HAARP is a climate weapon. But what really? Competent comments about HAARP

In the northern United States, 400 km from Anchorage, at the Gakhona military base, there is an unusual object. A huge area of ​​the territory is planted with a forest of 25-meter antennas. This is HAARP (High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program). The base is surrounded by barbed wire, the perimeter is guarded by armed Marine patrols, and the airspace above the research facility is closed to all types of civilian and military aircraft. After the events of September 11, 2001, air defense systems were also installed around HAARP.

The total area occupied by the HAARP project is about 25 hectares, of which about 14 hectares are occupied by antennas. In total, there are about 180 antennas with a height of 20 meters. HAARP is not that easy to get to - the helicopter is the main means of transporting US Navy and US Airforce scientists to their work sites.

This facility was built jointly by the US Navy and Air Force to study the combat use of disturbances in the Earth's ionosphere and magnetosphere. Scientific journals claim that using HAARP it is possible to create artificial northern lights, jam over-the-horizon radar stations for early detection of ballistic missile launches, communicate with submarines in the ocean, and even detect underground secret enemy complexes. HAARP radio emissions can penetrate underground and diagnose hidden bunkers and tunnels, burn out electronics, and disable space satellites. In addition, specialists working at HAARP are trying to create technologies for influencing the atmosphere that will make it possible to change the weather to the point of triggering natural disasters: heavy rains, earthquakes, floods and hurricanes.

The Federation of American Scientists website claims that this is just scientific work. Allegedly, the stations were created to study the properties of the ionosphere in order to better use communication systems. True, on the same website it is written in fine print that these “scientific” experiments are financed by the US Air Force and the special department of the US Navy. And the finances are considerable: $25 billion was spent on the Alaskan station alone.

When journalists asked the former patent owner about the actual significance of this “scientific research,” he explained that “the antenna structure in Alaska is in reality a huge beam weapon capable of destroying not only all communications networks, but also missiles, airplanes, satellites and much more. Additionally, it has the potential to cause climate disasters around the world, or at least in some regions, and deadly cosmic radiation, from which there is no protection, in strictly defined places, all through the irresponsibility of military and government officials.”

You can use this creation for example for purposes such as:

Generation of ultra-low frequency waves for communication with submarines underwater.

Tracking geophysical probes to identify and describe natural ionospheric processes in order to develop methods for their control or modification.

Obtaining ionospheric lenses for focusing large amounts of high-frequency energy, which makes it possible to “turn on” ionospheric processes

Acceleration of electrons and implementation of emission in the IR and other optical ranges, which can be used to control the processes of radio wave propagation.

Obtaining geomagnetic fields with oriented ionization to control the processes of reflection/propagation of radio waves.

Using indirect heating to influence radio propagation processes to enhance potential military applications of enhanced ionospheric technology.

HARP installations are already operating, although not at full capacity - the military themselves are afraid of their creation. However, “experiments” are apparently already being carried out. Many scientists believe that most of the cataclysms that have shaken the world in recent years are a consequence of these unnatural “experiments.” There is an extraordinary drought in Europe, numerous tsunamis that have claimed thousands of lives, earthquakes in the most unexpected places, and much, much more.

“Controlled fields” created by high-frequency bases in Alaska and Norway currently more than cover the entire territory of the former USSR. This means that the operators of these bases, by pressing a couple of buttons, can easily disrupt the radio communication system over vast areas of our country, nullify satellite navigation, confuse long-range air defense radars and disable the on-board electronics of military and civilian ships and aircraft.

Let's not forget about the so-called side effects. Yuri Perunov, a radio engineer, a leading Soviet and Russian specialist in the field of studying the interaction of high-frequency electromagnetic radiation with the near-Earth environment, stated the following in one of his interviews: “Further work on the HARP program will give Americans a real and immediate opportunity to get their hands on not only geophysical and climatic, but also psychotronic weapons. To put it bluntly, people will wake up one morning and not even be able to understand that their thoughts, desires, tastes, their choice of food and clothing, mood and political views are determined by the operator of a HARP-type installation. “I have reason to believe that it was the proximity to the creation of psychotronic weapons that was one of the main reasons why all the results of research on HARP were classified in 1997.” Until the end of the eighties, Yuri Perunov intensively explored precisely the area that HARP today monopolizes. But funding for our work in this area was stopped.

