March 7, 1996: NASA's Tethered Satellite & HAARP - Richard C. Hoagland & Nick Begich
Dr. Begich provides an overview of HAARP, describing the phased-array transmitter at Gakona, Alaska, capable of an effective radiated power of one billion watts. He reads from a Department of Defense information paper obtained through congressional inquiry, revealing the facility's potential to convert high-frequency transmissions across sixteen decades of the electromagnetic spectrum. The two guests examine how HAARP could interact with the orbiting tether as a tuned resonator.
Art Bell facilitates a discussion linking both programs to hyperdimensional physics, ancient civilizations, and the possibility that HAARP serves purposes far beyond ionospheric research. The conversation touches on compartmentalized military projects, orbital mechanics, and upcoming HAARP test schedules coinciding with the satellite's orbital lifespan.
Key Moments
Hoagland: 13-mile tether is a tuned ELF antenna: Hoagland argues the 13-mile tether dangling from the shuttle is a wildly inefficient power generator but a near-perfect very-low-frequency dipole antenna, resonant near 13-14 kHz, aimed straight down at Earth.
Hoagland: hyperdimensional generator and the tether failure: Hoagland claims the tether unexpectedly created a 'direct short' between two layers of the ionosphere, with Earth driving a hyperdimensional generator and producing huge voltages and currents along the wire - far beyond what NASA planners anticipated.
The friday night arc - tether burns through in space: Hoagland walks through the moment of failure: at sunset over the equator, somebody opened the circuit for four minutes, hundreds of thousands of volts built up in the wire and arced to ground at the shuttle, melting the kevlar tether like a burning soda straw.
Begich on HAARP power: 0.1 to 1 million megawatts: Begich, citing a Naval Research Laboratory executive summary, says the auroral electrodynamic circuit HAARP taps into carries the equivalent of 0.1 to 1 million megawatts toward Earth - the output of 100 to 1,000 large power plants.
Begich: HAARP HF range and frequency conversion: Begich reads from the Navy document that HAARP's HF transmitter operates from 2.8 to 10 MHz, but by exploiting the auroral ionosphere as a non-linear medium that energy can be converted across 16 decades - down through ELF and up to visible light.