THE 1973 REMOTE VIEWING PROBE
OF THE PLANET JUPITER
By Ingo Swann
December 12, 1995
The update to this file is in the form of adding a pertinent graphic showing
a page of the written impressions from the session. If you have already read
the file, and merely wish to view/download the graphic, click
HERE.
As everyone knows, an amusing but large media flap regarding remote viewing is
presently occurring (the 29th one by my count). The flap majorly focusses on a
situation involving intelligence community interests in psychoenergetics
research that began over twenty-five years ago. Most of the research took
place under the excellent auspices of Stanford Research Institute (SRI) now
renamed SRI International, the second largest "think tank" in the U.S.
The present media flap is distorting the original basis for the early interest
in the search for psychoenergetics applications.
Because of this, the former director of the project has suggested that complete
information now be made available for public access via the Web regarding a
series of early psychoenergetic experiments.
The former director (always my master, I always his slave) has asked me to begin
the public access by entering into the Net the full story of the several
experiments. This will be the first of nine other entries to follow.
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"Background". In 1973, mainstream science, academe and media
were unequivocally opposed to any kind of parapsychology or psychoenergetics
research. It thus came as something of a cultural shock when the nation's
second largest "think tank" undertook that kind of research. The resulting
first flap was enormous, largely because of SRI's high scientific standing and
its military and intelligence community affiliations.
The Jupiter Probe was one of a number of early experiments designed to try to
discover the dimensions and extent of human remote sensing faculties. It was
felt that radical experiments should be undertaken in the attempt to establish
the dimensions of those faculties.
The SRI project's extremely illustrious sponsors (you know who) concurred.
"Several" radical experiments were then designed, and their protocols were
examined in advance by a board of noted scientists and overseers.
One such radical experiment, the "Jupiter Probe," took place in 1973 at Stanford
Research Institute (SRI) under the excellent auspices of Dr. H.E. Puthoff and
Mr. Russell Targ (both esteemed physicists) and other competent scientists of
the Radio Physics Laboratory.
This particular experiment has occasionally undergone ridicule published in the
skeptical media and elsewhere. The following story will reveal that no skeptic
has ever read through the details of the experiment.
There are two important elements of which skeptics try to deprive public
understanding:
- that the Jupiter Probe was only an exploratory experiment, and "not"
meant as a "claim" of anything; and
- knowledge of its illustrious sponsorship and scientific
oversight.
However, the radical topic of the experiment, remote sensing of the distant
planet, brought undue luminosity in a world where marginal Zener card guessing
was the standard parapsychology fare. The very idea of the radical topic
unnerved not only conventional academic concepts, but conventional
parapsychology concepts as well.
"THE ELEMENTS OF THE EXPERIMENT"
"PURPOSES OF THE EXPERIMENT":
- To try to ascertain if long-distance remote sensing could extend to a very
far distance;
- To record the time it took before impressions began to be given, and (3) to
compare the impressions with published scientific feedback.
"REQUIREMENTS FOR THE EXPERIMENT": A far-distant target
and the expectation of scientific feedback.
"TARGET SELECTED": The planet Jupiter.
"FEEDBACK EXPECTATION": Technical data and analyses drawn
from information telemetered back to Earthbase from NASA spacecraft and which
information would be published in scientific media: the Pioneer 10 and 11
"flybys" of 1973 and 1974, and the later Voyager 1 and 2 probes of 1979.
"DATE OF EXPERIMENT (#46 in a series"): April 27,
1973.
The first Jupiter bound NASA spacecraft, Pioneer 10, was already enroute to the
planet, but yet too far distant to send data back to Earthbase, principally at
Jet Propulsion Laboratories (JPL).
"RAW DATA YiELD OF THE EXPERIMENT":
- One standard 8&1/2" x 11" page containing three drawings;
- Two and 1/6th pages of verbal data recorded and transcribed.
