An Evaluation of Remote Viewing: Research and Applications

This is the American Institutes for Research's 1995 report, commissioned by the Central Intelligence Agency, reviewing the government funded Star Gate remote viewing program run through SAIC, and it includes separate appendices by the statistician Jessica Utts, who argued the data showed a genuine anomalous effect, and the psychologist Raymond Hyman, who argued the effect could plausibly be explained by conventional means. Its strength is that structure, a government commissioned review that presents both sides of a genuine scientific dispute in the reviewers' own words rather than adjudicating it for the reader, giving direct access to the actual disagreement. Its limit is that it is a program review rather than a controlled experiment itself, so a claim about remote viewing's validity needs the underlying experimental studies Utts and Hyman are each independently arguing about, not this report's summary alone.