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This artist rendering depicts what an Ohio family also saw on the night of October 19th, 1973. The family would corroborate perhaps the most convincing UFO case of all time: The Coyne Incident.(Illustration provided by CUFOS)

Calvin Parker of Pascagoula, Mississippi, claimed to have been abducted by extraterrestrials during the UFO wave of October, 1973. He said the creatures had one leg and crab-like claws for hands. CUFOS, manned by former members of Project Blue Book, determined that Parker and friend’s story was likely true.

What is this thing? It's the US military's Sea-based X-band Radar, probably the most powerful radar on Earth. The US military claims it can tell the difference between a real ICBM and a fake ICBM, even if they're flying next to each other in space. A massive radar dish is hidden under the white globe.

Jack Thompson once referred to certain SONY video games as the second-coming of Pearl Harbor.

This mirror of an Al Qaeda web site illustrates how the war against terror is also fought online. And like its physical brother, waged with bullets and IEDs, this aspect of the conflict has no end in sight either.

Microsoft CEO Bill Gates is a great humanitarian, but did he earn his fortune by putting Americans out of work and replacing them with cheap labor from India?

This unassuming guy is Mike Connell, a true computer hacker who worked for the Republican Party. He died in a plane crash in 2008, just before Christmas.

Did the US military unleash a secret laser against Iraqi civilians?

           
Early during the invasion of Iraq in 2003, as American forces tore through enemy lines and closed in on Baghdad, did the US military fire one of its secret lasers at Iraqi civilians? It is a question that lingers in the minds of a few prominent Iraqi civilians and two respected Italian journalists. They believe a number of Iraqi civilians drove their vehicles too close to a check point manned by US troops near Baghdad’s main airport and other locations, and that’s when all "HEL" broke out.

            They suspect a US laser cannon burned through the vehicles and literally cut to pieces many of the innocent occupants. One witness to the aftermath went on-the-record to say the apparent laser, in some cases, melted the faces off some of these victims, yet kept their entire body intact.

            There’s no smoking-laser cannon evidence that such a despicable war crime was ever committed. But then again, this was the US military during the Bush administration. An era when US military big-wigs and civilian scientists had free reign to spend piles of cash on a toy-store array of weapons. An era that makes Hitler and his Nazi’s look relatively mild when it came to passion for war technology. Certainly a time when those running the weapons program might unhinge mentally, and take their obsession with the weapon too far.

            Before the invasion, as the US build-up labored on, there was much talk amongst Americans about the prospects of the Pentagon unleashing a number of new and perhaps even secret weapons on the Iraq battlefield. Weapons that only a few officers and scientists were aware of, considering only a few officers and civilian scientists had built them. Weapons that no doubt had undergone years of research, costing hundreds of millions of dollars to develop.

            Indeed, the Pentagon told the likes of
Defense Industry Daily
that several Humvees mounted with a classified weapons-grade laser known as
"Zeus"
had been deployed to Iraq at the onset of the war. Compared to most US military lasers, Zeus is small and easily mobile. The Pentagon classifies Zeus as an aptly-named "HEL," or High Energy Laser weapon. But Zeus, essentially a true laser cannon, only had one mission, said the Pentagon. And it was clear: blow-up hidden IEDs and land mines.

            But did the Zeus, or any HEL for that matter, have a secret secondary mission? Let’s say the military unit handling the laser weapon received orders to conduct a secret "demonstration." And tested the laser(s) in a way that could have been deemed immoral? To perhaps, for example, test its ability to burn through "atmospheric distortion," say fog and rain, or something a little thicker. Like human skin?

            Even though the Pentagon was challenged to answer such questions, no way would they answer either yes or no. Yet if you listen to what a prominent Iraqi violinist and several doctors have to say, you might soon be scratching your head. Picture a scene, an aftermath, of an elite US military unit told to use the secret laser in a different way – say, crowd control. And the experiment went awry as the laser’s power level was misunderstood by the US military officers leading this super-secret platoon.

            Perhaps a good way to show just how far the US military has come to building a combat-style laser that can do serious damage, is to recall a test in a New Mexico desert in 1973. That year, the US Air Force shot down a winged-drone at the Sandia Optical Range, New Mexico.

            For the most part, all lasers work in the same way. Get certain atoms excited by light particles, and photons radiate out. Reflect this light back into the excited atoms, and more photons are born. But whether the laser is just a bright light, or the kind that can shoot down satellites, depends on the type of atoms or "gain medium" you use to generate the laser beam. Such as certain liquids and gases, and also solids, like crystals.

            Today, US military lasers are far past shooting down drones, no small feat of itself. They’re now capable of knocking mortars and missiles out of the sky. Lasers that can melt a hole in the side of a ten-foot cylindrical spear that’s traveling at over 700 mph. On YouTube, a
Zeus laser chews through thick metal as if it were Velveeta melting
in the microwave. But like most US military’s weapons systems with huge black budgets, it is hard to gauge what defense contractors are exactly cooking up – and how long the technology is from being deployed to a battlefield. Yet in 2008, a laser mounted on a Humvee – which suggests US military lasers are becoming smaller equating into greater mobility – shot down an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). Moreover, experts agree the US military has spent between $100 to $200 million annually for over 30 years now on secret research into lasers, more precisely, laser cannons.

            And it is the secrecy behind US military lasers that makes the evidence a US military beam weapon was used inappropriately by killing human beings at the Baghdad International Airport, even more scattered and difficult to piece together, like a complicated puzzle of a thousand pieces.

            Nevertheless, the evidence, while largely circumstantial, is intriguing.

            There are witnesses who are sure something strange happened not far from the Baghdad airport and other nearby locations during the beginning of the invasion. Their stories describe several post-combat aftermaths that even the most war-torn Iraqis, such as doctors, were having a hard time deciphering. To narrow it down even more, the tragic aftermaths appear to be your typical US troops-blow-away-civilians-that-comes-too-close episode. Nevertheless, one survivor claimed he was the target of a US weapon that killed silently and invisibly, one that took off heads and limbs with ease.