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Hal Puthoff
1995
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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co-developed remote viewing methodology at SRI
Source: Targ & Puthoff, Mind-Reach (1977); Puthoff, CIA-Initiated Remote Viewing at SRI, J. Scientific Exploration (1996) · Targ 2019 (JSE)
recruited as an early remote-viewing subject after a chance meeting with him
Source: Jim Schnabel, Remote Viewers: The Secret History of America's Psychic Spies (1997) · Targ 2019 (JSE)
zero-point-field physics collaborator; co-founded the California Institute for Physics & Astrophysics with him
Source: Wikipedia; NASA Ames
"invisible college"
Source: Hynek & Vallee, The Edge of Reality (1975); 'invisible college'
contracted advisor
Source: Lacatski, Kelleher & Knapp, Skinwalkers at the Pentagon (2021)
co-founder
Source: To The Stars Academy public founding disclosures (2017)
co-directed SRI's remote-viewing program
Source: Targ & Puthoff, Mind-Reach (1977); Puthoff, CIA-Initiated Remote Viewing at SRI, J. Scientific Exploration (1996) · Targ 2019 (JSE)
both reached Scientology's highest level in the 1970s
Source: Jim Schnabel, Remote Viewers: The Secret History of America's Psychic Spies (1997)
succeeded him as SRI project director
Source: Jim Schnabel, Remote Viewers: The Secret History of America's Psychic Spies (1997) · Targ 2019 (JSE)
mentored him at NIDS; close scientific collaborator
Source: Lacatski, Kelleher & Knapp, Skinwalkers at the Pentagon (2021)
scientific advisory board
Source: Lacatski, Kelleher & Knapp, Skinwalkers at the Pentagon (2021)
fellow remote-viewing research figure
Source: International Remote Viewing Association (IRVA) records
fellow Skinwalker Ranch science advisor
Source: Lacatski, Kelleher & Knapp, Skinwalkers at the Pentagon (2021) · Targ 2019 (JSE)
addressed his 2002 offer to Davis and Hal Puthoff jointly (Warp Drive Metrics)
Source: EWD Notes / Wilson-Davis memo (Eric Davis, Oct 16 2002)
overseen by SRI's Harold Puthoff
Source: R. Targ, What Do We Know About Psi? (JSE 2019, DOI 10.31275/2019/1669) — SRI-side account, contested · Targ 2019 (JSE)
fellow Aviary member ("Penguin" and "Owl")
Source: UFO-community accounts of 'The Aviary' (reported)
arranged Geller's SRI evaluation, which Puthoff co-led
Source: Annie Jacobsen, Phenomena (2017)
tested by him at SRI in the 1970s
Source: Targ & Puthoff, Information transmission under conditions of sensory shielding, Nature (1974)
served as a judge on the 2021 BICS essay contest
Source: BICS Contest Judges page, bigelowinstitute.org
he ran it at SRI
Source: Puthoff, CIA-Initiated Remote Viewing at Stanford Research Institute; SCANATE history · Targ 2019 (JSE)
ran its remote-viewing program from 1972
Source: Targ & Puthoff, Mind-Reach (1977); Puthoff, CIA-Initiated Remote Viewing at SRI, J. Scientific Exploration (1996) · Targ 2019 (JSE)
featured him prominently in "The Age of Disclosure"
Source: The Age of Disclosure (dir. Dan Farah, 2025)
he co-founded and led the SRI remote-viewing program
Source: US remote-viewing program history · Targ 2019 (JSE)
recruited as advisor
Source: George Knapp / KLAS-TV Mystery Wire reporting
demonstrated his claimed abilities for him and Targ
Source: Jeffrey Mishlove, The PK Man (2000)
investigated his and Targ's testing of Uri Geller and found it fraudulent
Source: Ray Hyman, critiques of the SRI/Geller experiments (1977; The Elusive Quarry, 1989)