Alaska residents observed an artificial aurora in the sky created by the HAARP – High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program during a research campaign that took place from November 4 to 7. Facts ICTV spoke with military expert Oleg Zhdanov about the purpose and danger of the HAARP system.
HAARP system: what is known
HAARP (High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program) is a US research project to study the interaction of the ionosphere with powerful electromagnetic radiation.
The project was launched in 1997 in Gakona, Alaska, with the stated goal of studying the nature of the ionosphere and developing air defense and missile defense systems. However, in 2013, HAARP was stopped. Later, US Air Force spokesman David Walker said that the command no longer plans to support the project. According to him, other ways to control the ionosphere, which HAARP was supposed to study, will be developed in the future. As a result, the facility itself and its equipment were transferred to the University of Alaska in 2015. It is currently open to the public.
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Features of the HAARP complex
The HAARP system is not unique. There are two other stations in the United States alone – in Puerto Rico and in Alaska near the city of Fairbanks. Both facilities have similar HAARP instruments. There are two complexes of the same class for ionospheric research located in Norway.
Similar complexes and stations are located:
- in Vasilsursk (Russia) – Sura, the second station in terms of radiated power after HAARP;
- in Tomsk (Russia) – several active impact complexes based on an ionospheric station;
- in the Kharkov region (Ukraine) – Ionospheric Observatory of the Institute of Ionosphere;
- in Dushanbe (Tajikistan) – Horizon radio system;
- in Jicamarca (Peru) – analogues of HAARP.
Most of these stations can stimulate small, localized areas of the ionosphere. However, HAARP still differs from these complexes in its unusual combination of research instruments, which allows control of radiation, wide-frequency coverage, etc.
HAARP Specifications
HAARP includes:
- antennas;
- incoherent radiation radar with an antenna with a diameter of 12 cm;
- laser locators;
- magnetometers;
- computers for signal processing and control of an antenna field of 180 antennas.
To provide power, the complex is equipped with a powerful gas power plant and six diesel generators.
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Unlike radio broadcast stations, many of which have 1 MW transmitters but weakly directional antennas, HAARP and similar systems use highly directional transmit antennas, usually phased array antennas, capable of focusing almost all of the radiated energy into a narrow beam and therefore a small area space.
How dangerous is the HAARP system?
Despite the fact that the radiation power of HAARP is small even compared to a lightning discharge, there have been cases when representatives of different states claimed that climate weapons were used against their countries.
According to military expert Oleg Zhdanov, HAARP has nothing to do with any military developments.
This is a purely scientific development and research project.
The only thing the ionosphere is used by troops for is communications, says Zhdanov. The fact is that this layer of our atmosphere is capable of reflecting radio waves from anti-aircraft radiation antennas. Long-distance communication increases over hundreds of kilometers due to the reflection of the signal from the ionosphere.
— There is no influence on weapons there. To date, there is no evidence that it causes tsunamis or windfalls, or earthquakes. In general, climate or seismic weapons do not exist in the world today,” the expert summarizes.
