(https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/05/07/anti-government-weather-radar-conspiracy/)

An anti-government group is making threats against weather equipment that it says is a “weather weapon” controlled by the military, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration warned employees.

In emails widely shared with National Weather Service staff this month and obtained by The Washington Post, the NOAA Office of Security warned of threats it said are being coordinated by Veterans on Patrol, an extremist group motivated by anti-government beliefs and conspiracy theories.

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Veterans on Patrol on Wednesday posted a response from founder Michael “Lewis Arthur” Meyer to The Post's requests for comment to its account on the social media app Telegram. Meyer said the group will move forward with its plans to target the radars.

“We intend to take as many NexRads offline as possible once our attack simulations have prepared us,” Meyer wrote. He said he had “full authority” to do so. Meyer said the “attack simulations” would go until June but potentially into August, without giving details about the operations.

Meyer, who is not a veteran, originally founded the group as Walking for the Forgotten Ministry, according to Baumgartner and the Southern Poverty Law Center. It first aimed to raise public awareness of the disproportionate rates of suicides among veterans, before embracing vigilantism and conspiracy theories like QAnon, the SPLC said.

NOAA said Veterans on Patrol was recruiting people for “penetration drills” on locations hosting Next Generation Weather Radar (NEXRAD) systems, which are composed of white, spherical Doppler weather radars that detect precipitation, wind and thunderstorms. The equipment is also operated by the Federal Aviation Administration and the U.S. Air Force to chart aircraft, according to NOAA.

Veterans on Patrol believes the infrastructure is a “weather weapon” controlled by the military against Americans, NOAA wrote in an email. The group's leadership wrote in repeated messages to Telegram that the equipment was “poisoning our skies.”

The group shared images of radar sites last week, encouraging followers to investigate whether the equipment can be “easily sabotaged.” Messages sent Sunday identified an unspecified NEXRAD site supposedly in Northern California that was visited by a “lone wolf.”

The group also said it had “boots on the ground” gathering information in Washington and Oklahoma. The Veterans on Patrol Telegram group has more than 6,000 followers.

The group has a controversial past, including encouraging armed individuals to conduct border patrols in Arizona, going as far as illegally holding migrants, Baumgartner said.

(https://www.news9.com/story/686c1415dfc52927077f9d5c/vandal-disables-power-to-lifesaving-news-9-weather-radar)

A deliberate act of vandalism temporarily knocked News 9's lifesaving weather radar offline Sunday night — and it was all caught on camera.

Surveillance footage shows the suspect arriving at the radar site in Northeast Oklahoma City at 9:34 PM. He climbed the fence and, within minutes, disabled a key power disconnect, smashed the power meter, and broke into the generator's transfer switch control panel before destroying it.
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It's just a never ending clown car at this point: