The Pentagon has announced that they employ specialized energy weapons for defense, seemingly vindicating researchers who’d long warned about the tech.

The Department of War’s Chief Technology Officer Emil Michael announced this development in an X post fittingly — or perhaps eerily — posted on May the 4th, more popularly known as National Star Wars Day.

“Directed energy weapons are a fine addition to our arsenal…” read the post, which included a pic of said weaponry firing a laser beam and a soldier holding his head in pain.

Dubbed directed energy weapons or DEWs, these advanced instruments of war use focused rays to disable electronic weapons such as drones and incapacitate — or even kill — enemy soldiers.

According to the X post, these beams are comprised of “concentrated electromagnetic energy or atomic or subatomic particles.”

With this announcement, the Department of War seemingly confirmed years of so-called rumors that claimed that the government was developing this science fiction-esque weapon.

Perhaps one of the most notable figures sounding the alarm was deceased scientist Amy Eskridge, 34, who was involved in extensive research into anti-gravity technology, UFOs, and extraterrestrial life.

The researcher, who allegedly died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in 2022, had claimed she was hit by a DEW attack in her own home in Huntsville, Alabama not too long before her death, the Daily Mail reported.

Her theory was seconded by retired British intelligence officer Franc Milburn, whom she had enlisted to investigate harassment she received after she threatened to disclose information about the subjects of her research.

He claims she was targeted by a “directed energy weapon” that burned her body with microwaves. Milburn even shared pics of blisters, skin lesions and other wounds that Eckridge had allegedly sustained in said attack.

The retired paratrooper added that she messaged him in May to say: “My ex-CIA weapons guy on my team saw my hands when they were burned really badly a couple months ago.”

Milburn, who submitted his findings to Congress in 2023, concluded that Eskridge did not commit suicide as authorities ruled, but was killed by a “private aerospace company” that wanted to stop her from probing sensitive security issues.

Per Milburn’s testimony, Eskridge claimed that one of the firm’s operatives had used an “RF k-band emitter run by five car batteries strung together from inside an SUV.” The K-band is a specific set of radio waves that can be converted into rays and directed at enemy targets.

While Milburn and Eskridge’s theories on a DEW attack have not been confirmed, the military has been using similar tech in its laser beam tests.

Meanwhile, the Pentagon has been on an energy weapon offensive of late, most notably requesting $789.7 million to fund their DEW campaign during the 2025 fiscal year, per a report on Congress’s official website.

Much of this research is handled by outside firms such as defense technologies company AeroVironment, which has ties to national security and reportedly helped develop the weapon shown in the Pentagon’s social media post — the Locust X3. This mounted ray gun is capable of discharging beams at the speed of light to incapacitate aerial drones, the Daily Mail reported.

Eskridge is one of 11 top US scientists and researchers who have either died or vanished following their research into Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPS) and other matters of National security.

Their mysterious disappearances have been deemed a matter of urgent national importance, a member of the House Oversight Committee insisted Friday.

Rep. Eric Burlison (R-Mo.) said his office had already been investigating some of the “too coincidental” disappearances a year before President Trump told reporters Thursday that he had ordered an investigation.

The politician argued that their fate is “certainly” linked to the access some had to classified aerospace, defense and UFO information — and could even involve malevolent entities from China, Russia or Iran.