Pro tip: the second "A" in HAARP stands for Auroral, as in aurora borealis.
Many are aware that HAARP exists. Many have suggested that the array of antennae may be responsible for changes in weather. Further, many have suggested that the government willfully manipulates the weather using HAARP.
Here, today, we seek to elucidate what HAARP is, and to point out the coincidence that aurora borealis, aka "northern lights", were seen in many locations that are not associated with the phenomenon in the hours following Hurricane Milton.
For instance...in Austin, Texas.
An array of 180 antennae in Gakona, Alaska emit radio waves into the ionosphere at a range of 43 to 217 miles above the earth's surface. The waves may be transmitted as a pulse, to probe ionospheric activity, or in continuous waves (CW), to heat, and thereby modify, the ionosphere.
The HAARP program was approved in Congress in 1990 with help from Senator Ted Stevens (AK-R). Construction began in 1993, and the site was operational by 1999. The stated claim of the project was to study the upper ionosphere, where the air is too thin to float research balloons, but too thick for satellites to operate.
HAARP was designated to be shut down and dismantled by the US Air Force in 2014. Instead, the University of Alaska Fairbanks took over as its steward, and the site was opened to researchers on a pay-per-use basis.
In the month of May, the US experienced 571 tornadoes. Yes, FIVE HUNDRED SEVENTY-ONE TORNADOES in the United States. That's more than double the average for the month (268).
HAARP conducted experiments during May. There was also a vivid display of aurora borealis during May, and again, it was visible in areas not traditionally associated with the phenomenon. The culprit? Solar activity, according to HAARP director Jessica Matthews of the Univ. Of Alaska Fairbanks.
“We have been responding to many inquiries from the media and the public,” Matthews said in May. “The HAARP scientific experiments were in no way linked to the solar storm or high auroral activity seen around the globe.”
Similarly, the post-Hurricane Milton aurora borealis was attributed to a "severe geomagnetic storm" due to a coronal mass ejection (CME). Oddly coincidental that weather patterns on earth would align so well with unusual solar activity.
In summary, there are two competing theories: 1) that HAARP activity causes false aurora borealis, and further, that HAARP is capable of creating adverse weather events, and, 2) such phenomenon are due to solar activity which happens to coincide with adverse weather events.
What do the experts say? In the case of HAARP capabilities, let's turn to physicist Bernard Eastlund, the creator of some of the technology the powers the vast array. Eastlund died in 2007 at the age of 69. He was a vocal critic of his own creation. Most germane to this discussion, he posited that HAARP could create adverse weather events...and disable satellites.
As reported by Popular Science:
Of course, a vocal minority of HAARP-watchers have their own ideas about the purpose of the $230-million, taxpayer-funded antenna array. For many years, HAARP’s most prominent critic was Bernard Eastlund, a plasma physicist who reportedly worked for the Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars) and, later, Advanced Power Technologies Incorporated, the company originally tasked with building HAARP. Eastlund, who some believe was dismissed from the company for his extreme ideas, claimed that HAARP was built with his patents—patents for technologies that could be used to modify weather and disable satellites.
To anyone skeptical of such applications, it is worth noting that HAARP was born of a military request: to communicate with submerged submarines.
Because salty, conductive seawater absorbs high-frequency radio waves, submarines currently operate with wires that reach up into shallow depths to receive usable radio signals. Low-frequency signals like the ones HAARP generates in the ionosphere could allow subs to operate at much deeper depths. “It’s a real signal that comes from space as though there were an antenna up there,” says Paul Kossey, HAARP program manager for the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Space Vehicles Directorate. “But there’s no wire doing it.”
So: per one of its creators, it is possible that HAARP can modify the weather. Either it can, and has, and leaves telltale false auroral "northern lights" signature behind, or it's just a coincidence that recent major weather events (with strong political implications) have happened in conjuncture with increased solar activity.
The current leading critic of HAARP in the scientific community takes a pragmatic approach: we should closely monitor and regulate the program.
Since Eastlund’s death last December, Nick Begich, son of a former Alaskan congressman and co-author of the 1995 book Angels Don’t Play This HAARP: Advances in Tesla Technology, has led the anti-HAARP crusade. “It’s not that I think it needs to be shut down,” Begich says. “It needs to be monitored more closely and scrutinized. The government hasn’t been up-front about the nature of these programs, and they’re utilizing the system to manipulate portions of the environment without full disclosure to the public.” He worries that HAARP may be capable of mind control because the waves it produces can exist at frequencies similar to those of human brain waves. Citing Eastlund’s patents, Begich also worries that the facility can alter weather. More extreme skeptics, like Jerry E. Smith, author of HAARP: The Ultimate Weapon of the Conspiracy, suspect that HAARP was rushed into completion after the 2005 hurricane season, which included Katrina, to keep the storms from making landfall.
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