ABOVE: US embassy in Havana, Cuba
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A recording of a high-pitched sound thought to be connected to a possible “sonic attack” on diplomats in Cuba is actually the calls of a cricket, scientists who analyzed the tape reported last week (January 4) at the annual meeting of the Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology in Tampa, Florida.
“There’s plenty of debate in the medical community over what, if any, physical damage there is to these individuals,” Alexander Stubbs of the University of California, Berkeley, tells The New York Times. “All I can say fairly definitively is that the A.P.-released recording is of a cricket, and we think we know what species it is.”
The Associated Press (AP) distributed the recording of the sound in October 2017. The news outlet did not disclose where it had received the tape, which it noted at the time “sounds sort of like ...
