Approved For Release 2008/04/01 : NSA-RDP96X00790R000100040010-3 EL: AN EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHIC PROBE OF THE PLANET JUPITER Harold Sherman Ingo Svann April 27, 1973 ‘Approved For Release 2008/04/01 : NSA-RDP96X00790R000100040010-3 ceeApproved For Release 2008/04/01 : NSA-RDP96X00790R000100040010-3 ‘THE SHERMAN-SWANN FSYCHIC PROLE OF THE PLANET JUPITER As a result of conversutione berwcen Mr, Harula Sherman of Mountain View, Arken Mr. Inge Seann of Sew York, New Vark, and in an atm tempt to carry forward the possible verity of the psychic nature of men, at was decided to hold a psychic probu of the plunet Jupiter. As th uny experiment, the neci ity of feedback potential mast characterize any experimental work undertaken with the psychical nature of men, While the probing by other than physical means of @ far distant planet seems oxtraordinary, 11 was noted that the Jupiter by-pass NASA space module Pioneer 10 was on its way, and hopefully will relay back data as yot not known to science. Based on this situation, it was decided to probe psychically the planet Jupiter, In the evening of April 27. 1873, therefore, Mr. Sherman arranged tu begin b: 8 probe at 8:00 p.m. Central Standard time, and Mr. Swann, currently on the West Coast at 6:00 p.m. Pacific Standard tine. The psychic probes thus took place samultuncously. After one-half hour, Mr. Sherman was reached by telephone by Mr. Swann, and their results coupared. Certain salient points of the obvious similarities between the results of both men follow. The actual responses of both men were recorded and are attached as annex A (Mr. Sherman's response) and annex B (Mr. Swann’ response.) Neither Mr. Sherman mor Mr, Swann claim validity for their results, since to do so would be beside any scientific point. What verification might come from Pioneer 10 remains to be secn, : Approved For Release 2008/04/01 : NSA-RDP96X00790R000100040010-3Approved For Release 2008/04/01 : NSA-RDP96X00790R000100040010-3 SIMILARITIES Sherman Atmosphere: ++sBases, giving off u golaen glow and crystal-like dianons sparkles, + .Biving off a golden glow. It 18 8 gaseous mass o1 myriad colors - yellow, red, ultra: violet, some greens - like a giant fireworks display. ‘The enorucus cloud cover. ‘The enormous cloud cover must be miles deep. Surfac ++:8 reddish-brown formation extending in a curved line as far ay mind's eye can There appoar to be huge volcanic peaks, great cones rising same mil It looks almost metallic ~ molt and sparks red-hot. Approved For Release 2008/04/01 ‘Swann vs:there are crystals, they glitter, Maybe the stripes are like bands of crysta!s... -+.distinetly yellow... Inside those cloud laye: ‘they look beautiful from the outside, from the inside they look 1ike roiling gas clouds - eerie yellow light - rainbows. Then I came through the cloud cover. The utmosphere of Jupiter is very thick. +++the horizon looks orangish or rose-colored,..the whole thing seems enormously flat. There is an enormous mountain ange about 31,000 feet higl those mountains are huge. -+:the surface of Jupiter will give @ high infrared count. ISA-RDP96X00790R000100040010-3Approved For Release 2008/04/01 : NSA-RDP96X00790R000100040010-3 : 3a Sherman Sunn 3. Other surface characteristics: ssefee erystale,,.1 am wonder- = vany of cryrtals...kind of ing 1f they are not icy cold. bluish. It's colder here... -s:mwirling vortices of in- I see something that looks like creasing velocity. @ tornado. -++Powerful magnetic forces... I seem to be stuck, not moving. ++:Minds of terrific velocity... ‘Tremendous winds... ‘There must be water. I feel that there is liquid somewhere...liquid, like water. ‘The atmosphere scems unususlly In the atmosphere are crysta: dense on sone levels and ex- they'll reflect radio probes... tremely rarified on others. another layer farther down like our clouds. Neither Sherman nor Swann said anything that contradicts the other, but both gave certain individual impressions: 1, Collision of Pioneer 10 with the ; 1, Describes an extremely large hydro- largest of Jupiter's moons unless this gen mantle 80,000 to 120,000 miles course is ultimately altered, out from planet's surfa 2, Some 17 moons, some undiscovered. | 2. Deflection of radio waves. 