Look 'em up. It's good practice. This is by no means a comprehensive list. It's a taste, something to pique your interest in doing some serious research on your own, instead of always palming the job off on guys like me. You're always better off finding out about things like this by way of your own research. Not all of us can be trusted to tell you the truth. I can, but some of these other guys lie through their teeth.

While you're at it, check out this related technology that employs ultrasonics instead:

5,159,703 – Silent Subliminal Presentation System, Dec. 28, 1989

Another good place to start learning about synthetic telepathy is here and here. Or you could just take my word for it. Your choice. Either way, yeah, this stuff does happen.

There are technical problems, though, with delivering equal sound quality over a wide area. Then there's the problem of shadows. Who would believe it was "Allah's voice" if it faded out when a piece of aluminum intervened. There's a reason some people wear foil hats at home, where nobody can see. And it ain't fashion.

Another problem, a big problem, is that Islam forbids the depiction of the face of Allah. It was a real monkey wrench in the works, perhaps the very reason the plan was not carried out, assuming of course that there was such a plan in the first place and this story about it isn't the psy-op. The way I figure it, if there was such a plan it wasn't carried out because somebody higher up in the command structure remembered that Iraqis aren't one bit dumber than we are. They just live somewhere else, that's all. Computer-generated imagery and flashy special effects are not unknown there. Neither is American treachery.

The plan also presents formidable technical challenges. This kind of projection requires a mirror behind it. To create an image of that size would require a mirror several kilometers across, floating in space. The largest mirror they've been able to develop so far has been only 30 meters wide. Present versions are too small to produce a convincing image at ground level. Or so we're told.

It is possible, however, to make a mirror out of thin air. When warm air lies on top of cold air, the difference in density bends the light. At high enough altitudes, a mirage can make whole landscapes appear in the sky. In theory an artificial mirage could be created by heating the atmosphere with radio waves or microwaves. Sorta makes you wonder about HAARP, doesn't it?

The U.S. military appears to believe in the potential use of holograms. A USAF think tank supposedly devised uses ranging from deceptive holographic imaging to the sci-fi-like distortion field projector. These projectors are described as useful for strategic deception purposes, particularly against an unsophisticated adversary. They would be projected by a airborne hologram projector. A current equivalent of such an aircraft is the Commando Solo, a modified Hercules cargo plane festooned with aerials and antennae and carrying pods of classified electronics. It can transmit across the electromagnetic spectrum, including radio and television signals. More sophisticated craft remain classified. As a general rule, military technological innovation tends to outstrip what is public knowledge by one to two decades.

This story is also startlingly familiar to one circulating in the Paranoid Community about another alleged plan known as Project Blue Beam. As the story goes, Project Blue Beam is a plan by the New World Order, or the Ruling Elite, or the Illuminati, or the Bilderburgers, or maybe it was the Shriners, to fake the Second Coming of Christ with laser holography and microwave-based mass mind control as part of a plan to usher in One World Government or some such atrocity.

In some versions of the story people in each part of the world will see their own local version of the Deity or the Messiah and hear in their own language the "Holy" command to unify the various religions of the world into One World Religion. In all probability the story of Project Blue Beam is part of a psy-op, disinformation intended to divert or delude us. It certainly fits the profile. On the other hand it is fast becoming a technical feasibility. It may even have become one already and we just don't know about it. So don't arbitrarily dismiss the possibility.

Some versions of the Blue Beam story are more amusing. Others make more sense. To read further I recommend starting with these:

EWAR digest

Trufax

Such a plan, or at least a story about such a plan, has a fairly recent historical precedent. It, too, was not revealed until many years later. It was part of the Kennedy era, anti-Castro covert action plan called Operation MONGOOSE. It is found in the Congressional Record, in "Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders, Interim Report of the Select Committee to Study Government Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities," November 20, 1975. This is the famous Church Committee Report. In a footnote on page 142, CIA officer Thomas Parrot, testifying on July 10, 1975, sarcastically characterized one of psychological warfare (or psy-war) maven Edward Lansdale's plans to get rid of Castro:

I'll give you one example of Lansdale's perspicacity. He had a wonderful plan for getting rid of Castro. This plan consisted of spreading the word that the Second Coming of Christ was imminent and that Christ was against Castro [who] was anti-Christ. And you would spread this word around Cuba, and then on whatever date it was, there would be a manifestation of this thing. And at that time – this is absolutely true – and at that time just over the horizon there would be an American submarine which would surface off of Cuba and send up some star shells. And this would be the manifestation of the Second Coming and Castro would be overthrown ... Well, some wag called this operation – and somebody dubbed this – Elimination by Illumination.

