Gallery: Inside Alaska’s Answer to Area 51
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By Noah Shachtman
- August 3, 2009 |
- 7:15 pm |
- Categories: Air Force, Bizarro, DarpaWatch
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200 miles northeast of Anchorage, there’s a massive military facility tucked deep in the black pine. What goes on at the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (Haarp) depends on who you ask. Self-directed “researchers” like Nick Begich say the collection of transmitters and receivers is conducting secret tests of monstrous weapons for the Defense Department: mind control, weather manipulation, long-distance spying. The military scientists in charge of this military installation insist that Haarp has absolutely no direct military applications whatsoever. It “is and always was and was planned to be a research facility,” says Dr. Paul Kossey, the Air Force’s program manager. Haarp’s antennas are being used to study the ionosphere, the electrically charged layer of Earth’s atmosphere, by pumping it full of energy. That’s why Haarp’s scientists are creating artificial Northern Lights, beaming radio waves into the crevasses of nearby Mt. Wrangell, and bouncing signals off of the Moon. Naturally.
Last year, I got a rare chance to see Haarp for myself. Here’s what I found.
Above: To get to Haarp, drive 200 miles northeast of Anchorage. Then take the Tok Cutoff for 11.3 miles, and turn onto an unmarked road. You’ll be met by this sign, at the facility’s front gates.
Photo: Noah Shachtman
You aren’t by chance?, looking for a really really , enormous hunk of rock , traveling at a high rate of speed are you now?.
Should you notice such a very large fast moving rock , headed for Terra- Firma, would you actually tell some one?, or just issue the conventional, ( warning of ) bend over, place head between your legs, { don’t forget to drop your pants } then thus ; proceed to KISS YOUR ASS ! Goodbye?. It only a rock in zero gravity!, no big deal, I need to get ,some pictures!.
HAHAHAAHAHAHA.
It’s Alaska’s version of Area 51!!1!!!1one Except it’s not classified…
I love the picture of the MSDS binders chained to the wall and the breathless caption “…But the flow of information there is tightly controlled”
You mean they aren’t ripping out children’s souls to create a trans-dimensional gateway?
Page 2 is fake! That’s a pic from a clothes-line testing facility.
Anyone know what sort of huge display is shown in the center of the pic on page 7 of the digital control center? Is that an big, custom LCD?
hehe, neat! i’ve visited HAARP and did a very brief experiment there.
@Kane: it’s 4 LCD monitors placed close together. http://www.flickr.com/photos/saket_vora/2683849606/sizes/o/in/set-72157606260494480/
Nothing interesting goes on there, or it’d be a different warning sign, saying Use of Deadly Force Authorized.
Here’s an example from an airshow with a F22 and an F117 on display:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcrosby/477733461/sizes/l/in/set-72157600158294011/
MAN , DON’T U GUYS GET IT? THE GENERAL POPULATION IS SO DUMBED DOWN, THAT THEY CANNOT FATHOM,
THE ABILITY OF BEING CONTROLLED BY ELF, OR RADIO WAVES OR FREQUENCIES, THAT THEY DON’T EVEN KNOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OF COURSE THERE NOT GOIN TO TELL YOU, AND THE REASON WHY IS BECAUSE IT WORKS AND THEY DON’T NEED THE DUMBASS MASSES TO BELIEVE OR NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! REMEMBER THE RIOTS IN THE EARLY NINETIES?????? THANK U HAARP, YEA, THEY NEED TO KNOW BECAUSE, WHEN THE HARVEST COMES, WELL,
THEY ARE GOING TO TURN IT ON AND TURN IT UP. THE MAJORITY OF THE HUMAN POPULATION IS EXPENDABLE TO THESE MAD SCIENTISTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU ARE BEING CONDITIONED, AT THE MACRO-LEVEL AND YOU DON’T EVEN KNOW!!!!!!!!!!!!! PLASMA STILL HOLDING!!!!!!!!!!, OVER AND OUT.
It certainly isn’t the source of energy banked off a layer of Earth’s atmosphere and back down to certain fault lines in mainland China.
Thank you Tudza, now I want to read His Dark Materials again.
Thank you.
A couple of serious fruitcakes made comments here – they are the ones to be watched! Along with the goof ball Nick Begich.
Actually they are trying to find the ‘dark elves’ Salvatore writes about!
I’m curious why a government “for the people, by the people” needs to keep secrets from us in the first place. Even taking them at their word, given the nation’s current lack of “discretionary income” if they ran it by the populace, how many people would want us spending millions or even billions to “heat up the ionosphere” just for the hell of it? We constantly get reports streaming from the media about how the military is working on weapons to read our soldiers minds to control our weapons, to generate high power acoustic waves to turn the enemy’s innards into jello, all kinds of crazy ****. Those of you telling people who assume the worst they are nutty for thinking so, well there are a few precedents here.
Why wouldn’t we trust the government’s intentions regarding HAARP? It’s not like they’ve ever DONE (Operation Paperclip) ANYTHING (Operation Bluebird) FISHY (MK-ULTRA) BEFORE.