American meteorologists are not the only ones accusing their neighbors of the planet of using climate weapons. Rumors about dubious experiments with weather in the USA and the USSR have more than once become the cause of political scandals. After the famous flood of 2002, similar scandals swept across Europe - then parliamentarians accused the “American military” of undermining the EU economy.

Russian politicians have not remained aloof from this “hot” topic. The first officials to start searching for climate weapons were State Duma deputies from the LDPR and Communist Party factions. In 2002, the Defense Committee brought up for discussion the issue of the harmful effects on the climate of experiments on the influence of the Earth's ionosphere and magnetosphere. The object of the deputies' research was the American HAARP system.

“The catastrophic flood in Germany, France and the Czech Republic, the tornadoes off the coast of Italy, where there have never been tornadoes, are nothing more than the disastrous consequences of the Americans testing geophysical weapons,” said State Duma deputy of the third convocation Tatyana Astrakhankina. — The weapon has already been created and tested in low-power modes. The installation will soon be completed and its capacity will increase several times.”

Deputies vigorously discussed the use of "HAARP", as a result of which in 2002 they prepared appeals to President Vladimir Putin, as well as to the UN, demanding the creation of a common international commission to investigate the experiments carried out in Alaska. Then the scandalous appeal was signed by 90 people's representatives.

Why is it so difficult to land on the moon? Early last month (September 7), the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) lost contact with the Vikram lunar lander while landing the vehicle on the satellite's south pole. Conclusion: space is a difficult place. If the module had landed successfully, India would have become the fourth country to make a soft landing on the lunar regolith, and in a region of the satellite where no one had ever landed a vehicle. Earlier this year, the privately owned Israeli module Beresheet suffered the same fate. That one also crashed, potentially populating the moon with tardigrades. In total, out of 30 attempts to make a soft landing on the Earth's satellite, more than a third ended in failure. Why is it so difficult to land on the Moon? Illustration by Vikram (ISRO) According to aerospace engineer Alicia Dwyer Cianciolo of the Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, there is no single common cause of mission failures. For an attempt to land on the Moon to be successful, “a lot of things have to go exactly according to plan,” she noted. “If anything goes wrong, problems begin.” First you need to get to the orbit of the Moon, and this is not as easy as it seems. During the Apollo space program, the Saturn V rocket, loaded to capacity with fuel, carried astronauts to the Moon in just three days. To save on fuel, the Indian Chandrayaan-2, which carried Vikram, traveled to the satellite for more than a month in a longer orbit. Once in orbit, the device maintained contact with Earth using NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN). (“Center of the Universe”: How do spacecraft call home?) One of the reasons for the Vikram accident was the loss of communication with the device. This happened when the device was at an altitude of only 2 kilometers. When your module falls to the surface at enormous speed, the slightest malfunction can lead to an accident. Thus, a faulty transmitter on the Israeli Beresheet led to a complete shutdown of the engine, The Times of Israel later reported. On Earth, engineers navigate using GPS, but there are no similar systems on other celestial bodies. According to Cianciolo, “When you're flying really fast and you have to slow down in a vacuum with almost no information, it's very difficult to navigate, no matter who you are or what you're trying to achieve.” That's why NASA is now working with private companies that are developing tools and sensors to respond immediately to possible problems during such descents to the surface. Some technologies will be tested when the Mars 2020 rover lands on the surface of the Red Planet. Almost all of the failed missions were unmanned. Probably, at this stage of technology development, the presence of a human pilot is necessary to control the situation. It is known that Neil Armstrong changed the landing site of Apollo 11 when he saw a plain filled with potentially dangerous cobblestones. But then all the astronauts had experience flying fighter jets. Today the focus has shifted to science. Engineers hope that very soon people will be able to fully rely on spacecraft systems. Against the backdrop of the failures of Israel and India, one cannot fail to mention Chang'e-4. The Chinese module successfully landed on the lunar surface and released the Yutu-2 rover. Both are still working. And the Indian orbital station Chandrayaan-2 is functioning and exploring our satellite from orbit. So let's hope that soon these sad statistics will begin to slowly but surely improve. And someday “to lower the apparatus to the surface of the Moon” will be considered a school problem in physics. -

Do the weather anomalies of this summer remind you of anything personally? Remember how it was in the summer of 2010? An abnormal heat wave unnaturally “hovered” over European Russia for a long time, and at the same time, Western and Central Europe were flooded with rain, causing floods.
Then, some independent researchers came to the conclusion that the weather anomalies in the summer of 2010 were caused by the influence of the HAARP complex system, which is not located only in Alaska. In addition, there are floating platforms that can be moved across all oceans to the desired point.

