Where have all the insects gone?

The pulsations pollute the Earth beneath our feet, surround us in the air through

which we fly, course through the oceans in which we swim, flow through our veins

and our meridians, and enter us through our leaves and our roots. The planetary

transformer that used to gentle the solar wind now agitates, inflames.2

The lake pictured above is the United Kingdom’s largest. Located in Northern Ireland,

Lough Neagh swarms so densely with flies every spring and summer that residents

shut their windows against the living smoke. Clothes left out on a line are covered

with them. So is any windshield on a vehicle traveling around the lough’s 90-mile

shoreline. Until 2023.

Last year, unbelievably, no flies were to be seen. Windshields and hanging clothes

were bare of them. None flew into open windows. Other species that used to eat

them were gone as well -- ducks, frogs, fish, eels, and predatory insects. Fly larvae

were not there to keep the lake bottom clean. Little was alive in the lough except an

overgrowth of algae. “Has the ecosystem of the UK’s largest lake collapsed?” asked

The Guardian in a February 19, 2024 article.

Has the ecosystem of the entire Earth collapsed? we ask, for the same is happening

all over, according to reports I have been receiving for a year from almost

everywhere on every continent.

56 Years of Global Vandalism

On June 13, 1968, the United States completed its launch of the world’s first

constellation of military satellites. Twenty-eight of them, more than twice as many

satellites as were in orbit around the Earth until then, were lofted to an altitude of

18,000 miles, in the heart of the outer Van Allen radiation belt. The “Hong Kong” flu

pandemic began two weeks later and lasted for almost two years.

For the next three decades, the skies slowly filled up with hundreds of satellites,

mostly for military purposes. Then in the late 1990s, cell phones became popular.

On May 17, 1998, a company named Iridium completed its launch of a fleet of 66

satellites into the ionosphere, at an altitude of only 485 miles, and began testing

them. They were going to provide cell phone service to the general public from

anywhere on earth. Each satellite aimed 48 separate beams at the earth’s surface,

thus dividing the planet into 3,168 cells. Reports of insomnia came from throughout

the world.

Iridium’s satellites began commercial service on September 23, 1998. The effect was

devastating. I contacted 57 people in my network in 6 countries, plus two nurses,

one physician, and a support group for patients. 86% of the people I interviewed,3

and the majority of patients and support group members, became ill on Wednesday,

September 23 exactly, with headaches, dizziness, nausea, insomnia, nosebleeds,

heart palpitations, asthma attacks, ringing in the ears, etc. One person said it felt like

a knife went through the back of her head early Wednesday morning. Another had

stabbing pains in the chest. Some, including me, were so sick we weren’t sure we

were going to live. We were all acutely ill for up to three weeks. I suddenly lost my

sense of smell on September 23, and did not recover it for six years. Mortality

statistics from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control revealed a 4% to 5% rise in the

national death rate beginning the last week in September and lasting two weeks.

Some people reported a reddish sky the night of September 23.

In early December 1998, I again received telephone calls from far and wide asking

me what had changed. Orbcomm, providing data service to industries, had gone

commercial on November 30 with 28 satellites orbiting 500 miles up.

On July 25, 1999, another company, Globalstar, achieved worldwide cell phone

coverage with 32 satellites, 876 miles up, and began testing. I again received calls

from people who were certain the earth felt different again.

On February 28, 2000, Globalstar completed its constellation of 48 satellites and

went commercial. Nausea, headaches, leg pain, and respiratory problems were

widespread, both among people who called themselves electrically sensitive and

people who did not. The effects were felt starting on Friday, February 25, the

previous business day.

Iridium, which had gone bankrupt in August 1999, resumed full commercial cell

phone service worldwide on March 30, 2001 after signing a contract with the U.S.

military. The night of March 30 was accompanied by an even more intense and

widespread red sky than the one that had accompanied its initial launch of service

two and a half years previously. A red aurora was seen in the northern hemisphere

as far south as Mexico, as well as in the southern hemisphere. There was a

catastrophic loss of Kentucky race horse foals in late April and early May, and since

mares abort several weeks to a month after a viral infection or other triggering

event, this put the triggering event at about the end of March. Similar foaling

problems were reported at the same time from Ohio, Tennessee, Pennsylvania,

Illinois, Maryland, Texas, northern Michigan, and Peru. Breeders also reported both

newborn and older horses with unusual eye problems, and adult horses with

pericarditis.4

On June 5, 2001, Iridium added data to its voice service, including connection to the

Internet. Hoarseness was a prominent complaint of many who contacted me during

the next few weeks.

For the next two decades, Iridium and Globalstar were the only providers of satellite

phones. Enter SpaceX in 2019.

In November 2019, SpaceX began regular launchings of 60 satellites at a time into

even lower orbit, only 326 to 350 miles up, and I began to receive reports from

people around the world of headaches, dizziness, insomnia, exhaustion, skin

problems, feelings of oppression, and heart problems. Almost 200 people in my

network reported heart palpitations, heart arrhythmias, or heart attacks.

