DOW-UAP-D128 — AAWSAP DIRD, Anomalous Acute and Subacute Field Effects on Human Biological Tissues, March 2010

File: DOW-UAP-D128
Agency: Department of War
Incident date: 3/11/10
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
Released in: Release 06 (2026-09-18)
File type: PDF

Cited in: Cash-Landrum 1980: injury claims, sworn denials and a dismissed lawsuit

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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TL;DR

Even the 1998 INSCOM file joked about the Wi-Fi era.

DIRD D128, DoW, March 2010, incident 3/11/10, Las Vegas, NV.
Surveys reported acute/subacute injuries possibly from intense RF/microwave fields during anomalous craft encounters.
Findings: no established causal link; conclusions remain speculative.

AI summary

A classified document titled "Anomalous Acute and Subacute Field Effects on Human Biological Tissues," prepared by the Defense Intelligence Agency in March 2010, reports on electromagnetic radiation exposure effects and cites cases of human injury linked to unknown aerospace systems. It discusses physiological effects from perceived anomalous aircraft, including paralysis, heat, and burns, and references studies on radiofrequency energy, thermal injuries, and neurological impacts. The document includes declassified 1998 material from INSCOM detailing field effects on human tissues, mentioning systems like RF/EM/NIEMR, thermal, and laser effects. It covers non-thermal and thermal effects of radio frequency and microwave fields, citing studies on ion gradients, HPM weapons, and PEMF therapy, and references medical literature on RF/NIEMR exposure effects, including burns, neurological issues, and eye irritation. The text also mentions alleged UFO encounters and reports symptoms like headaches, anxiety, and numbness linked to exposure near RF emitters and anomalous aerospace objects. It includes medical classifications, ratings for UFO encounters, and reported physiological and psychological effects, detailing symptoms like hearing loss, dizziness, and burns.

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Defense
Intelligence
Reference
Document
Acquisition Threat Support
11 March 2010
ICOD : 1 December 2009

Anomalous Acute and
Subacute Field Effects on
Human Biological Tissues

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Anomalous Acute and Subacute Field Effects on Human
Biological Tissues

Prepared by:
Acquisition Support Division (DW0-3)
Defense Warning Office
Directorate for Analysis
Defense Intelligence Agency
Author:

AAP Person 81
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COPYRIGHT WARN ING : Further dissemi nation of the phot ographs in this publication is not author ized.

This product is one in a series of advanced technology reports produced in FY 2009
under the Defense Intelligence Agency, Defense Warning Office's Advanced Aerospace
Weapon System Applications (AAWSA Pro ram. Comments or uestions pertaining to
this document should be addressed to AAP Person 1
AAWSA Program
Manager, Defense Intelligence Agency, ATTN: CLAR/DW0-3, Bldg 6000, Washington,
DC 20340-5100.

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Contents
Preface and Summary .................................................................. .. .......... .......... .... . v
Preface .. .... ........ .. .... .. .. .. .. .... .. ............ ........ ........ .................................................. v
Summary... ........ .......... .. .. .... .. .... ........ ...... .. ........ .... ........... ...................................v
Chapter One : Definitio n of Topic and Domain of this Study .. ........................... .. .... 1
A. What is addressed in this review ................................................................... 1
B. What is not addressed in th is review .......................... ...... .. ........................... 1
Chapter Two : Back groun d : What is Thou g ht to Cause Harm? ................................ 2
A. Setting the Stage: What others have said openly about injury caused by EMR
Field Effects ....................................................................................................... 2
B. Newly Unclassified Material ........................................................................... 3
C. Field effects and hearing / communications ................................................... 5
D. Relationships of Physics and Biophysics to Injuries ....................................... 7

Chapter Three: How Damage Occurs ..................................................................... 8
A. The effects that burn ...................................................................................... 9
B. The enigma of "non-thermal" wheals and localized "burns" ........................ 11

c. Some thoughts on neurological correlates ................................................... 12
Chapter Four: Applicable Subacute Injury Effects ................................................ 13
Chapter Five: Cognitive and Neural Injury Mechanisms and Effects .................... 16

