ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE AND WEIRD CLAIMS IN THE AIR: OK, He Didn’t Cause Hurricane Katrina. But He Is Guilty of Fraud. “In the history of U.S. military research, there’s never been a project with such a combination of big science, high sleaze, and pure conspiratorial strangeness. Yet somehow, some way, the story of the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program, or HAARP, just got sleazier and stranger — all thanks to an elderly physicist named Alfred Wong.”