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Sciences Cutting Edge 89His amazement was heightened when, in discussions afterthe test, Swann explained that he had experienced directvision of the insides of the magnetometer. Apparently themere act of internal observation had resulted in affecting themachine as reflected in the recorder graph.“On the way out, I asked Dr. Hebard to continue monitoringand recording so that we could determine whether theapparatus was behaving erratically,” Puthoff later wrote. “Heagreed and the apparatus was run for over an hour with notrace of noise or nonuniform acitvity.” 28But the next day, a shaken Dr. Hebard said further testingwas useless as the magnetometer was “behaving erratically.” 29Swann recalled that researchers were denied further accessto the magnetometer because it was torn down in an attemptto discover if anything was wrong with it. “They rebuiltthe machine,” Swann recalled with a laugh, “and theywouldn’t let me back in the building.”Puthoff later criticized his own test for not arranging multiplerecordings, thus not being able to objectively validatethat the machine’s interruption occurred internally. He saidthat it took two years for the SRI lab to duplicate Swann’s magnetometertest using another subject. “We were able to set upmore complete protocols,” Puthoff said. “Swann’s case was apilot observation, and later we had a controlled experiment,but with the same results.”The apparent success of Swann’s battle of mind vs.machine so impressed Puthoff that it was the beginning ofa decade-long study of this type of phenomenon at SRI,which resulted in the development of remote viewing.