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A Holology Special
Report, written by Freydis
Earth:
'Exploited for DoD purposes'
HAARP (High
Altitude Auroral Research Project) is one of
those obscure, peculiar research projects that
gets more intriguing the more one studies it, and
listening to the conspiracy theories it would
seem HAARP can cure cancer, spread it around and
much more. Everything's tied in from Tesla to
death rays and even the antichrist. Yes it
slices, it dices, it's your best friend and
your worst enemy, now only $199.99 - but wait
there's more!
HAARP is a real
watering-hole for the paranoid and radio talk shows
because it deals with complicated physics and a
plethora of arcane terminology.
 Although HAARP is
supposed to be this secret, mischievous black-project
it doesn't seem all that secret to me. They have
an extensive, detailed web site and many mirror
sites as well. They are in an accessible and
publicized location and are responsive to public
inquiries, they've even QSL'd HAM listeners after
some tests. But although they provide many
details, what's not fully stated is the exact
nature of what they are or intend to produce from
the research. So the official HAARP information
sources provide 95% of the puzzle pieces, but it's up to the
public to put them together into a complete picture. I think with a little Occam's
razor and a lot of radio-electronics common sense
we can reach a reasonable conclusion.
To begin with here's
what we know:
HAARP is a multiple dipole phased array,
electronically steered HF transmitter with a
design goal to produce over a gigawatt of
effective radiated power. HAARP is intended to be
the most powerful and technologically advanced
transmitter using 2.8 to 10 MHz for studying
ionospheric phenomenon to include improved
utilization of the upper atmosphere for
communications. Currently the prototype has been
built at Gakona Alaska and testing is underway
with megawatts now reaching up to gigawatts, with
the eventual goal to build on a modular basis a
larger complete system in the near-future. The
program is run primarily by the Air Force
Research Laboratory, Office of Naval Research and
Naval Research Laboratory and participants
include civilian contractors and university
researchers. Since Earth's magnetic fields are
concentrated at the poles, overloaded radiation
belts, as from solar flares or sudden bursts of
radiation, generate aurora phenomenon starting at
the poles. This is why HAARP is located in
Alaska, it's easier to influence these magnetic /
atmospheric phenomena for experimentation purpose.
The geographic
coordinates of the HF antenna array array are
approximately 62.39 degrees (North) latitude, 145.15
degrees (West) longitude. The geomagnetic
coordinates for the facility are 63.09 degrees (North)
latitude and 92.44 degrees (West) longitude.
[1]
The radio spectrum
is divided into several bands based on frequency:
This is an example
of a confusing chart from the official HAARP site.
It correctly portrays the labeled radio bands and
their appropriate frequencies but it incorrectly,
or at least misleadingly, places voice frequencies
within the radio spectrum. Voice sounds are
transmitted through a physical medium, but
radio waves utilizing the same frequency cannot
be heard or created by the human voice because
they're electromagnetic and propagate through an
electromagnetic medium. The sound range of the
human ear is about 20-20,000hz, so "VF" in
this case must refer to a poorly named, obscure
portion of the radio spectrum and not audio.
Finally, remember that the higher the
electromagnetic frequency the shorter (and more
energetic) the wavelength.
The stated goal of
HAARP is to be the strongest radio research tool
of its kind, but what radiation levels does that
actually work out to be? According to the
official HAARP site this is the answer:
By the time it
reaches the ionosphere, the intensity of the HF
signal is less than 3 microwatts (0.000003 watt)
per cm2, tens of thousands of times less than the
Sun's natural electromagnetic radiation reaching
the earth and hundreds of times less, even, than
the variations in intensity of the Sun's natural
ultraviolet (UV) energy which creates the
ionosphere. During active ionospheric research,
the signal generated by the transmitter system is
delivered to the antenna array, transmitted in an
upward direction, and is partially absorbed, at
an altitude between 100 to 350 km (depending on
operating frequency), in a small volume a few
hundred meters thick and a few tens of kilometers
in diameter over the site. The intensity of the
HF signal in the ionosphere is less than 3
microwatts per cm2, tens of thousands
of times less than the Sun's natural
electromagnetic radiation reaching the earth and
hundreds of times less than even the normal
random variations in intensity of the
Sun's natural ultraviolet (UV) energy which
creates the ionosphere.
[1]
The ionosphere is a
layer of the atmosphere that begins about 35
miles above the Earth's surface and extends all the way out
beyond 500 miles. This layer remains ionized by
radiation, mostly from the sun. These layers of
charged particles are then warped into torus-shaped fields by the Earths natural magnetic
influence and the solar wind.
