Was a Sonic Super-Weapon Used during Historic Raid to Capture Maduro?
The existence of a sonic super-weapon is certainly plausible in light of a 2013 non‑lethal directed‑energy demonstration and recent allegations of acoustic weapon systems used during Serbia’s 2025 protests.
This year certainly started out with a bang, with Venezuelan dictator Nicholas Maduro and his wife being captured by U.S. special operations forces in a surprise overnight strike on Caracas.
The Legal Insurrection has been closely following developments, including his flight to New York City, where he and his wife, Cilia Flores, are now in federal custody facing narcoterrorism and drug-trafficking charges.
An intriguing story related to this event has recently surfaced. A Venezuelan guard who managed to survive the raid asserts that U.S. forces used an intense sound‑like weapon during the night raid on Maduro’s compound, describing it as a powerful “sonic weapon” that instantly incapacitated defenders.
The US used a powerful mystery weapon that brought Venezuelan soldiers to their knees, “bleeding through the nose” and vomiting blood during the daring raid to capture dictator Nicolas Maduro, according to a witness account posted Saturday on X by the White House press secretary.
….“We were on guard, but suddenly all our radar systems shut down without any explanation,” the guard said. “The next thing we saw were drones, a lot of drones, flying over our positions. We didn’t know how to react.”
Moments later, a handful of helicopters appeared — “barely eight,” by his count — deploying what he estimated were just 20 US troops into the area.
But those few men, he said, came armed with something far more powerful than guns.
“They were technologically very advanced,” the guard recalled. “They didn’t look like anything we’ve fought against before.”
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How reliable is this account? It is difficult to say as the War Department has not issued any formal explanation of the weapon in question.
However, it must me noted a Fox News Channel report suggests the effects resemble those experienced by a non-lethal sonic device that hit porter Peter Doocy experienced during a 2013 demonstration at Quantico.
The clip highlights archival footage from March 2013, showing Doocy testing the weapon in an outdoor field at a military base. He stands between orange cones as the invisible beam is fired at him, causing him to double over in discomfort, clutch his midsection, and quickly retreat while waving off the test.
Doocy describes the sensation as making the 50-degree weather feel like “a thousand” degrees, comparing it to being in a bathtub where someone drops a hair dryer.
I’ve been waiting 13 years to have an excuse to play this video again https://t.co/6waJUSCywc
— Peter Doocy (@pdoocy) January 11, 2026
If that was 13 years ago, then I would imagine much more research and testing went into fine-tuning and enhancing this weapon. Therefore, there is a distinct possibility that the guard’s story is accurate.
Furthermore, in 2025, during a demonstration in Serbia, protesters reported a sudden, unusual “swooshing” or “sound from hell,” followed by panic, dizziness, and disorientation. These accounts prompted claims that an illegal sonic weapon was used.
Subsequently, Serbian authorities admitted that they had procured Long-Range Acoustic Device (LRADs) from the U.S. in 2021.
The noise lasted only a few seconds.
But speculation that a sonic weapon was used illegally to disperse the rally has filled headlines, talk shows and social media. President Aleksandar Vucic, already facing the biggest civil protests in decades, is under pressure to explain the incident.
Sonic weapons employ extreme sound to incapacitate targets. They can damage ears and cause headaches and nausea, and their use is illegal in Serbia.
Authorities denied possessing such devices, until Interior Minister Ivica Dacic admitted that police had bought Long-Range Acoustic Devices – used by authorities in the United States, Australia, Greece and Japan – from the U.S. in 2021.
Therefore, while there is no formal admission by the Pentagon about a “sonic super-weapon”, its existence is certainly plausible in light of the 2013 non‑lethal directed‑energy demonstrations and the allegations of acoustic weapons systems used during Serbia’s 2025 protests.
Based on the opening week of 2026, I suspect the year is only going to get more interesting from here.
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Back when US forces captured Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega who had holed up in a church, rock music was blasted at the building non stop. I don’t remember the tune but it didn’t take too long to work.
