Scientist or researcher
Hal Puthoff
1995-06-01what this date marks is not recorded
Physicist and former CIA-funded remote-viewing researcher at SRI; NIDS/BAASS scientific advisor, later co-founded To The Stars Academy.
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…RV research and Development. The specific individual is Dr. Hal Puthoff.
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co-authored the Defense Intelligence Agency's 1983 report on Project GRILL FLAME's operational tasksProject GRILL FLAME (U): Operational TasksPDF p. 1 checked against the page
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concluded that his team at SRI International warranted cautious continued fiscal supportCENTER LANE Information Papers for Director, Defense Intelligence AgencyPDF p. 20 checked against the page
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The claim we testedaddressed his 2002 offer to Davis and Hal Puthoff jointly (Warp Drive Metrics)What the document actually saysEWD: Willing to talk to Hal Puthoff and Kit Green? ... - Maybe/maybe not for Hal - would think about it.EWD Notes - Eric Davis meeting with Adm. Wilson, 16 October 2002, 2002
printed p. 15 · read off the page footerWhy we refused it. PUTHOFF IS HERE AND THE LETTER IS NOT. Warp Drive Metrics appears nowhere in the pages read. PROVISIONAL. -
recruited as advisorGeorge Knapp / KLAS-TV Mystery Wire reporting
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"invisible college"Hynek & Vallee, The Edge of Reality (1975); 'invisible college'
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← BAASScontracted advisorLacatski, Kelleher & Knapp, Skinwalkers at the Pentagon (2021)
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co-founderTo The Stars Academy public founding disclosures (2017)
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co-developed remote viewing methodology at SRITarg & Puthoff, Mind-Reach (1977); Puthoff, CIA-Initiated Remote Viewing at SRI, J. Scientific Exploration (1996) - Targ 2019 (JSE)
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co-directed SRI's remote-viewing programTarg & Puthoff, Mind-Reach (1977); Puthoff, CIA-Initiated Remote Viewing at SRI, J. Scientific Exploration (1996) - Targ 2019 (JSE)
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ran its remote-viewing program from 1972Targ & Puthoff, Mind-Reach (1977); Puthoff, CIA-Initiated Remote Viewing at SRI, J. Scientific Exploration (1996) - Targ 2019 (JSE)
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both reached Scientology's highest level in the 1970sJim Schnabel, Remote Viewers: The Secret History of America's Psychic Spies (1997)
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succeeded him as SRI project directorJim Schnabel, Remote Viewers: The Secret History of America's Psychic Spies (1997) - Targ 2019 (JSE)
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mentored him at NIDS; close scientific collaboratorLacatski, Kelleher & Knapp, Skinwalkers at the Pentagon (2021)
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featured him prominently in "The Age of Disclosure"The Age of Disclosure (dir. Dan Farah, 2025)
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recruited as an early remote-viewing subject after a chance meeting with himJim Schnabel, Remote Viewers: The Secret History of America's Psychic Spies (1997) - Targ 2019 (JSE)
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publicly criticised his and Targ's testing of Uri Geller as methodologically unsoundRay Hyman, critiques of the SRI/Geller experiments (1977; The Elusive Quarry, 1989)Caveat REWORDED 30 August 2026. "Found it fraudulent" is an accusation of FRAUD against a living scientist, recorded in this map's own voice with no source a reader can open. Fraud alleges intent to deceive; what Hyman is known to have argued is that the protocols were inadequate. The sentence now says what kind of criticism it was and leaves the accusation of dishonesty out, because this project holds nothing that would support it.
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demonstrated his claimed abilities for him and TargJeffrey Mishlove, The PK Man (2000)
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← NIDSscientific advisory boardLacatski, Kelleher & Knapp, Skinwalkers at the Pentagon (2021)
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fellow Aviary member ("Penguin" and "Owl")UFO-community accounts of 'The Aviary' (reported)
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arranged Geller's SRI evaluation, which Puthoff co-ledAnnie Jacobsen, Phenomena (2017)
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tested by him at SRI in the 1970sTarg & Puthoff, Information transmission under conditions of sensory shielding, Nature (1974)
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fellow remote-viewing research figureInternational Remote Viewing Association (IRVA) records
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fellow Skinwalker Ranch science advisorLacatski, Kelleher & Knapp, Skinwalkers at the Pentagon (2021) - Targ 2019 (JSE)
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zero-point-field physics collaborator; co-founded the California Institute for Physics & Astrophysics with himWikipedia; NASA Ames
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served as a judge on the 2021 BICS essay contestBICS Contest Judges page, bigelowinstitute.org
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he co-founded and led the SRI remote-viewing programUS remote-viewing program history - Targ 2019 (JSE)
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he ran it at SRIPuthoff, CIA-Initiated Remote Viewing at Stanford Research Institute; SCANATE history - Targ 2019 (JSE)
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overseen by SRI's Harold PuthoffR. Targ, What Do We Know About Psi? (JSE 2019, DOI 10.31275/2019/1669) - SRI-side account, contested - Targ 2019 (JSE)
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Hal Puthoff → Ray Hyman
investigated his and Targ's testing of Uri Geller and found it fraudulent
publicly criticised his and Targ's testing of Uri Geller as methodologically unsound