Updated September 1, 2024
This SETI Nuggets web page provides extraordinary and convincing evidence ETs are the cause of the Havana Syndrome.
Havana Syndrome
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f98s0dt2oS0
Added March 6, 2023
Havana Syndrome: Medical, Scientific, and Policy Perspectives, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Havana Syndrome 01: Overview and Welcome (2022) 1/15
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfDEMOz_Id0&list=PLVPFGm2OAm6g85s2ehMxMl8qaYNRRsybX
"Havana Syndrome is a descriptive condition involving a large cluster of U.S. government diplomats and family members affected by symptoms similar to Persistent Postural-Perceptual Dizziness (PPPD), vestibular migraine, traumatic brain injury (TBI), brain fog, headaches, hearing loss, and tinnitus.
On February 10, 2022, UT Southwestern hosted a comprehensive symposium on Havana Syndrome from a medical and scientific perspective, which included distinguished speakers from the health policy world, U.S. government, media, and victim advocacy. The symposium highlighted the critical role of clinical and basic science research in understanding the condition and treating people experiencing the symptoms of Havana Syndrome, and other similar syndromes, and spotlighted the importance of public-private partnerships between U.S. government entities and academic medical centers in addressing complex, 21st-century biomedical challenges."
My Comments
It would be useful if the UT Southwestern Medical Center Havana Syndrome organizers could post online a searchable transcript that encompasses all of the YouTube presentations.
Added March 3, 2023
IC’s Assessment of Anomalous Health Incidents, HLS Digital Library, March 3, 2023
Note: I looked for a definition of 'Anomalous Health Incidents':
"The United States National Intelligence Council released an “Updated Assessment of Anomalous Health Incidents."
”Anomalous Health Incident (AHI)” is a term coined by the federal government to refer to a mysterious health problem known as “Havana Syndrome,” which was first reported in 2016 in Havana, Cuba. This illness afflicts mainly U.S. government officials and military personnel overseas. Havana Syndrome creates symptoms with no known cause. The intelligence community (IC) coordinated this assessment to determine whether recent AHIs were the responsibility of foreign actors with ill intent."
"According to the updated assessment, three lines of questions were used to determine the involvement of foreign adversaries:"
“the first encompassed work determining whether available data points to the involvement of a foreign adversary in the incidents;
"the second focused on the feasibility and existence of deliberate mechanisms that an adversary might use against US personnel to cause AHIs;"
"and the third evaluated whether medical analysis can help determine if an outside actor is involved in the broad range of phenomena and symptoms associated with AHIs.”
My Comments
The US HLS library definition of Anomalous Health Incidents is in my opinion other worldly:
"This illness afflicts mainly U.S. government officials and military personnel overseas."
"Havana Syndrome creates symptoms with no known cause."
Can only say: WTF
My Conclusion
Discovering the truth about the Havana Syndrome will require out of the box thinking.
Added March 3, 2023
A Note On Christopher Columbus:
Christopher Columbus, Royal Museums Greenwich
https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/topics/christopher-columbus
"He's famous for 'discovering' the New World but did Columbus actually set foot in North America?"
"Explorer Christopher Columbus (1451–1506) is known for his 1492 ‘discovery’ of the New World of the Americas on board his ship Santa Maria."
"In actual fact, Columbus did not discover North America. He was the first European to sight the Bahamas archipelago and then the island later named Hispaniola, now split into Haiti and the Dominican Republic. On his subsequent voyages he went farther south, to Central and South America."
"What did he discover?"
"After sailing across the Atlantic Ocean for 10 weeks, land was sighted by a sailor called Rodrigo Bernajo (although Columbus himself took the credit for this). He landed on a small island in the Bahamas, which he named San Salvador. He claimed the island for the King and Queen of Spain, although it was already populated."
"Columbus called all the people he met in the islands ‘Indians’, because he was sure that he had reached the Indies."
