Hal Puthoff
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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So he gave him a call and he said, I'd like to ask you about that Mount Zeal area. He says, oh, you mean where the UFOs were always flying around? Whoa. So I thought, oh, gee, you know. So anyway, this was from Pat Price. I take him seriously. Let me give you an anecdote. I mean, I know it's hard to believe that some of this stuff could possibly be real. Here was a real game changer for me.
One day, Pat Price, during the remote viewing program, came in the office and he said, I got bored last night, so I started looking around and I decided to look at the Oval Office. And as I kind of did my way around the Oval Office, I realized there's something in the Oval Office that will harm him and he will not get through his second term.
And I'm thinking to myself, oh, my God, you know, I have to report that to the CIA contract matter, which I did. And so they sent a team over looking for, you know, hidden microwaves, hidden toxic substances. Well, they didn't come up with anything. Of course, we now know from history it was the tape recorder that did them in.
And he couldn't make it through his second term because he – So this was during the Nixon administration? Yeah, Nixon administration. Wow. And so interestingly enough, when he reported that, I said, oh, my God. That means Spiro Agnew will be president because he was the vice president. And he says, no, he goes first. Now, it turned out he did go first because of some money laundering scheme.
So when I sit down and try to say, OK, what are the statistics – of having somebody see that a president is going to make it through his next term and his vice president is not going to take over because he goes first. I mean, the odds of that, I mean, there's just no doubt that that means it's really something.
Yeah, right.
That's right. I remember that.
Now, one thing you may be surprised to learn, and you've asked me from time to time, well, you know, what did I think as I'm facing into all this stuff? We, obviously, as physicists, think about time going forward in a reasonable way. And as I mentioned, the Princeton lab... got involved. Robert John at Princeton was very good in quantum theory and so on.
And he knows that in quantum theory, time is kind of a slippery slope. You know, we have the space-time metric and the possibility of maybe seeing something in the future or something in the past. And so he did a series of remote viewing experiments very much like what we were doing. But
Sometimes he would have somebody go to a site and then wait a week and have somebody describe where the person went. Or he might have somebody describe where a person went, but the person didn't go until a week later. And so he did a lot of experiments. which, by the way, were good enough.
He also got it published in the Proceedings of the IEEE, Institute of Electronics Engineers, a couple years after our paper, like 78 or so. And so it turned out that the results, either looking a bit into the future, a bit into the past, the results were just as good. So that sort of helped solve another problem for us because we were always... I mean, I can't blame the skeptics coming forward.
In fact, our favorite phrase is, as far as remote viewing goes, there are two outcomes. People investigate it and know it works. People don't and know it can't. And that's sort of it. So anyway, you know, a big thing that we always got pushed on was, well, if these people are so psychic, why aren't they rich? Why aren't they at Las Vegas? Why aren't they doing silver futures or whatever? Right.
Well, it turned out I had a chance to test that because, as it turns out, my wife, Adrienne Kennedy, was on the board of a new grammar school that was being set up in the Bay Area where we were at the time. And so... I was trying to raise money because they were about $25,000 short.
And so I went to a wealthy dentist I knew of and said, you know, would you mind giving $25,000 for this school that's just being set up or short? He says, no, wait a minute. I know who you are. You have that ESP program over at SRI, don't you? And I said, yeah. He said, tell you what, I do silver futures.
If you can get your ESP people to tell me what's happening each day, the next day in Silver Futures, I will follow what you tell me and I'll bet on it and see if I make money based on that. And tell you what, whatever money I get, I'll give your school 10% of what I make. And don't worry, if I lose money, I won't charge you something. So anyway, that was interesting.
Well, by now in the program, we recognize that, okay, there's the bell curve, sort of anybody can do it to some degree. So I simply went to the board of directors of the school and said, we're going to go into Silver Futures to make our missing $25,000.
But I'm not going to ask you what you think the market's going to do the next day because that will depend on what you've read or what you hope for or whatever, whatever, whatever. We're going to do something different. I'm going to pick a couple of objects, objects that are very different from each other. I'm going to label one of them, mark it up. I'm going to label the other one market down.
And I want you to describe to me today the object I'm going to show you tomorrow, which will depend on what the market does. And so, okay, and for Crash Course, I gave them this shortened version of how, you know, don't try to image it. Just try to get – it's a visceral thing. How do you feel about it? What's the sort of texture of it and so on?
And, Jamie, can you pull up that first of the – it shows the – the wooden figurine and the tape measure. If you could show that, yeah. So on a given day, I have two objects, and of course they're different as they can be in case you get a lousy description or whatever. So on a given day, that's a couple of objects I picked out, and I labeled the one to myself.
I labeled the one on the left, mark it up. The one on the right, mark it down. But they have no idea what my objects are. Right. So the next day, you get the following slide.
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