"GUARDING OF THE RAW DATA" The raw data needed to be
independently guarded so that it could not be said it was altered after the
fact. Thirty copies were prepared of the raw data, including statements
regarding the purposes and design of the experiment.
Three copies were held by the Project's sponsors. Ten copies of the raw data
were offered to scientists noted for their integrity, including two interested
astrophysicists then at Jet Propulsion Laboratories. All accepted their
copies.
One copy each was offered to a noted American astronomer and to a famous
science popularizer. Both of these copies were rejected and returned, one with
a signed letter of ridicule which resides in my archives.
Telephone requests to two noted skeptics to safeguard the raw data were
refused.
The remainder of the copies were distributed among scientists at SRI and at
other places in the Silicon Valley area. One or two of those copies were
covertly sold to a San Francisco reporter, and thereafter widely
published.
The prepared copies were also xeroxed by others and more widely
distributed. I have acquired some of these for my archives, and which contain
humorous notations on the margins.
"PRE-FEEDBACK YIELD OF THE RAW DATA: Before feedback was
obtainable, the raw data was broken down by SRI analysts into major data
categories, as will be shown ahead. After feedback became possible, no reason
was discerned to alter the categories. The categories comprise "all" of the raw
data, and nothing was later deleted or added.
"FEEDBACK SOURCES": First scientific and technological
feedback sources began becoming available in September, 1973, four months after
the experiment took place. Additional feedback sources continued to accumulate
by stages up through 1980.
Seven feedback sources of scientific and technical references were
ultimately utilized as feedback sources:
- Aviation Week & Space Technology
- Newsweek
- Science
- Science News
- Scientific American
- Time
- U.S. News & World Report
"THE DECISION TO CONSTRUCT A FORMAL REPORT: The raw data
indicate that the viewer had identified a Ring around Jupiter, a sketch of which
appears in the raw data (presented ahead) and is also verbally
identified.
NOTE: Press HERE to view/download the graphic.
Conventional scientific wisdom held that Jupiter did not possess any Rings.
This particular datum was one reason the experiment was laughed out of town by
many.
The existence of the Ring was discovered and confirmed in early 1979, six
years after the Jupiter Probe had taken place.
Dr. Puthoff, the SRI project's director, was first notified of the
discovery by telephone from one of the JPL astrophysicists analyzing the NASA
data -- and who was also one of the original guardians of the raw data. The
existence of the Ring "came as a complete surprise to scientists."
Because the Ring correlated so well with the remote viewing data, a
decision was taken by SRI staff to organize all of the raw data, compare it to
scientific confirmation sources, and construct a formal report.
The report was prepared by the genius of Ms. Beverly Humphrey, a research
associate and statistical analyst of the SRI Radio Physics Laboratory, on behalf
of H. E. Puthoff and his associate, R. Targ. The formal report was entitled
"Swann's Remote Viewing Probe of Jupiter."
The raw data comprised only four pages. But the confirmatory data appeared
throughout the published scientific and technical articles and papers. It was
decided that all of these should be included in their entirety to ensure that no
scientific passage was inadvertently used out of context. The feedback data
therefore amounted to about 300 pages.
The technical references utilized as of 1980 were meant to be
representative of then current Jovian research and did not constitute a totally
exhaustive scientific periodical collection. Because of this, no "Executive
Summary" of the experiment and its results was undertaken.
This present document now represents an "informal" summary.
"DISPOSITION OF THE FORMAL REPORT": Ten original 300-page
copies of the formal report were produced. Two copies were immediately stolen
from the otherwise secured offices of SRI. It was presumed that this theft was
engineered by covert foreign nationals -- somewhat irrationally since copies of
the report were being freely offered.
I retained two copies for my archives, Dr. Puthoff retained one, and one
was entered into the Stanford Research Institute library.
One copy was unofficially accepted by a ranking NASA official on the
understanding that he would deny accepting it if identified.
A copy was offered to the leading Skeptical Organization in our fair
country. The offer was declined.
