Precognitive Remote Viewing in the Chicago Area: A Replication of the Stanford Experiment
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Back in 1979, two completely untrained volunteers tried something wild: they attempted to describe randomly chosen locations in Chicago before those locations were even picked. That's right -- the targets hadn't been selected yet when the participants started writing down their impressions. Three independent judges, who had no idea which description matched which site, ranked how well the descriptions fit. The results were striking: half the descriptions nailed first-place rankings, and the overall statistical score hit p < .008, meaning this was very unlikely to be just luck. This successfully repeated Stanford's famous remote viewing experiments, but with a tougher twist -- ordinary people, no training, and a design where the future target hadn't even been chosen yet. The study was later declassified from CIA Stargate program files.
Research Notes
Early independent replication of the Stanford SRI remote viewing paradigm, notable for using untrained percipients and a precognitive design where targets were not selected until after descriptions began. Declassified from CIA Stargate files (CIA-RDP96-00787R000200080023-9). Connects Brenda Dunne's early RV work to her later PEAR laboratory research with Robert Jahn.
Eight precognitive remote viewing trials tested whether two untrained volunteer percipients could describe randomly selected Chicago-area target locations before the targets were determined. Percipients recorded their impressions during a 15-minute window while an agent traveled to a site chosen from 100+ locations via sealed-envelope random selection. Three independent judges, blind to trial-target pairings, ranked all transcripts against photographs of the eight sites. The sum of ranks was 20 (p < .008, one-tailed), with four of eight transcripts receiving first-place rankings. Results replicate Puthoff and Targ's (1976) Stanford SRI findings using an improved precognitive protocol with untrained participants.
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📋 Cite this paper
Dunne, Brenda J, Bisaha, John P (1979). Precognitive Remote Viewing in the Chicago Area: A Replication of the Stanford Experiment. Journal of Parapsychology.
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title = {Precognitive Remote Viewing in the Chicago Area: A Replication of the Stanford Experiment},
author = {Dunne, Brenda J and Bisaha, John P},
year = {1979},
journal = {Journal of Parapsychology},
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