Rice University Edwin C. May archive records bearing on numbered-viewer identities

Source: Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Edwin C. May Laboratories for Fundamental Research papers, MS 0773
Catalog records: https://archives.library.rice.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/335651, https://archives.library.rice.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/335632, https://archives.library.rice.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/317194, https://archives.library.rice.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/317195, https://archives.library.rice.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/317196, https://archives.library.rice.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/317197, https://archives.library.rice.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/317198, https://archives.library.rice.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/317330, https://archives.library.rice.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/326237
Sourced: 2026-09-04
Extraction: Complete item-level titles, physical locations, access status, and citations transcribed from the ArchivesSpace catalog pages. The collection-level scope note and shared access terms are reproduced once below rather than repeated for every item.
Related analysis: ../../queries/2026-09-04-who-were-the-numbered-sri-viewers, ../../sources/gary-o-langford

Collection scope and access

Edwin C. May, a nuclear physicist by training, worked as a research scientist on the Cognitive Science Program, better known as Stargate, at Stanford Research Institute and Science Applications International Corporation from 1975 to 1985, and as project director from 1985 to 1995. His papers include memos, correspondence, videos of early experiments, and formal reports to U.S. government agencies which document the tenuous laboratory research and military applications responsible for developing the practice of remote viewing that the International Remote Viewing Association promotes today.

The records are open for research. The catalog says Boxes 1-28 and 30-44 are stored off-site at the Library Service Center and require 24-hour notice for retrieval, while Box 29 is onsite. That condition expressly covers the named 1986 data folders in Box 12 and the Subject ID Master List in Box 25; the displayed access note does not state a storage rule for the viewer-name records in Boxes 46 and 47. The Woodson Research Center can be contacted at woodson@rice.edu or 713-348-2586.

Explicit viewer-name records

Remote Viewing Experiments-Local PA Sites, Viewer 009 Gary Langford, 1979

Catalog URL: https://archives.library.rice.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/335651
Physical location: Box 47, Folder 13
Citation: Remote Viewing Experiments-Local PA Sites, Viewer 009 Gary Langford, 1979, Box: 47, Folder: 13. Edwin C. May Laboratories for Fundamental Research papers, MS 0773. Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas.

Remote Viewing Slides/Photos Experiments, McMoneagle (Viewer 372), 1979

Catalog URL: https://archives.library.rice.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/335632
Physical location: Box 46, Folder 6
Citation: Remote Viewing Slides/Photos Experiments, McMoneagle (Viewer 372), 1979, Box: 46, Folder: 6. Edwin C. May Laboratories for Fundamental Research papers, MS 0773. Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas.

Adjacent named 1986 remote-viewing folders

Remote Viewing Data, G. Scott Hubbard, 1986

Catalog URL: https://archives.library.rice.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/317194
Physical location: Box 12, Folder 13
Citation: Remote Viewing Data, G. Scott Hubbard, 1986, Box: 12, Folder: 13. Edwin C. May Laboratories for Fundamental Research papers, MS 0773. Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas.

Remote Viewing Data, Ron Cain, 1986

Catalog URL: https://archives.library.rice.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/317195
Physical location: Box 12, Folder 14
Citation: Remote Viewing Data, Ron Cain, 1986, Box: 12, Folder: 14. Edwin C. May Laboratories for Fundamental Research papers, MS 0773. Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas.

Remote Viewing Data, Gary Langford, 1986

Catalog URL: https://archives.library.rice.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/317196
Physical location: Box 12, Folder 15
Citation: Remote Viewing Data, Gary Langford, 1986, Box: 12, Folder: 15. Edwin C. May Laboratories for Fundamental Research papers, MS 0773. Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas.

Remote Viewing Data, Ruggeri, 1986

Catalog URL: https://archives.library.rice.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/317197
Physical location: Box 12, Folder 16
Citation: Remote Viewing Data, Ruggeri, 1986, Box: 12, Folder: 16. Edwin C. May Laboratories for Fundamental Research papers, MS 0773. Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas.

Remote Viewing Data, Nevin Lantz, 1986

Catalog URL: https://archives.library.rice.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/317198
Physical location: Box 12, Folder 17
Citation: Remote Viewing Data, Nevin Lantz, 1986, Box: 12, Folder: 17. Edwin C. May Laboratories for Fundamental Research papers, MS 0773. Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas.

Undigitized identification key

Subject ID Master List

Catalog URL: https://archives.library.rice.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/317330
Physical location: Box 25, Folder 3
Citation: Subject ID Master List, Box: 25, Folder: 3. Edwin C. May Laboratories for Fundamental Research papers, MS 0773. Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas.

The catalog provides no digitized copy or item-level contents. The title indicates that this folder may contain the direct mapping between subject codes and names.

Later record preserving several codes

Viewers 105, 137, 177, and 518, Fuzzy Encoding of Response, 1993

Catalog URL: https://archives.library.rice.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/326237
Physical location: Box 14, Folder 15
Citation: Viewers 105, 137, 177, and 518, Fuzzy Encoding of Response, 1993, Box: 14, Folder: 15. Edwin C. May Laboratories for Fundamental Research papers, MS 0773. Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas.

The catalog title groups the numbered viewers but does not identify them by name.