In March 2021, the density of signals polluting the ionosphere increased significantly.

SpaceX, which had already launched more than 1,000 Starlink satellites and was

testing them on a limited number of customers, launched 60 satellites on March 4,

60 more on March 11, 60 more on March 14, and 60 more on March 24. A

competitor, OneWeb, also launched 36 satellites on the night of March 24. More

satellites were launched into space in that month and on that day than ever before.

And on March 24, SpaceX dramatically increased the speed of its satellite internet

connections to over 400 Mbps.

On March 24, 2021, a threshold was passed, and the deterioration of life on Earth

accelerated tremendously. Some people reported not feeling well beginning on

March 4 or March 11, but 1,000 people in 50 countries emailed or called me on or

after March 24 confirming my own awareness that something terrible was

happening to our planet. The reports came from people in New York City, Paris and

London, and from people living in remote locations miles from the nearest cell

tower. They came from people who used no wireless technology at all, and from

people who had smart meters on their homes and 5G antennas outside who emailed

me from their cell phones. They came from people young and old. It did not matter,

they all had similar experiences. Everybody, whether they were previously ill or not,

became suddenly and profoundly sicker on March 24 or March 25, depending on the

time zone in which they lived, and most slept little or not at all the night of March 24.

People reported that not only they, but also their spouse, children, parents,

neighbors, friends, coworkers, clients, and everyone else they knew were sick,

exhausted and irritable on March 24 or 25 and had trouble sleeping. Some reported5

that their pets or farm animals were sick at the same time -- cats, dogs, chickens,

goats, cows.

The details were consistent. They could not sleep for one, two, three or more nights,

beginning March 24 or 25. Some took melatonin or other sleeping aids and still could

not sleep. They had pain and itching, either all over or in specific parts of their body,

commonly their feet and legs. They had headaches. They had muscle spasms. They

were weak and exhausted and could hardly stand or walk, and some tripped or fell.

They had skin rashes. They were dizzy and nauseous, and had stomach aches and

diarrhea. The ringing in their ears was suddenly more intense. Their eyes were red,

or inflamed, or their vision suddenly worsened. They had heart palpitations, rapid or

irregular heartbeat, or suddenly high or very low blood pressure. A few had

nosebleeds, or coughed up blood, or their eyes popped a blood vessel. They were

anxious, depressed or suicidal, and irritable.

Since then, SpaceX has been launching rockets carrying dozens of satellites at a time

on a weekly or biweekly basis, filling the heavens with luminous objects that

interfere with astronomy, spewing chemicals that are destroying our planet’s

protective ozone layer, filling the upper layers of the atmosphere with water vapor

that should not be there and that is increasing the current in the global electric

circuit and the violence of thunderstorms, and cluttering up space with satellites that

are nothing but solar arrays and computers that are continually failing, wearing out,

and having to be replaced, and which are deorbited to burn up in the lower

atmosphere, filling it with metals and toxic chemicals for everyone to breathe -- and

altering the electromagnetic environment of the Earth that had not changed in three

billion years and that life below depends on for its vitality and survival.

Last Thursday morning, from Boca Chica, Texas, SpaceX successfully launched its

Starship -- the largest rocket ever built, the one it wants to ferry men and women to

Mars with -- into space for the first time. And on Friday it launched yet another 23

Starlink satellites to bring its total polluting the ionosphere up to more than 6,000,

now not only for internet communication with rooftop dishes but for direct

communication with handheld cell phones. The 6,000 satellites are also now

communicating directly with one another, wrapping the Earth with pulsating lasers

carrying 42 million gigabytes of data every single day.

Everyone I know has had trouble sleeping and been suffering since last Wednesday,

the night Starship launched.6

Since March 24, 2021, not only has human health deteriorated, but the biodiversity

of the Earth, everywhere, has plummeted. People have not so much noticed the

decline of the larger wildlife like wolves, bears, lions and tigers, which were already

scarce, but they are shocked by the total disappearance of the smallest animals that

were only recently so common you couldn’t open your windows without them flying

in. They are shocked by the disappearance of all the frogs that used to swim in their

ponds, the birds that used to nest in their trees, the worms that used to slither on

the ground, the insects that used to fly through their windows and cover their

clothes hanging on the line. My newsletters of March 29, June 21, September 20,

October 17, and November 28, 2023 carried major stories about this from various

parts of the world. My newsletters of December 5 and December 26, 2023, and

January 9 and February 6, 2024 quoted from individuals all over the world who have

emailed or called me, and I have a huge backlog of more such reports that you can

read when I publish them in the future.

If we want to have a planet to live on, not only for our children but for ourselves, the

radiation has to stop. Not only do the cell towers have to come down that are so ugly

to look at, but also the cell phones that we hold in our hands and have become so

dependent on, and the satellites that are squeezing all the life that remains out from

under them. We are running out of time.

Arthur Firstenberg

President, Cellular Phone Task Force

P.O. Box 6216

Santa Fe, NM 87502

USA

arthur@cellphonetaskforce.org

+1 505-471-0129

March 20, 2024

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