CURRENT STATUS OF RESEARCH PROGRAM AND ACTIVITIES
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This document is a summary of the current status of research and activities in the Defense Intelligence Agency's Stargate program. It provides information on the contracted status of research projects, overall results from research initiated with FY91 funds, and other interesting research results presented at recent conferences. It also outlines the research plans for FY92, including conducting conferences, developing MEG/EEG correlates, performing EEG measurements, examining subliminal threshold training, and more. Additionally, the document mentions findings and discussions from the Princeton conference, as well as other research presentations.
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DEFENSE
INTELLIGENCE
AGENCY
CUHflEIIT STATUS OF AESEAACH
PFtOGAAItl AIID ACTIVITIES (U)
13 AUGUST 1992
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CURRENT STATUS OF RESEARCH
PROGRAM AND ACTIVITIES (U)
Date of Publication
13 August 1992
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CONTENTS
I PREFACE .................................................. 1
II SUMMARY .................................................. 1
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I (U) This report provides a summary of current status of the
research program and reviews related activities.
II (U) SUMMARY
(U) Contracted status of the FY91 and FY92 R&D
authorization are shown on page 2.
(U) Analysis is not yet complete for all research projects.
However, overall results at this time are summarized on page 3
for the research initiated with FY91 funds. Details of results
to date from this research are in appendix A.
(U) Other interesting research results presented at recent
conferences are summarized on paper 5 and 6. Appendix B contains
additional discussions on findings presented at one of the recent
conferences (Princeton University).
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RESEARCH
Y FY 1991 AUTHORIZATION:
- FINAL REPORT DUE TO DIA ON 31 AUG 92
? FY 1992 AUTHORIZATION:
- CONTRACT PACKAGE ON LINE BY NOV 92
- INITIAL PORTION ON LINE 31 JULY 92
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FY 91 RESEARCH RESULTS
? M EG DATA
- INITIAL ANALYSIS PROMISING
- IMPROVED METHODOLOGY LOWERED RESULTS
? PARAMETER SERIES
- SIGNIFICANT FOR STATIC TARGETS
- NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BEACON, NO BEACON
- NO SIGNIFICANCE FOR DYNAMIC TARGETS
? RV COMMUNICATION SERIES
- NO OVERALL SIGNIFICANCE
- LATTER HALF SHOWED IMPROVEMENT
? ALTERED STATES, TRAINING PROJECTS
- RESULTS INDICATE DATA IMPROVEMENT POTENTIAL
? EXPLORATORY ENERGETICS (SCALAR WAVE DETECTOR)
RESULTS PROMISING
DESCRETE SPECTRAL LINES OBSERVED
PATTERNS SUGGEST A PULSE TRAIN
BACKGROUND NOISE MAY BE INFLUENCED
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FY 92 RESEARCH PLANS
CONDUCT CONFERENCES
- - CONUS, OVERSEAS
DEVELOP MEG/EEG CORRELATES
- - AMPLITUDE, PHASE SHIFTS
PERFORM EEG MEASUREMENTS
EXAMINE SUBLIMINAL THRESHOLD TRAINING
PERFORM COMMUNICATION FOLLOW-ON
- SIMPLIFIED PROTOCOL
CONDUCT RV PARAMETER PROJECTS
- - SIMPLIFIED PROTOCOL, TIMING
PURSUE ENERGETICS
- - SCALAR WAVE FOLLOW-ON
- - OTHER DEVICES (GRAVITY, LASER
PERFORM OPERTIONS RESEARCH PROJECTS
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PRINCETON NJ CONFERENCE
ENERGETICS EXPERIMENTS (DEAN JAHN~
- - DEVICES WERE MECHANICAL, ELECTRONIC
SIGNIFICANCE AT SEVERAL THOUSAND MILES
THEORETICAL MODELS
- - QUANTUM MECHANICAL CONCEPTS ADVANCED
- - POSSIBLE TIE TO ZERO-POINT ENERGY DISCUSSED
- - POSSIBLE LINK BETWEEN RV/ESP AND PK
POSTULATED
FOREIGN ACTIVITIES
- - UNUSUAL PHYSICAL EFFECTS OBSERVED FROM BALL
LIGHTNING
- - METAL SOFTENING, ODD DESTRUCTION
- - REMOTE HYPNOSIS CLAIMED
- - QUANTUM MECHANICAL DEVICE CONSTRUCTED FOR
MENTAL PROCESSES
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OTHER RESEARCH
PARAPSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE
- EEG MEASUREMENTS CORRELATED VI~ITH PERFORMANCE
- MENTAL IMAGERY E~CERCISES INCREASED
PERFORMANCE
- ENERGETICS EFFECTS OBSERVED ON BACKGROUND
RADIATION, PHYSIOLOGY
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This section describes the progress to date for each of the subtasks listed under items 6.2, 6.3, and 6.4
(basic research, applied research, and research methodology, respectively). The section numbering
corresponds to the numbering in the Statement of Work.
6.~ Basic Research
6.2.1 Magnetoencephalography (MEG) Investigations
From 15 through 28 March 1992, the third portion of a four-part MEG investigation was carried out
using receivers from a variety of populations. Details of the protocol maybe found in a separate docu-
ment,which has been approved by the Scientific Oversight Committee (SOC).t` It is beyond the scope
of this report to describe the protocol in detail; however, we provide a brief overview here, followed by a
summary of the analysis and the conclusions to date.
Protocol. Each of twelve receivers contributes ten blocks of data. Each block consists of ten 2-minute runs,
each of which contains approximately 100 remote and 100 pseudo stimuli. Each block of data is accompa-
nied by a control block of equal length during which the conditions are identical to the experimental block;
however, no receiver is present under the MEG. The dependent variable is the average effect size of the
root mean square (RMS) relative phase shift (i.e., prestirnulus to poststimulus) of the dominant alpha
rh}~tlun.
In February, the statistician from the SOC visited the Cognitive Sciences Laboratory. After reviewing
the statistics for the MEG project, we noticed that the t-tests that were described in the technical proto-
col to test difference the between various conditions were not correct because they assumed statistical
independence between the variables. Measurements of brain waves that occur at 1- to S-second inter-
valsare likely to be correlated, especially at 10 Hz, nominally the frequency under study. Therefore, the
statistics used to combine the results of all blocks from a single receiver had to be modified. We provide
that modification here.
Consider N blocks of experimental data. Let ~i~ be the number of remote stimuli (RS) for block j, and
nfP be the number of pseudo stimuli (PS) in block j. Similarly, define cj, and cjp as the corresponding
effect sizes for block j. We define the weighted effect size for each stimulus type, k, as
N
Ek - ~wjkEjk~
j=1
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k=r,p.
Tests Against the Null Hypothesis: s = 0. Since the experimental effect sizes, sjk, aze derived from nor-
mally distributed data (i.e., Monte Carlo calculations of the RMS phase shift), then we know the stan-
dard error for each Ejk is
njk
(1)
Thus, the variance of the weighted average effect size is
Yar(~k) _ ~ wj,~Var(gjr) _
_ E~
Z,~ (2)
Yar(i