The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) once considered the idea of using lightning as a weapon system. In the late 1960s, an unknown scientist proposed the service use lightning strikes as a weapon that would leave behind “little or no evidence,” making it difficult to identify the U.S. government as the perpetrator. The CIA, despite always being interested in covert weapons, never developed the idea. Probably.
The pitch, which Forbes discovered in declassified CIA files, involved using “artificial leaders” of thin metal wires to “cause discharges to occur where and when we desire them.” The wires, a few thousands of an inch in diameter, would unfurl from aircraft or rockets launched into the atmosphere.
Then, once lightning occurred, it would be drawn to the metal wire and strike the ground where the wire terminated. The idea seems to be that the wire would be close enough to fry whomever the CIA wanted to assassinate with 300 million volts of electricity.
There were some interesting upsides to the weapon unique to using natural weather phenomena. For one, it was cheap, since lightning is practically free. Second, it left behind no traces like bullet casings, missile fuselages, or other telltale signs of state-sponsored assassination. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the chances of being struck by lightning are only 1 in 500,000, and an observer would likely believe the target was simply a victim of bad luck.
Obviously there are a few problems with using lightning as a weapon. The CIA could only use it during lightning storms, and the lightning-attracting wire would have to stay close enough to the target to be lethal. Everything would need to line up just right for the assassination to take place.
Today’s CIA has seemingly abandoned subtlety, with the sword-laden Hellfire R9X the preferred tool for targeted killings. Still, this is fascinating proof that the nation’s intelligence agency entertained some pretty unusual ideas.
The real question: Did anything as weirdly exotic as using lightning as an assassination tool ever become operational in CIA service, and could it be responsible for events we know about? We may never know.
Approved by their boss Lucifer.
I would consider drones to be lightening.
That is how they fly, by being light.
Or were you referring to lightning?
It was developed, and exists.
You use a laser to create a plasma channel. Since the electrical channel is completed by the laser, it usurps other lightning leaders. The lightning can be directed very easily. The laser does not need to be visible. It can also form lightning at a lower potential (i.e., send a bolt that was not already charged to the point of naturally closing the gap)
Looking at the 'victims' of this supposed strike......I'd say fuckery is afoot in the story.
They like to pour it on thick to cover all the bases. Too thick.
When are the odds impossible?
Possible death fakirs.
Lightning is so yesterday's tech. ___ Neon Elon (Did you pay your bill last month? Zap)
I have been looking for info on the victims - can you point me in the right direction?
Here is one, yea it's yahoo link. Just came across it.
https://news.yahoo.com/los-angeles-bank-executive-among-013544930.html
He attended high school in Folsom in Northern California
That's pretty interesting
One might assume to look first at the name Mueller that is said to be involved. However, besides a couple of interesting Muellers found in Wisconsin, that's like finding a place that sells cheese in Wisconsin. Everywhere.
Not turning up much of note there, the 'other' name that was delayed becomes of note.
A bank president with Hollywood connections.
https://s325.podbean.com/pb/b39c8ece65f2d80a950de87ad358be67/62f117a2/data1/fs90/3888948/uploads/BrooksLambertson.jpg
Brooks Lambertson
California Polytechnic State University in 2015 with a bachelor’s degree in recreation, parks and tourism administration and a concentration in sports management. He had recently been interviewed on his alma mater’s podcast.
Parks and Rec background translates into banking V.P. ? Odd
The surviving fourth victim, who has not been identified, is still hospitalized and in critical condition, according to Lt. James Dingeldein with the U.S. Park Police.
News by drip.
The nazis sure do love their weather manipulation, don't they?