UPDATE: 10/12/2021;11:26:50 PM – Affects will continue through Wednesday
Ok folks, HEADS UP! This could be the BLACKOUT they have been threatening. It may be nothing at all. BUT, BE READY, BE ALERT! I personally believe this is manufactured, and I hope that you will agree with me once you finish reviewing this post. However, whether it is naturally occurring or manufactured by the Mad Scientists the affect is the same for us. SO, again, HEADS UP!
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OK, they try to make it sound like CME’s have always been happening and that they often cause AURORA’s. Well, I did a search to find out when Aurora’s caused by CME from Solar Flares were first noted. I FOUND it. 1989. I tried to find any other instances of AURORA’s caused by solar flares. I found one in 1972.
Eyewitness Reports of the Great Auroral Storm of 1859 – NASA
A Super Solar Flare | Science Mission Directorate – NASA
THE NEXT GLOBAL BLACKOUT WILL BE CAUSED BY THE SUN
A 1977 blackout changed New York City forever. What happens when one strikes all of planet Earth?
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Exactly 40 years ago, America’s most dramatic blackout ever hit New York City, and the city went nuts. On July 13, 1977, as Brooklyn’s poorest residents took to the streets to direct traffic, store owners set their own shopfronts on fire to optimize their insurance payouts after looting. That blackout, caused by damage to a couple of transmission lines at a nearby nuclear plant, lasted two days and caused unprecedented chaos.
It’s possible that the same could happen now — but on a global scale.
A blackout this intense could happen if our planet careens into the path of a massive solar storm. These happen all the time on a geologic scale, but one hasn’t yet occurred in the electrical era. As a species, we’re woefully unprepared for the moment when it does.
The last massive solar storm was on September 1, 1859, missing the era of global electrification by just a couple of decades. During the storm, the sun spit out a stream of plasma, white light, and electrons — a mere sliver of its total mass and energy — but that alone was strong enough to completely overwhelm Earth’s magnetic fields when it crashed into them just hours later. Even just eight minutes after the storm, an English 33-year-old amateur astronomer named Richard Carrington was trying to project sunspots onto a plate of glass when, as he later wrote, he thought “a ray of light had penetrated a hole in the screen attached to the object-glass … for the brilliancy was fully equal to that of direct sunlight.”
Terrestrial effects and aurora (there are great details about all of the effects of the solar storms of 1972, on the wikipedia page)
On August 4, an aurora shone so luminously that shadows were cast on the southern coast of the United Kingdom[1] and shortly later as far south as Bilbao, Spain at magnetic latitude 46°.[38] Extending to August 5, intense geomagnetic storming continued with bright red (a relatively rare color associated with extreme events) and fast-moving aurora visible at midday from dark regions of the Southern Hemisphere.[39]
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An aurora that lit up the sky over the … – Live Science
THIS A THEORY PUT FORTH BY A RETIRED COMPUTER PROGRAMER AND INDEPENENT WEATHER RESEARCHER. She thinks it makes sense that a solar flare may have caused the sinking and subsequent communication problems. She gives no other evidence to back that theory up. No other known electromagentic incidences at that time. No one else having power outage or communication problems. No recorded Solar Flair
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UPDATE: 10/12/2021;11:26:50 PM
A coronal mass ejection struck the earth’s magnetic field early this morning. The strike triggered a G2-class geomagnetic storm – which is only now subsiding. Source:Watchman
Let me preface this by saying that you can buy into this BS if you need too. Me, I am not buying it. I have shown you in this post that the Scientists have been working for years to create Auroras and they finally PERFECTED their technique. I suggest to you that they could not wait to create an opportunity to perform their magic and WOW you with their creations! AND THE WORLD JUST BUYS THE WHOLE THING. UNBELIEVEABLE!
Northern Lights shimmer farther south than usual tonight as geomagnetic storm hits Earth
The Northern Lights are driven primarily by solar winds — particles emitted from the sun that flow out through space and tear through Earth’s magnetosphere, creating a colorful light show.
Space weather
The effect of geomagnetic storms can be felt for a number of days, according to the Met Office.
Auroras spread across northern Europe, Iceland, Canada, and multiple northern-tier US states. Here from Alaska:
In Fort McMurray, the auroras were so bright, people were able to photograph them using nothing more than a cell phone.
