High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program

Project HAARP (High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program) is a US Air Force, Navy and University of Alaska funded investigation to "understand, simulate and control ionospheric processes that might alter the performance of communication and surveillance systems" started in 1993 for a proposed twenty year series of experiments. It has aroused some controversy for its alleged potential as a weapon or mind-control device, and among environmentalists for its effect on the atmosphere.

Characteristics

The investigation site is near Gakona, Alaska (lat. 62.39° N, long 145.15° W). An extensive array of 180 aerial towers is in the process of being erected at a initial cost of $30m to make the phased array transmitter, named the Ionospheric Research Instrument (IRI). HAARP is the third US ionospheric research site, the others are near the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico and near Fairbanks, Alaska. A European research station is based near Tromsø in Norway. The principal European and US HAARP sites are located in high latitudes as the auroral region provides a very wide variety of ionospheric conditions to study, as well as quiet locations away from the electromagnetic interference produced by big cities.

Stated Objectives

The HAARP project aims to direct a 3.6 MW pulse in the 2.8–10 MHz bandwidth into the ionosphere and then to examine the effects of the pulse and the recovery period using associated radar equipment. 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, as well as how the natural ionosphere affects radio signals. This will enable scientists to develop techniques to mitigate these effects in order to improve the reliability and/or performance of communication and navigation systems, which would have a wide range of applications in both the civilian and military sectors.

The project is funded by the Office of Naval Research and jointly managed by the ONR and Air Force Research Laboratory, with the principal involvement of the University of Alaska. Fourteen other universities and educational institutions have been involved in the development of the project and its instruments, namely the University of Alaska, Penn State University (ARL), Boston College, UCLA, Clemson University, Dartmouth College, Cornell University, Johns Hopkins University, University of Maryland, College Park, University of Massachusetts, MIT, Polytechnic University, Stanford University, and the University of Tulsa. The project's specifications were developed by the universities, which are continuing to play a major role in the design of future research efforts. There is both military and commercial interest in its outcome, as many communications and navigation systems depend on signals being reflected from the ionosphere or passing through the ionosphere to satellites.

The HAARP project offers annual open days to permit the general public to visit the facility, and makes a public virtue of openness; according to the team, "there are no classified documents pertaining to HAARP."

HAARP Controversy

Weapon

The objectives of the HAARP project became the subject of controversy in the mid-1990s, following claims that the antennas could be used as a weapon. A small group of American physicists aired complaints in scientific journals such as Physics and Society, charging that HAARP could be seeking ways to blow other countries' spacecraft out of the sky or disrupt communications over large portions of the planet. The physicist critics of HAARP have had little complaint about the project's current stage, but have expressed fears that it could in future be expanded into an experimental weapon.

These concerns were amplified by Bernard Eastlund, a physicist who developed some of the concepts behind HAARP in the 1980s and proposed using high-frequency radio waves to beam large amounts of power into the ionosphere, energizing its electrons and ions in order to disable incoming missiles and knock out enemy satellite communications. The US military became interested in the idea as an alternative to the laser-based Strategic Defense Initiative. However, Eastlund's ideas were eventually dropped as SDI itself mutated into the more limited National Missile Defense of today. The contractors selected to build HAARP have denied that any of Eastlund's patents were used in the development of the project.

After the physicists raised early concerns, the controversy was stoked by local activism. In September 1995, a book entitled Angels Don't Play This HAARP: Advances in Tesla Technology was written by a resident of Eagle River, Alaska, claiming that the project in its present stage could be used for "geophysical warfare". HAARP has subsequently become a target for those who have suggested that it could be used to test the ability "to deliver very large amount of energy, comparable to a nuclear bomb, anywhere on earth", "changing weather patterns", "blocking all global communications", "disrupting human mental processes" and mind control, communicating with submarines, and "x-raying the earth".

