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An Experimental Psychic Probe of the Planet Jupiter, NSA-RDP96X00790R000100040010-3
Stanford Research Institute session records (Swann, Sherman); released through the CIA reading room · 1973-04-27
An Experimental Psychic Probe of the Planet Jupiter, NSA-RDP96X00790R000100040010-3 · 13 pages · PDF 0.5 MB
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Approved For Release 2008/04/01 : NSA-RDP96X00790R000100040010-3 AN EXPERIhF,XTAL PSYCHIC PROBE OF PLANET JUPITER Harold Sherman Ingo Swann April 27, i 973 Approved For Release 2008/04/01 • NSA-RDP96X00790R000100040010-3
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Approved For Release 2008/04/01 • NSA-RDP96X00790R000100040010-3 THE SHERMAN-SWANN FSYCHIC PROBE OF P'.ANT.T JUPITER As a result of eunversati•oas betueen Ær. Harula Sherman of Mountain tempt to carry forward the possible verity of the psychic nature of men, it was decided to hot ci a psychic probu of the planet Jupiter. As with the necc•ssl ty of feedback potential must characterize uny experiment. any experimental work undertaken with the psychical na ture of men. R'hile the probing by other than physical means of a far distant planet seems extraordinary, was noted that the Jupiter by—pass NASA space module Pioneer IO was on Its way, and hopefully viii relay back data as yet not known to science. Based on this situation, it was decided to probe psychically the In the evening of April 27. 1973, therefore, Mr. Sherman planet Jupi ter. arranged to begin his probe at 8:00 p.m. Central Standard time, and Mr. Swann, currently on the West Coast at 6:00 p.m. Pacific Standard time. The psychic probes thus took place samultaneousiy. After one-hal t hour, Mr. Sherman was reached by telephone by Mr. Swann, and their results compared. Certain salient points of the obvious similarities between the results of both men follow. The actual responses of both men were recorded and are attached as annex A (Mr. Sherman's response) and annex B (Mr. Swann* s response. ) Neither Mr. Sherman mr Mr. Swann claim validity for their results, s ince to do so would be beside any scientific point. What verification might cane fran Pioneer IO remains to be seen. Approved For Release 2008/04/01 • NSA-RDP96X00790R000100040010-3
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Approved For Release 2008/04/01 NSA-RDP96X00790R000100040010-3 SIMILARITIES i. 2. Sherman Atmosphr- • off u goiaen si ving . gases . glow and crystal- like dlamonä sparkles . . . .givlnx off a den gl N.. It a gaseous uss ox myriad - yellow. red, ultra- colors violet, some greens - like a giant fireworks display. The enorr.ie•us cloud cover... The enormous cloud cover must be miles deep. Surfa ce : a reddish-brown tomation extending in e curved line as far as my mind's eye can see. There appear to be huge volcanic peab, great cones rising some i i miles. It looks almost meta Ilic and sparks red-hot. - molten 2 Swann ... there are crystals, they glitter. Maybe the stripe» are like bands of crystals... ...distinctly yellow... Inside those cloud layers.... they look beautiful from the outside, from the inside they look like roiling gas clouds - eerie yellow light - rainbows. Then I came through the cloud cover. The atmosphere of Jupiter is very thick. ... the horizon looks orangish or rose-colored... the whole thing seems enormously flat. There is an enormous mountain about 31,000 teet high. those mountains are huge. ... the surface ot Jupiter vili give a high Infrared count. Approved For Release 2008/04/01 : NSA-RDP96X00790R000100040010-3
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NSA-RDP96X00790R000100040010-3 3. Approved For Release 2008/04/01 Sherman Other surface characteristics: ... ice crystals... I am wonder- Ing if t.hey are not icy cold. •viriing vortices of in- creasing velocity... .. , powerful magnetic forces... *Inds of terrific velocity. .. There must be va ter. The atmosphere seems unusually dense on some levels and ex- tremely rarified on others. 3 nn oana of crystals. kand of It's colder here... bluish. I see something that looks like i a tornado. I seen to be stuck, Tremendous vinds ... not moving. I feel that there is liquid sonevhere... liquid, like water. In the atmosphere are crystals... they' reflect radio probes.... another layer farther down like our clouds . Neither Shenan nor Swann said anything that contradicts the other, but both gave certain individuai impressions : 1. Collision of Pioneer IO with the largest of Jupiter's noonz unless this course is ultimately altered. 2. 3. 4. Some 17 moons, some undiscovered. Comments on noon forma tion. Describes a huge red pass moving 2. 3. 4. an extremely large gen mantle 80,000 to 120, 000 miles out from planet's surface. Deflection of radio waves. Snooth large sand crys tals on planet's surface vhieh slide beneath the vind. Thermal inversions . across the face of Jupi ter, fran right to left, foiioved by a darker cloud of innense size. Approved For Release 2008/04/01 NSA-RDP96X00790R000100040010-3
