Jim Marrs - PSI Spies - Amazon S3

Sciences Cutting Edge 91The tests were so successful that Puthoff invited potentialsponsors to participate and determine for themselves the realityof Swann’s powers. Puthoff recalled:Two visitors, representing a potential sponsor, ranIngo through a series of 10 hidden-object-in-a-box experiments.His descriptions were exceptionally goodthat day—motivation was high—but I was especiallyamazed in one of the series when Ingo said, “I see somethingsmall, brown and irregular, sort of like a leaf, orsomething that resembles it, except that it seems verymuch alive, like it’s even moving.” The target chosen byone of the visitors turned out to be a small live moth hehad captured, which indeed did look like a leaf. 31Apparently, prospective sponsors were as impressed asPuthoff with the SRI experiments, for private funding wasforthcoming from Texas chicken restaurant magnate GeorgeW. “Bill” Church, Jr. Swann soon returned to California for anintensive eight-month study.Though utilizing some high-tech refinements, Swannand the SRI researchers continued to conduct the standardparapsychological tests (identifying hidden objects, describingthings in envelopes or boxes, and so forth).The statistical results were encouraging, but one daySwann grew bored. He longed for something more exciting.He remembered the long-distance experiments he haddone in New York with the ASPR, but also recalled the biggestproblem: Critics could always claim that he somehowobtained the name of the target or that the experimenters insome way clued him as to the target. The problem was how