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84PSI SpiesSwann told of the occasion when he sensed heavy rain ina particular city. “Impossible,” retorted the testers. “The cityin question is Phoenix, where it’s hot and dry.” However, aquick check with the Phoenix weather bureau confirmedheavy thunderstorms in the city that day. 23“I suggested that we call [these experiments] ‘remotesensing,’”said Swann. “Shortly, though, it became clear thatI didn’t just sense the sites, but experienced mental-imagepictures of them in a visualizing kind of way.“Without at all thinking much about it, and before the endof 1971, we began referring to the long-distance experimentsas remote-viewing ones, since this term seemed themost suitable.” 24It was also during this time that Swann happened to be inCleve Backster’s lab and learned of a proposal by physicistDr. Harold E. Puthoff.“At that time, I had submitted a proposal to ResearchCorporation, which was handling a laser patent for me, to obtainfunds for some basic research into quantum biology,”Puthoff recalled. “This proposal was widely circulated and acopy was sent to Cleve Backster in New York.” 25Swann said Backster encouraged him to write to Puthoff.He did on March 30, 1972, and a series of letters and phonecalls back and forth ensued.Puthoff, a pleasant and studious man with a soft, controlledvoice, said that early on he was never particularly interestedin ESP or other psychic phenomena at all.As a young man, Puthoff had served as a Navy officer forthree years after obtaining a master’s degree. He recalled: