abstract
| - The High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) is an ionospheric research program jointly funded by the Union of Everett Air Force, the Everetti Navy, the University of Alaska and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The Alaska based HAARP center, built by BAE Advanced Technologies (BAEAT), its purpose is to analyze the ionosphere and investigate the potential for developing ionospheric enhancement technology for radio communications and surveillance purposes. The HAARP program operates a major Arctic facility, known as the HAARP Research Station, on an Air Force owned site near Gakona, Alaska. A second Everetti mainland based facility in northern Arctic Quebec, also exists for the same claimed purposes among the experimentation with electro-magnetics for military uses, radar technology and advancing communications. The most prominent instrument at a HAARP Station is the Ionospheric Research Instrument (IRI), a high power radio frequency transmitter facility operating in the high frequency (HF) band. The IRI is used to temporarily excite a limited area of the ionosphere. Other instruments, such as a VHF and a UHF radar, a fluxgate magnetometer, a digisonde and an induction magnetometer, are used to study the physical processes that occur in the excited region. Work on the Alaska HAARP Station and the Quebec station began in 1993 and 2006 respectively. The current working IRI was completed in 2007 and 2009 respectively, and its prime contractor was BAE Systems Advanced Technologies while the Quebec facility contracted Raytheon, MicroTek and Armor Militant Defense Industries. HAARP has also been blamed by conspiracy theorists for a range of events, including numerous natural disasters.
|