And as you can see in the video below, the display was dynamic, producing many curtains and pillars.
Across the border in Washington, James Davenport used an actual camera to capture this amazing show over Seattle, adding: “This was my FIRST TIME seeing the aurora borealis… wow.”
He explains in the video description: “Of course, after 2 wonderful hours, right as I was freezing cold and starting to pack up, somebody yelled “look at THAT!” and it was on again! I was stunned at how vivid and dynamic the lights were, moving 10-20deg in a matter of seconds across the sky, with some faint red and green visible to the eye.”
This is how the solar wind around Earth reacted when the CME shock passed by:
Abruptly, the solar wind speed increased by 120 km/s. At the same time, the plasma density tripled, and the temperature increased almost 10-fold.
These are signs of a classic direct hit by a CME.
The storm’s G2-category apex may be over now, but lesser G1-class storms are likely for the rest of Oct. 12th. High-latitude sky watchers should remain alert for auroras.
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UPDATE: 10/12/21; 4:24:44 PM
I just found out about the Draconid Meteor Shower Last night. Interesting timing. All this stuff coming together at once and we have burst of light falling to earth from the constellation named for the DRAGON. Mind you, those bursts of light or falling stars are entities. You can be sure of that, and they are not friendly. Dark entities. DEMONIC if you will.
Draconid meteor shower lights up the night sky
Stargazers in some parts of the UK were treated to a display of meteors on Sunday.
The weather threatened to put a dampener on the annual Draconid meteor shower, but the clouds parted for some, offering a glimpse of the spectacular display.
One particularly dazzling meteor shot through the sky over Howick rocks in Northumberland as a fisherman looked on.
Named after the constellation of Draco the dragon, the shower occurs every year and is one of two meteor showers to light up the skies in October.
The shower comes from the debris of comet 21 P/ Giacobini-Zinner and occurs in the Northern Hemisphere.
It can be seen without binoculars or a telescope.
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Cloud, rain and fog threaten views of Draconid meteor shower
NOW, I was looking up the Draco Meteor Shower before I found the article above and I found this pic from 2018. A quick perusal of the constellations in the grouping revealed a very interesting item… CORONA Borealis. I have not really done a deep analysis of the grouping, but it does not take a genius to connect CORONA with the current events and DRACO. It is no wonder they removed that particular item from their photo above.
I grabbed this little tidbit from SOURCE: SPACE.com
Even at their peak — which, this year, occurs just after nightfall on Friday evening — the Draconids are usually modest, generating just a few meteors per hour. Because this year’s Draconid meteor shower occurs so close to the new moon, in the absence of bright moonlight more meteors may be visible in the night sky.
The shower, which is typically active from Oct. 6 to Oct. 10 every year, occasionally puts on an incredible display. In 1933, for example, skywatchers in Europe saw up to 500 Draconids per minute, according to Space.com skywatching columnist Joe Rao. And observers throughout the Western United States saw thousands of Draconids per hour at the shower’s peak in 1946, he added.
So why did the sky part to allow only ONE “Draconid” to appear in the photos above?? Who ever heard of a Meteor shower with only only one meteor??? By the way those photos in the article above were the ONLY photos of the Draco Meteor Shower for October 2021 that I could find.
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Started streaming 5 hours ago; 10/11/21; 7:20 PM
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Warning solar storm hitting Earth today could disrupt power grids and satellites
An enormous solar flare is expected to hit Earth on Monday, authorities have warned, potentially affecting power grids but also meaning the northern Lights could be visible in northern England.
The flare – officially known as a coronal mass ejection (CME) – was observed on Saturday on the side of the sun directly facing our planet and comes as we enter a period of increased solar activity.
An alert was published by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) which warned the geomagnetic storm could cause “weak power grid fluctuations” and satellite “orientation irregularities” which could increase drag on craft in low Earth orbit.
The NOAA says a geomagnetic storm is a major disturbance of Earth’s magnetosphere that occurs when there is heightened activity caused by solar winds in the space environment surrounding Earth.
They can impact satellites and disrupt global communications, as well as enhance the Northern Lights.
The Met Office said: “Aurora is possible through [the] 11th across much of Scotland, although cloud amounts are increasing, meaning sightings are unlikely.
