Expert for Newsmax Balkans: Video Footage Does Not Indicate the Use of a "Sound Cannon"
Uncertainty still surrounds the events of the March 15 protest in Belgrade, held in honor of the victims of the tragedy in Novi Sad. Chris Mattmann, data analyst and former chief technology officer at NASA, believes that video footage does not indicate the use of a "sound cannon."
"It doesn’t exactly seem like a sonic weapon to me, and there’s a few different reasons for that. So first, if you break it down and just look at the set of videos that were posted on X, and so on, there’s a distinct sort of woosh effect that sort of appears to make its way through the crowd that causes the crowd to kind of move and react," Mattmann, who is also a professor at UCLA and a member of the Pulitzer Prize-winning team that uncovered the Panama Papers, told Newsmax Balkans.
According to him, the footage shows signs of confusion and alarm.
"They are not covering their ears in pain, as if there were some acoustic weapon. Typically, these types of things cause an ear-covering type of response, and you are not seeing them do that. There is like a high-decibel type of noise or siren, and you’re not kind of hearing that necessarily in the video," he explained.
Mattmann added that the sound heard in the recordings is sharp and sudden.
"It doesn’t match sort of the tone of any type of sonic weapon. These sonic weapons are also called long-range acoustic devices or LRADs. Instead, it looks more like some type of physical phenomenon, or a shock wave, and things like that. So, just based on the video evidence, it doesn’t seem like that, at leat to me," Mattmann concluded.
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The First Basic Public Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade has launched an investigation and instructed the police to determine what exactly happened during Saturday’s protest when a loud and unusual sound caused panic, prompting people to run, push, and fall on King Milan Street.
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