Overview
- Alisa Valdes‑Rodriguez, an investigative reporter who has written about Jeffrey Epstein’s New Mexico compound, says she was targeted with what she called 'direct energy' or 'pulsed energy' attacks and has left the country to seek safety.
- Valdes‑Rodriguez wrote on Substack that the alleged attacks left her 'permanently injured' and described physical and psychological effects she likened to earlier reports of Havana‑syndrome‑type symptoms.
- No independent evidence has been produced to back the claims and news outlets note the allegations remain unverified in available reporting.
- Coverage links her allegation to her Epstein reporting and to her work on missing U.S. scientists, and it places the claim in a wider context where directed‑energy and sonic‑weapon assertions have been publicly discussed by officials.
- The episode raises questions about press safety, the potential misuse of emerging directed‑energy tools, and the difficulty investigators face in attributing and proving non‑conventional attacks.