In 1997, US Secretary of Defense William Cohen made the following statement at a well-attended conference on weapons of mass destruction, “Others (terrorists) are engaging even in an eco-type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves….So, there are plenty of ingenious minds out there that are at work finding ways in which they can wreak terror upon other nations…It’s real, and that’s the reason why we have to intensify our own (counterterrorism) efforts.”

If you think about it, that’s actually a pretty ominous statement coming from a sitting Secretary of Defense!

And consider that if our government believed terrorists were engaging in these pursuits back in 1997, you can sure as well assume our government, for better or worse, is currently well along in pursuing these abilities as well.

Now, there is a gentleman named Richard C. Hoagland who knows something more about all of this. Hoagland is a scientific researcher with some clout. He was technical science adviser to Walter Cronkite during the Apollo missions, worked with Carl Sagan developing the message discs placed aboard Pioneer spacecraft and has had a close working relationship with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory for many years. Hoagland’s own independent research group is called The Enterprise Mission.

Hoagland claims, among other things, that after scouring hundreds of hours of satellite radar images from a variety of sources, he has documented a phenomenon which he believes is evidence that someone or something is affecting the path and intensity of tropical storms and hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean. As sci-fi as that sounds, the evidence is quite compelling. – via Glenn Kreisberg at http://www.grahamhancock.com/forum/KreisbergG2.php

Radar images of Hurricanes Ophelia from the Enterprise Mission website. (http://www.enterprisemission.com/weblog/weblog.htm)

Images originally from the University of Wisconsin MIMIC (Morphed Integrated Microwave Imagery at CIMSS)

The satellite image loops of the storm tracks indicate some anomalous and erratic behavior in the path and intensity of Hurricane Ophelia. They show Ophelia as a well-organized, strong category 1 storm off the southeast coast of the US. Over very warm, late season open water, the US Weather Service predicted a category 4 storm within 24 to 48 hours and the westerly path of the storm track had it headed for landfall along the mid-Atlantic coast.

Instead, in less than 12 hours, the storm had change course and dissipated completely. The radar image shows something very strange occurring to the storm. As the storm tracks west towards the coast, the satellite precipitation image reveals two extremely heavy, nearly parallel bands of precipitation emanating, in waves from the east, directly toward the eye of the storm. As these heavy bands of precipitation intensify over Hurricane Ophelia, the storm begins to change course, dissipate and is quickly extinguished. The effect is quite dramatic and not at all natural looking. The fact is, intensely heavy bands of cool rainfall falling on the eye of a well organized hurricane, through which the warm waters of the ocean below rise to provide energy and circulation to the hurricane, would have the effect of interfering with that energy flow and for all practical purposes, starving the storm of its fuel.

This is extremely similar to what was currently predicted for Hurricane Irene that is currently making its way up the East Coast. Until now. Coincidentally, the time frame leading up to Virginia/DC/New York area experiencing freak seismic activity, Hurricane Irene begins to weaken and move off course, avoiding its initial path of Havanna, inland Florida, the Carolinas, and eventually, the Washington, DC area. The newly projected paths show that it may barely clip the eastern coast, if at all. Just as Ophelia did when it threatened the same region. However, we have microwave imagery of Ophelia and later discovered the anomalous bands of energy and cold rain that pulled it away from the coastline.

It is still yet to be determined with any certainty whether Hurricane Irene will continue out into the ocean and subside or will it regain its strength and head back inland? The forecasted path certainly changed to a large degree around the time of the earthquake, but I’m not ready to claim that it was altered. It’s merely an interesting parallel.

UPDATE – August 25th, 2011 :

Hurricane Irene's New Path - Aug 25th

It would appear that the hurricane has taken a drastic turn for the worse, ramping up to a category 3 and 4, with an altered path directly through Washington, DC and New York City as it tears up the Carolina coasts. I would be especially interested in finding some various imagery of the hurricane 12 hours before and 12 hours after the DC and Colorado quakes, namely in the microwave spectrum. Please keep in mind that I am merely pointing out the strange coincidences involved in the quakes, potential-HAARP interference patterns and likely outcomes. The technology exists to alter storms – both to diminish them and intensify them. So, if this storm poses such a concern for the global financial markets, national politics and major metropolitan infrastructures, then it could certainly be altered for a better outcome. Since it is in fact doing the complete opposite, I can only assume that it is engineered to do exactly that. We will see.

UPDATE II – August 26th, 2011 :

A reader directed me towards CIMSS (http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/tropic/real-time/marti/2011_09L/webManager/displayGifsBy12hr_06.html), where they offer a microwave loop of Hurricane Irene. And on August 25th, from about 3:00 AM – 11:00 AM, we can see severe “tuning fork” interference patterns from the south-east. Is this merely a satellite artifact? A glitch in the rendering? Or did the satellite truly pick up that sort of activity, representing insanely heavy rains or wildly fluctuating temperatures… perhaps something more? These tuning fork bands are extremely pronounced, much more defined than the easterly forks that emanated from Hurricane Ophelia. Is this an example of the “pulsing energy” described in Tesla technology and in several research papers regarding HAARP? But just like Ophelia, as the tuning forks fade away, the storm starts tracking in a different direction.

