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Several hundred such trials have been conducted by investigators over the past 25 years, including those by the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research Laboratory ( PEAR ) and by scientists at SRI International and Science Applications International Corporation.

Many of these were under contract by the U. S. government as part of the espionage program Stargate Project, which terminated in 1995 having failed, in the government's eyes, to document any practical intelligence value.

PEAR closed its doors at the end of February 2007.

Its founder, Robert G. Jahn, said of it that, " For 28 years, we ’ ve done what we wanted to do, and there ’ s no reason to stay and generate more of the same data.

" However, physicist Robert L. Park said of PEAR, " It ’ s been an embarrassment to science, and I think an embarrassment for Princeton ".