Now look what's happening now. The European part of Russia is being flooded with rain, and in Siberia in the Far East, as well as in Western and Southern Europe, abnormal heat combined with strong winds have caused massive wildfires. And who do you think benefits from Russia and the EU again suffering economic losses, as was the case in the summer of 2010? Only this time the areas of “standing” cyclones and anticyclones have changed places.

And another interesting fact regarding the last hurricane in Moscow. It turns out that, just like in 1998, when a similar hurricane passed through the Russian capital, at the time of this “natural disaster” there was an American warship with HAARP components on board in the waters of the Black Sea. Well, a “fairy tale” has been prepared especially for gullible idiots that this is all supposedly the result of natural forces. But personally, I don’t believe in such coincidences.

This is what the HAARP base in Hakko, Alaska looks like.

Even before World War II, the possibility of using powerful radio emission to influence the properties of the ionosphere was experimentally established. Apparently, the military was behind the scientists’ developments. In 1985, scientist Bernard Eastlund patented a work called “Method and mechanism for changing the region of the atmosphere, ionosphere and magnetosphere of the Earth”. He also became one of the leaders of the American research project HAARP - a program for high-frequency active research in the auroral region ( HAARP - High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program). At the initial stage, scientists from American universities and research centers were involved in the research, the data was periodically published, although the hands and money of the Pentagon were visible behind the project.

Who is hiding information about the secret base? HAARP in Alaska?

The first and most famous facility of the HAARP system was founded in 1992 on the site of a former tracking station in Alaska, 450 kilometers from Anchorage - near the village of Gakkona. Among the taiga, surrounded by mountains, a giant antenna field appeared, its own power plant, a network of diesel generators, an airstrip and God knows what else.

Eyewitnesses are especially impressed a system of 180 antennas, some of which reach 30 meters in height. The power of the transmitters is 3.5 megawatts, and the antennas aimed at the zenith make it possible to focus short-wave radiation pulses on individual sections of the ionosphere (where the effective irradiation power has already reached a record value of 3.5 gigawatts) and heat them up to form high-temperature plasma. At first, information about the experiments at Hakko was published in the public domain. However, for some time now the information has disappeared.

The Mystery of the Scandinavian Experiments

Something similar operates in Tromso, Norway. The system there EISCAT (European Incoherent Scatter radar site), according to scientists, has antenna capabilities equivalent to the Alaskan HAARP, but the transmitter is 3 times weaker - 1.2 MW. According to some reports, construction of a similar facility in Greenland is being completed.

The construction of the European Community HISCAT system is underway in Sweden. This facility will be many times greater than the American HAARP (36dB, 10 MW). The most interesting thing is that no data about European experiments is published.

For some time now, the Americans have even begun to allow tourists into the facility near Anchorage. However, there is evidence that something similar was created in Alaska, but in a different place. And now access there is already prohibited. Wikipedia gives this address: HIPAS (High Power Auroral Stimulation), near the city of Fairbanks. And a few more addresses: Puerto Rico (near the Arecibo Observatory), Zmiev in the Kharkov region - “Uran-1”, Dushanbe - radio system "Horizon", and also, it is possible that Peru and Australia. Another object is pointed out in scientific circles: SPEAR (Space Plasma Exploration by Active Radar)- on the Spitsbergen archipelago.

Some of these complexes have a purely research, scientific orientation, and due to insufficient capabilities, they cannot achieve any breakthroughs in a direction that is dangerous for us. However, the European complexes are two super systems that, according to scientists, will be able to control the entire circumpolar region.

Italian trace

A surge of attention to the topic of “ionospheric sounding” occurred in connection with the commissioning in 2010 of a top-secret American military base in Sicily, near the town of Niscemi. It is officially known about the base that it is part of the so-called system MUOS (Mobile User Objective System)(global system for communication and tracking (targeting) of mobile users). The facility arose on the site of the largest communications point for NATO troops in the Atlantic and Europe.

