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Harold E. Puthoff, American physicist and electrical engineer. AAWSAP contractor and founder of EarthTech International, Austin, Texas.

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Hal Puthoff

Physicist EarthTech International Former AAWSAP Contractor 🇺🇸 United States

In Brief

Harold E. Puthoff is an American physicist and electrical engineer. PhD Stanford 1967. Scientific director of the SRI remote-viewing programme 1972 to 1985, the CIA-funded research that became STARGATE under DIA management. Founder and president of EarthTech International, formerly the Institute for Advanced Studies at Austin.

From 2008 to 2010 he was a senior contractor to the DIA Advanced Aerospace Weapons System Applications Program under James Lacatski's programme management. He co-founded To The Stars Academy of Arts and Science in 2017 with Tom DeLonge, Luis Elizondo, Christopher Mellon, Jim Semivan and Steve Justice.

Notable Statement

"The DIRDs were not science fiction. They were a survey of the theoretical physics that has to be correct if the engineering we have been briefed on is to make sense. The fact that they exist at all, written under DIA contract, is the data point."

SOL Foundation symposium · 2022

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Editorial note. This profile is the short-card form for the Disclosure Network. The full life, career, the STARGATE lineage, and the AAWSAP DIRD context live on the biography page. If anything needs correcting, please get in touch.

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