Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis

Highly recommended for those interested in the military and the paranormal."Library Journal (starred review)"Jacobsen journeys into the realm where the paranormal and the bureaucratic meet. She has a keen eye for amusing anecdotes, and writes them up with convincing detail. Jacobsen persuasively shows that it in fact happened and aptly frames the dilemma. Jacobsen's ability to objectively tell the story of DARPA, not to mention its murky past, is truly remarkable, making for a terrifically well-crafted treatise on the agency most Americans know next to nothing about."
Russell Targ said a highly distorted and selective presentation concerning this government program.. With regard to the new book Phenomena, I am writing to correct the historical record because unfortunately a reader of Phenomena will come away with a highly distorted and selective presentation concerning this government program. The narrative misrepresents what happened, and the facts the author has chosen to cite are highly selective and therefore misleading. What are my qualifications to say this book is filled with error? It certainly would not be apparent from the book but, in fact, I am the . Interesting, informative, incomplete michaelredmond Some Comments on PHENOMENA The Secret History of the U.S. Government’s Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis by Annie Jacobsen (Little, Brown & Co., 2017)By Michael RedmondThis latest excursion by investigative journalist Annie Jacobsen (AREA 51, OPERATION PAPER CLIP, THE PENTAGON’S BRAIN) into the U.S. military’s weird side is definitely worth reading -- but it is most definitely not “the definitive history of the military's decades-long investigatio. 0100101011100 said PSI Phenomena, DARPA and Cold War Hysteria. For someone unread in the area of PSI research it would be pretty informative particularly with the back stories about some of the star players which are rarely if ever heard, as I purchased a new hardcover copy it was too pricey for the all to familiar filler material about the credibility and acceptability of the phenomena. The authoress did an excellent job in her attempt to remain neutral about the subject matter despite the inability of "modern science" to recreate any of these psychic accompl

She was a contributing editor at the Los Angeles Times Magazine. . Annie Jacobsen is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Area 51 and Operation Paperclip and the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Pentagon's Brain. A graduate of Princeton University, she lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two

This is a book about a team of scientists and psychics with top secret clearances.For more than forty years, the U.S. Speaking on the record, many for the first time, are former CIA and Defense Department scientists, analysts, and program managers, as well as the government psychics themselves.Who did the U.S. government has researched extrasensory perception, using it in attempts to locate hostages, fugitives, secret bases, and downed fighter jets, to divine other nations' secrets, and even to predict future threats to national security. Now, for the first time, New York Times bestselling author Annie Jacobsen tells the story of these radical, controversial programs, using never before seen declassified documents as well as exclusive interviews with, and unprecedented access to, more than fifty of the individuals involved. The definitive history of the military's decades-long investigation into mental powers and phenomena, from the author of Pulitzer Prize finalist The Pentagon's Brain and international bestseller Area 51. government hire for these top secret programs, and how do they explain their military and intelligence work? How do scientists approach such enigmatic subject matter? What interest