3, Comments on moon formation. Smooth large sand crystals on planet's surface which slide beneath ¢! wind. 4, Descrites a huge red pass moving 4, Thermal inversions. across the face of Jupiter, from right to left, followed by a darker cloud of immense size. ‘Approved For Release 2008/04/01 : NSA-RDP96X00790R000100040010-3Approved For Release 2008/04/01 : NSA-RDP96X00790R000100040010-3 ANNEX A 4 ~ Harold Sherman I = Ingo Swann P - Hal Puthoft SHERKAN-SWANN JUPITER TOUCHUUAD PROC April 27, 1973 TELEPHONE CONVERSATION H Hox'd you make out? 1 Well, I don't know. How'd you make out? HI wrote about three pages us fast 96 I could write. What is contsined in it, of course, you'll have to chock. I let me introduce you first before we stert to Dr. Puthoff and Russell Targ. Why don't you say hello to them. H Hello, Russell Targ and Dr. Puthoff. I'm very glad to meet you both over the phone. I've heard so much about both of you. I wish we could meet in person, P ‘Thanks very much. We're enjoying doing this experiment and it's nice to be talking to you on the phone. H How do you want this material transmitted? Do you have a recorder and can you hear? P Yes, we're videotaping Ingo's conversation with you and we have a tape recorder going, so you two can just talk over what you saw and the whole ‘thing will get recorded. So I'll give you back to Ingo, then. - H Yes, that's fine. Why don't you go first? HALL right, will you be hearing what I'm reading at the same time you are recording? I Right. HT have written, "It is now 8 pm Central Standard Time and I am sitting in my special concentration room in the little house where Ingo Svann stayed when he visited us some weeks ago. As I prepare to direct my consciousnes! to the attempted probe of Jupiter, its occurrences and conditions relative thereto, I am immediately and associately sucked into total contact with speeding space module Pioneer 10 and I can clearly ses that it is at Present traveling on a definite collision course with one d the largest Jupiter moons, and unless this course 1s ultimately altered, it will most certainly crash into it and end this investigative journey. Now I am carried ahead of it and am approaching the Jupiter moon itself, It seems larger than earth - 2 great shiny revolving bell surrounded by gigantic swirl of gasses, giving off a golden glow and crystal-1ike dienond sparkl and unbelievable inner sight. I am still some distance from Jupiter which I cam see to the right of this moon, far, far away, a million - I can't tell - perhaps more. Anyway, a great many miles distant. And with an almost eye-blinding brillience that is radiating. I'm sure that physical eyesight could not stand what I am perceiving inwardly. I seem to be a prank = nectinte aera $ $0 £4 nn Te OW VSd For Release S008/04/07 NGA-ROPSSXOOTOOROOO1 000400103 18 Sftecting‘Approved For Release 2008/04/01 : NSA-RDP96X00790R000100040010-3 Approved For Release 2008/04/01 : NSA-RDP96X00790R000100040010-3 everything around me. I am able to st. in all directions os J mentally Jook around. It is as though I am looxing through a scope seeing 211 this in minature and suddenly magnified into a normal size. The sensation comes and goes. These visions are inside me, then outside. There is a yellow cast to space snd seeming dark objects show through it. Can they be other moons of constrasting colors or densities? The impressions cone to me that there are 17, some yet undiscovered by earth scientists, much closer to Jupiter, and the feeling also comes that some of them have been and are being spawned by the convulsive, volcenic action in the interior of the gaseos masses of Jupiter spun off into space in newly forming vortices which start » revolution of their om sg: ceivable gaseous forces and electronic particles to them which adhere to these newly created masses and ultimately solidify in the new moons. The feeling also comes that the sun originally, an unthinkably huge gaseous mass, in a mighty explosion threw off vast gaseous balls which began the Plancts we recognize today, including Jupiter, all ultimately achieving @ gravitational balance in time and place;and in the process of gathering their own forces, these gaseous balls exploded in themselves and cast off Parts of themselves in the forms of moons and satellites, holding to thom parents hold their children, their umbilical cords the magnetic attraction between them. I'm tired tonight..... exhausting experience T am now being shown many asteroids or very dark planets between Mars and Jupiter, some with life forms lesser or