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Anonymous, Unknown et al
Abstract. On August 14, 2003, just a few minutes after the stock
market closed for the day, a nine-minute 'event' had brought the entire
Northeastern power grid down. It is believed that over fifty million people lost
power that afternoon. Since this unprecedented event, blame games have flown
back and forth, but no real answers have been provided. It is believed that the
event originated in an area in the power grid where there is a bottleneck of
power transmission between the eastern U.S. and the Midwest. But what has caused
this mess? Outdated equipment, irresponsible power companies, and politicians
have all been blamed without any solid evidence to support the accusations. What
hasn't been suggested is the possibility that this was a secret government test
that served the purpose of fulfilling requirements for sophisticated warfare and
security response mechanisms.
The Facts
Here are the facts. The power grid that was affected was
the northeast grid. Not the vulnerable California grid, or the southeastern grid
that Washington DC relies upon, and not that strangely isolated Texas oil grid.
It was the grid that the northeast U.S. and southeast Canada rely on. A region
that a large scale outage would not have a really devastating effect on the
economy or military control centers. The event conveniently began a few minutes
after the closing bell on Wall Street as to not effect the days trading, but
while power usage in the northeast on that hot day was still at peak. The event
began in a bottleneck region where only a few percent increase in power flow
could cause such a critical failure of the entire grid. The physical cause of
the event such as the classic squirrel shorting out a transformer, has not been
found; there were no indications of any lightning being present; nor was there
any significant solar activity to cause an unexpected surge in the grid.
Finally, the HAARP (High Frequency Active Auroral Research Project) was turned
on just after 4:00 PM EST on that fateful day.
The question is 'Could a secret HAARP experiment have
caused the blackout?' Interesting ionospheric effects occurred on
8/14/2003 that would have made the conditions for such a secret military test
ideal, including a widespread, highly reflective ionospheric layer being
expected (and was likely created by the electron event seen in figure 1), which
would allow ideal conditions for signal propagation over long distances.
Unfortunately, the ionosonde data that would help show where the effects of
HAARP were directed by providing a picture of the ionosphere were not posted on
the day of the blackout. The Gakona Ionosonde data is frequently not posted when
classified HAARP experiments take place.
What we do know is that HAARP was turned on at or just after 4:00 pm EST; it
would take a few minutes for the target area to respond (say around 4:05 pm)
which would allow a nine minute event to knock the power out at 4:14 pm EST.
HAARP, Ionospheric Warfare, and Potential Applications
Those of us who work in ionospheric research, and who are
concerned with environment risks associated with ionospheric warfare are
familiar with HAARP. The basic concept that HAARP relies upon is based on work
by N. Tesla when he was attempting to devise a method for the wireless
transmission of electrical power, and
subsequently picked up in the early 20th century for the purpose of finding a
way to modify the weather. It is thought that this technology was used by world
leaders such as Stalin, whom during important outdoor events may have used such
technology to prevent unwanted rain or fog. These claims were often associated
with widespread reports of people feeling mysteriously ill. One of the leading
researchers in this field is Dr. Bernard Eastlund, whom to this day accepts
money from organizations such the European Space Agency to research potential
weather modification applications including the possibility of stopping
tornadoes with this type of technology.
HAARP is a phased-array ionospheric heater that is capable of
focusing large quantities of electromagnetic energy into very localized regions
that are very far away from the source. It is entirely possible that the HAARP
heaters were directed at the power grid's bottleneck while the grid was
operating near peak capacity. The sudden presence of electromagnetic energy
could easily force an unexpected increase in the power flow which could in-turn
cause a critical failure such as the one seen on august 14, 2003.
Despite the claims of HAARP advocates, ionospheric heaters
can use the ionosphere to reflect their energy at distances several thousand
miles away by using the ionosphere as a 'mirror' much the same way as AM radio
signals travel over vast distances. Unlike an AM radio, HAARP can use phase
interference to focus it's energy on a localized area (such as the weak point on
the power grid). The only requirement to achieve geographic precision is that
geomagnetic activity be minimal such as it was on the day of the blackout. Also,
there was a short duration test about' 20 minutes before the hour. Such a test
would serve the purpose of showing the researchers exactly where the beam would
focus itself given the cur- rent conditions, and would be a necessary step
before executing such an experiment.
So why would the government do this to us? Well, first of.
all, HAARP is sponsored primarily by the Air Force Weather Agency and 'other
agencies', and is known to be used as an ionospheric warfare tool. This would be
an ideal way to test possible military applications of the instrument. It would
be of great military value if :we could cause an entire region to lose
electricity almost instantly without dropping a single bomb. Of course, this
would need to be tested in a controlled environment where the effects could be
thoroughly analyzed (such as on our own soil). It would be done in an area that
could most easily handle such a large-scale power outage (such as the northeast
US). Also, being in a new age of terrorism, this was an excellent homeland
security response test. By having a blackout that covered one quarter of the
country we can now see how people would respond, what the strengths and
weaknesses of our emergency response systems are, and how quickly we could
restore our systems to operating capacity. If this was a military experiment it
would certainly have served multiple purposes. I also believe it would have been
a strong temptation for anyone with the power to conduct such an experiment to
do so.
Conspiracy Theories and Reality
The blame games that have gone on since the blackout have no
hard evidence to back them up. Although it may sound like an episode of the
X-files, the facts are clear; HAARP is an ionospheric warfare tool, it is
capable of focusing it's electromagnetic energy at long distances, it was turned
on right at the time the event began, and such a scenario would serve multiple
national security interests simultaneously with minimal economic impact. So we
must ask ourselves, is considering HAARP as a potential source of the blackout a
ridiculous conspiracy theory, or is it the most reasonable explanation given the
facts?
I am a concerned ionospheric physicist whom has worked with
HAARP. I am concerned with the unknown environmental and military implications
of this device, and the potential abuses thereof. I am not a conspiracy nut, and
I do believe that HAARP is a useful tool that needs to be put into responsible
hands where it is not abused and where the public has full access to it's
experimental capabilities and data. It is an instrument that is paid for by
tax-payers dollars and is currently not in the hands of people who have earned
or deserve our confidence and trust.
So what really happened on August 14? I'm really not sure,
but we must ask ourselves what the most likely scenario's are without ruling out
any possibilities; even those that sound like they have no place other than the
sci-fi channel. "The Truth is out There", so I leave it for you to decide.
Anonymous
Regretfully, because I am a research scientist, and
because I face the possibility of certain repercussions in my field of work for
revealing this information to the public, I cannot reveal my true identity. I
believe the facts I have presented herein are sufficient to speak for themselves
and should convince the public that oversight is needed when experimenting with
aspects of the atmosphere that are not well known.
The data that is presented was accessed from the National Oceanographic and
Atmospheric Administration website at www.sec.noaa.gov , and from the HAARP
homepage at www.haarp.alaska.edu
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Figure 1. Sattelite environment shows that an enhanced flux of high energy
electrons which would create preferable reflection conditions for HAARP were
present at the time of the event, and geomagnetic activity that could cause
problems with the power-grid were non-existent
Figure 2. The waterfall chart indicates HAARP was turned on just after 4:00
pm EST on 8/14/2003. The chart shows that frequencies of 5, 10, 15, and 29 Mega-
hertz are present for nearly an hour. The 5 mHz broad- cast frequency is the
strongest, and the others are likely to be resulting harmonics
(Editor: for archived HAARP waterfall charts and more info about them
see
http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/mm/wf.html
For HAARP Fluxgate Magnetometer
http://137.229.36.30/cgi-bin/magnetometer/gak-mag.cgi )
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