US EditionOklahoma Man Arrested in Vandalism of TV Weather Radar
OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA, JUL 11 – The militia group Veterans on Patrol claims to be targeting Oklahoma weather radars based on conspiracy theories about military weather control, threatening multiple radar sites, officials said.
- In 2025, a radar used for weather monitoring in Oklahoma City was targeted amid escalating threats from the far-right militia group Veterans on Patrol.
- The attack followed statements by group leader Michael Lewis Arthur Meyer, who claimed military control of weather through radars and planned to disable NexRads.
- Experts including meteorologists and NOAA radar specialists rejected weather manipulation claims and emphasized radars exist solely to protect lives by issuing timely warnings.
- Meyer has a history of arrests and conspiracy theory promotion, police are aware of the group and its social media threats, though no arrests have followed the radar attack so far.
- The incident highlights ongoing conspiracy-driven actions targeting public safety infrastructure, with authorities monitoring related extremist activity without confirmed links to this attack.
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In Oklahoma, a domestic militia calling itself “Veterans on Patrol” is systematically targeting weather radars. Their leader, Michael Lewis Arthur Meyer, claims the military is controlling the weather through Doppler radar systems and that these machines are part of a divine affront — a “weather weapon” — that is “mocking God Himself.”He’s encouraging his followers to sabotage these radars under an operation he calls “Leaning Tower.” This isn’t …
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