Satellites Focus Microwave Beams on Thunderstorms to Influence Tornadoes.

Physicist, Bernard J. Eastlund (1938 – December 12, 2007) is most famously identified with inventions that established the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (H.A.A.R.P.) at Gakona, Alaska as a test and operational facility for electromagnetic and plasma physics experiments on the ionosphere – ultimately for deployment by the department of defense.

Eastlund received his B.S. in physics from MIT and a his Ph.D. in physics from Columbia University. In 1970 he received a Special Achievement Certificate from the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission for co-invention of the “fusion torch.”

He was the founder of Eastlund Scientific Enterprises Corporation (ESEC), a small company in Houston, Texas that provided scientific, engineering and technical services.

In 1987, Eastlund was granted three patents applicable to HAARP (US Patents #4,686,605, #4,712,155, and #5,038,664) that provided the basis for experiments to employ a large high power radio frequency antenna array to alter the ionosphere as a matter of national defense to protect against hostile ICBM missiles.

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Before he died in 2007, Eastlund had completed a concept for weather modification and tornado mitigation using a focused microwave beam emitted from a satellite with a fixed-orbit perpetually located over tornado alley in the US.

This concept did not come without liability if the microwave energy inadvertently targeted individuals, populations, wildlife, or  susceptible assets of value as collateral damage. As a matter of safety and liability, all of the microwave energy would necessarily be required to dissipate within the targeted thunderstorm before reaching earth’s surface and the people on it.

Another of Eastlund’s interesting but nearly unrelated concept, is to employ HAARP’s ionospheric heater to “create” or enhance atmospheric cloud phenomena called gravity waves.   NPR Story

These proposals could be helpful in revealing the nature of the strange cloud formations being witnessed and photographed by citizens and scientific observers around the planet.

In this video, Eastlund’s associate, Lyle Jenkins presents some of Eastlund’s concepts at a 2008 AMS meeting held at Penn State, U. 

Eastlund’s Power-Point presentation reveals the complete scope of this proposal.

BETTER THAN HAARP?: In the year of his death in 2007, Eastlund held a very interesting patent that claimed to harness naturally accuring atmospheric inionization due to normal cosmic ray bombardment.

US Patent 20070238252 – Cosmic particle ignition of artificially ionized plasma patterns in the atmosphere.

Abstract:  This invention is a method and apparatus for creating artificially ionized regions in the atmosphere utilizing ionization trails of cosmic rays and micro-meteors to ignite plasma patterns in electric field patterns formed by ground based electromagnetic wave radiators. The applications are useful for telecommunications, weather control, lightening protection and defense applications. The invention lowers the power requirements for forming artificial ionized regions in the atmosphere by a factor of up to 1600 times lower than those required in existing designs and projections for creation of artificial ionized regions in the atmosphere.

Conclusions are Revealing:  This invention has a phenomenal variety of possible ramifications and potential future developments. As alluded to earlier, a variety of telecommunications systems for improvement of local cellular systems, short haul stand alone cellular systems, city wide cellular systems and long haul communications systems could result. Two new approaches to weather modification and control are suggested. The first is for manipulation of the steering winds that control the development of mesocyclones, or the modification of the directions of the jet streams that influence development of hurricanes. The second is a method for influencing the electrical charge distribution in weather patterns such as meso-cyclones. Possible defense applications include a method of accelerating electrons to MEV energies in conjunction with the HAARP antenna. Research applications include the creation of bright and controlled guide stars for astrophysical purposes. Thus it can be seen that the ramifications are numerous, far-reaching, and exceedingly varied in usefulness.

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THREE ORIGINAL HAARP PATENTS of 1985

Method and apparatus for altering a region in the earth’s atmosphere, Ionosphere and/or Magnetosphere

A method and apparatus for altering at least one selected region which normally exists above the earth’s surface. The region is excited by electron cyclotron resonance heating to thereby increase its charged particle density. In one embodiment, circularly polarized electromagnetic radiation is transmitted upward in a direction substantially parallel to and along a field line which extends through the region of plasma to be altered. The radiation is transmitted at a frequency which excites electron cyclotron resonance to heat and accelerate the charged particles. This increase in energy can cause ionization of neutral particles which are then absorbed as part of the region thereby increasing the charged particle density of the region.

Inventor: Bernard J. Eastlund
Original Assignee: APTI, Inc. (ARCO Power Technologies, Inc.)
Current U.S. Classification: 361/231; 89/1.11; 244/158.1; 380/59
International Classification: H05B 664; H05C 300; H05H 146

Patent number: 4686605 – Filing date: Jan 10, 1985 – Issue date: Aug 11, 1987

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Method for producing a shell of relativistic particles at an altitude above the Earth’s Surface

A method for establishing a region of a high density, high energy plasma at an altitude of at least about 1500 kilometers above the earth’s surface. Circularly polarized electromagnetic radiation is transmitted at a first frequency substantially parallel to an earth’s magnetic field line to excite electron cyclotron resonance heating in normally occurring plasma at an altitude of at least about 250 kilometers to generate a mirror force which lifts said plasma to said altitude of at least about 1500 kilometers. Heating is continued at a second frequency to expand the plasma to the apex of said field line whereupon at least some of the plasma is trapped and oscillates between mirror points on said lines. The plasma will be contained within adjacent field lines and will drift to form a shell of relativistic particles around a portion of the earth.

Inventor: Bernard J. Eastlund
Original Assignee: APTI, Inc. (ARCO Power Technologies, Inc.)
Current U.S. Classification: 89/1.11; 376/100; 376/123; 976/DIG.427
International Classification: F41B 1500

Patent number: 5038664 – Filing date: Jan 10, 1985 – Issue date: Aug 13, 1991

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Method and apparatus for creating an artificial electron cyclotron heating Region of Plasma

A method and apparatus altering a region of plasma that lies above the earth’s surface at altitudes (e.g. below 50 kilometer) where the collison rate of the electrons in the plasma is originally greater than the cyclotron frequency of the electrons. First, artificial magnetic lines of force are established from the earth’s surface by positioning a loop of cable at the earth’s surface. An electrical current of sufficient amperage is passed through the cable which inherently generates the artificial magnetic field from the center of the loop. The field strength B on the artificial lines in the region of plasma to be altered is sufficient to increase the cyclotron frequency of the electrons in the plasma so that it will exceed the rate of collosion of the electrons. The plasma is then excited by electron cyclotron resonance heating to thereby further alter the plasma by transmitting circularly polarized electromagnetic radiation upward in a direction substantially parallel to and along the artificial field lines.

Inventors: Bernard J. Eastlund, Simon Ramo
Original Assignee: APTI, Inc. (ARCO Power Technologies, Inc.)
Current U.S. Classification: 361/231; 89/1.11; 244/158.1; 342/352; 380/59
International Classification: H05B 664; H05C 300; H05H 146

Patent number: 4712155 – Filing date: Jan 28, 1985 – Issue date: Dec 8, 1987