Who protects you?

This concept is the author's research into his own Personal Protection Plan. It draws on that document, on his Asset Protection Comparison research, on his own experience and on the statements recorded in the journal. It is not medical, legal or psychological advice, and nobody here can tell you what is happening to you.

You protect you. No plan, product or person can protect you the way your own choices can. The author wrote a Personal Protection Plan, a research document kept in the Documents section; this concept asks what it can actually do to help you protect yourself: what you can do for free, what costs money, and what no plan can do. If you live with others, start with What can a household do to protect itself?

The short answer

If this might be happening to you, you may not be able to stop it on your own. What you can do is stay safe, keep a record, and keep your options open, and most of what helps is free. The things that cost money can document what may be happening; none of them can make it stop.

Communication like this, speech, sounds or sensations that a person didn't ask for and can't trace, has not been publicly acknowledged or explained by any government, agency or health authority, as far as Invisible Ships knows. There are technological explanations for it, and long-range acoustic devices (LRAD) are one of them; neurotechnology is another, and the two may overlap. Whichever it is, months of harassment, threats, pressure to die and attempts to get into someone's home are criminal either way.

Health care has no recognised explanation for communication like this, so the explanation people are usually offered is a psychiatric one, such as schizophrenia. No medical test confirms that diagnosis. That is why this site asks everyone to speak only for themselves, and never diagnoses anyone.

On the record: between 2000 and 2021 the suicide rate in the United States rose 39.9%, while the world's fell 27% (see The world's suicide rate fell. The United States' rose.). Nothing establishes a link between that rise and the communication described here.

What you can do for free

Never let anyone in, and never reward it

These are the rules the author lives by. In his experience, and in the statements recorded in the journal, breaking any one of them could cost you your life.

• —Never open your door, or let anyone into your home, because a voice or a communication asks you to. The journal records statements such as "Open your door for the spirit world," including in the middle of the night.
• —Never go outside to meet someone because you were asked to, for example "walk three blocks west."
• —If you live with children or roommates, tell them never to open the door or go outside because of something they hear.
• —Never reward the communication. It doesn't reach you by telephone or email; it may be reaching you through long-range technology, without your consent, and if so, that is criminal. Don't do what it asks, don't bargain with it, and don't accept what it offers. It may tempt you: recorded statements describe a military "ugly workflow", offers of money, intimacy, drugs, relief from suffering, a job or a family, made to get you to open the door or go outside.
• —Never break the law because someone suggests it or pressures you to, and never harm yourself or anyone else, whatever a communication says.
• —In an emergency, call 911. If you're struggling, call or text 988 in the US, or find a free helpline at findahelpline.com.

If someone approaches you

Someone you don't know might walk up to you and say something like "We know what you're going through. Will you sit down and talk to us?" In the author's view, that may be a life-threatening situation, even in public.

• —Let them speak first. Don't start the conversation. It gives a real police officer or crisis worker the chance to say who they are.
• —With a stranger, use the three-second rule: don't engage for more than about three seconds. "No, thank you," without breaking stride, is safer than asking who they are. Walk towards other people. (From the author's Asset Protection Comparison research.)
• —Don't sit down, don't get into a vehicle, and don't go anywhere with them.
• —With someone official, such as a police officer or a crisis team, ask for identification, stay standing, and call 911 to confirm who they are if you're unsure. This is where a no-contact card helps.
• —Afterwards, write down the date, the time, the place and what was said.
• —Before you share anything with anyone, or if someone asks to meet you, see What does safe sharing look like?

A no-contact card

A small card you carry and can hand to someone official, so you don't have to explain yourself under pressure. Print it at home:

I do not consent to contact, to anyone entering my home, or to any forced or coerced intervention.

I am keeping a dated record, and this conversation may be recorded.

Please contact: [a lawyer or trusted person, and their phone number]

I have a psychiatric advance directive: [where it is kept]

In an emergency, call 911.

A card has no legal force on its own. In Colorado, police and clinicians can still act in an emergency if they believe someone is in danger. What it does is show, calmly and on the record, that you don't consent, and who should be called.

A psychiatric advance directive

On the record: since 2019, Colorado law (HB19-1044) has let you write a psychiatric advance directive: a legal document, made in advance, saying what mental health care you do and don't want in a crisis, and who should speak for you if you can't. Mental Health Colorado offers it free. It is the lawful way to say what a no-contact card can only point to.

