An Experimental Psychic Probe of the Planet Jupiter (Sherman-Swann)

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AN EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHIC PROBE

OF THE PLANET JUPITER

Harold Sherman

Ingo Swann

April 27, 1973

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THE SHERMAN-SWANN FSYCHIC PROLE OF
THE PLANET JUPUTER

As a result of cyunversativars between Mr. Harula Sherman of Mountain
View, Arkarngag, ond Mr. Tnan Swann «af Naw York, New Vark, and in an at-
tempt to carry forward the possible verity of the psychic nuture of men,
ut was decided to hoiti a psychic probe of the planet Jupiter. As with
any experiment, the necessity of feedback potential must characterize
any experimental work undertaken with the psychical nature of men. While
the probing by other than physical means of a far distant planet seems
extraordinary, it was noted that the Jupiter by-pass NASA space module
Pioneer 10 was on its way, and hopefully will relay back data as yet
not known to science.

Based on this situation, it was decided to probe psychically the
planet Jupiter. In the evening of April 27. 1973, therefore, Mr, Sherman
arranged tuo begin his probe at 8:00 p.m. Central Standard time, and Mr. Swann,
currently oun the West Coast at 6:00 p.m. Pacific Standard time.

The psychic probes thus took place simultaneously. After one-half
hour, Mr. Sherman was reached by telephone by Mr. Swann, and their results
compared. Certain salient points of the obvious similarities between the
results of both men follow. The actual responses of both men were recorded
and are attached as annex A (Mr. Sherman's response) and annex B (Mr. Swann's
response. )

Neither Mr. Sherman nor Mr. Swann claim validity for their results,
Since to do so would be beside any scientific point. What verification

might come from Pioneer 10 remains to be seen. °

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SIMILARITIES
Sherman Swann
Atmosphere re;
...gases. giving off u golden ...there are crystals, they
glow and crystal-like diamons glitter. Maybe the stripes
sparkles, ; are like bands of crysta!s...
... giving off a golden glow. . ‘ ...distinctly yellow...
It 18 @ gaseous mass o1 myriad : Inside those cloud layers....
colors - yellow. red, ultra- : they look beautiful from the
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violet, some greens - like a . outside, from the inside they
giant fireworks display. \ look like roiling gas clouds -
eerie yellow light - rainbows.
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The enorucus Cloud cover... ; Then I came through the cloud
cuver...
The enormous cloud cover must The atmosphere of Jupiter is
be miles deep. very thick.
Surface:
-..8@ reddish-brown formation ...the horizon looks orangish or
extending in @ curved line as rose-colored...the whole thing
far as my mind's eye can see. seems enormously flat.
There appear to be huge volcanic There is an enormous mountain
peaks, great cones rising some range about 31,000 feet high...
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miles... those mountains are huge. ,
It looks almost metallic ~ molten ...the surface of Jupiter will
and sparks red-hot. give a high infrared count.

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Sherman

3. Other surface characteristics:

...ice erystals.,.1 am wonder-

ing if they are not icy cold.

..-SWirling vortices of in-

creasing velocity...

. powerful magnetic forces...

...Winds of terrific velocity...

There must be water.

The atmosphere seems unusually
dense on some levels and ex-

tremely rarified on others.

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Swonn

- wana of crystals...kind of

pluish. It's colder here...

I see something that looks like

a tornado.
' I seem to be stuck, not moving.
Tremendous winds...

I feel that there is liquid

somewhere...liquid, like water.

In the atmosphere are crystals...
they'll reflect radio probes....
another layer farther down like

our clouds.

Neither Sherman nor Swann said anything that contradicts the other, but both

gave certain individual impressions:

1. Collision of Pioneer 10 with the
largest of Jupiter's moons unless this

course is ultimately altered.
2. Some 17 moons, some undiscovered,

3. Comments on moon formation.

4. Describes a huge red mass moving
across the face of Jupiter, from right
to left, followed by a darker cloud of

immense size.

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1. Describes an extremely large hydro-
gen mantle 80,000 to 120,000 miles

out from planet's surface.
2. Deflection of radio waves.

3. Smooth large sand crystals on planet's

surface which slide beneath the wind.

4. Thermal inversions.


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ANNEX A

4H - Harold Sherman
I = Ingo Swann

P - Hal Puthoff
SHERMAN-SWANN JUPITER TOUCHUG#A PROLF

April 27, 1973

TELEPHONE CONVERSATION

H How'd you make out?
I Well, I don't know. How'd you make out?
H I wrote about three puges as fast os I could write. What is contained

in it, of course, you'll have to check.

I Let me introduce you firzt before we start to Dr. Puthoff and Russell Targ.
Why don't you say hello to them.

