The Voice of God Weapon Returns
The Voice of God weapon -- a device that projects voices into your head to make you think God is speaking to you -- is the military's equivalent of an urban myth. Meaning, it's mentioned periodically at defense workshops (ironically, I first heard about it at the same defense conference where I first met Noah), and typically someone whispers about it actually being used. Now Steven Corman, writing at the COMOPS journal, describes his own encounter with this urban myth:
At a government workshop some time ago I head someone describe a new tool that was described as the “voice of Allah.” This was said to be a device that would operate at a distance and would deliver a message that only a single person could hear. The story was that it was tested in a conflict situation in Iraq and pointed at one insurgent in a group, who whipped around looking in all directions, and began a heated conversation with his compatriots, who did not hear the message. At the time I greeted this story with some skepticism.
Is there any basis to this technology? Well, Holosonic Research Labs and American Technology Corporation both have versions of directed sound, which can allow a single person to hear a message that others around don't hear. DARPA appears to be working on its own sonic projector. Intriguingly, Strategy Page reports that troops are using the Long Range Acoustic Device as a modified Voice of God weapon:
It appears that some of the troops in Iraq are using "spoken" (as opposed to "screeching") LRAD to mess with enemy fighters. Islamic terrorists tend to be superstitious and, of course, very religious. LRAD can put the "word of God" into their heads. If God, in the form of a voice that only you can hear, tells you to surrender, or run away, what are you gonna do?
And as Corman also notes, CNET recently wrote about an advertisement in New York for A&E's TV show Paranormal State, which uses some of this technology. Beyond directed sound, it's long been known that microwaves at certain frequencies can produce an auditory effect that sounds like it's coming from within someone's head (and there's the nagging question of classified microwave work at Brooks Air Force Base, that the Air Force stubbornly refuses to talk about).
That brings us back to the Voice of God/Allah Weapon. Is it real or bogus? In one version -- related to me by another defense reporter -- it's not just Allah's voice -- but an entire holographic image projected above (um, who decides what Allah looks like?).
Does it exist? I'm not sure, but it's funny that when you hear it brought up at defense conferences, no one ever asks the obvious question: does anybody think this thing will actually convince people God is speaking to them? I'm thinking, not.
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Most people will assume it is a person speaking to them. Faith has its limits.
Is this news? The LRAD is the same tech, and it was only a matter of time before someone used it this way. To have a separate device called "the voice of Allah" is moot. Having experienced it, it is a very strange sensation, and it really does sound like it is coming from inside your own head. You can also bounce it off of walls and make it appear to come from another location. Messing with people's heads is a perfect application, and it works well on co-workers, so why not insurgents?
Why don'd we just fly over and drop toasted bread down, withimages of "Allah" and underneath the iage it says to surrender. Maybe this might even work with the Border patrol here in the states.
I know what I want for x-Max
AND STOP TOUCHING YOURSELF!
I think there are some potential here for a combined development with the infamous "Gay Bomb".
So, KC, you plan to direct techno and house music at them ?
And as Corman also notes, CNET recently wrote about an advertisement in New York for A&E's TV show Paranormal State, which uses some of this technology...
According to the article, the sound quality was that of a table-top radio.
Unless the fidelity can be increased, there are some issues with the use of this technology.
Goodness....don't people follow the news? Allah looks like a teddy bear!
Who decides what Allah looks like?
Maybe the Robin Williams character from Aladdin...
I was involved with a project that uses one of these things for a Theme Park attraction. When it was pointed at me from a distance, I had the sensation that I was wearing headphones. The audio was a little tinny, but it was a neat effect. This was 3 years ago, and was civilian technology. I'm sure that there are better things out there.
It exists, and it's a very common sound projector that
uses hypersound.
When two hypersounds are beamed into a person with a
wavelength that differ by 14,000 hertz, then that
difference in wavelength comes out as audible sound.
There was a "big deal" about using it to make private
calls to people far away, although I oppose it because
of unknown effects it might have on a fetus in a
pregnant woman. (X-ray was regarded as just a short-wave
light. Thomas Edison quickly found out that it killed his
most able assistant who was trying to make an efficient
fluoroscope, but he didn't tell anyone, which allowed
others to make more X-ray machines that killed more
people who died from cancer.)
I read this type of contraption has been tested and implemented for advertising purposes.
I remember reading about a field test in Central Park, that had strollers wandering who was speaking to them. Guy and reporter were behind the bushes some distance away.
few years back/ no remember link.
so great, do Allah, but don't mess with Mohammed, if they figure it out, we're all toast.
Sharon, the fact is that the Army lists Voice to Skull communication
in their dictionary of military technologies and have done so for a very long time. Further, various individuals who believe that these weapons technologies have been used on them hear military terminology and military information they have no history of coming into contact with. I have met some of these people and they do not have any symptom or sign of mental illness, and their information is accurate.
Many are highly educated and hold responsible jobs which they do well. However, since you first published your article focusing on this technology at the beginning of this year in the WP magazine, you've seem to be rather enjoying denying these technologies exist and minimizing their potential impact.
I interviewed a Prof Emeritus who whose Engineering career was remarkable. He told me his experience having this technology demonstrated on him for fun. There are several forms of this technology that can produce the effects of sound projected into one's mind. It's actually a serious matter when you consider the implications of it, violations of one's privacy and violation of one's rights to mind boundaries are two. I look forward to having this technology/weapon discussed objectively and honestly some day, which would include acknowledgement of its existence.
Have a happy holiday vacation.
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Mainstream journal scans, proving a far more invasive voice to skull technology has existed for 34 years, and is not classified, and works through walls, and can be assembled by a good radar technician. LRAD does NOT work through walls; it can be heard, but only as a sound coming from the outside surface of the wall.
Sharon Weinberger has consistently refused to confirm the long term existence of highly invasive electronic anti-personnel weapons.
This in spite of patiently being provided the details, several times.
Eleanor White, retired engineer and ham radio operator for the past half century
ignoring many people who claim to be already now victim of those weapons, is TOTALLY IRRESPOSIBLE
somebody is USING THIS TECHNOLOGIE NOW AND TODAY ON MANY PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT BELIEVED AND IGNORED
this atack is a SILENT EPIDEMICS ON THE PLANET SINCE 2000 EN WELL PREPARED OVER THE PAST DECADES
many victims now today asking an international investigation in to those huge crimes silenly agains humanitty.
i am from belgium, under consious atack since 2005 , they atack aswell ALL ELECTRONICS
Monika Stoces
It's appears as a novalty to most people but it is a weapon. When you are tormented and threatened for a couple years and then attacked with the attack mode of LRAD and end up in the hospital in the morning it sucks.
then you are given a couple of pills to relax you and you wake up imobilized and strapped to a gurney. Then you are read the the state laws of involuntary commitment. Later that night a senario is played in your head about your familiy being attacked and a tape of your little girl is played of her crying while others threaten to harm her and tell her to shut up. Then you are told to save her life you must kill your self.
Only a call to her in the morning exposes the attempt at forced suicide that was just employed on you.
So the next time you hear of the gunman who went nuts and the justice department tells you the need more power over your life, freedoms and privacy think twice.
Boy, they do come out of the woodwork! I'm glad I still have my childhood teddy to hug. Opus would concur!
Why wouldn't it convince them? Many, MANY people are convinced already - they may or may not be hearing voices in their head. I mean, seriously, these people already believe in a space fairy that controls the universe, it's not really a huge leap for them...