Cash-Landrum injuries

Betty Cash, Vickie Landrum and her grandson Colby reported a diamond-shaped object spouting flame above the road, giving off intense heat, then escorted away by a large number of helicopters (they counted 23, some identified as twin-rotor Chinooks). All three later reported burns, nausea and hair loss consistent in their account with radiation exposure, and Cash was hospitalised. The US government denied owning such an object or flying the helicopters, and the witnesses' lawsuit was dismissed in 1986 for lack of proof of government responsibility. AAWSAP's 2010 paper on field effects on humans (PURSUE DOW-UAP-D128) uses the case as a comparison throughout.

None established; an undisclosed military operation is the leading suspicion, and the medical causation is disputed

• DocumentDOW-UAP-D128Release 6

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

  A clinical-medical/biophysics review, prepared under AAWSAP by an author identifying himself as the former Assistant National Intelligence Officer for Science and Technology who ran the INSCOM effort behind a 1998 declassified 'Bioeffects of Selected Nonlethal Weapons' study. It catalogs physiological injuries (burns, erythema, neurological and psychiatric symptoms) reportedly suffered by people exposed at close range to 'anomalous aerospace systems,' compares these to the known medical literature on RF/microwave/electromagnetic field injury, and argues the injury patterns can be used to 'reverse engineer' the energy characteristics of unknown craft. It explicitly excludes psychophysics, paranormal and abduction-related psychiatric phenomena from its main scope, but its appendices catalog UFO-related physiological effects (including 'apparent experience of telepathy' and 'claimed ESP development') and reproduce a classification scheme (the 'Vallee Ratings') that includes near-death experiences, OBEs, poltergeists and 'paranormal experience' as anomaly categories.

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