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If you are harassed by lasers


Home A comprehensive resource for safe and responsible laser use If you are harassed by lasers If the light is obviously coming from a laser - Simple harassment -- a beam on your skin or clothes -- is probably not punishable unless it continues, or unless it occurs during a critical situation such as driving. - Deliberate aiming at your head or eyes is serious due to the unlikely but possible potential for causing eye damage.

NOTE: As of September 1 2023, we no longer take calls or reply to emails about heat lasers, strange dots or lines in photos & videos, or "mysterious, ongoing or well-organized" harassments as described above. The book"The E-Bomb: How America's New Directed Energy Weapons Will Change the Way Future Wars Will Be Fought" by Dr. Doug Beason, physicist, a Fellow of the American Physical Society, and former Chief Scientist for the USAF Space Command. According to an NBC News story quoting the study, "The committee felt that many of the distinctive and acute signs, symptoms and observations reported by (government) employees are consistent with the effects of directed, pulsed radio frequency (RF) energy.

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