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MEMORANDUM FOR RECORD
5 Dec 90
DT-S
Demonstration Activity (U)
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1.
(S/NF/OC)
On 28 November 1990, I decided to schedule a
remote viewing experiment involving Beacon Person Targeting (BPT)
with the DT-S staff.
This gave them a brief reprieve from their
current report writing activity and helped keep them in touch
with the phenomenological aspects of our area of interest.
It
also provided an opportunity to give a newcomer,
a remote viewing demonstration.
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2.
(U)
In BPT, a designated person (i.e., a "beacon") visits a
randomly selected site where he/she concentrates on the key
target area features.
At the same time a "viewer", who is of
course blind to the target selected, attempts to describe the key
features of this site. After the session, and after all data and
data summaries are recorded, the beacon person returns and takes
the viewer back to the site for feedback. In this way, the
viewer receives rapid and total feedback and can readily verify
(as can others) what was correct or incorrect in his/her session
data. The actual target site is unknown to any of the project
personnel until after the feedback session with the beacon person
occurs.
The actual target is also not known by the beacon person
until he/she opens the sealed target package with driving
instructions; this does not occur until after the beacon person
is out of sight of the home base facility.
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3.
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In the session we conducted on 28 November 1990,
the beacon persons were
,
and
the viewer was
the monitor was
the observer, was located in
the viewing room.
and I controlled target selection and
insured proper protocol was followed. We also observed the
entire BPT session on the video monitor and heard all dialogue
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over the intercom.
The entire experimental period took about one
hour.
This included travel to and from the target area for
feedback after the formal session.
The only information known to
those directly involved was that the target could be anywhere
within a 20 minute drive. Even though
had previously
prepared the local area target pool from which this particular
site was drawn, she had no knowledge of the specific target
selected until she was in the car, well away from home base.
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4.
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The results of this session were encouraging and
suggested that valid " beacon person contact" had in fact
occurred.
first impressions included " ... water, ... Burba
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Lake".
Many,
but not all, of his responses had relevance to the
target site.
Some of the responses were too general for clear
assessment.
It turned out that the target was in fact the Burba
Lake Park area on Ft. Meade, though it could have been a site
anywhere within a 20 minute drive.
5.
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£
Afterwards, it became very clear to me that
experimental sessions such as this are highly beneficial for
solidifying group rapport and in keeping interest in the
phenomenology at high levels.
We all benefited from this
demonstration. Even though the target was not especially
important, nor did it have any military significance, the session
was nevertheless of high interest. It also helped us identify
some minor procedural flaws that can easily be corrected.
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6. (S/NF/OC)
As a result of the positive response to this BPT
activity, I plan to schedule additional BPT experiments in the
future. They will be low-key and will not interfere with other
activities.
I have asked
(who is a good beacon person and
who has a good target eye) to develop a comprehensive area target
pool so that we can refine our BPT activities. We still need to
improve out protocol and develop a consistent evaluation
procedure.
(We are working on a quantification method) .
Improvements in our BPT activity should be helpful later on when
we begin to fold our activities into research-oriented projects
in support of the Congressional interests. BPT session such as
this also help us to find the bugs in our overall procedures and
help the interviewers improve their technique.
7. (C) This MFR is an informal account of one aspect of our
project activity to help in your overall perspective of this
phenomenological area.
Please treat this MFR as "close-hold",
since I have identified the DT-S staff and their specific roles
in this experimental demonstration.
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Branch Chief
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