I don't know what happened to the remaining copies. Additional xeroxed
copies were offered to a number of scientists. Some accepted, but others now
declined to take possession of them upon the grounds that no one wanted to
possess a document which suggested that a remote viewer had identified Jupiter's
Ring before science had.
The formal report of the Jupiter Probe, containing its massive confirmatory
data, then descended into obscurity. No one who thereafter mocked the
experiment has ever read it or has wanted to read it.
"ADDITIONAL PRE-FEEDBACK REPORTS OF THE EXPERIMENT": A
review of the Jupiter Probe was included in "Mind Reach" published in 1977 by
H.E. Puthoff and Russell Targ (Delacorte Press/Eleanor Friede) with an
Introduction by eminent Dr. Margaret Mead.
This in-print 1977 rendering identifies all major categories of the raw
data -- including the mention of the Ring, two years before it was
scientifically discovered in 1979.
Additionally, before feedback became possible, the entirety of the Jupiter
raw data, or parts thereof, were published in over a hundred media sources
world-wide.
"TWO PARTICIPANTS IN THE JUPITER PROBE EXPERIMENT": Two
viewers simultaneously took part in the Jupiter Probe, myself (in California)
and Mr. Harold Sherman (in Arkansas.)
Mr. Sherman was a noted psychic who had earlier (in the late 1930s) taken
part in long-distance viewing between New York City and the Arctic. Those
exceedingly successful experiments were undertaken in conjunction with the noted
Arctic explorer, Sir Hubert Wilkins ("See": "Thoughts Through Space" by Sir
Hubert Wilkins and Harold M. Sherman, Creative Age Press, New York,
1942).
Unfortunately, this significant book regarding long-distance sensing came
out during the emergencies of World War II and didn't achieve the attention it
deserved.
The reason for inviting Mr. Sherman to participate was to see if two
viewers, separated by over 2,000 miles, would report the same or different data.
With certain exceptions, the two sets of data corresponded nicely.
Mr. Sherman's contributions were not included in the 1980 formal report
because he was not a consultant of SRI and the costs of analyzing his data could
not be justified.
- Immediately below are presented "all" of Swann's raw data.
- "Immediately following" the raw data, the different major categories
will be found associated to scientific and feedback sources. You may wish at
this point to turn directly to the feedback sets which follow the raw
data.
"THE RAW DATA"
Although not indicated in the record, the experiment began promptly at 6:00
p.m. PST. The first response occurred at 6:03:25 - perhaps meaning that it took
that long "to get to Jupiter," or that long for images to form. The first
data-rich response was not made until just after 6:04:13 - a four minute
delay.
You will also note that an average delay of 2 minutes occurs between the
verbalized data sets. The reason for those delays has not been
understood.
SWANN JUPITER PROBE
(April 27, 1973)
Experiment 46
No big sharp noises for the next 1/2 hour please.
6:03:25 (3 seconds fast) There's a planet with stripes.
6:04:13 I hope it's Jupiter. I think that it must have an extremely large
hydrogen mantle. If a space probe made contact with that, it would be maybe
80,000 - 120,000 miles out from the planet surface.
6:06 So I'm approaching it on the tangent where I can see it's a half
moon, in other words half lit half dark. If I move around to the lit side it's
distinctly yellow toward the right. (Hal - Which direction you had to
move?)
6:06:20 Very high in the atmosphere there are crystals, they glitter, maybe
the stripes are like bands of crystals, maybe like rings of Saturn, though not
far out like that, very close within the atmosphere. ["Note": see sketch of
ring in the raw data drawing ahead.] (Unintelligible sentence.) I bet you
they'll reflect radio probes. Is that possible if you had a cloud of
crystals that were assaulted by different radio waves?
(Hal - That's right.)
6:08:00 Now I'll go down through. It feels really good there (laugh). I
said that before, didn't I? Inside those cloud layers, those crystal layers,
they look beautiful from the outside, from the inside they look like rolling gas
clouds - eerie yellow light, rainbows.