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Approved For Release 2008/04/01 NSA-RDP96X00790R000100040010-3 ANNEX A H — Harold Shenan Ingo Swann P - nal Puthoff SHERNAX-SWANX JVPITER TOECHDOi.h April 27, 1973 T.IÆPHOXE CONVERSATION 1 H 1 H P I H 1 H How'd you make out? I don't know. How'd you make out? veil, I •rote abmat three pages as fast as I could write. What Is contained in it, of course, you 'II have to chock. let ne introduce you first before we start to Dr. Puthoft and Russell Tars. Thy don't you say hello to them. Bello, Russell Targ and Dr. Puthoff . I'm very glad to meet you both over I 've so much about both of you. I vish we could meet the phone . in person. Thanks very much. We're enjoying doing this experient and it's nice to be talking to you on the phone. H" do you want this material transmitted? Do you have a recorder and can you hear? Yes, •e •re videotaping Ingo's conversation with you end ve have a tape going, so you two can just talk over *hat you sav and the '*ole So I'll give you back to Ingo, then. thing vill get recorded . Yes, that's fine. Why don't you go first? All right, will you be hearing *hat I'm readixz at the same time you are recording? Right. I have vrltten, "It is now 8 pm Central Standard Time and I am sitting in •y special concentration room In the little house *'here Ingo Svann stayed 'hen he visited u. some weeks ago. As I prepare to direct •y consciousness to the attempted pmbe of Jupiter, Its occurrences and condi tions relative thereto, I am immediately and associately sucked into total contact vith a speeding space module Pioneer IO and I can clearly see that It is at pmsent traveling on a definite col course with one d the largest Jupiter moons, and unless this course is ultimately altered, it vill most certainly crash into it and end this Investigative Sourney. N" I am carried ahead of it and am approaching the Jupiter moon itself. It seems larger than earth — a great shiny revolving ball surrounded by gigantic "irl of cuses, elvlng off a golden glow and crystal—like diamond sparkles I am still some distance from Jupiter which and •tbciievable inner sight. I can see to the right ot this moon, far, far away, a million — I can't teii — perhaps more. Anyway, a great many miles distant. And Tith an alnost eye—blinding brilliance that is radiating. I'm sure that physical eyesight could not stand what I am perceiving inwardly, I seem to be a Approved For Release 2008/04/01 : NSA-RDP96X00790R000100040010-3
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Approved For Release 2008/04/01 : NSA-RDP96X00790R000100040010-3 everything around me. I able to see all directions as I mentally It is as though I am looxing through a scope seeing all look around . this in mina ture and suddenly magnit led into a normal size. me sensation wnes and goes. These visions are inside me , then outside. There is a yeilov cast to space and seeming dark objects shov through it. Can they be other moons of constrasting colors or densities? me impressions come to me that there are 17, some yet undiscovered by earth scient Ists, much closer to Jupiter, and the feeling also comes that some of then have been and are being spawned by the convulsive, volcsnic action in the interior of the gaseos masses of Jupiter spun off into space in newly foming ••hie•h Of gaseous forces and electrome particles to them which adhere to these newly created masses and ultima tels sol idify in the new moons. The feeling also comes that the sun originally, an unthinkably huge gaseous mass, in a mighty explosion threw off vast gaseous balls which began the planets we recognize today, including Jupi ter, all ultimately achieving a gravitational balance in time and place ;and in the process ot sathering their own forces, these gaseous bails exploded in themselves and cast off pars of themselves in the forms of moons and satellites, holding to them ae parents hold their children, their umbilical cords the •gnetic attraction between then. I'm tired tonight. exhausting experience I am nw beltz shown many asteroids or very dark planets between Mars and Jupi ter, some vith lite forms lesser or equivalent to ours. 1 am given the feeling that •here there are great gaseous areas, sririing vortices ot increasing velocity, that