Is there a longer version or follow-up to the Ingo Swann ASPR ceiling-target clip?

Filed 2026-08-04. This traces the High Strangeness X post to the longer archival footage and the later published report from the same ASPR research program.

Short answer

Yes. The 01:45 X video is a shortened cut of a 03:52 upload from the official Ingo Swann Estate channel. The X account posted no self-reply or follow-up to its post.

A research follow-up also exists. Karlis Osis and Janet Lee Mitchell published "Physiological Correlates of Reported Out-of-Body Experiences" in 1977. It reports an EEG difference between periods when Swann said he was out of body and comparison periods. The official abstract does not report the hidden-object accuracy needed to support the video's stronger claim that Swann could see the tray.

Relationship between the two videos

The X edit uses approximately 00:38-01:21 and 02:50-03:52 from the longer Estate upload. It removes the initial explanation of the upward-facing tray and most of the middle procedure.

The longer version adds:

• An introduction naming the American Society for Psychical Research and Karlis Osis.
• An explanation that the small objects face upward in a suspended tray.
• Janet Mitchell attaching Swann to the polygraph.
• Brief dialogue between Mitchell and Swann.
• An explanation that physiological changes were recorded during the trial.
• The quiet experimental interval before Swann says he is finished.

The Estate uploaded the longer copy on July 22, 2025 and describes it as rare footage filmed at the ASPR in New York in the early 1970s. The upload does not identify the original film or television production, its exact filming date, or its first broadcast.

What followed the experiment

The video's closing promise that the researchers would know more later appears to refer to the continuing ASPR program. The clearest published follow-up located is the 1977 Osis and Mitchell paper. Its official abstract describes two series:

1. Swann pressed a button when he felt out of body.
2. Across five sessions, the experimenter alternated one-minute out-of-body and resting intervals.

The authors reported lower mean EEG amplitude during the reported out-of-body condition, including differences at both occipital lobes. This is evidence of a physiological correlate within the study's design. It does not by itself show that consciousness left the body or that Swann correctly perceived a hidden target.

The paper belongs to the same ASPR research program and names the same subject and investigators. The available abstract does not establish that the specific session seen in the footage was included in its dataset.

Swann's later first-person account says he attended the ASPR several times a week in 1971 and 1972. He describes both correspondences and misses in the tray trials, and says that switching from verbal descriptions to sketches improved his performance. That account is useful detail from the subject, but it is not an independent trial record.

Net

The longer video is genuine additional footage, not a separate replication. The 1977 paper is a program-level follow-up focused on EEG measurements. Neither the X edit nor the paper abstract supplies the complete randomized target set, all of Swann's responses, the scoring rules, and independent judging needed to evaluate the clip's hidden-object accuracy claim.

Followup items

• Identify the original production and exact filming or broadcast date of the archival footage.
• Obtain the complete 1977 paper and determine whether it identifies the filmed session.
• Locate the complete ASPR target records, Swann's drawings, and blind-judging materials for the tray trials shown or described.