H Hello, Russell Targ and Dr. Puthoff. I'm very glad to meet you both over
the phone. I've heard so much about both of you. I wish we could meet
in person,

P Thanks very much. We're enjoying doing this experiment and it's nice
to be talking to you on the phone.

H How do you want this material transmitted? Do you have a recorder and
can you hear?

P Yes, we're videotaping Ingu's conversation with you and we have a tape
recorder going, so you two can just talk over what you saw and the whole
thing will get recorded. So [I'll give you back to Ingo, then, -"

H Yes, that’s fine.
I Why don't you go first?

H All right, will you be hearing what I'm reading at the same time you are
recording?

I Right.

H I have written, "It is now 8 pm Central Standard Time and I am sitting in
my special concentration room in the little house where Ingo Swann stayed
when he visited us some weeks ago. As I prepare to direct my consciousness
to the attempted probe of Jupiter, its occurrences and conditions relative
thereto, I am immediately and associately sucked into total contact with
a speeding space module Pioneer 10 and I can clearly see that it is at
present traveling on a definite collision course with one d¢ the largest
Jupiter moons, and unless this course is ultimately altered, it will most
certainly crash into it and end this investigative journey. Now I am carried
ahead of it and am approaching the Jupiter moon itself. It seems larger
than earth - a great shiny revolving ball surrounded by gigantic swirl
of gasses, giving off a golden giow and crystal-like diamond sparkies
and unbelievable inner sight. I am still some distance from Jupiter which
I can see to the right of this moon, far, far away, a million - I can't
tell - perhaps more. Anyway, a great many miles distant. And with an
almost eye-blinding brilliance that is radiating. I'm sure that physical
eyesight could not stand what I am perceiving inwardly. I seem to be a

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everything around me. I am able to sec tn all directions as I mentally
look around. it is as though | am looking through a scope seeing all
this in minature and suddenly magnified into a normal size. The sensation
comes and goes. These visions are inside me, then outside. There is a
yellow cast to space and seeming dark ohjects show through it. Can they
be other moons of constrasting colors or densities? The impressions come
to me that there are 17, some vet undiscovered by earth scientists, much
closer to Jupiter, and the feeling also comes that some of them have been
and are being spawned by the convulsive, volcsnic action in the interior
of the gaseos masses of Jupiter spun off into space in newly forming
vortires which ctart a revolution of their own eathering inconceivable
gaseous forces and electronic particles to them which adhere to these
newly crested masses and ultimately solidify in the new moons. The
feeling alsc comes that the sun originally, an unthinkably huge gaseous
mass, in a mighty explasion threw off vast gaseous balls which began the
Planets we recognize today, including Jupiter, all ultimately achieving
@ gravitational balance in time and place;and in the process of gathering
their own forces, these gaseous bails exploded in themselves and cast off
parts of themselves in the forms cof moons and satellites, holding to them

as parents hold their children,their umbilical cords the magnetic attraction
between then.

I'm tired tonight..... exhausting experience

I am now being shown many asteroids or very dark planets between Mars and
Jupiter, some with life forms lesser or equivalent to ours. I

am given the feeling that where there are great gaseous areas, swirling
vortices of increasing velocity, that these are new worlds in formation

and that an intelligence or directing force inconceivable to us is behind
this incessant act of creation. Now I suddenly see projected to a point
where I feel I can see Jupiter itself, a spectacle beyond description.

It looks like it is bulged in the middle of its gigantic ball-like shape.
It is a gaseous mass of myriad colors =- yellow, red, ultraviolet, some
greens - like a giant fireworks display. There must be many chemical elements
involved beyond my understanding. aA huge red mass is moving across the face
of Jupiter from right to left, followed by a darker cloud of immense size.
It is an elongation that stretches for miles and miles - a swirling mdss
as though generated and added to by eruptive magnetic and gaseous forces
coming from the interiozn of Jupiter which seems more liquid or vaporous
than solid. Strange, I can see ice crystals. They are shimmering like
trillions of silver needles, and I am wondering if they are not icy cold.
They seem to be near the surface. I wish I could see through the enormous
cloud cover which must be miles deep. It billows and leaps with a changing
vivid yellow and red and green incandescence, as though reflecting great
magnetic fires from some source, Now I suddenly seem to see through
and catch light of a reddish-brown formation extending in a curved line

as far as my mind's eye can see. Can it be Jupiter's earth crust? It
looks almost metallic - molten and sparks red-hot - great vapors seething
through. It gives me a dizzy sensation to look at it. I wonder if Ingo

is getting anything like this or what form his impressions are taking.

