Ingo Swann

Self-taught American artist and psychic-research subject who became one of the central test subjects of Cold War remote-viewing research, and who, by his own dated account and by Russell Targ's own reported admission, first proposed the term "remote viewing" itself — months before he ever made contact with the SRI physicists popularly credited with coining it.

Matters to this vault as the unpaged center of a misattribution the surrounding Puthoff/Stargate cluster had never surfaced on its own: an entity entirely absent from the vault (0 mentions) despite the depth of coverage already built around the program he named.

References

• claim-swann-1971-aspr-memoir-self-credits-remote-viewing-coinage
• claim-wikipedia-remote-viewing-infobox-contradicts-own-body-on-coining-credit
• claim-aspr-newsletter-1972-corroborates-swann-program-not-remote-viewing-term

Updates

• 2026-09-19: a contemporaneous (Summer 1972) ASPR newsletter by Karlis Osis independently corroborates Swann as the Society's principal out-of-body test subject in 1971–72 — but it never uses "remote viewing," and it names Janet Mitchell, not Osis or Schmeidler, as the researcher who actually ran his sessions. First contemporaneous Tier-1 corroboration of the program surrounding Swann's disputed coinage; still silent on the coinage itself. (claim-aspr-newsletter-1972-corroborates-swann-program-not-remote-viewing-term)