Added March 2, 2023
Updated Assessment of Anomalous Health Incidents, DNI, March 1, 2023
https://files.constantcontact.com/fab49a91901/6925ff67-6e1f-4688-838c-f18dbe15c5a1.pdf
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Turner & Ranking Member Himes Respond to “Havana Syndrome” Report by Intelligence Community, March 1, 2023
https://intelligence.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=1203
US intelligence community cannot link ‘Havana Syndrome’ cases to a foreign adversary, CNN, March 1, 2023
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/03/01/politics/us-intel-community-havana-syndrome/index.html
What's likely behind mysterious 'Havana syndrome' that plagued US diplomats, ABC News, March 2, 2023
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/havana-syndrome-caused-foreign-adversary-us-intel/story?id=97549657
"Hundreds of U.S. personnel have said they experienced painful symptoms."
"In a statement of his own, CIA director William Burns noted the assessment was the product of "more than two years of rigorous, painstaking collection, investigative work, and analysis" and "one of the largest and most intensive in the agency's history."
My Comments
There is a new unclassified US governmental assessment of the Havana Syndrome.
The Updated Assessment of Anomalous Health Incidents researched by the US DNI tried to determine if a foreign adversary is responsible for causing the Havana Syndrome, now called: an Anomalous Health Incident. They concluded the AHI was probably not caused by a foreign adversary.
The study did not define the syndrome or shed light on its origin or nature.
Added February 26, 2023
Crickets are Probably Not the Cause of the Havana Syndrome, by the SETI Nuggets Editor, February 26, 2023
The Havana Syndrome involves causing brain trauma and targeting of US covert personnel and diplomats. That is not the behavior of crickets.
Are crickets known to cause actual brain trauma or physical, medical concussions? Run a search for crickets on YouTube and you will see many sites providing cricket sounds for sleep and relaxation, not for the Havana Syndrome.
Search [cricket sound sleep]
Are crickets specifically targeting US covert personnel, diplomats and service members? Are crickets targeting diplomats from other countries? Why don't crickets affect diplomats other than Americans and Canadians?
Wikipedia: Reports outside Cuba
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Havana_syndrome
"Beginning in late 2017, suspected attacks targeting U.S. intelligence personnel were reported in an expanding set of locations around the world including Moscow, Russia; Tbilisi, Georgia; Poland; Taiwan; and Australia. Other reports came from Colombia, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Austria, among other countries."
Many people around the world live among crickets. Are there reports in newspapers, magazines, and scientific journals of traumatic injuries caused by crickets?
The SETI Nuggets Editor estimates the Havana Syndrome symptoms are not a mass illusion, psychosomatic illness, preexisting medical condition, or crickets.
CNN aired a Special Report Immaculate Concussion: The Truth Behind Havana Syndrome with CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta.
Dr. Sanjay Gupta and other scientists cannot explain the Havana Syndrome. It is like the "Other" bucket in the DoD UAP report. There is something, but scientists do not know what. Maybe the answer is ETs.
The crickets hypothesis can be tested in a controlled scientific study. A volunteer walks into a room with a box of a few dozen crickets and opens the box. See if the volunteer is affected by the Havana Syndrome.
Ask people who work in cricket producing factories if they have experienced the Havana Syndrome symptoms or know of people injured by crickets.
How North America's Largest Cricket Farm Harvests 50 Million A Week | Big Business
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yzn0sRH_4Qc
If a factory harvests 50 million crickets a week they should be experts on the sounds of crickets and their effect on humans.
Conclusion
Probably, crickets do not cause brain traumas and crickets do not specifically target US covert personnel, diplomats and service members.
Added February 23, 2023
The Curious Case of 'Havana Syndrome' | 1A, NPR Daily News, January 25, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWbEpuQ0gYM
"Approximately two dozen American diplomats in Havana, Cuba, first heard piercing, metallic hissing in 2016. They began experiencing nausea, vertigo, headaches, and other cognitive ailments, but doctors haven't been able to figure out what could be making them sick."
