More than two dozen suspected directed energy attacks have been reported inside the United States, according to new reporting from investigative journalist Catherine Herridge.
Some of the people reporting incidents were working on the very technology suspected of causing them.
Herridge says national security contacts described multiple incidents in 2021 involving U.S. government personnel studying directed energy weapons and efforts to reverse-engineer a device. She also identified a significant cluster of reported cases at an off-site government intelligence and research facility in Northern Virginia.
Here is Herridge’s account, including the interview with a Space Force veteran who says he was targeted at home:
The veteran, identified in the reporting as Chris, said he experienced five suspected attacks at his home outside Washington, D.C. Herridge said she reviewed military medical records documenting several conditions, including a traumatic brain injury connected to his service.
He suspects Russia and believes the purpose was to interfere with the work of American military and intelligence personnel. That is his assessment of what happened; the reporting does not establish who caused his injuries.
Herridge said the CIA, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Department of War and the Department of Homeland Security did not respond to her questions.
Those agencies owe the people reporting these injuries a serious accounting. The location of the reported cluster, and the work some of those personnel were doing, deserve specific answers.
In a separate account, NewsNation described the medical concerns raised by Dr. James Giordano, who leads the Neuroethics Studies Program at Georgetown University’s Center for Clinical Bioethics. He told the network that promptly evaluating a person after a suspected exposure could help limit worsening symptoms.
Giordano explained that an initial injury can set off further physiological changes, making the eventual effects more debilitating. His emphasis was on getting ahead of that progression through early intervention.
NewsNation also described directed energy technology as increasingly compact and easier to conceal.
The report connected those concerns to Havana Syndrome, the name associated with unexplained health incidents reported by American diplomats and intelligence personnel overseas. It also revisited the former Space Force officer’s account of repeated suspected incidents at his Washington-area home.
His injuries are central to the story, even as the cause remains disputed.
There is a long-running disagreement inside Washington over how much the available evidence actually proves.
A January 2025 assessment published by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said most intelligence components still considered foreign responsibility very unlikely. Five components also considered it very unlikely that a foreign actor had used a novel weapon to harm even a subset of the personnel reporting these incidents.
But the assessment recorded a split: one component judged there was roughly an even chance that a foreign actor had used a novel weapon against a small, undetermined subset. Another gave roughly even odds that such a weapon had been developed, while still considering its deployment unlikely.
Both held those judgments with low confidence. The same document said intelligence collection had not produced compelling evidence tying a foreign actor to a specific incident.
It also explicitly recognized the genuine suffering of personnel and their families. Those are separate findings: acknowledging the injuries does not settle who or what caused them.
That assessment predates Herridge’s latest reporting. The obvious question now is whether the reported domestic cluster changes what the government is prepared to acknowledge publicly.
Former Deputy National Security Adviser Charlie Kupperman joined Herridge on Friday to discuss government awareness of suspected incidents on American soil:
WATCH: Former Deputy National Security Advisor Charlie Kupperman joins @C__Herridge to explain how long our government has known about directed energy attacks on U.S. soil – even around the White House – and why resulting injuries haven’t been acknowledged. pic.twitter.com/FgmjKYXsLY
— Katie Pavlich Tonight (@KatiePavlichNN) September 5, 2026
Americans who served this country should not have to spend years trying to get clear answers about injuries they associate with that service.
Release what can responsibly be released. Explain what investigators ruled out, what remains unresolved and what protection is in place for the people doing this work today.
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