Unknown to most us, satellites can accomplish astounding and often perilous feats. This, however, should not come as a surprise as we think of the world reaction when Soviet satellite Sputnik, sent into space in 1957 created panic in the United States, most believing it to be a ‘spy satellite’.

Nevertheless, the fear was not unfounded since a spy satellite has the capability of performing astonishing acts, such as monitoring a person’s each and every movement, irrespective of whether the ‘target’ is having dinner at home, traveling fast in a bulletproof car on an expressway in any form of weather (cloudy, squally or rainy) or hiding in a cave. In fact, there is no place in the planet from where you may conceal your presence from an orbiting satellite.

Take into account how Osama bin Laden who surreptitiously lived in an immaculately guarded building in Abbotabad (Pakistan), none knowing his whereabouts was tracked by the US special task force and killed, as reported by CNN and posted below.

“The CIA spent several weeks examining satellite images of the site and in September came to the conclusion that that there was a strong possibility that bin laden was hiding there.”

 Apart from tracking a person’s every movement and relaying the data on a computer screen to a receiver, the astounding powers of satellites include reading a person’s mind, scanning conversations, as also physically assaulting a man or woman with a laser beam who may prove harmful for the society.

Though remote reading of a person’s mind through satellite may sound like a chapter from a sci-fi fiction, it is a reality now as may be obtained from the following paragraph.

EMF (Electromagnetic Field) Brain Stimulation has been going on since early 1950’s, which included neurological research into “radiation” (non-ionizing EMF) and bioelectric research and development. The resulting technology has been tagged at the National Security Archives as “Radiation Intelligence,” also defined as “information from unintentionally emanated electromagnetic waves in the environment, not including radioactivity or nuclear detonation.”

However, Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) implemented and kept this technology secret in the same manner as other electronic warfare programs of the U.S. government. Though such activities conducted as a form of satellite surveillance may sound weird and bizarre to many of us, there are people who earn tons of money through it.