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Recent Advances In Stimulated Electromagnetic Emission Observations With HAARP HF Heating

Stan Briczinski Paul Bernhardt Carl Siefring

• NRL - Plasma Physics Division

Robert Michell

• UMD/NASA Goddard

Wayne Scales

• Virginia Tech

HAARP Array Generates a Hollow Beam

Antenna Gain (dB)

SEE Near the 4th Gyro Harmonic and Artificial Layers

28 April 2014, 777.4 nm Images

2.75 to 2.85 MHz 5 Minute Sweep

08:00:04 GMT 08:01:16 GMT 08:02:28 GMT 08:03:41 GMT 08:04:35 GMT 2.75 MHz 2.78 MHz 2.80 MHz 2.82 MHz 2.84 MHz Pancake

Optical “Pancake” Layers

No Optical “Pancake” Layers

Optical “Pancake” LF SEE

Slow MHD?

Psychedelic SEE

X-Mode O-Mode X-Mode O-Mode X-Mode O-Mode X-Mode O-Mode X-Mode O-Mode X-Mode O-Mode

WISP SEE

DSMass Variant SEE

DWISP UWISP DWISP UWISP

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DSMass Variant SEE

DWISP UWISP DWISP UWISP

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Low-Frequency Periodic SEE

Low-Frequency Periodic SEE

SEE Rotation Variation

Variegated SEE

“Etch A Sketch” SEE Near 6th fce

Conclusions

• Recent studies have produced numerous

previously uncharacterized SEE

• Optical “pancakes” have previously not

been seen

• Twisted beam experiments produce

long-lived layers