I heard another version of this story in which the submarine was to have surfaced inside Havana harbor at night and project a movie of a guy dressed like Jesus on the underside of the low-lying clouds that form over the harbor at night. A plane with muffled motors was to have circled just above the clouds while a guy with a loudspeaker exhorted the Cubans below to overthrow "Godless Communism."

I have no idea if either of these stories are true merely because they are in the Congressional Record. Congress is a liars' club. But these reports are part of an overall pattern. America's ongoing psy-war against Cuba is an instructive example of what can be done when the planning division is let off the leash. To familiarize yourself with the subject, I highly recommend you read Jon Elliston's excellent new book: PsyWar on Cuba: The Declassified History of U.S. Anti-Castro Propaganda, ISBN 1-876175-09-5. It'll open your eyes.

Edward Lansdale was one of American military intelligence's most celebrated psy-ops specialists. According to some people he was a psy-war operator of the first order and the highest degree. Others speak less kindly. According to Cecil B. Currey's fawning biography, Edward Lansdale: The Unquiet American, ISBN 0-395-38510-5, Lansdale later claimed he had never heard of the Cuba proposal until 1975, 13 years after the fact. He proclaimed that Parrot was a "jerk," and insisted the story was "a weirdo comment" and "absolutely untrue." He would say that. It's exactly what he would say. What else could he say? Yet the story fairly reeks of Lansdale's M.O.

At one point Lansdale was the CIA's psy-war point man in the Philippines. He personally guided the career of Philippine politico Ramon Magsaysay. Lansdale got along well with Manila's upper crust. Though he had a wife in the U.S., he took a Philippine lover, a woman named Patricinio "Pat" Yapcinco Kelly. Though basically a girl from the boondocks, she was the scion of a landed family and as educated as she was beautiful. She showed him around the boondocks and taught him about local customs and beliefs. She remained faithful to him for decades. When his wife finally died she joined him in the States. They married and she remained with him to the end. When the Huk rebellion was at its height, Lansdale employed a bit of boondock lore she'd taught him to psych out a formation of Huk militia who were plaguing a certain district.

On Lansdale's orders an attack by an asuang, a type of native Philippine vampire, was made to appear to have taken place. A Huk patrol was returning to base one night through some dense, tall grass. They were followed by a couple of stealthy commandos. At an opportune jink in the pathway the commandos whomped the last guy in line on the head and grabbed his body before it could fall to the ground. They then strung him upside down from a tree limb and poked two holes in his neck. Once all the blood had drained, they dragged the corpse back to the path. When the Huk patrol reached base they counted heads and realized the guy was missing. The guys they sent to find him found the bloodless corpse and immediately returned to base with the news that an asuang was stalking the neighborhood. The Huks abandoned their base and fled the district. Or so the story goes.

Lansdale was the kind of a guy who could be described even by some friends and supporters as a "con man." He started out in advertising. While living in the Bay Area he wrote advertising for Levi Strauss Co. It was, in fact, Lansdale who convinced them to begin marketing Levis east of the Mississippi. It must have worked, too, because I wear 'em and I'm from Pennsylvania.

When WWII came, Lansdale joined the Office of Strategic Services. Later, while with the CIA, he was on the ground in Vietnam. There he was instrumental in the CIA's successful wresting of the heroin trade away from the French/Corsican monopoly that had existed before Dien Bien Phu. For details see The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia by Alfred W. McCoy, ISBN 06-090328-7.

Fletcher Prouty is the man on whom Donald Sutherland's character in Oliver Stone's JFK is based. For many years his office was across the hall from Lansdale's. They saw each other up close and personal on a daily basis. It was Lansdale who ordered Prouty to the South Pole just in time to be out of the country at the crucial moment of the Coup of Nov. 22, 1963.

Prouty claims to recognize Lansdale in a photo taken in Dallas that day. Also in the photo are the famous three "tramps." While their faces show, the face of the man Prouty claims is Lansdale does not. Prouty claims to recognize Lansdale's suit, body language, and large class ring. I don't know. I wasn't there. I was in Pittsburgh and can prove it. I am somewhat inclined, however, to give Prouty the benefit of the doubt in this case. How wise this is of me may never be known. That Lansdale played a key role in Operation MONGOOSE, a role far beyond "Elimination by Illumination," is without question a matter of record. To what degree his style has influenced subsequent psy-war ops remains a matter of some conjecture.

The military use of the appearance in the sky of beings, supernatural and otherwise, actually predates even Operation MONGOOSE. Next time, I'll tell you about the mysterious secret society behind a WWI psy-op called "The Angels of Mons," and how technologically manufactured illusions, especially in the sky, continue to evolve. In the meantime, look up those patents. See you later.