Reporter Who Implicated Military Intelligence in Epstein’s Child Sex Ring Attacked With Military ‘Directed Energy’ Weapons
Reporter who investigated Jeffrey Epstein is ‘fleeing’ the US after alleged ‘direct energy weapons’ attack
A journalist who has reported extensively on late financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s notorious New Mexico ranch says she is “fleeing the country,” claiming she was the victim of a “direct energy weapons” attack over her coverage.
Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, a former Boston Globe and Los Angeles Times reporter who later became a bestselling novelist, said she abruptly abandoned her New Mexico residence after suffering what she described as symptoms consistent with “Havana syndrome.”
“It appears my home has been located by, well, whomever is unhappy about my reporting about Zorro Ranch and the local cover up here and the military intelligence roots of the child sex trafficking operation Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell were running here in New Mexico,” Valdes-Rodriguez wrote last week on her Substack.
“This morning, I was hit in my home office by two episodes of what I later learned were likely Direct Energy Weapon attacks,” she wrote.
“We wasted no time in leaving the house, for good.”
The Albuquerque, NM-born writer said she would be “staying in safe houses” while preparing to leave the United States permanently.
There is no known public evidence supporting her allegations.
Valdes-Rodriguez’s claims escalated sharply in subsequent posts, in which she alleged the attacks may have involved a “backpack-sized” weapon placed on or near her roof by “private military contractors.”
“The second round of attacks seemed to have come from the back of a large semi truck that parked across from my house,” she wrote.
“These devices have gotten smaller now … some are the size of large machine guns.”
She further claimed the operators could generate “a 3d model of the inside of your house in real time, and zero in on a body part.”
The former newspaper reporter compared her condition to “Havana syndrome” — the controversial and still-disputed cluster of neurological complaints first reported by US diplomats stationed in Cuba in 2016.
Those officials reported headaches, ringing in the ears, dizziness, nausea, cognitive issues and sensations of pressure in the head.
US intelligence agencies spent years investigating whether the symptoms were caused by microwave or so-called directed-energy attacks carried out by a foreign adversary.
But declassified intelligence assessments released in 2023 and updated in January last year concluded it was “very unlikely” a foreign actor was responsible for the incidents and found no consistent evidence of a novel weapon being used against US personnel.
Some researchers have suggested stress, environmental factors or mass psychogenic illness may explain many reported cases.
Valdes-Rodriguez has spent recent years as an independent investigative journalist focused heavily on Epstein’s sprawling New Mexico compound known as Zorro Ranch.
Her reporting has entailed allegations involving buried victims, intelligence community connections and purported surveillance activity tied to the disgraced financier’s operations.
The author has claimed her reporting uncovered evidence that Epstein’s ranch may have been connected to broader political and intelligence networks in New Mexico.
None of those allegations have been substantiated publicly.
The Post has sought comment from Valdes-Rodriguez.
