This episode features physicist Hal Puthoff discussing his involvement in classified US government programmes researching psychic phenomena and unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP). Puthoff details his early scepticism and accidental entry into studying remote viewing, including experiments with the notable psychic Ingo Swan and subsequent funding from the CIA due to Russian interest in ESP. He recounts how remote viewing was successfully used for intelligence gathering, including locating a downed Soviet plane and describing classified US and Soviet sites, leading to a shift in the scientific and intelligence communities' acceptance of the phenomenon despite continued compartmentalisation. The conversation also covers Puthoff's later work on UAPs, including his involvement in analysing potential non-human technology from alleged crash retrievals, the scientific challenge of understanding their propulsion, and the ongoing push for greater government disclosure on the topic.
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