“Creating Weather?”

By Scott Hamilton

This is a new area for me that might begin to sound a little like a conspiracy theory, but I have been reading a lot about the High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) project recently, especially on social media platforms, and wondered if there was any possibility of reaching the truth. First I have to say that the HAARP project does exist as a research program out of the University of Alaska. The aim of HAARP is to study the properties and behavior of the ionosphere.

I know I have introduced a lot of new terms above so we will tackle them one at a time. The ionosphere is a layer of our atmosphere that stretches roughly 50 to 400 miles above Earth’s surface. The ionosphere can be thought of like the outer layer of our atmosphere; it seals in the air we breath and blocks out harmful radiation from space. The ionosphere contains a lot of ions, which are atoms or molecules that contain a net charge, basically meaning that they will attract other ions with opposite charges. The ions usually bond, or join with other ions of opposite charge rather quickly and are fairly rare near the surface of the earth. But on the edge of space, they are constantly hit with electromagnetic radiation from our sun, causing the bonds between the ions to constantly break. The breaking of these ionic bonds absorbs the energy from the electromagnetic wave and prevents it from reaching the surface of the Earth. Without the ionosphere we would have constant radiation on the surface.

We have seen unprecedented levels of electromagnetic activity from the sun over the course of this last year as we have observed via seeing the Northern Lights as far south as Florida. On Thursday night it was a fairly bright show for us in the Ozarks, but what causes such a light show? This just happens to be one of the things that HAARP is researching. We know that when you hit certain ions with electromagnetic radiation they emit different colors of light, so all the various colors in the northern lights indicate different ions in the ionosphere. We can learn a lot about the overall health of the atmosphere by studying the ratio of the ions in the ionosphere, and this is one of the core topics being researched by HAARP.

So exactly how does HAARP conduct this research? They utilize a high power transmitter facility operating in the High Frequency range known as the Ionospheric Research Instrument to excite a limited area of the ionosphere. This basically means that they bombard parts of the ionosphere with man-made electromagnetic waves. They use this to better understand the natural processes that occur from the sun in a controlled manner. Basically they are simulating the sun.

HAARP was controlled by the United States Air Force up until August 11, 2015, when they signed the project over to the University of Alaska. Prior to this sign-over, HAARP consisted primarily of a single large transmitter site in Alaska. It was discovered that the technology could be utilized to “alter atmospheric conditions,” but no details into level of manipulation are publicly disclosed. This opens up a question as to whether or not it could be utilized to create or dissipate storms. The HAARP project publicly claims that it is a rather boring project and is only capable of improving radio communication technologies by understanding interactions with the ionosphere.

There are a lot of theories out there on the web today making claims of complete weather control, and many of them are very convincing. They all seem to ride on research coming out of the HAARP program, including over 500 patents on weather control devices, but again there is no hard evidence that they have been built, tested or utilized in any way. The one thing that I know for sure is that HAARP no longer consists of a single transmitter, but through partnerships with other global universities, the project has expanded to have transmitters throughout the globe.

Interestingly a couple of the local amateur radio operators noticed large spikes in the high-frequency ranges claimed to be in use by HAARP during all the recent electromagnetic storms. What they don’t know and cannot prove is if the radiation spikes are coming from the HAARP towers, or if they are natural phenomenon coming from the interaction between a solar flare and the ionosphere. I must admit that I do not really know what to believe, but it does seem plausible that HAARP is causing the Northern Lights displays and using solar flare forecasts as a cover-up. However, exciting the ionosphere to cause the Northern Lights in the south is far from an ability to create and control massive storms, even if it can be considered weather control. They do admit to having the ability to excite the ionosphere, but they deny that they are the cause of the Northern Lights in our area.

Until next week stay safe and learn something new.

Scott Hamilton is an Expert in Emerging Technologies at ATOS and can be reached with questions and comments via email to sh*******@te**********.org or through his website at https://www.techshepherd.org.