- The US military was not the only investigator
of "ionospheric heaters." The Russians conducted their own research
with similar systems, based on Eastlund's technology. Other heaters also
conducted research in Norway, Brazil and Puerto Rico. Russian "bigger
is better" programs, however, beamed huge amounts of electromagnetic
power at the ionosphere, successfully bouncing volleys of electromagnetic
energy back to the Earth's surface. At these higher power levels, the heated
ionosphere acted like a powerful battery, storing, amplifying and discharging
destructive beams of energy that could devastate a distant target on demand,
in seconds. At that time, the Russians (USSR) lacked the powerful computing
facilities that were required to direct and control this energy beam.
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- To be precise, calculations for bouncing
these energy beams must take into account the rotation of the Earth, the
angle of reflectance, and a variety of complex, dynamic factors. The US
had the power of CRAY and EMASS computer systems, but lacked the power
output capabilities of the Russian heaters. HAARP would change that.
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- In 1995, the US military sought congressional
funding for a "super-heater," a world class HAARP installation
that would be capable of exceeding the Russian power outputs many times
over. But there was a snag. The American public had been told that the
Star Wars program was a "defensive" weapon. President Regan had
even offered to share this technology with other countries to establish
a "shield of peace" that would forever inhibit nuclear proliferation.
But would the American public fund a "death ray" which could
deliver "first strike" capabilities to any point on the globe
within seconds? Even the military doubted that this would be an easy sale.
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- At first, the military attempted to describe
the HAARP as a substitute for the controversial ELF (low frequency) transmitters.
Eastlund's research had demonstrated that the heated "lens" could
generate and reflect ELF radio signals if the applied HF power source was
pulsed. The large ELF antenna systems in Wisconsin and Michigan could be
replaced by the smaller, more efficient HAARP arrays.
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- Since their installation in America's
dairyland, ELF signals were becoming a sensitive topic. Research was showing
that ELF radiation was extremely harmful. Dr. Cletus Kanavy, chief of the
biological effects group of the Phillips Laboratory's Electromagnetic Effects
Division at Kirkland Air Force Base in New Mexico, stated that "the
entire issue of human interaction with electromagnetic (RF & microwave)
radiation is... a major national population health concern." (Biological
Effects of Microwave Radiation: A White Paper, Microwave News at 12, September/October
1993).
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- Dr. Kanavy noted the "large amount
of data, both animal experimental and human clinical, to support the existence
of chronic, non-thermal effects." These effects include behavioral
aberrations, neural network perturbations, fetal (embryonic) tissue damage
(inducing birth defects), cataractogenesis (cataracts), altered blood chemistry,
metabolic changes and suppression of the endocrine and immune systems.
There were also cases of sudden and unexplained mutations in frogs and
wildlife in the radiation paths of ELF installations. It was only a matter
of time before the public outcry would prohibit ELF transmitters.
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- (see Superimposing Spatially Coherent
Electromagnetic Noise Inhibits Field Induced Abnormalities In Chick Embryos,
Journal Bioelectromagnetics, Vol. 15, No.2 at 105-113, 1994; Adey, Whispering
Between Cells: Electromagnetic Fields And Regulatory Mechanisms In Tissue,
Frontier Perspectives, Vol. 3, No. 2, Fall 1993; Smith, Best, Electromagnetic
Man, Chapter 10, St. Martin's Press, N.Y. 1989; "Effects of Electromagnetic
Fields" in Journal of Cellular Biochemistry, 51:140 at 410-411, 1993))
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- Someone in Congress realized the public
safety implications of ELF waves-- even if they were to be generated by
HAARP. The funding for HAARP was delayed while the Pentagon quickly assured
the congressional committees that the ELF programs would be scuttled and
replaced by HAARP's "high frequencies" which were, after all,
"harmless." Congress thereby appropriated 16 million dollars
for HAARP's initial expansion. But was the HAARP really doing away with
ELF radiation? Not at all.(see 104th Congress, 1st session, Report 104-24
at 190, July 28, 1995)
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- The military's own Executive Summary
of the HAARP program clearly states their reliance on ELF waves. Instead
of transmitting these waves from ground based transmitters, HAARP created
these waves through the use of "pulse" transmissions of their
HF energy beams. Or, to put it another way, HAARP duplicated the ELF signals
by turning their signal on and off at rates (30 to 3000 cycles per second)
within the ELF range. The result was that ELF radiation could be directed
to a specific area on the surface of the planet, at will.
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- "A number of critical Department
of Defense communications systems rely on the use of ELF/VLF (30 Hz-30
kHz) radio waves. These include those associated with the Minimum Essential
Emergency Communications Network (MEECN) and those used to disseminate
messages to submerged submarines. In the latter, frequencies in the 70-150
Hz range are especially attractive, but difficult to generate efficiently
with ground- based antenna systems."
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- "The potential exists for generating
such waves by ground-based heating of 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 technique
has already been used to generate ELF/VLF signals at a number of vertical
HF heating facilities in the West and the Soviet Union. To date, however,
these efforts have been confined to essentially basic research studies,
and few attempts have been made to investigate ways to increase the efficiency
of such ELF/VLF generation to make it attractive for communications applications.
