This Research Center in Alaska Can Supposedly Control Minds and the Weather
The High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program, also known as HAARP, in Alaska has been the target of conspiracy theorists for just trying to do its job. Composed of 180 antennas across 33 acres of land, HAARP is a high-power and high-frequency transmitter that studies the properties and behavior of the ionosphere, the area approximately 50 to 400 miles (roughly 80 to 645 kilometers) above Earth’s surface that borders the edge of space.
Nonetheless, some people don’t believe that HAARP is doing what it says it’s doing. There are claims that HAARP controls peoples’ minds as well as the weather. The wildest one blames the research center for bringing down the space shuttle Columbia. HAARP does none of these things, but the conspiracy is so tenacious that it has had to debunk some of the theories on its website.
“Radio waves in the frequency ranges that HAARP transmits are not absorbed in either the troposphere or the stratosphere—the two levels of the atmosphere that produce Earth’s weather. Since there is no interaction, there is no way to control the weather,” the center writes.