these are new worlds In formation and that an Intelligence or directing force inconceivable to us is behind this incessant act ot creation. I suddenly see projected to a point 'here I feel I can see Jupi ter itself, a spectacle beyond description. It looks like it is bulged in the middle ot its gigantic bail—like shape. It is a gaseous mass of myriad colors — yellov, red, ultraviolet, some — like a giant fireworks display. There must be many chemical elements greens involved beyond my understanding. huge red mass is moving across the face of Jupiter from right to left, followed by a darker cloud of immense size. It Is an eiqngatlon that stretches for miles and mi les - a srirling use though generated and added to by eruptive magnetic end gaseous forces coming from the interioz of Jupi ter which seems more liquid or vaporous than solid. Strange, I can see ice crystals. miey are shimmering like trillions ot silver needles, and I am vonderins it they are not icy cold. they seem to be near the surface. I wish I could see through the enomous cloud cover which must be miles deep. It billows •and leaps th a changing vivid yellow and Nd and green incandescence, as though reflecting great —gnetic fires from some source. Nov I suddenly seem to see through and catch light ot a reddish-brown formation extending in a curved line as far as my mind's eye can see. Can it be Jupiter's earth crust? It looks ainost metallic — molten and sparks red—hot — great vapors seething through. It gives me a dizzy sensation to look at It. I wonder it Ingo is getting anything like this or *hat form hl' impressions are taking. I don't hov how close Pioneer IO Is going to to Jupiter in Its bypass, but It looks like it vill powerful magnetic forces, vind* of terrific velocity and gaseous masses of possible poisonous Approved For Release 2008/04/01 : NSA-RDP96X00790R000100040010-3
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Approved For Release 2008/04/01 : NSA-RDP96X00790R000100040010-3 and damaging nature. The atmosphere seemk dense on some levels und extremely rarified on others. There appear to be huge volcanic peaks. great cones *src some riles in area and deep frozen looking crystal-covered valleys. mnere must be water. Probably mostly in solidified or vaporized fomc. I don't It's like a get any sensation of heat or cold and I don't hear what see. silent movie, but I feel that I am seeing und feeling deeply and It Is ewesome. I suddenly feel tired, soaewhat sapped cf energy. I am conscious of my body. I notice the back ot my hands are bright red and flushed *ith blood. I have not observed this reaction . heve to collect my senses. strong heavy sensation like waking up 1 rom a sleep with a far—away feeling. 1 H 1 H 1 H 1 1 1 That's marvelous Nov, (Ingo relates from his notes: see attached.) That's remarkable. We 've got some similarities, dm't you think? I'd say ve have some identicals there, at least. Quite remarkable, In tact. That's the impression I got. Yes, yes, indeed. Now, vere you reading me What you had recorded? Well, Hal was takins notes, and he took those dovn as I was to deecribe... Because that was so beautifully recited that I Just hope that you had a record exactly as you spoke It, Well, ve have that sort of. ...I think ve have to shape It up Just a little bit. you're tried, aren't you? Ch, that.. .no. I made • statement prior to this as to the method I used. I don't or not. Yes, go Are you Yes, it' 1 would know whether you'd like to have me dictate that short statement ahead. ready to take it? being and ve'll have them typed up. like to state before eterting this test that vhiie I've ainys be interested in the cosmos and man's relationship to it, I never had occasion to study astronomy nor am I versed in physics or chemistry and Approved For Release 2008/04/01 : NSA-RDP96X00790R000100040010-3
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1 H I 1 H 1 Approved For Release 2008/04/01 : NSA-RDP96X00790R000100040010-3 the only general information I have ubou:, u',iter is that it is the largest planet and it has supposc:diy moons or satellites and is perhaps one of the most brill iant of heavenly bodies. This in itself nay be suggestive, but have found that the less consasusly know about a locality or person, the more certain am of the validity or accuracy of any impressions that may come to me. Whether I viii receive I—pressions In the attempted mental probe of Jupl ter in the form of visual images or perceptual feelings or both, I cannot say test, but I will record in writing as nearly as can convert into words the things to coae through, if anything. My method is simply to make un—seltconscious of