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UAF HAARP site (haarp.gi.alaska.edu)

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 Saved page text (evidence trail, not for publication) is in research/pages/.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

Fetched

https://haarp.gi.alaska.edu/faq ; /history (the history page returned little text).

Found (the operator's own statements; UAF is the current operator, an interested party in HAARP's public image)

  • "The High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program began in 1990 as a congressional initiative".
  • "Construction on the HAARP Research Station began in 1993. The first functional facility was completed by the winter of 1994 with three passive, diagnostic instruments and an evaluation prototype HF transmitter consisting of 18 antenna elements with a net radiated power of 360 kW. By 1999 ... 48 antenna elements and a net radiated power capability of 960 kW ... Final buildout was completed in 2007, with the HF transmitter now consisting of 180 antenna elements having a net radiated power capability of 3,600 kW".
  • "In August 2015, the research equipment was transferred to UAF under an Education Partnership Agreement (EPA)", with a CRADA.
  • "the five on-site diesel generators must provide power ... approximately 10 MW of prime power are required when the transmitter is operating at full power."
  • "The energy generated at HAARP is so much weaker than these naturally occurring processes that it is incapable of producing the type of optical display observed during an aurora. However, weak and repeatable optical emissions have been formed using HAARP".
  • "use the ionosphere like an antenna to excite low frequency waves". The land "was originally acquired by the USAF to construct an over-the-horizon backscatter" radar.
  • On weather: "there is no way to control the weather" (operator's statement).

Bearing on the claims

  • Claim 5: the facility documented through 2026 is a transmitter powered by diesel generators. No energy-harvesting component appears in the operator's description. Under "Absence of evidence", the book's prediction of "major announcements" has no counterpart in this record (competing explanations in sites.md).
  • The element count of the 1994 prototype conflicts: UAF says 18; Vassilatos (1996) quoted 48 (8 x 6) from testing begun in December 1994; the book says 48 towers. A 1994-1996 HAARP fact sheet (Phillips Laboratory / ONR) would settle it.