6:10:20 I get the impression, thought I don't see, that it's liquid.
6:10:55 Then I came through the cloud cover, the surface it looks like sand
dunes. They're made of very large grade crystals so they slide. Tremendous
winds sort of like maybe the prevailing winds of earth, but very close to the
surface of Jupiter. From that view the horizon looks orangish or rose-colored
but overhead it's kind of greenish-yellow.
6:12:35 If I look to the right there is an enormous mountain range.
6:13:18 If I'm giving a description of where I've gone and am, it would be
approximately where Alaska is if the sun were directly overhead which it is.
The sun looks like it has a green corona, seems smaller to me.
(Hal - What color is the sun?)
White.
6:14:45 I feel that there's liquid somewhere. Those mountains are very huge
but they still don't poke up through the crystal cloud cover. You know I had a
dream once something like this where the cloud cover was a great arc, sweeps
over the entire heaven. Those grains which make that sand orange are quite
large. They have a polished surface and they look something like amber or like
obsidian but they're yellowish and not as heavy. The wind blows them, they
slide along.
6:16:37 If I turn, the whole thing seems enormously flat. I mean if I get
the feeling that if a man stood on those sands I think he would sink into them
(laugh); maybe that's where that liquid feeling comes from.
6:18:10 I see something that looks like a tornado. Is there a thermal
inversion here? I bet there is. I bet you that the surface of Jupiter will
give a very high infrared count (?), reading (?)
(Hal - reading)
(inaudible sentence). The heat is held down.
6:19:55 I seem to be stuck, not moving. I'll move more towards the equator.
I get the impression that that must be a band of crystals similar to the outer
ones, kind of bluish.
They seem to be sort of in orbit, permanent orbit down through another layer
farther down which are like our clouds but moving fast. There's another area:
liquid like water. Looks like it's got icebergs in it but they're not
icebergs.
6:22:20 Tremendous wind. It's colder here, maybe it's because there's not a
thermal inversion there.
6:23:25 I'm back. OK.
(Hal - very interesting.)
The atmosphere of Jupiter is very thick. I mean ... (Ingo draws) ...
Explanation of drawing: This is what appears to be a hydrogen mantle about
100,000 miles off the surface. Those here are bands of crystals, kind of
elements. They're pretty close to the surface. And beneath those are
layers of clouds or what seem to be prevailing winds. Beneath that is the
surface which I saw was, well, it looked like shifting sands made out of some
sort of slippery granulated stuff. And off in the distance, I guess, to the
East was a very high mountain chain 30,000 feet or so, quite large mountains. I
feel these crystals will probably bounce radio waves. They're that
type.
Generally, that's all.
(One page of raw data drawings now follows.)
THE MAJOR DATA CATEGORIES COMPARE WITH CONFIRMATORY FEEDBACK":
I will now present each of the categories by reiterating the raw data statements
and give samples from confirmatory sources -although numerous other sources are
provided for each category in the formal document.
"HYDROGEN COMPOSITION"
1. "Hydrogen mantle":
"Swann": I think that it must have an extremely large hydrogen mantle. If a
space probe made contact with that, it would be maybe 80,000-120,000 miles out
from the planet's surface."
"Scientific American" (September, 1973, p. 121): "Above the hypothetical
core is a thick stratum in which hydrogen is by far the most abundant element;
this stratum makes up almost all the mass and volume of the planet. The
hydrogen is separated into two layers; in both it is liquid, but it is in
different physical
states.
"The inner layer extends from the core to a distance of approximately 45,000
kilometers from the center, where the pressure is estimated to be about three
million earth atmospheres ... In this layer the hydrogen is in the liquid
metallic state, a form of the element that has not yet been observed in the
laboratory because it exists only at extremely high pressures. ... The outer
layer extends to about 70,000 kilometers and consists mainly of liquid hydrogen
in its molecular form.
