The
least likely [note that I've omitted the word "crazy" here for the benefit of those in the forum that ascribe to HAARP conspiracy theories]conspiracy theory I've heard to date about HAARP was
Project Blue Beam in which it was alleged that NASA was attempting to use HAARP to implement a New Age religion with the Antichrist at its head to launch a New World Order.
HAARP is currently being dismantled (despite a letter-writing campaign from scientists organized by the UAF Geophysical Institute to prevent an irreversible demolition of HAARP). The Air Force has been picking the plant apart piece by piece, and critical research instruments already have been taken off site and packed for disposal.
University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) Professor Chris Fallen, KL3WX, who has conducted research at HAARP, told ARRL that the Air Force has already rendered HAARP reversibly inoperable through the removal or relocation of critical diagnostic instruments, instrument shelters, office furniture, and even tubes for the multiple transmitters.
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Secretary of the Air Force Deborah Lee James told Murkowski that the Air Force “will proceed with removal of government property not essential to operations and will seek to reduce maintenance costs through additional storage of equipment and winterization.”
A variety of experiments, such as HAARP (which stands for High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program), involve high power radio transmitters to modify the properties of the ionosphere. These investigations focus on studying the properties and behavior of ionospheric plasma, with particular emphasis on being able to understand and use it to enhance communications and surveillance systems for both civilian and military purposes. HAARP was started in 1993 as a proposed twenty-year experiment, and is currently active near Gakona, Alaska.
^ Though that sounds really ominous, the scientific consensus is that
the degree of inosphere control possible through HAARP is akin to controlling the Pacific Ocean by tossing a rock into it.
Honestly, the Russian Sura Ionospheric Heating Facility is FAR more powerful and capable of radiating about 190 MW, effective radiated power (ERP) on short waves but that's a handful of rocks. None of these systems can modify the weather, disable satellites, exert mind control over people, etc...
The purpose of these systems was to gain a better understanding the interaction of radio waves with the ionospheric plasma, the local consequences of heating in the ionosphere, and studies of nonlinear plasma physics processes.