Ingo Douglass Swann (September 14, 1933 – January 31, 2013) was an American psychic, artist, and author, whose claims of clairvoyance were investigated as a part of the Central Intelligence Agency’s Stargate Project.
Swann claimed to have out-of-body experiences beginning at three years of age, during a tonsil removal operation, after which he began to see colorful 'auras' around certain objects.
[6] These experiences continued throughout childhood, and eventually prompted Swann to volunteer as a participant in parapsychology research at the age of 37.
[7]Swann was a prominent celebrity Scientologist during the 1970s having attained the level of Operating Thetan through Scientology auditing.
It is purported that the attainment of the level may extend ones psychic abilities including controlled out-of-body experiences, called "exteriorization" in Scientology.
[8][9] During this time, Swann demonstrated his exteriorization skills at the Stanford Research Institute in experiments that would come to be known secularly as remote viewing.
[1][10] Due to the popularity of Uri Geller in the seventies, skeptics and historians basically overlooked a critical examination of Swann's paranormal claims.
[11] Uri Geller commented very favorably on Swann, saying, "If you were blind and a man appeared who could teach you to see with mind power, you would revere him as a guru.
"[12] Russell Targ and Harold Puthoff, two experimenters, tested Geller and Swann and concluded that they had unique skills.
Swann sat alone in the chamber, wires from electrodes fastened to his head running through the wall behind him.
Swann wrote that he knew most of the objects on a shelf above his head, but he did not know it held four numbers on a side that would not have been visible if a reflecting surface had been angled near the end.
A psychologist, Bonnie Preskari or Carole K. Silfen, was asked to match up Swann's responses without knowing which target they were meant.
[21] Swann claimed that in April 1972, the ASPR in New York attempted to discredit him and expel him due to his affiliation with Scientology.
On June 6, 1972, the two men visited Dr. Arthur Heberd and his quark detector, a magnetometer, at the Varian Physics Building.
The well-shielded magnetometer had a small magnetic probe in a vault five feet beneath the floor.
Puthoff states that after about a five-second delay,[24] Heberd says it was a ten- to fifteen-minute delay, the frequency of the trace recorder oscillation doubled for about 30 seconds, reportedly a common occurrence due to variations in the shared helium line to the laboratory.
Swann said his feats frightened some doctoral candidates, claiming that two "virtually ran" from the room and one collided with a "totally visible" structure support.
[22] In his CIA report, paranormal expert Dr. Kenneth A. Kress does not record anything about Heberd's malfunctioning suggestions.
[29] This paper caught the attention of the CIA and two agents paid a visit to Hal Puthoff at SRI and also met Swann.
[30][31] Targ and Puthoff write about their pilot experiments, "We couldn't overlook the possibility that perhaps Ingo knew the geographical features of the Earth and their approximate latitude and longitude.
"[32] Soon, Targ and Puthoff performed more experiments with Swann, and the controls were tightened to eliminate the possibility of error.
In the session, he made several reports on the physical features of Jupiter, such as its atmosphere and the surface of its core.
Swann claimed to see bands of crystals in the atmosphere, which he likened to clouds and possibly like the rings of Saturn.
[41] The following is Swann's version of his statements from 1995, 22 years after the 1973 experiments:[42] [6:06:20] Very high in the atmosphere there are crystals ... they glitter.
In November 2001, there was an article by Michael Persinger published in The Journal of Neuropsychiatry & Clinical Neurosciences.
The results with Swann suggested that there were associated measurable changes in brain activity during his remote viewing.
[45] Swann reported that out of the twenty-five criminal cases he worked on between 1972 and 1979, twenty-two were flops, and three were successes.
[50] Authors Arthur Lyons and Marcello Truzzi Ph.D., also a founder of the International Remote Viewing Association,[51] wrote the Croiset and Hurkos cases were "pure bunk" in their 1991 book The Blue Sense: Psychic Detectives and Crime.
base on the hidden side of the Moon and his "shocking" experience with a sexy scantily dressed female E.T.
Along with two "twin" bodyguards, Swann and Axelrod attempt to secretly watch a recurrent UFO appear and suck up the water of a lake.