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

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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Anomalous Acute and
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Anomalous Acute and Subacute Field Effects on Human
Biological Tissues
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Contents
Preface and Summary ............................................................................................. v
Preface................................................................................................................v
Summary.............................................................................................................v
Chapter One: Definition of Topic and Domain of this Study ................................... 1
A. What is addressed in this review ................................................................... 1
B. What is not addressed in this review ............................................................. 1
Chapter Two: Background: What is Thought 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
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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 Multiple 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
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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].
• 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.
• 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/cm2•
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.
• 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.
• The primary mechanisms of injury are related to electromagnetic radiation
field effects (EMR field effects).
• The biophysical characteristics of the injuries are well understood.
• The energy related propulsion systems are not well understood.
• The potential deployment of systems is thus important to understand.
• 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.
• Amongst the most important pathophysiological effects are:
- Heating and burn injuries
Ionizing and non-ionizing
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Thermally induced
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- Neurological effects
Cognitive/ central nervous system
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Neuromuscular / central & autonomic nervous systems
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Sensory/ peripheral nervous system
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Neuropsychiatric / neuroendocrine
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- Auditory/ cranial nerves VII & VIII
Communication & disabling effects
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Noise and central neurocognitive
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• 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/
neurological / psychiatric injury 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 initially 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 sociological 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, biological, 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