They added: “There is a slight chance of aurora reaching the far north of England and Northern Ireland tonight, but cloud breaks and therefore sightings are more likely in Northern Ireland.”
The NOAA said their model says they expect it to hit Earth around midday US time (early evening UK time) and last until Tuesday.
The Earth is currently in the early stages of a period of increased solar activity.
Astronomers detected a large cluster of sunspots on the sun last year, which usually indicates a higher chance of solar flares and magnetic activity.
The Northern Lights appeared at the top of Scotland a few weeks ago, with people in Orkney, Moray and the Isle of Lewis taking pictures of the phenomenon.
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3-Day Forecast
Issued: 2021 Oct 11 1230 UTC
Prepared by the U.S. Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center and processed by SpaceWeatherLive.com
A. NOAA Geomagnetic Activity Observation and Forecast
The greatest observed 3 hr Kp over the past 24 hours was 4 (below NOAA Scale levels).
The greatest expected 3 hr Kp for Oct 11-Oct 13 2021 is 6 (NOAA scale G2).
NOAA Kp index breakdown
Oct 11 Oct 12 Oct 13
00-03UT 3 4 2
03-06UT 3 5 (G1) 3
06-09UT 3 4 2
09-12UT 2 3 2
12-15UT 3 3 2
15-18UT 5 (G1) 3 2
18-21UT 6 (G2) 2 2
21-00UT 5 (G1) 2 2
Rationale
G2 (Moderate) geomagnetic storms are likely on 11 Oct, with G1 (Minor) storm conditions likely on 11-12 Oct, due to the anticipated arrival of a CME from 09 Oct.
B. NOAA Solar Radiation Activity Observation and Forecast
Solar radiation, as observed by NOAA GOES-16 over the past 24 hours, was below S-scale storm level thresholds.
Solar Radiation Storm Forecast for Oct 11-Oct 13 2021
Oct 11 Oct 12 Oct 13
S1 or greater 5% 5% 5%
Rationale
No S1 (Minor) or greater solar radiation storms are expected. No significant active region activity favorable for radiation storm production is forecast.
C. NOAA Radio Blackout Activity and Forecast
No radio blackouts were observed over the past 24 hours.
Radio Blackout Forecast for Oct 11-Oct 13 2021
Oct 11 Oct 12 Oct 13
R1-R2 10% 10% 10%
R3 or greater 1% 1% 1%
Rationale
There exists a slight chance for R1-R2 (Minor-Moderate) radio blackouts on 11-13 Oct due to the flare potential from Region 2882.
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Geomagnetic storm WARNING: Solar flare may directly hit Earth today, can disrupt power grids
A massive solar flare was observed from the side of the sun that directly faces Earth on October 9 and is due to hit Earth today.
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US agency National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has issued a geomagnetic storm alert with a solar flare due to directly hit Earth today on October 11, 2021.
As per NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Centre (SWPC), the resultant geomagnetic storm will disrupt power grids in higher latitude regions where the exposure will be more.
A solar flare is what scientists call a coronal mass ejection (CME). A CME was observed from the side of the sun that directly faces Earth on Saturday, October 9, 2021.
The massive solar flare directly in Earth’s direction is due to hit the atmosphere today, with warnings of electricity grid fluctuations as well as the visibility of auroras up till New York.
The solar flare hitting Earth directly may impact satellites in the low-Earth orbit, required ground control to redirect their orientations.
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NOAA Space Weather @NWSSWPC
3-Day Forecast Issued 2021 Oct 11 1230 UTC: The greatest expected 3 hr Kp for Oct 11-Oct 13 2021 is 6 (NOAA Scale G2). S1 or greater: 5%, 5%, 5%. R1-R2: 10%, 10%, 10%. R3 or greater: 1%, 1%, 1%.
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The types of EMP pulse
Scientists from the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) have classified EMPs into 3 categories.
- The first is called an E1. An E1 is the quickest pulse of all EMPs. It is very brief, lasting a mere microsecond. But it is extremely intense. This is the pulse from a nuclear blast or other EMP weapons.
