The
High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program.
Located on a 33-acre lot near the town of
Gakona, Alaska, about 200 miles northeast of
Anchorage, HAARP consists of 180 72-foot-tall
towers being built by
Advanced Power Technologies, Inc. to form a
phased-array radio transmitter with a
frequency range of 2.8 to 10 MHz. The stated
purpose of the
project is to study the
ionosphere by focusing 3.6 megawatts of
radio energy onto a very small area of it. HAARP is a relatively
new project -- several other nations, including
Russia and
Norway, have similar programs. HAARP began
preliminary testing in 1997, completed a workable
grid of 48 towers in 1998, and is expected to be
fully operational by 2002. The project is funded by the U.S.
Navy and
Air Force, so the people who enjoy getting
paranoid about such things are getting busy working themselves into a tither.
First of all, of course, it should be noted that HAARP isn't even a
classified project. No
Area 51 shoot-to-kill
security, no
black funding, no
X-Files coverup. The Navy and Air Force have even had
press conferences to discuss the program. In addition,
ionospheric research is pretty
important to
communications of all kinds, both
military and
civilian. Of course, a great big
scientific project funded by the
military just begs for a layer of
conspiracy theory, doesn't it?
According to the
conspiracy theorists, if we're
lucky, HAARP will only be used to send
secret messages to
nuclear submarines and various
Illuminati groups. If we're somewhat
unlucky, HAARP will be used by the
military to
superheat the
atmosphere and
jet stream to create
catastrophic weather disasters, fry
aircraft guidance systems, or generate
nuclear explosions anywhere on earth. If we're really unlucky, HAARP will serve as a
global mind control device, using
low frequency radio beams to
hypnotize billions of people. And if we're really,
really unlucky, HAARP will rip a giant hole in the
ionosphere, blow the
ozone layer apart, heat the earth to
cake-baking levels, and trigger mega-
hurricanes, giant
earthquakes, and
forest fires, and destroy all
life on earth.
Sound
unlikely? With a working grid already in
operation, maybe that's exactly what the
government wants you to
believe...
Research from Suppressed Transmission: The First Broadcast, "The Slightly Altered History" by Ken Hite, p. 13.