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category: "Scientists & Researchers"
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tags:
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- Person
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- Parapsychology
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- RemoteViewing
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- PEAR
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- Princeton
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summary: "Chicago remote-viewing experimenter who from 1979 ran Robert Jahn's privately funded Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research laboratory."
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location: "Princeton, New Jersey"
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relations:
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- type: reported_to
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with: "[[Robert Jahn]]"
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start: 1979
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role: "manager, Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research"
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fn: 3
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- type: member_of
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with: "[[Society for Scientific Exploration]]"
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role: "officer"
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fn: 4
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created: 2026-09-22
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updated: 2026-09-22
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---
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Brenda J. Dunne, of the Midwest Parapsychological Research Institute at Mundelein College in [[Chicago]], published with John P. Bisaha a series of precognitive remote-viewing experiments in the Chicago area from 1977, presented as replications of the [[Stanford Research Institute]] work; in them she travelled as the "agent" to target sites chosen at random from a pool of more than a hundred.[^1] Harry and Arlene Snyder's review of June 1, 1979, for the Defense Department's [[Grill Flame Scientific Evaluation Committee]] criticized the earlier versions for nonrandom pairing of subjects, inconsistent monitoring and unspecified instructions to judges, and called the 1978 paper "essentially a verbatim version" of the 1977 one "in spite of the later copyright."[^2]
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### PEAR
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By 1979 [[Robert Jahn]] had started the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research laboratory at [[Princeton University]] and hired Dunne to run it, and in 1987 they published *Margins of Reality.*[^3] Jahn relied on private donations of more than ten million dollars, the first and largest from [[James S. McDonnell]] of [[McDonnell Douglas]]. PEAR published more than sixty research reports, most in the journal of the [[Society for Scientific Exploration]], of which Jahn and Dunne were officers; it announced its closure in 2007. "Many PEAR Tree members who are science faculty members will not reveal themselves publicly," Dunne told the *[[New York Times]].*[^4]
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: Dunne, Brenda J., and John P. Bisaha. "Precognitive Remote Viewing in the Chicago Area: A Replication of the Stanford Experiment." *Journal of Parapsychology* 43, March 1979, pp. 17-30, CIA-RDP96-00787R000200080023-9. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection.
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[^2]: Snyder, Harry L., and Arlene G. Snyder. "Summary and Critical Evaluation of Research in Remote Viewing," Report RV-79-1, Systemetrics, Inc., June 1, 1979, as reproduced in the *Report by the Grill Flame Scientific Evaluation Committee,* December 1979, CIA-RDP96-00788R001300120001-5. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection.
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[^3]: Schultz, Steven. "Robert Jahn, pioneer of deep space propulsion and mind-machine interactions, dies at 87." Princeton University, School of Engineering and Applied Science, November 30, 2017.
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[^4]: Carey, Benedict. "A Princeton Lab on ESP Plans to Close Its Doors." *New York Times,* February 10, 2007.
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