Did Woodpecker shoot Chernobyl? 20090912 TerraHertz Recently I came across the story of a huge, once-secret Soviet Over the Horizon radar installation only about eight kilometers from the Chernobyl reactor site. It's names are Duga-3, Chernobyl-2, Moscow Eye, and Woodpecker. Here are some links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Woodpecker http://www.fas.org/news/russia/1996/fbtac006_96082.htm http://pix.fine.kiev.ua/egor/gallery/0000b02w http://spaceghetto.st/sgd/?q=node/2871 (Dead at 20090912) Here is the Woodpecker transmitter site: http://maps.google.com/maps?t=h&ie=UTF8&ll=51.305292,30.067348&spn=0.022376,0.051842&z=14 And here is Woodpecker, together with the Chernobyl reactor in one view: http://maps.google.com/maps?t=k&ie=UTF8&ll=51.356346,30.100822&spn=0.100123,0.220413&z=12 Fascinating! I'd heard about the 'Woodpecker' mysterious Soviet transmitter on and off for much of my life. Now here it is, in pictures. A mystery resolved. Hidden in the middle of forest, little known even today, mostly forgotten. A rather ironic thought occurs to me. Obviously the Woodpecker is located close to Chernobyl because it needed a very great amount of electricity to operate. But... it also generated very powerful radio signals. Probably capable of E field strengths of hundreds, perhaps thousands of volts per meter in near-field. And clearly that's a phased array antenna, capable of generating a directed beam by controlling the relative phases of the individual elements. Chernobyl is not far away, and had a lot of electronic control instrumentation. Which probably wasn't EMP-hardened, considering the building wasn't explosion-hardened either. Now I know there have been many theories of what caused the Chernobyl event. But I wonder - could it have been accidentally 'shot' by the Woodpecker? The beam pointed towards Chernobyl, where it interfered with or just plain burned out some critical control circuits? The strength of Woodpecker's beam at the close range of just 8 Km, could be similar to EMP effects. That can easily kill unprotected electronics. It's just a thought. I wonder if anyone knows whether Woodpecker was tap-tapping around the time Chernobyl went up? Chernobyl reactor number four blew on 26 April 1986, at 01:23:45 am (UTC+3). Woodpecker signals became less frequent in the 'late 1980s', and in 1989 disappeared altogether. Presumably, with its local power supply crippled and the resulting power shortages, not to mention the heavy radioactive contamination, Woodpecker operations would be difficult. Eventually they gave up. But was it running between midnight and 1:23am of 26th April 1986? Talk about shooting yourself in the foot. Giant radar transmitter zaps it's own nuclear power supply, taking out the entire region, including itself. If officialdom knew this story was true, can you imagine them admitting it? Hah! Never! What you'd hear, would be an assortment of different versions of how the accident occured. Gradually firming into one formally accepted conclusion - but which didn't seem to completely explain things. Funny that. Sigh. I'm an electronics engineer, and also like exploring abandoned and underground things. Having a look through this place would be two kinds of heaven rolled into one, for me. Too bad I never will have the opportunity. Pity. Being 'secret' and guarded, and probably remaining that way for long after the Chernobyl event, I suppose there's a chance the buildings and equipment might have escaped the decay and deliberate trashing that almost everything else in the Zone seems to have suffered. For examples, see http://www.elenafilatova.com