An April 1 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) shows two side-by-side videos. One displays water shooting up into the air accompanied by a loud, ominous sound. The other is a man describing what he believes is happening to the water.
"What you're seeing and hearing is called Project HAARP," he says. "The noise that you're hearing has been reported in hundreds of videos throughout the U.S. This noise is coming from HAARP."
It was shared over 300 times in five days. A TikTok of the same video was liked over 70,000 times and viewed over 1 million times since March 23.
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This video shows a naturally occurring tidal bore on the Kampar River in Indonesia. The High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program, or HAARP, does not alter tides or water in this way.
While the water in the video looks unnatural, this is due to a combination of factors – none of which involve weather modification or HAARP.
The trees in the background and the grass on the riverbank are blurred and unnaturally elongated, just like the water.
"(It's) pretty distorted/stretched and shaky, so some of what looks weird is just because of the video quality," James Girton, an assistant professor of physical oceanography at the University of Washington, told USA TODAY in an email.
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