Visually, the base is similar to Hakkona: an antenna field located over several tens of square kilometers, its own power plant, and maintenance buildings. Italian scientists have suggested that the base can perform broader functions and be part of the HAARP system. According to physicist Enrico Penna, the Nishemi facility may be an experimental site or even an element for the practical application of ultra-powerful electromagnetic fields that can affect the environment. In addition, according to military experts, it is possible that this system can be used to conduct experiments on influencing ballistic missiles. However, domestic experts believe that there is not enough objective data for such conclusions.

However, the new facility was originally supposed to be located in the village of Sigonella at a NATO air and missile base. However, the US military authorities demanded that the new base be moved a sufficient distance from the air force base, citing electromagnetic radiation that could cause disturbances in the communication environment and in the operation of civil and military aircraft engines during takeoff and landing.

According to some reports, the radiation can also cause the detonation of ammunition. At least, Italian newspapers wrote that in Sicily around this base, malfunctions of electronic watches and other equipment regularly occur. A survey conducted by scientists from an Italian university showed that radiation emanating from the Niscemi base poses a threat to the local population. Not to mention all the other dangers that arise when such a facility is located in a densely populated area.

By the way, the Sicilians are actively protesting and demanding the closure of the base, using, among other things, the fact that the allocation of land in the protected area was made by the Roman authorities, bypassing normal procedures, in violation of Italian law. After all, this is the only way a secret American base could appear in Sicily, where access to local authorities is prohibited.

Since 2011, demonstrations have been taking place around the base of the specially created public movement “NOMOOS”, which we do not write about. People in Sicily quickly realized that they had become guinea pigs in obscure American experiments, and in the event of war, targets for missiles. The mayors of many cities in Sicily opposed the base. But dealing with the Italian government, which was under pressure from Washington, is not easy. At first, even the governor of Sicily supported the movement. But a shout from Rome forced him to moderate his protest impulse.

Nevertheless, the intensity of passions around the base does not subside. Newspapers and television have repeatedly devoted unpleasant stories and articles to her. A conference was held in the Italian Parliament last year, during which deputies and experts exchanged information about what was happening in Niscemi, assessed possible risks and outlined ways to counteract it.

Not long ago, the local prosecutor's office even issued a resolution to close the base.

But for now she continues experiments that few people understand. According to Russian scientists, the Nishemi facility is most likely not associated with the HAARP system. But who knows what else they are up to there... Moreover, Washington responded with a sharp refusal to the demand of Italian parliamentarians to provide detailed information about the new base.

Whose hat is on fire?

And just recently, the English Daily Mail published an interesting article, from which it followed that the CIA suspects Russia of using those same geophysical weapons against the United States. The newspaper, frankly speaking, is greedy for sensations, but the information was picked up by the government “Rossiyskaya Gazeta”, with the title of the article “The CIA blames Russia for climate disasters”. From the publication it followed that the American spy agency was interested in the ability of other states to control the climate and was interviewing scientists working in this field. The leak was made by a certain professor Alan Robock, who told reporters from a British publication about contacts with people from Langley.

“Consultants from the CIA called me and asked: if someone is able to control the world's climate, will we be able to find out about it?”, - said Robok.

In response, the scientist spoke about the technologies known to him for changing the weather. Further, the British newspaper wrote that the professor was not asked a specific question - whether Russia has such technologies. However, hypotheses that Russia can use or has already used climate weapons against the United States appear in the American media every now and then.

And to the question of the CIA officials whether other countries, including Russia, would be able to find out about the use of climate weapons against them, Robok replied:

“Any attempt to manage climate on a large scale simply cannot go unnoticed.”

All this seems like a desire to divert attention from our own and European developments in this area. Get rid of the sick head and put it on the healthy one.

Ionospheric import substitution

In order not to get into trouble, we ourselves need to study the ionosphere and monitor what is being done abroad. Moreover, developments in this area are available not only in the institutes of the Academy of Sciences... By the way, the USSR, in fact, was one of the leaders in the study of the ionosphere.

We have been conducting similar studies since the 70s of the last century. There is its own installation, similar to HAARP, in the Vasilsursk region (Nizhny Novgorod region). The so-called "Sura". With normal funding, it is possible to conduct experiments similar to American ones. In terms of its functional parameters, it is quite similar to HAARP, although it is almost 200 times weaker in terms of effective radiation power. However, at a certain period, in Sura it was only about protecting its antenna facilities from complete theft. Some scientists who worked in this area moved to the West. Now, as a result of changes in the Academy of Sciences, the question is about the complete liquidation of the test site in Sur...

