in 2024 In early November, Spain, especially the Valencia region, was devastated by one of the country’s most devastating floods in years.
Floods killed at least 216 peopleand the material damage amounts to billions of euros.
The water flooded residential areas, caused landslides, and destroyed infrastructure. The government declared national mourning and allocated an aid package to rebuild the affected regions and help people who lost their homes and livelihoods.
Soon, this disaster was covered with conspiracy theories. One of them claims that the floods were allegedly caused by a “HAARP ship” spotted off the coast of Spain just before the disaster.
A video and photo circulating on social media falsely identifies a ship seen off the coast of Spain as belonging to the “HAARP project” and links its presence to recent flooding.
However, no scientific or official sources confirm such a connection.
What is the origin of the record?
The footage shows a floating power craft, but it has nothing to do with HAARP.
„Black Sea Powership Onur Sultan“ is the floating power plant that passed Las Palmas de Gran Canaria last September, not the ship from which the “HAARP weather attack” that caused the flooding in Valencia was allegedly launched.
The ship belongs to a Turkish company „Karpowership“. The company even has several similar ships, but the Karadeniz Powership Onur Sultan can be recognized by its 24 stacks.
In addition, the video of the ship, which became a tool of the liars, was not filmed in Valencia, but in the Canary Islands (a territory belonging to Spain).
The voice behind the frame clearly says that this is a power plant.
A video showing a floating power plant, was published On the TikTok platform in 2024 September 25 That is, well before 2024. October 29 Flooding started in Spain.
According to the data of ShipAtlas, a page that captures the data of ship routes, the ship on October 2nd. sailed from the Canary Islands and on October 13, sailing near North Africa, reached the shores of Turkey.
Floating power plant is a specially equipped ship or barge equipped with an integrated power generation system. The power plants, which range from 30 MW to 470 MW, can be tailored to the needs of each host country. According to the manufacturer, these power plants are designed to run on natural gas or low-sulfur liquid fuels.
Constantly in the sights of conspiracy theorists
The High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) is a constant target of liars.
This program is often associated with weather control, it is said that it is used as a secret weapon to cause various disasters around the world. However, it has nothing to do with natural disasters.
It is designed to study the upper layer of the Earth’s atmosphere. HAARP was developed by the US Air Force, Navy, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the University of Alaska Fairbanks, which still maintains it.
The research uses the world’s most powerful high-frequency transmitter, which can be used to temporarily excite a limited area of the ionosphere. The physical processes taking place in it are monitored using a complex set of scientific or diagnostic instruments. This observation should help scientists to better understand the processes that constantly take place during the natural stimulation of the Sun.
Flooding in Spain / Alberto Saiz / AP
Programs online on the website explains that radio waves at frequencies sent by HAARP are not absorbed by the troposphere or stratosphere, the layers of the atmosphere that determine Earth’s weather. Since there is no interaction, there is no way to control the weather.
About the working principle of HAARP for the publication “Full Fact” told Ciaran Beggan of the British Geological Survey.
“HAARP is just a radio transmitter, just like radio or television stations, air traffic control or cell phone transmitters. It cannot cause rain because it broadcasts radio waves, in the same way that light cannot create rain,” he explained.
15min verdict: lie. HAARP is a program to study the upper atmosphere. The power plant that washed up in Spanish waters has nothing to do with the deadly flood in Valencia.
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Source: www.15min.lt