Tuning Fork Interference Pattern - Hurricane Irene

See complete and animated imagery here: (http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/tropic/real-time/marti/2011_09L/webManager/displayGifsBy12hr_06.html)

Also, by checking HAARP’s own site, which offers readings of their magnetometer>, we find these interesting variations -

Time of DC Quake

Time of Tuning Forks

End of Update II

Hoagland describes the dual heavy rain bands in Ophelia as taking on a “tuning fork” interference pattern that moves in lock step with the eye of the storm.

It is Hoagland’s contention “…based on the physics of these images that these bizarre ‘tuning fork’ patterns — note, geometrically aimed at the precise centers of these respective storms – are actually a “rainfall side-effect” of an unseen energy technology being applied to these respective storms … in an effort to decrease both their wind velocities, and to simultaneously alter the storms’ tracks themselves.”

As a Spectrum Engineer, I see some merit in this electro-magnetic “energy technology” explanation, but I believe Hoagland’s “rainfall side effect” may actually be the main desired effect, given that enough intense cold rain from above, on the storm, could act as a blanket on the storms fire and have the effect of the storm rapidly raining itself out. As I’m no meteorologist, this is mere speculation on my part.

But could this effect possibly be attained using electromagnetic waves? Consider that research indicates, and it’s not unlikely, certain frequencies of high intensity EM fields could have the ability to separate molecules or break up molecular compounds. This could be used for such things as say separating H2O from air allowing the water to fall. It seems this would be more plausible over open water than over land as water vapor levels and atmospheric conditions over large bodies of water would seem more conducive. – via Glenn Kreisberg at http://www.grahamhancock.com/forum/KreisbergG2.php

Furthermore, as many are starting to learn about, the HAARP facilities are a prime conspiratorial suspect in this potential disturbance in both seismic activity and hurricane intensity. Perhaps in an attempt to divert the hurricane, it caused an unintended, unusual earthquake in the region? Is it possibly due to the gas and oil firms fracturing the rock layers (fracking) in their efforts to find more resources? The earthquake is highly unusual, in and of itself, but there exists no evidence that it is directly involved. Merely speculation at this point.

I suppose we might never know, but I would be interested in seeing some of the microwave imagery of Hurricane Irene if it is available from the early hours of August 23rd, 2011, and look for any similar tuning-fork bands or rain sheers in geometric patterns. Ma

High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program

HAARP has been met with controversy since the mid-1990s when the State Duma of Russia issued a press release written by international affairs and defense communities on HAARP and signed by 90 deputies: “The U.S. is creating new integral geophysical weapons that may influence the near-Earth medium with high-frequency radio waves … The significance of this qualitative leap could be compared to the transition from cold steel to firearms, or from conventional weapons to nuclear weapons. This new type of weapons differs from previous types in that the near-Earth medium becomes at once an object of direct influence and its component.”

For more information on HAARP – see www.HAARP.net or simply look for it as a keyword in your favorite search engine. There is plenty of information out there, some more sane than others.

“HAARP can zap the upper atmosphere with a focused and steerable electromagnetic beam. It is an advanced model of an “ionospheric heater.” (The ionosphere is the electrically-charged sphere surrounding Earth’s upper atmosphere. It ranges between 40 to 60 miles above the surface of the Earth.)”

In January of 2010, Hugo Chavez claimed that the United States had used HAARP-like technology to cause the Haiti earthquake.

The Latin American leader added that the US should “stop playing God.” Chavez said these “weapon earthquakes” would eventually be used against Iran and be taken over by the US military, notes Hip Hop Wired.

Although Chavez did not reveal his source, Press TV reported the Venezuelan media had stated that the earthquake may be associated with the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP), which has been accused of generating violent and disastrous changes in climate.

And from the book, Angels Don’t Play This Haarp: Advances in Tesla Technology:

“The $30 million [Pentagon] project, euphemistically named HAARP (High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program), is made to beam more than 1.7 gigawatts (billion watts) of radiated power into the ionosphere — the electrically charged layer above Earth’s atmosphere. Put simply, the apparatus is a reversal of a radio telescope — just transmitting instead of receiving. It will ‘boil the upper atmosphere’. After [heating] and disturbing the ionosphere, the radiations will bounce back onto the earth in for form of long waves which penetrate our bodies, the ground and the oceans.” [page 8]

“… this invention provides the ability to put unprecedented amounts of power in the Earth’s atmosphere at strategic locations and to maintain the power injection level, particularly if random pulsing is employed, in a manner far more precise and better controlled than heretofore accomplished by the prior art ….” [Page 28]

“… the goal is to learn how to manipulate the ionosphere on a more grand scale than the the Soviet Union could do with its similar facilities. HAARP would be the largest ionospheric heater in the world, located in a latitude most conducive to putting Eastlund’s invention into practice.” [Page 29]

Furthermore, from this northern latitude, the energy could be aimed into the ionosphere so that it would bounce back down to the earth wherever the engineers wanted it to come down. The secret was to learn how and where to aim it into the ionosphere in order to hit the earth in a particular location.

In a nutshell, this is the nucleus of the expertise required to control the weather and by some accounts – such as Defense Secretary William Cohen and Venezeulan President Hugo Chavez – create seismic activity or “earthquake weapons.” By pouring measured energy that has been focused into certain parts of the ionosphere, scientists can create all kinds of storms, such as hurricanes, thunderstorms, floods, tornadoes and even drought. China, Malayasia and Russia all openly admit to weather modification operations, including the creation of pinpoint hurricanes and heavy rainstorms

Source:  http://www.truthistreason.net/haarp-hurricane-irene-and-the-dc-earthquake-connected