Editing HAARP -- Key Persons Directory (section)

=== The Scientists ===

==== Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) ====
Croatian-American inventor and electrical engineer; naturalized U.S. citizen. Responsible for alternating current electrical systems, the AC induction motor, the transformer, and the Tesla coil. Claimed in public statements in 1915 and 1940 to have developed "teleforce" -- a directed-energy weapon capable of destroying aircraft at 250 miles. Died January 7, 1943, in Room 3327 of the New Yorker Hotel, New York City. His papers were seized by the FBI within hours of his death. His electromagnetic patents are cited as prior art in the Eastlund HAARP patent.

==== Bernard Eastlund (1938-2007) ====
American plasma physicist. PhD in physics. Worked for the Strategic Defense Initiative. Worked for APTI (Advanced Power Technologies Inc.). Filed U.S. Patent 4,686,605 in 1985 (granted 1987) for a method of altering the Earth's atmosphere using high-frequency radio transmission. The patent lists weather modification, missile destruction, and global communications disruption as capabilities. APTI was awarded the initial HAARP construction contract. Eastlund later claimed HAARP was built using his patents without full acknowledgment. Died December 2007. His patent remains the primary documentary foundation of HAARP conspiracy research.

==== Umran Inan ====
Professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University. His research group has collaborated extensively with HAARP, using its ELF and VLF wave generation capabilities to study lightning-ionosphere interactions. Has stated publicly that HAARP cannot affect Earth's weather: "There's absolutely nothing we can do to disturb the Earth's weather systems. Even though the power HAARP radiates is very large, it's minuscule compared with the power of a lightning flash."