figure 1. Spectrum Analysis of a
Typical HAARP Pulse
This graph shows both the signal amplitude, in
yellow at the top, and a spectral analysis of
theHAARP
pulsein the blue/green patterns
at the bottom. To listen to the sound file from which this analysis
was made use below player panel.
HAARP(High-Frequency
Active Auroral Research Program) is a high-powered radio
transmission research facility jointly operated by the US Navy, Air
Force and several universities. Because of the high secrecy
surrounding the government HAARP project, many theories have risen
trying to explain what HAARP is and does. Most of them are simply
wild speculations, based on fears about what "they are doing up
there." It is the purpose of this article to provide sufficient
technical expertise to dispel the
mystery.
Theabove HAARP
signalwas monitored on 3.39 MHZ
and recorded in San Jose, California, about 5,000 miles from the
transmitter inGakona, eastern
central Alaska. At that distance and frequency, the signal can only
be heard during the night after two F-layer ionospheric skips. Some
short-term signal fading over the signal path may be the cause for
the variations in the smooth roll-off in the amplitude from 1 sec
to the end of the pulse at 6.25 secs. These
loud6 second
pulsesare usually repeated with
a quiet 15 or 30 second pause between
pulses.
1. HAARP and ULF (Ultra Low Frequency)
Waves
TheHAARP sound
recordingmay
seemfull of static. It is
not. The rushing roaring sound of a blow torch is
theHAARP
signalitself, as shown by the
silence or background noise of the receiver at the end of the
pulse, and by the clarity of the tones at the beginning. If you
wanted to see or hear the ULF (ultra low frequency) waves sent out
by the HAARP transmitter, you will be disappointed
here.
My receiver is not equipped to record ULF waves in the region of 1
to 10 Hz, and has an audio roll-off in the range of about 30 Hz.
And besides, you can't hear or see a 0.9 or 1 Hz signal anyway. It
is way below the range of normal human hearing. You need
instruments to sense it. A powerful 1 Hz sound would probably be
"sensed" as a slow rolling earthquake or a slight rocking motion as
on the ocean. Nonetheless, a major component and purpose
ofthe HAARP signal is an audio
modulation at the frequency of about 0.9 Hz. And what is that
purpose? I'll get to that in a
moment.
2. HAARP Interaction with the
Atmosphere
TheHAARP
pulseis primarily divided
intotwo components. The first
part is the sections marked A and B on the chart above and is the
powerful "pre-heat" megawatt pulse aimed upward at the ionosphere
just above the HAARP facility. As the radio waves travel up through
the atmosphere they have no effect until they reach
theionosphereabout
200 kilometers above the earth, which is far above the atmosphere.
At that point the waves interact with the ions, which may be
electrons, protons or ionized parts of atoms like oxygen, ozone or
nitrogen.
Normally the particles in the near vacuum of outer-space in the
region of the ionosphere are simply moving randomly in all
directions. Some particles may hit each other and re-combine into
normal atoms of oxygen and nitrogen, thus simply becoming a part of
the atmosphere. Other particles may drift off into space and others
may move downward into the thicker atmosphere where they
re-combine. Then along comesthe
HAARP signal.
For about a quarter second during
thepart A and B of the pulse,
the randomly moving ions are now forced to madly race back and
forth in the direction of the radio waves at the speed of light or
300,000 kilometers per second, which is real fast. Many of them
strike atoms in the upper atmosphere and cause the atoms to also
become ionized. Thus the number of ions is suddenly increased.
Since the neutral atoms in the atmosphere do not react to the radio
waves, they remain more or less stationary, and become "sitting
ducks" just waiting to be hit by one of the billions of racing ions
all rushing back and forth in response to
theHAARP
waves.
Even if the neutral atoms don't become ionized, many of them are
struck by the fast ions and soon most of the atmospheric atoms high
above
theHAARPtransmitter
are also rushing in all directions but not back and forth as are
the ions. This sudden increase in the motion of both the atoms and
ions in the upper atmosphere is called "ionospheric
heating." In fact, the HAARP facility, along with several
similar research instruments in Europe and Russia, are in the
category ofIonospheric
Heaters. But its what HAARP does next during
thepart
Cof the pulse which makes HAARP
unique.
3. Components of the
HAARP
Pulse
Inportion
Aof the pulse, identifier tones
are sent at frequencies of 360, 1000 and 1700 Hz, with some
harmonics at higher frequencies visible on the graph. In part B the
tones are 650 Hz with a harmonic at 1300 Hz. On the chart the
yellow color indicates a very strong signal, the green indicates a
medium strength signal and the blue shows a weak
signal.