However, during a series of large-scale experiments carried out in 2007-2012 by Russian specialists, using Sura, the Russian segment of the ISS and satellites, interesting results were obtained. It has been established that by influencing (heating) the ionosphere it is possible to obtain a response from the ionospheric-magnetospheric system in the form of artificial “substorms” and the disruption of noticeable energy in the region of the irradiated section of the ionosphere.

“This indicates the possibility of controlled effective impact on the ionosphere of subauroral latitudes by powerful HF radio emission”

Said in one of the articles describing the results of experiments. At the same time, the cosmonauts on the ISS visually and with the help of equipment recorded the glow of that region of the ionosphere that scientists irradiated (heated) from the ground using the Sur stand.

In fact, the possibility of effective intervention in natural processes using a heating stand has been proven, even with a low (~10 MW) effective irradiation power. We are, of course, not talking about climate control or provoking anomalous phenomena. But the fundamental probability of impact on that part of the earth’s surface on which the situation on Earth depends becomes not so fantastic.

But what really? Competent comments about HAARP

Yuri Ruzhin, Deputy Director of the Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere and Wave Propagation of the Russian Academy of Sciences, laureate of the State Prize of Russia, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences:

In my assessment, HAARP and similar systems are not able to influence climate phenomena, create or eliminate cyclones, much less provoke earthquakes. The power of such installations is not comparable to the Sun, which has an incomparably large effect on the ionosphere and atmosphere of the Earth.

In terms of military use, HAARP could test ways to communicate with submerged submarines. Therefore, it was deliberately built in a place where there are aurorae, there is a strong current jet in the lower ionosphere. Heating this region of the ionosphere makes it possible to change its physical properties, thus creating giant antennas with a diameter of about 100 kilometers. It is clear that such an antenna cannot be put into orbit, and it cannot be built on the ground, because it will require a gigantic area. In addition, they use ultra-long waves (VHF range), which penetrate the thickness of salt water. To confirm my words, I will say that, according to published data from Stanford University, the Americans conducted an experiment in which they dropped a 3-ton buoy into the sea, which had the ability to transmit information to a satellite. The buoy was placed in the region of the southern hemisphere magnetically conjugate with HAARP. Some data from this experiment have been published. I think that the Americans were working on the option of communicating with underwater objects.

As for talk about the impact of force on aircraft and missiles, this can theoretically be allowed within the radio visibility of the station itself. The fact is that the levels of emitted power in a particular direction are limited by the conditions of electrical breakdown of air as an insulator. In the same zone, changes in ozone concentration are possible (at the level of the maximum breakdown or discharge power).

Therefore, it is theoretically possible to talk about geophysical warfare, but not on the basis of this system. There is not enough energy for this. In addition, all noticeable changes in nature can occur primarily in the area of ​​the system itself (again, within radio visibility).

Regarding the object in Sicily, I can assume that it has nothing to do with ionospheric sounding or HAARP. In those images that are in the public domain, I do not see antennas, that unique equipment that is necessary for the ultra-powerful emission of HF frequencies on which HAARP and its analogues operate. But this is just my guess. Most likely, we can talk about systems of secret communication, radar and, separately, navigation with the radiation of ultra-long waves that propagate along the horizon. But, nevertheless, I do not envy the Sicilians who are under this radiation.

Igor Korotchenko, editor-in-chief of the National Defense magazine:

The HAARP project is associated with attempts to control ionized regions, artificial plasmoids. Maybe the Americans hoped to get some effect in terms of using this system to influence warheads. These hopes turned out to be in vain. This has nothing to do with climate control. This cannot influence the weather or global climate processes in any way. I believe that this is nothing more than an experimental installation related to the control of processes in the ionosphere and the formation of artificial plasmoids. As far as can be understood, these experiments were not successful. There is no military use here. Accordingly, there is also no danger for Russia.

I do not know about the existence of other similar systems, nor about the American base in Nishemi. Regarding the latter, you need to understand what its purpose is and not draw unfounded conclusions. The Americans have hundreds of bases around the world, all of them secret, one more base in this situation changes little.