equivalent to ours. I am given the feeling that where there are great gaseous areas, stirling vortices of increasing velocity, that these are ne worlds in formation and that an intelligence or directing force inconceivable to us is behind Now I suddenly see projected to » point If, a spectacle beyond description. It looks like it is bulged in the middle of its giguntic ball-like shape. It 4s a gaseous mass of myriad colors - yellow, red, ultraviolet, some greens - like a giant firevorks display. There must be many chemical elements involved beyond my understanding. A huge red mass is moving across the face of Jupiter from right to left, followed by a darker cloud of immense sizi Tt is an elongation that stretches for miles and miles - a swirling miss as though generated and added to by eruptive magnetic and gaseous force: coming from the interioz of Jupiter which seems more liquid or vaporous than solid. Strange, I can see ice crystals. They are shimmering like trillions of silver needles, and I am wondering if they are not icy cold. They seem to be near the surface. 1 wish I could see through the enormous cloud cover which must be miles deep. It billows and leaps with a changing vivid yellow and red and green incandescence, as though reflecting great magnetic fires fron sone source. Now I suddenly seem to see through and catch light of a reddish-brown formation extending in # curved line 5 far as my mind's eye can see. Can it be Jupiter's earth crust? It Jocks almost metallic - molten and sparks red-hot - great vapors seething through. It gives me a dizzy sensation to look at it. I wonder if Ingo . is getting anything like this or what form his impressions are taking. I don't kmow how close Pioneer 10 is going to come to Jupiter in its bypass, but it looks like it will encounter powerful magnetic forces, winds of terrific velocity and gascous masses of possible poisonousApproved For Release 2008/04/01 : NSA-RDP96X00790R000100040010-3 and damaging nature. The atmosphere seem: .iusunl.y dense on some levels und extremely rerified on others, There appear to be huge volcanic puaks, great conesriste some miles in area and deep frozen looking crystal-covered valleys. ‘There must be water, Probably mostly in solidified or vaporized form. 1 don't get any sensation of heat or cold and 1 don't hear what I see. It's like silent movie, but I feel that I an seeing und feeling deeply and it 1s avesome. I suddenly feel tired, sozewhst sapped of energy. I am conscious of ny body. 1 notice the back of my hunds ure bright red and flushed with blood. I have not observed this reaction before. I heve to collect my senses. 1 have o strong heavy sensation like waking up irom a sleep with a far-away feeling. Morthe is colling ro Inge 4s on the phone.” I ‘That's marvelous, Now, (Ingo relates from his notes: see attached.) H ‘That's remarkable, We've got some similarities, dant you think? I I'd say we have some identicals in there, at 1 H = Quite remarkable, in fact. H ‘That's the impression 1 got. 1 Yes, yes, indeed. H Now, were you reading me what you had recorded? 1 Well, Hal vas taking notes, and he took those down as I was trying to describe, H Because that was so beautifully recited that I just hope that you had a record exactly us you spoke it, 1 Well, we have that sort of....1 think we have to shape it up just a little bit. I Now you're very tried, aren't you? H Oh, that...no, I made a statement prior to this as to the method I used. I don't know whether you'd like to have me dictate that short statement or not. 1 Y. » gO ahead. : H Are you ready to take it? 1 oY , t's being recorded and we'll have them typed up. : H "I would like to state betore sterting this test that while I've always be interested in the cosos and man's relationship to it, I never had oceasion to study astronomy nor em I versed in physics or chemistry and ‘Approved For Release 2008/04/01 : NSA-RDP96X00790R000100040010-3Approved For Release 2008/04/01 : NSA-RDP96X00790R000100040010-3, 1 the only general information I have abou: iter ip that it is the largest planet and it has supposedly 1i moons or satellites and is perhaps one of the most brilliant of heavenly bodies. This in itself may be suggestive, but I have found that the less 1 conscuusly know about a locality or person, the more certain 1 am of the validity or accuracy of any impressions thet may cone to me, Whether I will receive impressions