Research & investigation
Harold Puthoff
Remote-viewing researcher and report coauthor
Also known as Hal Puthoff · Harold E. Puthoff
Photograph · Image credit
Who they are
Harold Puthoff coauthored SRI’s Perceptual Augmentation Techniques report with Russell Targ, describing experiments and operational remote-viewing claims. Separately, To The Stars named him with Eric Davis in its response to ORNL’s specimen analysis. These are two documented research roles with different evidence and subject matter.
He connects the remote-viewing program and a later UAP materials discussion.
Selected contributions
Selected works
Report · Undated
Perceptual Augmentation Techniques, Part One: Executive Summary
Puthoff and Targ summarize SRI research on claimed anomalous perception and possible applications. The executive summary is a primary record of the investigators’ claims and methods, which require assessment alongside later critical reviews.
The cover’s January 1974–February 1975 interval is the research period. An exact report issue date or first public-release date has not been established.
Reading scope & citation
Reuses documented prior inspection: Relevant original-document OCR passages from the archival copy; not the archive catalog alone Reused prior inspected evidence: Relevant original-document OCR passages from the archival copy; not the archive catalog alone
Selected reading about this person
Report · Undated
TTS* Analysis on ORNL Report
To The Stars describes the Puthoff–Davis response to ORNL’s analysis of the MgZn/Bi specimen and acknowledges no proof of exotic origin. Only the publisher’s introduction was inspected; the embedded technical report was not audited.
Reading scope & citation
Publisher introduction freshly read October 12, 2026; embedded report images not inspected. Publication year not established from visible text.
In the timeline
- January 1974 – February 1975SRI conducts perceptual-augmentation research
- July 2024ORNL and AARO publish analysis of a claimed anomalous specimen
Documented connections
Documented · authored
Puthoff coauthored the SRI report covering research in 1974–1975.
Authorship documents the work and claims, not their independent replication.
Read the relationship record →Biography sources & portrait credit
- Perceptual Augmentation Techniques, Part One: Executive Summary ↗Stanford Research Institute; archival copy
- TTS analysis on ORNL ↗To The Stars
Portrait credit
CIA. Public domain (U.S. federal government work). Via Wikimedia Commons.
Photograph. Cropped to 4:5, resized to 320 × 400 and converted to WebP.
Image source & identification ↗ · Public domain (U.S. federal government work) ↗
