Military researchers are today working on a way to defend soldiers with ultra-quick laser pulses and mid-air plasma bursts. But similar technology may have been floating around the Defense Department for years -- and could even be the source of a few UFO scares.
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Ho-lee....
Didn't we at some point discuss on PB the possibility that a system like this could also be used to create crop circles? The hissing sound and the lights that describe the phenomenon sound like some of the effects reported by people in the vicinity of crop circles. I think we (you?) mentioned the possibility of satellite-mounted lasers being used for this kind of thing?
--WMB as Anon
"Boy, you could really fuck with people's minds with this sort of thing."
I suspect that, either intentionally or inadvertently, "they" already have. If some ufo or uap incidents are human-technology based manifestations, for various psyop, training, security-testing, and _other_ purposes, then it's likely such laser-based, infra-red, holographic, and other electromagnetic imaging and simulation technology has already existed for quite some time, and has likely been used for various purposes already.
In addition to the link you cite in this post Mac, people might want to check out this one:
http://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/04/army_tech_plasm.html
On a lighter note, where it's indicated military tests of high-powered infra-red lasers, using computer-controlled platforms, are programmed to cross each others' beams, a plasma which is then created and is visible, can be manipulated by pre-programmed computer, or perhaps with a pair (or more, three +) slaved joysticks controlling such lasers, to simulate the movement of what would appear to be a plasma "ufo" around the sky at incredible speeds, performing right angle turns, etc.
Sound familiar?
And it's not actually an uap or ufo, but military/intelligence agency covert technology, useful for potential defensive, offensive, and psyops purposes.
I think that may be what has been witnessed/recorded at rare times over or near Area 51, and other less isolated areas domestically.
A humorous vision occurs to me: remember "Ghostbusters?" And a scene near the end of one of the two movies where one character is advising another of the danger of crossing the energy beams from their backpack, EM-based weapons?
"Don't cross the beams!" And when, in despair and inspired by the supernatural danger facing them (a super marshmellow man), they do indeed cross the beams for synergistic effect on their foe?
Well, "the beams" were already crossed, for real, a long time ago, for a variety of interesting reasons. Wotta world...
Oh, and as far as some crop circles go: Vallee has speculated that perhaps some are created with microwave laser (maser) tech from either airborne or possibly even satellite based platforms, for testing and calibration purposes.
This idea not only provides some useful plausible deniability ("hey, it's either devious human circle makers, natural EM phenomena, or perhaps even aliens!"), and real-world testing of accuracy and precision of maser-based aerial platforms.
What ostensible purpose would a military aerial maser be primarily used for? Pinpoint attacks on vulnerable electrical power grids, equipment, buildings, people, etc. I would also suggest most of this tech is probably still in the testing stage, and would not be used except under extreme circumstances in a real conflict or special ops mission.
But, who the hell knows? The ones that may can't, by law, say and aren't talking, and those who guess and extrapolate, like me, are just speculating, of course.
mr. i -- Re the crop circles, you got it, it seems to me. One thing of particular interest to me -- yeah, the lasers (or masers) wouldn't necessarily have to be satellite-mounted; they could be simply airborne. This has always (since I first encountered the idea somewhere I can't remember -- possibly here!) seemed like the most plausible explanation for crop circles.
Here's why. If we rule out ETs attempting to communicate with us via this means (and let's just trim our speculative beard with Occam's razor here a bit, shall we?) then human-made crop circles are clearly the explanation. The most interesting question then becomes, how is it done?
A couple of guys using ropes to drag boards weighted with stones never seemed very plausible to me simply because of the sheer magnitude and sophistication of some of the circles. Even an entire "occult group" doing this in secret and at night is still quite a stretch. Additionally, close examinations of the wheat and barely stalks that have been flattened to make the circles have shown evidence of some kinds of damage suggestive of EMR. And since the military is really the only organization with this kind of capability, ergo....
--WMB as Anon
Moreover, computer-control of the beams (as you suggest in the context of "mysterious lights" in the sky) would also enable them to "write" in the medium of a crop field very complex mathematical patterns of the type some circles (more properly called glyphs, as Mac has pointed out) exhibit.
--WMB as Aon
So in a sense, UFOs (to the extent they may be due to military experimentation with crossed laser/maser beams) actually ARE connected with crop circles (aka glyphs) -- just not in the way that more naive types (think the movie "Signs") have suggested.
--WMB as Anon (Stop me before I post again!)