Learn about the International Remote Viewing Association (IRVA) and how you can support its goals.

IRVA LINKS

THE IRVA WEBSITE

THE IRVA CONFERENCE WEBSITE

FOUNDING IRVA MEMBERS - ALAMOGORDO, NM, 1999. Standing left to right: Hal Puthoff, David Hathcock, John Alexander, Lyn Buchanan, Paul Smith, Skip Atwater, Angela Thompson Smith, and Marcello Truzzi. Seated: Russell Targ and Stephan Schwartz.

The International Remote Viewing Association (IRVA) was organized March 18, 1999, by selected scientists and practitioners meeting in conjunction with the first professional conference on Remote Viewing in Alamogordo, New Mexico.

The concluded objective was to create an organization which would provide a mechanism for evaluating the discipline called "remote viewing", encourage scientifically sound research, propose ethical standards and provide overview educational information to the public.

One of IRVA's major tasks is to maintain a credible and responsible Remote-Viewing focused internet site which presents.....

Key existing published scientific findings
Newly-Breaking scientific published articles
Current educational options/considerations
Standardized On-Line testing
Founding Members and Current Executive Board:

[Current President of IRVA] F. Holmes 'Skip' Atwater, Captain, US Army (ret.), Operations and Training Officer of the US Army Remote Viewing Unit from 1977 to 1987; currently Research Director at The Monroe Institute in Nellysford, Virginia; Author of Captain of My Ship, Master of My Soul: Living with Guidance.

[Current Vice-President of IRVA] Paul H. Smith, Major, US Army (ret.), seven-year veteran of the military remote viewing program; President and Chief Instructor for Remote Viewing Instructional Services, Inc., of Austin, Texas.

John B. Alexander, Ph. D., Colonel, US Army (ret), of Las Vegas, Nevada, President of Apollinaire Group; Author of Future War: Non-Lethal Weapons in Twenty-First-Century Warfare.

Leonard Buchanan, Remote Viewer, Database Manager, Property Book Officer and Trainer in the US Army Remote Viewing Unit from 1984 to 1992; currently Executive Director of Problems>Solutions>Innovations, a Controlled Remote Viewing Training Enterprise, and founder of the Assigned Witness Program, a non-profit CRV applications and research corporation based in New Mexico.

Stephan A. Schwartz, of Charlottesville, Virginia; Research Director of the Mobius Group, and Associate of Laboratories for Fundamental Research; author and researcher in extraordinary human performance for more than 30 years, focusing on anthropology and parapsychology.

Angela Thompson Smith, Ph.D., research psychologist, writer, educator; President, Remote Viewing Consulting, LLC, Las Vegas, Nevada. Author of Remote Perceptions: Out-Of-Body Experiences, Remote Viewing, and Other Normal Abilities

Russell Targ, of Palo Alto, California; recently retired senior staff scientist from Lockheed-Martin; physicist and author; pioneer in the development of both the laser and of remote viewing; President Emeritus of IRVA. Founder of ESP Research.