I had heard somewhere that the 'secret' US DoD HAARP facility was now closed down.
Not sure about this...it may be one of those post-War (ie 'after' the Cold War....) reductions in activity, similar to the decrease in the activity heard from Numbers Stations. In other words, a dip before a climb....
Now that we all live in in a universal, peaceful utopia, with no threats of nuclear or any other form of war, and every nation state is in a mode of happy fraternal cooperation, well...
.if only!
Talking of HAARP-type urban legends and radio conspiricising, I wonder if the alleged British / Welsh HAARP facility is still in operation?
http://www.ukcolumn.org/oldforums/index.php?p=/discussion/8122/what-s-h-a-a-r-p-doing-in-wales
This attracted unhelpful-but-interesting media mob speculation with headlines along the routes of:
"David Cameron authorized HAARP facility in WALES that engineered UK floods!"
Sheer UK newspaper madness, very-similar to the National Enquirer style of editorial.
I mean, all these good people are doing is attempting to project large amounts of radiofrequency energy beams skywards in order to be able to obtain upper atmosphere weather RADAR information....not the massive powers being generated/transmitted in the US, as I understand it.
Misconstruing this, and making RADAR seem like a 1930s Flash Gordon death ray, is eminently-suited for scaring the masses. But as dispassionate Fortean investigators, we must sit on (and above, and under) the fence.
And always remember....with great power, comes great electricity bills/costs.....
ps
@Doc all your excellent Soundcloud stuff (especially that World Adventist intercept) reminds me of searching through the WRTVH last century. Those of us
old mature enough to have dabbled, properly, with pirate/utility radio in the 60s/70s, truly were online, on 'the net', at least quarter of a century (perhaps half a century, or more) ahead of the current mainly land-based internet....just imagine back in the halcyon days of Hallicrafter, Collins, Hammerlund, or even Heathkit, Sony and Yaesu, that there would be a future era when the entire human race would be interconnected using RF multimode communications devices permanently. Those of us that were originally 'radio-active' (note that all-important hyphen) last century were unacknowledged pioneers in so many ways. But the vast majority of the billions of "home computer amateurs" in the 21st century are oblivious to what we did (and, ever-decreasingly, do.....
@Monstrosa @GhostInTheMachine , trust us, it was, and still is, a grippingly-interesting thing to have been involved in....it did have it's place, fringe radio plays a part in almost every sci-fi and Fortean story of the modern era)