Case file · Remote viewing & psi research
Carter's account of a psychic locating a downed plane
Jimmy Carter later said the CIA told him a psychic had pinpointed a Soviet-built plane that crashed in Zaire.
1978 CE · -2.50, 23.00 · status: account
The account
Carter told students in 1995, and repeated in a 2005 interview, that CIA director Stansfield Turner reported that a woman in a trance gave the plane's location, and it was found there. It's the most prominent official endorsement of a remote-viewing success.
The sceptical view
It's a second-hand anecdote. No documentation of the session and the search has been released to show it wasn't luck or corroborated by other intelligence.