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Penetrating the Impenetrable 115the third “experienced” remote viewer. The three SRI “learners”were Hella Hammid, a professional photographer, andtwo SRI staffers, Marshall Pease and Phyllis Cole. Hammidhad once participated as a volunteer in an ESP brain-waveexperiment, but otherwise had no previous experience withpsychic phenomena.On Hammid’s first attempt at remote viewing, she described“a little house covered with red, overlapping boards.It has white trim and a very tall, pointed roof. But the wholething feels fake, like a movie set.” Her description was correct.The target had been a 15-foot-high model of a little redschoolhouse situated in a nearby miniature golf course. 44Puthoff said this was a classic example of the “first-timeeffect,” when test subjects do best before becoming bored ortoo analytical. It is akin to “beginner’s luck” in gambling.Due to her artistic background, Hammid proved to be anexceptionally good remote viewer who offered sketches instantlyrecognizable to the independent judges. In one test,judges ruled she had correctly described five out of nine targetsites, a feat beating odds of 500,000 to one. “In lookingback on her past six months’ work with us,” said Targ, “we findthat with only one or two exceptions, every experiment conductedunder standard conditions showed good correlationbetween her descriptions and the actual target site.” 45Elgin also proved a successful remote viewer. Once, whenan evaluator monitored the testing, Elgin correctly locatedthe outbound target group as playing tennis near a museum.Pease and Cole, the other two “learners,” were only marginallysuccessful with two direct “hits” and two “second ranks” out