Inpart
Cof the signal there is a
continuous tone at 2100 Hz which remains during the whole pulse and
sometimes several seconds afterward. There is also a much weaker
tone around 2500 Hz during all of the pulse. And then there is all
that green/yellow stuff at the bottom, sloping upward to the right
during all of part C. What the heck is that? To explain that we
need to look at the HAARP antenna itself.
Showing the crossed beams of the circularly
polarized antennas.
TheHAARP"antenna
farm"consists of 48
towers, soon to be180,
about 25 meters tall and each is topped with a pair of crossed
beams in a north-south and east-west direction. The actual
radiating parts of the antenna include those wires dangling from
the ends of the beams.
By sloping the wires and hooking all the
antennas together they act as one large single antenna covering 33
acres which can transmit in the north-south or east-west
direction.
4. HAARP Circular
Polarization
IfHAARPonly
used the north-south beams then the electrons and protons in the
ionosphere would race madly in the north-south direction. And
likewise if the radio waves move in the east-west direction, so
would the ions. What HAARP does is on each portion of the
transmitter cycle it switches from the east-west to the north-south
beams and back again.
If you could see the radio waves rising from the antenna they would
appear to be spiraling or "cork-screwing" upward. This is called
"circular polarization" of the radio signal. This is not uncommon,
since all commercial FM stations use circular polarization to send
horizontal signals to home roof antennas and vertical signals to
automobile antennas.
ButHAARPis
not broadcasting to homes or autos, nor is it switching on each
cycle. No, the HAARP signal is corkscrewing upward at a rate
of,TADA!, about 0.9
Hz.And why is that? By
corkscrewing the signal, the ions in the upper atmosphere do not
just race madly back and forth, instead they move in BIG circles.
And you can get the most ions running around the "race course" just
aboveHAARPif
you make them have a "lap time" of about once per
second.
5. Optimizing the HAARP
Rotation
What determines the optimum "lap
time" is something called the plasma density and is related to the
temperature, number of ions, number of neutral atoms in the
ionosphere, and some other factors I won't mention
here.
(Note: For more information on plasma density consult
any of the many graduate texts
onplasma physics. Also, I have
oversimplified the relation between the 0.9 Hz signal and the "lap
time." It is not my purpose here to provide a complete description
ofionospheric
cyclotronicinteractions.)
By making the ions, both electrons and protons, move in big circles
they each become little electromagnets with a north and south pole.
At the latitude of HAARP
inGakona, Alaska the earth's
magnetic field lines are nearly vertical. So if the HAARP circular
polarization is either clockwise or counter-clockwise you can make
the ions racing around at 0.9 Hz either be attracted to the earth's
magnetic north pole or repelled. If the circling ions are
attracted, then they would simply spiral downward toward the
earth's north pole and run into the denser atmosphere and might
produce a very weak aurora, hence the
nameHigh Frequency Active Auroral
Research Program. That's all very interesting but its not
exactly the real purpose of
HAARP.
6. HAARP as a
"Particle
Gun"
If
theHAARPsignal
rotates so the ions circle around with their north poles pointing
downward, then they are repelled by the earth's magnetic north pole
and are shot out into the vacuum of space at nearly the speed of
light. Wow, you mean HAARP is a particle gun? You betcha! The
largest one around, sorta.
But its not really a "gun" because you can't aim it at anything.
The particles simply shoot off into space. But they are still
spiraling and are magnetic, and as a result they follow along the
earth's magnetic field. In less than half a second they arrive at
the earth's south pole. There, they don't even touch the atmosphere
but are caused to spiral more tightly by the earth's converging
magnetic field lines, until they are made to flip over and are shot
right back to the north pole, all in less than a second.
ThusHAARPis
really a particle injector which fires billions of ions into the
"magnetic bottle" of the earth's magnetosphere, where they
remain trapped for a long
time.
7. Uses of the HAARP Particle Injection
Device
So what can you do with
aparticle
injectorlikeHAARP?
According to the original patent design, this device could be used
to produce a thick blanket of fast particles in the region of the
magnetosphere which would knock out any electronic controls on, or
possibly completely destroy, any space vehicle which flew through
it. This was most interesting in the 1980's when the patent was
filed and even in 1990 when the US government decided to build
HAARP. At that time the main nuclear threat was the USSR and any
missile from Russia aimed at the US would need to pass through the
magnetosphere over the north pole.
By
deploying theHAARP system, no
missiles from Russia would reach the US. None. Zero. And that is
pretty effective! Most people think of an ICBM as a kind of big
rock or arrow. You just lob it from here and it sorta lands on the
target over there. Not so. An ICBM is a space vehicle. It must take
off using a large booster rocket, travel at near orbital speed in
the vacuum of space until it is over the target then it must
re-enter the atmosphere.
