The mystery of the secretive US research base

The US Air Force has informed the parliament about its intention to close HAARP, a controversial research facility of the US military in Alaska , which is closely linked to speculation about making a secret weapon. or do disaster strikes in other places around the world.

New information about the US Air Force's intentions immediately caught the attention of conspiracy theorists, especially because HAARP , the acronym for the High Frequency aurora Research Program , has long been is at the center of speculation about a tool to make Washington's ambition to control weather or worse.

In 2010, Venezuelan President Huge Chavez accused the HAARP or a similar program that triggered the Haiti earthquake in 2010. According to records, intense seismic attacks in Haiti near here 4 years stemmed from the collapse of an unprecedented fault on the map along the boundaries of the Caribbean and North American tectonic plates.

Antenna system at HAARP facility in Alaska.(Photo: AP)

Last year, the HAARP facility in Alaska was also accused of causing the typhoon Haiyan to destroy the Philippines in November 2013, using advanced micro-pulse technology.

Critics also cited a patent granted by Bernard Eastlund, the project's chief scientist, shortly before his death. This document reveals that weather changes can become feasible using technology like HAARP. Such hypotheses have raised environmental concerns and led to many European Parliament hearings.

However, the US authorities have denied any of these allegations. As explained by the US military, HAARP is a research program designed to analyze the ionosphere above the atmosphere, spanning about 85km and 600km from the Earth's surface. This program is funded by the Air Force, Navy, University of Alaska and the US Agency for Advanced Defense Research Projects.

The US military is interested in the ionosphere, because it affects radio signal transmission. HAARP fired radio beams into the ionosphere to study the responses from there, one of the few ways to accurately measure this inaccessible part of the atmosphere.The HAARP program is carried out beyond the framework of a research station in Alaska, where a high-energy radio frequency transmission device, which can disturb a small portion of the ionosphere.

The goal of the program is to understand the physical characteristics of the ionosphere, which constantly respond to the effects of the sun. Solar storms can release countless solar particles towards Earth, sometimes disrupting communications and electricity networks. If scientists can better understand what happens in the ionosphere, they can mitigate some of these problems.

Even so, the US military is no longer interested in maintaining HAARP and is expected to close the facility in Alaska in mid-June, according to David Walker, the Air Force's chief technology and technology officer. .

US authorities have begun building a HAARP facility with an area of ​​more than 12 hectares in 1993, at a cost exceeding US $ 280 million. HAARP website has been deactivated in 2013.