38K views · 976 reactions | Denis Demichei on Reels

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Channel: Denis Demichei
Description: The video mixes some real facts about HAARP and MKUltra with many unsupported claims that it can control weather, trigger disasters, or control minds.

Verdict: HAARP conspiracy claims are mostly false; the real program is a scientific ionosphere research facility.

Credibility score: 24/100 · 9 claims checked · 3 accurate, 2 misleading, 4 false, 0 unsupported.

Facebook · Denis Demichei · Unknown · Aug 27, 2026

The video mixes some real facts about HAARP and MKUltra with many unsupported claims that it can control weather, trigger disasters, or control minds.

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Accurate (91% confidence): HAARP is a real research facility in Gakona, Alaska, with more than 160 antennas and a 3.6 MW transmitter used to study the ionosphere. HAARP is an ionospheric research program in Alaska; official descriptions say it is a high-power HF transmitter for studying the ionosphere. Public descriptions also note the large antenna array and 3.6 MW-class transmitter.
False (97% confidence): HAARP is used to control weather, earthquakes, tsunamis, or human minds. HAARP’s official materials describe it as a scientific ionosphere research program. Claims that it can cause earthquakes, tsunamis, or mind control are unsupported conspiracy theories.
False (93% confidence): U.S. Patent 4,686,605 is a HAARP patent that proves HAARP was designed as a weather weapon. The patent exists and discusses altering a region of the atmosphere/ionosphere/magnetosphere, but a patent does not prove a deployed system has those capabilities or that HAARP was built for weather warfare.
Misleading (84% confidence): The patent says the system can create weather changes and holes in the atmosphere that would let solar radiation burn people on the ground. Patent text discusses altering atmospheric regions and mentions possible applications, but this is not proof of a real weather-weapon system or of lethal 'holes' being practical or demonstrated.
Accurate (88% confidence): William Cohen said in 1997 that people could trigger earthquakes and volcanoes with electromagnetic waves. Cohen’s 1997 remarks include the quoted idea that terrorists might trigger earthquakes or volcanic eruptions using electromagnetic waves, but the quote is presented as a warning/example of potential threats rather than evidence that such…
Accurate (98% confidence): The CIA's MKUltra project really existed and involved secret mind-control/behavior-control experiments. CIA records and historical sources confirm MKUltra was a real CIA program involving behavior-control experiments during the Cold War.
False (95% confidence): HAARP or military 'chemtrails' are responsible for unusual cloud trails or atmospheric chemicals. Authoritative weather and science sources reject chemtrail-style claims; HAARP is a ground-based ionosphere research facility, not an atmospheric spraying program.
False (96% confidence): HAARP has caused animal deaths, genetic mutations, migration changes, Fukushima's tsunami, or other recent natural disasters. No credible scientific or official source links HAARP to animal die-offs, mutations, migration changes, the Fukushima earthquake/tsunami, or other natural disasters.
Misleading (82% confidence): Militaries can already cause weather changes, precipitation, fog, and storms by using high-frequency radio technology. There are real forms of weather modification, but no credible evidence that HAARP or similar HF transmitters can create or steer storms as described.

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