Keep a dated record

A record made at the time is worth more than a memory, whatever the cause turns out to be. The plan's advice is to note the exact time each thing happens, so it can later be compared with anything a technical check finds.

• —Say the date, the time and where you are at the start of each recording.
• —Before repeating what you hear, say "From the distance". Before your own words, say "From me".
• —Keep what you heard separate from what you think it means.
• —Never edit the original, and keep your own copy.

The competency baseline video

The plan's first step is a dated video of yourself, calm, reading a statement in your own words. If anyone ever tries to force or coerce a diagnosis on you, such as schizophrenia, you would have a recording of yourself speaking clearly and calmly at the time. That may be some of the strongest evidence you have. The author recorded his on 20 January 2026.

Keep it to yourself. There is value in not sharing it: store it somewhere safe that only you control, keep a copy, and share it only with a lawyer or someone you trust, if and when it's needed.

Here's what our research suggests. There are two versions of the script, and this concept doesn't recommend one over the other.

Both scripts were developed with AI, and neither is advice. You know your situation best. Take your time, change the words until they're yours, and say only what's true for you. However you choose to word it, a calm, dated statement in your own voice may be one of the most protective things you can keep.

Choosing your path. Both versions make a dated record of you, in your own words, that is hard to dismiss later. They differ in what they claim and what they leave out. Read both, decide what you're comfortable saying, and say only what's true for you.

Is there a wrong answer? What not to say

What you leave out of a recording, a letter or a conversation with an official can matter as much as what you say.

• —Don't name anyone as responsible, a person, company or agency. Describe what happened, not who you believe did it.
• —Don't reach legal conclusions yourself. Avoid words like "battery", "crime in progress" or "attempted murder"; say what you heard, when and where.
• —Never threaten anyone, even in anger, and never say you'll harm yourself or anyone else to make a point.
• —Don't speak for anyone else. Describe only your own experience; describing someone else's can get them labelled with a diagnosis they never had a say in.
• —Don't say anything you can't stand behind. One claim shown to be untrue costs you the credibility of everything that's true.
• —Don't repeat what the communication tells you as if it were your own plan. If you record its words, label them "From the distance".
• —Don't give away where you live in anything you share publicly.

Talking to a doctor

• —Be honest with a doctor, and know what to expect. A doctor may not have an explanation for communication that may be delivered by technology at a distance; health care doesn't currently recognise it, so the explanation you're most likely to be offered is a psychiatric one, such as schizophrenia.
• —In the author's view, be wary of a schizophrenia diagnosis if what you're experiencing may be harassment through technology such as long-range acoustic devices. A diagnosis can't rule out a cause no one has investigated.
• —You have the right to ask questions: what is the diagnosis based on? Were other causes considered, including sounds from outside your home? Can I get a second opinion? Bring your dated record, and take someone you trust.
• —Don't stop seeing a doctor because of this. A medical check can also rule out other causes, such as tinnitus, and a record of being heard is worth having.

Who to share this with

• —Someone you already trust, who will listen without judgment.
• —A lawyer. Conversations with a lawyer are usually confidential.
• —Your own dated record, kept somewhere only you control.
• —Keep it quiet. The plan advises not telling anyone you suspect that you're keeping a record or arranging a technical check.
• —Take more care with strangers, online groups and social media. Sharing text with an AI service means a company sees it too.
• —If you work in law enforcement, health care or the military, leave out case details and anything you're bound not to disclose.

Reports and complaints

• —The police. If you're harassed, stalked or threatened, or someone tries to get into your home, report it. Those are crimes, whatever the technology.
• —The Colorado Attorney General, for complaints about how a business handles your data, including under the Colorado Privacy Act: coag.gov/file-complaint.

What costs a little: under about $150

The plan's hardware research answers a common question: can you record it yourself, with something you can buy online? Partly. A handheld recorder with a pickup coil or a contact microphone can record sounds, vibrations and low-frequency magnetic hum, cheaply and with a date and time. No consumer device can detect radio signals across the range a professional sweep covers, or prove where a signal came from or who sent it. By the plan's own estimate, this kit does about a tenth of what a professional sweep does.

Cameras and home security

Anything you can do for yourself here helps, especially at the door, since so much of what's described involves someone trying to get in.

