Project HAARP: The Pentagon's provocative plan to superheat the
earth's ionosphere
The HAARP phased-array transmitter zaps the earth's ionosphere with
high-frequency radio waves. The lame online game Majestic saps lonely beta
males of their money and personal dignity.
In an Arctic compound 200 miles east of Anchorage, Alaska, the Pentagon has
erected a powerful transmitter designed to beam more than a gigawatt of energy
into the upper reaches of the atmosphere. Known as Project HAARP
(High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program), the $30 million experiment
involves the world's largest "ionospheric heater," a prototype device designed
to zap the skies hundreds of miles above the earth with high-frequency radio
waves. Why irradiate the charged particles of the ionosphere (which when
energized by natural processes make up the lovely and famous phenomenon known
as the Northern Lights)? According to the U.S. Navy and Air Force, co-sponsors
of the project, "to observe the complex natural variations of Alaska's
ionosphere." That, says the Pentagon, and also to develop new forms of
communications and surveillance technologies that will enable the military to
send signals to nuclear submarines and to peer deep underground. 60 Greatest
Conspiracies first reported on HAARP more than a year ago. Since then,
inquiring Internauts have blamed the peculiar project for everything from UFO
activity to major power outages in the Western United States, to, most
recently, the downing of TWA Flight 800. (The Pentagon maintains that the HAARP
array has been inactive since late last year.) Some have dubbed it the
"Pentagon's doomsday death ray." Though many of these theories are, well,
creatively amplified, an assortment of more grounded
critics--environmentalists, Native Americans and Alaskan citizens among
them--argue that the military does indeed have Strangelovian plans for this
unusual hardware, applications ranging from "Star Wars" missile defense schemes
to weather modification plots and perhaps even mind control experiments. The
HAARP complex is situated within a 23-acre lot in a relatively isolated region
near the town of Gakona. When the final phase of the project is completed in
1997, the military will
have erected 180 towers, 72 feet in height, forming a "high-power, high
frequency phased array radio transmitter" capable of beaming in the 2.5-10
megahertz frequency range, at more than 3 gigawatts of power (3 billion watts).
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HAARP
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Warm, Fuzzy HAARP
The U.S. Navy's soothing, feel-good PR Web site devoted to HAARP reassures us
that the project is entirely benign. Angels Don't Play This HAARP
Excerpts from the book that posits a connection between the work of suppressed
scientist Nikola Tesla and Project HAARP. Alternative HAARP Page
Overview of facts and speculation swirling around the Gakona, Alaska, project.
The Eastlund-ARCO Patent
Outlines Eastlund's vision for a HAARP-like project drawing upon the
inspiration of Nikola Tesla. Tesla
A brief biography of the enigmatic scientist.
According to the Navy and Air Force, HAARP "will be used to introduce a
small, known amount of energy into a specific ionospheric layer" anywhere from
several miles to several tens of miles in radius. Not surprisingly, Navy and
Air Force PR (posted on the official HAARP World Wide Web Internet site, an
effort to combat the bad press the project has generated), downplays both the
environmental impacts of the project and purported offensive uses of the
technology. However, a series of patents owned by the defense contractor
managing the HAARP project suggests that the Pentagon might indeed have more
ambitious designs. In fact, one of those patents was classified by the Navy for
several years during the 1980s. The key document in the bunch is U.S. Patent
number 4,686,605, considered by HAARP critics to be the "smoking raygun," so to
speak. Held by ARCO Power Technologies, Inc. (APTI), the ARCO subsidiary
contracted to build HAARP, this patent describes an ionospheric
heater very similar to the HAARP heater invented by Bernard J. Eastlund, a
Texas physicist. In the patent--subsequently published on the Internet by foes
of HAARP--Eastlund describes a fantastic offensive and defensive weapon that
would do any megalomaniacal James Bond super villain proud. According to the
patent, Eastlund's invention would heat plumes of charged particles in the
ionosphere, making it possible to, for starters, selectively "disrupt microwave
transmissions of satellites" and "cause interference with or even total
disruption of communications over a large portion of the earth." But like his
hopped up ions, Eastlund was just warming up. Per the patent text, the
physicist's "method and apparatus for altering a region in the earth's
atmosphere" would also:
"cause confusion of or interference with or even complete disruption of
guidance systems employed by even the most sophisticated of airplanes and
missiles";
"not only... interfere with third-party communications, but [also] take
advantage of one or more such beams to carry out a communications network at
the same time. Put another way, what is used to disrupt another's
communications can be employed by one knowledgeable of this invention as a
communications network at the same time";
"pick up communication signals of others for intelligence purposes";
facilitate "missile or aircraft destruction, deflection, or confusion" by
lifting large regions of the atmosphere "to an unexpectedly high altitude so
that missiles encounter unexpected and unplanned drag forces with resultant
destruction or deflection of same."
