There is a scary thing happening, and I am not sure people are paying attention to or realizing the potential bigger scope at stake. We are seeing a large increase, such as this last week at Colorado University in Boulder, Colorado, where threats, in this case a bomb threat, are called in only to later be found false. Over the last two years since the Israeli Hamas war started, there have been countless bomb threats called in to synagogues and Jewish organizations throughout the nation, and particularly here in Colorado, where nothing has been found.

False Threats and Real Bombs

Not every case has ended with “nothing found.” In Perry, Iowa, January 2024, a deadly school attack was carried out, and bomb components were recovered. Border Patrol has seized explosive materials coming across the border. In Utah, an incendiary device was planted under a media vehicle, and when authorities searched further, explosives and weapons were discovered. In Inglewood, California, a pipe bomb was found behind a teacher’s car on a school campus with hateful messages written on it. In Virginia, law enforcement seized more than 150 homemade explosive devices from a single property. And in Kelso, Washington, a mass attack plot involving bombs at a mall was stopped before it could be carried out.

Many people think these events and false alarms are just scare tactics to frighten people or attempts to get out of school and stop all activities, such as what just happened in Boulder, Colorado. But I think there is something more sinister happening.

They are Learning From our Response

I have been through multiple counter-terrorism bombing prevention courses with Homeland Security, and one of the things they teach is the terrorist attack cycle. A person seeking to cause an incident will sometimes test response times and what is done during those responses.

As we are seeing, mass threats accumulate throughout the nation, often politically driven on either side of the fence. People are watching. They are studying how it is done and trying to plan for how to do it better. Look at the recent Evergreen High School shooting in Evergreen, Colorado. There is already evidence the attacker studied past shootings before carrying out the attack. And this is not isolated. We see a rising similarity with many other recent school and mass shootings, where individuals, often mentally unstable or radicalized, study past incidents and seek to replicate them. They look at weapon types, tactics, timelines, and even how prior shooters were covered in the media.

Confirmed Escalation of Violence

We cannot ignore the assassinations and targeted killings that have taken place. In December 2024, Brian Thompson, CEO of UnitedHealthcare, was shot and killed in New York City. In June 2025, Minnesota political leaders Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark were assassinated in their home, and State Senator John Hoffman and his wife were also shot. In May 2025, two Israeli Embassy staffers, Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, were murdered outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C. And just days ago, on September 10, 2025, Charlie Kirk was assassinated during a public event in Utah.

Add to this the attempted assassination of President Trump in July 2024, where shots were fired at him during a campaign rally in Pennsylvania, leaving him injured and a bystander dead. These are not theoretical possibilities, they are facts. Real Americans have been killed. Real leaders and representatives have been targeted.

Intelligence Confirms This is Coordinated

This is not just my assessment. A recent intelligence report from Alpha Recon, titled The Ascent of Purgatory, lays out in detail how extremist accelerationist networks are deliberately coordinating these swatting calls, bomb hoaxes, and false threats as part of a larger terror campaign. Since late August 2025, more than 250 incidents have been documented globally, with at least 130 inside the United States. These networks, operating under names like “Purgatory,” openly boast of using AI, disinformation, and violence-for-hire models to carry out false threats, gather intelligence on response times, and flood communities with confusion and fear.

The report highlights that the intent is not random disruption. It is a calculated strategy: normalize the hoaxes, make the public dismissive, strain law enforcement, and then strike harder when complacency sets in. Targets have already included schools, healthcare facilities, government buildings, transportation hubs, and religious institutions. This mirrors exactly what we are experiencing on the ground—escalating threats, accelerating attacks, and a growing push to destabilize and divide America.

Why Complacency is the Real Danger

I believe that these so-called swatting attempts are part of a bigger attack on America and on the American people at large. These swatting attempts are not just meant to cause mass panic and disruption. I believe there are people watching how it is done, observing the response time, observing how things are searched, observing the communication that happens beforehand and after, and attempting to create a sense of complacency so that these events become normal and ignored.

The bigger plan may be to launch an actual attack on America, possibly a mass coordinated attack throughout the United States. By creating complacency, people will not listen when it really happens. They will dismiss it. By observing how response times happen and communication cycles unfold, I believe they will attempt to circumnavigate and possibly even disrupt our communication systems, so that the threat and the damage can be even larger.

A Call to Public Officials and the Public

Criminals are often very smart people. They simply put their skills to work for evil and harm of innocent people, believing they are justified in some radical way by their beliefs.

We are polarizing each other instead of standing together as the American people. And if this is the premise behind these false threats popping up all around the country, then we stand to lose even more if a coordinated attack is actually carried out, because we are being studied and manipulated each time one of these “fake” threats comes out.

So I want to warn our public defenders, our law enforcement, Homeland Security, the FBI, and the CIA that I believe a larger attack is imminent, based on the increasing false alarms we are seeing. These false alarms are gathering a massive amount of information for how to work against us when a coordinated attack happens. We must not dismiss these seemingly false alarms against organizations, schools, and religious institutions.

And I want to warn my fellow Americans not to become complacent, comfortable, or dismissive of these actions. We must train our organizations, schools, and people to be ever vigilant, watchful, aware, and reporting of things that seem wrong.

Practical Precautions

It is better to take the ounce of precaution now than the pound of cure for the damage later. If we do not look at this history unfolding before us and build plans to prevent it, the damage we face later will be immeasurable.

Practical steps to consider:

• Preserve all threat communications and pass them to law enforcement.
• Build and practice lock-down and evacuation plans.
• Establish clear internal and external notification protocols when a threat is received.
• Provide regular training and tabletop drills for staff and leadership on swatting, bomb threats, active shooter, and communications under stress.
• Strengthen relationships with local law enforcement, bomb squads, security companies and response teams so searches and communications are coordinated.
• Protect digital channels and monitor online chatter for coordinated threats.
• Provide psychological support and counseling resources to staff and communities affected by repeated threats.

Credit

This article was written by HCCI Professional Protective Services and the documented intelligence on this coordinated surge is summarized in the Alpha Recon report The Ascent of Purgatory. That analysis supports what I am seeing on the ground and reinforces the urgency of this warning.

Written by HCCI Protection September 2025