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This Defense Intelligence Reference Document was prepared by the Defense Intelligence Agency in March 2010 under its Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications (AAWSA) Program. It reviews reported injuries to people exposed at close range to anomalous aerospace vehicles and attributes them mainly to electromagnetic radiation field effects, including burns and neurological effects. The document argues that clinical diagnoses could help infer the characteristics of such systems. Its appendices list historical cases and classify reported physiological effects using ICD codes and Vallee ratings.
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space application human effects [22,23]. In these experiments low energy proton
effects on tissue were observed.viii In these experiments, incident energies were
selected for skin surfaces that were very similar to the example of the RF/ NIEMR 30 -
300 GHz millimeter wave experiments just described: 1-30 Mev.
The ranges of skin penetration were the same: 0.5 - about 5.0 mm. At the highest
doses selected (up to 2000 rads) no clinical effects were noted at or below equivalent
Mev - levels found at millimeter waves, SARs of 10 mW/cm 2 .
There have been several studies {encompassing about 100 reported cases during acute
accidental exposures in military aerospace and communications situations} that have
collected data on human exposures to RF of mixed and broad bandwidths [1,23].
Comparison of this medical literature presents striking overlaps to the claimed clinical
injury patterns of several hundred near-field cases of anomalous and hostile events
being currently analyzed for a companion study to this, as described in Appendices A,
B, & C.
The emergent findings are that in nearly all cases in which exposures are of the order of
minutes or longer, including visible indications at distances of 10 meters, similar acute
effects are observed. In order of their positive and negative clinical presentation the
signs and symptoms [23,24,25,26] include:
• Warming/prickly sensation over exposed glabrous skin
• Sensation of burning, no itching or small myelenation injury
• Erythema, which progresses top 2nd -degree burns in 72 hours
• Headache, temporal: effect lasting three weeks
• Dizziness/vertigo, often with nausea/ vomiting at 24-72 hours
• Cardiac palpitations at 48-72 hours
• Neurasthenia and peripheral neuropathy absent fasciculation
• Absent evidence of neuromuscular small fiber disease
• Absent evidence of alpha-motor neuron involvement
• Malaise and low-grade fever, emotional liability
• Severe anxiety with high exposure over 10 or greater minutesix
• Corneal abrasion due to deoxygenating, "gritty eye syndrome"
• Scleral inflammation and iriditiis, photophobia
v,,, Spaceflight and possible weapons applications were of great concern, and sources indicate, that there was
concern of reported UFO/Anomalous effects at the time [24]).
""Severe Anxiety" as assessed clinically to require medication and hospitalization is a marker for broadband
RF/NIEMR [but not ionizing] radiation exposure greater than about 500 mW/cm2, or 5x10 3 W/m 2 . Thus, a
neurological examination that can separate psychiatric from neuropathic and small nerve fiber damage can serve to
demarcate exposure in SAR, and can help distinguish whole body, head, and/or hot-spot surface absorption.
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