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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.
UNCLASSIFIED/,'FOR: OFFIOIAL 1.tSE o••tlf • Beau's lines on fingernails • Absent serum enzymes and CBC findings • 30-60 day subacute persistent sleep disorder, dysphagia • Parasthesiae (can last up to 3 years, and thus become chronic) It is particularly important to note that one can do a semi-quantitative dose-response determination of apparent anomalous events, by comparing the clinical reports, with what we know from the literature ...at least as a first approximation of what one may adduce the power system effects at near field may have been. For example, from the peer-reviewed medical literature one can find cases inclusive of about a dozen patients and subjects exposed to one to ten minutes RF [HF through EHF] (of the '100s mentioned above): • 50250 W/m 2 @ HF (20-30 MHz) impaired 2-pt discrimination x • <1 mW/cm 2 (presumed)@ UHF (2140 MHz) double-blind/ cross-over study in adolescents and adults: no neurological or cogn itive signs and symptoms [30, and Figure Two vide infra] B. THE ENIGMA OF "NON-THERMAL" WHEALS AND LOCALIZED "BURNS" An observation made often, in the literature of aerospace related reports of anomalous object after-effects, clinically valid, but not linked to any observed heating effect, is the appearance of what appear to be 1-3 cm localized circumscribed erythematous, occasionally gangrenous, and sub-dermal wheals, boils, and serosanguinous abrasions. These injuries appear concomitantly with what are otherwise felt to be burns from microwave or other RF injuries, except they are often found on clothed parts of the body, at a distance from the worst second degree burns. And, dermatolog ically, they can't be diagnosed as thermal or RF-related injuries. A recent publication from the Bogoliubov Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna and Tashkent Russia; Faculty of Physics, Tashkent; and the Institut fur Physik, Rostock, may offer some first notions of an underlying pathophysiological mechanism. The study is said to be theoretical, but based on experimental data, and appears to be unrelated to any emitter concerns, RF or otherwise, and is not linked to an aerospace application, although funded by a x Note : the wavelength of this exposure would have been on the order of 10-50 km; in the previous UHF-SHF injuries, they would have been 1 cm - 1 dm; given equal incident energy dermal penetration is inversely proportional to wavelength. A companion study is attempting to further quantify these relationships, to permit additional inferences as to putative energy sources of anoma lous events. UNCLASSIFIED/fFOA OFFIQIAL: Wili QP◄IL:¥ 11
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