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The ADE 651 is an expensive device widely used by Iraqi police, produced by ATSC (UK) , that claims to be effective at detecting the presence and perhaps location of explosives. Many skeptics doubt its effectiveness, including James Randi, who is offering US$1 million to anyone who can prove its effectiveness, and retired USAF Lt. Col. Hal Bidlack.

It is claimed that the ADE 651 failed to prevent many of the bombings in Iraq.

Dowsing rod type explosive detectors

ADE 651 is one of a few devices that are derided as being high tech dowsing rods because of their appearance and lack of proven efficacy, despite claims of nearly miraculous technical abilities at long range due to some new application of physics or chemistry. Others include Sniffex and the renamed Sniffex Plus, Quadro Tracker, MOLE, Alpha 6, PSD-22, DKL Lifeguard, H3 Tec, and GT-200 Molecular Detector.

This correlation corresponds with the fact the Quadro Tracker founders moved the company to the UK after a trial in US federal court. Global Technical Ltd. also still manufactures a descendant of the MOLE, the GT-200 Molecular Detector.

Testing by Labratories

Sandia National Laboratories tested a similar device, the MOLE Programmable System manufactured by Global Technical Ltd. of Kent, UK, and found it inefficacious. The MOLE was exactly the same in appearance as the previously debunked Quadro Tracker device, with Sandia personnel noting it appeared to have been produced using the exact same plastic injection molding equipment. Of note, the ADE product line appears to be an alternate descendant from the original Quadro Tracker device.

Other product names and numbers believed to be similar dowsing type devices to the ADE 651

ADE 100, ADE 101, ADE650, ADE 651, ADE 750, ADE 751

References

  1. Iraq Swears by Bomb Detector U.S. Sees as Useless
  2. A Direct, Specific, Challenge From James Randi and the JREF
  3. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/04/world/middleeast/04sensors.html?_r=1&ref=world Iraq Swears by Bomb Detector U.S. Sees as Useless]
  4. Double-Blind Field Evaluation of the MOLE Programmable Detection System, Sandia National Laboratories

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