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Harold Edward Puthoff (born June 20, 1936) [2], often known as Hal Puthoff, is an American electrical engineer and parapsychologist. [ 3 ] Early life and career
In the early 1970s, Harold Puthoff and Russell Targ joined the Electronics and Bioengineering Laboratory at Stanford Research Institute (SRI, now SRI International), where they initiated studies of the paranormal that were, at first, supported with private funding from the Parapsychology Foundation and the Institute of Noetic Sciences. [17]
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]
Magician and paranormal investigator James Randi, who viewed some of the video recordings of Geller's time in the lab, attributes Geller's successes to "simple tricks". [18] Even Edgar Mitchell, who was present for the experiments and was a supporter of Geller, noted that Puthoff and Targ were sloppy in their research. [18]
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.
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]
In 1980, Tart claimed that a rejudging of the transcripts from one of Russell Targ and Harold Puthoff’s remote viewing experiments revealed an above-chance result. [13] Targ and Puthoff refused to provide copies of the transcripts and it was not until July 1985 that they were made available for study when it was discovered they still ...
People in the ufology community, such as former MUFON director for the state of Pennsylvania John Ventre in an interview with KDKA News Radio, [44] as well as American parapsychologist and engineer Harold E. Puthoff, [45] refer to the two interchangeably.