References & Working Data Bases ........ ................ ................................ .......... ..... 19
Appendix A: Schuessler Catalog of UFO-Related Human Physiological Effects
(Frequency Distribution) ...................................................................................... 23
Appendix B: Green/Morris Example to Show the Global Breadth of Available Older
ICD Case Inputs From Mu ltiple Data Sources (red =pending ICD classification) .. 25
Appendix C ........................................................................................................... 27

Figures
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Figure 1. Variation of Normalised Specific Absorption Rate with Frequency and
Related Absorption Characteristics in Living Organisms.........................................9
Figure 2. Electromagnetic Spectrum .......................................................................14

Tables
(U) Table 1: Limits for Maximum Permissible Exposure..........................................15
Error! Bookmark not defined.

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Anomalous Acute and Subacute Field Effects on Human
Biological Tissues
Preface and Summary
PREFACE
Several years ago three previous fit and active individuals experienced an
anomalous ["irregular, incongruous and inconsistent with their domain"]
aerospace-related event. Within 72 hours they suffered medical signs and
symptoms [acute and subacute effects].
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These included almost immediate erythema (heat and redness) over
exposed [to the presumed source of an electromagnetic radiation] skin,
and varying degrees of the following as a function of their body-surface
exposure times: fever, pain, headaches, numbness and parasthesiae,
malaise, diarrhea, loss of hair and alopecia, skin eruptions/boils, cardiac
palpitations, beginnings of what were to become chronic headaches and
symptoms of insomnia and other sleep and dream disturbances, moderate
to occasional severe anxiety and insomnia. Two of the persons also
experienced photophobia ( extreme sensitivity to light), dry and scratchy
stinging eyes, and extreme inflamed blood-shot sclerae (whites of the
eyes) with soft tissue swelling of the eyelids. One of the three experienced
moderate blood dyscrasia and signs of radiation illness, and over several
years developed signs of malignant transformations.

Extensive, but controversial investigations revealed the three had been
subjected to an accidental exposure in the near-field [meters] to a broad-band
ultrahigh radiofrequency mixed radiation of RF (radio frequency), NIEMR
(non-ionizing electromagnetic radiation) & microwave energies [including
non-specific and un-measured induced ionizing effects, probably mixed UVA,
UVB and UVC (Ultra Violet A, B, C}] centered at about 785 MHz.
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These three persons were antennae engineers subjected to an anomalous
"accident" [ 1]

An extensive review of the medical literature and a compilation of a database
has revealed an additional relevant but less dramatic 42 cases from the peer
reviewed medical literature, and an additional un-published similar 300 cases,
primarily when fields were measured or emitters were known of mixed
exposures of from 1 -10 GHz at power densities of above 100 mW/cm 2 •

SUMMARY
This paper relates, summarizes, and analyzes evidence of unintended injury to
human observers by anomalous advanced aerospace systems. Additionally, an
argument is made that the subsequent work can inform ( e.g., reverse
engineer), through clinical diagnoses, certain physical characteristics of
possible future advanced aerospace systems from unknown provenance that
may be a threat to United States interests.
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The evidence discussed includes scientific material that has been peer
reviewed, contained in recently declassified government documents, and early
emergent clinical medical analyses also underway in companion research
studies.
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Based on historical cases, humans have been found to have been injured
from exposures to anomalous vehicles, especially airborne, and when in
relatively close proximity.

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The primary mechanisms of injury are related to electromagnetic radiation
field effects (EMR field effects).

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The biophysical characteristics of the injuries are well understood.

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The energy related propulsion systems are not well understood.

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The potential deployment of systems is thus important to understand.

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Sufficient incidents/accidents have been accurately reported, and medical
data acquired, as to support a hypothesis that some advanced systems are
already deployed, and opaque to full US understanding.

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Amongst the most important pathophysiological effects are:
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Heating and burn injuries
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Ionizing and non-ionizing

Thermally induced

Neurological effects
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Cognitive/ central nervous system

Neuromuscular / central & autonomic nervous systems

Sensory/ peripheral nervous system

Neuropsychiatric / neuroendocrine

Auditory/ cranial nerves VII & VIII
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Communication & disabling effects

Noise and central neurocognitive

Analysis of clinical diagnostic codes together with environmental
conditions observed during anomalous events are clustered in
meaningful ways.