• —On the record: Colorado lets you record a conversation you're part of without the other person's consent (C.R.S. 18-9-304), and there is a recognised right to film police doing their duties in public. Recording audio of conversations you're not part of can be a crime, so check a camera's audio setting.
• —Footage stored in the cloud is held by the company that makes the camera. Some cameras can save to a local card instead.
• —In the author's view, a camera you wear could save your life.

What costs more: hundreds to thousands

• —Passive shielding is legal. Never use a signal jammer: using one is illegal under federal law, with no exception for homes, and it can block 911 calls.
• —Windows are usually the weakest point for sound coming from outside.
• —Neuro-forensics, the use of neuroscience to answer legal questions, is a growing field, but courts haven't accepted its tests as reliable proof, and no public agency in Colorado lists a neuro-forensics service. Ask a lawyer whether it could play any part.
• —A lawyer can hire technical experts for you, so their findings are gathered for a case from the start. On the record: one firm has already won a case built on Zersetzung-style tactics: Scalli Murphy Law of Massachusetts represented Ina and David Steiner, harassed by members of eBay's security team in 2019, whose civil suit settled in July 2026 for $55.7 million (see Zersetzung's methods are crimes). Named as an example, not an endorsement; Invisible Ships has no connection with it.

What money can't buy

• —A recording shows that something happened, not who did it.
• —A sweep finds devices, not communication acting on a person.
• —Shielding reduces what reaches you; it doesn't remove the source.
• —No purchase makes it stop. Only an investigation, or public acknowledgement, can do that.

What the law covers, and what it doesn't

• —On the record: in 2024 Colorado became the first US state to protect neural data, by amending the Colorado Privacy Act (HB24-1058, in force 6 August 2024). A business covered by the law needs your opt-in consent before processing your neural data. It applies to businesses that handle the data of 100,000 or more Colorado residents a year, is enforced by the Attorney General and district attorneys, and gives individuals no right to sue. It is not a criminal law.
• —Where it stops: it doesn't apply to data kept by the State of Colorado, the courts, counties, cities and state universities when used as authorised by law for noncommercial purposes (C.R.S. 6-1-1304(2)(o)), or to purely personal activity; and a state law generally doesn't reach federal agencies.
• —What's criminal, whatever the technology: harassment and stalking (C.R.S. 18-9-111, 18-3-602); attempting a crime, including an attempt to kill (criminal attempt, C.R.S. 18-2-101); entering a home unlawfully intending to commit a crime there (burglary, C.R.S. 18-4-203); intentionally causing or helping another person to die by suicide (manslaughter, C.R.S. 18-3-104(1)(b)); conspiring to intimidate someone in exercising their rights (18 U.S.C. § 241) and depriving someone of their rights under official authority (18 U.S.C. § 242). People can sue officials who violate their rights under state authority (42 U.S.C. § 1983).

Whether any of these applies to a particular situation is a question for a lawyer.

Who is working on neural privacy

• —By mid-2025, four US states protected neural data in law: Colorado, California, Montana and Connecticut. A federal bill, the MIND Act, was introduced in the Senate in 2025.
• —In June 2025 the American Medical Association unanimously adopted Resolution 503, "Safeguarding Neural Data Collected by Neurotechnologies", brought by Colorado physicians.
• —Doctors, neuroscientists and ethicists helped pass Colorado's law, among them people working with the Neurorights Foundation, which campaigns for legal protections for the mind.

Supporting someone else

You can't speak for someone else, but you can be patient and supportive with what they may be going through. Listen without judgment, don't describe their experience to others on their behalf, and if they want to add their own account, they're welcome to contribute it anonymously themselves.

How is this different from the Personal Protection Plan document?

The document is the author's working research: written in 2026, developed partly with AI, and kept unchanged as part of the record. Some of its claims, about specific agencies, products and test results, could not be confirmed. This concept asks what the plan can actually do, keeps what holds up, adds what it costs, and says plainly what no plan can do. The full document remains in the Documents section for anyone who wants the whole record.

Until the news media acknowledges it, or someone explains the neurotech bullhorn, we are largely on our own. Be careful. The author wishes you the best that life has to offer in this situation.

You're not the only one this may be happening to. If you're struggling, call or text 988.

Topics: Harassment · Proposed solutions · Law enforcement & government · Technology · Euthanization