Research & investigation

Russell Targ

SRI anomalous-perception investigator

Also known as Targ

Who they are

Russell Targ coauthored SRI’s Perceptual Augmentation Techniques executive summary with Harold Puthoff. The report describes investigations of claimed anomalous perception during 1974–1975. His role is that of an investigator advancing and documenting those claims; the later debate over their methods, replication and intelligence usefulness remains a separate part of the record.

He connects the experimental remote-viewing program with the primary reports later reviewed by outside assessors.

Selected contributions

Coauthored the SRI executive summary on perceptual-augmentation research.Source ↗

Selected works

Report · Undated
Perceptual Augmentation Techniques, Part One: Executive Summary
Coauthor with Harold E. Puthoff · Stanford Research Institute; archival copy
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.
Archival record ↗
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