Far above the
biosphere and the ozone layer we have the
ionosphere, where, fuelled [sic] by the sun,
atoms and molecules are constantly being split
into electrons and ions, which give the
ionosphere its properties and its name. Since the
pressure is extremely low (the entire ionosphere
weighs less than one tonne!), the electrons and
ions are allowed to exist for quite some time
before they recombine. A gas which contains
separated charged particles is called a plasma
and plasma can be considered a fourth state of
matter. This fourth state is utterly rare on the
surface of the earth. Only where the thunder
strikes the enormous discharge creates as plasma
lasting for a fraction of a second, and it was
not until the 20th century that man
was able to create a laboratory plasma.
[2]
Project 1010, the
HAARP program, is getting between $10 and $30
million dollars annual funding which seems like a
healthy amount but the higher costs of business
in an environment like Alaska should be
considered. Still, this program has been going on
for over a decade and shows no sign of being
terminated, so it must either have some powerful
backers or be yielding some useful research. The
question is: what is HAARP really doing up there
in Alaska? Many people claim to know and those
claims often involve sinister worldwide hazards
like mind control, destruction of the atmosphere
and even weather manipulation. Here's a rundown
of some of the alleged powers of HAARP.
Myth or Reality?
Nikola Tesla
invented HAARP super technology now being
exploited by the military industrial complex.
Tesla was a very eccentric, now long dead, radio-electronic genius, but he was as much hot air as
solid fact and what any of it has to do with HAARP is not always clear except as a useful ploy
to garner viewership or palm off static
electricity generators to gullible customers as
"revolutionary new power sources".
HAARP is punching
holes in the ionosphere creating permanent damage
to a protective layer of the earth.
That's dubious because short-wave (HF) radio
broadcasters have been bouncing megawatts of
power off the ionosphere for decades without ill
effect. The very nature of HF frequencies means
that they dissipate rapidly even at high powers
which reduces the area with which the beam can be
focused onto any given region of the atmosphere.
Punching holes doesn't even make sense because of
the very nature of the ionosphere; how can you
punch a hole in a fluid (plasma)?
HAARP is the latest
"star-wars" antimissile system.
If this thing could
really stop missiles by damaging their
electronics don't you think the government would
be pumping their billions of dollars into HAARP
instead of into missiles and lasers that have yet
to even come close to successful?
HAARP is a death ray
that can strike any point on the globe.
The only radio waves
that bounce of the ionosphere are HF and that
simply can't kill anyone, after all, you're being
beamed with HF radio broadcasts right now by worldwide
transmitters - my god were all going to die!
 The higher
frequencies that could potentially be harmful
pass through the ionosphere, that's how we
get satellite TV signals! Likely the only way to
reflect these microwaves would be to turn a small
region of the ionosphere into a radio-opaque
plasma using perhaps HF to such an extent that it
becomes reflective to microwaves. But then
simultaneously you'd need a powerful microwave
signal and transmitter, neither of which HAARP has,
except a tiny S-band radar to shut off the system
when aircraft stray too close. Furthermore, even
if this far-fetched death ray could be made it
would never be able to reach more than half the
planet from any single site.
Earth-penetrating
tomography presumably using ELF radio waves.
Meaning HAARP is able to detect underground
objects, and some claim even to destroy them,
once again magically with short-wave radio! Tomography is possible but you'd have to be able
to pick up the reflections some how which would
require a secondary, perhaps satellite receiver.
It seems like an airborne platform, like a
modified J-STARS or EC-135 or something, would
make more sense. Old fashioned magnetometers in
aircraft can do the same thing already.
HAARP can manipulate
the weather.
The energy levels associated with the weather
engine of Earth are truly staggering and no radio
transmitter could ever hope to possibly compete
with it. The only reasonable way HAARP or its
relatives could influence weather would be by
pinpoint heating of bodies of water or air,
clouds or perhaps the jet stream. The problem
here, and one the conspiracists ignore, is that it
takes microwave energies to do that and HAARP is
only using HF and below, far too weak to deliver
anything close to the needed energy. HAARP does
not even have the antenna system let alone the
power generating equipment for creating very
powerful directed microwave radiation, the kind
needed to excite water vapor. That's why we use a
microwave oven and not a short-wave (HF)
oven to heat food; only the microwave energy is useful for
stimulating oscillation of the water molecules.