To survive re-entry the missile must use one of several schemes,
like retro rockets, or deploying an ablative heat shield to protect
the warhead from simply burning up in the atmosphere. If the
missile'scomputer controlsare
destroyed when passing through the magnetosphere then the missile
will not survive re-entry and will simply burn up like a piece of
space junk or a meteor. There's a good chance the missile's control
systems are destroyed even before the second stage separates from
the booster, thus the missile never even arrives over the
target.
8. The
HAARP Shield and the "Cold
War"
In the 1980's and '90's a number
ofStrategic Defense
Initiative(SDIor
"Star Wars") programs were developed. All of them, which relied on
shooting particle beams, lasers or anti-ballistic missiles at the
target were made obsolete and useless in the early 1980's. I know,
since I worked on a number of them. They all relied on knowing
where the target was and then shooting something at the target. The
development of non-radar-reflective paint and surfaces, or stealth
technology, meant you can't tell where the target is. If you don't
know where it is, how can you shoot at it? The only effective
defensive shield concept was and is
HAARP.
My suspicion is, the decision to
buildHAARPin
1990 was one of the major reasons for the collapse of the Soviet
Union in 1991. Since ALL soviet missiles would be destroyed before
re-entering the atmosphere, the USSR had neither an offensive nor
defensive missile weapons system, other than nuclear submarines.
The US could turn on and off the HAARP shield at will, so it was
almost like putting the "shields" up or down on Captain Kirk's
Enterprise on the "real" Star Wars. You put the shields down to
fire weapons, then put the shields back up to defend against any
incoming missiles. The USSR was no longer a nuclear threat nor even
a nuclear power as soon as the HAARP system was built. Bye, Bye
USSR.
9. Where the HAARP Shield
Fails
Unfortunately,
theHAARP
systemis not exactly
liketheshields
on the Enterprise. The shield follows along the lines of the
earth's magnetic field. Near the north and south poles the
magnetosphere reaches down to almost touch the atmosphere. But near
the equator the magnetosphere is several thousand miles out in
space.
A missile from Russia going over the polar region must pass through
themagnetosphere. But a
missile
fromChinacan
deploy a second stage, reach orbit and deploy for re-entry all
below an altitude of several hundred miles and never come anywhere
near the magnetosphere. ThusHAARP
is no defense against Chinese nuclear weapons. A new technology
is needed. And it was found.
10. New Methods for the HAARP
Shield
About 1995 a number
ofionospheric research
physicistsstudying particles
coming from the sun, noticed the height of the particles above the
earth's surface bouncing back and forth from pole to pole was
dependent on their velocity. By slowing the particles down the
racing electrons and protons in the magnetosphere would drop down
from several thousand miles to almost the top of the atmosphere
about 20 to 50 miles above the surface. Could HAARP be used to make
that happen? Yes.
By changing the frequency at which ions race "around the track"
above HAARP just before they are shot out into space, you can
determine the height at which they
travel.
11. The Pulse Graph
Shows New HAARP
Technology
Simply by changing the frequency of the circular
polarization during theHAARP
pulsea vertical curtain of
extremely fast particles can be made to drop down from the
magnetosphere to just above the top of the atmosphere along the
direction which the HAARP signal is sent. In the graph of fig.1 the
sloping lines of the green/yellow color are caused by the base
frequency of 0.9 to 1 Hz being shifted slightly during the
pulse.
What is seen in the graph is the higher frequency harmonics of the
square wave pulses which heat the ions but it is the ULF component
which fires them into space. And it is the slow shifting of the ULF
component during the pulse which produces the vertical curtain
shield. I have seen and heard many pulses with the sound seeming to
be falling. In this sample the sound is slightly rising. Sounding
something like the rising roar of a jet engine during
take-off.
12. What Else You Can Learn About
HAARP
Well, that is a thumbnail sketch of what you can
discover by looking at the graph and listening to the sound of
theHAARP
transmitter.Of course, none of
this is part of the "official" story you can get by rummaging
through the web pages
atthe "official" HAARP
website. You might learn about the
number of university programs which are performing research on the
ionosphere. But even in the "cover story" of ionospheric research,
they hardly mention the study of Alfven Waves at the ultra low
frequency (ULF) of 0.9 Hz. HAARP is supposed to be
anHForHigh-Frequencyfacility.
They do mention some of the students are doing studies
onELF(Extremely
Low Frequency) waves. But the only way you might find out HAARP
is primarily a ULF facility, despite its name, is by looking at the
technical specifications of the instrumentation.
Especially,the Induction
Magnetometerinstrument which was made
and tuned for HAARP to detect the pc1 Alfven waves in the magnetic
field with a ULF frequency of 0.9
Hz.
