SRI remote-viewing experiments associated with Ingo Swann and Uri Geller

Record summary

SRI researchers Harold Puthoff and Russell Targ conducted experiments involving purported clairvoyance or remote viewing, including sessions with Uri Geller and later Ingo Swann. The work helped establish a modern experimental vocabulary for anomalous cognition and attracted intelligence-community interest. It is important for comparing protocol design, experimenter effects and later replication claims. Uncertainty concerns incomplete procedural disclosure, statistical interpretation, sensory leakage, selective reporting and whether extraordinary performance exceeded methodological artifacts. Geller’s performance was also disputed by magicians and critics who proposed ordinary trick methods.