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A comment on The Hunt for 928 or Has Anyone Seen This Spy Plane? (1999).

Re:The Hunt for 928 or Has Anyone Seen This Spy Plane? (1999) by nikcub on Friday September 02, 2016 @09:55PM (#12417337)
> For a while prior to this, I had been poking into the field of remote viewing, which hadn’t yet quite burst into the public’s perception ... I had contact with a couple of remote viewers and thought this might be a useful test of this rather strange skill. The data back seemed to indicate a spot not southeast of Leith, but southwest.

Wait - what?

This threw me off because my impression of the author was somebody who was very technical and critical.

Great read - nonetheless.

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Re:The Hunt for 928 or Has Anyone Seen This Spy Plane? (1999) by ocdtrekkie on Friday September 02, 2016 @10:05PM (#12417362)
He also seems to have at least a basic interest in hunting for UFOs, even if he's rational enough to expect that most of the reports are probably false. But he seems basically open to the idea, if only to recognize the incredible difficulty of being successful. And, as he notes, the remote viewing wasn't accurate or useful.

You should not confuse people who are technically capable as being unable to believe something that isn't definitively proven.

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Re:The Hunt for 928 or Has Anyone Seen This Spy Plane? (1999) by DashRattlesnake on Friday September 02, 2016 @11:54PM (#12417629)
I liked the background of remote viewing, UFOs, etc. I was a nice reminder of a very particular slice of 90s popular culture.
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Re:The Hunt for 928 or Has Anyone Seen This Spy Plane? (1999) by dfsegoat on Saturday September 03, 2016 @02:59PM (#12420543)
The CIA funded remote viewing at Stanford for 20 years: http://www.irva.org/library/pdfs/puthoff2001cia.pdf
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