Effect of Microwave Radiation on Birds

Finding

Experiments have been conducted on chickens (Old English Games) fourteen weeks old at power levels in the range 10-30 mW/cm’, at a frequency of 16,000 Mc/s and a pulse repetition rate of 8,000 pulses per sec. A horn antenna was arranged so that it could be mounted above, below or at the side of the cage. With the antenna mounted vertically above the cage it was observed, a few seconds after the onset of radiation, that sustained extensor activity of a wing and leg occurred—a reaction possibly due to the penetration of induced electrical activity to the spinal cord.

In their words

“Experiments have been conducted on chickens (Old English Games) fourteen weeks old at power levels in the range 10-30 mW/cm’, at a frequency of 16,000 Mc/s and a pulse repetition rate of 8,000 pulses per sec. A horn antenna was arranged so that it could be mounted above, below or at the side of the cage. With the antenna mounted vertically above the cage it was observed, a few seconds after the onset of radiation, that sustained extensor activity of a wing and leg occurred—a reaction possibly due to the penetration of induced electrical activity to the spinal cord.”