my physical surroundings, to fix my conscious mind's attention on the objective, at whatever seeming distance, and let myself wonder what exists at that point, I have found that wonder is the key word for me. It frees my Imagination from t*Ying to guess or —broider Whatever impressions I may be receiving so iohg as I can maintain Apparently' some faculty of mind makes this fixation of attention. contact ins tangly unlimited by time or space with the area it ie dlmcted If it were possible to hold the nind's attention to concentrate upon . on the locale or person once is made for nore than the split second ot initial contact, then a state of awareness could be retained ions enough to bring back reliable data of what may exist at that point, even including the reactionary feelings engendered in the sensitive during the contactucl experience. Who imovs it the fiction •riters who have been Imaginatively creative as they think. Fantastic ideas of other planets and civilizations, past, present or future, nay instead hnve been psychically tuning in on actual conditions fran some higher source or sources, coloring then somewhat with their on creativity, but basically producing facts often later substantiated by scientific discoveries or by actual earth developments, This is an area of mind well worth extensive study and experimentation, I think we're on our vay Well, What do Dr. Puthoff and Mr. Targ think of this? They're very pleased, they say, since we both got einiiaritiez. Can you have copies nade and refine this a little bit and send it to me? Yes. Russell Sust said that them are renarkabie similarities beween the tvo narrations Thank Russel i — Nov that we've both higher obåectlves. I 'n doing so— evaluating which I always do after an Impres•iån received. . I vas quite thrilled, as I hope you vere, to discover that ve do have so—e a—zing similari ties. Well, I knew *e •uld, but there ns only one vay to demonstrate that and that ns to do it. asked what does the Pioneer IO look like. I didn't see It. Approved For Release 2008/04/01 NSA-RDP96X00790R000100040010-3
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Approved For Release 2008/04/01 NSA-RDP96X00790R000100040010-3 H H 1 1 H 1 H I 1 1 Yell, it seems to as I could see it... on the side... not as my : magi Ntion I seem to see. have a pointe«i .. it looked ] ii.. . and some kMid cf a. .as nearly .et. an enlarged bullet, vith e head to it. That's about. .with soa,e little side things... things wings but little bit blunt In size. .. I mean not as elongated would like to make it. as near as I can describe what Well , I think we located the crystals and the boiling clouds. and although I didn't particularly see a volcano, I saw a chain of mountains which vere uwu— • Do you describe them as peaks? Then you felt that there was water on the planet. I 'n not quite sure that it vas seen as vater. Liquid of some sort. or I didn't say it vas vater, I said solidified/ vaporized but not water. I tell you, more similarities will show up as you have a chance to study these. Khet I propose is that you're tired tonight and I 'n a little tired too ILLEGIB After all, it was quite e Journey. It vas a little strenuous, to be honest. I felt that for Quite a Journey . the first time. Khat I propose Is why don't we get in touch after you get back from Toledo, Ohio, and maybe ve can take it a step further. Maybe ve can go have another look together, or something like that. I think that I find that the impressions I received very refreshing and very challenging, but a rerun ot something that Is definitely the sane, then the imagination hes certain already existe in mind. To attempt to build upon it, I don't know hov successful "'d be in furthering this. Ve might try something else. I agree with you. 0K. We could •rs. the in—diate response and that's the tone. I wouldn't insist on taking Well, Ingo, it's been a thrill to work with you and I do hope it has •ome icance. Well, •e' II get it written up and get it in the right places and see what happens • I'm leaving Sunday for Little Rock and then I be flying to Toledo for •y lectuN on Tuesday. I'll be at my own office on bnday. You haw •y phone number, don't you? Approved For Release 2008/04/01 : NSA-RDP96X00790R000100040010-3
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1 1 H 1 Approved For Release 2008/04/01 Y", I do. And then "at: I'll be back late rn ' cones up, then you c'. Ail right, We' I : uy best regard* ney say thunk you s.. r. Approved For Release 2008/04/01 NSA-RDP96X00790R000100040010-3 . oack in Bountain Via• hing unupual at noac :-zrcctlon of Nars, h; thof . Cood nlgh• NSA-RDP96X00790R000100040010-3 then.
