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. PUTHOFF AND TARG: PERCEPTUAL CHANNEL FOR INFORMATION TRANSFER Fig. 6. Subject Elgin:(S2) drawings in response to tennis court target. subject. It was a demonstration experiment for a government visitor who had heard of our work and wanted to evaluate our experimental protocol. In the laboratory, the subject, holding a bearing compass at arm’s length, began the experiment by indicating the direction of the target demarcation team correctly to within 5°. (In all four experiments with this subject, he has always been within 10° of the correct direction in this angular assessment.) The subject then generated a 15-min tape-recorded description and the drawings shown in Fig. 6. In discussing the drawings, Elgin indicated that he was uncertain as to the action, but had the impression that the demarcation team was located at a museum (known to him) in a particular park. In fact, the target was a tennis court lo- cated in that park about 90 m from the indicated museum. Once again, we note the characteristic (discussed earlier) of a resemblance between the target site and certain gestalt ele- ments of the subject’s response, especially in regard to the drawings, coupled with incomplete or erroneous analysis of the significances. Nonetheless, when rank ordering transcripts 1 through 8 at the site, the judge ranked this transcript as 2. This example illustrates a continuing observation that most of the correct information related to us by subjects is of a non- analytic nature pertaining to shape, form, color, and material rather than to function or name. A second example from this group, generated by S3 (Swann), indicates the level of proficiency that can be attained with practice. In the two years since we first started working with experiments, he dictates two lists for us to record, One list contains objects that he ‘‘sees,”” but does not think are located at the remote scene. A second list contains objects that he thinks are at the scene. In our evaluation, he has made much progress in this most essential ability to separate memory and imagination from paranormal inputs. This is the key to bringing the remote-viewing channel to fruition with regard to its potential usefulness. The quality of transcript that can be generated by this pro- cess is evident from the results of our most recent experiment with Swann. The target location chosen by the usual double- blind protocol was the Palo Alto City Hall. Swann described a tall building with vertical columns and “‘set in” windows. His sketch, together with the photograph of the site, is shown in Fig. 7. He said there was a fountain, “but I don’t hear it.” At the time the target team was at the City Hali during the experiment, the fountain was not running. He also made an effort to draw a replica of the designs in the pavement in front of the building, and correctly indicated the number of trees (four) in the sketch. For the entire series of eight, four each from S2 and 83, the numerical evaluation ‘based on blind rank ordering of tran- scripts at each site was significant at p = 3.8 X 1074 and in- cluded three direct hits and three second ranks for the target- associated transcripts (see Table IV). D. Subjects SS and S6: Learners To complete the series, four experiments each were carried Swann, he s i robl ing ex-_ out with learner subjects 85 and S6, a man and woman on the ternal sign PER PPP RUE se ab Ab } eda RDP HE. GAgAemNQO GES 1490 teduits in this case, taken as_a N