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AAWSAP DIRD, Anomalous Acute and Subacute Field Effects on Human Biological Tissues, March 2010

U.S. Department of War · 2010-03-11 · 38 pages · text from the file's own layer

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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For completeness, we must mention that low-level, chronic {in excess of hours}
exposure to low levels of RF {on the order of 0.1 - 1.0 W/kg} has shown a plethora of
biological effects especially in animal studies, and mostly dealing with a neurochemical
endpoint [such as mentioned above with neuro-transmitter protein elaboration]. It is of
great interest, in the absence of injury per se that in the bra in, differences can be found
of measured SARs even millimeters apart. [ 45] Evidence exists that, therefore,
measureable effects of as yet unknown importance exist. This data is complex,
incontrovertible, and may be of later interest for us in evaluating neuropsychiatric and
neurological claims of long-term chronic, low-level, or even "off-world" exposures to
high magnetic fields, rotating RF fields, and unconventional equipment.
No effects, however, in fluorescein, sucrose transport, peroxidase permeability, or blood
flow has been seen at acute SARs of 2.5 W/kg from 2450 MHz at 10 mW/cm2. But, for
1200 MHz at a SAR of 1.0W/kg, pulsed waves at 0.2 mW/cm2 or continuous wave for
30 minutes, permeabil ity of the BBB does occur [ 46].
References & Working Data Bases
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were later published in detail in book form, P. A. Sturrock, The UFO Enigma (Warner
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[4] J. F. Schuessler, "Cash-Landrum Radiation Case," MUFON UFO Jour. 165, p. 3
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