"Above the layer of molecular hydrogen, and extending another 1,000 kilometers
to the cloud tops is the gaseous hydrogen atmosphere."
"Science" (Vol. 183, January 25, 1974, p. 317): "Jupiter appears to have
an extensive hydrogen torus surrounding it in the orbital plane of Io."
ATMOSPHERIC":
1. "Storms, wind":"
Swann": "Tremendous winds sort of like maybe the prevailing winds of earth but
very close to the surface. I see something that looks like a tornado."
"Scientific American" (March, 1976, p. 50): "On Jupiter the
zones and the Great Red Spot are high-pressure regions (anticyclonic) and the
belts are low-pressure (cyclonic). ... In that respect they resemble tropical
cyclones (rotating hurricanes) and mature extratropical cyclones on the
earth."
"Time" (March 12, 1979, p. 87): "Yet it was Jupiter's stormy weather
that caused the greatest excitement. Voyager's electronic eyes spotted dozens
of storms across Jupiter's banded face. Most of them measure about 6,000 miles
wide, far larger than their earthly counterparts. ... University of Arizona
astronomer Bradford A. Smith was both awed and puzzled by these storms."
2. "High infrared reading":
"Swann": "I bet you that the surface of Jupiter will give a very high infrared
count (?), reading (?). The heat is held down."
"Science", Vol. 183, Jan. 25, 1974, p. 303: "The Pioneer 10
infrared radiometer has established that the excess radiation is 2 to 2.5 times
the solar input and that there is no temperature change at the cloud top levels
across the evening terminator of the planet.
"Science News", Vol 105, Apr. 13, 1974, p. 236: "The surprise is that
the heating should begin at such lofty altitudes, particularly with no
indications either from earthly observations or from the infrared mapping device
aboard. 'It's a huge discrepancy,' admits Kilore. 'I can't explain it.' The
closest thing to a theory is that perhaps a haze or dust layer, while confusing
watchers on earth, created a greater greenhouse effect than anyone had expected,
trapping and building the sun's incoming energy to unanticipated
heights."
3. "Temperature inversion":
"Swann": "Is there a thermal inversion here? I bet there is.
"Science", Vol. 188, May 2, 1975, p. 475: "In particular, the
appearance of the inversion at about 260 K is strikingly similar to the Pioneer
10 entry profile, although the Pioneer 11 measurement was obtained on the dark
limb of Jupiter. Thus, the inversion cannot be ascribed to heating by
particulate absorption of solar radiation, unless rapid circulation at the polar
latitude is sufficient to maintain this effect across the terminator."
4. "Cloud color and configuration":
"Swann": "From that view the horizon looks orangish or rosecolored, but
overhead it's kind of greenish-yellow. You know I had a dream once something
like this where the cloud cover was a great arc, sweeps over the entire
heaven."
"Science News", Vol 115, March 10, 1979, p. 148: "Still, striking
reds, oranges, yellows, brown and even blue make Jupiter's convoluted patterns
seem all the more fantastic. ... A major goal of Voyager is to find out the
nature and chemistry of the coloring agents. ... Phosphene and other candidates
have been suggested, but they have been far from certain."
5. "Water and ice crystals":
"Swann": "I get the impression, thought I don't see, that it is liquid. I get
the impression that that must be a band of crystals similar to the outer ones,
kind of bluish. They seem to be sort of in orbit, permanent orbit down through
another layer farther down which are like our clouds but moving fast. There's
another area: liquid like water. Looks like it's got icebergs in it but
they're not icebergs."
"Science News" (Vol. 106, September 21, 1974, p. 186): "Farther
down may be frozen water crystals and possibly even liquid water, the Pioneer
researchers suggest, although water has never been observed there."
"Ibid". (February 15, 1975, p. 102): "Water vapor in the atmosphere of
Jupiter -- 'The first oxygen-bearing molecule identified in the outer planets'
-- has been discovered by a team of astronomers from the University of
Arizona."
