# Prominent people and Remote Viewing
- Edgar Mitchell, sixth man on the moon, founder of Institute of Noetic Sciences, spoke at an IRVA Conference (opens new window)
- Jacques Vallee, author, model for scientist in Close Encounters, astronomer, UFO researcher, DARPA researcher participated in remote viewing experiments (opens new window)
- Michael Crichton, author of Jurassic Park, became a "remarkably gifted remote viewer" (Stephan Schwartz)
- Pam Coronado, featured on TV programs The unExplained, Sensing Murder and Mediums, studied CRV with Lyn Buchanan and Lori Williams (opens new window)
- President Jimmy Carter admitted in 1995 that remote viewing had been used to find a crashed Russian airplane in Zaire (opens new window)
- Richard Bach, author of Jonathan Livingston Seagull, remote viewed at SRI (opens new window) and Coauthored Mind Reach with Russell Targ and Harold Puthoff (opens new window)
- Sophy Burnham, author of A Book of Angels, trained in CRV with Lori Williams and wrote about it in The Art of Intuition (opens new window)