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2026-10-05 Martin Broughton Research & Analysis; Zory Glaser archive (Sharp-Grove record)

Sites: https://www.martin-broughton-research-analysis.co.uk/the-microwave-auditory-effect/encoded-communication-morse-code-speech (secondary analysis site); https://zoryglaser.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/MICROWAVES-AND-BEHAVIOR.pdf (scan of the primary article, hosted by the archive of Dr Zory Glaser, a former US Navy/FDA RF-bioeffects researcher [memory, medium]). Bears on Claim 5 (the gif's "first unclassified transmission of voice into a skull ... 1974 by Dr Joseph C. Sharp of Walter Reed").

Searched

Google: Sharp Grove Walter Reed microwave "spoken words" OR "word recognition" Justesen 1975 "American Psychologist"; Sharp Grove Gandhi 1974 "Generation of acoustic signals by pulsed microwave energy".

Found

  1. The primary record of the speech demonstration is a personal communication. Broughton's page states that Justesen's 1975 article is the public source, and that "Justesen's reference list identifies his source as 'Sharp, J. C., & Grove, M. Personal communication, September 28, 1973.'" It describes the method as reported by Justesen: recorded speech was processed so that brief microwave pulses were generated at selected points of the waveform, and "recognizable words were reportedly perceived". It also describes a separate Morse-code demonstration by Arthur W. Guy (University of Washington) reported in the same article [web, secondary; Broughton's reading of Justesen].
  2. The published Sharp-Grove paper is about mechanism, not speech. J. C. Sharp, H. M. Grove, O. P. Gandhi, "Generation of acoustic signals by pulsed microwave energy", IEEE Trans. Microwave Theory Tech. 22(5): 583-584 (1974) [web: multiple citations in the search results, incl. NY Acad. Sci. and APA PsycNet]. Broughton: "that paper concerned acoustic generation and mechanism. It was not the speech-demonstration paper."
  3. Primary article located: D. R. Justesen, "Microwaves and Behavior", American Psychologist 30(3): 391-401 (March 1975), doi 10.1037/0003-066X.30.3.391; Justesen at the Laboratories of Experimental Neuropsychology, Veterans Administration Hospital, Kansas City; based on a seminar at the University of Utah, 21 Aug 1974 [web: p.1 read on screen at the zoryglaser.com scan, 12 pp.]. The page with the Sharp-Grove passage was not reached (PDF viewer did not page); the "personal communication" citation is therefore Broughton's report, not checked here.

How it bears: the gif's "1974" date and "first unclassified transmission" wording rest on Justesen's 1975 account of a 1973 personal communication; the dated published record is Sharp-Grove-Gandhi 1974 (mechanism) and Justesen 1975 (narrative). So the speech result is documented in one published secondary account by a named researcher (Justesen), citing the experimenters directly; no separate Walter Reed report of the speech trial was found in this run. Power levels for the speech trial were not found.