SRI International

SRI International (originally the Stanford Research Institute) is a US non-profit scientific research institute founded in 1946 as part of Stanford University and made fully independent in 1970. Headquartered in Menlo Park, California, SRI has historically conducted major research programmes for the Department of Defense, the CIA, the National Science Foundation, and commercial clients across information technology, biosciences, and advanced engineering.

Role in UAP/Paranormal Research

SRI is notable in UAP history primarily for hosting the Stargate Project's precursor remote-viewing research programme from 1972 to 1991. This work, initially led by physicists Harold Puthoff and Russell Targ under CIA contract, produced thousands of sessions investigating human perception beyond conventional sensory channels. Subjects included Ingo Swann, Pat Price, Uri Geller, and Joseph McMoneagle. While not exclusively about UAP, SRI's research touched on consciousness-phenomena claims and anomalous-cognition methodologies that later fed into AAWSAP-era discussion.

Significance

Puthoff's subsequent work with AATIP and the Sol Foundation traces directly back to SRI's 1970s methodology. Project Stargate's final 1995 CIA evaluation (Ray Hyman and Jessica Utts) and the broader SRI remote-viewing corpus remain primary data points in academic discussions of consciousness and anomalous phenomena. SRI itself no longer conducts remote-viewing research.