Category: Battlefield Technology

• The Artificial Sun

  This theory held that wartime governments were attempting to create a permanent or semi-permanent artificial sun that could illuminate battlefields continuously, deny night to the enemy, and erase the tactical advantage of darkness. The documentary core behind the rumor is real but more limited: World War II militaries experimented extensively with searchlights, floodlighting, “artificial moonlight,” and round-the-clock battlefield illumination techniques. In conspiracy form, these practical innovations were transformed into a much larger hidden project to create an enduring man-made sun over the front.