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At this point, the reception would include only members of the ASPR and their friends. It was anticipated that about sixty people would attend. The reception was scheduled for the early evening of April 26. Also during the very early days of April, the judge of the formal eight OOB experiments returned her findings -- after which she was told that she had judged an experiment regarding out-of-body perceptions. I was told she was very surprised, since she thought she had judged a standard visual perceptual series of tests of some kind. I was also told that she had no idea at all that OOB perception could be so efficient. In other words, she had attempted to match the eight picture drawings with the photographs of eight of the tray targets on the assumption that the responses were some form of visual perceiving. We hoped that she would match at least six of them to bring the success rate just slightly above chance. If she matched four or less, then the rate would be at or below chance expectation -- and therefore useless. My calendar for April 1972 shows that 4 April was the first day of that month I went up to work at the ASPR. When I arrived, Fanny Knipe said that Dr. Osis was waiting for me in Janet’s office. So I bounded up the two flights of stairs -- to find Janet and Osis with big smiles spread across their faces.