Clyde Lewis says HAARP is reactivated; callers report eerie radio tones, black flecks in fresh snow, and February storms that turned violent within minutes.
At a glance
Guest: None (call-in and monologue episode; Connie Willis reported by phone from Louisville, Kentucky)
Topics: HAARP reactivation · the Luxembourg Experiment · ionospheric heating · magnetic field weakening · weather warfare · chemtrails
Also discussed: Chris Fallon · Bernard Eastland · Nick Begich · Brad Olson · Jim Lee · Dr. Beverly Rubick
Playing the tones on air
Clyde Lewis had a recording, and he wanted his audience to hear it. Partway through the first hour, the Ground Zero host pressed play on what he said was HAARP's latest experiment: a wavering cluster of tones captured from the shortwave bands. "That is the harp sounds, the tones, the harps, the experiments, the Luxembourg experiment," he told his listeners. He called them frightening. The show had opened with a blunt declaration. "HAARP is back, ladies and gentlemen. Tests have been going on now for about a week or so."
The facility he meant is the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program, a 40-acre grid of high-frequency transmitters outside Gakona, Alaska. The Air Force ran it until August 2015, then handed ownership to the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute. Lewis said the array can beam more than a gigawatt of energy into the ionosphere, and he claimed a researcher named Chris Fallon had spent the week creating artificial auroras and trying to mix audio in the sky. The university describes the work as atmospheric research, including a study of effects on satellite-to-ground communication. Lewis hears something else in it, and he spent four hours saying why.
A DJ mixing in space
The experiment at the center of the show was a deliberate echo of an accident. In the 1930s, Radio Luxembourg's transmitter was powerful enough to heat the ionosphere and blend its signal with other frequencies, so listeners elsewhere in Europe heard the station bleeding through their local broadcasts. Lewis calls it the Luxembourg Experiment, and he argues HAARP is now running it on purpose. "It's like you're a DJ, and you're able to take the sounds and mix them together in space because you've heated the ionosphere to do it," he said.
The phone lines filled with people who thought they had heard it happen. Phil from New York reported a year and a half of radar-like sounds in the ham bands. Will from Pennsylvania, a radio engineer, said the ARRL had published HAARP frequencies around 2.8 megahertz, and he reminded Lewis that Radio Moscow in the 1950s kept raising its power until it burned a hole in the ionosphere with about seven million watts. Walter from Texas fixed on 2750 kilohertz, calling it "the optimum frequency range for all microwaves" and the band where the tones kept surfacing. Lewis had a recording of that frequency too. He played that one as well.
Weather out of season
The show's argument hinged on timing. The experiments resumed, Lewis said, and then the country went strange. Connie Willis phoned from Louisville, Kentucky, with video to prove it: blue sky one hour, black clouds the next, a storm that gathered within minutes and dumped hail and rain. The day had begun at 82 degrees in February and ended in darkness, violent wind, and hailstones she compared to paintballs hitting skin. Debbie from California was standing outside in shorts and flip-flops when the temperature dropped twenty degrees and it began to snow. "I've lived here in California my whole life," she said. "I've never experienced anything like that."
Pat from Massachusetts described five years of checkerboard contrails beginning at five in the morning, a blue sky turning milky white within two hours, and rain or snow a day later. She said she could smell the spray. "It smells like aluminum." Greg from New York called about something smaller and harder to explain: little black particulates scattered across the snow in his yard, and the same flecks at his brother's place two towns over. He called back later to add that his hips and knees had been aching all week, and Lewis offered low-pressure systems moving through as the ordinary explanation before returning to the electrojet. Brian from Louisiana tied the worst tornado outbreak in New Orleans history, an EF3 that ran 10.1 miles and spanned almost two football fields, to the chemtrail grid he said it followed. "An EF3 has never happened in the history of New Orleans," he said. The tornado was real and well documented. The link to aircraft trails is Brian's claim, and no evidence supports it.
