Alaska Science Forum: An attempt to demystify the mysterious A topic worth HAARP-ing on. By Ned Rozell Friday, September 9, 2022 2:44pmNEWSALASKA OUTDOORS NEAR GAKONA, ALASKA — In this wild place where dump truck drivers once tipped load after load of gravel onto the moss to make roads and building pads, scientists rolled open an iron gate one recent Saturday afternoon. They invited in conspiracy theorists, reality-TV hosts and salmon fishermen from Chistochina to the grounds of a mysterious antenna field. It’s a facility that some claim has caused caribou to walk backward. It has been rumored to activate earthquakes, and to hold human souls in a sort of northern purgatory. Scientists were a bit to blame for all the allegations of weirdness out here between the Copper and Gakona rivers. First off, they used an acronym to name it — HAARP, which stands for High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program. That acronym added to the mystery of a field of antennas that can heat a region of space far above our heads with radio waves powered by five powerful diesel generators, each the size of a fuel truck. The upper atmosphere-heating facility named HAARP is located on about 5,000 acres between the small Alaska towns of Glennallen and Tok. (Courtesy Photo / Ned Rozell) The science of studying a region we can’t see by perturbing it with enough electricity to power a small city — located in a place where wolves and bears pad without a sound across its few gravel roads — is hard to wrap your head around. A few people really understand HAARP, though. They were standing on those smoothed piles of gravel that Saturday when the foreboding metal gate clicked open. My former boss Sue Mitchell (now retired) initiated this “open house” a few years ago. She was there again in 2022, greeting people at the first table of the first building visitors walked into. I asked her why. “So we could be as transparent and open as possible,” she said. “Throw open the gate, and show people what’s here.” When she worked at the Geophysical Institute, Mitchell took the considerable hit of answering phone calls about the HAARP facility. She had no answers for people who were sure the antenna field was somehow controlling their minds. “My hope has been by showing people what really goes on, the facts will speak for themselves,” she said. “That doesn’t always work. People sometimes make decisions emotionally, not always based on the facts.” It doesn’t help when the facts are so hard to understand. Here’s a try: The antenna field at this 5,408-acre site far from any Alaska town was first a chunk of black-spruce forest and wetlands U.S Air Force officials purchased from the Native corporation Ahtna in 1989. The idea was to use the location to build an over-the-horizon radar that would allow technicians to observe bombers or missiles that might be headed for America over the pole. Due to the end of the Cold War, that radar was never built. Instead, Air Force workers installed a field of 18 antennas that broadcast high-frequency waves up to the ionosphere, the region of space that is home to the aurora. Geophysical Institute Director Bob McCoy poses with visitor Michael Lewis from Anchorage during a recent open house of the ionosphere-heating facility known as HAARP between Glennallen and Tok. (Courtesy Photo / Ned Rozell) The antenna field over the years grew to 180, each powered by two transmitters. A researcher has called it the world’s largest ham radio. HAARP is a group of high-frequency radio transmitters (in the ham-radio band) powered by five diesel generators — four from tugboats and one from a locomotive. When activated, the transmitters send a focused beam of radio-wave energy into the ionosphere, 50-600 miles overhead. Since it opened in 2003 with funding the late Sen. Ted Stevens helped secure, HAARP has hosted many scientists doing basic science on the auroral zone. Others used it to do applied research for the military. In one such study, researchers used the antenna array to heat a part of the ionosphere that in turn acted as a low frequency antenna that could send an ocean-penetrating signal to a submarine. That ping could tell a submarine captain to surface in order to receive conventional radio communications. This place almost fell to bulldozers in 2012, when the Department of Defense wanted out from under the cost of running the facility (which includes about $250,000 each year just to heat the dozens of transmitter buildings in the winter). About then, Bob McCoy, the director of the Geophysical Institute and a space physicist himself, lobbied for the institute to take over the site. Scientists rallied around him, as did the university president at the time. At the same time, leaders of the National Research Council held a workshop about HAARP. They wrote a 70-page report on science that could be accomplished with the facility. “Even though it’s esoteric and hard to understand, it’s the best,” McCoy said in 2015. The university administration gave McCoy a loan to keep HAARP running. He gambled that he could pay it back by drumming up business from scientists. They would use the transmitters and pay for it with grants from funding agencies. That gamble is paying off, with a new 5-year grant from the National Science Foundation. McCoy was there at the entrance to HAARP that Saturday, answering questions from people like Michael Lewis of Anchorage. Lewis, who wore a baseball hat he had covered with tin foil (apparently for fun), said he had always wanted to see the facility. McCoy posed for a photo with him. Visitors were allowed all over the grounds of the facility during the open house. Swampy ground limited them to drive and walk the few miles of road and gravel pad, including the dormant transmitter array. Scientists and engineers were stationed at strategic points to explain what the complicated equipment did when it was on. A few guests were ham-radio enthusiasts, but most seemed to be just curious people. After the five-hour open house ended, the black gate shut behind the final car. Then, HAARP reverted to what it is most of the year: a silent pile of gravel sprouting with antennae. There, songbirds on their way south flitted through the spruce and on the ground beneath the antenna masts. • Since the late 1970s, the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Geophysical Institute has provided this column free in cooperation with the UAF research community. Ned Rozell ned.rozell@alaska.edu is a science writer for the Geophysical Institute.
