Army Report on ESP in Animals Prepared by J.H. Rhine in 1953
Army Report on ESP in Animals
"Final Report for Contract DA-44-009-ENG-1039"

Prepared by J.H. Rhine, Director, The Parapsychology Laboratory, Duke
University. For the
Commanding Officer, Engineer Research and Development Laboratories, Fort
Belvoir,
Virginia. 10 July 1953. Defense Technical Information Service document number
AD015218.

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Introduction

>>> In the early 1950s, Dr. Joseph Banks Rhine, based at Duke University, was
the
foremost researcher in the field of parapsychology, or, using the term he
coined:
"extrasensory perception." The Army hired Rhine and his Parapsychology
Laboratory to
research the possibility of using dogs and other animals to detect buried
landmines.

The final report for one such contract with Duke University, dated 10 July 1953,
remained
classified as Confidential for more than 50 years, until it was recently
declassified after a
long, laborious process. It took ten separate offices five years to clear this
short report for
release.

The narrative report describes a series of experiments involving German
shepherds trying
to locate buried landmines. The results appeared promising but also suggested
that at
least some of the positive results were attributable to the dogs' remarkable
sense of smell.
The report also examines the possibility of ESP in cats and pigeons.

Rhine was the first to attempt a scientific investigation of paranormal
phenomena of this
type, and many of his experimental results have been attacked as being the
result of a
general lack of stringent experimental controls and the possible falsification
of records by
his laboratory assistants.

The document was obtained by researcher Michael Ravnitzky.

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