- An E2 is a bit slower than an E1. A bolt of lightning has the characteristics of an E2. Because of this, E2 are typically the easiest to protect against. But a nuclear blast or EMP weapon has the characteristics of both an E1 and an E2 pulse. As a result, much of the protection that equipment has against an E2 might have been damaged from the initial E1 pulse in the event of a nuclear or weaponized EMP.
- The third type of pulse is an E3. This is the slowest of the pulses and could last minutes, hours, or even days. This is the type of pulse found in intense CMEs from our Sun. Our Sun is NOT known to produce E1 or E2 type pulses. (Nuclear blasts and EMP weapons will typically have all three types of pulses.)
There Are Three Things That We Know Cause EMPs: A Bolt Of Lightning, A Nuclear Explosion, And Solar Storms. Part I
EXCERPTS ONLY VIEW FULL ARTICLE BY CLICKING THE ABOVE TITLE LINK.
Electromagnetic pulse
EMPs by high altitude detonation or CMEs are caused by the release of charged particles within the Earth’s ionosphere. The ionosphere is the shell of electrons and electrically charged particles surrounding Earth. This “shell” is found from about 30 miles to 500 miles above the Earth. The size of the ionosphere can fluctuate some based on varying factors I won’t get into here.
Anyway, a huge downward surge in particles in the ionosphere would create massive electrical currents which could “short out” all sorts of electrical power grids, transformers, and other equipment dependent on electricity.
The types of EMP pulse
Scientists from the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) have classified EMPs into 3 categories.
- The first is called an E1. An E1 is the quickest pulse of all EMPs. It is very brief, lasting a mere microsecond. But it is extremely intense. This is the pulse from a nuclear blast or other EMP weapons.
- An E2 is a bit slower than an E1. A bolt of lightning has the characteristics of an E2. Because of this, E2 are typically the easiest to protect against. But a nuclear blast or EMP weapon has the characteristics of both an E1 and an E2 pulse. As a result, much of the protection that equipment has against an E2 might have been damaged from the initial E1 pulse in the event of a nuclear or weaponized EMP.
- The third type of pulse is an E3. This is the slowest of the pulses and could last minutes, hours, or even days. This is the type of pulse found in intense CMEs from our Sun. Our Sun is NOT known to produce E1 or E2 type pulses. (Nuclear blasts and EMP weapons will typically have all three types of pulses.)
The Sun releases CMEs quite often. (Depending upon the Sun’s cycle, it could release up to 3 a day, or as few as one every 5 days. But these may or may not be strong enough to have dire consequences for Earthlings.) Most are usually pointing off in a direction that does not affect Earth.
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We already know that scientists all over the world are able to create EMF/EMP weapons capable of taking out our power grid. No surprise.
We also know that scientists have been bombarding our ionosphere and atmosphere with electromagnetic waves, radio waves and heat. They are able to send waves up and pull them back down. There is not much they can’t do these days. Michio Kaku even brags that Scientists now are able to control everything on earth, including creating lightning, and clouds, and earthquakes and volcanos. There is a lot they are not telling us. But, if you continue through to the end of this post you will learn some of their secrets.
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Oct 11, 2021
Scientists have harnessed the tools needed to stage Earth’s most colorful light show, and they have brought the Aurora Borealis into a lab at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va.
Their simulation, generated by a device called Planeterrella, combines all of the necessary ingredients – a magnetic field, charged particles, and a sphere, to display a colorful reenactment of Earth’s Northern Lights.
“It recreates the atmosphere of the Earth at 80 km in altitude when an aurora is occurring. The aurora is created when particles, originally from the sun, precipitate into the atmosphere,” explained Guillaume Gronoff, a research scientist at NASA Langley who lead the creation of Planeterrella.
According to Gronoff, the Planeterrella machine is a spinoff of an experiment from the 19th century called the Terrella, which first demonstrated the glowing result of electrically charged particles mixing with a magnetic field. Gronoff and his team upgraded the old experiment by adding several spheres, which allows them to recreate the auroral ovals that occur on Earth and several other planets.
“For example, we can show the reaction when Io, the satellite of Jupiter, sends particles to Jupiter. We can also simulate the aurora at Neptune and Uranus, when their magnetic fields are directly pointing towards the sun,” said Gronoff.
