---
title: "Ingo Swann"
type: "entity"
entity_kind: "person"
status: "hub"
canonical_name: "Ingo Swann"
aliases: []
first_seen: "2026-09-15T00:00:00.000Z"
writer_model: "claude-sonnet-5"
connects_to: ["remote viewing","Stargate","Hal Puthoff","American Society for Psychical Research","priority dispute"]
seek_code_commit: "04e3c83e"
---


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 [[entity-hal-puthoff|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]]