HAARP of Darkness

"It is not a time to go into details of this thing. It is founded upon a principle that
means great things in peace; it can be used for great things in war. But I repeat, this
is no time to talk of such things."
-- Nikola Tesla, December 7, 1915

Spoken like a true mad scientist, but not like a columnist on a deadline. The "thing"
that the Man Out of Time refers to is the transmission of electrical energy to produce
"destructive effects at a distance," a succinct, if not necessarily entirely fair,
summary of the means (if not the ends) of the High-frequency Active Auroral
Research Program, or HAARP. And when you mix Tesla and secret Navy research
projects, as we found out on the topic of the Philadelphia Experiment a continent
away, destructive effects at a distance are the least of the fireworks. So let's crank
up the old transmitter, pump a few zillion megawatts into the aether, and see what
turns up, falls out, or glows.

"The HAARP program is completely unclassified. There are no classified documents

pertaining to HAARP. The Environmental Impact Process (EIP) documents have
always been, are now, and will always be completely descriptive of the program in
its entirety. The EIP documents are a matter of public record."
-- Official U.S. Navy HAARP FAQ

On a 33-acre lot about 200 miles northeast of Anchorage, AK, near the town of
Gakona on the Copper River, Advanced Power Technologies, Inc. (APTI), is erecting
180 72-foot radio towers to form a phased-array radio transmitter in the 2.8 to 10
MHz frequency range capable of focusing 3.6 megawatts (and possibly much, much
more) of radio energy onto a microscopic section of the ionosphere, heating it like a
magnifying glass heats a leaf. This Ionospheric Research Instrument (IRI) along with
its associated radars, lidars, and so forth, is the heart of the HAARP project. Why is
APTI building HAARP? Because the U.S. Navy and Air Force are paying them to. Why
would they do such a thing? Why, to study the ionosphere in all its purely scientific
majesty, of course. They wouldn't dream of using the ionosphere as a reflector for
Extremely Low Frequency (ELF) transmissions to nuclear submarines. That'd be just
plain silly.

In all fairness, of course, the ionosphere does have a pretty major impact on
communications of all kinds, both military and civilian -- and as anyone who's ever
used a GPS can tell you, our military is usually pretty good about spreading the
bennies around from such research. The HAARP project is only one (and it's not
even officially the most powerful) of many such "heaters" around the world,
including SURA (near Nizhniy Novgorod in Russia), EISCAT (near Troms?in Norway),
and good old Arecibo in Puerto Rico. The new kid, HAARP began its first test shots
in 1997, completed a useful grid of 48 towers in 1998, and should be fully
operational by 2002.

"What happens when you overstimulate an acupuncture point? You can give
somebody a heart attack very easily with a very low amplitude input . . . Hit one of
those ionospheric acupuncture points in the dynamic matrix of the ionosphere as a
wave guide -- what is the effect going to be?"
-- astrophysicist Adam Trombly

Which, according to Jeane Manning and Dr. Nick Begich, in Angels Don't Play This
HAARP, will be when all hell officially breaks loose. In 230 pages, they warn that the
HAARP program (or the vastly larger heater for which it is either test-bed, stalking-
horse, or coverup project) will unleash a potentially disastrous chain reaction, rip a
giant hole in the ionosphere, blow the ozone layer all to heck, dangerously heat the
globe, set off super-hurricanes, create earthquakes, fry forests, and as a final act,
precipitate a life-destroying Pole Shift.

And worse yet, the military might be building HAARP to do all of that on purpose. In
theory, by heating a carefully mapped portion of the ionosphere, you can create
"auroral electrojet modification" effects, essentially diverting or altering high-
atmospheric electrical patterns, hence those ELF communicators I mentioned. And,
according to not-quite-fringe atmospheric physicists, it might be possible to use
auroral electrojet modification to superheat portions of the jet stream, or the global
cloud patterns. What we have here, then, is U.S. Navy weather control, and the
reason that Manning and Begich are so out of sorts is that the HAARP project uses
patents filed by Dr. Bernard Eastlund. In 1985, Eastlund (an employee of APTI's
parent company, ARCO) proposed a super-HAARP the size of Rhode Island on the
Alaskan North Slope to do just that, along with knocking missiles out of the sky with
super-updrafts, electrically eradicating aircraft guidance systems, and potentially
releasing "nuclear-scale" energies (Or "Tunguska-scale." Hmmm.) into tightly
focused areas of the enemy's atmosphere. Destructive effects at a distance, indeed.