Owning the weather
Lewis spent the rest of the night stacking his case. He cited a paper by seven U.S. military officers outlining how HAARP and aerial cloud laying could let the United States "own the weather by the year 2025," with storm enhancement, storm modification, and induced drought among the listed objectives. He pointed to January 12, 1999, when reports of Air Force tankers laying heavy contrails were reportedly tied to chemical markers for the HAARP project. He argued the military had walked this road before, seeding clouds over Vietnam to muddy the trails and stop tanks, and he warned of what he called a Jericho effect, an electromagnetic pulse aimed at the ground to trigger an artificial earthquake.
Underneath it all sat a second claim, one Lewis had been circling since the opening monologue, when he recalled the Carrington event, the 1859 solar storm that set telegraph wires on fire. The planet's magnetic field is weakening faster than predicted, with full compromise possible within 20 years and soft spots already forming over the Western Hemisphere, where HAARP sits. Lewis tied the field to DNA, to telomeres, to the magnetite that biophysicist Beverly Rubick says lives in every human cell. Scientists do confirm the field is weakening. They dispute the timeline Lewis cited and reject any connection to HAARP. Derek from Oregon pushed the argument to its endpoint: with the array back up, was the government testing weapons for a coming war? Lewis did not talk him down. He noted troops massed in Europe, called HAARP "a monster that will never go away," and signed off the way the night began, with the tones still hanging in the air and nothing settled.
Questions this episode answers
Is HAARP back in operation?
Lewis says yes, telling his audience the Alaska array had been running experiments for about a week before the broadcast.
The Air Force operated the 40-acre transmitter grid near Gakona, Alaska until about August 2015, then transferred ownership to the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute. Lewis claims researcher Chris Fallon spent the week creating artificial auroras and attempting a version of the Luxembourg Experiment.
The university frames the work as ionospheric and atmospheric research, including studies of satellite-to-ground communication. Lewis treats the restart as suspicious, noting that the military had said the project fulfilled its objectives when it went dark.
What is the Luxembourg Experiment?
Lewis describes it as an accidental 1930s phenomenon in which Radio Luxembourg's powerful transmitter heated the ionosphere and mixed frequencies, and he claims HAARP is recreating it on purpose.
The original effect let the Luxembourg station bleed through other countries' local broadcasts. Lewis argues HAARP's reactivation includes experiments designed to reproduce the mixing at a far larger scale.
"It's like you're a DJ, and you're able to take the sounds and mix them together in space because you've heated the ionosphere to do it," Lewis said. He played what he called a recording of the modern version during the show.
What were the tones heard at 2750 kilohertz?
Lewis says the tones are the audible signature of HAARP's heating of the ionosphere, and he aired a recording of them on the show.
Walter from Texas called 2750 kilohertz "the optimum frequency range for all microwaves" and said it was the band best suited for impacting the ionosphere. Will from Pennsylvania, a radio engineer, said the ARRL published HAARP frequencies near 2.8 megahertz.
Phil from New York reported hearing radar-like sounds in the ham bands for a year and a half before the current tests. Will also recalled that Radio Moscow in the 1950s raised its power until it burned a hole in the ionosphere with about seven million watts, a story Lewis used to argue that high-power transmitters have long affected the upper atmosphere.
Could HAARP cause the recent severe weather across the United States?
Lewis argues the timing is the evidence: the array fired up, and violent, out-of-season weather followed within days.
He pointed to a Category 5 supercell dubbed Lucifer off the West Coast, century-mark temperatures in Texas followed by blizzards, and the Louisville storm Connie Willis described, where an 82-degree February day collapsed into darkness, violent wind, and hail within minutes. "When you're tinkering with the ionosphere, such as they're doing with HAARP, you can't ignore the fact that this is something that does affect the weather, the electrojet, and the jet stream all at once," Lewis said.
Brian from Louisiana claimed the EF3 tornado that struck New Orleans followed the exact path of chemtrails overhead. The established meteorological record attributes such swings to ordinary storm dynamics, and no evidence ties the tornado to aircraft or to HAARP.
Is the Earth's magnetic field weakening?
Yes, scientists confirm the field is weakening, but Lewis's faster timeline and his HAARP connection go well beyond the accepted record.
Lewis cited Brad Olson's program "The Day the Earth Cracked" and claimed full compromise of the field could happen within 20 years, with weak spots appearing within five, concentrated in the Western Hemisphere where HAARP sits. He also suggested CERN's magnets could affect the core and, through it, the field.