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“Several years have passed since giant waves hit the coasts of Indonesia, Thailand, Somalia, Sri Lanka and the island of Sumatra (December 2004). The tsunami claimed the lives of more than 400 thousand people. After this rampant of the elements, the earth's axis shifted somewhat. Scientists continue to argue whether it was a tsunami or whether all this was testing some secret superweapon?

Controllable plasmoid

“Having analyzed the situation with the participation of specialists in secret geophysical weapons,” an independent military expert, Ph.D., told Arguments of the Week. n. Yuri Bobylov, – we came to unexpected conclusions. Everything that happened in December 2004 in the Indian Ocean is the result of local tests of US radiophysical and geographic superweapons under the HAARP program (high-frequency active auroral research program). For short, our program is called HARP. Independent military expert Bobylov (more than 16 years of work in secret defense research institutes and design bureaus of the former USSR) is confident that there was no tsunami in the Indian Ocean.

A distinctive feature of the new weapon is the use of the near-Earth environment as a component and object of destructive influence. HARP allows you to block radio communications, disable on-board electronic equipment of aircraft, rockets, space satellites, cause accidents in electrical networks, oil and gas pipelines, and also negatively affect the mental state of people. Military expert Bobylov writes about this in his book “Genetic Bomb. Secret scenarios of bioterrorism." “In my book,” continues Yuri Aleksandrovich, “I consider an extremely pessimistic scenario of an unfolding secret radiophysical and biological war, as a result of which the Earth’s population could be reduced to 1–1.5 billion people by 2025.”

But what is this same HARP? Let's go back to the beginning of the last century. In 1905, the brilliant Austrian scientist Nikolai Tesla invented a method for transmitting electricity through the natural environment to almost any distance. Then, by other scientists, it was refined several times, and as a result, the so-called “death ray” was obtained. More precisely, a fundamentally new system for transmitting electricity, with the ability to focus it anywhere in the world. The essence of the developed military technology is as follows: above the ozone layer is the ionosphere, a gas layer enriched with electrical particles called ions.

This ionosphere can be heated by powerful HARP antennas, after which artificial ion clouds can be created, shaped close to optical lenses. These lenses can be used to reflect low-frequency waves and produce energetic "death rays" that are focused at a given geographic location. In Alaska, a special station was built under the HARP program in 1995. 48 antennas, each 24 m high, were erected on an area of ​​15 hectares. With their help, a concentrated beam of waves heats up a section of the ionosphere. As a result, a plasmoid is formed. And with the help of a controlled plasmoid, you can influence the weather - cause tropical downpours, awaken hurricanes, earthquakes, and raise a tsunami.

Energy circuit

At the beginning of 2003, the Americans openly announced the testing of a certain “gun” in Alaska. It is with this circumstance that many experts associate the subsequent natural disasters in Southern and Central Europe, Russia, and the Indian Ocean. The developers of the HARP project warned: as a result of the ongoing experiment, a side effect is possible due to the fact that an immense amount of energy with gigantic power will be released into the outer spheres of the Earth. High-frequency emitters built under the HARP program already exist in three places on the planet: in Norway (the town of Tromsø), in Alaska (the Gakhona military base) and in Greenland. After the Greenland emitter was put into operation, the geophysical weapon created a kind of closed energy circuit. “Given the growing military threat from the United States,” Yuri Bobylov continues his story, “the State Duma of the Russian Federation in 2002 attempted to analyze the situation with the involvement of experts from the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Russian Ministry of Defense. But the representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the State Duma, Alexander Kotenkov, demanded that the issue be dropped so as not to cause panic among the Russian population. The question was removed.

Very strange tsunamis

In 2002, the first deputy commander of the Russian Space Forces, General Vladimir Popovkin, in his letter to the State Duma, indicated that “if the upper layer of the atmosphere is handled carelessly, there can be catastrophic consequences of a planetary nature.” He was supported by Valery Stasenko, a specialist in active influences in the atmosphere of the Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring: “Disturbances in the ionosphere and magnetosphere affect the climate. By influencing them artificially with the help of powerful installations, it is possible to change the weather, including globally.”

