https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-frequency_Active_Auroral_Research_Program
HAARP is the subject of numerous
conspiracy theories. Various individuals have speculated about hidden motivations and capabilities of the project. For example,
Rosalie Bertell warned in 1996 about the deployment of HAARP as a military weapon.
[35] Michel Chossudovsky stated in a book published by the
Committee on Monetary and Economic Reform that "recent scientific evidence suggests that HAARP is fully operational and has the capability of triggering
floods,
hurricanes,
droughts and
earthquakes."
[36] Over time, HAARP has been blamed for generating such catastrophes, as well as
thunderstorms, in
Iran,
Pakistan,
Haiti,
Turkey,
Greece and the
Philippines, and even major
power outages, the downing of
TWA Flight 800,
Gulf War syndrome, and
chronic fatigue syndrome.
[6][37][38]
Allegations include the following:
- Nick Begich Jr., the son of the late U.S. Representative Nick Begich and brother of former U.S. Senator Mark Begich, is the author of Angels Don't Play This HAARP. He has claimed that the HAARP facility could trigger earthquakes and turn the upper atmosphere into a giant lens so that "the sky would literally appear to burn." He maintains a website that claims HAARP is a mind control device.[39][40]
- A Russian military journal wrote that ionospheric testing would "trigger a cascade of electrons that could flip Earth's magnetic poles".[39]
- The Alaska state legislature and the European Parliament held hearings about HAARP, the latter citing environmental concerns.[41]
- Former Governor of Minnesota, ex-professional wrestler, and documentary maker 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."[42]
- Physicist Bernard Eastlund claimed that HAARP includes technology based on his own patents that has the capability to modify weather and neutralize satellites.[5]
- It has been proposed as a cause of low frequency background hums said to be heard in various locales.[43]
Two Georgia men arrested on drug charges in November 2016 were reportedly plotting domestic terrorism based on conspiracy theories about HAARP. The Coffee County Sheriff's Office said the men possessed a "massive arsenal" that included
AR-15 rifles,
Glock handguns, a
Remington rifle and thousands of rounds of ammunition. According to police, the men wanted to destroy HAARP because they believed the facility manipulates the weather, controls minds and even traps the souls of people. Police say the men confessed that "God told them to go and blow this machine up that kept souls, so souls could be released."
[44][45]
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."
[5] 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."
[6] 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.
[46][47] 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."
[37] In 2016, in response to these claims, the
University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute, which manages the facility, announced that HAARP will host an annual open house in August, allowing visitors to tour the complex.
[48]
Tours , wonderful. What use could it be if the visitor has no research data of what will occur if some frequency is beamed up or not,