There are approximately 10 other Planeterrella machines in Europe, and the first was created by Gronoff’s PhD advisor, Dr. Jean Lilensten, from the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) and the Institut de Planetologie et d’Astrophysique de Grenoble (IPAG) in France.
The Planeterrella at Langley is among the first in the U.S., and its creation was made possible by a cooperation between the Virginia Air and Space Center (VASC), NASA Langley’s Science Directorate and the Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences (ROSES) program.
Studying auroras and the relationship between the sun and the Earth is a key focus area of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, but the Planeterrella machine is primarily used for demonstrating to others how each variable interacts to create an aurora.
“The Planeterrella allows us to create analogies with existing processes, like the aurora at Mars, which do not have a global magnetic field, but several localized magnetic fields, or Uranus and Neptune, when the magnetic fields of those planets point towards the Sun,” explained Gronoff.
Gronoff cautions that this experiment is only an illustration; more complex phenomena are occurring in the magnetospheres of planets. For example, there are various gases on each planet that can create different color effects within auroras. Gronoff is planning on incorporating this variable using a few extra magnets and some carbon dioxide to simulate the aurora at Mars.
The Planeterrella and its vibrant demonstration will be displayed at the VASC museum in a few months. A second machine will also be created to transport to local classrooms.
“The Planeterrella can help teach students about solar wind, how electrically charged particles follow the magnetic field and the exciting space missions NASA is launching to space to study these processes,” said Gronoff.
Jen LaPan
NASA Langley Research Center
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Scientists in Alaska Attempt to Produce Artificial Aurora They hoped artificial airglow would teach them more about the northern lights
In late September, Christopher Fallen and technicians at the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) near Gakona, Alaska, switched on a giant array of 180 antennas. They were hoping to produce radio-induced airglow, also known as artificial aurora, as a way to better understand the mechanics of natural aurora.
Such airglow would be difficult to see with the naked eye, so Fallen had set up two low-light video cameras to capture it. And he tweeted his plans, in the off chance that someone else might catch a glimpse. After all, some of the most impressive artificial aurora displays to date have been produced at HAARP.
But the sky was too cloudy. And by the time it was dark enough, the ionosphere had deteriorated too much, with relatively few electrons per cubic centimeter. Fallen wasn’t able to generate any airglow during four days of experiments.
But not all was lost. He had also embedded images into the powerful radio wave that HAARP uses to heat a patch of the ionosphere, and alerted amateur radio enthusiasts through Twitter. As the experiment ran, his feed began to light up with tweets from listeners who were sending the images back to him.
A UAF logo sent with HAARP received by an amateur radio operator in Victoria, B.C.PHOTO: CHRISTOPHER FALLEN/UAF
They had used slow-scan TV, which reproduces images based on patterns in audio signals, to decode the images. Fallen, an assistant professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Geophysical Institute, had transmitted two UAF logos, a cat photo, and a QR code granting the recipient 0.001 Bitcoin.
Messages returned from Pueblo, Colo., and Victoria, British Columbia. The resolution wasn’t high enough for anyone to claim the Bitcoin, but the cat was easy enough to make out. Given that HAARP’s antennas point directly up at the sky instead of out toward the horizon, Fallen was pleased with the results. “As powerful as HAARP is, it’s just a big radio,” he says.
It’s actually a giant phased array radio transmitter capable of sending 3.6 megawatts of energy into the ionosphere. Running an experiment there costs about US $5,000 and burns 600 gallons (roughly 2300 liters) of fuel per hour.
A cat photo sent by HAARP received by an amateur radio operator in Victoria, B.C.PHOTO: CHRISTOPHER FALLEN/UAF
Jeff Dumps, an amateur radio enthusiast from Fairbanks, recently paid $1,200 to run a 15-minute experiment on HAARP. He was trying to simulate the Luxembourg effect, or cross-modulation that can occur between two signals as they richochet through the atmosphere. To do so, he transmitted the preamble to the U.S. Declaration of Independence and his own guitar rendition of the Star-Spangled Banner.
Dumps has visited HAARP with Fallen, and marvels at its size. “The wind kind of gusts through the antenna array so you get this weird howling,” he says. “It’s kind of ominous.”
The facility was designed to send high-frequency radio waves into the ionosphere, where radiation from the sun and distant galaxies mixes with the Earth’s atmosphere and can knock electrons out of whack. These electrons collide with oxygen and nitrogen in the atmosphere, and prompt those molecules to release photons that produce the red and green light seen in aurora.
