Havana Syndrome
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Havana syndrome, officially called anomalous health incidents (AHIs), is a set of unexplained symptoms reported since 2016 by U.S. and Canadian diplomats, intelligence officers and their families, first at the U.S. embassy in Havana, Cuba. Despite years of investigation, its cause has not been established; theories range from directed-energy weapons to psychological and environmental factors. Some UAP researchers have compared its symptoms to injuries reported near UAP.[1][2]
Reports
Beginning in late 2016, personnel in Havana reported hearing loud sounds or feeling pressure, followed by symptoms such as headaches, dizziness, balance problems, insomnia, hearing loss, tinnitus, visual disturbances and difficulties with thinking. The incidents became public in August 2017. Similar reports followed from Guangzhou, China, in 2018, and later from Vienna, Berlin, London and the Washington, D.C., area, among other places. Media counts rose from about two dozen people in 2017 to more than 1,000 claimed cases by early 2022, though there are no official statistics.[1][3]
Investigations
- A December 2020 report by the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine judged directed, pulsed radio-frequency energy the most plausible explanation for some cases, while stressing that its conclusions were not definitive.[1]
- In January 2022, an interim CIA review of about 1,000 cases concluded that most could be explained by other causes and that a worldwide campaign by a foreign power was unlikely.[1]
- In March 2023, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence reported that five of seven agencies judged it "very unlikely" that a foreign adversary was responsible, finding no credible evidence of a weapon causing the symptoms.[1][4]
- In April 2024, two studies by the National Institutes of Health found no evidence of brain injury or lasting physiological changes in affected people compared with controls.[1]
- A March 2024 investigation by The Insider, 60 Minutes and Der Spiegel linked members of a Russian military intelligence unit, GRU Unit 29155, to the incidents; the Kremlin dismissed the report.[1]
Compensation
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The HAVANA Act, signed on 8 October 2021, authorised payments to government personnel with evidence of brain injury from such incidents.[1][5]
UAP connection
Some researchers who study UAP, including physician and former CIA analyst Kit Green and Stanford pathologist Garry Nolan, have discussed similarities between AHI symptoms and injuries reported by people after close encounters with UAP, and have examined both groups of patients. No link has been established.[6]
On the UAP Timeline
- Project Pandora and the Moscow Signal (2014) — The Pentagon declassifies files on Projects Pandora and Bizarre, about microwaves and the mind.
- JASON Havana Syndrome study (29 November 2018) — The JASON advisers find no single energy source that explains 'Havana syndrome' symptoms.
- Franc Milburn's directed-energy claim (7 October 2022) — A former UK officer claims directed-energy weapons were used against UAP scientists.
References
- Havana syndrome — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- "Anomalous Health Incidents and the Health Incident Response Task Force", U.S. Department of State · web.archive.org · archived copy
- "White House investigating 'unexplained health incidents' similar to Havana syndrome", The Guardian (29 Apr 2021) · theguardian.com · archived copy
- Office of the Director of National Intelligence · dni.gov · archived copy
- "We're All in This Together", American Foreign Service Association · afsa.org · archived copy
- "Stanford Professor Garry Nolan Is Analyzing Anomalous Materials From UFO Crashes", Vice (2021) · vice.com · archived copy
This page was last edited on 29 October 2026. Articles are written in our own words from the sources listed under References; disputed claims are attributed to the people who made them.
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