Microwave auditory effect
Efecto auditivo por microondas
- Date
- 1961 · confidence high
- Place
- Ithaca, New York, United States
- Credited to
- Allan H. Frey
- Field
- Life & health
What was discovered
The perception of sounds (clicks, buzzing) generated directly inside the head by pulsed radiofrequency energy, without any receiving device, described by neuroscientist Allan H. Frey from observations of radar workers.
What it led to
- research into the mechanisms of microwave-tissue interaction
- later explanation via the thermoelastic mechanism (Foster-Finch)
- radiofrequency exposure standards in military and workplace settings
- basis of theories (and myths) about microwave 'hearing' weapons