Mysterious HAARP Facility in Alaska to Reopen

The purpose of the expansive HAARP military research facility in Alaska has been a topic of speculation since its construction. Official announcements were not especially helpful, and it quickly became clear that much of what was being done there was classified. Were it not for the fact that the facility includes an enormous array of antennas, it might have gone unnoticed.

Responsibility for the operation of the facility has been transferred from the US Air Force to the University of Alaska. Having reportedly been dormant for the nearly two years since that transfer, it is back in the news as the university is ready to conduct experiments with the ionosphere.

The High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) in Gakona, Alaska, will soon undertake its first scientific research campaigns since the facility was taken over by the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) Geophysical Institute 18 months ago. Among the investigators is UAF Researcher Chris Fallen, KL3WX, who will be working under a National Science Foundation grant, “RAPID: Spatiotemporal Evolution of Radio-Induced Aurora.” Fallen says the HAARP transmissions will take place within the facility’s transmitter tuning range of 2.7 to 10 MHz and should be audible outside of Alaska and may even produce visible effects within the state.

Fallen’s experiments will be carried out February 19-22.

“This time my experiments will largely focus on artificial radio-induced airglow that potentially can be photographed from nearly anywhere in Alaska — weather permitting,” Fallen told ARRL. “I plan to start and stop each experiment block with an audio Luxembourg-style broadcast — transmitting two amplitude-modulated carrier waves at different frequencies separated by about 1 MHz, with the resulting skywave signal being a mix of both frequencies.”

Fallen said that he has prior success reproducing the “Luxembourg effect” using two DTMF tones. “But this time, I have a short simple musical composition recorded by a local musician,” he said. “It was composed specifically to take advantage of the Luxembourg effect.”

According to UAF, Fallen, an assistant research professor in space physics, will create an “artificial aurora” that can be photographed with a sensitive camera within Alaska. The phenomenon has been created in the past above HAARP during certain types of transmissions.

The title of that grant gives you a terrific idea as to why there has been so much speculation about this place, and why it attracts the attention of conspiracy theorists. For example, what does the term, “Radio-Induced Aurora” mean? For most of us, that’s not clear at all. Given that the place has an enormous array of antennas and some very powerful radio transmitters, one guess would be that this is an attempt to fire radio waves into the ionosphere in order to artificially create the natural phenomenon of the northern lights. Maybe.

But is that all that was going on there when it was operated for years by the US military? The government is tight-lipped about this. Some speculated that it might be part of a missile shield, or part of a weather-control system designed to send devastating storms against enemies.

Another theory is that is has been used to develop the theories of inventor and scientific genius Nicola Tesla. Tesla was a man way ahead of his time. Should some of this theoretical devices actually become practical and workable, the impact that would have on all of us would be staggering.

Harmless research center, facility for developing exotic devices and weapons, top-secret military installation, or just a huge waste of government money? The full answer to what HAARP has been used for is unlikely to be released anytime soon. Hence, the theories will continue.

Source: American Radio Relay League

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