HAARP is for HF
jamming or OTH radar.
Now this is a little
more believable because that's within the
frequency range of HAARP's dipole antennas.
Perhaps it could be used as a long range missile
tracking system if built up. But there are so
many better ways to do so that this seems unlikely.
The Russians have long annoyed shortwave radio
listeners with their over the horizon HF radar
used to detect cruise missiles and aircraft that
can't be seen with traditional microwave radars
that are line of sight limited. HF can bounce off
the ionosphere to peer beyond the horizon but
this is old technology, mostly outdated anyway.
HAARP is for mind
control.
This seem the most
ridiculous claim of all but it's really a
confusion of disparate phenomena. Circumstantial
evidence implicates ELF and ULF waves preceding
certain natural phenomena which sometimes causes
unusual behavioral responses in animals and very
rarely in humans too. The most well known examples are
strange animal behaviors just before earthquakes,
but other stories also have some basis in fact.
The science behind this has to do with the
changes in magnetic fields and pressure on the
rocks generating low frequency radio waves, and
those waves and perhaps other radiation is
interacting with biological processes.
Unfortunately, it's very difficult to utilize this
as an accurate earthquake predictor because the
responses are so sporadic. No mind control is
involved it's just a subtle response to secondary
effects of some natural phenomenon, and animals
are much more sensitive to small, unusual changes
in their environment than your average senses-deadened TV
viewing human. Furthermore, brain waves function over the range
from 1 to 35 Hz, but radiation in this wavelength is omnipresent
anyway and the only threat would be if the power was very strong
and the source close. The mind control issue is pure radio talk
show sensationalism. Even the CIA's MK-ULTRA direct
pharmacological drugging experiments failed to generate any
consistent responses in the victim population because perception
colors outcome.
To be succinct,
serious claims have to be substantiated with some
serious information. Unfortunately the supporting
evidence for the nefarious capabilities
attributed to HAARP by sensationalists and
conspiracists alike is at base unsubstantiated and more often
simply ludicrous. The real stuff is more interesting anyway.
The Real HAARP
HAARP is officially
claimed to be an ELF radio research project. ELF
radio has an interesting history and some useful
attributes that give it military value. Project
Sanguine by the US Navy once used ELF radiation
in the 40-80hz range to test communications
capabilities. Evidently these tests were
successful because they later upgraded the 45 km
(yes that's kilometers) Project Seafarer antenna
an Clam Lake Wisconsin with a 222 km one. Another
90 km antenna was constructed at KI Sawyer Air
Force Base in Michigan. Navy ELF radio is
primarily a very simple one or two letter signal
used for granting the 'go-code' to pre-positioned
subs to launch their nuclear missiles.
Alternatively because of the limitations of this
communications system ELF is used as a "bell
ringer" to notify the submarine crew to
surface and use more conventional radio.
To be even remotely
effective ELF needs lots of radiated power
because it travels through rock, literally
thorough the earth itself and the length of the
waves makes it difficult to expeditiously
transfer useful information and also requires
huge antennas, like that 222 kilometer one. Not
only that but latent human health hazards
associated with the intense power and low
frequencies has prompted numerous environmental
groups to demand the upper Midwestern antenna
sites be shut down, but so far the Navy has
refused because they claim to have no other safe
way of communicating with submerged submarines
without compromising their positions. One
alternate method, blue green lasers, has been
explored and they could be fired from satellites
to subs a short distance under the surface of the
water. But it could potentially reveal the
location of the sub because of the direct line of
sight of the laser, unlike surface-penetrating ELF
radio waves.
Enter HAARP which is
researching the capability to generate ELF radio
waves as a secondary product of HF radio beamed
into the ionosphere.
The heater is used
to modulate the conductivity of the lower
ionosphere, which in turn modulates ionospheric
currents. This modulated current, in effect,
produces a virtual antenna in the ionosphere for
the radiation of radio waves...The HF transmitter
and antenna system at HAARP does not, itself,
transmit any signals in the ELF frequency range.
Instead these signals would be generated in the
ionosphere, at an altitude of approximately 80 -
100 km. ... The process of generating ELF within
the ionosphere is very inefficient (the
conversion efficiency is about 10-8).
