More laser “incidents”
Michelle Malkin, among others, has been covering the story of lasers being aimed at aircraft…
And now there have been SEVEN* “incidents” reported?
Federal law enforcement officials have previously expressed fears that terrorists could use lasers as weapons, and last month the Department of Homeland Security sent a bulletin to law enforcement offices around the country about the risks of lasers, FBI and Homeland Security Department officials said.
But Thursday, department spokeswoman Katy Mynster said: “We have no specific information that these incidents have any terrorism nexus at this time.”
Authorities have received no threats or warnings connected with the incidents, and they are unsure what to make of them.
The latest incident took place Wednesday night in Teterboro, N.J., just northwest of New York City, and involved a business jet. Three incidents took place Monday, two of them in Colorado Springs, Colo., and a third in Cleveland. Three other incidents took place on Christmas Day, one each in Houston, Medford, Ore., and at Washington’s Ronald Reagan National Airport.
Seven now. This is no coincidence, people. Lots more here.
In Malkin’s latest entry on the subject, she highlights a Navy News article about the Navy’s award-winning invention, the Laser Event Recorder:
The LER is a green box which “tells” flyers if they are being targeted by a laser, and whether that laser can damage their eyes. A green light on the box means the system is functioning and everything is normal; yellow means a laser is pointed at them but is not an eye hazard; and red means they are being targeted by a laser that threatens their vision.
“There are anti-personnel systems out there that are designed to make it very hard to do your mission, while even something as seemingly innocuous as a casino’s laser light show or laser pointer can temporarily blind air crew and pose a hazard to aircraft many miles distant,” said Jim Sheehy, Ph.D., chief scientist and chief technology officer for Human Systems.
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