Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez Claims Direct Energy Weapon Attacks Linked to Jeffrey Epstein and Zorro Ranch

A journalist, someone who spent years digging into Jeffrey Epstein’s New Mexico ranch, is now saying she’s leaving the United States. She claims she was targeted. A “direct energy weapon” attack, allegedly tied directly to the reporting she did.

Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, that’s her name. She used to report for the Boston Globe and the Los Angeles Times. Now she’s a bestselling novelist. She announced on social media she packed up and left her New Mexico home. She said she had been suffering symptoms she thinks are exactly what they call “Havana syndrome.”

“Okay, folks. It appears my home has been located by, well, whomever is unhappy about my reporting about Zorro Ranch and the local cover up here and the military intelligence roots of the child sex trafficking operation Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell were running here in New Mexico,” she wrote.

She said she suffered two incidents while she was just working in her home office.

“This morning, I was hit in my home office by two episodes of what I later learned were likely Direct Energy Weapon attacks,” she wrote. Her symptoms were “consistent” with Havana syndrome.

She and her family just packed up. They wasted no time leaving the property.

“We wasted no time in leaving the house, for good,” she wrote. They plan to stay in “safe houses” while they figure out where to go permanently.

She also mentioned needing money. A fundraising campaign to cover getting her pets out and hiring security until they could actually get out of the country.

“Yes, it has come to this. We kind of figured it might,” she wrote.

Later, according to the New York Post, Valdes-Rodriguez dug deeper online. She expanded her story. She alleged the attacks involved something much nastier. A “backpack-sized” directed-energy device. This thing was supposedly run by private military contractors.

She claimed one of the hits came from a large semi-truck parked right across from her house.

“The second round of attacks seemed to have come from the back of a large semi truck that parked across from my house,” she wrote.

And these devices? They got smaller. More sophisticated.

“These devices have gotten smaller now… some are the size of large machine guns,” she wrote.

She even suggested the operators could generate a “3d model of the inside of your house in real time, and zero in on a body part.”

But here’s the sticking point. No evidence was presented.

The New York Post pointed out that there’s nothing publicly available to back up all of Valdes-Rodriguez’s claims. It’s all just allegations floating around.

These claims all tie back to her original reporting. Her work on Zorro Ranch. That sprawling property in New Mexico. It’s been under scrutiny forever because of who it was connected to. Epstein.

Valdes-Rodriguez had previously suggested her reporting uncovered things. Local cover-ups. Intelligence connections. Other shady stuff happening at the ranch. But those claims? They haven’t been proven. Not publicly.

What about Havana syndrome itself? The symptoms she described—headaches, dizziness, ringing ears, nausea, balance issues, mental fog—they line up with what they call Havana syndrome.

US intelligence agencies spent years looking into whether some foreign actor used microwave or directed-energy weapons against American personnel.

But the reports came back lukewarm. Declassified assessments from 2023 and updated in 2024 basically said it was “very unlikely” that a foreign actor was actually responsible.

Investigators found no solid proof that some novel weapon was even used on anyone.

Some researchers throw out the idea of external attacks, though. They suggest environmental stress. Stress-related conditions. Mass psychogenic illness. That’s the alternative explanation.

The Epstein files and Zorro Ranch. That’s the backdrop. Epstein died in a New York jail in 2019, waiting on sex-trafficking charges. He owned lots of properties, including Zorro Ranch.

The “Epstein files” itself refers to all the court stuff. Flight logs. Witness statements. Records from investigations involving Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.

Thousands of pages of records have surfaced over the years. They show a lot about Epstein’s network. His activities.

But a lot of the allegations and theories about Epstein’s operations? They just don't hold up under public scrutiny.

Zorro Ranch got the most attention because people pointed to it. Accusers and investigators linked things there. Hidden operations. Cover-ups. None of that has been verified by public proof. It remains just that.