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The medical analyses while not requiring the invention of an alternative
biophysics, do indicate the use of (to us) unconventional and advanced
energy systems.

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Chapter One: Definition of Topic and Domain of this Study
The objective of the overall program for which this paper has been prepared is to
understand the physics and the engineering of advanced aerospace weapons system
applications ... into the future, e.g., from now through the year 2050. This study
addresses the clinical medical signs and symptoms and biophysics of injury known and
expected from unintended exposure to anomalous systems.

A. WHAT IS ADDRESSED IN THIS REVIEW
Advanced aerospace technologies, as with current technologies, often involve exposure
of humans to exceptionally strong, and in the future to likely exotic, fields. This review
is meant to cover the clinical medical injurious effects, including harmful psychiatric/
psychological effects on the human organism that may be induced. Specifically, we are
interested both in the more narrow scope of certain near-field heating and burn effects
on "biological tissues" [usually human] and also systemic or internal medical/
neurologica l / psychiatric inj ury or sequelae, usually modulated by neural tissue.
"Near Field" is a term we intentionally leave as subjective. That is, we include effects of
possible exposures that are within sight of the injured, and which are acute [within
hours] or subacute [within days], but not longer chronic effects. Our working distance
from the putative emitter is '!Os of meters, and injury times are less than 10 minutes.
We thus focus on the acute and subacute high-level, not chronic low-level exposures
and effects. The most important bandwidth of interest is the range with tissue effects
on humans: from about 300 kHz to 300 GHz; that is, from about 1 km to 1 mm wave
lengths.
In particular, we note that many of the effects on tissues {as currently with all
environmental exposures of Non-Ionizing Electromagnetic Radiation (NIEMR), toxic
effluents, and noise/ thermal effects} are initia lly incorrectly adduced to be
"subclinical" until chronic effects of low-level effects and/or accumulative doses are
recognized . We will be particularly cognizant to not miss this subtlety in determining
harm to persons in the near-field of possible advanced aerospace systems. We will not
(except by reference) discuss ionizing radiation tissue effects, unless they are adduced
to be "Mixed Field", e.g. the Cash-Landrum case, vide infra) .
Therefore, since the potential deployment of advanced weapons technology is
subsumed under this topic, of interest are not only side effects associated with possible
lift/propulsion field mechanisms of advanced craft architectures, but also effects from
advanced weapons systems as well. These include but are not limited to beam
weapons, and active denial systems (ADS), including high powered microwaves (HPM).

B. WHAT IS NOT ADDRESSED IN THIS REVIEW
We are aware of claims that some new and emergent systems may be intended to
cause harm, and thus even be an intended weapon system. We make no attempt
herein to validate any claims. There is ample precedent in US history for utilizing a
separate analytic framework for Verification and Compliance issues, as in the lag in our
recognizing Former Soviet Union and Chinese systems utilizing infrasonic, laser
blinding, and NIEMR weapons that went unappreciated by our intelligence agencies for
two decades. Historically, the IC (Intelligence Community) adduces verification first,

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claims of injury secondly, and compliance after lengthy state-sponsored discursive. We
will not make that mistake. Beyond this, from a sociolog ical perspective, expansion of
this theme may also include the effects on humans en masse, namely inducement of
hysteria, alteration or solidification of belief systems, alteration/destruction of social
structures, group dynamics, etc., the analyses of which would require expertise in a
great number of fields including sociology, anthropology, psychology, etc.
This review will not critically evaluate epidemiological infectious disease or low-level
electromagnetic radiation/ RF aspects of certain exposures, except in passing .i We will
not address psychophysics, paranormal, explicit pre-existing or chronic psychiatric, or
abnormal psychological effects from exposures. {However, in the early draft of ICD
Code project in Appendix C, psychiatric diagnostic codes when made by a qualified
physician, and medical sequelae from perceived abductions are included for
completeness.}

