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This Defense Intelligence Reference Document, dated 11 March 2010, was prepared by the Defense Intelligence Agency's Defense Warning Office under the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications 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, neurological and auditory effects. It argues that clinical diagnoses can help infer the characteristics of advanced systems. The appendices hold a case catalog and ICD code tables.
From the source: Release of 2026-09-18 Incident: 3/11/10, Las Vegas, Nevada. Released with redactions. This document is a Defense Intelligence Reference Document (DIRD), a technical reference format used by the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) to capture baseline knowledge on a specific topic for later analytic use. DIRDs are best understood as reference and synthesis products rather than as original research. It is one of 38 DIRDs produced under the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program (AAWSAP) between 2009 and 2011. Because AAWSAP’s scope permitted a broad range of supporting topics, not every DIRD in the series directly concerns aerospace systems or future threat assessment. The following summary reflects the DIRD’s scope and framing at the time of writing and should not be read as implying current validation of the concepts discussed. This DIRD surveys reported acute and subacute injuries allegedly associated with close exposure to anomalous field effects, attempting to draw tentative parallels between these claimed symptoms and the known physiological effects of intense radiofrequency .and microwave exposure on human tissue. By reviewing medical and biophysical literature on heating, burns, neurological effects, and sensory disturbances, the report speculates on theoretical mechanisms by which intense electromagnetic fields might account for some of the reported injury patterns, though it does not establish a direct causal link between the reported injuries and any specific source. It hypothesizes that clinical symptoms and reported exposure circumstances might allow for highly constrained, limited inferences regarding the characteristics of an unknown emitter or propulsion system. Notably, the document’s findings rely heavily on case comparisons lacking physical examinations, untestable exposure conditions, and a mix of established science and more controversial literature. These comparisons are then extended to anomalous-craft scenarios, attempting to map known electromagnetic injury mechanisms onto anomalous encounter claims that lack independent scientific validation in the report.
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• Microwave communication/ hearing/ localized heating
• CO2 Laser communication / hearing / localized heating
• Ability to instill fear secondary to above, including with use of messaging and RF
carrier-wave modulated intra-cranial "voices" through thermoelastic expansion of
intracranial spaces at 5 kHz (vide infra)
• Ability to direct thermal effects to include directed pa in, erythema, and second
degree burns
• Ability to cause frontal-temporal headache with mm waves
• Pulses of RF (e.g. 2450 MHz/ 12.4-1.24 Mev UHF 1.0 dm - 1.0 m pressure waves)
to disorient and destabilize muscular coordination: at this frequency 40 J/cm and of
microsecond duration pulses will cause thermoelastic expansion in brain (as well as
the cochlear microphonics for hearing sensation at 0.5-32 micron pu lse widths per
pulse thresholds are near 20 J/cm)
• Use of mm waves to instigate cortical surface effects and seizures through delta
wave, EPSP & IPSP (excitatory and inhibitory post-synaptic potentials neocortical
neurona l synchronization with high voltage 100 kV/m nanosecond pulsed 15 Hz
{ELF} :through stimulation of the hippocampus CA3 pyram idal cells and cells of the
pyriform cortex, sustained over 1 - 5 minutes for ictal development for petit mal or
grand mal seizures
• Loss of consciousness, muscle spasms, muscle weakness
• Parasthesiae with UHF - SHF, lasting for minutes
• Increase of core body temperature to above 41 °C (105.8 °F) with VHF (e.g. 225
MHz) within 15 - 30 minutes {1-2 km waves at dose rates about 10 W/kg; 5 W/kg
will increase a humans core body temperature within one to two hours
• Use of pu lsed-microwaves to temporarily interfere with short-term spatial memory
• Nausea and vomiting, and disorientation can be easily induced with audible
frequencies at 145 dB at selected frequencies of 100-500 Hz, within seconds up to a
few minutes: combinations of infrasonic and sonic tones can be selected for specific
effects on the vestibular apparatus to induce highly specific gastro intestinal and
neural effects.
• iv (see footnote)
C. FIELD EFFECTS AND HEARING/COMMUNICATIONS
iv The INSCOM document also discusses another area of interest, but one beyond the scope of this
review. That is, the effects of laser-radiation including inducement of photophobic and also acoustical
mechanica l as well as therma l effects . As our area of focus does not include either actual accidental or
anecdotal cases in this domain, we will not review laser-induced field effects.
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