In a shocking revelation, recent reports indicate that handheld UV laser devices were deployed against attendees at a Donald Trump rally in Arizona, resulting in serious health impacts, including temporary blindness and severe skin damage. This unprecedented attack highlights the potential dangers of directed-energy weapons and raises urgent questions about security measures at public events. With the rise of such malicious tactics, it is critical to understand the implications and safeguard individuals from these invisible threats.
A directed-energy weapon (DEW) was used to attack Donald J. Trump and his supporters at his recent rally in Arizona, according to a new report.
According to an analysis conducted by CWC Labs, a number of handheld UV laser devices were deployed and used at the rally causing temporary loss of vision, sunburns on exposed skin, skin peeling, extreme eye pain, and redness for attendees.
Naturalnews.com reports: 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.
WATCH FOR THE FOLLOWING IN THE CROWDS:
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 EQUIPMENT:
Night vision optics cannot detect UV lasers. 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 – FORWARD THIS TO RELEVANT FEDERAL LEOs – US Secret Service should be checking for suspicious purchases of extremely high-powered laser diodes (in the Watts range, not just milliwatts) from China or other sources, in the 250nm – 315nm wavelength range.
Understand that 254nm is widely considered “germicidal,” which means there are many purchases of such UV laser diodes by hospitals and medical applications, especially in the post-COVID world, so it may be extremely difficult to separate a malicious purchase of UV laser devices from legitimate medical purchases. I am available to brief law enforcement or Trump’s security team on further technical details, as I am a published laboratory scientist and I researched UV-based laser ablation applications for ICP-MS elemental analysis of geological samples (part of a meteor impact project we were looking at).
As of October 2023, discussions surrounding the use of directed-energy weapons have intensified, particularly following this incident. Law enforcement agencies are reportedly reviewing security protocols for future events, and federal authorities are being alerted to the potential risks posed by the acquisition of high-powered laser devices. There is also ongoing debate in media outlets about the implications for public safety and the challenges of detecting such attacks before they happen.