The result of the debate was a letter to the UN demanding the creation of an international commission to investigate experiments conducted with the ionosphere and magnetosphere of the Earth. The head of the Japanese Center for the Study of Storms, Hiroko Tino, sees a lot of strange things in the December 2004 events in the Indian Ocean. The fact is that the disaster occurred exactly one year and one hour after the earthquake in Iran on December 26, 2003, which claimed the lives of 41 thousand people. It was a kind of sign. Then the disaster came to Europe: dozens of hurricanes, storms and rains were brought with it by Cyclone Erwin, which swept from Dublin to St. Petersburg on January 7–10, 2005. Later, natural disasters came to the United States: floods in Utah, unprecedented snowfalls in Colorado. The reasons for this are the earth tremors that caused the tsunami, changed the tilt of the earth's axis and accelerated the planet's rotation by three microseconds. Tino, like Yuri Bobylov, is inclined to assume that all consequences in the form of natural disasters are the result of the activities of HARP.

"Spinach" against the partisans

American specialists began their games with the weather a very long time ago. Soon after the end of World War II, research began to be carried out in the United States to study processes in the atmosphere under the influence of external influences: “Skyfire” (lightning formation), “Prime Argus” (causing earthquakes), “Stormfury” (controlling hurricanes and tsunamis). The results of this work have not been reported anywhere. However, it is known that in 1961, it was in the USA that an experiment was carried out to throw more than 350 thousand two-centimeter copper needles into the upper layers of the atmosphere, which dramatically changed the thermal balance of the atmosphere. As a result, an earthquake occurred in Alaska, and part of the coast of Chile fell into the Pacific Ocean.

During the Vietnam War (1965–1973), the Americans used silver iodide dispersed in rain clouds. The operation was codenamed Project Popeye. Over five years, £12 million was spent on cloud seeding to artificially stimulate heavy rainfall to destroy enemy crops. The so-called Ho Chi Minh Trail was also washed out. Along this route, the South Vietnamese partisans were supplied with weapons and equipment. During Operation Spinach, rainfall levels in the affected area increased by a third: the climate weapon worked successfully!

It was the United States that was the first to try to extinguish hurricanes (in the mid-60s). In 1962–1983 Experiments on hurricane management were conducted in the United States as part of Project Furious Storm. The impetus for this was the data obtained by scientists that one hurricane contains as much energy as produced by all the power plants in the world combined. One of the successful experiments was carried out in 1969 off the coast of Haiti. Local residents saw a huge white cloud from which huge rings radiated. Meteorologists showered the typhoon with silver iodide and managed to turn it away from Haiti. In recent years, research of a different kind has been carried out: tens of thousands of gallons of vegetable oil are poured into the sea. Scientists have suggested that hurricanes gain strength due to heat generated at the surface of the sea. If the surface of the sea is covered with an extensive film of oil, the strength of the hurricane will decrease due to the cooling of the water. This means that in this way you can change the direction of the hurricane.

By 1977, Americans were spending $2.8 million annually on weather research. Partly as a response to Project Spinach, the UN passed a resolution in 1977 that prohibited any hostile use of environmental modification technologies. This led to the emergence of a corresponding treaty, ratified by the United States in 1978 (meaning the Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modifications). The United States believes that the USSR did not remain aloof from experiments with weather: “The Russians have their own “weather control” system, it is called “Woodpecker,” they wrote in the 80s. many American newspapers. – It is associated with the emission of low-frequency waves that can cause disturbances in the atmosphere and change the direction of jet air currents. For example, the long drought in California in the 1980s was caused by moist air flows being blocked for many weeks.”

Where did the Woodpecker come from?

Indeed, the USSR also experimented with climate. In the 70s, at the Institute of Thermal Processes (now the Keldysh Research Center) they tried to influence the Earth’s atmosphere through the magnetosphere. From the Arctic region, from one of the submarines, it was planned to launch a rocket with a plasma source with a power of up to one and a half megawatts (but the launch did not take place). “Weather” experiments were also carried out by the 40th Institute of the Navy: at an abandoned training ground near Vyborg, installations for simulating the influence of an electromagnetic pulse on radio waves are rusting.

Are we no longer interested in typhoons?