MAGNETIC AND ELECTROMAGNETIC"
1. "Auroras":
"Swann": Inside those cloud layers, those crystal layers, they look beautiful
from the outside [i.e., spaceside], but from the inside they look like rolling
gas clouds -- eerie yellow light, rainbows."
"Time" (March 12, 1979, p. 87): Voyager also discovered a dazzling,
doughnut-shaped cloud of electrically charged particles that formed displays
similar to the earth's northern lights."
"Science News" (Vol. 118, July 21, 1979: "One major product of the field
is the region of brilliant auroras discovered around the planet by Voyager 1 and
further studied by its successor [Voyager 2]."
"GRAVITATIONAL PHENOMENA"
1. "The Ring":
"Swann": "Very high in the atmosphere there are crystals, they glitter, maybe
the stripes are like bands of crystals, maybe "like rings" [emphasis added] on
Saturn, "thought not far out" [emphasis added] like that, very close within the
atmosphere. I bet you they'll reflect radio probes. Is that possible if you
had a cloud of crystals that were assaulted by different radio waves?"
("See" sketch of Ring in raw data.)
"Time" (March 19, 1979, p. 86):"Coming within 278,000 km (172,400
miles) of the swirling Jovian cloud tops, the robot survived intense radiation,
peered deep into the planet's stormtossed cloud cover, provided startling views
of the larger Jovian moons "and, most surprising of all, revealed the presence
of a thin, flat ring around the great planet" [emphasis added]. Said University
of Arizona Astronomer Bradford Smith: 'We're standing here with our mouths
open, reluctant to tear ourselves away'."
"SURFACE PHENOMENA"
1. "Liquid composition":
"Swann": I feel that there's liquid somewhere. If I turn, the whole thing
seems enormously flat. I mean if I get the feeling that if a man stood on those
sands I think he would sink into them (laugh); maybe that's where the liquid
feeling comes from.
"Aviation Week & Space Technology" (November 19, 1973, p. 53): "A
reason is that Jupiter may be all atmosphere. Lack of radar reflectivity points
to a gel-like rather than solid core."
"Science News" (Vol. 110, July 17, 1976, p. 44): "In fact, liquidity
seems to be the most salient overall characteristic of Jupiter. ... The outer
layer [the "mantle"] is gaseous hydrogen mostly. As the pressure increases the
hydrogen gradually passes into a liquid state. ... The liquid molecular hydrogen
changes to liquid metallic hydrogen at 25,000 kilometers down."
2. "Mountain range":
"Swann": "If I look to the right here there is an a enormous mountain range.
Those mountains are very huge but they still don't poke up through the crystal
cloud cover. And off in the distance, I guess, to the East, was a very high
mountain chain 30,000 feet or so, quite large mountains."
("Discussion": This mountain range thing, plus the Ring thing, damned the
Jupiter Probe from the start because prevailing scientific opinion denied their
possibility.)
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"I will now take this opportunity to point out that ALL the skeptical attacks on
the Jupiter Probe experiment focus on holding the mountain thing up to ridicule
-- BUT THAT NONE OF THEM MENTION THE VERY SUCCESSFUL RING THING".
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(It "is" true that before the NASA crafts approached Jupiter, prevailing
scientific wisdom held that the planet was "mostly gaseous" and/or "mostly
liquid." However, this "wisdom" began to change:)
"Science" (Vol. 183, January 25, 1974): "The magnetic field
measurements at Jupiter will also enable us to investigate more exactly the core
of the planet. Several models of the core have been proposed which include
either frozen or liquid metallic hydrogen as well as a rocky core consisting of
several tens of earth masses."
[[[Now, pay attention here: "a rocky core consisting of "several tens of earth
masses""? SEVERAL TENS OF EARTH MASSES! Well, if you enlarge earth's mass by
ten or twenty or more times, then a "30,000-foot mountain range" would seem like
a hill there.]]]