If Eastlund's brainchild sounds like a recipe for that onetime Cold War
panacea, the Strategic Defense Initiative (AKA "Star Wars"), it's probably no
coincidence. The APTI/Eastlund patent was filed during the final days of the
Reagan administration, when plans for high-tech missile defense systems were
still all the rage. But Eastlund's blue-sky vision went far beyond the usual
Star Wars prescriptions of the day and suggested even more unusual uses for his
patented ionospheric heater. "Weather modification," the patent states, "is
possible by... altering upper atmospheric wind patterns or altering solar
absorption patterns by constructing one or more plumes of particles which will
act as a lens or focusing device." As a result, an artificially heated could
focus a "vast amount of sunlight on selected portions of the earth." HAARP
officials deny any link to Eastlund's patents or plans. But several key details
suggest otherwise. For starters, APTI, holder of the Eastlund
patents, continues to manage the HAARP project. During the summer of 1994,
ARCO sold APTI to E-Systems, a defense contractor known for
counter-surveillance projects. E-Systems, in turn, is currently owned by
Raytheon, one of the world's largest defense contractors and maker of the
SCUD-busting Patriot missile. All of which suggests that more than just simple
atmospheric science is going on in the HAARP compound. What's more, one of
the APTI/Eastlund patents singles out Alaska as the ideal site for a
high-frequency ionospheric heater because "magnetic field lines... which extend
to desirable altitudes for this invention, intersect the earth in Alaska." APTI
also rates Alaska as an ideal location given its close proximity to an ample
source of fuel to power the project: the vast reserves of natural gas in the
North Slope region--reserves owned by APTI parent company ARCO. Eastlund also
contradicts the official military line. He told National Public Radio that a
secret
military project to develop his work was launched during the late 1980s. And
in the May/June 1994 issue of Microwave News, Eastlund suggested that "The
HAARP project obviously looks a lot like the first step" toward the designs
outlined in his patents. Eastlund's patent really trips into conspiratorial
territory in its "References Cited" section. Two of the sources documented by
Eastlund are New York Times articles from 1915 and 1940 profiling Nikola Tesla,
a giant in the annals of Conspiratorial History. Tesla, a brilliant inventor
and contemporary of Edison, developed hundreds of patents during his lifetime,
and is often credited with developing radio before Marconi, among a host of
other firsts. Of course, mainstream science has never fully acknowledged
Tesla's contributions, and his later pronouncements (he vowed that he had
developed a technology that could split the earth asunder) have left him
straddling that familiar historical territory where genius meets
crackpot. Not surprisingly, fringe science and conspiracy theory have made
Tesla something of a patron saint. Whenever, talk radio buzz or Internet
discussion turns to alleged government experiments to cause earthquakes or
modify weather, references to government-suppressed "Tesla Technology" are sure
to follow. Of course, mainstream science has never fully acknowledged Tesla's
contributions, and his later pronouncements (he vowed that he had developed a
technology that could split the earth asunder) have left him straddling that
familiar historical territory where genius meets crackpot. Not surprisingly,
fringe science and conspiracy theory have made Tesla something of a patron
saint. Whenever, talk radio buzz or Internet discussion turns to alleged
government experiments to cause earthquakes or modify weather, references to
government-suppressed "Tesla Technology" are sure to follow. Judging from the
APTI patent, Tesla was a major inspiration for Eastlund ionospheric
heater. The first New York Times article, dated September 22, 1940, reports
that Tesla, then 84 years old, "stands ready to divulge to the United States
Government the secret of his 'teleforce,' with which, he said, airplane motors
would be melted at a distance of 250 miles, so that an invisible Chinese Wall
of Defense would be built around the country." Quoting Tesla, the Times story
continues: "This new type of force, Mr. Tesla said, would operate through a
beam one hundred-millionth of a square centimeter in diameter, and could be
generated from a special plant that would cost no more than $2,000,000 and
would take only about three months to construct." The second New York Times
story, dated December 8, 1915, describes one of Tesla's more well-known
patents, a transmitter that would "project electrical energy in any amount to
any distance and apply it for innumerable purposes, both in war and peace."
The similarity of Tesla's ideas to Eastlund's invention are
remarkable, and by extension the overlap between Tesla and HAARP technology is
downright intriguing. Apparently, APTI and the Pentagon are taking
Eastlund's--and by extension, Tesla's--ideas seriously. Eastlund seems to
agree. As he told one journalist/conspiracy pathfinder: "HAARP is the perfect
first step towards a plan like mine. ...The government will say it isn't so,
but if it quacks like a duck and it looks like a duck, there's a good chance it
is a duck." © 1996 by Jonathan Vankin and John Whalen
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