HAARP and DANA: the perfect conspiracy storm

HAARP is back on everyone's lips in Spain. Every destructive storm resurrects the weather weapon theory, and Valencia's DANA was no exception: within hours, videos of cloud fronts that seemed to stop before a supposed emitter were circulating, along with theories about cloud seeding from Segarro. The mix was explosive.

The curious thing is the recipe: while some claim HAARP caused the torrential rains, others point to Segarro and cloud seeding. And some even linked the storm to a plan for climate lockdowns. Even estela took a back seat: if those trails explained droughts, HAARP was reserved for deluges.

A 1996 document and four official bulletins

At the center of the conspiracy argument was a 1996 document published by the U.S. Department of Defense that laid the foundations for future "weather warfare." The text talks about total weather control by 2025. For some, it's definitive proof; for others, a theoretical study with no real operability. HAARP exists, but it studies the ionosphere with radio antennas; it doesn't produce enough energy to move a storm thousands of kilometers.

Four official state bulletins were also cited as supposed geoengineering planning. A full reading of those documents reveals no activation orders, but rather civil protection protocols. Valencia's rain radar maps show a typical cold drop evolution, albeit with record Mediterranean temperatures. Meteorologists point to climate change; conspiracy theorists point to a perfect weapon.

Tornadoes, red lights and recycled news

The repertoire of strange phenomena expanded with a tornado in southern France that caused over 40 injuries and damaged 300 homes. In Madrid and Huelva, storms with red lights and rainbows without rain were recorded. Social media compared the images to a war in the sky, while news outlets presented them as something ordinary. Confusion peaked when a HuffPost article about space debris from 08/11/2025 was recycled to explain a sighting from months earlier. With AI capable of generating videos, distinguishing real from manipulated will become increasingly difficult.

The next DANA: weapon or thermometer?

The most uncomfortable explanation is the simplest: the Mediterranean is a thermal bomb and every degree of warming adds fuel to the storms. Data from bulletins and radars point to basin management and poor prevention, not giant antennas or Rabat conspiracies. With these ingredients, it's predictable that the next DANA will revive the rumor mill. Perhaps then someone will look at the sky with more attention and less certainty. Or perhaps the noise will only grow.