Silent Sound Weaponry

There were rumors during Operation Desert Storm that the United States military was using an ultra-sophisticated mind-altering technique that amounted to “silent sound” weaponry, which was reported in a March 26, 1991 newsbrief by ITV News Bureau Ltd (London). It is alleged that the U.S. PsyOps team took over FM transmitters in Riyadh after a military command-and-control system was destroyed, and began broadcasting signals on the 100 MHz frequency. Embedded in the radio signals was a subliminal system that was capable of implanting negative emotions—fear, anxiety, despair—into the minds of the listeners. Not just telling them how to feel, but making them feel it. The technology that is capable of this “mind alteration” is called the Silent Sound Spread Spectrum (SSSS) or S-quad, and was developed by Oliver M. Lowery in U.S. Patent #5,159,703. The patent’s abstract reads: “A silent communications system in which nonaural carriers, in the very low or very high audio frequency range or in the adjacent ultrasonic frequency spectrum, are amplitude or frequency modulated with the desired intelligence and propagated acoustically or vibrationally, for inducement into the brain, typically through the use of loudspeakers, earphones or piezoelectric transducers. The modulated carriers may be transmitted directly in real time or may be conveniently recorded and stored on mechanical, magnetic or optical media for delayed or repeated transmission to the listener.” Scientists since his patent’s approval have been studying exactly which brainwave patterns produce which emotions, and by broadcasting the same patterns over the airwaves, the emotion can be silently triggered in any humans within earshot. Whether or not the reports of silent sound technology are science fiction or the rantings of paranoid individuals, the implications for the imposition of emotional noise into unsuspecting individuals is terrifying. We have the capability to simultaneously broadcast terror abroad and bliss on the homefront; the soundscape and emotion-scape are able to be entirely manipulated by human hands. Who controls noise, and shouldn’t our ears be liberated from such manipulative wave patterns? Shouldn’t we expect to be able to “hear” (as in, recognize that we are hearing a message) the weapons used against us and our enemies? Is there a difference between silent sound weaponry and the Long Range Acoustic Device?