Person
Ingo Swann
Born in Telluride, Colorado, in 1933, Swann was a painter in New York who became the most tested psychic of the Cold War. He coined the term 'remote viewing', and he proposed viewing a target from nothing but its map coordinates. With Hal Puthoff and Russell Targ at SRI he helped turn that into a CIA-funded program, and he later developed the step-by-step 'coordinate remote viewing' method used to train the Army's psychic spies at Fort Meade. He died in New York in 2013.
On the record
- 1971–72: out-of-body experiments with Karlis Osis at the American Society for Psychical Research; Osis judged the hits at odds of 40,000 to one.
- 1972: at Stanford, the shielded magnetometer of physicist Arthur Hebard appeared to change its output while Swann focused on it, which helped bring CIA funding to SRI.
- 1972 onward: SRI remote-viewing research with Puthoff and Targ (Project Scanate), and training of military remote viewers in coordinate remote viewing.
- Books: To Kiss Earth Goodbye (1975), Everybody's Guide to Natural ESP (1991), Penetration (1998).
Claims (4)
April 1973: he 'saw' a ring around Jupiter, six years before Voyager 1 found one.Swann on JupiterfirsthandSourced, unconfirmedIngo Swann
In the same 1973 sessions he described a magnetic field at Mercury, which Mariner 10 detected in 1974.firsthandSourced, unconfirmedIngo Swann
A secretive 'Mr. Axelrod' had him remote-view bases, towers and humanlike beings on the far side of the Moon.Swann on the MoonfirsthandSourced, unconfirmedIngo Swann
Extraterrestrials live among us; he wrote of meeting one, a woman, in a Los Angeles supermarket.firsthandSourced, unconfirmedIngo Swann
What Ingo Swann said (8 claims)
“AS11-37-5438 shows a glowing cigar with a vapour trail, and AS16-120-19238 an enormous cigar casting its shadow.”analysisSourced, unconfirmedApollo cigar photos
“Remote-viewing the Moon, he saw rows of 'tractor tread marks', green lights 'like lights at football arenas' on towers of thin struts 'over a hundred feet' tall, dust floating in the air and a thumping noise.”firsthandSourced, unconfirmedSwann on the Moon
“A very large tower stood on a crater rim, 'about as high as the Secretariat building at the United Nations'.”firsthandSourced, unconfirmedSwann on the Moon
“Later sessions showed domes, bridges, platforms, mining or earth-moving, and naked humanoids.”firsthandSourced, unconfirmedSwann on the Moon
“Axelrod's group already knew of non-human activity on the Moon and wanted to know whether the occupants could detect psychic spying.”secondhandSourced, unconfirmedSwann on the Moon
“Axelrod broke his pencil when Swann reported the lights.”firsthandSourced, unconfirmedSwann on the Moon
“George Leonard's sketches in Somebody Else Is On the Moon (1976) resemble what Swann saw.”analysisSourced, unconfirmedSwann on the Moon
“A woman in a Los Angeles supermarket (1976), whom Axelrod called dangerous, was one of them.”secondhandSourced, unconfirmedSwann on the Moon
Cases (5)
- 1969The lights at Aristarchus
- 1972The CIA starts testing psychics
- 1973Ingo Swann travels to Jupiter
- 1984Remote viewing Mars, a million years ago
- 1995Stargate is shut down
Connected
SRI International orgHal Puthoff person'Mr. Axelrod' personCIA reading room: Swann and Sherman Jupiter session (1973) documentIngo Swann, 'Penetration: The Question of Extraterrestrial and Human Telepathy' (1998) document