Chapter Two: Background: What is Thought to Cause
Harm?
It is well-understood that long-term exposure to even chronic "low-strength" as well as
acute "high-strength" electromagnetic fields, ionizing radiation, intense lasers, etc., can
have harmful effects on human physiology. {Terms defined vide infra} It is also known
that EMR mechanisms can disrupt physiological and psychological functioning on a
temporary basis. Emerging data support that some of the chronic low-level effects alter
the ability of cells to function properly due to epigenetic effects {damage to the DNA/
RNA protein regulatory pathways, independent of chromosome disruption}, and
simultaneously alter the metabolism of dividing cells of (especially) the neuroimmune
system [5,6]. The same holds true for exposure to toxic chemical, biologica l, or nuclear
materials .

A. SETTING THE STAGE: WHAT OTHERS HAVE SAID OPENLY ABOUT
INJURY CAUSED BY EMR FIELD EFFECTS
There is relatively comprehensive literature on reported deleterious effects from
exposure at close ranges to perceived anomalous aircraft of apparent advanced design
[2,3,4, 7]. Some of the claimed physiological effects include such phenomena as
paralysis, electrical shocks, feeling of heat, burns, perception of odors, etc.
Whether such effects are the result of unintended or intended harm to humans is yet to
be determined, though evidence for the latter can be inferred in certain cases [8, 9]. We
will draw on that literature for selected cases, where exposure and emitter data are
known or can be inferred, or where injury an be logically related to biophysical
parameters.
That is, it is of particular interest in a threat analysis program, regardless of whether
anomalous-craft-induced physiological effects of humans are intended or not, to
ascertain probable mechanisms, field strengths, etc., involved in the generation of t he
i As an examp le, the enormous literature on the low-leve l and chronic exposure effects of ionizing, non-ionizing
UVA, UVB and UVC radiation will not be reviewed here. That literature is summarized well in
http://www.cancer.org/docroot/ped/content/ped_ l _ 3x_ radiation_exposure

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reported physiological effects. It is our contention that characteristics of the fields or
mechanisms associated with close encounters with anomalous craft can even
sometimes carefully be gleaned from archival records where effects on human
physiology have been carefully reported.
This is true because the medical literature of such field effects {although not many
related to craft} has been mature for decades, and is rich in peer-reviewed medical
reports and papers. There are several professional societies within the Department of
Health & Human Services (DHHS), National Science Foundation-National Institutes of
Health) (NSF-NIH) domains, including the Centers of Disease Control Epidemiology
Intell igence Service (EIS) that follow these effects, and numerous examples will be
discussed.

B. NEWLY UNCLASSIFIED MATERIAL
A couple of years ago a citizen, who believed he was being targeted by the United
States Government with harassing field effect weapons {edits and highlights below, are
the author's}...
" .. .XXXX walked into an FBI field office with a two-page letter signed by him and
addressed to Special Agent YYYY of the United States Secret Service.
{His} letter stated, in part:
'Agents of the U.S. Secret Service, as you already know, have been committing very
serious crimes against me and other members of my family for a very long time, and
I'm taking more direct action to prevent it from continuing. I am going to get an
admissible confession from at least one of your agents one way or the other, and if I
don't get what I am demanding from you today, I will use the method of torture
described in the attached pages to obtain that confession and to punish the agent for
his or her involvement in the illegal acts that your agents have been perpetrating
against me and my family.'
After he was arrested, the court found the evidence for the alleged electromagnetic
assaults unconvincing.
The district court then held a competency hearing at which [he] testified, inter alia, that
the back of a pair of his shoes were vaporized by an electromagnetic weapon fired at
his feet in 2001. [He] presented the shoes in question to t he district court, but it
appeared to the court that the heel of the shoe had simply worn out due to ordinary
use.
Inevitably, XXXX's mental status was questioned.
After receiving this report, XXXX requested that he be examined by a medical
professional of his own choosing. The psychologist chosen by XXXX concurred with the
government's psychiatrist that XXXX "is clearly psychotic and ... precisely fits the
diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia" [5-a,b].
The story didn't end, then. It turned out that XXXX may have been crazy, and the
Government wasn't harassing him, but his document was valid: it was a newly