As a result, the level of ELF signal reaching the
ground is extraordinarily small. Measurements of
the ELF signal strength produced in the
ionosphere by the HIPAS facility during a recent
test, for example, showed field strengths on the
order of 5 pT or 0.00005 milligauss (mg)[1]. This
field strength is too weak to be detected with
any commercially available instrument and is only
useful for low data rate communications or for
geophysical sensing applications where
specialized correlating receivers can be employed. [3]
When they refer to
'heating' it has to do
with warming or exciting the plasma to produce
radio waves. In this case HF energy is used to produce
a global ELF radio broadcast through the antenna
of the ionosphere.
ELF, and the
even lower ULF,
 is strange stuff indeed.
The biological effects of ELF, and
especially ULF radiation, are poorly
understood and it's basically everywhere.
Electronic devices like video monitors
and power lines all produce it, but so do
mechanical actions. Power transmission
lines usually run at 60 Hz AC cycle. It
could be potentially harmful, especially
at very close range or under very high
powers like headphones or near military
ELF radio antennas. Some research has
shown that the cancer hazard from living
in proximity to high voltage power lines
and associated electromagnetic fields
comes not from the direct radiation but
from the secondary effect of ionized
particulate material. Harmful dust and
particles are being ionized and this
causes them to stick to lung tissue
creating cancer dangers.
Using ELF
radio has never been particularly
successful, and it probably never will.
I don't think HAARP seriously expects to
ever solve the fundamental limitations of
ELF and create a viable communications
platform for subs or anything else. This
is purely secondary research.
However a much more
plausible and intriguing hypothesis is that
instead of radio waves, it's magnetic waves.
 A meaningful signal is actually
superimposed over the Earths magnetic field by tweaking the
magnetosphere at the region known as the Aurora Jet, or what HAARP
refers to as the polar electrojet. [5] This has
the benefit of creating a signal detectable
anywhere on (or in) the Earth where the magnetic
field is present. The transmitter in this case is
actually the entire Earth's existing magnetosphere.
"The primary
modulation of the HAARP transmitters is a
component of about 1 to 6 Hz which matches the
natural frequency of the Schumann resonance which
is caused by the effectively large electrical
cavity between the radiation belts of the
magnetosphere and the lower ionosphere.
This cavity normally is filled with RF static
noise typically called whistlers created by
numerous random powerful lightning discharges
around the earth. The effect of the HAARP
transmitter is to produce a very large and
coherent 5 second "whistler" with a
frequency of about 1 to 7 HZ depending on the
direction, time of day and the shape of the
magnetosphere. This powerful "forcing"
signal impressed upon the natural Schumann
frequency can "ring" or oscillate from
North to South Pole for several to possibly 10 or
more seconds. This means, to be used as a
communication system, the modulating signal must
have a time component longer than the ringing.
To accomplish this, the Navy has produced a
standard modulation system consisting of a 5
second pulse with either 30 sec or 15 sec spaces
between the pulses, longer than the 'ringing.'
The pulses, for communication purposes, are all
about the same and contain no data. The signal
data actually is the spaces in between the pulses
and are a form of "morse code" of short
and long spaces, not the "ringing"
pulses themselves."
[4]
Submarines then utilize a ULF
radio, which is really just a magnetometer, to detect these
changes in the magnetic field of Earth and decode the message. And a strange radio
it is, for the wavelength
of a 1 Hz radio signal is an incredible 299,820,000
meters long! The only way this is an improvement
of ELF is the fact that the submarine would no
longer require a very long wire antenna but could
instead utilize a more compact magnetometer as an
antenna; and how could you make a 1 Hz quarter
wave antenna anyway? Furthermore, since Earth has
only one magnetic field it would seem that only
one signal could be broadcast at a time and it
would be highly vulnerable to jamming.
Beyond that
hypothesis, HAARP is primarily what its backers
claim it to be - a research device for studying ionospheric and geophysical phenomena as it
pertains to radio communications, albeit a very
powerful one set to become even more powerful in
the next year or so. The idea is to measure what
the sun does naturally, that is create storms
and other extreme events that disrupt
communications. They want to be better able to
predict and compensate for the natural events
that the sun causes. And these natural events are
indeed very powerful to include radio blackouts
and even overloaded power grids from solar
storms, solar flares, and similar events. And that's important because
satellites, like GPS, are increasingly critical to
many users, and if a storm hits and the GPS
signals are off-line its important to know how to
respond. And of course knowing how to counteract
these natural effects also implies being able to
create your own to knock out enemy
communications. The military wouldn't be
researching these issues if they didn't think it
had military potential. HAARP is investigating
the use of the upper atmosphere and magnetic fields
as military tools, in other words the Department
of Defense is directly exploiting the entire
Earth for war fighting. And the term
"exploitation" is gleefully strewn about the executive summary on HAARP. [6]
The danger of HAARP
is not that it will zap our protective radiation
layers into oblivion or that the government is
manipulating your brain waves to vote for the
Democrats, it's that the military is monopolizing
low frequency radio research and monopolizing
Earths very magnetic fields for its own use with
the token civilian research team thrown in for
good publicity. Earth is now for the official use
of Generals and soldiers to murder more
effectively. HAARP was conceived and designed
with the still resilient Cold War mentality deeply imbedded into
it because, after all, HAARP is an effort to beat
the Soviets because they built a more powerful
'heater' and dammit that won't do for America.
