Jessica Utts (born 1952) is a parapsychologist and statistics professor at the University of California, Irvine.
[5] In 1995, the American Institutes for Research (AIR) appointed a panel consisting primarily of Utts and Ray Hyman to evaluate a project investigating remote viewing for espionage applications, the Stargate Project,[6] which was funded by the Central Intelligence Agency and Defense Intelligence Agency, and carried out initially by Stanford Research Institute and subsequently by SAIC.
[9] According to Hyman "the overwhelming amount of data generated by the viewers is vague, general, and way off target.
[2] The psychologist David Marks noted that because Utts had published papers with May "she was not independent of the research team.
There was also reason to suspect that the research managers had adjusted their project reports to fit the known background cues.