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Approved For Release 2008/04/01 NSA-RDP96X00790R000100040010-3 ANNEX B SWANN-SHERNA.R JUPITER TOUCEDOWN PROBE Experiment 46 Z Q I 2 April 27, 1973 Rxterior to spacc and time Aberra ted theta perceptics Inf lov No big sharp noises for the next 1/2 hour please. (3 seconds fast) There's a planet with stripes, I hope It's Jupi ter. I think that it must have an cxtremeiy large hydrogen mantle. space probe made contact with that, it would be maybe 80,000 — 120, 000 miles out from the planet surface. 6:06 6: 06:20 6: 08:00 6: 10: 20 6: 10: 55 So I'm approaching it on the tangent where I cun see it's a halt moon, in other words half lit half dark. If I move around to the lit side it's distinctly yeliN toward the right. (Hai - Which direction you had to move?) Very high in the atmosphere there are crystals, they tter, maybe the stripes arc like bands of crystals, maybe like rings of Saturn, chough not far out Ilke that, very close within the atmsphere. (Unintelligible sentence. ) I bet you they' II reflect radio probes. Is that possible if you had a cloud of crystals that vere sssaulted by different radio waves? (Hal - That's right.) Xow I '11 go don through. It feels really good there (laugh). 1 said that before, didn't l? Inside those cloud layers, those crystal layers, they look beautiful from the outside, from the inside they look like roiling gas clouds — eerie yeliov light, rainbows. I the impression, though I don't see, that it' B liquid. Then I cae thmugb the cloud cover, the surface it looks like sand dunes. They're made of ve*' large grade crystals so they slide. Tremendous winds sort of like maybe the prevailing rinds ot earth but very close to the surface ot Jupiter. From that view the horizon looks orangish me—colored but overhead it's kinda grecnlsh—ycllov. If I look to the right there is an enormous mountain range . Approved For Release 2008/04/01 : NSA-RDP96X00790R000100040010-3
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Approved For Release 2008/04/01 NSA-RDP96X00790R000100040010-3 6: 18:10 I'm giving a description of *here I 've sone and am, It would be If approximately where Alaska is if the sun were directly overhead which mne sun looks like it has a green corona, seems smaller to ne (Hal *hat color is the sun?) White. I feel that there'* liquid somewhere . those mountains are very huge but they still don't poke up through the crystai ciouu cover. You know I hed a dream uncc something like this where the cloud cover was great arc, sweeps over the entire heaven. Those grains *hich make that sand orange are quite large. They have a polished and they look sæething like amber or like obsidian but they're yellowish and not as heavy. The vind biovs them, they slide along. If I turn, thc "hole thing seems enomously flat. I mean if I get the feeling that if a man stood on those sands I think he vould sink into them (laugh); maybe that's vhere that liquid feeling comes' from. I see something that looks like a tomado. Is there a thermi inversion here? I bet there Is. I bet you that the surface of Jupiter Till give a very high Infrared count (?) , reading (?) (Hai — reading) anaudible sentenæ) The heat is held down. I t II move more towards thc equator. I seer. to be stucR, ne moving. i get the impression that that must be a band of crystals similar to the outer ones, kind of bluish. They seem to be sort of in orbit, permanent orbit thrc.ugh another layer farther d0M1 which are like our clouds but moving fast, There's another area: liquid Ilke water. looks like It's got icebergs in It but they' re not icebergs (laugh) . Tremendous rind. It's colder here, maybe it's because there's not a thermal inversion there. I'm back. 0K. • (Hal — Very interesting.) The atmosphere of Jupiter is thick. I nean. , (Ingo dravs)... &pianation ot drawing: Is What appears to be a hydrogen mantle about 100,000 nlie• off the surface. Those here are bands ot crystals, kind of elements. They're pretty close to the surface . And beneath those are layers of clouds or what seem to be prevailing vlnds. Approved For Release 2008/04/01 NSA-RDP96X00790R000100040010-3
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Approved For Release 2008/04/01 Beneath that shifting sands ... . Ana off in the chain 30, 000 ft.; viil pmbably b'...:r.e radiu Generally, that's all. Approved For Release 2008/04/01 NSA-RDP96X00790R000100040010-3 •av was, well, it looked like of slippery granula ted stuff . -..o the East was a very hi gh mounta'in te .'arge mountains. I feel these crystals waves. They 'rc that type. NSA-RDP96X00790R000100040010-3
Record
- Author / institution
- Stanford Research Institute session records (Swann, Sherman); released through the CIA reading room
- Date
- 1973-04-27
- Source type
- Declassified CIA record (STAR GATE collection)
- Used for
- Annex B transcript of Ingo Swann's 27 April 1973 session (Puthoff present). p. 11, at 6:06:20: 'maybe the stripes are like bands of crystals, maybe like rings of Saturn, though not far out like that, very close within the atmosphere'. Hosted on this site.
- Limitations
- The transcript compares Jupiter's atmospheric bands to Saturn's rings; it does not describe a ring system around Jupiter, which is how the claim is usually retold.
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