There are claims that U.S. forces used cutting-edge weapons, including a sonic weapon, to incapacitate the security detail for Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro during the operation to capture him alive.
According to the New York Post on the 10th, a lengthy post purportedly an interview with a Venezuelan bodyguard was recently uploaded to X (formerly Twitter), drawing attention. The post said U.S. forces annihilated Venezuelan soldiers during the airstrike with unprecedented technology.
He said, "While on guard duty, all radar systems suddenly stopped and numerous drones began flying overhead," and added, "Moments later, eight helicopters appeared and about 20 U.S. troops were inserted."
He went on, "The U.S. forces were armed with something more powerful than guns," and described, "At some point they fired something that felt like a very intense sound wave. It felt like an explosion going off inside my head."
He added, "Some bodyguards bled from their noses and some coughed up blood," and said, "We could not get back up because of something that might have been a sonic weapon." The post reportedly recorded 26.2 million views.
Citing a former U.S. intelligence source, the New York Post raised the possibility that U.S. forces used a directed energy weapon (DEW) that strikes targets with high-power energy such as microwaves.
These weapons deliver microwaves of specific frequencies to the temporal lobe, causing bleeding, loss of motor function, pain and burns.
The White House did not clarify whether the eyewitness account was authentic. But White House Spokesperson Karoline Leavitt once shared the post, saying, "Stop what you're doing and read this."