Although I did not stay up — let alone go out — to see the show, I did enjoy the spectacular pictures of the recent Northern Lights.
For Christians seeing such a display, Bible passages such as Psalm 19 — the inspiration for the occasional song of praise over the years — may spring to mind:
The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands…
But…
I am wondering if this display was wholly natural.
The High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP)
This is an article from Phys.org (part of the Science X network of websites) from just a few months ago:
And this is a 2008 “News Feature” from Nature (Nature link) giving some background on HAARP:
The High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) has been entwined with controversy since its birth. Originally envisioned as a way to facilitate communications with nuclear-armed submarines, HAARP took almost two decades to build and has incurred around US$250 million in construction and operating costs. It consists of 360 radio transmitters and 180 antennas, and covers some 14 hectares near the town of Gakona about 250 kilometres northeast of Anchorage.
With 3.6 megawatts of power at its command, HAARP is the most powerful ionospheric heater in the world. At its heart is a phased-array radar that emits radio waves that are partially absorbed between 100 kilometres and 350 kilometres in altitude, accelerating electrons there and ‘heating’ the ionosphere… In effect, HAARP allows scientists to turn the ionosphere, the uppermost and one of the least understood regions of the atmosphere, into a natural laboratory.
It is one of several ionospheric heaters scattered around the world. The facilities create unique opportunities to study the fundamental physics behind how plasma and electromagnetic waves interact. Researchers have already used HAARP to create an artificial aurora and otherwise study the basic physics of how charged particles behave in the ionosphere.
And stating that:
One of HAARP’s most cited accomplishments is the creation of the first artificial aurora visible to the naked eye. On zapping the ionosphere, HAARP created a green aurora between 100 and 150 kilometres high — in the middle of a natural aurora. “That was something you couldn’t predict,” says Michael Kelley, a physicist at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, who has been involved with HAARP.
It seems not unreasonable to think that:
the technology in 2008 may well have been rather more advanced than what was described in an article in the public domain
in the 15+ years since, it would be surprising if there had not been significant advances
And that, not least in the context of the above, it does not seem so very speculative to wonder whether the recent Northern Lights show was actually wholly natural. Even at a time of unusual solar activity. Indeed if an experiment were being carried out, and if it were thought that something might happen that — in the words of Michael Kelley quoted above — “you couldn’t predict”, then perhaps a time of unusual solar activity might be considered ideal.
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Artificial intelligence
Moreover, I noticed that Robert Malone, whose articles in my experience are often well worth reading, put out a post saying that:
The following text is from the subscription AI program (Perplexity) that I use for general searches…
Finally, I noticed that, among other things, the AI text cited by Robert Malone includes the comment that:
[the] experiment used HAARP to bounce images, spoken words, and sound art off the ionosphere
The mind boggles. I couldn’t help but think of Jesus’ words in Matthew 24:24-25:
For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect. See, I have told you in advance.
Though as with any short extract from the Bible, I would recommend reading (at least) the rest of the chapter for context.