"Theories include the use of sonic weapons launched by hostile foreign actors like Russia. But the CIA has dismissed that idea, saying most cases of "Havana Syndrome" actually stem from other pre-existing medical conditions. Still, they acknowledge that some cases are unexplainable."
My Comments
Below on this web page I opined the cause of the Havana Syndrome is other worldly. The US government treats the syndrome in parallel with their treatment of UAPs.
The US government denies the Havana Syndrome phenomenon exists, or trivializes it calling it crickets chirping, a psychosomatic illness, or the result of pre-existing conditions. I think the syndrome is caused by ETs. A state actor, for example China or Russia, would not target diplomats in a thousand different locations using harmful but non-lethal force. The current governmental theories do not match the facts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Havana_syndrome "In January 2022, the CIA issued a report on the interim findings of a comprehensive study of 1,000 cases. Wikipedia the Havana Syndrome."
Also see: Think Like An ET
Added September 18, 2022
Wikipedia: Havana Syndrome Reports Outside Cuba
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Havana_syndrome#Reports_outside_Cuba
"Beginning in late 2017, suspected attacks targeting U.S. intelligence personnel were reported in an expanding set of locations around the world, including Moscow, Russia; Tbilisi, Georgia; Poland; Taiwan; and Australia. Other reports came from Colombia, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Austria, among other countries."
What Americans Heard in Cuba Attacks: The Sound, Associated Press, Oct 12, 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgbnZG85IRo
"AP obtains a recording of what some U.S. embassy workers heard in Havana as they were attacked by what investigators initially believed was a sonic weapon. The recording of a high-pitched noise is one of many taken in Cuba since attacks started."
My Comments
Can pesticides or other neurotoxins produce actual physical sounds in a recording? External to the brain recordings of piercing, high-pitched sounds, like crickets, seems to rebut a pesticide or other toxin cause.
Crickets also cannot be the cause of the Havana Syndrome because there have been, according to Wikipedia, Havana Syndrome effects in more than a dozen countries. If there were shrieking crickets, diplomats from the diversity of countries, would also have heard the cricket sounds, not only US diplomats.
Possible explanation: A phenomenon that has characteristics very similar to the Havana Syndrome is an effect that occurs to some researchers in the Skinwalker Ranch. Dr. Taylor describes microwaves and radiation that should not be there because they have no known scientific cause, and an individuating effect with some people affected and other people several feet nearby unaffected.
See below on this web page: Interview with Dr. Travis Taylor, Mystery Wire, May 28, 2022
Added September 1, 2024
Havana Syndrome
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f98s0dt2oS0
Mystery Wire YouTube from 4:30 / 20:13 to 6:40 / 20:13. Dr. Travis Taylor describes a phenomenon similar to the Havana Syndrome:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f98s0dt2oS0&ab_channel=MysteryWire
Added September 17, 2022
Several YouTube videos describe how to build hand held proof of concept microwave weapons. However, it is unlikely they can shoot microwaves through walls, windows, individuating people by job, US diplomats, and IC.
There are 1,000 Havana Syndrome reported incidents in a dozen countries primarily involving US diplomats. Explanations include pulsed microwaves, sonic attacks, environmental causes, undiagnosed medical conditions, and crickets.
Who was at the other side of the DEWs? Microwaves seem plausible but the attack vector is unexplained and there have been 1,000 cases. Are attackers shooting microwaves through floors, ceilings, windows, and walls? How are the targets individuated by job position? Are secretaries and receptionists in an office exempt from the attack? Are the attacks intentionally nonlethal?
