---
aliases:
- Robert O. Becker
born: 1923-05-31
category: Psychics & Remote Viewers
died: 2008-05-14
location: River Edge, New Jersey
summary: Becker's work convinced him that a microwave signal, such as the Moscow Signal,
  'could affect the central nervous system, put people to sleep, interfere with decision
  making capacity and induce chronic stress'.
tags:
- Person
- RemoteViewer
- Soviet
---

Robert O. Becker was a physician and researcher who worked on microwave weapons for the [Department of Defense](/organizations/department-of-defense/). He was a colleague of [Samuel Koslov](/people/samuel-koslov/) and [Allan H. Frey](/people/allan-h-frey/), and was twice nominated for the Nobel Prize[^1].

Becker's work convinced him that a microwave signal, such as the [Moscow Signal](/events/moscow-signal/), "could affect the central nervous system, put people to sleep, interfere with decision making capacity and induce chronic stress"[^1]. He noted that the [Soviets](/places/soviet-union/) had been "using embassy employees as test subjects for low-level EMR experiments"[^1].

Becker resigned from his government work in the early 1970s after working on a classified project that used microwaves to disorient people, reportedly because he considered such work immoral[^1]. He believed that it was technically feasible to produce heart attacks with an electromagnetic ray designed to penetrate the human chest, echoing the alleged abilities of [Ninel Kulagina](/people/ninel-kulagina/) to stop an animal's heart with her mind[^1].

[^1]: Jacobsen, Annie. *Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis*. Little, Brown and Company, 2017.