I don't know how close Pioneer 10 is going to come to Jupiter

in its bypass, but it looks like it will encounter powerful magnetic
forces, winds of terrific velocity and gaseous masses of possible poisonous

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and damaging nature. The atmosphere seem isusualsy dense on some levels und
extremely rariiied on others. There appear to be huge volcanic peaks. great
cones risig some miles in area and deep frozen looking crystal-covered valleys.
There must be water. Probably mostly in solidified or vaperized form. I don't
get any sensation of heat or cold and 1 don't hear what i see. It's like a
silent movie, but I feel that I am seeing und feeling deeply and it is awesome.
I suddenly feel tired, somewhat sapped cf energy. I am conscious of my body.

I notice the back of my hands wre bright red and flushed with blood. I have
not observed this reaction before. IJ] have to collect my senses. 1 have a
strong heavy sensation like waking up irom a sleep witk a far-away feeling.

Marthe is calling xc Inge is om the phone.”

I That's marvelous. Now, (Ingo relates from his notes: see attached.)

| That's remarkable. We've got some similarities, dm@m't you think?

I I'd say we have some identicals in there, at least.

H Quite remarkable, in fact.

H That's the impression I got.

1 Yes, yes, indeed.

| Now, were you reading me what you had recorded?

I Well, Hal was taking notes, and he took those down as I was trying to

deecribe...

H Because that was so beautifully recited that I just hope that you had
a record exactly as you spoke it.

I Well, we have that sort of....I think we have to shape it up just a little
bit.

I Now you're very tried, aren't you?

H Oh, that...no. I made a statement prior to this as to the method I used.

I don't know whether you'd like to have me dictate that short statement
or not.

I Yes, go ahead.
H Are you ready to take it?

I Yes, it's being recorded and we'll have them typed up. :

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H "I would like to state before starting this test that while I've always
be interested in the cosmos and man's relationship to it, I never had

occasion to study astronomy nor am I versed in physics or chemistry and

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the only general information I have abcui u«apiter is that it is the
largest planet and it has supposudly 11 moons or satellites and is

perhaps one of the most briiliant of heavenly bodies. This in itself

may be suggestive, but I have found that the less I consepusly know

about a locality or person, the more certain I am of the validity or
accuracy Of any impressions that may come to me. Whether I will receive
impressions in the ettempted mental probe of Jupiter in the form of

visual images or perceptual feelings or both, I cannot say of the
test, but I will record in writing as nearly as I can convert into words
the things to come through, if anything. My method is simply to make
myself un-selfconscious of my physical surroundings, to fix my conscious
mind's attention on the objective, at whatever seeming distance, and let
myself wonder what exists at that point. I have found that wonder is

the key word for me. It frees my imagination from trying to guess or
embroider whatever impressions 1 may be receiving so long as I can maintain
this fixation of attention. Apparently some faculty of mind makes
contact instantly unlimited by time or space with the area it is directed
to concentrate upon. If it were possible to hold the mind's attention
on the locale or person once contact is made for more than the split
second of initial contact, then a state of awareness could be retained
long enough to bring back reliable data of what may exist at that point,
even including the reactionary feelings engendered in the sensitive
during the contactual experience. Who knows if the science fiction
writers who have been imaginatively creative as they think. Fantastic
ideas of other planets and civilizations, past, present or future,

may instead hnve been psychically tuning in on actual conditions from.
some higher source or sources, coloring them somewhat with their own
creativity, but basically producing facts often later substantiated

by scientific discoveries or by actual earth developments. This is an
area of mind well worth extensive study and experimentation,

Well, I think we're on our way.

What do Dr. Puthoff and Mr. Targ think of this?

They're very pleased, they say, since we both got similarities.

Can you have copies made and refine this a little bit and send it to me?

Yes. Russell just said that there are remarkable similarities between

the two narrations.

Thank Russell ~ Now that we've both higher objectives...I'm
doing some evaluating which I always do after an impression is received,
.I was quite thrilled, as I hope you were, to discover that we do have some
amazing similarities.

Well, I knew we would, but there was only one way to demonstrate that and
that was to do it. Russell asked what does the Pioneer 10 look like. I

didn't see it.

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Well, it seems to have a pointed ...- co . and some kind cf a...as nearly

as 1 could see it... it looked lJii.. >. .et, an enlarged bullet, with a

head to it. That's about....with sou s:irange little side things...things

on the side...not wings but little bit blunt in size...I mean not as elongated
as fy -magination would like to make it.....as near as I can describe what

I seem to see.

Well, I think we lucated the crystals and the boiling cluwuds. and although
I didn't particularly see a volcanu, I saw a chain of mountains which were

Cu. ww
Do you describe them as peaks?
Oh, yes.
Then you iclt that there was water on the planet.
Liquid of some sort. I'm not quite sure that it was seen as water.
or
I didn't say it was water, I said solidified/vaporized but not water. I
tell you, more similarities will show up as you have a chance to study

these.

What I propose is that you're tired tonight and I'm a little tired too.

ILLEGIB

After all, it was quite a journey.