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unclassified US Government document that described precisely and accurately the
nature of the Field Effects XXXX claimed existed [5].
It was a recent (1998), classified (unti l 2006) and controlled document: SECRET/
NOFORN; Not to be disseminated to US Allies, NATO, or physically even be taken
outside the United States except to secure US Embassy Military Attache Facilities. It
was from a unit in the Intelligence and Security Command {INSCOM}, the US Army
Analytical Element responsible for coordinated National Intelligence Community
Assessments of military threat potentia ls... based on current known worldwide (including
US for benchmarking) research.
It remains a bit murky as to how Mr. XXXX was able to "FOIA" ("use" the Freedom of
Information Act) and obtain the document. Other "legitimate" researchers had
consistently not been able to obtain it.
The above vignette is offered, to make several points.. .both administrative and
subjective, and scientific ... and objective:
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Classified information exists that is highly pertinent to the subject of this study, and
only a small part of the classified literature has been released.

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Yet, while directionally indicative of interest and intention to understand, the
material does not rise to the quality of the initiative of the program in which this
paper serves as one analytical example. ii

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There is no evidence that the systems described in the document have been fielded.

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The development of generators and aiming devices is not a rate-limiting issue. iii

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There is no doubt that they would work.

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The concerns, therefore, that individuals exposed to field effects as described in the
document, and in this paper would suffer the claimed injuries .. .are legitimate.

Amongst the systems described are those of special interest in this effort: claimed
injury from near-field exposures to aerospace anomalous vehicles and systems. As will
be described, the pattern and circumstances of injury very often belie nay-sayer
attempts to discredit witnesses, analysts, and those who suffer directly or indirectly
from the systems. Even those who are, from time to time, delusional ... are not
necessarily poor reporters of information outside their particular and personal delusion.
Examples of systems the INSCOM analysis described as real and potential include
precisely those asserted by good observers {and victims of injury} consistent with
near-field RF/ EM/ NIEMR /Thermal/ Infrasonic/ and Coherent light-Laser effects:
ii This author once ran the INSCOM effort from which this FOIA'd document [5] derived, as the Assistant National
Intelligence Officer for Science and Technology, and has recently chaired a DIA-sponsored 18- month Update Study
at the National Academy of Sciences' NRC, (including classified research ) published as "The military application of
neuroscience resea rch" [5-c] that encompasses virtually every aspect of the 2006 declassified INSCOM study .
iii An electric field strength of roughly 100 kV/mover a time period of 1 nanosecond is approximately the condition
thought to be necessary to produce the desired effect when provided to an overall repetition rate of 15 Hz. Such a
field may be developed using a radar- like, high-peak-power pulsed source or an electromagnetic pulse generator
operated at 15Hz. These technologies exist today . Aim ing devices are currently available . The effective range
could be meters, or even hundreds of meters [ SJ .

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Microwave communication/ hearing/ localized heating

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CO2 Laser communication / hearing / localized heating

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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)

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Ability to direct thermal effects to include directed pa in, erythema, and second
degree burns

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Ability to cause frontal-temporal headache with mm waves

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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)

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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

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Loss of consciousness, muscle spasms, muscle weakness

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Parasthesiae with UHF - SHF, lasting for minutes

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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

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Use of pu lsed-microwaves to temporarily interfere with short-term spatial memory

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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.

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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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The Airborne Instruments Laboratory {AIL}v in 1956, reported for the first time
anecdotal evidence that persons could "hear" RF frequencies [10], The data were
however, deemed important enough to be placed in a corporate advertisement and
warning.
Yet, the first systematic review of evidence and experiment of what is now known to be
human capability to "hear" modulations in ears or the temporal lobes, as well as in the
apparatus of the inner ear (the "cochlear microphonic") was not published until 1961,
followed by a series of eight peer-reviewed papers over the following decade.vi
The most comprehensive review that describes the biophysics and the methodology to
modulate RF to incorporate purposive communications, and which also describes in
detail injury patterns was published in 2003, by the Motorola Research Laboratories,
and is still the seminal meta-analysis {of about 100 review articles} on these subjects
[11].
For our purposes, it is sufficient at this point to summarize this and additional literature
[esp. 11-15] in contexts narrowly related to claimants' description of effects when
placed near (10-100 meters) of a presumed emitting large object, which may or may
not have the appearance of containing an obvious RF antenna:
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The mechanism of transduction of the RF may be to or through skin, bone, or the
external auditory meatus.

