H.A.A.R.P. High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program

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First a couple of comments.

One thing I will absolutely claim ownership too is being and RF/Radio expert.

HAARP as the name IMPLIES is precisely what it is. The system was able to aim RF energy at the ionosphere and cause "excitation" in a manner similar to what the Sun does to the ionosphere causing it to refract HF radio signals over the horizon.

The purpose of this system, as I gather from my own study (not listening to the idiot conspiracy theorists) was to cause a type of change in the Ionosphere that allowed them to refract much HIGHER frequencies (in the 50-100 Mhz range for instance) to bounce over the horizon.

Thus is born "Over the Horizon Radar" (I'm sure many of you have heard that term before).

Because of the nature of microwaves (typically what radar uses) they go right through the ionization layers in the high up atmosphere. This was merely an experimental system that allowed the US to peek over that horizon and get a 2-10 minute advance notice of ICBM launches, used in CONJUNCTION with other systems.

Those systems like these:



and this guy...



And this:



are able to see the Russians pretty well.

Satellites are up there too looking down to get information, speed, trajectory, and computers to determine payload types etc.

HAARP was nothing more than a system to ASSIST in this data acquisition.

Now... HAARP is "dead".

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The US Military's Most Misunderstood Research Project Has Shut Its Doors

Written by Ben Richmond

@a_ben_richmond

June 11, 2014 // 03:05 PM EST
Image: Michael Kleiman, US Air Force

Goodbye HAARP, we hardly knew you. According to NPR, the last experiments at the US military's High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program wrapped up yesterday. The Air Force is looking to get the $300 million facility packed up before winter, which spells the end of one of the most popular targets of internet conspiracy theories.


Since Alaska Sen. Ted “The Internet Is Tubes” Stevens described HAARP as a way of harnessing the power of the aurora borealis, HAARP has seemed bound to being completely misunderstood.


The official word on HAARP was that it was founded in 1990 to research the ionosphere. The 40-acre facility is located 150 miles northeast of Anchorage near the town of Gakona, and consisted of 360 radio transmitters, 180 antennas, and five generators capable of producing 16 megawatts of power.


Noah Shachtman, writing for Wired, described it as “180 silver poles rising from the ground, each a foot thick, 72 feet tall, and spaced precisely 80 feet apart,” and said that “geometric patterns form and reform in every direction, Athenian in their symmetry. It looks like a bionic forest."



Image: US Navy

A project of the US Department of Defense, the facility was used by the Office of Naval Research, the Air Force Research Laboratory, and DARPA, according to NPR, for projects of an abstruse nature. In addition to communicating with nuclear submarines, these included generating extremely low and very low frequencies (ELF/VLF), artificial auroras, and bouncing radio waves off the Moon.


Perhaps just to keep those sweet Pentagon dollars flowing, other projects for HAARP were proposed: using it as a shield from high-altitude nuclear detonation, or mapping underground bunkers in North Korea. That HAARP couldn't do any of these things seems to have finally caught up the facility, and the Air Force told Congress that it was basically done playing with the ionosphere from Alaska.


“That work has been completed,” David Walker, deputy assistant secretary of the Air Force for science, technology and engineering said during a Senate hearing last month, according to Anchorage Daily News.


While the military seems ready to move on, it seems like two groups will really miss HAARP: academics and conspiracy theorists.


“HAARP has been a boon to science in this area, and I think the managers that run HAARP, from the very beginning, have involved the community,” Umran Inan, who lead a Stanford University study at the facility, told Nature in 2008.


It was certainly a boon to the tin-foil hat community. Due to a combination of looking weird, being located in the middle of nowhere, and being funded by the DoD, HAARP was accused of being used for weather control, mind control, and earthquake control.


These things seem like they'd be worth spending $2.5 to $5 million annually on, but as Brian Dunning outlined six years ago over at the Skeptoid Podcast, where he sets out to destroy HAARP conspiracy theories, “there's nothing remotely secret or even classified about HAARP. No security clearance is needed to visit and tour the site, and HAARP usually holds an open house every summer during which anyone can see everything there.”




Members of the Illuminati, probably, visiting HAARP. Image: Kirkland Air Force Base

Given that it took 17 years to complete HAARP, and only seven for the DoD to be done with it, it seems like HAARP is really just evidence of Ted Stevens having too much defense-budget control. But then, the government probably just wants you to think they're a bunch of wasteful incompetents.

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HAARP Demolition Reportedly ‘Put On Hold’

By Ellen Lockyer, KSKA - Anchorage | June 10, 2014 - 5:41 pm
The Gakona High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program may have been saved in the nick of time.

According to Alan LeMaster, who runs a lodge at Gakona Junction, five room reservations made by U.S. Air Force officials for this week have been canceled, he says, because demolition of the research facility has been “put on hold.”
LeMaster told APRN that leaders of the demolition project told him that a “cease and desist” order has been issued for the scheduled demolition.
APRN has not had official confirmation of the order to halt the HAARP demolition, but Carl Grusnick, a public information office with the Air Force Research Lab in New Mexico, says that it is not unusual for large projects to be put on hold temporarily because of delays in negotiations with contractors. Grusnick says the Air Force has completed it’s research at HAARP, which has been slated for closure as of June 10.
And Charles Gulick, with the USAF press office, emailed Tuesday that at this time, he has no word on the order to cease and desist, but that he will have more information in the future.
Meanwhile, Matt Felling a spokesperson with Senator Lisa Murkowski’s office, says an announcement will be made on Monday.