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H.A.A.R.P.
High-Frequency Active Auroral Research Program
HAARP is a Pentagon sponsored radio physics project, officially intended to expand knowledge
about the nature of long-range radio communications and surveillance using the fluctuating
Ionosphere (the portion of the upper atmosphere extending from 35 to 500 miles above the earth's
surface).
According to John L. Heckscher of Philips Laboratory at Hanscom Air Force Base, potential
military applications of the HAARP research include developing Department of Defense technology
for detecting cruise missiles and communicating with submarines. "Although HAARP is being
managed by the Air Force and the Navy it is purely a scientific facility that poses no threat to
potential adversaries and has no value as a military target," he says. But thats just the
publicly announced part. The HAARP also has a secret agenda, pursuing more exotic military
goals, such as locating deeply buried weapons factories thousands of miles away, and even
altering local weather conditions above the enemy's territory.
A 1990 internal document obtained by Popular Science says the programs over-all goal is to
"control ionosphere processes in such a way as to greatly improve the performance of military
command, control, and communications systems." It provides a description of the following
applications:
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Injecting high frequency radio energy into the ionosphere to create huge, extremely low
frequency (ELF) virtual antennas used for earth penetrating tomography - peering deep beneath
the surface of the ground by collecting and analyzing reflected ELF waves beamed down from
above.
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Heating regions of the lower and upper ionosphere to form virtual "lenses" and "mirrors" that
can reflect a broad range of radio frequencies far over the horizon to detect stealth cruise
missiles and aircraft. (The electrons temperature range between -130° F to 302° F
which extend across four layers from 35 to 500 miles in altitude. Heating the ionosphere means
exciting the electrons. The HAARP is expected to raise electron temperatures by 40° F.)
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Generating ELF radio waves in the ionosphere to communicate across large distances with deeply
submerged submarines.
Patent documents filed during an earlier research effort that evolved into the HAARP program
outline further military applications of ionospheric-heating technology:
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Creating a "full global shield" that would destroy ballistic missiles by overheating their
electronic guidance systems as they fly through a powerful radio energy field.
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Distinguishing nuclear warheads from decoys by sensing their elemental composition.
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Manipulating local weather conditions.
A more powerful version of the HAARP could create a global shield that would encompass the
earth, any missile or warhead passing through the shield would explode.