Many of these these statements are backed up by known information about the effects of electromagnetic radiation on human and animal biology. For instance, on the issue of disrupting human mental processes, in the early 1960's, Dr. Andrija Puharich discovered various mental effects of ELF, specifically that 7.83 Hz (the earth's pulse rate) made a person feel good, producing an altered-state; that 10.80 Hz caused riotous behavior; and that 6.6 Hz caused depression. The mental-disruption possibilities for HAARP are the most disturbing. More than 40 pages of the book by Jeane Manning and Dr. Nick Badich cites dozens of footnotes, chronicling the work of Harvard professors, military planners and scientists as they plan and test this use of the electromagnetic technology. For example, one of the papers describing this use was from the International Red Cross in Geneva. It even gave the frequency ranges where these effects could occur — the same ranges which HAARP is capable of broadcasting.

On the issue of its capacity to deliver nuclear bomb type electromagnetic "snaps" wherever desired, the U.S. military says on the record that the HAARP system could give the military a tool to replace the electromagnetic pulse effect of atmospheric thermonuclear devices (still considered a viable option by the military through at least 1986).

As for the issue of geophysical warfare, this is well documented as well. Air Force documents revealed that a system had been developed for manipulating and disturbing human mental processes through pulsed radio-frequency radiation (the stuff of HAARP) over large geographical areas. The most telling material about this technology came from writings of Zbigniew Brzezinski (former National Security Advisory to U.S. President Carter) and J.F. MacDonald (science advisor to U.S. President Johnson and a professor of Geophysics at UCLA), as they wrote about use of power-beaming transmitters for geophysical and environmental warfare. The documents showed how these effects might be caused, and the negative effects on human heath and thinking.

"X-raying the earth" is done already through electromagnetic wave scanning technology, in oil prospecting for instance. The technique is to pump very low watt and low frequency waves deep into the crust. Different materials innately have different reflection frequencies. It is just that simple to locate oil deposits in this way, by what particular reverberations are given off. Turning this technique into a weapon is just as easy as pumping up the watts at a particular identified reverberative location, whether it is an oil field--or an earthquake fault line. If this is found disbelievable, then you have some catching up to do. Let's go back to 1997.

"An Eco-Type of Terrorism," Says U.S. Secretary of Defense

In April 1997, the then U.S. Secretary of Defense William Cohen publicly discussed the dangers of HAARP-like technology, saying "[o]thers are engaging even in an eco-type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves... So there are plenty of ingenious minds out there that are at work finding ways in which they can wreak terror upon other nations... It's real, and that's the reason why we have to intensify our efforts." This quote derives from an April 1997 counterterrorism conference sponsored by former Senator Sam Nunn, quoted from "DoD News Briefing, Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen, Q&A at the Conference on Terrorism, Weapons of Mass Destruction, and U.S. Strategy," held at the University of Georgia-Athens, Apr. 28, 1997.

In short the Secretary of Defense of the United States confirmed that there are indeed novel kinds of EM weapons right now and have been in existence for some time, which have been and are being used to (1) initiate earthquakes, (2) engineer the weather and climate, and (3) initiate the eruption of volcanoes.

In October 2001, United States House of Representatives bill HR2977 was introduced by Ohio Rep. Dennis Kucinich. It called for the peaceful uses of space, and a ban on 'exotic weapons'. Section 7 of his 'Space Preservation Act of 2001' sought specifically to prohibit 'chemtrails', 'HAARP' and 'planet threatening weapons' by name. Kucinich even recently told the inside scoop on why his bill was yanked out of circulation. The removal of his bill was under pressure, according to Kucinich. He told the Columbus Alive newspaper (Jan. 24, 2002) that despite official denials, as head of the Armed Services oversight committee he is well acquainted with chemtrail and HAARP projects. "The truth is there's an entire program in the Dept. of Defense – 'Vision for 2020' – that's developing these weapons," Kucinich told reporter Bob Fitrakis.