The Noriega Playlist. It is a commentary on the ‘quality’ of rock music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8uUh1xsL14&list=PLfZMj-Qiur9_TMD75DhSYT5wz4iRjv9nf
Resonance of tissue via third-order intermodulation will indeed cause discomfort, unease and an altered sense of reality. If you have ever attended a top-fuel drag race then you know.
I attended a rock concert recently and one of the warm up acts made up for the fact that they were terrible by being loud. And when I say loud I don’t mean “ear splitting”, I mean people were doubled over in their seats. I felt my liver vibrating. I had never experienced anything like it and hope I never do again. If that’s what is being referred to in this story I can 100% believe it.
I was stupid in 1984 for attending a Van Halen concert w/o hearing protection. I know what you mean!
That’s every rock band that plays in a small bar club.
Sounds like it
To paraphrase Insty: “Well, you know, it IS the 21st century.”
Eh. They were using hedgehogs against submarines in WWII.
Sound transmits through water more efficiently and faster than the atmosphere.
Err hedgehogs are kind of like a cross between a mortar and a depth charge except that multiple hogs are fired at once. I recently heard about this myself. I think it might be a British invention.
“He stands between orange cones as the invisible beam is fired at him, causing him to double over in discomfort, clutch his midsection, and quickly retreat while waving off the test.”
There’s nothing super duper secret here. They’ve weaponized Taylor Swift. I hear they call the new weapon the “Tayonator” and if the weapon kills you, you’ve been “Swifted”. Just wait till the Geneva Conventions learns of this grotesque torture!
“brought Venezuelan soldiers to their knees, “bleeding through the nose” and vomiting blood”
My first thought was that they could have saved all the R&D money and just licensed the 2025 Disney Snow White.
But really, there’s some bad science SOMEWHERE in this article. Millimeter waves aren’t sound, they’re electromagnetic. Doocey says they’re “not microwaves,” which is true but mostly a technicality. They’re right next door to them on the spectrum. And they’ll heat you up just like microwaves if you tease them properly.
Why we jumped to “sonic” just on uninformed comments from Maduro deserves reflection.
Now, if you REALLY want to scare the uninformed, remind them that millimeter waves are the same waves emitted by their home routers,
(Remember all that whinging about how 5G towers were going to turn us all into either rolling balls of cancer or mindless Republican zombies? Yeah, that was in there somewhere.)
I didn’t see anything about millimeter waves, which are RF microwaves, but I saw references to long range acoustic devices. That is sound waves.
I hear the have good burgers
remember,, lefty only likes fair fights
where they have the advantage
Rebecca Good says not to take a whistle to a gun fight.
By the description of its effects, I believe Doocy’s experience may have been with a microwave weapon rather than a sonic weapon. Both work with the same principle – frequency resonance with molecules inside the body. That’s exactly how a microwave oven works.
No pun intended, but the thought of an acoustic weapon has perked my ears.
How reliable is this account?
Not very. It starts out like a typical “the aliens nabbed us” sort of story to explain why he was so bad at his job.
There are some technologies that should be denied to governments. If governments have shown us anything, they have shown us a disturbing propensity to misuse and abuse technology (as well as the law), to the detriment of the law-abiding citizen. Denying some new technology to government won’t make us less safe than we are, it can only make us less safe than we might be. The additional safety comes at too high a price.
“There are some technologies that should be denied to governments.”
By who?
Geez, this will turn out well no doubt!
https://gatewayhispanic.com/2026/01/venezuelan-interim-president-delcy-rodriguez-appoints-alexander-granko/
he will no doubt be efficient
Even if no such weapon exists, merely contemplating its existence sows the seeds of doubt out there! 🤌
Why aren’t we using Active Denial Systems to get these left-wing activists off the streets so ICE can do their jobs?
Ear plugs.
Once again, “Atlas Shrugged” comes to mind.
As the country falls apart in that novel the government elite demonstrates a sound machine called “Project X” that utterly destroys everything in its sphere and not-so-subtly pressures compliance with further government mandates. Later in the novel the machine is taken over and destroys a 100-mile radius.
The pages of Atlas Shrugged resonate in many ways in the “newspapers” today.
inflicting permanent deafness on the target seems unfair.