---
title: "Janet Mitchell"
type: "entity"
entity_kind: "person"
status: "hub"
canonical_name: "Janet Lee Mitchell"
aliases: ["Janet Mitchell"]
first_seen: "2026-09-19T00:00:00.000Z"
writer_model: "claude-opus-4-8"
connects_to: ["remote viewing","American Society for Psychical Research","Ingo Swann","out-of-body experience","priority dispute"]
seek_code_commit: "04e3c83e"
---


Parapsychologist at the American Society for Psychical Research who, per the Society's own Summer 1972 newsletter, personally conducted the exploratory out-of-body sessions with Ingo Swann that made him the ASPR's principal test subject in 1971–72.

Matters to this vault as the contemporaneously-documented researcher who actually ran [[entity-ingo-swann|Swann]]'s sessions, yet is absent from both Swann's and [[entity-hal-puthoff|Puthoff]]'s own accounts of the December 1971 "remote viewing" term-coining — while later secondary retellings insert her into that specific naming session on no located primary sourcing. That gap between her Tier-1-documented general role and her unsourced starring role in the origin story is a small live discrepancy in the cast of the remote-viewing priority dispute.

## References
- [[claim-aspr-newsletter-1972-corroborates-swann-program-not-remote-viewing-term]]