Lewis further claimed the weakening field touches human biology, pointing to telomeres and to Beverly Rubick's statement that every human cell contains magnetite. Geophysicists acknowledge a gradual weakening of the field and dispute both the 20-year timeline and any causal role for HAARP.
What did the "own the weather by 2025" paper say?
Lewis says seven U.S. military officers outlined how HAARP and aerial cloud laying could let the United States own the weather by 2025, with storm enhancement, storm modification, and induced drought among the objectives.
He connected the paper to January 12, 1999, when reports of Air Force aerial tankers making heavy contrails were reportedly leaving chemical trails or markers for the HAARP project. Pat from Massachusetts backed the spraying claim with her own account of five years of checkerboard contrails that, she said, smell like aluminum.
Lewis argued that weather control is battlefield logic. "If you can control the weather, you can control battlegrounds like they did in Vietnam," he said, referring to the CIA's cloud seeding efforts to prolong monsoon rains. Laws on the books bar weather control as a weapon, a point Lewis made himself.
What did the European Union say about HAARP?
Lewis says that in January 1999 the European Union called the HAARP project a global concern and passed a resolution seeking more information on its health and environmental risks.
He used the resolution to argue that concern about the array extends past conspiracy circles. He also cited Nick Begich and Gene Manning, authors of "Angels Don't Play This HAARP," as longtime researchers who warned about the project's potential.
Derek from Oregon took the geopolitical reading further, suggesting the reactivation signaled weapons testing ahead of a war with Iran or Russia. Lewis noted troops massed in Europe and said he would hate to be in the president's shoes.
What is Project MIRAGE?
Lewis describes MIRAGE as a successor concept: smaller, boat-based ionospheric heaters that can do work similar to the Alaska array.
He said the letters stand for Microwave Ionosphere Reconfiguration Ground-Based Emitter, a system that uses plasma to reconfigure the ionosphere for over-the-horizon radar and GPS jamming. Consultant Jim Lee, Lewis said, had mentioned Project Mirage and "straw man" arrays mounted on boats.
Lewis argued that while the original HAARP sat idle, the capability spread into many smaller HAARPs, and he read a listener email claiming boat-mounted arrays had been changing weather since the 1980s. No public documentation supports the existence of such a fleet.
Frequently asked questions
What is HAARP?
HAARP, the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program, is a 40-acre array of high-frequency transmitters near Gakona, Alaska, built to study the ionosphere. Lewis describes it as the world's largest ionospheric heater, capable of beaming more than a gigawatt of energy into the upper atmosphere. It began operating in 1993.
Who runs HAARP now?
The University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute took ownership of the facility after the Air Force stopped operating it around August 2015. The university conducts periodic research campaigns there, which is the activity Lewis says resumed about a week before the broadcast.
Can HAARP control the weather?
Lewis argues that heating the ionosphere affects the electrojet and the jet stream at once, and he cites patents granted to Bernard Eastland for weather-modification inventions. The established scientific record does not support the claim that HAARP can steer storms or manufacture droughts.
What are chemtrails?
Callers on the show use the term for persistent aircraft trails they believe contain sprayed material. Pat from Massachusetts described checkerboard patterns that turn the sky milky white and, she says, smell like aluminum. Atmospheric scientists identify such trails as ordinary condensation from jet exhaust.
What happened to the magnetic field, and should we worry?
The Earth's magnetic field is measurably weakening, a process scientists track over centuries. Lewis claims the pace has accelerated toward full compromise within 20 years, with weak spots forming in the Western Hemisphere. Geophysicists confirm the weakening but dispute his timeline and say a field shift would not cause an extinction-level event.
Who's on this episode
- Clyde Lewis (host)
Callers: Chris from Massachusetts, Phil from New York, Walter from Texas, Will from Pennsylvania, Tony from Indiana, Debbie from California, Connie Willis from Louisville, Kentucky, Pat from Massachusetts, Greg from New York, Sean from Texas, Brian from Louisiana, Chip from Maryland, Eddie from Nevada, Derek from Oregon, Eric from North Carolina, John from Oregon, Scott from Minnesota.
