Secret government experiments on "psychic spying" have producedthe most credible evidence to date that humans have paranormal abilities, according to two academic experts. The U.S. government research program has produced statistically significant results, the experts agree, but they disagree about how to interpret those results. "At this stage, using the standards applied to any other area of science, the case for psychic functioning has been scientifically proven," says Jessica Utts, a UC Davis statistics professor who specializes in evaluating parapsychology research. Ray Hyman, a psychology professor at the University of Oregon in Eugene and a noted debunker of psychic phenomena, disagrees. "The case for psychic functioning seems better than it ever has been," he says. "Inexplicable statistical departures from chance, however, are a far cry from compelling evidence." Utts and Hyman evaluated a previously classified 20-year, $20 million basic-research program funded by various U.S. intelligence agencies. The full text of Utts' report is on the World Wide Web at http://www-stat.ucdavis.edu/users/utts/ and Hyman's at http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~uocomm/newsrel/Hyman.html.