I typed out a looong answer about my adventures as a gifted student and in the 'Space Kids program', but, decided not to post the whole thing. The long version is a bit more personal than I want to put on a forum.
But, to summarize, after the standardized tests that everybody gets in US schools, I was tested privately at a Mental Hospital near my home. During these tests, I was tested for ESP with Zener cards, tried remote viewing (it was like a game), and I believe some astral travel/lucid dreaming experiments were done, too, during sleep tests Certainly, these are all weird for just 'gifted student testing' which is what I was supposed to be there for. All of the other tests were visual and spatial puzzles, nothing too out of the ordinary. I tested very high on that portion, but not technically 'gifted' with an exceptionally high IQ. I was placed in the local school's gifted student program, anyway. As part of this program, I started getting electronic voice phone calls from "NASA Space Kids Program", one of which told me to attend a local Astronomy group at the local University (I was 11, and went with my Mom - everyone else there were adults, all of them were scientists and professors - it was very weird.).
<This part was where I start to cut out stuff...>
Backing up a bit, when I was 6 or so (1979 or 1980), we went to Dayton to visit family, and attended the Air Show. I have pronounced memory gaps of an earlier trip to Dayton, and the only way I know this is because my parents would ask me what I could and couldn't recall of our earlier visits...
I mention this because Puharich's 'Star Kids' program was relocated to Wright-Patterson in 1978-79. <Again, I'm leaving out some BIG pertinent details, here...>
I will say, I am still a skeptic regarding ESP (and extra-terrestrials visiting our planet, too.). Researching Puharich, it seems he did a lot of different research into technologies that could mimic 'ESP'. I think, ultimately, that was what he was up to with his research. I believe he was doing mind-control experiments using drugs, electronics, voice-to-skull implants, microwaves, Tesla-type stuff... sometimes on children... and telling the test subjects that they were doing ESP. Again, that's my hypothesis. He's an odd character. I never met him, and my involvement - basically just getting phone calls from something calling itself 'NASA's Space Kids Program' - was after he worked on his program with kids (and after it was relocated to Dayton.).
So, yeah. I'm sorry to leave out the weirdest details... It's a good story, but, I'm trying to focus on stuff that matches verifiable details and dates. The rest is... weird... Thanks for the interest! I think I wanted to tell my story, to be honest.
