by Joshua P. Warren

March 10, 2007; Asheville, North Carolina

It's inescapable--we're in the midst of a weird flap right now. Though UFO reports circulate the world every day, I can't remember getting so many emails each week. Even stranger is that just before it all started, November of 2006, several friends and colleagues mentioned having an unusual feeling that "something" outstanding was about to happen in the UFO world. It seems some people are more sensitive to whatever forces accompany those brilliant lights in the sky. Though it's easier to spot illuminated anomalies at night, plenty are seen in the day, as well. Though I've mentioned it many times on the air, here's my opinion of what may be happening right now.

In 1993, the U.S. Air Force, Navy, and University of Alaska began a project called HAARP (the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Project). It basically consists of an Alaskan field packed with a grid of broadcasting antennas. These antennas produce an enormous amount of energy. A huge radio station pumps around 100,000 watts. Imagine putting 100 of those together, and focusing all the energy on a spot a few inches in diameter. HAARP is apparently capable of doing this (and more), pinpointing sections of the earth's ionosphere. Why? There are lots of reasons. The official literature is vague, but the government states they are "studying the properties and behavior of the ionosphere, with particular emphasis on being able to understand and use it to enhance communications and surveillance systems for both civilian and defense purposes."

To see the array, you can visit the official government HAARP site: www.HAARP.alaska.edu

The awesome weapons potential is clear. Imagine the earth as a big battery. The ground is negative and the ionosphere (sort of force field around it) is positive. If you short-circuit the system temporarily, by piling too much charge on one terminal, unimaginable bolts of electricity will join the two, probably capable of vaporizing entire cities in-between. Jerry E. Smith writes about such weaponization of the environment in his books like Weather Warfare and HAARP: The Ultimate Weapon of the Conspiracy. Regardless of such sensational scenarios, manipulation of weather is almost inescapable when playing around with the earth's electric field. After all, variations of only a few degrees can have immense global repercussions. Katrina devastated the American south in 2005. In 2006, HAARP was finally completed.

In 2006, most experts predicted a terrible hurricane season. However, everyone was surprised. Not only was the hurricane season mild, but other U.S. weather patterns were unexpected. Snows in New Mexico and California were unusual. More snow than usual fell on places like Colorado. And weather in parts of the American southeast was so poorly predicted that forecasts became even more useless. Yet simultaneously, strange lights began to appear in the skies.

The official start of the new UFO flap may have been the daylight saucer seen over the O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, November 2006. But afterward, the sighting intensity aligned from the northwest down through the southeast--prominently over North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. In those areas, green lights were seen zipping through the night sky, especially on Wednesday, January 24, 2007. The 24th sightings made national news (such as Fox & Friends) and garnered major coverage in The Charlotte Observer. While most people were joking about "little green men," I was recalling a HAARP experiment done, with results publicly released, on March 10, 2005 (I just realized that was exactly two years ago to this day). They created green speckles in the night sky. You can find the official report, with pics, on the Live Science site: click HERE.

Furthermore, the Feb. 22-28 edition of The Weaverville Tribune (North Carolina, Vol. 5, No. 8) had a front page photo of more "mysterious lights" over Western North Carolina. I immediately identified them as appearing like the Northern Lights, or aurora borealis. Once in a blue moon, aspects of the Northern Lights drop low enough to be seen in North Carolina as vertical, reddish-purple streaks in the sky. As a lifelong resident of Asheville, I've only seen it twice, and most residents have never seen it. Though I know this happens naturally sometimes, I was intrigued to see it occurring now, in the midst of these other anomalies.

So let's put all this in order based on my conspiratorial mindset:

1) Terrible hurricane hits U.S. in 2005

2) HAARP is completed in 2006, according to expert Jerry E. Smith

3) 2006 is predicted to be a bad hurricane season, but is actually very mild

4) If HAARP was attempting to diffuse the 2006 hurricane season, the system would presumably broadcast from Alaska, southeast across the U.S., and right through the skies of TN, NC, SC, GA, toward spots in the Atlantic where storms are spawned.

5) We know HAARP can produce green lights in the sky, and green lights are seen shooting across the sky in this pathway

6) The Northern Lights are an attribute of the earth's electrical field, and they also make a rare appearance in the area where green lights have recently been seen

I don't mean to suggest that all the extraordinary lights have been the product of HAARP. Some are described as physical craft, and may be ETs coming here to check out the HAARP activity. And the Chinese shot a satellite from orbit in early January of 2007, so some may have seen falling debris. But most of these reports detail abstract, green or greenish-blue blobs in the sky, usually shooting across like a meteor. Some may say we're simply seeing an increase in meteors. But green?

Whatever's happening, I suspect there's more to come. For the latest, stay tuned to Speaking of Strange Saturday nights. And be sure to sign up for our free, and spam-free, e-newsletter for personal emails from me once in a while. You can do that, and find breaking weird news, at: www.SpeakingOfStrange.com

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