What Song is the HAARP Program Playing; is it dangerous?

HAARP antenna array. Click image to enlarge.

The HAARP program operates a major sub-arctic facility, named the HAARP Research Station. It is on an Air Force–owned site near Gakona, Alaska. The High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) is an ionospheric research program. It is jointly funded by the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Navy, the University of Alaska, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Its purpose is to analyze the ionosphere and investigate the potential for developing ionospheric enhancement technology for radio communications and surveillance.

The major thing you can notice at the HAARP Station is the Ionospheric Research Instrument (IRI). It is a high-power radio frequency transmitter facility operating in the high frequency (HF) band. The IRI is used to temporarily excite a limited area of the Ionosphere. Other instruments, such as a VHF and a UHF radar, a fluxgate magnetometer, a digisonde (an ionospheric sounding device), and an induction magnetometer, are used to study the physical processes that occur in the excited region.

HAARP Station was started in 1993. The current working IRI was completed in 2007. Its prime contractor was BAE Systems Advanced Technologies. As of 2008, HAARP had incurred around $250 million in tax-funded construction and operating costs. It was reported to be temporarily shut down in May 2013 because they were changing contractors.

The HAARP Project and Conspiracy Theories

The HAARP project is a target of conspiracy theorists. They claim that it is capable of modifying weather, disabling satellites and exerting mind control over people. Also that it is being used as a weapon against terrorists. Those who espouse such theories have blamed the program for causing earthquakes, droughts, storms and floods. Also diseases such as Gulf War Syndrome and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.

In addition they say the HAARP system caused the 1996 crash of TWA Flight 800. Also they claim the 2003 destruction of the space shuttle Columbia. However, commentators and scientists say that proponents of these theories are “uninformed”. Most theories put forward fall well outside the abilities of the facility and often outside the scope of natural science.

Those supposed effects may or may not be true. But the facility is putting a lot of electromagnetic energy or waves into a focused part of the ionosphere. From personal experience with my low powered low frequency 80 meters to 10 meter transmitters I could easily light up a 40 watt fluorescent bulb holding it in my hand quite a few feet away from my antennas.

My antenna was not focusing the power like the ones at Gakona. That was way back in the 60s. Who knows the advances that have been made since? So there may be some basis of fact involved with some of the claims. Of course if you were the parties involved with such “research” you would probably issue a disclaimer too.

Power and Waves

Getting down to business, the HAARP project directs a 3.6 MW (million watts) signal in the 2.8–10 MHz region of the high-frequency radio band, into the ionosphere. The signal may be pulsed or continuous. Then, effects of the transmission and any recovery period can be examined using associated instrumentation, including VHF and UHF radars, HF receivers, and optical cameras. According to the HAARP team, this will advance the study of basic natural processes that occur in the ionosphere under the natural but much stronger influence of solar interaction, and how the natural ionosphere affects radio signals.

Openness and Publicly Available

HAARP’s management says the project strives for openness, and all activities are logged and publicly available. Scientists without security clearances, even foreign nationals, are routinely allowed on site. The HAARP facility regularly hosts open houses, during which time any civilian may tour the entire facility.

In addition, scientific results obtained with HAARP are routinely published in major research journals. Journals such as Geophysical Research Letters, or Journal of Geophysical Research. They are written both by university scientists (American and foreign) and by U.S. Department of Defense research lab scientists.

Each summer, the HAARP holds a summer school for visiting students, including foreign nationals, giving them an opportunity to do research with one of the world’s foremost research instruments.

Aerial view of the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program site original at an Air Force–owned site near Gakona, Alaska

What’s the purpose of HAARP?

The ionosphere is highly variable, changing constantly on timescales from minutes to years. Understanding this variability becomes even more complex near Earth’s magnetic poles. There the nearly vertical alignment and intensity of earth’s magnetic field can cause physical effects like the aurora. HAARP’s main goal is basic science research of the uppermost portion of the atmosphere, the ionosphere.