in the attempted mental probe of Jupiter in the form of visual images or perceptual feelings or both, I cannot say of the vest, but I will record in writing as nearly as I can convert into words ‘the things to come through, if anything. ly method is simply to make myself un-selfconscious of my physical surroundings, to fix my conscious mind's attention on the objective, at whatever seeming distance, and let myself wonder what exists at that point. I have found that wonder is the key word for me. It frees my imagination from trying to guess or embroider whatever impressions 1 may be receiving so long as I can maintain this fixation of attention. Apparently’ some faculty of mind makes contact instantly unlimited by tine or space with the aren it is directed to concentrate upon. If it were possible to hold the mind's attention on the locale or person once contact is made for more than the split second of initial contact, then a state of avareness could be retained Jong enough to bring back reliable dota of what my exist at that point, even including the reactionary feelings engendered in the sensitive during the contactual experience. Who knows if the science fiction writers who have been imaginatively creative as they think. Fantestic ideas of other planets and civilizations, past, present or future, : may instead have been psychically tuning in on actual conditions from some higher source or sources, coloring them somewhat with their om creativity, but basically producing facts often later substantiated by scientific discoveries or by actual earth developments, This is an area of mind well worth extensive study and experimentation, Well, I think we're on our way. What do Dr. Puthoff and Mr, Targ think of this? y, sins ‘They're very pleased, they both got similarities, Can you have copies made and refine this a little bit and send it to me? Yes. Russell just said that there are remarkable similarities between the two narrations. ‘Thank Russell - Now that we've both higher objectives...1'm doing some evaluating which I always do after an impression is received. 1 was quite thrilled, as I hope you were, to discover that we do have some amazing similaritie: Well, 1 knew we would, but there was only one way to demonstrate that and that was to do it. Russell asked what does the Pioneer 10 look like. I didn't see it. ‘Approved For Release 2008/04/01 : NSA-RDP96X00790R000100040010-3 _eeeee———————eApproved For Release 2008/04/01 : NSA-RDP96X00790R000100040010-3 ' and some kind of a...as nearly B. -et, an enlarged bullet, with « head to it, That's about....with sou: rirange little side things...things on the side...not wings but little bit blunt in size...I moan not as elongated as ny :magingtion would like to make 1t.....a8 near as I can describe what I seem to see. Well, 1 think we lucated the erystals and the boiling clouds. and although T didn't particularly see a volcano, I sow a chain of mountains which vere euo1 wus. Do you describe then as peaks? Oh, yes. Then you felt that there was water on the planet. Liguid of some sort, I'm not quite sure that it was seen as wate: I didn't say it was water, I said solidifted/esporized but not water. I tell you, wore similarities will show up as you have a chance to study these. What I propose is that you're tired tonight and I'ma little tired too, ILLEGIB After all, 1t was quite » journey. Quite 2 journey. It was a little strenuous, to be honest, 1 felt that for the first time. What I propose is why don't we get in touch after you get back fron Toledo, Ohio, and maybe we can take it a step further, Maybe ve can go have another lool: together, or something like that. 1 think that I find that the impressions I received is very refreshing and very challenging, but a rerun of something that is definitely the same, ‘then the imagination hes certain already exists in mind. To attempt to build upon it, I don't know how successful we'd be in furthering this. We might try something else. OK, We could try Mars, I agree with you. I wouldn't insist on taking the immediate response and that's the tone. Well, Ingo, it's been a thrill to work with you and I do hope it has some significance. Well, we'll get it all written up and get it in the right places and see what happens. I'm leaving Sunday for Little Rock and then I will be flying to Toledo for my lecture on Tuesday. 