Added September 17, 2022
Microwave Auditory Effects Among U.S. Government Personnel Reporting Directional Audible and Sensory Phenomena in Havana, IEEE Access, May 2, 2022
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=9759429 (pdf)
"The mysterious incidents on diplomatic and intelligence personnel began in 2016. Since then, nearly 200 incidents have been reported. The illnesses and symptoms are called Havana Syndrome, named for the city where cases were first reported. The initial accounts from Havana include hearing of loud high pitched sounds, localizing the sources as coming from above or behind the head, experiencing a directional sound that ceases if one steps away, the covering of ears not making any difference, some hearing the sound but others in the same room not hearing it, or hearing it in one part of a room but not in other areas."
Havana Syndrome: Investigating what made the diplomats sick, The Fifth Estate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95VHMQQA998
Added September 2, 2022
Interview with Dr. Travis Taylor, Mystery Wire, May 28, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f98s0dt2oS0&ab_channel=MysteryWire
Dr. Travis Taylor describes from his personal experience individuating of radiation exposure. He was exposed to radiation as measured by his radiation detector, from no obvious source, while people a few feet away from him were not.
See the Mystery Wire YouTube video from 4:30 / 20:13 to 6:40 / 20:13.
As pure speculation, maybe the Skinwalker Ranch phenomena can explain the Havana Syndrome. To reiterate, if the data source was not Dr. Travis Taylor, or someone with his science and military credentials, I would brush aside his narrative.
The Skinwalker Ranch radiation phenomena may show how the Havana Syndrome is caused. The implications are ETs have conquered Earth, past tense. See, Think Like An ET .
I can hear traditional SETI scientists moaning. Strange Havana Syndrome data may require out-of-the-box thinking. Maybe the real ETs are not from a Hollywood movie set or from a Galactic Federation.
This 60 minutes news segment appears to rule out a foreign adversary as the cause of the Havana Syndrome.
"Havana Syndrome stumps investigators as U.S. officials report injuries on White House grounds."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1meGH0Dts9M&ab_channel=60Minutes
The Skinwalker Ranch microwave and radiation exposure individuating people by job description, and having no apparent causal source, appears to fit the data of the Havana Syndrome.
It's unlikely a person would rent an apartment above or below a target and shoot microwaves through the floor or ceiling because renting an apartment would leave a trail of evidence. If the microwave device ran from a vehicle, batteries in the trunk, there's a chance the shooter gets stopped or captured on surveillance cameras. A shooter who is a state actor would likely not be involved in a thousand incidents.
Added September 1, 2022 by the SETI Nuggets Editor.
Microwave weapons that could cause Havana Syndrome exist, experts say, The Guardian, June 21, 2021
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/jun/02/microwave-weapons-havana-syndrome-experts
"Giordano, who is also senior fellow in biotechnology, biosecurity and ethics at the US Naval War College, was brought in as adviser by the government in late 2016 after about two dozen US diplomats began falling sick in Havana. He later took part in an assessment for US Special Forces Command on which countries were developing the technology and what they had achieved."
My Comments
Technology is one consideration another is means of delivery. For example, if microwaves bombarded the US Embassy in Havana how did the weapon individuate exposure to diplomats? Were office workers such as secretaries, receptionists affected? Wouldn't a microwave attack disable PCs and servers and other electronic devices?
If the Havana Syndrome is caused by natural phenomena, and not by foreign adversaries, why are most of the victims part of diplomatic and IC personnel? Wouldn't a natural non-targeted phenomenon be scattered randomly in a population?
Added September 21, 2022
Conclusion
The victims of the Havana Syndrome appear to be mostly US diplomats. Why are the Havana Syndrome victims from that population section?
Why aren't diplomatic personnel employed by other countries, for example Italy, or Spain, or Portugal affected equally by the Havana Syndrome? It seems the attack is mainly against US diplomats.
If the cause is a malicious state actor why are embassy guards, surveillance cameras and other forensic devices and techniques not able to find the perpetrator after over 1,000 reported incidents? A neurotoxin would leave a chemical trace. A pulsed microwave weapon requires a shooter who has attacked 1,000 victims invisibly, no weapon source detected, evading guards and surveillance cameras.