Quite a journey. It was a little strenuous, to be honest. I felt that for
the first time. What I propose is why don't we get in touch after you get
back from Tcledo, Ohio, and maybe we can take it a step further. Maybe

we can go have another lool: together, or something like that.

I think that I find that the impressions I received is very refreshing

and very challenging, but a rerun of something that is definitely the sane,
then the imagination has certain already exists in mind. To
attempt to build upon it, I don't know how successful we'd be in furthering
this. We might try something else.

OK. We could try Mars. I agree with you. I wouldn't insist on taking
the immediate response and that's the tone.

Well, Ingo, it's been a thrill to work with you and I do hope it has some
significance.

Well, we'll get it all written up and get it in the right places and see
what happens.

I'm leaving Sunday for Little Rock and then I will be flying to Toledo

for my lecture on Tuesday. I'11 be at my own office on Monday. You have
my phone number, don't you?

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Yes, Ido. And then ye:

T'll be back late cn °.

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All right. We'l: -..
My best regards ww -

They say thank you .«.1

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£900 . Good night


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ANNEX B

SWANN-SHERMAN JUPITER TOUCHDOWN PROBE

April 27, 1973

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(3 seconds fast) There's a planct with stripes.

I hope it's Jupiter.

I think that it must have an extremely large hydrogen mantle. If a
space frobe made contact with that, it would be maybe 80,000 -
120,000 miles out from the planet surface.

So I'm approaching it on the tangent where I cun see it's a half
moon, in other words half lit half dark. If I move around to the
lit side it's distinctly vellow toward the right. (Hal - Which
direction you had te move?)

Very high in the atmosphere there are crystals, they glitter, maybe
the stripes are like bands of crystals, maybe like rings of Saturn,
though not far out like thet, very close within the atmosphere.
(Unintelligible sentence.) I bet you they'll reflect radio probes.
Is that possible if you hed a cloud of crystals that were sssaulted
by different radic waves? (Hal - That's right.)

Now I'll go down through. It feels really good there (laugh). I
said that before, didn't 1? ;
Inside those cloud layers, those crystal layers, they look beautiful
from the outside, from the inside they look like roiling gas clouds
- eerie yellow light, rainbows.

I get the impression, though I don't see, that it's liquid.

Then I came through the cloud cover, the surface it looks like sand
dunes. They're made of very large grade crystals so they slide.
Tremendous winds sort of like maybe the prevailing winds of earth
but very close to the surface of Jupiter.

From that view the horizon looks orangish or rose-colored but
overhead it's kinda grecnish-ycllow.

If I look to the right there is an enormous mountain range.


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If I'm giving a description of where I've gone and am, it would be
approximately where Alaska is if the sun were directly overhead which
it is.

The sun looks like it has a green corona, scems smaller to me (Hal ~
what color is the sun?) White.

I feel that there's liquid somewhere.

Those mountains are very huge but they still doen't poke up through
the crysiui cioua cover.

You know I had a dream once something like this where the cloud cover
was a great arc, sweeps over the entire heaven.

Those grains which make that sand orange are quite large.

They have a polished surrace and they look something like amber or
like obsidian but they're yellowish and not as heavy.

The wind blows them, they slide along.

If I turn, the whole thing seems enormously flat. I mean if I get
the feeling that if a man stood on those sands I think he would sink
into them (laugh); maybe that’s where that liquid feeling comes’ fron.

I see something that looks like a tornado. Is there a therml
inversion here? 1 bet there is. I bet you that the surface of Jupiter
will give a very high infrared count (?), reading (?) (Hal - reading)
Gnaudible sentence.) The heat is held down.

I seer. te be stuck, not moving. I'll move more towards the equator.

1 get the impression thnt that must be a band of crystals similar

to the outer ones, Kind of bluish. They seem to be sort of in orbit,
permanent orbit down threugh another layer farther down which are

like our clouds but moving fast.

There's another area: liquid like water. Looks like it's got icebergs
in it but they're not icebergs (laugh).

Tremendous wind. It's colder here, maybe it's because there's not
a thermal inversion there.

I'm back. OK.- (Hal ~ Very interesting.)
The atmosphere of Jupiter is very thick.
I wean.... (Ingo draws)...

Explanation of drawing:

This is what appears to be a hydrogen mantle about 100,000 miles off
the surface.

Those here are bands of crystals, kind of elements. They're pretty

close to the surface.

And beneath those are layers of clouds or what seem to be prevailing
winds.


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Beneath that is . - ‘aw wag, well, it looked like

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shifting sands .... .. . - 4 : of slippery granulated Stufl ert sae “e
And off in the 2b t-s <0 the Esst was a very high mountain
chain 30,000 fe - SY .,..Ut@ sarge mountains. I1 feel these crystals

will probably bios: radiv waves. They're that type.

Generally, that's all.

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