1°11 be at my own office on Monday. You have my phone number, don't you? ‘Approved For Release 2008/04/01 : NSA-RDP96X00790R000100040010-3Approved For Release 2008/04/01 : NSA-RDP96X00790R000100040010-3 Yes, Ido, And then yc. 111 be back late en > comes up, then you ci. we! ALL right. My best regards They say thunk you «1 Approved For Release 2008/04/01 ; pack in Mountain View & choo eortainiy © @ at nome ‘ing unuewa? sever whiz ‘v tarection of Mars, then. + Puthofs. Coed night NSA-RDP96X00790R000100040010-3 —$_—_—_—_—_——_———Approved For Release 2008/04/01 : NSA-RDP96X00790R000100040010-3 _~ ANNEX B SWANS-SHERMAR JUPITER TOUCHDOWN PROBE April 27, 1973 Experiment 46 © 2 Fxterior to space and time Q Aberreted theta perceptics I inflow fgma1X) 2 Phyetead aniverse 2 No big sharp noises for the next 1/2 hour please, 6:03:25 (3 seconds fast) There's a planct with stripes. 6:04:13 I hope it's Jupiter. I think that it must hove an extremely large hydrogen mantle. If # space Frobe made contact with that, it would be maybe 80,000 - 120,000 miles out from the plenct surface. 6:06 So I'm approaching it on the tangent where I cun see it's a half moon, in other words half lit half dark, If I move around to the Jit 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 arc like bands of crystals, maybe like rings of Saturn, though not far out like thut, vory close within the atzosphere. WUnintelligible sentence.) I bet you they'll reflect radio probes. Is that possible if you had u cloud of crystals that were sssaulted by different radic waves? (Hal - That's right.) 6:08:00 Now 1'11 go down through. It feels really good there (laugh). 1 id that before, didn't 17 Inside those cloud layers, those crystal layers, they look beautiful from the outside, from the inside they look like roiling gas clouds = eerie yellow light, rainbows. 10:20 I get the impression, though I don't see, that it's liquid. 6:10:55 Then 1 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. | Froa that view the horizon looks orangish of rose-colored but overhead it's kinda grecnish-ycllow. 6:12:35 If I look to the right there is an enormous mountain range. ‘Approved For Release 2008/04/01 : NSA-RDP96X00790R000100040010-3 meeeApproved For Release 2008/04/01 : NSA-RDP96X00790R000100040010-3 13:18 If I'm giving o description of where I've gone and am, it would be approximately where Alaska is if the sun were directly overhead which at is The sun looks like it has a green corona, scems smaller to me (Hal - what color is the sun?) white. 6:14:45 I feel that there's liquid sonewhere. Those mountains are very huge but they still don’t poke up through the erysiui cloua cover, You know I had a dream once something like this where the cloud cover was a crest arc, syceps over the entire heaven. Those grains which make that sand orange are quite large. They have o polished surrace and they look something like amber or like obsidian but they're yellowish and not es heavy. The wind blows them, they slide slong. If I turn, tho whole thing seems enormously flat. I mesn if I get the feeling that if a man stood on those sands I think he would sink imto then (laugh); moybe that's where that liquid feeling cones’ from. I see something that looks like » tornado. Is there a therm inversion here? 1 bet there is, 1 bet you that the surface of Jupiter will give a very high infrared count (?), reading (?) (Hal ~ reading) Gnaudible sentence.) The heat is held down. I seer tc be stuck, not moving. I'11 move more tovards the equator. 1 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 threagh 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 (laugh). ‘Tremendous wind. It's colder here, maybe it's because there's not a thermal inversion there. I'm back. OK.- (lal ~ 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 surfa ‘Those here are bands of crystals, kind of elements. They're pretty : close to the surface And beneath those are laycrs of clouds or what seem to be prevailing vinds. Approved For Release 2008/04/01 : NSA-RDP96X00790R000100040010-3Approved For Release 2008/04/01 : NSA-RDP96X00790R000100040010-3 : Beneath that is i vawwae, well, it looked 11ke | ye shifting sands... .. : vf slippery granulated gee And off in the ‘s:+ 10 the East was a very bigh mountain chain 30,000 fe Se .-Te sarge mountuins. I feel these crystals will probably bucite radiw waves, They're that type. Gonerally, that's ull. Approved For Release 2008/04/01 : NSA-RDP96X00790R000100040010-3 se