"Science News" (Vol. 110, July 10, 1975): "One of the most
famous features of Jupiter's atmosphere is the great Red Spot. Astronomers have
engaged in endless speculation and argument about its nature. Observers have
suggested that it was a column of the atmosphere hooked on the top of an
extra-high mountain ...".
"Scientific American" (September, 1975, p. 121): The model allows for a
small rocky core ['small,' yet several times earth's mass] at the center of the
planet ... The core would be composed mainly of iron and silicates, the
materials that make up most of the earth's bulk. Such a core is expected for
cosmogonic reasons: ... The core cannot be detected through gravitational
studies, however, so that its existence cannot be proved." [I.e., cannot be
detected because the crystals in the upper atmosphere reflect all radio or other
detection signals.]
"Scientific American" (March, 1976, p. 53): "Because of the Great Red
Spot's long lifetime, its constancy in latitude and its uniqueness, it seemed
that it must be connected with an underlying solid object or topographic feature
that was giving rise directly to the flow patterns at the visible surface [cloud
cover].
"A Taylor column is the cylinder of stagnant fluid that was believed to
join the solid object to the red cloud we see at the top of the Jovian
atmosphere. ... Finally, other zones seem to have their own red spots,
suggesting that the Great Red Spot is not unique [i.e., in being attached to a
high geological formation.]"
[[[Mountains, by golly, high ones which poke up and distort the storm-cloud
flows. However, scientists continued to argue the "solid core problem" until
just recently.]]]
"The Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet impacts on Jupiter". Not long ago, a series of
twenty or so comets impacted Jupiter one after another.
The largest of them left "impact craters" so huge and so high that their
circular contours can easily be seen emerging from the cloud cover which is
several miles thick.
Since the impacts, the mountainous craters can still be seen when that side
of Jupiter is turned toward earth.
Well, if there were not mountains on Jupiter back in 1973, there are some
there now -- huge and big, and well over 30,000 feet high. It is quite clear
now that Jupiter does have a solid core some tens of masses the size of earth's
own mass."
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SYNOPSIS OF JUPITER RAW DATA ELEMENTS CONFIRMED BY SCIENTIFIC AND
TECHNOLOGICAL FEEDBACK"
1. "Hydrogen mantle": Confirmed, September 1973, 1974, 1975.
2. "Storms, wind": Confirmed (as to dimensions and unexpected intensity)
1976, 1970.
3. "Something like a tornado". Confirmed (as strong rotating cyclones),
1976.
4. "High infrared reading". Confirmed, 1974.
5. "Temperature inversion": Confirmed, 1975.
6. "Cloud color and configuration": Confirmed, 1979.
7. "Dominant orange color": Confirmed, 1979.
8. "Water and ice crystals": Water possible there, but ice crystallization of
other elements Confirmed, 1974.
9. "Crystal bands reflect radio probes". Confirmed, 1975.
10. "Magnetic and electromagnetic Auroras ("Rainbows""): Confirmed,
1979.
11. "The RING": Confirmed, 1979, not only as to its existence, but as being
"inside" the crystallized atmospheric layers.
12. "Liquid composition": Confirmed, 1973, 1976, as hydrogen in liquid
form.
13. "Mountain range (mountains) and solid core": Probably Confirmed, 1994.
Confirmed existence of solid core several tens of masses of earth's. Recent
comet impacts reveal enormous craters extending through thick cloud cover, one
approximately the size of 1/2 of the United States.
14. "Confirmed elements of the raw data's three drawings":
(a) The large drawing of the general layers of Jupiter's several kinds of
atmospheric strata was generally correct. If interested, please compare with
diagrams of Jupiter's layers found in:
"Science News" (Vol. 106, September 21, 1974, p. 187).
"Scientific American" (September, 1975, p. 121).
"Time" (September, 1974, p. 83).
(b) The second smaller drawing probably refers to the planet's hydrogen
torus, but was not indicated as such in the raw data.
