WHO IS “EISCAT” WORKING FOR?

Picture N°1: Main Logo of “European Incoherent Scatter Scientific Association” founded in 1975.

At the end of the sixties the technological development regarding the “German technique of incoherent scatter” overcame fully the expectations that were thought before, at the end of the Second World War (WWII). The unknown technology developed by Germany, during the War, was the main booty for countries as England, Russia, the United States of America and its satellite nations. Thus, in order to raise significant progress in the understanding of physical processes in the high latitude upper atmosphere by means of experimental programs and to study the interaction between the Sun and the Earth as revealed by disturbances in the ionosphere and magnetosphere, in December 1975, six Europeans countries founded a membership under the name of “European Incoherent Scatter Scientific Association”, or “EISCAT Scientific Association”. Such a six nations were the following: Germany, Norway, Finland, France, Sweden and the UK. Nevertheless, the first operation program began in August 1981 using UHF radar system and afterthat in May 1985 using VHF radar; both at the city of Tromso, in Norway.

In 1995 EISCAT developed new capabilities of these radar systems, in terms of complexity of the available experiments and also in terms of the supporting software for data processing, analysis and visualization, specially in 1993 when EISCAT was extended by the take-over of the HF Heating facility in Tromso which had previously been operated as a German facility in the Max-Planck Institute in Lindau, Munich. EISCAT says “the Heater is used for ionospheric modification experiments applying high-power transmissions of high-frequency electro-magnetic waves to study plasma parameters in the ionosphere. The name Heating stems from the fact that these high power electromagnetic waves, which are transmitted into the ionosphere with high-gain antennas, heat the electrons and thus modify the plasma state. To create plasma turbulence, the transmitted frequencies have to be close to the plasma resonances, which are 4 to 8 MHz.”

It has been told that during the WWII the Germans built a headquarters for military operations in the Svalbard area, close to Longyearbye town, on the Norway islands of the same name, which was later used supposedly by the UK and European allies. It is important to note that before and during the WWII Sweden cooperated narrowly the German plan. Thus, in 1910 Sweden founded a “coal mining” on the Spitsbergen island at the foot of the Pyramid mountain forming the well known Pyramid or Pyramiden town, at 50 kilometers to the north far of Longyearbye town. In 1927 Sweden sold such a mining to the Soviet Union. With a population of over 1000 inhabitants, surprisingly, on January 10th, 1998, both owner and workers abandoned the town in a hurry leaving all things exactly as they were left. Today, Pyramid place is a ghost town, where just five people are currently living there in order to upgrade some buildings for tourists and visitors.

Nevertheless, between 1993 and 1998 EISCAT moved its radar-technology to such a Svalbard island, in Norway, converting that project, under the name of EISCAT Svalbard Radar in the world’s most advanced incoherent scatter radar, using dishes of 32 and 42 meter steerable antenna. In 1996 to the EISCAT Svalbard Radar joined Japan and today also China joined to the project.



Picture N°2: Map showing the only three towns located at the Spitsbergen (Svalbard) island belonging to Norway. The only city and main town is Longyearbyen, meanwhile Pyramiden is a ghost town which was abandoned in 1998.

And though EISCAT Svalbard Radar says that all of its projects are totally public and transparent, indicating the geographical position of each one of his radars, today there are more associations and people who say to have detected and located EISCAT’s radars different from those, with applications and functions that have not been officially authorized. For example, at the top of the Pyramid Mountain of the abandoned coal mining of the same name, there is a 32m dish antenna which officially does not exist. In fact, Mr. Halvard Boholm and Espen Helgesen, both for EISCAT Svalbard Radar, told to me that it is impossible to operate a Radar there, since Pyramid not have any working infrastructure as power, and so on, that is needed for running a big radar there.

EISCAT group jumped to the mass-media on December 9, 2009, with occasion of the strange spiral moving light, completely silent, that took place around 7 o’clock in the morning in the skies above Norway. It appeared in the east but moving westwards. And even though the spectacular Aurora Borealis which are always observing at the north of Norway and the laboratories located in Alta city in the county of Finnmark, Norway, for studies of such atmospheric phenomenon, people and Norwegian Defense have rejected an Aurora possible origin for the spiral moving light, saying they do not know what it is; meanwhile Russians say they have not launched any rockets, neither have the Norwegian Andoya rocket-site.

