
- Ingo Swann and the Stanford magnetometer
- Jeffrey Mishlove
- Stargate (final phase)
- Hal Puthoff
- Ingo Swann