Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, a veteran journalist who spent years investigating Jeffrey Epstein's Zorro Ranch compound in New Mexico — including ties to surveillance of nearby U.S. nuclear weapons labs and the disappearances of American scientists — says on Substack that she has been permanently injured by directed-energy weapon attacks targeting her at home because of that reporting. She says she's fleeing the country.
Her claim is unverified and she has provided no evidence. That said, directed-energy weapons are real. The GAO has published reports on them, American police departments have deployed them for crowd control, and the most credible explanation for Havana Syndrome — the neurological injuries suffered by American diplomats and intelligence officers starting in 2016 — is a portable Russian microwave weapon that Homeland Security agents purchased from arms traffickers in 2024.
Valdes-Rodriguez writes that these weapons "attack you at your most vulnerable and trusting, in your home, in bed" and are "perfect to silence journalists and dissenters by making them seem bonkers."
Epstein's history with journalists includes sending a bullet to a reporter's doorstep and a severed cat's head. The DOJ has been caught tracking a journalist who exposed him. Whether directed-energy weapons fit that pattern of intimidation or whether Valdes-Rodriguez is suffering from something else entirely, her reporting on the Zorro Ranch — a 7,600-acre compound near Los Alamos — remains one of the more underexplored threads in the saga.
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