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Borderland Sciences Research Foundation (borderlandsciences.org)

Investigator (STEP I), run 2026-10-08. Saved page text (evidence trail, not for publication) is in research/pages/. Findings are leads, not verdicts.

Searched

  • Google: site:borderlandsciences.org Vassilatos HAARP OR aurora OR "radiant energy" OR Tesla
  • Fetched (curl): journal/vol/52/n03/Vassilatos_on_HAARP_IRI.html; journal/vol/53/n02/Vassilatos_on_Aurora_Power.html; journal/vol/52/n02/Vassilatos_on_Tesla_I.html; cart/gerry-vassilatos/

Found

  1. "HAARP With No Strings: What is the IRI?", Gerry Vassilatos, Borderlands Vol. 52 No. 3, Third Quarter 1996 [web: https://borderlandsciences.org/journal/vol/52/n03/Vassilatos_on_HAARP_IRI.html]. This is the author's own earlier version of book Ch.7, first half. - "Critical comprehension of HAARP does not require examination of the Eastlund patents. That supposed base on which Project HAARP was framed has little to do with the actual device in Gakona, Alaska." - "Why would such a huge and thoroughly connected conglomerate as Raytheon be suddenly moved to buy out the Eastlund patents at all?" and "Raytheon acquired the rights to the Eastlund patents for a singula[r] ..." (the author's claim; see google-patents note for the recorded assignments). - He quotes a description of the prototype: "It consists of 48 antenna elements arranged as 8 rows by 6 columns ... Initial testing of the Developmental Prototype began in December 1994" (source not named in the passage read). The UAF history gives 18 elements for the 1994 prototype (see uaf-haarp note). - He announces "a second, more technically oriented publication on topics which reach far beyond HAARP". This is probably the 1997 Declassified Patents companion (see archive-org note).
  2. "Drawing Usable Electrical Power from the Aurora Borealis", Gerry Vassilatos, Journal of Borderland Research Vol. 53 No. 2, Second Quarter 1997 [web: https://borderlandsciences.org/journal/vol/53/n02/Vassilatos_on_Aurora_Power.html]. This is the author's own fuller statement of claims 5 and 6. - Program: "the fundamental components necessary toward constructing an Auroral Power Accumulator will be shared. In addition, we will give strong evidence that certain contemporary projects, stationed in the Active Auroral Zone, are already testing such components." - The number: "During solar peak emissions, the Northern Auroral Electrojet represents a current of well over 300,000 Amperes at a charging potential of 200,000 Volts. The potential power of the Auroral ring current is thus some 60 Gigawatts! Certain VLF transmissions are able to modulate the Electrojet current." - HAARP: "Among the most overtly obvious contemporary designs for an Auroral Power Accumulator is HAARP ... it is not owned and funded by those groups. In addition, while Raytheon allocates the Project, it did not initiate the Program." - Vion (1860) "exceedingly long metallic screens, well insulated from the mountain ridges", the Norwood 1929 incident, and the Alaska pipeline weld and current hazards. - Section list includes "Karl Selim Lemström • Jet Modulator • Amplifier • Induction • Power Management • Contact • Powerpoint" (the design sections). - References include Lemström items in Symon's Monthly Meteorological Magazine 18:33 and 18:51 (1883) and "Artificially Induced Auroras", Science 4:465 (1884); Savage, Aurora (1994); Vril Compendium Vol. 7 (1992).
  3. "The Broadcast Power of Nikola Tesla (Part I)", Borderlands Vol. 52 No. 2, Second Quarter 1996 [web: https://borderlandsciences.org/journal/vol/52/n02/Vassilatos_on_Tesla_I.html]. A narrative of Tesla's impulse discoveries (for example, a 15,000 V dynamo charge giving sparks "exceeding some two hundred fifty thousand volts"). It has no Colorado Springs numbers, Savo or Wardenclyffe material (grep: 0 hits); those may be in Part II (not checked).
  4. Catalog [web: https://borderlandsciences.org/cart/gerry-vassilatos/]. Lists Lost Science; Secrets of Cold War Technology: Project HAARP and Beyond; Secrets of Cold War Technology II: Declassified Patents of the Cold War and SDI ("this book contains ALL of the relevant patents cited in the previous work, and more ... Over 600 pages"; 666 pp); Ground Radio; and Vril Compendium I-XI. Vol. I "Patents of Ward, Vion, Palenscar and others" (aerial batteries); Vol. X includes "Heittinger and the aerial skybeam power transmitters ... Grindell-Matthews"; Vol. XI "ELF and Project Sanguine". The seller is the author's publisher, an interested party.

Bearing on the claims

  • Claims 5 and 6: these two articles are the author's primary statements of the auroral-power thesis. The reviewers should read the 1997 article for the mechanism ("Jet Modulator", "Contact") the book only sketches.
  • Claim 4: the companion volume is where the patents behind CAL, gamma-ray and Mossbauer weapons are collected.

Recheck

Yes. Check Part II of the Tesla article (Vol. 52 No. 3 or 4) for the Colorado Springs and Savo material, and the journal index for later Vassilatos articles (1998 onward) on HAARP and aurora.