The mechanisms by which space radiation disrupts these electrons is not well understood. In his experiment, Fallen had wanted to cycle through three frequencies—2.8 megahertz, 2.82 MHz, and 2.84 MHz—to see which produced the most vivid fake aurora. This, he thought, might provide a clue to the underlying physics. He also wanted to test two different types of polarization—or the direction the radio wave was oriented—at 2.8 megahertz, to see if polarization made any difference in the aurora that was produced.
A UAF logo sent with HAARP received by an amateur radio operator in Victoria, B.C.PHOTO: CHRISTOPHER FALLEN/UAF
Fallen’s next chance to answer these questions will be in early spring, when HAARP fires up for another research campaign; it only runs two a year due to staffing and funding constraints.
Heating the ionosphere directly allows scientists to conduct controlled experiments, which is a rarity in the field of atmospheric physics.
“Almost never in space science do we get to do active experiments. We almost always just sit here and wait for the sun to deposit energy and make things happen,” says John Hughes, a radar physicist at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University who used to work at HAARP. “HAARP gives us the ability to poke it a little bit and gives us a new way to understand how this whole system works.”
What are the Northern Lights? Aurora Borealis explained …
The beautiful aurorae, or northern lights, are the stuff of legends. The ancient stories of the Sami people warn that if you mock the lights they will seize you, and their mythical appeal continues to capture the hearts and imagination of people across the globe.
Aurora explores the visual beauty, ancient myths and science of the northern lights and challenges the popular theory of how the lights are formed. Plasma physicist Melanie Windridge explains this extraordinary and evocative phenomenon, a scientific marvel unlike any other in which the powers of astronomy, geology, magnetism and atomic physics combine to create one of the wonders of the natural world.
As Melanie travels in search of the perfect aurora, she uncovers the scientific realities of this plasmic phenomenon full of natural power. She combines the science behind the lights with a fascinating travelogue as she pursues the aurora across the northern hemisphere – from the Arctic Circle to Scotland.
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This month, an Alaska scientist will switch on an artificial aurora
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People travel north from all over for a chance to see the aurora borealis, or northern lights. Soon, Chris Fallen will make his own.
Sometime around the darkness of the Sept. 19 new moon, the space physicist will travel to an antenna field off the Copper River. There, he will pulse transmitters on and off to create radio-induced aurora, also known as airglow. The UAF researcher will use the facility to attempt to do from below what the sun does from above to create a display of aurora.
“Energetic electrons ionize and excite gases in the upper atmosphere,” he said. “They release photons when they de-excite again. Here, we’re doing the process from below with HF radio waves.”
The High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program is a group of high-frequency radio transmitters powered by four diesel tugboat generators and one from a locomotive. Using an extensive field of antennae, the transmitters send a focused beam of radio-wave energy into the aurora zone. There, that energy can stimulate a speck of the electrical Sun-Earth connection about 100 miles above our heads.
UAF’s Geophysical Institute, where Fallen works, took over operation of HAARP in 2015. In a repeat of an experiment he did in February, Fallen will create a temporary bright spot in the night sky that will be the size of a thumbnail at arm’s length. He will examine this airglow from beneath and from an all-sky camera at Poker Flat Research Range north of Fairbanks.
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Fallen will post on Twitter (@ctfallen) when he is tickling the ionosphere from below so people can look for it and perhaps take photographs of the faint phenomenon in the sky. He’s never seen it, but a photographer once captured a red splotch of HAARP-induced airglow during a campaign. Because of the configuration of the human eye, airglow might be easier when looking just to the side.
“You almost have to use averted vision to see it,” he said.
Fallen wants to answer a few questions with his research: What causes the brightest airglow and why does it happen? How do radio waves interact with plasmas in the upper atmosphere?
“Artificial airglow can teach us things about natural aurora,” he said.
At the HAARP facility about 11 miles from the junction of the Glenn and Richardson highways north of Glennallen, Fallen will request that the operator of the antenna field turn on transmitters for about 90 seconds, then turn them off for a minute.
