Heiser-The-Facade - Sparkling Eyes

"No. Never heard of the `High-frequency Active Auroral Research Project,"' heread the name of the website aloud. "I take it you have.""It's under my jurisdiction at the DOD.""I've heard of it too," Malcolm declared. "The padre's suspicions just may beright.""How is that?" asked Father Benedict. "What is this High-frequency, what's-itsname—""HAARP," Mark said gravely, "the acronym is HAARP. I don't know much aboutit other than that, but when I saw this on my browser, it scared the crap out of me.""I know what distresses me about this," Neil said to Mark, "but why are you sobothered if you don't know what it is?""Because of this," he announced, handing Neil the email he'd received fromKevin. "Read it for everyone.""There's no message, but the subject line reads h-a-r-p-s-no-w-k-e-v.""Harpsnowkev?" Deidre put the letters together."It was from Kevin!" Father Benedict cried. "The last three letters are 'Kev.""Exactly, but what didn't make sense was the rest of it. I think he meant to say`harp snow."'"What's that?" asked Melissa."He must have misspelled HAARP as harp; he was probably in pain ordisoriented when he typed it. Do you see the connection now?""He was trying to tell you about snow and this HAARP thing?" asked Brian."Look at the date on the snow story. Other than it being unheard of that it wouldsnow in Death Valley," explained Mark, "what does the date tell you?""It snowed there on the day Kevin died," Melissa observed. "He was trying to tellyou something about the snow. He must have known it was snowing outside—but howcould he'? We're underground. ""He was in the auroral viewing room," Neil said softly, the pieces comingtogether in his mind. "Good God ...""What the hell is this HAARP!" demanded Deidre. "HAARP," Neil began, "is aground-based Star Wars weapon system. ""Among other things," clarified Malcolm."One at a time, please," Father Benedict insisted.Neil continued, "In the early days the technology primarily focused on using theionosphere as a sort of telecommunications shield. We discovered all ourcommunications could be knocked out by magnetic storms, solar flares, or nuclearevents, so we wanted a means to keep communication intact worldwide. Eventually, wedeveloped the technology so that extremely low frequency radio waves could be sentthrough the earth itself, in addition to going through the ionosphere. The goals in thatcase were submarine communications, as well as the ability to jam everyone else'scommunicative abilities. It would also enable us to detect compliance with nuclear testbans worldwide.""Does HAARP have any other capabilities?" Melissa asked. "Malcolm, you didsay `among other things."Go ahead, Malcolm," Neil gave him the floor."I only know what I read, and what my roommate at MIT knew about it. He was288