I visited some years back at the invitation of the Phillips outfit that ran the place. Zero security, the gate was blocked open by snow. No UFOs, no Black Helicopters. Just a couple of rather care worn mobile homes and a lot of antennas. Had an article published in 73 Magazine (a ham radio rag now long gone) with photos about the visit. Most of the crap promoted about HAARP is from a book written by a school janitor named Begich...of the political family. Also not mentioned is this faculty is not all that far from another 'heater' at Poker Flats. And part of a world-wide network of these 'heaters'/ Ionospheric heater - Wikipedia
That is what we call in the industry a "puff piece". They tell you nothing accept its a harmless hill of rocks that costs a whole lot of money. So much money that its better shut down to save the tax payers some money... Yeah I buy that. Nothing to see here. I guess some people can't connect the dots so the vague answer of 'it heats the atmosphere" is good enough. What does that do? Nothing. Don't think about it. Its pretty obvious that it was built for a reason, other than to warm the birds. It is quite insulting to think that people buy that story hook line and sinker. It can heat the atmosphere and it can communicate with submarines at very deep depths. So it can penetrate the ground and heat it up... what could go wrong? It is a weapon. It was created by the military. Now the question should be what military applications does it have? That would be a story worth posting.
Where does the Submerged Submarine Comms BS come from, in regards to HAARP??? Especialy since this Array operates in the High Frequency Bands.. (Typically in the 3-5 Mhz and 6-12Mhz Bands) Neither of which penetrate SaltWater worth a crap… Your mistake is confusing the Navy’s VLF Transmitters at Jim Creek, Washington, 24.8Khz and the ELF Stations at Star Lake, Wisconsin, Cutler, Maine, and Republic, Michigan, All of which operate down in 40-120Hz Bands… These Bands by the by, do penetrate SaltWater clear down to 250ft, very well, which is why these Stations exist..
It was in the story you posted... You didn't read it? "Others used it to do applied research for the military. In one such study, researchers used the antenna array to heat a part of the ionosphere that in turn acted as a low frequency antenna that could send an ocean-penetrating signal to a submarine."
Just because I posted a Article written by others, does NOT mean that I believe, or even agree it is factual or correct, in all respects. There is so much BS that has been published about HAARP, that even some smart Folks have been taken in by this type of BS. Have you been to HAARP? Both @DKR and I have actually been there and toured the facility.. He as a Tourist, and I as an FCC Resident Field Agent, doing an Inspection of the Site and It's Operations. The Physics say that when in Operation it emits a CW (Continuous Wave Emission), and as such no information is transmitted, except the Carrier Wave itself.. The whole "Cloud Burner" thing is a misnomer Dreamed up by folks who have NO IDEA, what they are talking about, as HAARP heats the Ionosphere, and there are NO CLOUDS at that elevation, EVER... Your whole "heat a part of the ionosphere that in turn acted as a low frequency antenna that could send an ocean-penetrating signal to a submarine." is bogus as that isn't what is going on... The heated Ionosphere is NOT an "Antenna" of any sort, but rather is a Giant Reflector, off which Radio Signals can be bounced, However the Navy Frequencies in question, as noted above, are pure Ground Wave Propagation and do not depend of an Ionospeheric Reflection as a Propagation Pathway. One of the TESTs that was done early on, Before the Whole Array was even completed was to see if the Alaskan Loran C Chain, could be have it's Pulsed Signals bent for more Distance... The Answer to that question was settled in that TEST as it was a FAILURE...There was a bunch of testing of simulated AURORAL Propagation of MF, HF and VHF Signals, using the Artificially Heated Ionosphere generated by HAARP, as a Reflector, and a bunch of Good Data was collected during those successful Tests.
The bogus book that started all of the crap was written by '"Dr. Nick Begich and Jeane Manning" Nick is quite the self-promoter. (Nick Begich Jr. - IMDb) His is also a huckster of the first stripe. The family - Reporting From Alaska- Nick Begich III claims big profits from father's books promoting conspiracies (dermotcole.com) Money quote - Two obvious questions that arise from this are whether Begich III accepts the debunked conspiracy theories promoted by his father and why Begich III’s posted such a big one-year increase in publishing income. (Nick the III is a politician, running as a (R)) and Begich II says he earned a doctorate in 1994 from the "The Open International University for Complementary Medicines", Colombo, Sri Lanka. The university lists Begich as one of its prominent alumni. There are sources online claiming the place is a diploma mill. Begich says his degree from Sri Lanka is a “Doctor of Medicine (Medicina Alternitiva), honoris causa, for independent work in health and political science.” An “honoris causa” degree is one that is awarded without examination, sometimes an honorary degree. At the time, Nick was working as a school janitor. Nothing against janitors, but most are not PhD material. Unless you see PhD as Piled higher and Deeper. ** Jeane Manning writes about "free power" and new age energy. I'll stop here.
Its not my idea, I was just responding to what it said in the article. My interest is purely academic. I think that there is too little information about it released to the public. My question is what exactly is it used for which seems to be a hard question to get an answer to? In all of the college studies I've seen they used it to cause weather anomolies. Since both the Navy and the Air force are involved it seems pretty obvious that it has a military application. What is that military application? It must certainly be more than "a very expensive pile of rocks". Alaska is not the only array is it? In fact there are arrays all over the world. Can they be used to relay the signal or focused together to create a large harmonic resonance and multiply the force? As we have all seen first hand it may very well be a research device used to study the atmosphere but every single invention and discovery ever made by the military also has a military application. Asking people to turn off their minds and not ask questions is not helpful.
The facility was funded by Ted Stevens to put some pork into rural Alaska. Any science was a side benefit.
and the sighting of HAARP in Alaska, is due to being in a location, where the Earth's Magnosphereic Lines are such that they are condusive to allow RF Heating of the Ionosphere, to forming the Artificial Aurora... That can't happen south of 50th Parallel North, or north of the 50Parallel South. "Alaska is not the only array is it?" Again you are mixing the ELF, VLF Naval Communications Systems with the HAARP Array... and Please do not try and pin your Technical responses using that loon at GeoEngineering Watch, His Tinfoil Hat has been on so tight, his brains has leaked out thru his ears...
