Ingo Swann's Jupiter session

On the evening of 27 April 1973, Ingo Swann gave a recorded remote viewing of Jupiter for researchers at SRI, years before spacecraft reached the planet. Supporters and sceptics assess it differently.

Wikipedia says Ingo Swann proposed a study to Russell Targ and Hal Puthoff, who at first resisted because the descriptions could never be checked. On the evening of 27 April 1973, they recorded Swann's remote viewing session of Jupiter and its moons, before the Voyager probe visited in 1979. Swann's own website says the session was one of his "planetary probes", carried out at SRI under Puthoff and Targ, with psychic Harold Sherman viewing from his home in Arkansas. A second session, on Mercury, followed on 11 March 1974. The website says Targ's Third Eye Spies claims the sessions were arranged for or by NASA.

The University of West Georgia's magazine reports that Swann stated Jupiter had rings, before the 1979 visit. The Skeptic's Dictionary says Targ and Puthoff described the remote viewing as comparing favourably with findings from the Pioneer 10 and Mariner 10 probes. It adds that Isaac Asimov ran a comparable check and judged 46 percent of the claims wrong. It also cites Randi (1982) as saying only one of 65 claims was a fact that was neither obvious nor available from reference books.