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created: 2025-07-22
updated: 2025-07-22
title: Outbound Remote Viewing
tags:
  - concept
  - remoteviewing
  - methodology
description: Outbound Remote Viewing is a remote viewing methodology where an experimenter visits a target site while the psychic attempts to perceive their surroundings.
category: "Research Methodology"
summary: "Outbound Remote Viewing is a Remote Viewing methodology where an 'outbound' experimenter visits a target site while the psychic, typically back at a laboratory, attempts to perceive and describe the experimenter's surroundings."
start: 1972
location: Stanford Research Institute, Menlo Park, California
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[[Outbound Remote Viewing]] is a [[Remote Viewing]] methodology where an "outbound" experimenter visits a target site while the psychic, typically back at a laboratory, attempts to perceive and describe the experimenter's surroundings. This method allows for richer feedback, as the psychic can later visit the actual site to compare their impressions with reality.[^1]

This protocol was used in early remote viewing experiments at [[Stanford Research Institute|SRI]]. For example, [[Hal Puthoff]] and [[Earle Jones]] served as outbound experimenters for [[Pat Price]], who accurately described their location at Hoover Tower. Similarly, [[Frederick Atwater|Skip Atwater]] used this method in early sessions with [[Mel Riley]] at [[Fort Meade]]. The technique was also employed in experiments with [[Hella Hammid]], where she demonstrated precognitive abilities by accurately describing a site even before it was randomly selected for the outbound experimenter.[^1]

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[^1]: Schnabel, Jim. *Remote Viewers*. Dell, 1997.