In this regard, heater generated ELF would be attractive if it could provide
significantly stronger signals than those available from the Navy's existing
antenna systems in Wisconsin and Michigan."
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- "Recent theoretical research suggests
that this may be possible, provided the appropriate HF heating facility
was available. Because this area of research appears especially promising,
and because of existing Department of Defense requirements for ELF and
VLF, it is already a primary driver of the proposed research program."
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- (Executive Summary, Section 2.2)
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- All of these potentially harmful effects
clearly violate the US government's own Environmental Protection Agency's
doctrine. Congress established, through NEPA, that it is the policy of
the federal government to "create and maintain conditions under which
man and nature can exist in productive harmony." 42 U.S.C. Sec. 4331(a).
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- To date, there have been eleven other
patents derived from Eastlund's original work. These patents describe the
reflective alterations of the ionosphere for such uses as "nuclear
scale explosions without radiation," "power-beaming systems,"
"over-the-horizon radar systems," and "nuclear missile detection
and destruction systems." Further, the patents are now owned by Raytheon,
a long-standing defense contractor, and can now be combined with other
military patents and used for battlefield applications.
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- Eastlund's original research recognized
the military uses for his discoveries. A review of his patent applications
shows how this technology can be used:
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- "...ability to put unprecedented
amounts of power in Earth's atmosphere at strategic locations and to maintain
the power injection level particularly if random pulsing is employed, in
a manner far more precise and better controlled than heretofore accomplished
by the prior art, particularly by detonation of nuclear devices of various
yields at various altitudes..."
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- "...It is possible not only to interfere
with third party communications but to take advantage of one or more such
beams to carry out a communications network even though the rest of the
world's communications are disrupted. Put in another way, what is used
to disrupt another's communications can be employed by one knowledgeable
of this invention as a communication network at the same time..."
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- "...large regions of the atmosphere
could be lifted to an unexpectedly high altitude so that missiles encounter
unexpected and unplanned drag forces with resultant destruction."
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- Additional research indicates that funding
was approved to develop a tomographic scanning apparatus back in 1996.
This ability to penetrate deep within the Earth, to scan for caves, munitions
storage and potential enemy shelters, is specifically outlined as part
of the funding agreement. But the same wavelengths used in this tomographic
scanning are powerful ELF radiation. And once located, strategic targets
can be destroyed by changing the frequency and power of the directional
beam. In short, the 104th Congress was duped into funding a "death
ray." Recent (FY-1999) budget requests have included huge appropriations
for the Navy, with emphasis on anti-missile technologies. The Navy is also
developing high- altitude manned and unmanned vehicles at secret locations,
such as those in Nevada. One such project is called "Aurora,"
suggesting a link to this new technology. It is our belief that this electromagnetic
beam system is currently on-line.
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- Perhaps we can justify this dangerous
manipulation of nature by convincing ourselves that America is the only
remaining super-power, with morality and capability to be Earth's police
force. Certainly this kind of lethal power is better controlled by a democracy
than, say, a terrorist regime like Libya, or an unstable government like
Iraq. The potential for building a HAARP type of installation is well within
the technology and budget of even the poorest country. It involves no nuclear
fuel and can be constructed covertly. Computing power is now virtually
unlimited. The country that has such a capability on-line first, and is
able to detect and destroy other such devices, could maintain the balance
of power and control of the globe.
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- HAARP technology is presently under suspicion
by a number of scientists around the world. The ionosphere has been described
as a delicate "bubble" of charged particles that, much like the
ozone layer, serves as a thin skin, protecting us against high energy particles
that regularly stream towards Earth from the Sun. Even a temporary "hole"
or rip in this ion field could result in the collision of these particles
with our genetic and biologic molecules, causing mutations or death. Some
scientists even worry that the ionosphere could collapse from electrical
imbalance. They ask, "Can we really afford the risk of tampering with
something that we do not yet fully understand, and which belongs to all
life (not just human) on this planet?" HAARP has even been accused
of environmental vandalism.
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- The Earth has a solid metallic core and
a rotating mass of electrical conducting, liquid rock called the mantle.
This makes the Earth behave like a giant dynamo, with a strong magnetic
field. Not every planet has this. The magnetic field, or magnetosphere,
is important for the existence of life, as we know it. It effectively diverts
the solar wind as it throws charged, high energy particles towards the
Earth. These magnetic fields are furthest from the Earth at the equator
and they actually meet the planet surface in the Arctic regions. The latter
phenomenon is the reason for locating ionospheric "heaters" near
the polar regions of Earth, where they are most accessible and vulnerable
to unnatural influences.
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- The solar wind is so powerful that it
distorts the magnetosphere, causing the part facing the Sun to become compressed
(left) and the side opposite to the Sun (right) to have a "tail,"
similar to the tail of comets. Together with the lower ionosphere, these
charged atmospheres are essential for maintaining the radiation-free environment
on our planet. Like the ozone layer, they are fragile but essential to
life. The irresponsible damage to these ecosystems could turn HAARP into
a weapon of total destruction.
