Saturday January 1, 2005

I've Been Thinking:

Something is out there, and it's not ET.

Since Christmas, there have been 5 reported incidents of lasers locking on to commercial airlines.

This is particularly worrisome.

Laser is an acronym for Light Amplification by Stimulated Energy Radiation. A laser is a beam of high-energy coherent light. We often only think of it as visible light but it can also be infrared or ultra violet light. It has tremendous power and energy.

My point is that 5 examples of laser beams tracking civilian aircraft means that some group out there (not individual) wants to know how the laser works and whether it can interrupt a pilot. All 5 cases were reported by pilots disturbed by the beams and one even suffered an eye injury. The cases were spread across the US.

Whoever and whatever is responsible, this laser locking must be stopped. Then we need to figure out the how and the why. It's imperative.