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- Physics
Posted on: 2024-10-15
HAARP cannot produce the colorful auroras seen around the world; their power pales in comparison to geomagnetic storms

Claim:

October 2024 auroras were caused by the High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP)

Source: Facebook, Social media users, 2024-10-11
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- Climate
Posted on: 2024-05-16
Colorful auroras seen in May 2024 were caused by mass ejections from the Sun; not by HAARP experiments

Claim:

May 2024 auroras were caused by experiments from High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) experiments

Source: Facebook, YouTube, TikTok, X/Twitter, 2024-05-11
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- Climate
Posted on: 2023-08-31
Nearly three decades on, the chemtrail-HAARP geoengineering conspiracy theory remains popular despite lack of evidence and no scientific basis

Claim:

Global weather is controlled by secret geoengineering programs using chemtrails and ionosphere heating facilities.

Source: Facebook, Facebook users, 2023-08-07
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- Climate
Posted on: 2021-03-02
The scientific research facility HAARP cannot create natural disasters or influence human thoughts and movements, contrary to online claims

Claim:

HAARP may deliberately create destruction on a global scale, causing earthquakes, cyclones, flooding, snowstorms, around the world; HAARP may be attacking the citizens of the world telepathically, influencing thoughts with low frequency vibrations

Source: Gaia, Anonymous, 2020-12-11

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