Veteran journalist Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, who last week revealed she was "fleeing the country" after claiming to have been targeted by "direct energy weapon attacks" linked to her reporting on Jeffrey Epstein, said Saturday that the alleged attacks have since left her "permanently injured."
“We should all understand this is real. These are the most cowardly weapons ever created,” Valdes-Rodriguez wrote in a social media post on Substack Saturday evening.
“They attack you at your most vulnerable and trusting, in your home, in bed, and do not kill right away. They plant pain and illness that can take years, months, weeks, days to kill, and do it in a manner intended to gaslight the target into doubting their own experience, as the pulsed energy can hit one person and not the others.”
While Valdes-Rodriguez did not provide evidence to support her claim, direct energy weapons are a real technology used by some U.S. law enforcement agencies, and the White House earlier this year promoted a claim that the Trump administration had used a secret “sonic weapon” – a type of direct energy weapon – in its attack on Venezuela, allegedly causing Venezuelans to bleed from their noses and vomit blood.
Valdes-Rodriguez’s reporting has largely centered around Epstein’s mysterious compound in New Mexico, having uncovered several previously unknown details about the disgraced financier, including that his compound may have been used to surveil two U.S. nuclear weapons labs.
It was her reporting on Epstein, she alleged, as well as her reporting on the growing number of missing American scientists, that may have motivated the alleged attacks.
“They are physical weapons plus psychological weapons. Perfect to silence journalists and dissenters by making them seem bonkers,” Valdes-Rodriguez continued. “It will never not disgust me that there are engineers who will lend their talent to designing things like this. Operators who are willing to use them. Incredible. And very sad.”