The government's narrative is foreign adversaries are not responsible, but the government provides no alternative theories other than psychosomatic illnesses and crickets. Shades of UFO government theories: unknown adversarial advanced technologies, skunk works products, optical illusions, weather balloons, swamp gas, flocks of birds.
Added September 25, 2022
Pesticides or some other neurotoxin would probably leave a forensic, chemical trace whether from the victim or the victim's environment. That leaves focused pulsed microwaves, or a sonic attack using focused ultrasound. There are commercial audio spotlight products but they are not weapons. Still missing are vectors of attack, and individualized targeting by job position for 1,000 incidents globally.
Added October 7, 2022
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Havana-Syndrome-report.pdf
An Assessment of Illness in U.S. Government Employees and Their Families at Overseas Embassies. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. By the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2020.
The 77 page research study lacks control groups and does not mention the Havana Syndrome incidents that have occured in the full gamut of global embassies. Also omitted in the section plausible mechanisms it appears the committee does not discuss means of delivery. For example, if a pulsed microwave attack is suggested as a possible cause of the symtoms it is important to describe a means of delivery.
The National Academies of Science assembled a highly credentialed research group:
"The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine assembled a 19-member committee with expertise in clinical medicine to include neurology, neuro ophthalmology, audiologic, and vestibular medicine, psychiatry, infectious diseases, and rehabilitative medicine, along with experts in epidemiology, environmental science and engineering, toxicology, neurobiology, neuroradiology, health effects of electromagnetic radiation and microwaves, exposure and risk assessment, and health monitoring."
This finding about location effects of the sound seems to indicate there is a focused sonic or microwave attack. The individual or people affected should be able to determine by reverse engineering the geometry of the attack the physical root location of the attack vector.
Page 24 pdf
"The most common and distinctive features of the initial onset and acute phase of the illness in Havana personnel were the sudden onset of a perceived loud sound, sometimes described as screeching, chirping, clicking, or piercing, a sensation of intense pressure or vibration in the head, and pain in the ear or more diffusely in the head. Most individuals reported that the sound or these other sensations seemed to originate from a particular direction or that they perceived them only in certain physical locations. Individuals interviewed by the committee described alleviation of the symptoms by moving from their initial location to a different one."
Same page
"Importantly, the committee finds this constellation of acute symptoms with directional and location-specific features to be very unusual, and to the best of its knowledge, unlike any disorder reported in the neurological or general medical literature."
Conclusion
The above statement is a striking comment: "to the best of its knowledge, unlike any disorder reported in the neurological or general medical literature."
Added October 8, 2022
Exclusive: Dozens of CIA officers accuse intel agency of soft-pedaling its ‘Havana Syndrome’ investigation, CNN, October 5, 2022
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/10/05/politics/cia-investigation-havana-syndrome-mysterious-illness
"As many as three dozen current and former CIA officers have gone to the House and Senate Intelligence Committees over the past year to raise concerns that a CIA task force has been soft-pedaling its investigation into a mysterious illness impacting agency officers and diplomats known colloquially as “Havana Syndrome,” sources tell CNN."
"The sheer scope of the outreach to Capitol Hill, which has not been previously reported, exposes a growing frustration among victims that the intelligence community still hasn’t gotten to the bottom of a mysterious illness that first surfaced six years ago when a cluster of US government personnel stationed in the Cuban capital city began reporting symptoms consistent with head trauma, including dizziness and extreme headaches."
"Similar symptoms have since presented in US personnel stationed around the world."
My Comments
The Havana Syndrome impacts agency officers and diplomats. Seems to be an odd characteristic of an illness targeting US diplomats. Investigators opine no adversary is causing the harm, then what is doing the narrow targeting?
Extraordinary phenomena need extraordinary out-of-the box explanations. I have mentioned in a previous post on this web page my opinion the Havana Syndrome is caused by ETs with unknown physics.
Havana Syndrome
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f98s0dt2oS0