Fallen will have about two hours to complete his experiment. He’ll repeat the procedure several times with energy aimed at the geomagnetic field line. This will result in artificial aurora about 150 miles above Glennallen. The farther an observer is from HAARP on the Tok Cutoff Road, the lower the airglow will appear on the horizon.
You can find out more about the project at a website Fallen created for it.
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Operations News: news, details, times, and frequencies of selected HAARP experiments (Updated 15 September 2017)
Tune-in: information for using a shortwave radio to hear selected HAARP transmissions
Artificial aurora: information for viewing the HAARP artificial aurora from various locations
Contact the author of this page
Buy HAARP “Area 49” shirts, etc. (UAF Geophysical Institute fundraiser)
What is this page?
This page describes scientific experiments conducted by Chris Fallen and funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) conducted at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) Geophysical Institute High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) Observatory near Gakona, Alaska. More information about HAARP can be found through the Geophysical Institute, the HAARP frequently asked questions (FAQ) page, and the HAARP Facebook page.
Scientific literature describing previous HAARP experiments can be found in several current academic journals such as the Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, Radio Science, Geophysical Research Letters, Annales Geophysicae, the Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, Physical Review Letters, and Nature. (Most academic journals require a paid subscription to view all available articles which can be found at your favorite university library but many older articles are now available free to the public.) Also see the HAARP Bibliography (current up to 2005) compiled by the International Arctic Research Center (IARC) and Geophysical Institute Mather Library. HAARP is one of several ionosphere radio modification facilities built worldwide since the 1970s for the purpose of radio and space science research.
Why create this page?
There are several reasons why people that are not affiliated with HAARP or with scientific research may be interested in HAARP transmission activities.
The first reason people may be interested in HAARP activities is natural human curiosity. An inexpensive shortwave radio, a little knowledge of HAARP operation activities, and bit of luck are all that is needed to hear HAARP transmissions from virtually anywhere in the world. Also, observers throughout Alaska have an opportunity to photograph the artificial aurora sometimes created over HAARP during certain types of transmissions.
The second reason people may be interested in HAARP activities is out of concern regarding the effects of HAARP transmissions on people and various aspects of Earth and its weather. Most of these concerns can be alleviated by improved understanding the science involved and the relatively modest (but still impressive) capabilities afforded by 720 radio transmitters and 5 diesel engines comparable to those used by locomotives.
Little or no prior notice of HAARP (or any other) science experiments is usually not because of secret or nefarious activity as some creative enthusiasts claim, but mostly because scientists are usually very busy and get little (academically significant) credit for keeping the public informed. In fact, scientists in almost every field sometimes feel pressured to be the first to publish new results. Early release of activities and data can allow competing scientists to publish first. Protection of scientific initiative is one reason why data from publicly funded spacecraft missions are often sequestered for several months or even years even though it is often not too difficult to make that data available in near real time over the internet.
My interest in public service opportunities available from conducting HAARP experiments echoes my early experience with shortwave and ham radio activities as a student that helped lead me to a lifetime career in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Hence, this page is an initial attempt to share information regarding HAARP experiment activities that can be similarly engaging or inspiring to students of all ages.
Scientists are the primary users of the instruments at HAARP for upper atmosphere, space and radio science research. NSF is funding scientists to conduct experiments with HAARP in 2017, including the use of its large phased-array high-frequency (HF) radio transmitter. However, the HAARP Observatory is more than its giant iconic phased-array “ionosphere heater” that is only operated for approximately 100 hours during a typical two-week experiment campaign. The observatory also hosts several passive and active diagnostic instruments, many of which are in continuous operation. Data from several of the diagnostic instruments used to be made publicly available in real time over the web and efforts are underway to restore this service. NSF is funding Chris Fallen through NSF Award #1702328 “RAPID: Spatiotemporal Evolution of Radio-induced Aurora at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) Observatory.”
Scientists will conduct experiments in February 2017 during the first UAF-led HAARP “experiment campaign,” lasting approximately one week. The first campaign is somewhat of a “shakedown campaign” when a fraction of the HAARP transmitter (approximately 60%) and supporting equipment will be tested following years of storage.