"HARP [sic] was another project whose need for research and development was
suggested to us by the challenge posed by flying saucers . . . We were also
exploring weapons systems that had a double or triple use, and HARP . . . was one
such system."
-- Col. Philip J. Corso (Ret.), The Day After Roswell

But don't order yet, there's more. The effects of ELF waves on the human brain and
blood chemistry are ill-documented, but they can sure sound scary when you use
phrases like "locked into resonance with an outside transmitter." HAARP, in short, is
potentially a giant RHIC-EDOM (Radio Hypnotic Intracerebra Control -- Electronic
Dissolution Of Memory) device, the latest thing in MKULTRA mind control. The
similar Soviet "woodpecker" technology, of course, shows up at SURA; between
weather warfare and dueling mind-beams, it's no wonder we never got around to
just shooting it out.

And all of this, especially the scary word "resonance," takes us back to Tesla, whose
mysterious experiments with wireless transmission of electricity presage HAARP not
only in spirit -- but in fact. Because Eastlund, it turns out, is one of those people
who investigates Tesla technologies, and he references two Tesla patents in the
"prior art" section of his own filings. So, to all of HAARP's other vices and virtues,
one can add Tesla-scale free energy (drawn from atmospheric potential), resonant
death-rays, force-field projection, and communication with Mars. Speaking of
whom, those who don't go the Tesla route for HAARP's heritage hint at reverse-
engineered UFO technology at its core. And, with the HAARP's "global deep
tomography" settings, you can map out all those Dero caverns and earthquake 'em
till they're so much Grey gravel. Or, of course, you can look to the skies.

"The ends of the land and sea are bounded by an immense abyss, over which a
narrow and dangerous pathway leads to the heavenly regions. The sky is a great
dome of hard material arched over the Earth. There is a hole in it through which the
spirits pass to the true heavens. Only the spirits of those who have died a voluntary
or violent death, and the raven, have been over this pathway. The spirits who live
there light torches to guide the feet of new arrivals. This is the light of the aurora."
-- Ernest W. Hawkes, The Labrador Eskimo

Where, according to the peoples of the Arctic, the best possible things you find are
the spirits of the violently murdered or suicidal -- in other words, the land of ghosts
(in Inuit, selamiut, "sky-dwellers"). The Point Barrow Inuit carried knives to drive the
auroral spirits away (magnetic iron dissipating the auroral ghost-HAARPs?). To the
Nunivak, the aurora-spirits were walrus-demons, playing ball with human skulls. The
Fox knew the aurora was an omen of pestilence; made up of ghosts of slain
enemies. The Makah, intriguingly, identified the aurora with the fires of "little men,"
although to the Menominee, giants set the aurora fires. The Romans knew the aurora
as pluvia sanguinea (the "blood rain"); to the Chinese they were ominous tien lieh,
"cracks in heaven." So the ionosphere, in prime Fortean style, is home to some kind
of badass ultraterrestrials, possibly connected to the Wendigo (who drives men to
cannibalism -- much as if he had a mind-control device). And that's what HAARP
(and its cousins and secret super-seniors) is shooting at. Or trying to energize.

"We are very interested in the fact that many of the 'lying signs and wonders' of the
Antichrist can be staged by the technology of HAARP. Further, many of the physical
acts of judgment contained in the Book of Revelation, and parallel passages in the
Major and Minor prophets, can be created by this HAARP technology."
-- "A Terrifying Look At Control of Weather Warfare," Cutting Edge Ministries, #1207

So depending on your game, HAARP can be the last, best hope of mankind to fight
off UFO aliens, sky ghosts, Commie global-warming conspirators, or Dero. It can
draw power from Tesla technology, from the Earth's crystalline vortex-structure, or
from the creatures hidden in the "cracks in heaven." HAARP (or its forgotten
ancestor, constructed by Thomas Edison on secret orders from Secretary of State
Seward after buying Alaska) can be a sweet steampunk "laser launcher"; ionizing the
luminiferous aether to hurl Belle Epoque electro-ships to the crystal Pyramids of
Mars. It can be the deadly Instrument of Control by which the CIA and the ONR drive
people insane at random (or by design), rack the Third World with drought, rewrite
the human genome with remote-controlled mutation beams, kill the spotted owl and
the wise dolphin, and find oil reserves while hoarding free-energy Tesla technology.
It can be tuning its frequencies, or timing its pulses, to light up the sky in a giant
kabbalistic sequence, skywriting sacred geometry into the auroral electrojet and
summoning (or creating) a god-form in the ionosphere. Or, since there's more than
one heater beaming the auroras into a tizzy, all of the above. The only way to know
for sure is to stretch out those GMing strings and play that HAARP.

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Article publication date: November 5, 1999

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