And it’s not even like this is the US government doing these things. It’s the Intelligence Services which stopped being part of the US government shortly after World War II.
And if HAARP is so benign, why is it being run by Office of Naval Research and the Air Force Research Laboratory? And why is it funded primarily out of the black budget?
All while Michael Jackson OD’s and the Birther’s look for President Obama’s Birth Certificate. The News Media rushes to Alaska to film Sarah Palin in her latest burst of below c- average thinking (Cheerleading). This project is an attempt to prepare Her dysfunctional family of robots for the Whitehouse!
WAKE UP JOKE’s Really with much Love for Humanity! Moc
does Wired really need to stir up the shallow end of the gene pool by posting this? nothing to see here, please move on.
Ha! Being in the construction industry, I never knew our Material Safety Data Sheets we have on every site were part of a HUGE military conspiracy!!!! Wow, I wonder if someone thinks I’M “tightly controlling” information on my sheetrock???
@PopeRatzo
“And if HAARP is so benign, why is it being run by Office of Naval Research and the Air Force Research Laboratory? And why is it funded primarily out of the black budget?” Some Good points. I think maybe Navy Sub Communications and AF Doomsday Plane Communications would probably be a realistic HAARP Mission too.
In my opinion, based on what is being said primarily in the comments, we can assume there are maybe defense related issues with HAARP, regardless of how farfetched and imaginatively DARPA they are. But for those of you crying foul because they are keeping secrets from us, the taxpayers, think for a second what you’re saying. I bet if every one of us could keep a secret and could be trusted to not tell anyone they would, but if they ARE working on defense projects it’s better we don’t know so others (cough CHINA cough) don’t know either. There’s two sides to every conspiracy.
this reminds me of a real life “dharma initiative” from lost.
we should ask sarah palin about this. she might tell us.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-PnT38bGvg
Compare the HAARP website
http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/haarp/index.html
With the Groom Lake website. . .
Wait, what?
@PopeRatzo
ONR etc are not ‘black money’. They do a lot of unclassified research, including publishing results in journals just like any other public research funding.
I have no personal experience with this project but – attempting to think about this rationally – the most likely conclusion that I have come to about HAARP is that it is an attempt to gain a better understanding of how electromagnetic waves interact with the ionosphere, what atmospheric conditions are ideal for reflection and transmission of electromagnetic waves, and how to control these conditions in the ionosphere.
Communications capability is absolutely vital to our modern military. My guess is, they want the capability to temporarily produce an RF & microwave reflector in the upper atmosphere to extend non-line-of-sight communications far beyond the capabilities of current troposcatter systems. Such a communications technique would allow for communication between two remote points without the need for satellites, networks, or hard lines of any type, which could prove invaluable if satellite networks and most terrestrial networks are rendered inoperative.
“Precisely 80 feet apart.” … You know, because the foot is based on the cosmic constant. At the very least they could have used the metric system.
Tesla was robbed!
@Shinzakura; Shimatta, Gomen nasai, my mistake. I Humbly beg forgiveness. It is not Asperger’s Syndrome. I got frazzled, then I just realized that by posting hyperlinks, although relevant cause the comments to be moderated. @d8a9 you are #10! @VultuteTX; many thanks, U. Da Man. Peace.
@TheMIK, Speaking of Nicola Tesla, please look up “Pentagon Aliens” by Bill Lyne to know the real truth. And the AF 2025 report said they (the AF) would own the Weather by then. So the Conspiracies Theorists do have some merit. Only the beautiful and sexy Sarah P. knows for sure, go figure? Any body getting this message? You are posting comments too quickly. Slow down.
“It’s as close to a religious experience as you’re gonna get.”
Hmmmm. Creepy is religious? Must be a Goth.
http://maps.google.com/ put in addy 11.3 Tok Cutoff, Gakona, AK 99586 not a great shot but look at the area around it and you can see they have huge resources avail to them.
ELF waves have been used to drive people crazy for some time now. I published a Texas woman’s true account of being electronically harassed, stalked, drugged and raped by a former FBI agent. A New Breed: Satellite Terrorism in America is at Barnes and Noble or at http://www.satweapons.com
A better candidate for “Alaska’s Area 51″ is Poker Flat Research Range, just north of Fairbanks. It, together with various facilities across the region including HAARP, routinely coordinate activities to manipulate the charged-particle environment in the ionosphere. While HAARP remains the most notorious and visible part of this network, it should be noted that it is part of a much more extensive system with some truly remarkable capabilities.
Never mind the experiments going on up there. The experiment, that is this new administration, has failed in D.C.
@VoiceofLogic
Truer words were never spoken. The wheels are coming off the cart as I write this.
Thanks alot!! I really enjoyed your piece. It was really intresting.
Actually, you’ll be met by that warning sign on any USAF installation.
Actually, the Warning sign will be seen on any USAF installation – alien hunting or otherwise. Same with the MSDS, which are just listing of chemicals used at that location. MSDS are (or should be) available at any place of employement.
Russia has one too.
I believe the author meant “guy wires” not “guide wires”.