The Sherman-Swann Jupiter probe
On 27 April 1973, before Pioneer 10 reached Jupiter, Ingo Swann and Harold Sherman tried to describe the planet psychically at the same time and compared notes.
1973 CE · 37.46, -122.18 · status: disputed
The account
Sherman worked from Mountain View, Arkansas, at 8:00 p.m. Central time and Swann from California at 6:00 p.m. Pacific time. They compared results by phone half an hour later. Their joint paper lists agreements: crystals in the atmosphere, a thick cloud cover, high mountains, strong winds and liquid. Each also gave impressions of his own. Swann described a hydrogen mantle 80,000-120,000 miles out and mountains about 31,000 feet high. Sherman spoke of 'some 17 moons' and a possible collision of Pioneer 10 with the largest moon. Swann's timed transcript, 'Experiment 46', shows Hal Puthoff asking the questions. In it Swann compares bands of crystals to the rings of Saturn, 'though not far out like that, very close within the atmosphere'. The authors said neither claimed validity, and that Pioneer 10 would test the results.
The sceptical view
Many details, such as a solid surface, mountains and sand dunes, are wrong for a gas giant, and the 'ring' remark placed the bands inside the atmosphere. Supporters count Jupiter's faint ring, found in 1979, as a hit.
Connections in the atlas
- Ingo Swann and the Stanford magnetometer
- Hal Puthoff
- Ingo Swann
- SCANATE and the start of remote viewing at SRI