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UV LIGHT DIRECTED ENERGY ATTACK ALERT
: From Mike Adams, lab science director, CWC Labs. Immediately forward to all. It is now nearly certain that a recent attack impacting attendees of a Trump rally in Arizona was carried out via the deployment of a handheld UV laser device, battery powered, silent, and invisible to the naked eye. The symptoms of those impacted are fully consistent with such a directed energy attack: Temporarily loss of vision, sunburns on exposed skin, skin peeling, extreme eye pain, redness, etc. Yet all victims felt nothing during the moments of exposure. TECHNICAL DETAILS - PLEASE FORWARD TO ALL LAW ENFORCEMENT - UV lasers in the wavelengths of 280nm - 315nm are considered "UV-B" and are extremely dangerous to the human eye, as the optics of the eye add significant "gain" to incoming photons, in orders of magnitude. When UV lasers are deployed as weapons at indoor events, the subjects' pupils are dilated due to lower indoor lighting (compared to outdoor lighting, during which pupils are constricted), allowing orders of magnitude amplification of incoming light, even if invisible. High intensity UV light causes permanent retinal damage / scarring / blindness. The malicious deployment of handheld UV lasers in an indoor environment would be UNDETECTABLE during the attack, and it could cause permanent blindness via extreme retinal damage. Importantly, UV lasers in this wavelength range are NOT visible on night vision optics or camera optics which can pick up IR illumination such as 980nm. Handheld lasers have their own on board optics. Beam spread is described in milliradians (mils). A tighter beam hits fewer intended targets, but with higher energy density. A wider beam spread causes the energy emissions to be spread out and therefore less dense. But all lasers emit coherent light, so the beam maintains its shape over extremely long distances. With sufficient power, a handheld UV laser device deployed with malicious intent and sufficient power could cause blindness from 500 yards or even farther, if exposure is maintained over several tens of seconds. A malicious person deploying a UV laser would have a very difficult time accurately aiming it due to the beam being invisible. Therefore, all security personnel and LEOs should look for members of crowds who are holding up linear-looking devices and attempting to aim down the primary linear axis of such devices, for example if a person appears to be carrying a large cylindrical flashlight, and appears to be trying to "aim" down the primary axis of that flashlight, they may actually be aiming an invisible UV laser at an intended target. Similarly, UV lasers could be attached alongside media-looking camera equipment, so that a person who appears to be holding up a camera to film an event could actually be deploying a UV laser with malicious intent. DETECTION: Night vision optics cannot detect. Very sensitive, high resolution thermal cameras may pick up elevated surface skin temperatures as UV rays strike the faces, chests, eyes, etc., of intended victims, and this temperature rise would appear in the shape of a very large circle, perhaps 15' in diameter, entirely depending on the milliradians of the laser optics and the distance of the assailant (think of a narrow spotlight, and the farther away the assailant, the larger the spotlight becomes due to distance, but the weaker it gets also). To find malicious actors deploying such devices -
https://x.com/healthranger/status/1836926426374668714?s=46
Such handheld UV lasers & modules already exist (down to 250nm) & are readily available online, but I suspect you’d need to be within 10-20 feet to do any appreciable damage at these power levels with a wide beam, but this is pure speculation based on my knowledge of green & purple lasers.
Whats really needed now are methods (eg black light sensitive clothing?) of rapid detection to alert people if they are being assaulted by such invisible UV light.