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Despite months of collaboration and attempts to reproduce the effects, the team could never observe the full range of phenomena consistently. Hutchison’s inability to replicate the effects on demand was a significant stumbling block. His experiments showed promise but lacked the rigorous reproducibility required for scientific validation.
Colonel Alexander expressed a cautious optimism—while he believed that Hutchison might have stumbled onto something genuinely unexplained, he emphasized the lack of a scientific blueprint or understanding of the processes involved. Without a clear mechanism, the phenomenon remained anecdotal and unverified. As a result, official investigations concluded in 1984, and funding was withdrawn.