Remote viewing is the claim that a person can describe a distant or hidden target without using the usual senses. It has been studied in various forms for decades, including government-adjacent programs and parapsychology experiments.
The problem is that strong, repeatable evidence has never really materialized. Most researchers view the results as too weak, too noisy, or too vulnerable to cueing and bias to support the paranormal claim.
So the honest answer is that people do report remote-viewing experiences, but the evidence that it works as advertised is not persuasive.
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