Hundreds of military officers have had injuries including brain damage and burns after encounters with UFOs, a top brain expert and former CIA officer has revealed.
Detroit Professor Christopher Green was commissioned around 2010 by a secret $22million defense program monitoring UFOs, to write a paper on injuries from close encounters with 'anomalous' craft.
In an exclusive interview with DailyMail.com the forensic neuroimaging expert, who has worked with the CIA since the 1960s, said he dealt with 'hundreds of patients' including special forces officers and other military personnel hurt after interacting with unidentified craft, some of whom later died.
Some of the injuries resembled the mysterious 'Havana Syndrome', which intelligence agencies believe could be a series of clandestine attacks on US diplomats by a foreign power using targeted microwaves.
But Professor Green's cases presented decades before the spate of injuries at the Cuban embassy in 2016 that gave the illness its name.
US intelligence officials have evidence that UFO sightings can lead to adverse health effects including radiation burns, according to a study released this week. Above, a photo of a UFO taken by navy pilots in 2020
In May, a video was released that appeared to show a UFO buzz a US stealth ship near San Diego before diving under the water back in July 2019
An unclassified version of Dr. Green's paper, titled 'Clinical Medical Acute & Subacute Field Effects on Human Dermal & Neurological Tissues', was released last year under the Freedom of Information Act and describes symptoms of multiple sclerosis, brain damage, and burns sustained by patients from 'CE-III-IV events' [Close Encounters of the Third and Fourth Kind] – an apparent reference to interactions with, and even abductions by, UFOs.
The news comes after Congress approved funding in December for an official government UFO-monitoring program which will include 'an assessment of any health-related effects for individuals that have encountered unidentified aerial phenomena.'
And earlier this week, a newly released report from a shadowy Pentagon program that closed in 2012 similarly revealed that US intelligence officials have evidence that UFO sightings have led to adverse health effects like radiation burns, paralysis and even brain damage.
Dr. Green said he became the go-to expert for military patients who had out-of-this-world experiences backed up by witnesses and radar data – including cases of 'big silent drones' which 'hovered and moved in odd ways', 'showed emanations of funny lights, patterns and strobes', and even 'cloaked or changed shape' and 'instantaneously appeared and disappeared'.
Forensic neuroimaging expert and university professor Christopher Green says he has dealt with 'hundreds of patients' who were injured or died after interacting with UFOs
Although his paper, published in March 2010, makes references to 'ETs' and 'off-world exposures', Green told DailyMail.com that he was able to explain every injury he has treated by currently existing, albeit advanced, human technology.
The Wayne State School of Medicine professor said he believed some of the injuries he has seen arose from patients being too close to 'subtle, highly powered, highly modulated microwaves' and suggested in his study that soldiers could have been accidentally hit with powerful radio or electromagnetic frequencies from the propulsion systems of these strange hovering and rapidly moving aircraft.
Green said that symptoms of many of the cases he saw were similar to the 'Havana Syndrome', a mysterious illness affecting diplomats and US government officials in embassies around the world believed by intelligence agencies to be a targeted hi-tech attack.
In January the CIA released a report from a panel of experts who analyzed 1,000 patients' cases and found two dozen with injuries they believe could have been caused by pulsed electromagnetic waves from a device used by a hostile foreign power – most likely Russia.
Several of those injuries were sustained by diplomats at the US embassy in Havana, Cuba, in 2016.
But Green's paper focused on cases of US government and military personnel with similar injuries referred to him decades before 'Havana Syndrome' was identified.
The professor refused to discuss his 2009 DoD-commissioned research paper in detail citing his oath to keep classified secrets, but added that his was one of 38 studies commissioned by the $22million initiative called the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program (AAWSAP), overseen by the Defense Intelligence Agency from 2007 to 2012.
'I had said some things in the paper that they [the DIA] did not want me to say,' he told DailyMail.com.
'The reason I was told was, I referred to radio frequencies as having to do with alien spacecraft, and UFOs.
Symptoms of Havana Syndrome include loud noise, ear pain, intense head pressure or vibration, dizziness, visual problems, and cognitive difficulties
'I think that there are serious people in the Department of Defense who believe that some of the objects that are identified as 'unidentified flying objects' are real, and are extraterrestrial.
'It's reasonable that reasonable people are concerned about that.'
The former Assistant National Intelligence Officer for Science and Technology, who described himself as having been 'an intelligence officer for the government since 1969,' said that as well as writing his 2010 study on injuries from UFOs, he has also for decades treated classified cases of soldiers injured in unexplained ways, referred to him by government officials.
'Because I'm a forensic neurologist and a brain imager, I'm the go-to physician in the Department of Defense for unexplained morbidity and mortality,' Green said.
'I do look at injuries and mortality from unidentified UAPs.
'My client population is heavily within intelligence, Department of Defense, Special Forces, aerospace industry, people that work under contract for aerospace companies that get ill and they don't know why.
'What my cases are exposed to are things they see in daylight, with witnesses under battle conditions, in circumstances of test and evaluation at advanced facilities.'
Green said many of his patients experienced burns and brain damage from their encounters with 'unidentified aerial phenomena'.
He listed his patients' varied descriptions of getting up close to a 'big drone', a 'silent drone' – or something even stranger.
'Sometimes they hovered. Sometimes they moved in odd ways,' he said. 'Some did show clear, advanced cloaking. Some did show emanations of funny lights, patterns and strobes.
The report from 2010 was compiled for the now-defunct Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program. It ranks several kinds of UFO encounters as well as the adverse health effects reported by witnesses
'There are a lot of cases of things that instantaneously appear and instantaneously disappear.
'There are a lot that will instantly disappear and then instantly appear close by but in another angle of sight. In a blink of an eye it will not appear to be directly ahead of you but will appear to be 30 degrees to the right, or 30 degrees to the left.
'Some of them did come close, and make them become unconscious and they woke up burned or injured.'
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