HAARP -- The Eastlund Patent: What It Claims and Why It Matters

HAARP -- The Eastlund Patent: What It Claims and Why It Matters

Bernard Eastlund: Biography

Field	Detail
Full name	Bernard John Eastlund
Born	1938
Died	December 2007
Education	PhD in physics
Career	Worked for the Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars program); subsequently worked for APTI (Advanced Power Technologies Incorporated)
Key patent	U.S. Patent 4,686,605; filed April 11, 1985; granted August 11, 1987; assigned to APTI, Inc., Los Angeles
Patent title	"Method and Apparatus for Altering a Region in the Earth's Atmosphere, Ionosphere, and/or Magnetosphere"
Relationship to HAARP	APTI, the company that held the patent, was awarded the initial HAARP construction contract; the patent is widely cited as the conceptual basis for HAARP's design
Eastlund's later position	Claimed HAARP was built using his patents; disputed by the program's official scientists; said HAARP implemented his technology without full acknowledgment

What the Patent Claims

U.S. Patent 4,686,605 is a public document. Its text describes a system for transmitting large amounts of radio frequency energy into the ionosphere and lists the following potential applications:

Claimed Capability	Quote from Patent Text
Communications disruption	"Cause total disruption of communications over a very large portion of the Earth including disruption of all global communications"
Military targeting	"Missile or aircraft destruction, deflection, or confusion"
Weather modification	"Weather modification is possible by, for example, altering solar absorption; ozone, nitrogen, etc. concentrations could be artificially increased"
Navigation disruption	Disruption of "satellite surveillance systems and the transportation of entities in the lower atmosphere"
Enhanced ELF	Generation of ELF waves for submarine and underground communication

The patent also states, in a passage quoted by Nick Begich: "The power transmitted need not be necessarily destructive, for, if distance is made to depend upon it, its withdrawal or supply will bring about the same results as those now accomplished by force of arms."

Prior Art: Nikola Tesla

The "prior art" section of the Eastlund patent -- the section where patent law requires inventors to acknowledge the previous work their invention builds upon -- cites Nikola Tesla's patents from the late 19th and early 20th century. Tesla's electromagnetic transmission research and his later claims about teleforce weapons are listed as foundational prior art.

This citation is not coincidental. Eastlund's drawings bear a recognizable resemblance to Tesla's. The conceptual lineage from Tesla's proposed worldwide electromagnetic transmission system to HAARP's ionospheric heating array is the foundation of the "HAARP is Tesla's weapon" theory.

APTI, Raytheon, and the Corporate Chain

The corporate ownership of the Eastlund patent has its own conspiracy dimension:

• Eastlund filed the patent while working for APTI (Advanced Power Technologies Inc.)
• APTI was awarded the initial HAARP construction contract
• In 1994, Raytheon Company acquired APTI -- and with it, the Eastlund patents
• Raytheon is one of the largest defense contractors in the United States
• Raytheon is also contracted with NOAA and the National Weather Service for weather forecasting systems
• The connection between a major defense contractor holding ionospheric weapon patents and simultaneously operating weather forecasting infrastructure has been cited by researchers including Nick Begich as evidence of integrated weather control capability

The Scientists' Response

HAARP's official scientists dispute that Eastlund's patent directly describes what HAARP does or was used to design the built facility. They argue:

• HAARP's design was developed through standard scientific channels
• The Eastlund patent describes capabilities far beyond what HAARP's actual power levels could achieve
• Many ionospheric heaters worldwide operate on the same basic principles without being "Eastlund devices"

What they cannot change is that APTI -- the company that held the patent -- built the facility.