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A journalist who has reported extensively on late financier and sex offenderJeffrey Epstein’s notorious New Mexico ranchsays 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 assymptoms consistent with “Havana syndrome.”
“It appears my home has been located by, well, whomever is unhappy about my reporting aboutZorro Ranchand 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-Rodriguezwrote 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 attacksmay have involved a “backpack-sized” weaponplaced 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 neurologicalcomplaints 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.