The USSR, together with Cuba and Vietnam, began studying typhoons in the early 80s. And they were conducted around the most mysterious part - the “eye” of the typhoon. Production aircraft Il-18 and An-12 were used, converted into meteorological laboratories. Electronic computers were installed in these laboratories to obtain information in real time. Scientists were looking for those “painful” points of the typhoon, by acting on which it would be possible to reduce or increase its power, destroy or change its trajectory using special reagents that could cause or, conversely, prevent immediate precipitation. Scientists even then found out that by dispersing these substances from an airplane into the “eye” of a typhoon, its rear or front part, it is possible, by creating a difference in pressure and temperature, to make it walk “in a circle” or stand still. The only problem was that it was necessary to take into account many constantly changing factors every second. And it was necessary to have a huge amount of reagents. At the same time, a network of radar stations was created in Cuba and Vietnam, interesting data was obtained, including on the structure of the typhoon, which made it possible to begin modeling various methods of influence. Theoretical work was carried out to study the possibility of influencing cyclones in temperate latitudes and the weather in this region. But in the early 90s. work on active influences on the weather in Russia practically ceased to be funded and was curtailed. So today we have nothing special to brag about. The “eye” of the typhoon is no longer of interest to us.

Secret work continues

So, in 1977, within the framework of the UN, the Convention on the Prohibition of “Environmental Warfare” was concluded. (Convention on the prohibition of military or other hostile use of means of influencing the natural environment - artificially stimulating earthquakes, melting polar ice and climate change.) But, according to experts, secret work on the creation of “absolute” weapons of mass destruction (WMD) continues. Recently, a group of American researchers working on the HARP project conducted an experiment to create artificial northern lights. More precisely, according to its modification, since the real northern lights were used as a screen on which the researchers drew their pictures. Using a 1 MW high-frequency radio generator and a set of radio antennas placed over a fairly large area, scientists staged a small light show in the sky. Despite the fact that the mechanism for creating a man-made glow is not yet entirely clear even to the researchers themselves, the project participants believe that sooner or later the technology they are developing can be used to illuminate cities at night and, of course, to display advertising. Or for something more significant.

Meanwhile, the USA...

The US Army is openly beginning to develop plasma weapons. The new mobile “MIRAGE plasma gun” will disable enemy communications and navigation systems within a radius of tens of kilometers. The device is capable of changing the state of the ionosphere - the upper layer of the earth's atmosphere, which is used as a “reflector” for transmitting radio signals over long distances. A plasmoid generated in a special microwave oven will be launched by a rocket to an altitude of 60–100 km and disrupt the natural distribution of charged particles. According to military experts, this method can get rid of several problems at once. Firstly, the “extra” plasma will create a barrier for enemy radars, which under normal conditions, thanks to the ionosphere, can see aircraft from the horizon. Secondly, the “plasma shield” will prevent contact with satellites whose signals pass through the atmosphere. This will create difficulties with orientation on the ground if GPS receivers are used for it. The design is a small van that can be easily transported to the site of military operations.

What awaits us all next? In Russia, programs for active influences on the weather have been curtailed. We reacted sluggishly to the news that we found ourselves in a kind of energy circuit between Norway, Greenland and Alaska. The generation of ultra-low frequency signals is today the main task of the HARP program. In 1995, the facility consisted of 48 antennas and transmitters with a power of 960 kilowatts. Today there are already 180 antennas at the facility, and the power of emitted energy reaches 3.6 megawatts. This is enough to create an anti-missile shield and to “calm” a tornado.

Tractor with milkmaid in the sky

In our country, the frequency of mysterious natural phenomena has doubled over the past 15 years. Hurricane winds, tropical downpours and tornadoes came even to Siberia - a phenomenon that was previously considered absolutely impossible in our climate, not to mention winter thaws and frosts in July. In July 1994, in the village of Kochki in the Novosibirsk region, a tornado lifted into the air a tractor with a tractor driver and a milkmaid. On May 29, 2002, in the Kemerovo region, a tornado destroyed the village of Kalinovka. Two people were killed and 20 were injured. Before this, such natural phenomena had not been observed either in the Novosibirsk or Kemerovo regions. Huge hail, the size of a pigeon's egg, fell this year in 2006 in the populated area of ​​Gagino in the Nizhny Novgorod region. 400 houses completely lost their roofs. And in general, in June 2006 alone, 13 tornadoes and hurricanes hit Russia. They walked through Azov, Chelyabinsk, Nizhny Novgorod (they touched 68 settlements in the region), then moved to Bashkiria and Dagestan. The destruction was enormous." It's only the beginning...