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Luis Elizondo: Claims to have taken part in a military remote viewing program under the guidance of Hal Puthoff and, speaking with Ross Coulthart, that remote viewing really works.

Luis Elizondo · Aug 20, 2024 · Book “Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs” (HarperCollins, August 20, 2024); interview with Ross Coulthart (Book)

Direct knowledge Consciousness and the paranormal

In support

In the evaluation of the Star Gate program commissioned by the CIA from the American Institutes for Research (September 1995), statistician Jessica Utts concluded that, by the standards of other scientific fields, psychic functioning had been well demonstrated.

Against or denials

The same evaluation concluded that it remained uncertain whether the phenomenon had been demonstrated and that remote viewing had never produced information used to guide intelligence operations; the second reviewer, Ray Hyman, disputed Utts's conclusions. Elizondo's participation in a program of this kind remains undocumented.

Sources

1. The Daily Beast, August 17, 2024 (press)
2. Wikipedia – “Luis Elizondo” (used as a cross-reference to the sources cited) (other)
3. Metabunk – comparison of Elizondo's versions on dates, AAWSAP and Skinwalker (analysis, skeptical)
4. American Institutes for Research, “An Evaluation of Remote Viewing: Research and Applications” (September 29, 1995), for the CIA (The Black Vault copy) (primary source)

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