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Harold Edward Puthoff (born June 20, 1936), [2] often known as Hal Puthoff, is an American electrical engineer. Early life and career. Puthoff was born in Chicago, ...
Harold Puthoff (see also Bernard Haisch and SED) (Overview of pseudoscientific concepts) In theoretical physics , particularly fringe physics , polarizable vacuum (PV) and its associated theory refer to proposals by Harold Puthoff , Robert H. Dicke , and others to develop an analog of general relativity to describe gravity and its relationship ...
Russell Targ (born April 11, 1934) is an American physicist, parapsychologist, and author who is best known for his work on remote viewing. [1]Targ joined Stanford Research Institute (SRI) in 1972, where he and Harold E. Puthoff coined the term "remote viewing" for the practice of seeking impressions about a distant or unseen target using parapsychological means.
Martin Gardner has written that the founding researcher Harold Puthoff was an active Scientologist before his work at Stanford University, which influenced his research at SRI. In 1970, the Church of Scientology published a notarized letter that Puthoff had written while he was conducting research on remote viewing at Stanford.
Russell Targ and Harold Puthoff, two experimenters, tested Geller and Swann and concluded that they had unique skills. [1] Others have strongly disputed the scientific validity of Targ and Puthoff's experiments. [13] In a 1983 interview, magician Milbourne Christopher remarked that Swann was "one of the cleverest in the field". [14]
Nevertheless, Puthoff and Targ announced to a gathering in Geneva, Switzerland that they had indeed definitively established psychokinesis as a real phenomenon. [12] The builder of the machine, who had been present during Swann's visit, would later report that while there had been fluctuations these were in no way unexpected or outside the ...
In the 1970s, CIA and DIA granted funds to Harold E. Puthoff to investigate paranormal abilities, collaborating with Russell Targ in a study of the purported psychic abilities of Uri Geller, Ingo Swann, Pat Price, Joseph McMoneagle and others, as part of the Stargate Project, [25] of which Puthoff became a director. [26]
Senator Reid in 2002. Initiated by then Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada) [9] as the Advanced Aerospace Weapon Systems Applications Program (AAWSAP) to study unexplained aerial phenomena (UAP) at the urging of Reid's friend, Nevada billionaire and governmental contractor Robert Bigelow, [10] and with support from the late senators Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) and Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii ...