The 1995 American Institute for Research evaluation concluded that some remote-viewing results were accurate enough to defy randomness, but the phenomenon was too unreliable, inconsistent, and sporadic to be useful for intelligence purposes.
Notes on verification
Multiple independent sources (FAS, GlobalSecurity.org, declassified CIA documents) corroborate the specifics of the 1995 AIR evaluation, including the statistical findings and the conclusion of operational unreliability. [tier=silver indep_score=0.833 clusters=3 claim_tier=notable]
Sources
- Ask Molly: Did CIA Really Study Psychic Powers? (seed:military_and_intelligence)
- https://irp.fas.org/program/collect/stargate.htm (corroboration)
- https://www.globalsecurity.org/intell/systems/stargate.htm (corroboration)
- https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB438/docs/doc_57.pdf (corroboration)