Essentially a transition between the atmosphere and the magnetosphere, the ionosphere is where the atmosphere is thin enough that the sun’s X-rays and Ultraviolet rays can reach it. But it is thick enough that there are still enough molecules present to absorb those rays. Consequently, the ionosphere consists of a rapid increase in density of free electrons.

They begins\ at about 70 kilometers, reaching a peak at about 300 kilometers. Then they start falling off again as the atmosphere disappears entirely by about 1,000 kilometers. Various aspects of HAARP can study all of the main layers of the ionosphere.

Some Scientific Findings

• Generating very low frequency radio waves by modulated heating of the auroral electrojet, useful because generating VLF waves ordinarily requires gigantic antennas
• It generates weak luminous glow (measurable, but below that visible with a naked eye) from absorbing HAARP’s signal
• Generating extremely low frequency waves in the 0.1 Hz range. These are next to impossible to produce any other way, because the length of a transmit antenna is dictated by the wavelength of the signal it must emit.
• Generating whistler-mode VLF signals that enter the magnetosphere and propagate to the other hemisphere, interacting with Van Allen radiation belt particles along the way
• VLF remote sensing of the heated ionosphere

Research at HAARP includes:

• Stimulated electron emission observations
• Gyro frequency heating research
• Airglow observations
• Heating induced scintillation observations
• VLF and ELF generation observations
• Radio observations of meteors
• Research into Polar mesospheric summer echoes (PMSE)
• Research into extraterrestrial HF radar echos: the Lunar Echo experiment (2008).
• Testing of Spread Spectrum Transmitters
• Studying meteor shower impacts on the ionosphere
• Response / recovery of the ionosphere from solar flares and geomagnetic storms
• Studying effects of ionospheric disturbances on GPS satellite signals
• Producing high density plasma clouds in Earth’s upper atmosphere

Research done at the HAARP facility has allowed the US military to perfect communications with its fleet of submarines by sending radio signals over long distances.

What are some Conspiracy Theories?

You may already know HAARP is the subject of numerous conspiracy theories. Various individuals have speculated hidden motives and capabilities to the project, and have blamed it for triggering catastrophes such as floods, droughts, hurricanes, thunderstorms, earthquakes in Iran, Pakistan, Haiti and the Philippines, major power outages and several other things.

Some of the allegations about HAARP include:

• A Russian military journal wrote that ionospheric testing would “trigger a cascade of electrons that could flip earth’s magnetic poles”.
• The European Parliament and the Alaska state legislature held hearings about HAARP, the former citing “environmental concerns”.
• Nick Begich Jr., the son of former U.S. Representative Nick Begich and author of Angels Don’t Play This HAARP, has claimed that HAARP could trigger earthquakes and turn the upper atmosphere into a giant lens so that “the sky would literally appear to burn”, and maintains a website that claims HAARP is a mind control device.
• Former Governor of Minnesota and noted conspiracy theorist Jesse Ventura questioned whether the government is using the site to manipulate the weather or to bombard people with mind-controlling radio waves. An Air Force spokeswoman said Ventura made an official request to visit the research station but was rejected-“he and his crew showed up at HAARP anyway and were denied access”.
• Physicist Bernard Eastlund claimed that HAARP includes technology based on his own patents that has the capability to modify weather and neutralize satellites.

About the Conspiracy Theories

Stanford University professor Umran Inan told Popular Science that weather-control conspiracy theories were “completely uninformed,” explaining that “there’s absolutely nothing we can do to disturb the Earth’s [weather] systems. Even though the power HAARP radiates is very large, it’s minuscule compared with the power of a lightning flash—and there are 50 to 100 lightning flashes every second. HAARP’s intensity is very small.”

A different kind of harp. More like the ones we know. A medieval European harp (the Wartburg harp) with buzzing bray pins.