The Soviets supposedly developed a super weapon,
a revolutionary breakthrough and the west is
falling behind! It's the same 'lets exploit
it quick and dirty before the bad guys beat us to
it' mentality that nearly starved the Bikinian's to death just so the military could
nuke their island, which they may never be able to
return to.
 The
same horribly flawed reasoning that justified
preemptive nuclear strikes against the Soviet
Union because the rulers were convinced that nuclear war
was inevitable (and even winnable). All of this research, the never
ending need for more funding just so they can go
and bomb some impoverished third world nation
whose military consists of a guy with a rusty Kalashnikov and a helicopter they can't fly for
lack of spare parts.
The military
planners have no excuse, there is no Cold War,
there's no good need for total secrecy, there's
no bogey-man superpower-enemy, just a lot of small
conflicts and a lot of disparate interests around
the globe all of which could be much better
resolved with diplomacy and open communications than
with stealth bombers and high energy beam-weapons. HAARP may not be the super-secret super-weapon
the paranoids sell books about and go on speaking
tours to rapt, ignorant and gullible American
audiences, but it's still another cog in that
military machine no less serious because it's an
issue of military exploitation and abuse of
natural resources for their own interests at the
cost of both environment and legitimate
scientific research.
Instead of
continuing to write the military and its research
tentacles blank checks every time they need extra
billions it's time to demand accountability, to
demand and see some serious oversight and respect
for the legitimate and changing needs of the
taxpayers, the people living near these projects
and ones affected by them, which in the case of
HAARP includes the entire planet. HAARP's
supporters need to unambiguously explain the
product emanating from their research and to what
purpose it will be put to use. Regardless, I
have a suspicion that the world's inhabitants are
significantly less enthusiastic about HAARP than it's military
and political backers.
- Freydis, 2001
Film Review: Holes in Heaven
The
documentary film Holes in Heaven: HAARP and Advances in Tesla
Technology (2005) DVD, attempts to explain HAARP and
showcases a variety of interpretations on what HAARP technology
can potentially do, both official and unofficial, and some are
definitely more credible than others. The film does a decent job
of explaining what HAARP basically is and the key people
involved in it, and although the film has an alarmist tone I
still recommend watching it, particularly for some of the people
interviewed like the inventor Eastlund.
 Plasma
Physicist Dr. Bernard Eastlund states that he worked for ARCO to
develop technology to make use of their vast natural gas
reserves located in remote northern Alaska. The plan was to burn
the natural gas on site to create power that would then be
beamed to another location on the planet. So, working for ARCO
Eastlund developed the phased array antenna idea and the patents
later used in HAARP. Eastlund stated that he was not involved in
the HAARP research project, but did seem somewhat surprised at
the new military applications being envisioned for his patents.
It's
important to point out that most all of the extraordinary events
and powers ascribed to the HAARP system presented in the film,
like a super-lightning strike, weather and mind control, are
hypothetical outcomes and they may not actually be possible at
all. Nonetheless public concerns for powerful technology being
abused and exploited to serve the purposes of warfare under the
euphemism of ‘national defense’ are certainly justified
considering the established historical precedent of exactly
that. 15.01.07
References
1. HAARP,
official site http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/haarp/
2. Ionosphere research from Sweden http://www.wavegroup.irfu.se/SEE/
3. From official site/mirror http://w3.nrl.navy.mil/projects/haarp/elfsafe.html
4. ELFrad http://www.freeworldalliance.com/newsflash192.htm
5. Generating ELF http://w3.nrl.navy.mil/projects/haarp/elfhrp.html
6. Read Exec. summary point 3.1 http://www.mondovista.com/haarp.exec.html
Extra: How to build
your own ULF receiver (hint:
start with a big yard)
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