Dale E. Graff was an aerospace engineer and physicist when he became a manager for a research program that involved studying and experimenting with remote viewing, in which a person uses extrasensory perception (ESP) to "see" a faraway place. The program aimed to discover whether remote viewing could be used in military intelligence gathering- specifically, spying. Graff believed in the program's potential, but he had no experience with remote viewing himself, and in spite of his optimism, he had some doubts. Therefore, one of the first things he did when he joined the program was set up a test to see if remote viewing could possibly work.

Russell Targ and Harold Puthoff, Graff's colleagues and conductors of the research, put him in contact with a remote viewer named Hella Hammid, who was in New York City at the time. Without saying where they were going, Graff drove the...