The idea of using light as a weapon can be traced back to Hippocrates, commander of the Greek forces in 212 B.C. His forces supposedly set fire to the sails of the Roman fleet by focusing sunlight with mirrors. Weapons systems based on lasers and “ray guns,” long a staple of science fiction, have captured the imagination of people everywhere. But with steady progress toward the development of lasers in the last 40 years, viable, state of-the-art laser weapon systems have now become a reality.

Is this is what is causing the wildfires in the western part of the USA?

I see post with cars burnt up, but the trees and grass remain the same.

I also wonder if it is possible to direct a beam of light to a fine point enough to make crop circles from satellites?

This idea is not far-fetched at all, most of the crop circles started in the 1980's and continue even to this day.

It would be easy enough to program a crop circle image and have the pattern read by a satellite, and relayed to a Directed Energy Weapon.

DEWs offer the following capabilities:

They have pinpoint accuracy.
They offer a low cost per use and maintenance.
They have a virtually unlimited magazine capacity.
They are simple to track, aim and shoot with sophisticated sensors.
They are less lethal if tuned properly.
They can operate in all weather conditions.
They can engage multiple targets.
They limit collateral damage.
Their energy travels at the speed of light.
Their energy can pass through walls at distances of hundreds of meters or even miles.
They are silent and offer plausible deniability of their use.
We have had the technology since the early 1900's and now with new advances being made just about every day, it would be possible i think to make these crop circles in this manner.

"A DE weapon is a system using DE primarily as a direct means to damage or destroy adversary equipment, facilities, and personnel. DE warfare is military action involving the use of DE weapons, devices, and countermeasures to either cause direct damage or destruction of adversary equipment, facilities, and personnel, or to determine, exploit, reduce, or prevent hostile use of the EMS through damage, destruction, and disruption.”

The two basic types of DEWs include lasers and microwaves. Microwaves and lasers are both part of the electromagnetic spectrum. They’re made of the same electromagnetic energy which consists of light and radio waves."

Here is one example of a DEW weapon.

Clearly you can see a particle beam or beam of light appear before the initial percussion and explosion. This video has been slowed down 4x and stabilized. This explosion took place on November the 13th 2015, North of Samarra, which lies about 80 miles to the north-west of Baghdad Iraq.

Instead of me trying to explain all these types of weapons that are being used today, I found a nice link to the real introduction to DEWs, its quite long and is in detail enough even for me to understand, complete with pictures and graphs.

Ships
Boats
Airplanes
Submarines
Trains
Just about any means of transportation of a DEW weapon is easy enough to use. A microwave oven could be used to make a DEW, its just how much time and energy you want to put into making one.

For further reading here's the link:
hossamozein.blogspot.com/...

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