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New Just one
https://mashable.com/2015/12/08/holiday-laser-lights/

It is likely one of the two incidents you found and this is the only report mentioning the pilot being blinded. If the FAA ever issued a formal report, it is well buried.

But I think "blinded" includes not being able to see out the cockpit, i.e. if the beam scatters inside the windscreen.
New Yep, that's one of them
And it was at more than 13 times the manufacturer's claimed safe range. Sure, they could be lying, but that's a huge discrepancy. Besides that, the windshield would have passed through a fixed beam so fast it would have to be super bright to have that effect.

To stay aimed into the cockpit long enough to matter, it would have to be to the front at a very low angle. Since the plane was 13k feet up, the source would have to be more than 13k feet ahead, meaning the range was >18k feet.

That was not a Christmas display.
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Drew
New Cops roasted the wrong operator then :-/
That would explain why there are no other reported incidents if the display the cops found was not to blame. The FAA has been regurgitating the warning ever since but that does knock the legs out from under it.
     Can Christmas decoration lasers blind a pilot? - (drook) - (5)
         Re: Can Christmas decoration lasers blind a pilot? - (jake123) - (4)
             Pretty sure those are much higher power - (drook) - (3)
                 Just one - (scoenye) - (2)
                     Yep, that's one of them - (drook) - (1)
                         Cops roasted the wrong operator then :-/ - (scoenye)

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