(c) Diagrams and discussion of the Ring can be found in:
"Aviation Week & Space Technology" (June 16, 1979, pp. 16-17, and p.
20.
"Science" (Vol. 206, November 23, 1979, pp. 926-927, and pp. 932-933.)
"Pictures" of the Ring and its placement within the crystal bands, obtained by
Voyager 2 can be found in
"Science News":
Vol. 115, February 16, 1976, pp. 108-9;
Vol. 115, March 10, 1979, p. 149;
Vol. 115, July 14, 1979, p. 20.
***
No scientific or technological feedback was achieved regarding: "Then I
came from the cloud cover, the surface it looks like sand dunes. They're made
of very large grade crystals so they slide."
"Those grains which made that sand orange are quite large. They have a
polished surface and they look something like amber or like obsidian but they're
yellowish and not as heavy."
"Beneath that is the surface which I saw was, well, it looked like shifting
sands made out of some sort of slippery granulated stuff."
"Early Reactions Regarding Experiment #46"
The first reactions to the Jupiter Probe experiment were universally
negative, including those of the sponsors. The core of the problem was that the
raw data included mention of rings and mountains. Prevailing scientific wisdom
as of 1973 against the possibility of Jovian rings and mountains and was quite
adamant at the time.
Attitudes against the experiment began to change after the hydrogen
components and the crystalline layered structure of the Jovian atmospheres were
confirmed (late 1973 through 1974.)
When it was seen that the viewer's sketch of the complex atmospheric layers
quite nicely matched subsequent scientific renderings, this major data category
was accepted as "roughly" evidential.
The viewer's ring and mountains were now thought of imaginary noise entered
into a long-distance signal line which was minimally evidential.
In any event, experiments were needed with more immediate feedback
possibilities, and an enormous number of these were designed and undertaken.
These produced more immediate results, and which were used to expand
understanding of remote viewing potentials.
Had it not been for the fact that stolen copies of the raw data had been
leaked to the media, the existence of Experiment #46 might never have publicly
surfaced. Neither SRI workers, the sponsors, nor myself ever sought to offer
the experiment as "claims" of anything.
But now in retrospect, it was fortunate that the thefts took place because
the entirety and parts of the raw data early appeared in the media, including
"The National Enquirer". Thus, the raw data was publicly available as of
1974.
Experiment #46 lay obscure between 1974 and 1979. No continuing attempt
was made to feedback other of its categories, and the SRI work progressed along
more immediately fruitful lines.
The 1979 scientific discovery and confirmation of the Jovian Ring came as
one of the larger shocks and "surprises" in astronomical history.
The entirety of the Jupiter Probe raw data was now organized and compared
to scientific feedback -- after which all of the data, except the mountains,
could be seen as near-approximately confirmed.
Now, however, the formal report was generally rejected on the grounds that
no respectable scientist wanted to be identified as having read it. Yet word
got around.
Only the mountains remained unconfirmed. When skeptics elected to amuse
themselves regarding the Probe it was this single item they focussed on.
Request for Help"
Additional scientific data achieved since 1980 may either add to or detract
from the confirmatory data utilized for the 1980 report.
Any Net reader of this document may feel free to contribute additive or
detractive data. Such data, however, must be achieved from identified
scientific or technological sources and introduced in their entirety with proper
identifying references so that others can independently check them out. Any
help along these lines would be appreciated.
The Jupiter Probe is an historical remote viewing artifact whose documents
must stand or fall on their own merits or demerits. Since the history of the
SRI project is based on "other" in-depth experiments, whether the Jupiter Probe
stands or falls will have no bearing on that history.
I presently have no resources to track down scientific and technical
articles on the topic of the Shoemaker-Levy 9 impacts on Jupiter, or regarding
the craters visible as seen on a recent NOVA TV program. Any help out
there?
**Copyright 1996 by Ingo Swann. Permission to redistribute granted, if done
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