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Frequency and pulse width dependency may account for perceptions as coming from
the ear, the temporal lobe on the same or contralateral side to the object.

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The frequencies are amazingly broad: contained with the bandwidth of 2.4 - 10,000
MHz {MF, HF, VHF, UHF, SHF, EHF; wavelengths 1km - 1cm; incident energy
densities of 10-20 mJ/kg threshold; 40 µJ/pulse, energy absorption per pulse 16
µJ/g},

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Thus, the character of the perceived sounds can be used to accurately "back
calculate" the emitter characteristics: many thousands of human experiments over
the above ranges have been consistent and repeatable.

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Simple shielding, includ ing tin-foil hats (sic!) will attenuate and often block totally
the sounds and communications.

Voice frequencies of 5 kHz-20 kHz can be RF modulated, and transmitted covertly, with
intelligible effect. However, it is absolutely required that to hear the sounds, a human
must have a capability to hear a frequency acoustic wave in the kHz range above 5kHz
through 20 kHz.
v AIL was formed in 1945, in Mineola NY by then Defense Department contractors affiliated with MIT. It became the

forerunner of virtually every subsequent application Radar and EM laboratory, especially for the Department of the
Navy. It is known in folklore, as having been the site of the development of the technology for the controversial
"Ph iladel phia Experiment." http ://www.stealthskater.com/Documents/AI L 0 1.doc
vi There are at the present time, over 240,000 peer-reviewed scientific papers on the phenomena of RF hearing and

covert communication, with and without engagement of the inner ear, in the medical literature. Yet, to this day,
persons who during experiencing of anomalous RF hearing and skin heating when confronted by unknown objects
in the near-field are nonetheless ubiquitously {at first, at least} said to be paranoid, or paraphrenic, or paranoid
schizophrenic.

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That sa id, it is not necessary that the cochlear microphonic versus ephaptic (electrical
current transmissions through the intercellular spaces) modulation of the axons of the
VIIth and VIIIth cran ial nerves be stimulated directly: the hearing pathways and relay
middle geniculate bodies and inferior collicu li may be stimulated by the RF, first. That
is: while it is possible for energy transmission or transduction to "bypass" the tympanic
membrane, organs of Corti, and cochleae...the hearing apparatus is necessary for at
least penu ltimate stimulation to hear sounds in the voice range: thoughts and meaning
can not be otherwise transm itted [ 12]. But, at the same time, thermoelastic expansion
and contraction of fluid spaces in the brain can result in the perception of clicks,
buzzing sounds, and humming.
Notably, the above discussion is of non-hazardous "effects." Harm and injury, including
severe headache seizures or convulsions, motor ataxia and contractures,
unconsciousness, and destabilizing psychiatric acute, subacute, and chronic outcomes
can be induced. The use of very high intensity RF pulses at, for example, 915 MHz will
cause an elevation in brain temperature of 8 °C, resulting in petit ma/ or grand ma/
seizures after one minute exposure, followed by 5 minutes of unconsciousness.
Recovery occurs when brain temperature returns to within 1°C of normal (37 °C). The
threshold for this stun effect is 680 J, regardless of peak power, pulse width, and
equates to about 28 kJ in terms of expressed peak absorption. This adverse effect is
about 1,000 times higher than the auditory threshold, which in humans is near
16mJ/kg as reported above. No adverse effects, in any event have been found at SARs
(Specific Absorbed Rate is a measure of the rate at which energy is absorbed by the
body when exposed to radio-frequency electromagnetic field. It is defined as the power
absorbed per mass of tissue and has units of watts per kilogram) in the head of 0.2
W/kg (950 MHz) up to 1.0 W/kg (936 & 90 MHz) [13,14].

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