The hurricane Milton arrived in Florida today, but fortunately it did not do so like the hurricane in category 5the largest on the scale, which has been over the Atlantic, but as category 3. It is still very destructive and it will still take several hours to know the extent of the damage it is causing, but the catastrophe will not be as great as has been feared. It also arrives two weeks after the hurricane Helenecategory 4, devastated some areas of the southeastern United Statescausing 241 deaths and an estimated $27 billion in damages.
With this impact, it is normal that hurricanes have been an important part of the news and public conversation. As has happened other times with extreme natural phenomena, some accounts on social media maintain that Helene is not one of them, but that it has been artificially caused by the hand of man. Specifically, through the American HAARP project, which under this theory is actually a powerful weapon that modifies the electric field and causes climate changes worldwide.
What is the HAARP project?
The HAARP project is located in a 140,000 square meter facility in Alaskanear the small town of Gakonacall HAARP Station. It attracts attention for several reasons, but one of them is the 180 large antennas that occupy that land.
HAARP is the initials in English of ‘High Frequency Active Aurora Research Program’. It was started in 1990 for the United States Air Force and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, DARPA by its acronym in English. Indeed, its origin is military, although in the It is currently managed by the University of Alaskaan institution to which it was donated after the United States decided to close it in 2014. Its students carry out research tasks there and the station carries out one open day a year that anyone can attend.
The purpose of the HAARP Station, since it began operating in 1993, is study the properties and behavior of the ionosphere. This is an area that includes the set of layers of the atmosphere that are above 80 kilometers in altitudepresent a strong ionization caused by radiation and significantly affect to the propagation of radio waves. The objective pursued is to use its properties to improve radio communications technology and its use in strategic surveillance systemssuch as, for example, missile detection systems.
The 180 antennas are part of the Ionospheric Research InstrumentIRI for its acronym in English, manufactured by BAE Systemsand which is a powerful high-frequency radio transmitter that is used to modify the electromagnetic properties in a limited area of the ionosphere. According to the HAARP website, ‘can be used to temporarily excite a limited area of the ionosphere for scientific research purposes’.
Why HAARP has nothing to do with Hurricane Milton
One reason is that all of Earth’s climate activity occurs in the lowest layer of the atmosphere, the tropospherewhich is found far below the ionosphere and, therefore, far from HAARP’s area of influence.
Another is that this influence, in reality, It is very limited. As HAARP explains on its website, ‘since the ionosphere is inherently a turbulent medium that is being agitated and renewed by the sun, artificially induced effects are quickly erased. Depending on the height within the ionosphere where the effect originally occurs, These effects are no longer detectable after times ranging from less than a second to 10 minutes.‘.
Finally, The technology does not exist to create hurricanes or earthquakes.another of the natural phenomena that has sometimes been attributed to HAARP. This should be pretty obvious, but even on the science fiction assumption that it actually existed, Why would the United States create a Category 5 hurricane, devastating much of the country and causing deaths and billions of dollars in damage?
Russiaby the way, has a similar facility called Sura for the study of the ionosphere, much more powerful than that of the United States: 180 MW versus 3.6 MW. So far, no one has accused Russia of using it to cause natural disasters in other parts of the world.