You can find out about the
Navy'sELF
Systemsfor communicating to nuclear
submarines from antennas in Wisconsin and Michigan operating at 76
Hz. You will find nothing about how the US Navy has been using
HAARP's ULF signal to transmit much deeper in the ocean. Other
countries can communicate to deep subs with transmitters and
antennas which can go down to about 7 Hz. But HAARP operates at
about 1 Hz. The lower the frequency the deeper the signal
penetrates the ocean. To find out about the Navy's "Official"
explanation of what they are doing
atHAARP, check out
theNavy HAARP Fact
Sheet.
At theHAARP
websiteyou might learn the third
member of the triumvirate which operates the facility is the US Air
Force. And that's about all you
learn.Nothing is said about any
Air Force activity at HAARP. Until you read this article you
would never have guessed, thepart
of the Air Force which operates the HAARP
facilityis
theSpace Vehicles Directorate, whose primary task is planning and engaging
inspace warfare. Check out
the "Official" Space Vehicles
DirectorateAF HAARP Fact
Sheetto see what they want you to
know. Now, why would theSpace
Vehicles Directoratebe
interested in playing with some radios in Alaska? Doh. Well, now
you know.
To find out about theprimary
purpose of HAARPyou can take a
look atthe patent filed by Dr.
Eastlund in 1985. The patent is
filled with a lot of those strange "chicken scratchings" of higher
calculus used by plasma physicists and theoretical radio
scientists. Just ignore those. That's only the stuff you put in
patents to fool the patent inspectors into thinking you know what
you're talking about before you actually build a device to prove
you are right.
But
the patent does have some nice pictures of how the "corkscrewing"
waves from the transmitter interact with the ions in the ionosphere
to shoot them out into space. Along with the patent bibliography
there is a clear description of how a "HAARP" type device can be
used. Taken together they give a rather dry, but chilling
description of the future of warfare in space.
There are two items which you will see of prime
importance:
(1)the patent has
been assigned toAPTI Inc,
(APTI is a small subdivision of oil company ARCO, the prime defense
contractor which built HAARP)
(2)the Patent Office
Classifications for the Eastlund patent
are089/1.11and376/100-123
And
what do those classifications mean? Here's what the US Pat Off says
about those Classifications.
Class 089
ORDNANCE Class Definition:
This class includes all guns adapted to be mounted or supported
otherwise than by hand, all explosion-operated guns including hand
and shoulder firearms, bomb dropping devices, and those gun
combinations and subcombinations which are not provided for in
other classes including mounts, supports, carriages, loading and
hoisting mechanisms, shields.
Subclass: 1.11 WAGING WAR: This subclass is indented under the class
definition. Subject matter relating to conducting wars between
nations and states, to tactics employed by a military, police, or
like unit, or individual to the detriment of an
adversary.
Class
376
INDUCED NUCLEAR REACTIONS: PROCESSES, SYSTEMS, AND
ELEMENTS Class Definition:
This class provides for patents directed to processes involving
induced nuclear reactions and structures which implement such
processes.
376 subclass
100 NUCLEAR FUSION:
This subclass is indented under the class definition. Subject
matter comprising structures and processes in which two reacting
nuclei are combined to yield at least one nucleus having a greater
mass than either of the reacting
nuclei.
376 Subclass
123 Principal heating by
wave energy: This subclass is indented under subclass 121.
Subject matter wherein most of the energy imparted to the nuclei
for bringing the nuclei to a condition sufficient for reaction to
take place is imparted through electromagnetic
energy.
The title of Eastlund's Patent is "Method for producing
a shell of relativistic particles at an altitude above the earths
surface." You can see for yourself
theAssigneeand
theClassificationsright
on the first page ofthe text version of
Eastlund's Patent. And in addition, you
should look at the "CLAIMS" section and read claim "7. The
method of claim 6 wherein said shell is formed as an anti-missile
shield."
Also at the very end of the patent in the section called "BEST
MODES FOR CARRYING OUT THE
INVENTION"you will
read,
"It
can be seen from the above, that by generating a shell 20 of high
density, relativistic particle plasma, an effective defensive
shield can be provided to guard against offensive
missiles."
And that should clarify the purpose of the patent, and thus
thepurpose and mission of
HAARP.
So
what does all that mean?
Well,HAARPitself
is a radio transmitter system which heats a small portion of the
ionosphere above the facility and does not directly produce nuclear
reactions. The circularly polarized radio waves or "electromagnetic
radiation" do cause
"cyclotron"reactions in
the ionsosphereto toss the ions
into the magnetic bottle of the magnetosphere.
All
those fast ions trapped in the magnetosphere then act as a "shield"
used by the "military" to cause the incoming missiles to go Boom!
And that is the "induced nuclear reactions" indicated by the
patent classification. So much
forHAARPjust
being a government facility for doing research on the
aurora.
And if you want the real lowdown info on what
"those guys" are really doing up there
atHAARP, then you can take a
look atThe Unauthorized
History of HAARP.