The conspiracy hypothesis says that EISCAT Svalbard Radar is being used within another secret project under the name of “Blue Beam”, a Norway´s HAARP Facility of EISCAT, which should be allegedly responsible of the strange spiral light of past December. The weird and conspiracy theory says the following: “EISCAT, short for the European Incoherent Scatter facility, is located at Ramfjord, about 20 Kilometers South of Tromsø in Norway where the "Norway Spiral" or the Blue Spiral was seen back in December 2009; and that the "spiral test" or "experiment" caused all kinds of side effects. At the EISCAT in Tromso they also have an Ionospheric Heater facility with a Frequency Coverage of 4 to 8 MHz. In contrast, HAARP in Gakona, Alaska has a Frequency Coverage of 2.8 - 10 MHz; which means that EISCAT is the HAARP of Scandinavia.” This taking into consideration the so well known High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP), which is an ionospheric program funded in 1993 in place of Gakona, Alaska, by the US Air Force, the US Navy, DARPA and the University of Alaska.

Since the unofficial information are very big but contradictory at the same time, I just wanted an official answer about some specific topic -the non mentioned Radar as in the Pyramid case- so that I asked to Mr. Boholm and Helgesen for advice. Here is a resume with the answer that gives me the two persons who are in charge of EISCAT of the Svalbard Island:

“Dear Mr. Novakovic, EISCAT do have Radar at mountain Breinosa that is 12 km from Longyearbyen at Svalbard. The radar is operating at 500 Mhz. As far as we know there is no big radar facility anywhere nearby the abandoned settlement Pyramiden. Pyramiden was a Russian settlement and coal mining community, and it was abandoned in 1998 by its owner, the state-owned Russian company Arctikugol Trust. Pyramiden is currently being re-developed by the Russians, to accommodate tourists, and approximately 5 people are currently stationed there to upgrade the facilities. They do not have any working infrastructure as power etc that is needed for running big radar there.

So are you sure that your information about the location of the radar is correct? If there are any small Radars nearby Pyramiden, then I think they are very, very small and remotely controlled, and used for air traffic control by the airport in Longyearbyen.

Around 60 Km south of Pyramiden, you have Longyearbyen, it's the biggest settlement on Svalbard and it's Svalbards capital. Other settlements, approx 100 Km south-east of Pyramiden you have Barentsburg, and approx 100 km west of Pyramiden you have the research community Ny-Ålesund. The only big radar on Svalbard that I'm familiar with, is Eiscats research radar, located nearby Longyearbyen. It’s located approx 10km south-east of Longyearbyen, on Breinosa, close to Mine-7. The radar is used to study the interaction between the Sun and the Earth as revealed by disturbances in the ionosphere and magnetosphere. Best regards. Halvard Boholm and Espen Helgesen. Eiscat Svalbard Radar”

In summary, and rejected by now all the conspiracy theories -and using just the above mentioned Pyramid town example- it seems no easy to install any Radar in such a cool land since Incoherent Scatter Radar requires sophisticated technology and EISCAT engineer are all the time involved in upgrading the whole system.



Picture N°3: photo of the “cole mine” known as “Pyramiden” which was abandoned in 1998. At the top of the abovementioned mountain there is a Radar of unknown origin (not shown in this photo, taked by Mr. Eckhard Pecher).

So, who is the Radar at the Pyramid Mountain working for? Why in 1998 in a hurry every one who was working by the coal mining was moved out of such a place? Is it possible to produce atmospheric visible changes using electromagnetic signal power in between 2 and 10 MHz? Why European nations, next to Japan and China, are so worried about electromagnetic changes between Sun and Earth?

It seems to us that the answers to all these worrying questions still remain without a clear and effective response.

Rodolfo J. Novakovic
Physicist Engineer
Dipl. Telecommunication and Network
E-Mail: rodolfonovakovic@gmail.com