SRI International (no affiliation with Stanford since 1970) is a private company that does research for the US government and, later, private companies. One of

SRI International (no affiliation with Stanford since 1970) is a private company that does research for the US government and, later, private companies. One of their activities was to look for paranormal activity. It all failed - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parapsychology_research_at_SRI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parapsychology_research_at_SRI It was abandoned in the 90's as there were no tangible results.