NSF-funded experiments conducted by Dr. Chris Fallen, Assistant Research Professor in the Space Physics group at the UAF Geophysical Institute, will conduct both artificial aurora and radio propagation experiments. The artificial aurora can potentially be photographed, weather and experiment conditions permitting, from locations extending throughout much of Alaska, including its major population centers of Anchorage, Fairbanks, and Juneau. HAARP transmissions can be similarly be received worldwide with shortwave radio receivers, conditions permitting.
Details of Dr. Fallen’s experiments, including experiment times and radio frequencies used will be published through the Operations News link at the top of this page and his personal twitter account @ctfallen.
Anybody who wants to participate and follow HAARP experiments should follow the official and unofficial announcements linked at the top of this page. There are two main ways to participate in the campaign: by listening to the radio transmissions from HAARP itself or by photographing artificial auroras created by HAARP. Amateur (Ham) radio operators can also use temporary ionosphere irregularities created by HAARP to open new propagation modes for their own transmissions.
A shortwave radio and knowledge of the time and frequency of the HAARP transmissions provides opportunities to “listen in” since the radio wave energy often (but not always) propagates very large distances, sometimes worldwide! Shortwave radios capable of receiving frequencies in the same range that HAARP can transmit, between approximately 2.7 and 10 MHz (2700 and 10,000 kHz) allow anyone to hear HAARP transmissions provided long-distance radio propagation conditions are sufficient and the radio is tuned to one of the frequencies where HAARP is transmitting. Ham radio operators also have an opportunity to reflect (or “bounce”) their own transmissions, typically in the HF, VHF or UHF bands, off ionosphere irregularities created above HAARP during high-power experiments. This creates propagation modes that would normally only be possible during certain space weather events such as aurora.
The artificial aurora (properly called radio-enhanced airglow) occurs at an approximate altitude of 150 to 300 km and can be photographed, conditions permitting, from distances several hundreds of kilometers from HAARP, including near the main population centers of Alaska: Anchorage, Fairbanks, and Juneau. The HAARP artificial aurora is usually not sufficiently luminous to be seen with the unaided eye except under exceptional conditions, and even the best case it is as bright (though much smaller in appearance) as the Andromeda galaxy. A consumer-grade camera with a long-exposure feature is sufficient to photograph the artificial aurora, and photographing the Andromeda galaxy is a good baseline test of sufficient exposure length and light pollution conditions. The artificial aurora can either appear as a spot or amorphous blob in the sky, sometimes as a ray aligned with the geomagnetic field above HAARP, or a combination of both.
Photographers near HAARP in the Copper Valley vicinity should aim their cameras near vertical to photograph the HAARP artificial aurora which is typically located approximately 200 km directly above Glennallen. Photographers outside the Copper Valley should aim their cameras toward Glennallen with an elevation angle that decreases with increasing distance from Glennallen. The approximate location of the artificial aurora can be located with the Google Earth application by downloading and opening the “.kml” file available through the links at the top of this page. The ground-level view displayed in Google Earth will show the approximate region where the artificial aurora or airglow induced by high-power HAARP transmissions will occur so photographers can frame their images accordingly.
This effort is funded by NSF Award #1702328 and the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute.
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NASA Created Artificial Auroras in the Sky Above Norway
NASA’s artificial aurora was designed to tell the agency more about real ones.
Over the weekend, residents of far northern Norway got to see the aurora borealis in the skies above their home. But this wasn’t the standard Northern Light they often see. Instead, this weekend’s aurora was created artificially by NASA rockets.
NASA’s AZURE mission seeks to understand more about how auroras move in our atmosphere. As part of this research project, scientists decided to create their own auroras to track.
NASA launched two sounding rockets on Friday night from the Andøya Space Center in Norway meant to create artificial auroras. Those auroras were captured by a handful of people in the area, and boy are they something to look at:
Even though the auroras have been around forever, scientists still struggle to understand a great deal about them. For instance, we’re not sure exactly what the relationship is between the auroras and Earth’s magnetic field, and we need all kinds of novel experiments to uncover these aurora secrets.
CELESTIAL INSIGHT
The Aurora Borealis: The green glow of discrete auroral arcs. (Image: Axelle B, CC0 Public Domain licence)
Wave-driven electrons prove the key to the celestial light show’s stunning signature
Think of the aurora — those lustrous shows of light pouring across polar night skies — as nature’s answer to preposterous party streamers.