Wardenclyffe

Some have claimed that the HAARP facility may be similar in operation to the Wardenclyffe Tower, developed by Nikola Tesla as a communications facility. Though never completed successfully in Tesla's lifetime due to lack of funding, and finally dismantled for scrap during wartime, people who draw parallels between HAARP and Wardenclyffe contend that its principles are currently being implemented by the HAARP project. While Tesla's tower was to be his supreme test of the applicability of transmitted power, HAARP is being used to study ionospheric effects on radio communication. Wardenclyffe also provides a basis for a current search for practical applications for focused wave and particle beams, such as the laser and maser, which according to some could have allowed wireless transceiving to any distance with negligible loss due to radiation. Tesla claimed that the Wardenclyffe tower could have produced explosive releases of energy, transmitting weaponized impulses of electromagnetic energy. The likelihood of this working was, however, never satisfactorily established, and at the time Tesla was in outright rivalry with Thomas Edison and both were making rather extreme claims.

Russians

In August 2002, further support for those critical of HAARP technology came from the State Duma (parliament) of Russia. The Duma published a critical report on HAARP written by the international affairs and defense committees, signed by 90 deputies and presented to President Vladimir Putin. The report claimed that "the U.S. is creating new integral geophysical weapons that may influence the near-Earth medium with high-frequency radio waves ... The significance of this qualitative leap could be compared to the transition from cold steel to fire arms, or from conventional weapons to nuclear weapons. This new type of weapons differs from previous types in that the near-Earth medium becomes at once an object of direct influence and its component." However, given the timing of the Russian intervention, it is likely that it was related to a controversy at the time concerning the US withdrawal in June 2002 from the Russian-American Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. This high level concern is paralled in the April 1997 statement by the U.S. Secretary of Defense over the power of such electromagnetic weaponry.

HAARP's defenders

The critics' views have been rejected by HAARP's defenders, who have pointed out that the amount of energy at the project's disposal is minuscule compared to the colossal energies dumped into the atmosphere by solar radiation and thunderstorms. A University of Alaska, Geophysical Institute scientist has compared HAARP to an "immersion heater in the Yukon River." It would also be unable to effect any long-lasting changes; as the ionosphere is inherently a chaotically turbulent region, any artificially induced changes would be "swept clean" within seconds or minutes at the most. HAARP's supporters also point to the lack of serious scientific evidence to support some of the more exotic claims being made about HAARP, such as the conjecture that the system caused the 2003 North America blackout. HAARP's gainsaying defenders however have been in turn rejected by an originator of the HAARP technology patents, Bernard Eastlund, who says that such comments totally ignore the issue of pulsing technology capacity that has been installed after his tenure was closed there--which can be at a factor of many times greater intensity.

See also

• Conspiracy theory
  • List of alleged conspiracy theories
• Nikola Tesla
• Teleforce

External links

• High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program. US Air Force, US Navy, and University of Alaska.
• "ELF Generation Using HAARP". Haarp.alaska.edu.
• Trull, D., "Tesla: The Electric Magician, Chapter 6, The Forgotten Genius". Enigma Editor, parascope.com.
• Personal website of Jerry E. Smith author of HAARP: The Ultimate Weapon of the Conspiracy (Adventures Unlimited Press, 1998).
• [1] "HAARP Tremors Rock Earth Deep Beneath San Andreas Fault," Portland IMC
• [2] "Scalar Electromagnetics: The Secret 20th Century Parallel Technological Path." Portland IMC. The article is an assemblage of mostly information by scalar electromagnetics scientist Tom Bearden.
• [3] 51 minute documentary, "HAARP: Holes in Heaven". The documentary features the authors who wrote the book Angels Don't Play this HAARP: Advances in Tesla Technology, and interviews biologists, ecologists, and HAARP technologists directly associated with the project and its patents.

Project HARP

Do not confuse Project HAARP with Project HARP.