Computer scientist David Naiditch characterizes HAARP as “a magnet for conspiracy theorists”, saying that HAARP attracts their attention because “its purpose seems deeply mysterious to the scientifically uninformed”

Journalist Sharon Weinberger called HAARP “the Moby Dick of conspiracy theories” and said the popularity of conspiracy theories often overshadows the benefits HAARP may provide to the scientific community.

Austin Baird writing in the Alaska Dispatch said, “What makes HAARP susceptible to conspiracy criticism is simple. The facility doesn’t open its doors in the same way as other federally-funded research facilities around the country, and it doesn’t go to great efforts to explain the importance of its research to the public.”

Does anyone Capitalize on HAARP?

Does anyone Capitalize on HAARP? Yes, yes, yes! HAARP was featured in the animated series G.I. Joe: Resolute and in the first episode of Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura. The alternative rock band Muse named a live album after this facility. HAARP’s various antennas also inspired the set design for the performance, which was recorded live at Wembley Stadium.

The plot of Craig Baldwin’s 1999 film “Spectres of the Spectrum” revolved around a futuristic war machine inspired by HAARP. A fictionalized HAARP was the setting for a stage in the X-Men Legends game. HAARP has been dramatized in popular culture by Marvel Comics, in the Tom Clancy’s Net Force series (in the novel Breaking Point), and The X-Files.

Is seeing believing?

Does all this talk of conspiracy and secrecy make you wonder what’s going on there? If so maybe you want to check it out for yourself. You can. But before you make the trek you’d better verify that you can get in and the days and times. It’s off the beaten path and you certainly don’t want to waste your time going there and get turned away. After all this is an Air Force and Navy project and they are the bosses.

Check to see if they offer any public tours. They didn’t before, but sometimes time changes things. You can still see the facilities from outside on Tok Highway and you certainly cannot miss the antenna farm they operate. Gakona is about 200 miles southeast of Fairbanks. It’s near Wrangell-St. Elias National Park. HAARP is located 8 miles northeast of Gakona. Look for milepost 11.3 on Highway 1, also known as Tok Highway.

Despite everything that’s been said about HAARP and its public nature, remember who is funding it, the military. It is unlikely they are doing it for humanitarian purposes. If you are thinking there is a military objective or purpose behind the HAARP program you are definitely not alone.

Go to the back of the long line of people in front of you. Of course if you are the skeptical type when it comes to conspiracies you can have complete confidence there is no conspiracy. That’s because HAARP says it is a completely unclassified project. Huh?

Project HAARP: Is The US Controlling The Weather?

Uploaded to YouTube on Jul 23, 2013

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A secretive government radio energy experiment in Alaska, with the potential to control the weather or a simple scientific experiment?

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Top Scientist Tells CBS: HAARP Responsible For Recent Hurricanes – What is Cloud Seeding?

Uploaded to YouTube on Sep 9, 2017

World renowned physicist Dr. Michio Kaku made a shocking confession on live TV. That’s when he admitted that HAARP is responsible for the recent spate of hurricanes. In an interview aired by CBS, Dr. Kaku admitted that recent ‘made-made’ hurricanes have been the result of a government weather modification program. In it the skies were sprayed with nano particles. Then storms were “activated” through the use of “lasers”. In the interview (below), Michio Kaku discusses the history of weather modification. That’s before the CBS crew stop him in his tracks.

Below are more references and articles on the HAARP Program.

• http://www.popsci.com/military-aviation-space/article/2008-06/militarys-mystery-machine
• http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/10-03-03/#feature
• http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/haarp-conspiracies-guide-most-far-out-theories-behind-government-research-alaska
• http://www.wired.com/politics/security/magazine/17-08/mf_haarp?currentPage=2
• http://www.nrl.navy.mil/media/news-releases/2013/nrl-scientists-produce-densest-artificial-ionospheric-plasma-clouds-using-haarp
• http://rezn8d.net/2012/01/20/haarp-timeline-an-animated-history-of-ionospheric-destruction/

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