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Old 15th October 2017, 05:31 PM   #146
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Originally Posted by dann View Post
Me too! But I have an even harder time believing that this is the emission of a super-sonic weapon (or even listening device) targeted at U.S. diplomats in order to make them deaf (or inadvertently rendering them so).
Quite obviously it could not have been supersonic if embassy personnel were able to hear and record the sound using traditional devices.

Originally Posted by calebprime View Post
There may have been other elements to the sound, but if that 8k was there, all you had to do was locate the sound by ear and say wtf, maybe put in some foam earplugs, go to a different room or leave the building.
There are; the original AP report said that this published bit was an excerpt - that according to the State Department investigators there were several recordings, that featured multi-tonal sounds with characteristics that differed from recording to recording, but that all of them had this particular element in common.
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