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- For more information on Solar Wind, and
the dangers that these periodic disturbances cause to life on Earth, see
"Storms on the Sun" in February's Viewzone.
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- ViewZone contacted HAARP, through their
web site, in the preparation of this story. At first, our inquiries were
treated lightly. We were assured that HAARP was purely a research facility
with no classified status. When we submitted some of the material referenced
in this story, we were told that there was no basis to support such activity
at HAARP's Gakona facility. We were reminded that HAARP has an open web
site, with ample pictures and public disclosures. We were asked, "Would
a classified military operation act this way?"
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- A review of the Congressional appropriations
indicates that the proposed HAARP facility was to be located in Alaska's
Poker Flat rocket range (see Executive Summary parts 4.3 and 4.2.1) a flat,
spacious and remote facility about 30 miles north of Fairbanks. The Executive
Summary states any number of reasons why this tundra location is ideal.
However, Gakona, the site depicted on HAARP's web site, is located 260
miles south of Poker Flats, in the rugged mountain country of the Alaska
Range. Was there some mistake, or was the "public" HAARP program
built in Gakona, while the classified projects were being constructed at
Poker Flats, as planned?
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- We put this question bluntly to HAARP.
Rather than answer with their usual candor, we received the following reply:
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- Viewzone: Can you comment on the wording
of the appropriations statement that was submitted to the 104th Congress,
as quoted in my e- mail?
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- HAARP: "No I can't. As an editor,
I'm sure you realize that NO government employee ever comments on other
branches of the government. This is a long-standing protocol courtesy and
it is not ever trifled with. It is unfortunate that there are people who
will twist this policy into some conspiratorial motive."
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- "As I have mentioned to you numerous
times, this e-mail account is for the purpose of answering "technical"
questions about the HAARP program. The anti-HAARP claims are easily refuted
on a technical basis alone and I have given you the technical facts which
do exactly that. The bottom line is that HAARP is technically capable of
operating as an ionospheric observatory capable only, of conducting limited
ionospheric studies which will yield enormous knowledge that will be useful
in the design of reliable, high performance communication and navigation
systems for the DoD as well as the private sector. It has about as much
value as a weapon as the Keck Observatory in Hawaii or the Very Large Array
in New Mexico."
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- Best regards,
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- [HAARP] Webmaster
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- Viewzone also asked the inventor, Dr.
Bernard Eastlund, about his technology. Dr. Eastlund informed us that the
patents he transferred are capable of doing everything that he stated.
We asked him to comment on the fact that his discoveries had been acquired
for military, rather than humane use.
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- Doctor Eastlund: "With some funding
from the European Space Agency I have been able to address some of the
issues you raised. In particular, I have continued to develop concepts
that speak to the civilian (or humane) issues rather than the military.
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- I have taken a hard look at the potential
beneficial effects of the root technology and have developed a new concept
for prevention of tornado formation in mesocylones based on heating cold
downdrafts within the storm with microwave radiation from a satellite based
source. The concept is called the Thunderstorm Solar Power Satellite. I
presented a paper entitled, "Systems Considerations of Weather Modification
Experiments Using High Power electromagnetic Radiation" at the "Workshop
on Space Exploration and Resources Exploitation-Ex[plospace 20-22 October,
1998, Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy. The Systems Study indicates a possibility
it might work, but raises issues of safety and the ability of diagnostics
and numerical simulation capabilities to monitor and predict behavior of
a storm.
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- If successful, it might be possible to
prevent the formation of destructive tornadoes. This could be a very positive
outgrowth of my original work. Further extrapolations of the technology
may also be useful in hurricane mitigation.
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- Regarding safety. I believe it is the
paramount issue. Unless these applications can be shown to be safe no experimentation
should be initiated. My Company has adopted safety guidelines which include
guidelines prepared by the NAS for global warming mitigation experiments
and a few that were added to ensure that the systems are not used for military
purposes. The guidelines are included in a paper I gave yesterday at a
conference on '"The Applications of Remote Sensing and GIS for Disaster
Management." held January 19-21, 1999 at the George Washington University.
Copy attached. Note in the guidelines I have made a strong recommendation
for international control.
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- In the future, Dr. Eastlund's technologies
will change our planet. Electrical energy will be available everywhere,
without the need for transmission lines. Disasters from severe thunderstorms
and tornadoes will be minimized, climates will be made milder, and food
production will be enhanced by illuminated skies and ample rainfall. Global
communication will be inexpensive. Critical ozone will be replenished.
And, most importantly, nuclear weapons will have been made obsolete by
the abilities to detect and destroy enemy installations. Terrorism will
also be made much more difficult. In short, Eastlund's discoveries provide
inexpensive energy and an end to draught and hunger-- the major causes
of human violence.
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- But these humane applications are still
in the future. Eastlund's patents remain under the control of the military
industrial complex. We are more likely to see an instantaneous "death
ray," or mass "mind control" mechanisms, before Eastlund's
discoveries make the planet a better place to live.
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- "And he performed great and miraculous
signs, even causing fire to come down from heaven to Earth in full view
of men." -Revelations 13:13
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- Steve Wingate
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